George Will's Baseball Quiz - Spring 2024

[Scott Cooper's Grand Slam]

The Washington Post published a baseball quiz earlier this week, and it's trickier than I thought it would be. I'm batting .300 after 10 questions. Here's a gift link: https://wapo.st/3PKBoee

I'll update when I have a final score, and I look forward to your results.

Edit: 23/41. Not bad, but there are more than a few of you who will crush this score.

 

[Lose Remerswaal]

19. I was actually 1 for eleven at one point, which is worse than random.

 

[Max Power]

Thanks for the sharing link. That was a fun one. I got 35/41. I'm sure some of our Immaculate Grid nuts will get a perfect score.

 

[Sad Sam Jones]

33

 

[mwonow]

26 for me, but tbh, my guesses hit more often than I would have expected

Actually, I missed

Spoiler

Harmon Killebrew

like 3 times. I need to read up on him a bit

 

[Catcher Block]

18/41. Those 1940s-60s questions are brutal.

The groupings of players are a gift when you know 1 guy qualifies but have no clue on the others.

 

[jmcc5400]

33 and I will never forgive myself for one I got wrong.

 

[pedro1918]

You can’t get thrown out for thinking, so take a swing at George Will’s baseball quiz I scored 29 out of 41.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2024/george-will-2024-baseball-quiz/

29. Mad about one miss. Disappointed by a couple more.

 

[wiffleballhero]

27 of the 41.

I am kicking myself on a few of the misses where I ended up trying to be too cute with the guess, but I probably hit on more than a few dice rolls.

Fun quiz.

 

[Archer1979]

25 out of 41. Outsmarted myself on about five.

 

[CarolinaBeerGuy]

25 out of 41.

 

[E5 Yaz]

25 out of 41. Outsmarted myself on about five.

23 of 41, and the same. Over-thought a few instead of going with first instinct

 

[nayrbrey]

20/41. I too over thought several answers.

Spoiler: Answers

The Bob Feller and George Sisler ones are 2 of them.

 

[LogansDad]

21/41

Once again proving that I am an idiot.

 

[snowmanny]

33 but several guesses hit.

 

[Margo McCready]

28/41

 

[nolasoxfan]

22/41; embarrassEd by 2 questions I missed.

 

[Just a bit outside]

28/41. Missed a couple bunnies.

 

[Reverse Curve]

Oof...16/41. Was thinking glad it wasn't a timed quiz, but may have scored higher minus the overthinking. Thanks for the link, that was fun.

 

[Big Papa Smurph]

27/41 - I looked up Ralph Kiner's 1947 game logs after that question

Spoiler

3 home runs and a .408 slugging percentage through June 1st (33 games). 48 home runs and a .709 slugging percentage the rest of the season (119 games).

 

[Daniel_Son]

18. The 40s-60s questions were brutal

 

[luckiestman]

16. Very fun questions

 

[Whoop-La White]

25 out of 41.

 

[Carbo Loading]

26 of 41. Pretty pretty good for me

 

[bigq]

18-41 for me.

 

[SumnerH]

22.

 

[Zedia]

26, which is much better than my immaculate grid record would suggest.

 

[ledsox]

32 of41 with a few guesses. Absolutely embarrassed I missed/outsmarted myself on the WHIP question.

 

[Kremlin Watcher]

Whoosh. 19. That was ugly.

 

[absintheofmalaise]

27. Sometimes it pays to be old.

 

[Omar's Wacky Neighbor]

27/41.

Got a few wrong, as I thought they were trick questions. Should have just gone with my gut, from a youth misspent poring over Baseball Digest.

 

[FelixMantilla]

26 but I honestly didn't take enough time to do it right.

 

[Jake Peavy's Demons]

26/41, .634.

Nobody better had missed the lowest WHIP question!

 

[StMic]

32

 

[runnels3]

28

 

[BaseballJones]

25 out of 41

 

[Philip Jeff Frye]

Got 29.

Spoiler

I was heartened to learn that the Yankees have lost more World Series than anybody else.

 

[Mugsy's Jock]

29, and almost every miss was something that didn’t surprise me. This was up my alley.

 

[DJnVa]

27/41 - I looked up Ralph Kiner's 1947 game logs after that question

Spoiler

3 home runs and a .408 slugging percentage through June 1st (33 games). 48 home runs and a .709 slugging percentage the rest of the season (119 games).

I did exactly the same thing re: Kiner. lol

28/41 for me. Missed at least 4 that I shouldn't have had I thought about it for more than 10 seconds.

 

[Mugsy's Jock]

26/41, .634.

Nobody better had missed the lowest WHIP question!

Nor the most HR in last year!

 

[Ferm Sheller]

22/41.

 

[jmcc5400]

26/41, .634.

Nobody better had missed the lowest WHIP question!

That’s the one i flubbed - went with guy from Canada.

 

[Andy Merchant]

33 and I will never forgive myself for one I got wrong.

Spoiler

Ugh, got the Papi one wrong. I though it was him but figured my Sox bias was overriding the obvious choice of Barry Bonds.

 

[JGray38]

31, not too bad.

 

[Buck Showalter]

Not bad...

 

[Dummy Hoy]

33. Good questions.

edit: There were some guesses I hit on, and a few misses I probably should have gotten, but I loved that there were a few questions you had to work through and consider, and that was fun, especially when they hit

 

[Was (Not Wasdin)]

You can’t get thrown out for thinking, so take a swing at George Will’s baseball quiz I scored 28 out of 41.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2024/george-will-2024-baseball-quiz/

28/41. Should have been 29, I hit the wrong button on the question about leading the AL in saves 4 consecutive times.

 

[Scott Cooper's Grand Slam]

Spoiler

Ugh, got the Papi one wrong. I though it was him but figured my Sox bias was overriding the obvious choice of Barry Bonds.

I got that one wrong for the same reason.

 

[simplicio]

20, when you hit pre-80s trivia I'm completely useless.

 

[RG33]

24 out of 41 - - missed the WHIP and probably 4-5 others that I thought were “tricks” and went contrarian. Dummy.