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Daily Baseball Quiz


Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Today's theme is: Navy Veterans Who Played In The Major Leagues

  1. Which All-Star served from January 1945 to March 1946 and pitched a shutout for the Navy against an Army all-star team on Maui?
    1. Yogi Berra
    2. Mickey Cochrane
    3. Walker Cooper
    4. Bill Dickey
    5. Stan Musial

  2. Which Navy veteran has participated in the most double plays?
    1. Cookie Lavagetto
    2. Pee Wee Reese
    3. Phil Rizzuto
    4. Mickey Vernon
    5. Eddie Yost

  3. Who spent four years in the Navy, and was a gun captain in the Pacific aboard the USS Alabama?
    1. Bob Feller
    2. Charlie Gehringer
    3. Billy Herman
    4. Ralph Kiner
    5. Jim Konstanty

  4. Which Navy veteran lead the major leagues in home runs in 1949?
    1. Joe DiMaggio
    2. Ralph Kiner
    3. Johnny Mize
    4. Stan Musial
    5. Duke Snider

  5. Which Navy veteran threw the most no hitters?
    1. Carl Erskine
    2. Bob Feller
    3. Jim Konstanty
    4. Virgil Trucks
    5. Johnny Vander Meer

  6. Who served as a lieutenant on the USS Bebas?
    1. Jack Albright
    2. Ernie Andres
    3. Pete Appleton
    4. Joe Beggs
    5. Mickey Cochrane

  7. Which Navy veteran was the head baseball coach of Indiana University for more than two decades?
    1. Ernie Andres
    2. Dick Bartell
    3. Frank Baumholtz
    4. Tom Oliver
    5. Bob Usher

  8. Which Navy veteran served on the USS Helena, and pitched in the 1948 World Series?
    1. Gene Bearden
    2. Bob Feller
    3. Bob Lemon
    4. Johnny Sain
    5. Johnny Vander Meer

  9. Which shortstop contracted malaria while in the Navy in New Guinea?
    1. Jack Albright
    2. Johnny Lipon
    3. Johnny Pesky
    4. Pee Wee Reese
    5. Phil Rizzuto

© 2009 John Michael Pierobon