MLB Baseball by Year, 1960–1989

We give you one question about Major League baseball for every year from 1960 until 1989. Can you answer them all?

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Year	Clue	Answer
1989	This rookie is featured on the first Upper Deck baseball card	Ken Griffey, Jr.
1988	This injured player hits a walk-off homer in Game 1 of the World Series, then limps around the bases	Kirk Gibson
1987	This slugger hits 49 home runs - a rookie record	Mark McGwire
1986	This first baseman makes a costly error in Game 6 of the World Series	Bill Buckner
1985	This 20 year old pitcher dominates the National League with 24 wins and a 1.53 ERA	Dwight Gooden
1984	This player records his 4000th hit	Pete Rose
1983	This Red Sox player records his first of four seasons hitting above .360	Wade Boggs
1982	This speedster steals a record 130 bases	Rickey Henderson
1981	This Dodger becomes the first rookie to win a Cy Young award	Fernando Valenzuela
1980	This player hits .390 in an injury-shortened season	George Brett
1979	Fans riot during _____ Demolition Night at Comiskey Field	Disco
1978	In a one-game playoff, this Yankees shortstop hits a rare home run to help defeat the hated Red Sox	Bucky Dent
1977	This slugger hits three home runs in Game 6 of the World Series	Reggie Jackson
1976	The World Series champion Reds are widely known by this nickname	The Big Red Machine
1975	This player "waves it fair" to win Game 6 of the World Series	Carlton Fisk
1974	This slugger hits his 715th home run, eclipsing Babe Ruth	Hank Aaron
1973	This position, hated by baseball purists, is used for the first time	Designated Hitter
1972	This player dies in a tragic plane crash, months after recording his 3000th hit	Roberto Clemente
1971	This pitcher is the first player to be inducted into the Hall of Fame by the Negro League Committee	Satchel Paige
1970	This Seattle team moves to Milwaukee and becomes the Brewers	Seattle Pilots
1969	The Mets earn this nickname by winning the World Series	The Miracle Mets
1968	This pitcher wins 31 games	Denny McLain
1967	This Red Sox left fielder wins the Triple Crown	Carl Yastrzemski
1966	This Dodger wins his third Cy Young in four years, then retires due to arthritis	Sandy Koufax
1965	This becomes the first indoor stadium in the Major Leagues	The Astrodome
1964	This recently-retired catcher is hired to manage the Yankees but is fired following an incident with a harmonica on a team bus	Yogi Berra
1963	Brothers Felipe, Jesus, and Matty ____ play for the Giants at the same time	Alou
1962	This expansion team loses a record 120 games	New York Mets
1961	This slugger beats Babe Ruth by hitting 61 home runs in a single season *	Roger Maris
1960	This Pirates second baseman hits the only game 7 walk-off homer in MLB history	Bill Mazeroski

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20 Comments

Level 47

May 3, 2013

Great quiz. Loved it.

Level 85

Jul 4, 2017

Bonus trivia: as Hank Aaron's 715th HR sailed out of the park in Atlanta, who was the Dodger left-fielder climbing the left field fence in a vain attempt to get to the ball?

Answer: Bill Buckner. (drag mouse over to highlight answer)

Level 66

May 7, 2021

No kidding. Cool fact!

Level 85

Jul 4, 2017

1975 World Series, one of the greatest ever, and it seems all anyone remembers is Fisk's HR. Historic moment, no doubt, but as Johnny Bench said years later about how that Series is often remembered, tongue firmly planted in cheek, "The Red Sox won, 3 games to 4."

Level 43

Sep 20, 2017

Along with Robinson, my hero is Roberto Clemente. An incredible 5-tool player and humanitarian, thus the award is named for him. There is a movement to retire his #21 as well, which I would support. The world needs more people like him; who thinks of others in need and does something about it.

Level 89

Jul 26, 2018

Savage....I am a baseball fan and missed only five of the 48 questions. Sadly, that was good enough only to get me 3/5 points. There are some FANS taking this quiz!

Level 87

Oct 26, 2018

Love the reference to Disco Demolition Night.

Level 85

Nov 4, 2019

Wikipedia entry on 1969 New York Mets season: "The team is often referred to as the "Amazin' Mets" (a nickname coined by Casey Stengel, who managed the team from their inaugural season to 1965) or the "Miracle Mets"."

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Nov 4, 2019

Amazing will work now.

Level 75

Sep 12, 2021

"Amazin' " mostly refers to the Mets of the Stengel era (although it continues to be used at times to this day). "Miracle" specifically refers to the 1969 World Series champions.

Level 14

Mar 5, 2020

Easy as pie!

Level 28

Mar 21, 2020

Ripken's streak began in 1982, not 1983.

Level ∞

Dec 2, 2020

Dang. Changed the question to use Wade Boggs instead.

Level 28

Mar 21, 2020

Pete Rose got his 4,000th hit with the Montreal Expos in 1984, not the Cincinnati Reds.

Level ∞

Dec 2, 2020

Removed the team from the question.

Level 45

Jul 4, 2020

Didn't Jackie Robinson play a bunch of games for the KC Monarchs in the Negro Leagues? He was inducted in 1962... so doesn't that make him he first former Negro Leaguer to be inducted in the HOF?

Level ∞

Dec 2, 2020

You are technically correct. (The best kind of correct). The question has been amended slightly.

Level 67

May 5, 2021

Love the print given to the Mets here!...even if one of them is ignominious. And Pete Alonso smashed 53 home runs in 2019 to overtake McGwire's rookie record. (I know the question is correct, just showing the Polar Bear some love.)

Level 91

May 5, 2021

A question about Disco Demolition Night but nothing about the shorts the 75 White Sox wore? Bill Veeck was a marketing genius.

Level 33

May 5, 2021

Hi, there! Thank you for this challenging quiz. I found one minor update: when Disco Demolition Night occurred, the Chicago White Sox' stadium was known as Comiskey Park instead of Comiskey Field. In fact, even though the name has officially changed since then, many Chicagoans still call it that, or simply White Sox Park. The stadium on the other side of town, of course, is called Wrigley Field.

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