1. Only two men have stroked 700 hits over three consecutive seasons in the bigs. Incredibly both men accomplished this herculean feat over the same three year span--and in the same city!

2. A 17 game winner with the A's 1913 World Champions, he was sold to the Yankees in 1914 after a 1-6 start. This pitcher got his distinctive nickname because scouts discovered him pitching in a sandlot in Atlantic City.

3. Another talented young hurler on the '13 World Champs was this 21 year old flamethrower who won 14 ballgames in 1913, including eight in relief. Unhittable one day, unable to find the strike zone the next, he jumped to the Federal League early in 1914 to play for the Brooklyn ball club but after collecting but two victories he was gone--his career suddenly over at 22, except for a one year stint with the St. Louis Browns in 1918.

4. What was the original nickname of the Houston Astros?

5. How many states played host to big league baseball clubs in 1950?

6. A starter at first in the Mariners inaugural season (and co-team leader with 90 ribbies), he started at first for the A's for much of the '82 and '83 seasons.

7. A spring training phenom with the O's in '85, he came north with the big club and started the first two months at third base. Fifty games and two grand salamis later he was gone, never to return to the majors.

8. The 1920 White Sox had a club that boasted four twenty-game winners although two of them (Eddie Cicotte and Lefty Williams), of course, would not finish the season after their lifetime bans from baseball for throwing the 1919 World Series. Who was the team leader for the Pale Hose that season in pitching victories?

9. A 14 game winner for the Yanks in 1962, he won Game Three of the Series with a complete game 3-2 win over the Giants. It was the second straight 14 win season for the confident young righthander. However, in his first start in 1963 he injured his arm and was never the same pitcher again.

10. In 1990, two American League West ballclubs had piching staffs that boasted five pitchers each with double figure totals in victories yet neither club was able to overtake the defending World Champion Oakland A's for the West Division title.

11. A two-time All-Star during the War, he was deferred from active duty in the Army due to varicose veins. He posted double figures in wins four straight seasons for a weak Boston Braves team, going 17-16 in 1943.

12. A big nasty flamethrower, this 6'4" 230 pound intimidator was a first round draft choice of the Expos in 1976. His best year was 1985, when he saved 32 games for the White Sox. But after injuring his arm the following season he was unable to crank up the heat and his career was suddenly over.

13. His 74 steals (good for the league lead) in 1914 stood as the Yankee team season record until 1985 when surpassed by Rickey Henderson.

14. A three sport star at the University of Chicago, he was 13-6 for the A's in 1924. Later he was a sportswriter for the Philadelphia Inquirer and a coach at The University of Delaware.

15. A power hitting first baseman dogged with a very distinctive nickname, he stroked a triple and a home run in his first big league ballgame.

16. He was considered the A's first baseman of the future and was originally set to platoon with Mark McGwire during Big Mac's rookie season.

17. This former Big League skipper, who sadly passed away this Spring, was chosen by Connie Mack for his All-Star team as a catcher in his 1950 autobiography My 66 Years in Baseball.

18. Who led the majors in pitching appearances in 1998?

19. In 1974, he pitched in 106 games for the Dodgers.

20. Mark McGwire was almost drafted first in the 1984 draft by what team?

21. Who gave up Big Mac's 70th?

22. In college, Mark McGwire was originally a pitcher at U.S.C. Another star pitcher at Southern Cal was later a league leader in home runs, too. Hint: He and Mark were teammates with the A's.

23. Mark McGwire's first big league hit came off a pitcher who was a dental patient of Mark's father.

24. The Dodgers' wartime first baseman was deferred from the draft because he was too tall. At 6' 6 1/2", he was above the Army's height restrictions. He knocked home 83 runs in 1944; he also played eight seasons in the old N.B.L. and the N.B.A.

25. What is the greatest baseball team of all time?