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Baseball · Level 10: Professional · Sub-level 10.3

Major League Baseball Today

10 tests · 100 facts · updated 28 October 2026 · markdown

Who runs the game, the pace-of-play rules, rosters, awards, special games, ballparks today, stars of the 2020s, money, the minor leagues today and a world of players.

Each test below is ten questions on Insporta. The list under a test is what the questions check: one fact per question, with the source it was written from. Read it before the test, or come back from a wrong answer.

Test 1Who runs the gameTake a test

  1. Selig had led the game since 1992.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. The first was Kenesaw Mountain Landis.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. Three-quarters of the clubs must agree.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. Atlanta Braves Holdings became its own listed company in 2023.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. The club's stadium is named after it too.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. It has been used for bans and for stepping into club disputes.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. The office runs the rules, umpires and the business of the league.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. 1989, 1989-92, 1992-2015, then from 2015.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. A three-quarters vote is needed.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. He followed Selig in January 2015.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Test 2The pace-of-play rulesTake a test

  1. The clock came into the majors in 2023.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. It was cut from 20 seconds after the first season.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. Pitchers get an automatic ball for their own violations.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. A third failed attempt is a balk.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. Bigger bases cut collisions and helped base stealers.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. Games had been about three hours a year earlier.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. Clubs saw the results there first.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. 2022, 2023, then 2024.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. 15, 18, then 30 seconds.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. Pitch clock violations by a pitcher add a ball to the count.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Test 3RostersTake a test

  1. The roster grew from 25 to 26 in 2020.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. Clubs once called up many more players in September.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. It includes the active roster and some players in the minors.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. The limit stops clubs from filling the bench with arms.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. Each option year allows several trips to the minors.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. Players left off 40-man rosters for years can be taken by other clubs.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. The club then has days to trade, release or outright him.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. Each step follows the calendar.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. 40, 28, then 26.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. He stays on the 40-man roster.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Test 4AwardsTake a test

  1. He won the very first award in 1947.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. It marked 25 years since his 715th home run.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. One player in each league receives it.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. Managers and coaches vote for it.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. Martínez spent his whole career with the Mariners.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. One award goes to each league.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. It has been given since 1983.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. 1956, 1980, 1999, then 2014.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. Votes are cast before October so the playoffs do not count.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. Each club nominates one player every year.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Test 5Special gamesTake a test

  1. It was built near the film's set in Dyersville.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. The ball flew into the corn.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. Little League World Series players watch from the stands.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. It opened in 1910.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. Willie Mays, who had played there as a teenager, died two days before the game.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. A diamond was built inside Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. The games were at the home of Mexico City's Diablos Rojos.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. 2017, 2021, 2024, then 2025.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. The entrance copied the film.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. The film of 1989 inspired it.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Test 6Ballparks todayTake a test

  1. It has a retractable roof against the Texas heat.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. The Rays had to find another home.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. They used George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. It opened in 1962.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. The bay beyond right field is called McCovey Cove.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. The Braves built the area around the park.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. Texas heat, Arizona sun and Seattle rain are the usual reasons.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. 1962, 2000, 2017, then 2020.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. The cove lies just beyond the right-field wall.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. The Diamondbacks' park in Phoenix has a roof too.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Test 7Stars of the 2020sTake a test

  1. He reached it in a 6-for-6 game in Miami.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. He did not pitch that season.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. No catcher had hit 50 before.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. The Dodgers beat the Yankees in five games.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. He was named NL Rookie of the Year.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. Only a handful of players had done both.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. He hit three home runs that day.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. 2022, 2024, then 2025.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. 60, 48, then 45.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. He spent his whole career with the Dodgers.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Test 8MoneyTake a test

  1. Clubs above a set payroll pay a share of the excess.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. Clubs pool part of their local income.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. Its amount is the average of the 125 highest salaries.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. A few with a little over two years also qualify.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. It lowers the club's cost today.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. Many clubs' local channels belonged to it.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. Repeat offenders pay more each year.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. The rate climbs for repeat offenders.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. Pay usually rises at each stage.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. The club pays less now and more later.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Test 9The minor leagues todayTake a test

  1. One at each level from Single-A to Triple-A.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. About forty clubs lost their link to a big-league team.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. The old governing body of the minors was wound up.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. Their first labour deal followed in 2023.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. Players had struggled to pay rent on low wages.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. Clubs' academies field teams there.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. Games are played at the clubs' spring training complexes.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. 2021, spring 2022, autumn 2022, then 2023.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. Each step brings tougher opponents.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. It is the first level in the US for many young players.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Test 10A world of playersTake a test

  1. Both countries have long baseball traditions.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  2. Players from about twenty countries are usually listed.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  3. He had won three straight Sawamura Awards.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  4. He had pitched in Japan's Central League.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  5. His father had been a star in Korea too.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  6. He starred for Japan at the Classic months later.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  7. He signed with the Mariners at 16.

    Source: General baseball reference · recall

  8. 2021, 2022, then 2024.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  9. The Dominican Republic usually has about a hundred.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

  10. He was the first Korean-born player to win one.

    Source: General baseball reference · applied

Sources

General baseball references, WBSC and league material, coaching manuals; original questions authored, nothing reproduced. Numbered rules belong to the Rules category.

  • General baseball reference100