Baseball Aptitude Test
April 15, 1991
It is called time BAT, the Baseball Aptitude Test, but the quiz that follows might also be called Baseball Anti-Trivia. It is about the facts, names and figures that are essential to the game's history, the things that any good baseball fan—or baseball player—should know. Thus the BAT will not provide a satisfying exercise for graduates of the School of Sabermetrics, for whom "baseball trivia" is an oxymoron, but it should offer a suitable challenge for the rest of you. And don't worry. Like Yankee broadcaster Phil Rizzuto, whose scorecards are replete with notations of WW (for wasn't watching), we aren't keeping score. Answers appear on page 49.
e. "If the people don't want to come out to the park, nobody's gonna stop 'em."
5. CASEY STENGEL
f. "Why shouldn't I get paid more than the President? I had a better year."
6. HENRY WIGGEN
g. "Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."
7. TITO FUENTES
h. "Most people are dead at my age. You could look it up. "
8. SATCHEL PAIGE
i. "That's eight o'clock. Pacific Coast League time. "
9. ERNIE BANKS
j. "There is one word in the English language that says it all, and that word is 'you never know.' "
10. BABE RUTH
9. Numbers Game
Match the faces of these Hall of Famers with their jersey numbers.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
6
6
27
32
20
21
21