Jun 30th 2008 12:02 am Baseball Trivia 101
Match the following pieces of information with the correct baseball player below (come on, its fun. Otherwise, click this Jack Ascii recommended link):
A) This player set an NCAA college baseball record of 58 straight games with a hit (since surpassed).
B) This player hit two grand slams in one MLB game.
C) This player earned six gold gloves during his career, third most ever for the position.
D) This player got the crapped knocked out of him by a 46 year old Nolan Ryan after an ill advised charging of the mound.
Baseball Players: Andre Dawson, Mo Vaughn, Robin Ventura, John Olerud.
Click below for the correct pairings…
If you answered Robin Ventura for all of them, you have won yourself…. I guess nothing. Anyway, most people will only remember Robin as the guy a old Nolan Ryan roughed up. However, he was a great great college and major league baseball player. Here are just a few of his accolades (taken from his wikipedia listing):
Gold Gloves: 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1998, 1999
All Star: 1992, 2002
90 RBI seasons: 8 (6th all time among 3rd basemen)
9 Grandslams in 1995 alone
Career Home Runs: 294
Career RBI’s: 1182
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