1. A speedy outfielder with the Kansas City Athletics who had only two homers in a nine-year career in the bigs, his son blasted 30 homers in a season twice with the Kansas City Royals.
2. A star slugger with the Indians and Tigers, this handsome outfielder blasted 34 home runs and drove in 102 runs in his only season with the Athletics (1964).
3. Before "Home Run" Baker, this slugging first sacker led the A. L. in homers four straight seasons (1904-07).
4. A 17 game winner in 1942, this Canadian-born pitcher was captured by the Germans and served nine months in a P.O.W. camp, where he lost 40 pounds. He returned to baseball after the war, leading the A's with 13 wins in 1946 and 19 victories the following season.
5. He returned from WW II at the end of the '45 season and tossed a no-hitter in his very first start.
6. A mid-season call up in 1966, this young right-hander went 12-1 for the remainder of the season and was voted AL Rookie Pitcher of the Year by The Sporting News.
7. Detroit's first pick in the 1978 draft, he led the A's in wins in 1983 (with 12 in his rookie season) and 1985, when he went 14-14 and tied for the league lead with 37 starts.
8. Connie Mack managed the Athletics for 50 years, literally (1901-1950). Who replaced him?
9. Traded to the White Sox midway through the '61 season, he went 20-9 and led the league in winning percentage in 1962.
10. Nicknamed "Camera Eye" for his propensity to draw walks, he was a star second baseman and lead-off hitter for the Mackmen during their championship years from 1929-31.
1. Who was nicknamed "The Zamboni Machine" because he sucked up ground balls?
2. Tinker to Evers to Chance . . . Tinker to Evers to Chance . . . Who played third?
3. He served up number 60 to the Babe in 1927.
4. Who served up the record-breaker 61st to Roger Maris in '61?
5. Who was "Dr. Strangeglove"?
6. A first team All-American quarterback at Ole Miss (and number three in the vote for the 1960 Heisman), he passed up a pro football career to sign a $105,000 bonus with the Yankees.
7. The '35 Braves were one of the worst teams of all time, going 38-115, 61.5 games out of first. Only two men managed to hit better than five home runs and one of them was Babe Ruth, who retired after 28 games. But the Braves had one of the top home run threats in the game patrolling the outfield, a man who set a rookie record in 1930 with 38 roundtrippers and, in the dismal '35 season, stroked 34 home runs and drove in 130, leading the league in both categories.
8. A converted pitcher, he was moved to the outfield to take advantage of his big bat. A star with the Reds in the mid-fifties, he stroked 40 home runs in 1955 and 36 more the following season.
9. The Reds experimented with this strong-armed outfielder, the son of a ex-big league pitcher, and tried him out as a pitcher during the '66 season. He responded to the change by going 14-8 the following year, his first as a full-time pitcher. Unfortunately, arm troubles prematurely put an end to a promising career.
10. A 20 game winner for the Red Sox in 1963, he struck out 17 men in a game on May 12, 1961 and no-hit the White Sox the following season.
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