Trivia Question
Since the Cy Young Award began in 1956, who is the only National League pitcher to have won 25 or more games in a season without winning the award?
Since the Cy Young Award began in 1956, who is the only National League pitcher to have won 25 or more games in a season without winning the award?
Who was the first National League baseball player to earn back-to-back Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards?
Who was the winner of the first Cy Young Award?
The winner of the first Cy Young Award in 1956 was the National League’s Don Newcombe of the Brooklyn Dodgers who went 27-7 with a 3.06 ERA.
What was the first National League baseball team to win four straight pennants?
What baseball players were the first to win Major League Baseball’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) award?
What are the only two Major League Baseball (MLB) teams to have the a retired number shared by more than one player?
Trivia Question Answer
Trivia Question Answer
Who is the major league pitcher with the most wins in a season?
Charles Gardner Radbourn (“Old Hoss”) won 59 games in 1884 while playing for the Providence Grays. That year he won the National League’s pitching Triple Crown with a 1.38 earned run average, 59 wins and 441 strikeouts.
Who was the on-deck batter when New York Giants outfielder Bobby Thomson hit his walk off home run off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca in the one-game playoff to win the 1951 National League pennant? What future Hall-of-Famer was born on the day Thomson hit this home run?
Willie Mays was the on-deck batter when Bobby Thomson hit his walk off home run – the “shot heard ’round the world”. Born that same day, October 3, 1951, was future hall of famer Dave Winfield.