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Editor’s Note: This summer, we’ll be inviting a handful of special guests to contribute a week’s worth of quizzes in the 5pm time slot. Our first such guest has been baseball expert/food critic/bookworm Keith Law of ESPN, whose fifth quiz is below. Give him a round of applause for a job well done.
I do write about baseball for a living, so I suppose I’d be remiss if I didn’t throw one baseball-related quiz into the mix. I generally don’t like “small ball” tactics because they don’t work as well as many baseball people (including many current managers) seem to think. That doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy watching some aspects of small ball, such as the stolen base. Tampa Bay left fielder Carl Crawford is currently on pace to become the first player to steal 90 bases in one season in over two decades, and he’d become just the ninth player to break that barrier since 1901. Can you name the other eight?
Take the Quiz: Stolen Bases
[See the rest of Keith's quizzes here.]
Ty Cobb
Bob Bescher
Maury Wills
Rickey Henderson
Lou Brock
Vince Coleman
Ron LeFlore
Clyde Milan
posted by Bob Timmermann on 6-1-2009 at 9:52 pm