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Reading Period Baseball Quiz

(Can You Stand Another Failure?)

26. Rod Carew (so easy)

27. Bill White

28. Bill Melton

29. Bobby Murcer (four answers, but I'll settle for three).

30. Ferguson Jenkins

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31. Bill Rohr

32. Horace Clark, with the Padres, not the Yankees.

33. Reggie Jackson last year in spring training.

34. Bob Burda

35. Gates Brown (not his prison number, either)

Home stretch time, gang.

36. What two pitchers were the only players to play on both Seattle expansion teams (Hint: Both were terrible)

37. What was the unintentional but nonetheless incredibly dirty thing that Curt Gowdy said during the broadcast of the first game of the 1975 World Series?

38. In what city did Yankee relief pitcher Steve Hamilton throw up on the mound after he swallowed his chaw of tobacco?

39. Who played second base for the White Sox in 1967 after Al Weis got hurt by Frank Robinson?

40. Who played the college professor turned pitcher in the smash film "It Happens Every Spring?"

ANSWERS: 1] Seattle--Gus Gill and Ray Oyler, Kansas City--Jerry Adair and Jackie Hernandez, Montreal--Gary Sutherland and Maury Wills, San Diego--Dave Campbell and Enzo Hernandez. 2] Aurelio Rodrieguez. 3] Roy Foster. 4] "In The Year 2525." 5] Will McEnaney [1975, '76], Ralph Terry [1960, '62], Bob Gibson [1964, '67]. 6]1954 Yankees, 1961 Tigers. 7] Hobie Landrith. 8] Don Shaw. 9] Carl Taylor. 10] Bruce Kison. 11] Jay Mazzone. 12] Ross Moschitto. 13] Broken bat groundout to shortstop. 14] Jake Gibbs [Q.B. at Mississippi, 1963]. 15] Minnie Rojas. 16] Mike McCormack. 17] Norm Zauchin [1958]. 18] Cesar Guttierez of the Tigers. 19] .243 20] "The Little Putt Putt." 21] Jimmy Rosario. 22] Joe Sparma flushed them down the toilet. 23] Frank Robinson. 24] Light blue. 25] Jimmy Qualls. 26] 29. 27] 24. 28] 14. 29] 29, 1, 20, 7. 30] 31. 31] 15. 32] 37. 33] 20. 34] 3. 35] 26. 36] Diego Segui and John Montague. 37] "Luis Tiant is coming from everywhere except between his legs." 38] Kansas City. 39] Wayne Cuasey. 40] Ray Milland.

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