Free baseball trivia questions and answers.

Fun baseball trivia questions and answers.

What is the minimum weight permitted for a baseball in the major leagues.?
A: The minimum is 5 ounces. (The maximum weight allowed is 5-1/4 ounces).

Who was on the mound for the Brooklyn Dodgers when Yankee right hander Don Larsen pitched his perfect game in the 1956 World Series?
A: Sal Maglie, who allowed only five hits in the 2-0 Dodger loss.

According to the rules in effect at the first intercollegiate baseball game ever played--back in 1859-- the first team to score 65 runs would bee the winner. How long did the game last?
A: It went 26 innings, or "rounds," with Amherst beating Williams 66-32.

Under what weather conditions does a baseball travel farthest?
A: When it is hot and humid--because the air is less dense than when it is cold and dry.

What team got its name because of a second baseman named Louis Bierhaurer?
A: The Pittsburgh Pirates. The team--which had gone through a variety of names including the Alleghenies, Potato Bugs, Zulus and Smoked Italians--earned the name by "pirating" Bierhauer away from the Philadelphia Athletics.

In how many world Series did Babe Ruth play during his 22 year career?
A: Ten, with his team winning seven of them.

How many home runs did Mark McGwire hit in 1998--the year he broke Roger Maris's longstanding record?
A: 70--nine more than Maris hit in 1961.

How many fingers did Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown, the great right-handed Chicago Cub pitcher, have?
A: Nine and a half. He was missing the top half of his right index finger.

Why is nineteenth-century pitcher William Arthur "Candy" Cummings--who had a two-year, 21-22 win-loss record in the major leagues--in the Hall of Fame?
A: He is credited with inventing the curveball in 1866. He got the idea while throwing clam shells on a Brooklyn, New York, beach.

Whys was Kansas City Royal slugger George Brett issued a drivers' license in 1985 without being required to take a vision test?
A: According to a Kansas official, "If he can hit .350, we figured he could see."

Who threw baseball's last legal spitball?
A: Hall of Famer Burleigh Grimes, for the New York Yankees in 1934. Although the pitch had been outlawed 14 years earlier, those already throwing it were permitted to continue.

What did the umpires rule when Dave Kingman, batting or the Oakland Athletics n My 1984, smashed a ball 180 feet up into the fabric ceiling of the Minnesota Twins' Metrodome?
A : They called it a ground-rule double. The ball was removed from the ceiling and is now on display at the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Baseball trivia questions and answers continues...

What baseball card is considered the most valuable.?
A: The 1910 Piedmont cigarette card of Honus Wagner. The great Pittsburgh Pirate shortstop was a strict Southern Baptist who disapproved of smoking and asked that his card be discontinued. Only 20 are known to exist.

Why was baseball great Charles Dillon Stengal nicknamed Casey?
A: His hometown was Kansas City--which led first to the nickname K.C. and then to Casey

What do baseball fans have Reuben Berman to thank for?
A: His 1921 lawsuit against the New York Giants, which established a fan's right to keep a baseball hit into the stands.