Updated: Oct 24, 2007, 5:56 PM

Vote: How much do you know about the World Series?



Lou Gehrig features in a number of World Series minutiae.
As researchers at ESPN, our primary responsibility is to provide our wide variety of programs with the lists, facts, history, and other bits of significant minutiae that we feel are important and noteworthy to the sporting events taking place that day or week.

Often, late nights in the research room turn into trivia challenge sessions, in which we'll utilize all of our best resources to come up with the hardest, most interesting questions, in an effort to both stump and educate colleagues (Baseball Tonight analyst Tim Kurkjian is the most fun to try to stump). It's an in-house version of the TV show "Stump the Schwab" without the prizes and vintage team jerseys. It occurred to us that it would be fun to share some challenging World Series questions with the readers of ESPN.com.

Much of the credit for these questions goes to the valuable resources at Baseball-Reference.com, which makes searching for such information much easier. See how many of these questions you can get right. If you get more than half of them, you're a legitimate World Series expert.

Mark Simon is a researcher for Baseball Tonight.

  • 1) Who is the youngest pitcher to throw a World Series shutout?
  • 2) What Hall of Famer is the oldest player to hit a home run in a World Series game?
  • 3) Who is the oldest player to hit a triple in a World Series?
  • 4) Who is the last player to steal 3 bases in a World Series game?
  • 5) Only one player in World Series history had 2 multi-homer games in the same series. Who was it?
  • 6) Which member of the 1991 Braves is the last player to hit 2 triples in the same World Series game?
  • 7) Who is the last pitcher to throw a shutout in Game 1 of a World Series?
  • 8) Who was the youngest starting pitcher to win the clinching game of a World Series?
  • 9) Who is the last player to get at least 4 hits in the clinching game of a World Series?
  • 10) Who is the only pitcher in World Series history to record a save of MORE THAN 3 innings
  • 11) Which Hall of Famer once allowed 9 runs in a decisive Game 7 of a World Series?
  • 12) Who started the last home game for the Indians in a World Series?
  • 13) Who is the only player to drive in at least 4 runs in the final game of a World Series, only to have his team LOSE the game?
  • 14) Who was the last switch-hitter with a multi-homer game in the World Series?
  • 15) Who is the only pitcher to record a Game 7 World Series-winning save by recording just one out?
  • 16) Who is the last pitcher to record a complete game LOSS in the World Series?
  • 17) Which member of the 1969 Mets got the first World Series save in 1969?
  • 18) Rockies manager Clint Hurdle had 5 hits in the 1980 World Series.What was his World Series OPS?
  • 19) Only two players have hit a home run in four consecutive World Series games played (though not necessarily in the same season). One is Reggie Jackson. Who is the other?
  • 20) Babe Ruth did the same thing in both his first and last World Series at-bat. What did he do?

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