Quizmaster-Julio Scheft

Yes, it's that time of year again. My chance to make all you "baseball experts" out there look so very very foolish. There's really no need to go into detail. This is an incredibly difficult quiz, and while it is neither as long or as well thought out as the gonad-cracker that I served up last spring to you, I'm pretty confident you won't do any better this year. As a matter of fact, I think you'd have a better chance of finding a leather-bound copy of J.H. Parry's Trade and Dominion than you do of answering more than half of these questions. And I'm not even talking about whether you answer them correctly or not, chump.

So give it a try, and if you should do well on it don't be too proud. It only means that you're as big a mindless unsophisticated degenerate as I am.

(Quizmaster's note: None of the above obnoxious remarks were intended in any way for my mother or Dave Scheper, who is Harvard's reigning sports trivia king.)

1. Can you give me the opening day 1969 double play combinations (second baseman and shortstops) for the four expansion teams of that year? (Hint: The teams were the Seattle Pilots, the Kansas City Royals, the Montreal Expos, and the San Diego Padres).

2. Name the player whose 1969 baseball card had a picture of the California Angels' batboy instead of himself.

3. Who won American League Rookie of the Year in 1970, and then proceeded to disappear from the limelight faster than Zager and Evans?

4. What was Zager and Evan's hit single?

5. Who are the only three pitchers to throw the last pitch in two different World Series?

6. Before division play came into being, who were the only two teams to win over 100 games but finish in second place?

7. Who was the first player selected by the Mets in the expansion draft?

8. Who won the first game ever for the Montreal Expos?

9. What mediocre-at-best catcher showed his dissatisfaction after his team traded him by burning his uniform in the dugout five years ago?

10. What pitcher won the first night World Series game?

11. Who was the batboy for the 1966 and 1970 World Champions?