How much do you know about major league baseball teams? (6)

QUESTIONS.
1. The major league baseball season in North America lasts from April to October.
How many games does each team play as part of their regular season (not
counting play-offs and World Series)?
2. What are the ‘play-offs’?
3. How many teams from each of the two leagues enter the first stage of the playoffs?
4. The final series in the play-offs determines which team wins the championship
of each league.What prize are they awarded?
5. The winners of the league pennants then meet each other to decide who is the
major league world champion. Which team won the World Series in 1998, 1999
and 2000?
6. What is the annual competition called which matches two teams of players
drawn from clubs in each league which takes place during the mid-season
break?
7. What was so extraordinary about the 1956 World Series between New York
Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers?
8. What was the name of the Pittsburgh Pirates’ second baseman who hit a home
run at the end of the ninth inning to defeat New York Yankees and give the
Pirates their first championship title since 1925?
9. Which ex-Oakland Athletics ex Baltimore Orioles hitter became a star for New
York Yankees in the 1977 championship by hitting four consecutive home runs
off four different Brooklyn Dodger’s pitchers in the fifth and sixth games?
10. Which club was the first club based outside the USA to win the World Series,
which they did twice, in 1992 and 1993?
11. Who was the Boston Red Sox pitcher who, in1904, became the first player in
major league history to pitch a perfect game, allowing no batters to reach first
base? The award for the best pitcher of the year is named after him?
12. Which baseball team has its home ground in the Olympic Stadium, St Helene’s
Island?
13. Considered to be one of baseball’s greatest catchers, he played for Philadelphia
Athletics 1925-34, and was player-manager of Detroit Tigers 1934-38.What was
his name?

ANSWERS.
1. 162. 2. Qualifying rounds for the World Series. 3. Four. (Three divisional winners
and one wild card). 4.The League Pennant. 5. New York Yankees. 6.The ‘All-Star
Game’. 7. In one innings Yankee’s Don Larsen got 27 Dodger’s batters out, without
score.The first World Series ‘no-hitter’. 8. Bill Mazeroski. 9. Reggie Jackson. 10.
Toronto Blue Jays. 11. Cy Young. 12. Montreal Expos. 13. Mickey Cochrane.