A fly ball strikes the foul pole above the outfield fence. What is the call?Answer: A home run. Source: Wikipedia: Home run
Baseball umpires are sometimes given a nickname that comes from the traditional color of the uniform they wear. Which color is it?Answer: Blue. Source: Wikipedia: Umpire (baseball)
By regulation, a baseball bat may be no more than 2.61 inches across at its thickest part. What is the greatest length allowed, in inches?Answer: 42. Source: Wikipedia: Baseball bat
By rule, what must new baseballs be rubbed with before each professional game, by the umpires or by someone working under them?Answer: Mud. Source: Wikipedia: Baseball (ball)
The forerunner of the rounded baseball cap, with a long peak and a button on top, was worn in 1860 by a club from where?Answer: Brooklyn. Source: Wikipedia: Baseball cap
How many sides does home plate have?Answer: Five. Source: Wikipedia: Baseball field
The two coach's boxes on a baseball field are located behind which bases?Answer: First and third. Source: Wikipedia: Baseball field
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The diamond and the gear, continued
What are the colored socks with a loop under the arch of the foot, part of the traditional baseball uniform, called?Answer: Stirrups. Source: Wikipedia: Baseball stirrups
What does the warning track at the edge of a baseball field warn an outfielder about?Answer: The wall is close. Source: Wikipedia: Warning track
What is the batter who is next in line to bat said to be?Answer: On deck. Source: Wikipedia: On-deck
What lies at the center of a regulation baseball, under the yarn and the leather cover?Answer: Cork or rubber. Source: Wikipedia: Baseball (ball)
Where do relief pitchers warm up before they enter a game?Answer: In the bullpen. Source: Wikipedia: Bullpen
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Before a major league game, to whom must each manager present two copies of his team's lineup card?Answer: The home plate umpire. Source: Wikipedia: Batting order (baseball)
Between which two bases does the shortstop play?Answer: Second and third. Source: Wikipedia: Shortstop
The catcher's role in baseball is similar to that of which player in cricket?Answer: The wicket-keeper. Source: Wikipedia: Catcher
The cleanup hitter is traditionally a team's most powerful hitter. Which spot in the batting order is his?Answer: Fourth. Source: Wikipedia: Cleanup hitter
How many outfielders does a baseball team have?Answer: Three. Source: Wikipedia: Outfielder
In baseball, which two players together are called the battery?Answer: The pitcher and the catcher. Source: Wikipedia: Battery (baseball)
Scorers number the nine fielding positions. Which player is number 1?Answer: The pitcher. Source: Wikipedia: Pitcher
What do the letters DH stand for in a baseball lineup?Answer: Designated hitter. Source: Wikipedia: Designated hitter
What does a switch hitter do?Answer: Bats both right-handed and left-handed. Source: Wikipedia: Switch hitter
What is a pinch hitter?Answer: A substitute batter. Source: Wikipedia: Pinch hitter
What is the job of the relief pitcher known as the closer?Answer: Getting the final outs of a close game. Source: Wikipedia: Closer (baseball)
Which base is known as the hot corner?Answer: Third base. Source: Wikipedia: Third baseman
Rules and scoring 12
A batter who hits for the cycle gets a single, a double and which two other hits in one game?Answer: A triple and a home run. Source: Wikipedia: Hitting for the cycle
A fairly hit ball bounces in the field and then leaves it, and the batter is awarded two bases. What is this commonly called?Answer: A ground rule double. Source: Wikipedia: Ground rule double
A pitcher makes an illegal motion and a balk is enforced. What does each runner get?Answer: One base. Source: Wikipedia: Balk
A pitcher's earned run average counts the earned runs he allows per how many innings pitched?Answer: Nine. Source: Wikipedia: Earned run average
The catcher fails to catch the third strike cleanly, with no runner on first base. What may the batter do?Answer: Run to first base. Source: Wikipedia: Uncaught third strike
On a scorecard, which letter usually stands for a strikeout?Answer: K. Source: Wikipedia: Strikeout
The strike zone is the space above home plate between the midpoint of the batter's torso and which part of his body?Answer: His knees. Source: Wikipedia: Strike zone
What are the two halves of an inning called?Answer: The top and the bottom. Source: Wikipedia: Inning
What does the statistic RBI stand for?Answer: Run batted in. Source: Wikipedia: Run batted in
What is a walk-off home run?Answer: A home run that ends the game. Source: Wikipedia: Walk-off home run
What is the extension of a baseball game to break a tie called?Answer: Extra innings. Source: Wikipedia: Extra innings
When an umpire declares an infield fly, what happens to the batter?Answer: He is out, caught or not. Source: Wikipedia: Infield fly rule
How the game began 12
Candy Cummings, a star of the 1860s and 1870s, is widely credited with inventing which pitch?Answer: The curveball. Source: Wikipedia: Candy Cummings
The Cincinnati Red Stockings of 1869 are remembered as baseball's first team of which kind?Answer: All-professional. Source: Wikipedia: Cincinnati Red Stockings
The English game of rounders is mentioned in a children's book of 1744. Under which name?Answer: Base-Ball. Source: Wikipedia: Rounders
The first confirmed use of a glove in baseball came in 1875. What color were the gloves?Answer: Flesh-colored. Source: Wikipedia: Baseball glove
In the poem Casey at the Bat, written in 1888, what is the name of Casey's town?Answer: Mudville. Source: Wikipedia: Casey at the Bat
