What is a hard but plausible baseball trivia question to stump a friend?

Question

Not looking for something ridiculous like most doubles by a Nevada native on Tuesdays.

An example of something I am looking for is: Fewest single season RBIs by player with at least 40 homers. (Answer is Soriano.)

Answer 1

1) Who holds the career record for most times grounded into a double play?

Cal Ripken Jr.

2) Who is the only player to win a league MVP award but never appear in an all star game?

Kirk Gibson

3) Who is the career leader in blown saves?

Rich Gossage-112

4 Who holds the single season record for blown saves?

Tie
Rollie Fingers- 14 (1976)
Bruce Sutter- 14 (1978)
Bob Stanley- 14 (1983)
Ron Davis- 14 (1984)

5 Who holds the modern baseball record for the most career wild pitches?

Nolan Ryan 277

6 Who holds the single season and career records for most times caught stealing?

Rickey Henderson

7 Who is the all time career leader in most outs made (by over 1000 more than the #2 player Hank Aaron)?

Pete Rose

8) Who is the active pitcher with the most career hits allowed?

Greg Maddux

9) Who is the only player who made as many as 10 All Star Team appearances with Hall of Fame eligiblity who is not in the Hall of Fame?

Steve Garvey

10) Who holds the career record for most total bases?

Hank Aaron

11) Once a pitcher blows a save can he still earn a save in the game?

No

12) If a pitcher pitches the last three innings and enters the game with a lead, is he always credited with a save?

No, it is up to the official scorer

13) Who played in the most games with no World Series appearance?

Rafael Palmeiro, although he did get to testify before Congress

14) Who is the only player in history with 10 world championship rings?

Yogi Berra

15) Who is the career leader in on base percentage?

Ted Williams

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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What is a hard but plausible baseball trivia question to stump a friend?
Not looking for something ridiculous like most doubles by a Nevada native on Tuesdays.

An example of something I am looking for is: Fewest single season RBIs by player with at least 40 homers. (Answer is Soriano.)

Answer 4

1. No, swinging and missing is a strike 2. He could, as long at the bat conforms to the rules, but it would be stupid because it would break the bat. 3. Yes, the Indians did it in 2008 against the White Sox. 4. That depends a lot on how you define it. Yes, a game can be won with a triple and a throwing error (walk off triple). A batter can get an RBI triple in some other winning and that is the winning run of the game. 5. Warm up pitches or he's on the on deck circle and takes strike one in his at bat. 6. It's a dead ball and the batter and following runners are stopped at where they were when in incorrect ball was picked up. This is based on the umpires judgement. 7. A pinch hitter comes in assuming a two strike count.

Answer 5

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Well ya tricked me on some of them here I go without looking it up. 1. Yes 2. yes 3. Yes 4. Gotta be with all the history and I know the trick. 5. The stance? The umpire calling it a ball? 6. Unless it's really hard to figure it out, my guess a ground rule double or a dead ball. 7. 2 pitchers finished off a batter on strikes. BQ: Aaaah! Jose Contreras?

Answer 6

How many Cy Young awards did Nolan Ryan win?
None

Who is the last Yankee pitcher to strike out 200+ hitters in back to back seasons?
David Cone

Who is the only pitcher to win at least 12 games every year for the first eight years in his career?
Andy Pettite

Who is the only hitter to have at least a .300 average and 300+ career home runs as a switch hitter?
Chipper Jones

Who is the all time leader in fielding percentage?
Don Mattingly (.996)

Answer 7

Some good ones :

Who was the only player to be traded for himself? Harry Chiti. In 1962 the New York Mets traded for Harry Chiti from the Cleveland Indians in exchange for a player to be named later. That player ended up being Harry Chiti, sent by the Mets to the Indians two months later.

Who is the only player in Major League history to hit a home run in a regular season game, an All-Star game, a Division Series, a Championship Series and the World Series all in one season? Sandy Alomar, Jr., in 1997.

What player homered in his only at bat with a team? Jamie Quirk of the Cleveland Indians, who played one game for the Indians (September 27, 1984), batted only once, and hit a two-out bottom-of-the-ninth home run.

Who threw the fewest pitches ever in a complete game?
Charles "Red" Barrett of the Boston Braves, who on August 10, 1944, held the Reds to two hits in a 2-0 victory in Cincinnati. Barrett threw only 58 pitches, an average of two to each of the 29 batters he faced. He neither struck out or walked anyone, yielding only two singles, and never fell behind in the count to a single batter.

Answer 8

Who held the Career Home Run record before babe ruth?
Roger Connor, 136.

Who held the single season Home Run Record before Ruth hit 29 in 1919?
Gavvy Cravath, 24 in 1915.

Of course both records have since been passed. Its just that few remember these early home run hitters.

Answer 9

Q: Which MLB Player has the record for the longest name?
A:Christian Frederick Albert John Henry David Betzel

Known as "Bruno", Betzel played his entire, five-year major league career for the St. Louis Cardinals, between 1914 and 1918.

Answer 10

Who was the only retired player in Baseball to be elected to the All star game after he has retired...

Mike Schmidt...Phillies 3rd base man...( I think I spelled his name wrong )

Who is the first player to hit a home run at Wrigley field after the Lights were installed...

Ryan Sandburg..

Rickey Jordan did it first, but the game was rained out so it did not count