Baseball Trivia - In Honor of the Upcoming 2009 Season

[festeringZit]

1. Who is the last player to win a batting title without hitting
a home run?

2. Who is in both the NFL and baseball Halls of Fame?

3. Who is the only player since Ruth to lead the majors in RBI for
three consecutive years?

4. How can a team hit into a triple play without any fielder
touching the ball?

 

[barman]

Good stuff...Gotta lawn/garden today, so I'm writing them down and going to scope 'em out this evening without opening the Thread - by which time I'm guessing they may already have been answered here.

Checking.....Are you confident of your wording in Question #4?

"hit into a triple play"?

or

"be victim of a triple play by the defense"?

 

[festeringZit]

Good stuff...Gotta lawn/garden today, so I'm writing them down and going to scope 'em out this evening without opening the Thread - by which time I'm guessing they may already have been answered here.

Checking.....Are you confident of your wording in Question #4?

"hit into a triple play"?

or

"be victim of a triple play by the defense"?

The source I got that question from claims that it actually happened, but
didn't provide the details. Let me reword it this way:

4. How can a batter hit into a triple play without any fielder touching
the ball?

 

[barman]

Hey hey...after a moment of honest thought, I know at least one answer to #4

**Bases loaded, no outs of course. Batter strikes out on a passed ball or wild pitch that the catcher does not touch.

With first base occupied, he cannot advance...however it's a live ball.....the runners break and then the two trail runners are somehow foolish enough to pass the runner ahead of them on the basepaths and they are each called out.

 

[barman]

#1 - Utter guess....Rod Carew

 

[festeringZit]

Hey hey...after a moment of honest thought, I know at least one answer to #4

**Bases loaded, no outs of course. Batter strikes out on a passed ball or wild pitch that the catcher does not touch.

With first base occupied, he cannot advance...however it's a live ball.....the runners break and then the two trail runners are somehow foolish enough to pass the runner ahead of them on the basepaths and they are each called out.

Batter has to hit the ball though... for #4.

 

[festeringZit]

#1 - Utter guess....Rod Carew

Not a bad guess, considering it's correct.

 

[bellyputter]

#2 Cal Hubbard

 

[TomGshotput]

2 Never even knew there was an NFL Hall-of-Fame
3 Cecil Fielder
4 Runners on first and second, batter hits a pop up and infield fly rule is called, runner on first runs past runner on second, ball then hits the runner on second

 

[festeringZit]

You guys are too good... we already have correct answers to all
questions...

1. Who is the last player to win a batting title without hitting
a home run?

Rod Carew

2. Who is in both the NFL and baseball Halls of Fame?

Umpire Cal Hubbard

3. Who is the only player since Ruth to lead the majors in RBI for
three consecutive years?

Cecil Fielder

4. How can a team hit into a triple play without any fielder
touching the ball?

What Tom said:
Runners on first and second, batter hits a pop up and infield fly rule is called, runner on first runs past runner on second, ball then hits the runner on second

 

[festeringZit]

BTW, I got these from a list from a list of 50 on p.60 of
4/6/09 Newsweek