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Reading Period Baseball Quiz

(Can You Stand Another Failure?)

12. Who played behind Mickey Mantle in the middle '60s, but never managed more than 30 at bats in a season?

13. Oh yeah, what did Mickey Mantle do in his first major league at bat?

14. Who was the last football All-American to play in the big leagues?

15. Who won American League Firemean of the Year in 1967?

16. Who won the National League Cy Young Award in the same year?

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17. For you locals, who was the last Red Sox player before Fred Lynn in 1975 to knock in ten runs in a game?

18. Who was the last player to go seven-for-seven in a game?

19. What was his batting average that year?

20. What was the only song recorded by Tony Conigliaro to ever make it in the Top 40 charts?

21. Who was the fifth outfielder on the 1971 Western Division Champion San Francisco Giants?

22. How did Denny McLain lose his contact lenses before the sixth game of the 1968 World Series? (By the way, the only game of the series which the 31-game winner won.)

23. Who is generally acknowledged as the first player to wear his baseball stirrups really high?

24. What color was Ken Harrelson's nehru suit when he appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1968?

25. Whose bloop single with one out in the ninth broke up Tom Seaver's perfect game against the Cubs in July of 1969?

I think it's time for some uniform numbers to really break your spirits: Soooooooo, match the number to the player:

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