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Total questions: 6390

What are the official longest home runs in MLB?
Popularity: 692

What is a walk-off home run and how does it differ from a wall-cough home run or the infamous Wahlkauff Homer for Chicago in 1936?
Popularity: 447

How many ways can a batter reach first base?
Popularity: 441

What are the differences between the rules of baseball and softball?
Popularity: 316

How do you place players in the batting order in baseball?
Popularity: 311

How do you find the value of an autographed baseball?
Popularity: 307

Why is a 'K' used for a strike out in baseball?
Popularity: 290

What was the longest Major League Baseball game in 2003?
Popularity: 285

Why is it called the bullpen?
Popularity: 284

What sports were popular in the 1920s?
Popularity: 273

Where does the mud umpires rub on baseballs before games come from?
Popularity: 269

Which major league team once had three players vomit on the field at the same time?
Popularity: 256

Why is there an American League and a National League?
Popularity: 239

Why is baseball called America's pastime?
Popularity: 234

How many baseballs are used during a MLB game?
Popularity: 230

How can you have eight batters in one inning without scoring a run?
Popularity: 225

How did the American League get started?
Popularity: 225

What was the Model and Make of Mickey Mantle's glove?
Popularity: 224

How many players are there in Major League Baseball?
Popularity: 222

Why do baserunners run counterclockwise?
Popularity: 218

Does a post-season home run count in a player's total career home runs?
Popularity: 218

Who hit the most home runs in the 1980's?
Popularity: 215

How do you get in touch with a baseball player?
Popularity: 215

What is Major League Baseball's oldest ballpark?
Popularity: 214

What is the wild card race?
Popularity: 212

Where did the word 'fungo' in baseball come from?
Popularity: 212

When was 'base ball' contracted in daily usage to the one word 'baseball'?
Popularity: 211

When was the last time that both the NLCS and the ALCS went 7 games in the same year?
Popularity: 210

Why does Major League Baseball not have any female players?
Popularity: 208

What is the record for most consecutive shutout innings pitched by one team?
Popularity: 208

What is the difference between a lead off second base with no outs and two out leads?
Popularity: 205

Which side of the plate did Mickey Mantle hit his 500th home run from?
Popularity: 203

Why is tapping the ball called bunting?
Popularity: 202

Can a run count in a player's career but a game?
Popularity: 201

What pitcher threw four consecutive home run pitches in a single inning?
Popularity: 199

Why do some franchises have higher salaries than other teams?
Popularity: 199

What does the -number weight drop on bats mean?
Popularity: 197

When was the first MLB night game?
Popularity: 193

Was there ever a team called the Black Sox?
Popularity: 188

What stadium was the squirrel crawling across the backstop and Barry Bonds almost hit it?
Popularity: 181

What is the furthest that two opposing pitchers have taken a no-hitter into the same game?
Popularity: 174

What is the best way to catch a fly ball?
Popularity: 161

Does Antonio Alfonseca really have six fingers on his hands?
Popularity: 161

Where did baseball start?
Popularity: 159

How was baseball invented?
Popularity: 158

What makes a winning Major League Baseball team?
Popularity: 158

What game was lost because the runner did not step on first base?
Popularity: 153

Why do baseball players not shake hands after the game?
Popularity: 151

What year was the Star Spangled Banner first played at a Major League Baseball game?
Popularity: 149

What is the record for the most players traded for a single player in professional baseball?
Popularity: 145

Do errors and fielders choice factor into on base percentage?
Popularity: 144

How can you get next year's baseball schedule?
Popularity: 143

Why is home plate a different shape and size as the other bases?
Popularity: 142

Why did baseball and recreational activities flourish during the 1920's?
Popularity: 140

How long is the average baseball career?
Popularity: 137

Who invented baseball?
Popularity: 134

What does the number 714 represent in baseball?
Popularity: 134

How far is it from home plate to the pitchers mound in Little League Baseball?
Popularity: 130

What is the record for the biggest increase in the number of wins from one MLB season to the next?
Popularity: 125

Who hit the longest home run in MLB history?
Popularity: 121

What do AVR HR RBI and OBP mean in baseball stats?
Popularity: 120

When was baseball invented?
Popularity: 116

What does RBI stand for?
Popularity: 116

If a MLB player is signed to a guaranteed contract for 5 years but decides to retire after 3 years not due to injury and he is still physically able to play is the contract still paid?
Popularity: 116

How many types of pitches are there?
Popularity: 113

How many players are on a baseball team?
Popularity: 112

What player hit the very first home run in the Houston AstroDome?
Popularity: 112

How many baseball teams are in the National League?
Popularity: 112

What does the 'H' stand for in the pitcher's box score in baseball?
Popularity: 112

What is the record for the most strikeouts in a major league baseball game by an individual hitter?
Popularity: 110



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