Baseball trivia on a rainy afternoon

A little trivia to bide the time:

  1. Only one team has won World Series titles in three separate cities. Which one?
  2. Of the 16 franchises in existence in 1901, seven have moved. Which ones?
  3. Which of these teams was the first to move?
  4. What team has the worst winning percentage in history?
  5. Which three managers have won Manager of the Year in both leagues?
  6. Who are the only two former MVP players to win Manager of the Year?
  7. Who is the only Manager of the Year to have a losing record for the year he won the award?
  8. Who is the only manger to win Manager of the Year with three different teams?

Answers:

  1. The Braves — Boston, Milwaukee and Atlanta
  2. Braves, Orioles (were the St. Louis Browns); Giants (from New York), Dodgers (from Brooklyn), Yankees (from Baltimore, where they were the Orioles), Athletics (Philadelphia to Kansas City to Oakland), Twins (from Washington Senators)
  3. Yankees, in 1903
  4. Tampa at .399
  5. Tony LaRussa (White Sox in 1983, Oakland in 1988 and St. Louis in 2002) and Bobby Cox (Toronto in 1985 and Atlanta in 1991, 2004 and 2005) and Jim Leyland (Pittsburgh 2002 and Detroit 2006)
  6. 6. Frank Robinson and Joe Torre
  7. Joe Girardi with the 2006 Marlins
  8. Tony Larussa

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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

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