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eBook Category: Sports/Entertainment
eBook Description: So you think you know baseball? Test your knowledge with the 21st century edition of The Major League Baseball IQ Test. Be the umpire and make the right call with 21 on-the-field umpiring situations. Challenge your memory of well-known, little-known and forgotten major league players. And just for fun, Diamond Dust--interesting facts, humorous anecdotes and descriptions of historical baseball events, some too hard to believe but all reportedly true.

eBook Publisher: Electric eBook Publishing, Published: 2002
Fictionwise Release Date: December 2002

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Section 1: Strictly Pitching

Multiple Choice

1. Which pitcher was the first to strike out a major league record 20 batters in a single game?

a. Cy Young, Red Sox, 1902 b. Roger Clemens, Red Sox, 1986 c. Kerry Wood, Cubs, 1998

2. Which of the following Cy Young award winners was the first to win the award pitching in each league?

a. Gaylord Perry b. Jim Bunning c. Hal Newhouser

3. The winningest left-handed pitcher of all time was which of the following?

a. Steve Carlton b. Warren Spahn c. Lefty Grove

Diamond Dust

In 1966 Dallas Green pitched a total of five innings with the Mets before being released, bringing to the end a pitching career during which he won a total of twenty games and lost twenty-two. It's a little known story that during the early 1970s, after Dallas? nine-year-old daughter Kimberly was denied the opportunity to play little league baseball because she was a girl, Dallas and his wife filed one of the sex discrimination lawsuits that eventually resulted in girls being allowed to play little league ball.

It's unlikely that anyone will top Yankee pitcher Don Larsen's perfect game in game five of the 1956 Yankee--Brooklyn Dodger World Series. With the exception of Don Larsen the closest any other pitcher has come to a world series no-hitter took place nine years earlier in 1947 and also by a Yankee pitcher, and also against the Brooklyn Dodgers. Bill Bevens was the Yankee who silenced their crosstown rivals for eight innings before going back to the mound for the bottom of the ninth with a 2--1 lead. Through the first eight Bevens had given up eight walks including two in the fifth that had led to a Dodger run. In the ninth, Bevens got the first batter to fly out but then after giving up his ninth walk to Carl Furillo, Al Gionfriddo was sent in to run for him. The next batter hit a foul ball caught by the Yankee first baseman and with two outs and ?Pistol Pete? Reiser up, Gionfriddo surprised everybody by stealing second. With first base empty Yankee manager Bucky Harris then blundered(?) by ordering an intentional pass to Reiser, the potential winning run. The next batter, Cookie Lavagetto hitting for Eddie Stankey, promptly banged a double off the right field wall. The two base runners scored and the Dodgers won the game 3--2 with only one hit. The Yankees lost that game but did go on to win the series in seven. Unfortunately, instead of Bevins going into the record books with the first world series no-hitter, his entry was for most walks (10) by a pitcher in a world series game. Both Bill Bevins and his nemesis, Cookie Lavagetto, made their last major league appearance in that final at-bat. Cookie retired and arm trouble cut short Bill Bevens? career.