In which village in New York State is the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum?Answer: Cooperstown. Source: Wikipedia: National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
In which year did the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York set down the rules once considered the basis of the modern game?Answer: 1845. Source: Wikipedia: Knickerbocker Rules
Neither writer of a waltz of 1908, now sung at ballparks, had attended a baseball game before writing it. Which song is it?Answer: Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Source: Wikipedia: Take Me Out to the Ball Game
The rule that sends a batter hit by a pitch to first base dates from 1887. Before that, what was a pitch that struck the batter?Answer: Merely a ball. Source: Wikipedia: Hit by pitch
Which body, formed in 1905 to settle where baseball came from, named an army officer as the game's creator in 1908?Answer: The Mills Commission. Source: Wikipedia: Doubleday myth
Which Civil War general was long, and wrongly, said to have invented baseball in 1839?Answer: Abner Doubleday. Source: Wikipedia: Doubleday myth
Which sportswriter, credited with creating the box score, is often called the Father of Baseball?Answer: Henry Chadwick. Source: Wikipedia: Henry Chadwick (writer)
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A batter does not swing, but holds the bat out and taps the ball slowly into the infield. What is that called?Answer: A bunt. Source: Wikipedia: Bunt (baseball)
A runner is stranded between two bases while fielders throw the ball back and forth to tag him. What is this rundown informally called?Answer: A pickle. Source: Wikipedia: Rundown
In a squeeze play the batter bunts, giving a teammate the chance to score from which base?Answer: Third base. Source: Wikipedia: Squeeze play (baseball)
In baseball slang, what has a batter done to earn a golden sombrero?Answer: Struck out four times in a game. Source: Wikipedia: Golden sombrero
The Mendoza Line, named for a light-hitting shortstop, is baseball jargon for which batting average?Answer: .200. Source: Wikipedia: Mendoza Line
The spitball is now an illegal pitch. What makes a pitch a spitball?Answer: A substance such as saliva is put on the ball. Source: Wikipedia: Spitball
What is a doubleheader?Answer: Two games between the same teams on one day. Source: Wikipedia: Doubleheader (baseball)
What is a pitcher or a catcher trying to do with a pickoff throw?Answer: Tag out a runner who has left his base. Source: Wikipedia: Pickoff
What is the most common type of pitch thrown in baseball?Answer: The fastball. Source: Wikipedia: Fastball
Which pitch is thrown to look like a fastball but arrives much more slowly?Answer: The changeup. Source: Wikipedia: Changeup
Which pitch is thrown with as little spin as possible, so that it moves in an erratic way?Answer: The knuckleball. Source: Wikipedia: Knuckleball
Which trick pitch is thrown overhand in a very high arc at very low speed?Answer: The eephus. Source: Wikipedia: Eephus pitch
Around the world and off the field 12
The American tradition of presidential first pitches began in 1910. Which president threw that one?Answer: William Howard Taft. Source: Wikipedia: Ceremonial first pitch
At which Summer Olympics did baseball become an official Olympic sport?Answer: Barcelona 1992. Source: Wikipedia: Baseball at the Summer Olympics
The earliest known softball game was played at a boat club in Chicago in 1887. On which holiday?Answer: Thanksgiving Day. Source: Wikipedia: Softball
How does the pitcher deliver the ball in softball?Answer: Underhand. Source: Wikipedia: Softball
In Japan and South Korea, the seventh-inning stretch goes by which name?Answer: The Lucky 7. Source: Wikipedia: Seventh-inning stretch
In the street game of stickball, what usually serves as the bat?Answer: A broom handle. Source: Wikipedia: Stickball
In which year was baseball introduced to Japan?Answer: 1872. Source: Wikipedia: Baseball in Japan
Japan's high school baseball championship, shown on national television each August, is known by which name?Answer: Summer Kōshien. Source: Wikipedia: Baseball in Japan
Kickball, a game like baseball played with an inflated rubber ball, goes by which name in most of Canada?Answer: Soccer baseball. Source: Wikipedia: Kickball
Little League Baseball was founded in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 1939. How many teams were in that first league?Answer: Three. Source: Wikipedia: Little League Baseball
What did packs of baseball cards formerly come with?Answer: A stick of gum. Source: Wikipedia: Baseball card
Which comedy duo made famous a routine about a baseball team whose first baseman is named Who?Answer: Abbott and Costello. Source: Wikipedia: Who's on First?
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The diamond and the gear is the gentlest round, with six easy questions of twelve: where relief pitchers warm up, and what a warning track warns of. Positions and players asks which base is the hot corner. Rules and scoring has the infield fly, the balk and the scorer's letter for a strikeout.
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How the game began is the hardest round, with five hard questions: a children's book of 1744, a pair of gloves in 1875 and a commission of 1905. Pitches, plays and baseball words has the eephus and the golden sombrero. Around the world and off the field goes from Williamsport to Japan.
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Which base is known as the hot corner? Which pitch is thrown with as little spin as possible? In which village is the National Baseball Hall of Fame? The answers are third base, the knuckleball and Cooperstown.
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