Statistics for Baseball in the 1930s

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Year	Clue	Answer	% Correct
1933	This annual midseason event takes place for the first time.	All-Star Game	93%
1934	The Reds become the first team to use this mode of transport to get to a game.	Airplane	89%
1930	Sets a record for RBI in a season that still stands, with 191.	Hack Wilson	89%
1939	The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in this New York town.	Cooperstown	75%
1939	Legend plays his last game, finally succumbing to a disease now associated with his name.	Lou Gehrig	75%
1939	Joe McCarthy manages this team to their fourth consecutive world series title.	New York Yankees	72%
1933	Wins the triple crown and his second of three MVPs. Lefty Gomez cracked that this player was so powerful he had "muscles in his hair."	Jimmie Foxx	69%
1935	This team hosts the first night game in history.	Cincinnati Reds	65%
1934	Player makes national news by refusing to play on Yom Kippur.	Hank Greenberg	65%
1931	Wins the first AL MVP award given by the BBWAA. A pitcher, he won exactly 300 games in his career.	Lefty Grove	54%
1934	In the all-star game, this pitcher strikes out Ruth, Gehrig, Foxx, Simmons, and Cronin consecutively.	Carl Hubbell	53%
1938	Throws two consecutive no-hitters.	Johnny Vander Meer	52%
1937	Passes Rogers Hornsby to become the National League's career home run leader. This player's name is a common answer in crossword puzzles.	Mel Ott	50%
1939	Red Barber becomes the first person to do this.	Announce a major league game on TV	45%
1938	German-American famous for being perpetually hung over is asked by management to give up drinking. He does, and hits below .300 for the first time in his career. He and his brother have the most career hits among brother combinations.	Paul Waner	44%
1937	Retires with the highest career batting average among catchers, a record that stood until 2009.	Mickey Cochrane	42%
1931	Famous for committing the batter's sin of putting his foot "in the bucket," this player wins his second consecutive batting title.	Al Simmons	32%
1937	Known for his mechanical consistency and quiet demeanor, this player wins the AL MVP Award.	Charlie Gehringer	31%
1934	Last legal spitballer retires.	Burliegh Grimes	28%
1936	The Boston NL team adopts this name after a change in management. The name lasted only 5 years.	Bees	24%