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Baseball - The Only Person to Do It

Can you name the only person in Major League history to accomplish these remarkable feats?
Modern era only (1900–present)
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Last updated: March 16, 2024
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First submittedMay 11, 2021
Times taken5,438
Average score65.0%
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Be walked intentionally more than 100 times in a single season
Barry Bonds
Hit 40 home runs and win 10 games as a pitcher in the same season
Shohei Ohtani
Have his number retired by every Major League team
Jackie Robinson
Have his number retired by 3 teams that he actually played with
(hint: Angels, Astros, Rangers)
Nolan Ryan
Marry Marilyn Monroe
Joe DiMaggio
Date Jennifer Lopez
Alex Rodriguez
Win a Cy Young award as a knuckleballer
R. A. Dickey
Be cryogenically frozen after death
Ted Williams
Have 3,000 hits as a Yankee
Derek Jeter
Hit 150 home runs both left-handed and right-handed
Mickey Mantle
Hit more than 300 home runs and have a last name that is a fruit
Darryl Strawberry
Win seven Cy Young awards
Roger Clemens
Win a home run title without hitting a ball over the fence (hint: 1909)
Ty Cobb
Be inducted into the Hall of Fame as a Kansas City Royal
George Brett
Be featured on a tobacco card worth more than $3 million
Honus Wagner
Pitch a perfect game in the World Series
Don Larsen
Hit sixty home runs in a season three separate times
Sammy Sosa
Appear on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine (hint: Detroit Tigers, 1977)
Mark Fidrych
Be born with only one hand
Jim Abbott
Have 3,000 hits in the Major League and 1,000 in Japan
Ichiro Suzuki
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Level 89
May 12, 2021
The baseball card question is out of date. A Mickey Mantle card sold for $5.2 million in January.

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mickey-mantle-baseball-card-sells-for-5-2m-breaking-all-time-record-for-trading-cards/

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Level ∞
May 12, 2021
Thanks, changed to "baseball card" to "tobacco card".
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Level 66
May 12, 2021
Only missed World Series perfect game. Brain glitch, kept trying Don Drysdale...wrong Don.
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Level 84
May 12, 2021
I had Drysdale on my mind too for some reason, but knew it wasn't right.
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Level 84
May 12, 2021
Only player to pitch consecutive no-hitters: Johnny Vander Meer.
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Level 73
May 21, 2021
One of the most unbreakable records of all time, probably, although the most truly unbreakable ones relate to complete games since those are so rare anymore.
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Level 84
May 12, 2021
Great quiz! Thank you for not shying away from going back prior to 1980.
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Level 28
Jun 8, 2021
Is this Quizmaster's least played quiz?
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Level 67
Jun 20, 2021
How about Fernando Tatis's two grand slams in one inning?
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Level 64
Jun 20, 2021
I had to guess a lot of fruits before I got to strawberry.
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Level 73
Jun 20, 2021
Accept Clemons, or Clemmons?
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Level 72
Jun 20, 2021
Great quiz! Always love a good baseball challenge. Honestly surprised Phil Niekro never won a Cy Young for the knuckleball question.
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Level 72
Jun 21, 2021
I also guessed Niekro.
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Level 75
Jun 22, 2021
I got DiMaggio and someone who did something while also having a last name that is a fruit. I think I'll quit while I'm ahead with my 0/5 points!
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Level 75
Jan 8, 2022
Was hoping Bird would be acceptable to Rolling Stone question but as a native Detroit I can spell his name LOL. Also perhaps a baseball related question for Williams like only person to hit .400 since 1940.
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Level ∞
Mar 16, 2024
Bird will work now
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Level 73
Feb 2, 2023
Nice quiz! I scored 20/20, but it took me a minute to get the answer to the fruit question. Thanks for the quiz!
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Level 24
Dec 12, 2023
shohei got a 700 mil contract, should change that, please.
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Level ∞
Mar 16, 2024
Done.