Baseball · Level 9: Master · Sub-level 9.5
Great Players and Eras
10 tests · 100 facts · updated 28 October 2026 · markdown
The dead-ball greats, the stars of each era from the 1920s to the 2010s, dynasties, curses and droughts, famous moments, and the Hall of Fame.
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 1Dead-ball greatsTake a test
'The Big Train' pitched 21 seasons for the Senators.
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'The Flying Dutchman' also led the league in steals five times.
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He played so shallow that he sometimes made plays at second base.
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He did it for the Phillies in their small ballpark.
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He was famous for chasing fire engines away from the ballpark.
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He pitched 464 innings that season.
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He beat Ed Walsh, who struck out fifteen in the same game.
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110, 90, then 79.
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.426, .420, then .386.
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'Three Finger' Brown won 239 games, mostly for the Cubs.
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Test 2Stars of the 1920s and 1930sTake a test
He won six straight batting titles.
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He also hit 56 home runs that year.
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He won three MVP awards.
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He became a hero to Jewish Americans.
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He also won 31 games in 1931.
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Their dirty uniforms and hard play earned the name.
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He was called the 'boy wonder'.
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1924, 1930, 1932, then 1938.
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191, 184, then usually about 130.
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He led the National League in home runs six times.
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Test 3The 1940s and 1950sTake a test
He was the Dodgers' 'Duke of Flatbush'.
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He won 20 games in thirteen different seasons.
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He was known for pinpoint control.
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After years of 'wait till next year', they beat the Yankees.
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Most of its stars were in their twenties.
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He led the majors with 52 homers.
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He was 30 and had managed the club since he was 24.
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1941, 1949, 1955, then 1956.
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363, 329, then 165.
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His 3,630 hits split exactly: 1,815 at home and 1,815 on the road.
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Test 4The 1960s and 1970sTake a test
He pitched his whole career for Baltimore.
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It is still the record for a World Series game.
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The Mets had never finished higher than ninth before.
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Rose, Morgan, Bench and Pérez led the line-up.
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He won almost half of his club's games.
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'Pops' was the oldest MVP of his day.
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He won seven batting titles.
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1968, 1969, 1975-76, then 1979.
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1971, 1972-74, 1975-76, then 1979.
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He was the first Latin American player to reach 3,000 hits.
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Test 5The 1980s and 1990sTake a test
He was over .400 as late as mid-August.
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That autumn the Phillies won their first title.
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Kansas City came back from 3-1 down to beat St. Louis.
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The Twins won 1-0 in the tenth.
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'Doc' won the Cy Young Award that year.
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He led the league with 49 home runs.
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They won again the next year.
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1980, 1985, 1987, then 1992.
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1980, 1985, 1988, then 1991.
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He was an All-Star in baseball and a Pro Bowler in football.
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Test 6The 2000s and 2010sTake a test
He won all four with Arizona.
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No starting pitcher had won the MVP for 25 years.
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He was born and raised in Toronto.
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He fielded the final out of the World Series.
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'King Félix' struck out twelve Rays.
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He missed a perfect game in one of them by a hit batter in the ninth.
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He led the league in wins and ERA.
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2002, 2010, 2011, then 2016.
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The league MVP award was announced in November.
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He led the league in hits four years running.
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Test 7DynastiesTake a test
Their first came in 1923 and the latest in 2009.
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He brought in coloured uniforms and orange baseballs as ideas.
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The Giants won three titles in five seasons.
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No title was awarded in the strike year of 1994.
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They have won eleven titles.
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They beat Toronto in a seven-game Series.
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Joe DiMaggio's first four seasons ended with titles.
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1936-39, 1949-53, 1972-74, then 1998-2000.
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27, 11, then 8.
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The A's beat the Dodgers that October.
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Test 8Curses and droughtsTake a test
Fans blamed the 'Curse of the Bambino'.
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They had been playing since 1883.
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They won four straight games against New York.
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A rain delay came just before the tenth inning.
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Their last title had come in 1917.
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They came closest in the American League playoffs.
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The Cubs went on to lose that game and the series.
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2004, 2005, then 2016.
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108 years, 88 years, then 86 years.
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Legend says he declared the Cubs would never win again.
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Test 9Famous momentsTake a test
He ran off the field as the winning run scored, and the game was ruled a tie.
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No one else has thrown two in a row.
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An error ended the perfect game and a hit ended the game.
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St. Louis was twice one strike from losing the Series.
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The league later restored the homer and the game was finished weeks later.
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The umpire apologised in tears after seeing the replay.
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Whether he really pointed to centre field is still argued about.
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1908, 1932, 1938, then 1951.
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The Giants won the playoff 5-4.
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Carlton Fisk's homer won the game for Boston.
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Test 10The Hall of FameTake a test
He was named on 222 of 226 ballots.
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Players short of it may try again the next year.
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The limit was cut from fifteen years in 2014.
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Players below it drop off and must wait for a committee.
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He was named on 396 of 397 ballots.
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Rose had bet on games, including his own team's.
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Panels of veterans, executives and historians review each era.
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1936, 1939, 2014, then 2025.
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The first five were Cobb, Ruth, Wagner, Mathewson and Walter Johnson.
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Sources
General baseball references, WBSC and league material, coaching manuals; original questions authored, nothing reproduced. Numbered rules belong to the Rules category.
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