Time to take Will’s annual baseball quiz

Orioles manager Earl Weaver once said of a pitcher, “I gave Mike Cuellar more chances than my first wife.” You get one chance to name:

1. The three teams’ rotations featuring three Hall of Famers.

2. The player with the most World Series rings (6) without any from the Yankees.

3. The player who was caught just 13 times while stealing 104 bases in a single season.

4. The Hall of Fame pitcher who in the 1950s averaged 301 innings, completing 237 of 370 starts.

5. The player who hit the most home runs in his first 10 years.

6. The Most Valuable Player who led the American League in errors as a fielder and in strikeouts as a hitter.

7. The two Hall of Famers who played for 23 years, each with only one team.

8. The slugger who in 1968, the “year of the pitcher,” hit 10 homers in a 20 at-bat span.

9. The six who won two MVP awards before their 26th birthdays.

10. The team that had a player lead the league in homers and RBIs in 1953 and a different player do it in 1954.

11. The year when three center fielders were a league’s leaders in batting average, home runs and RBIs.

12. The pitcher who holds the National League and American League records for appearances in a season.

13. The NL player who won six home run titles while hitting more than 500 home runs as a lefthander.

14. The slugger who hit the most home runs in his final season.

15. The hitter who is eligible but is not in the Hall of Fame even though he had six seasons with 200 or more hits.

16. The last teammates to have at least 150 RBIs each in a season.

17. The pitcher who had 107 wins and 1,233 strikeouts through his

age-22 seasons.

18. The four players with at least 10 Gold Gloves and 400 homers.

19. The second baseman who won an MVP award in the 1950s.

20. The two players who were both an NL Rookie of the Year and an AL MVP.

21. The only slugger to hit 50-plus homers in a season while striking out fewer than 50 times.

22. The player with the most pinch-hit homers.

23. The holder of the Reds’ single-season home-run record.

on foreign soil. Putting that aside for a moment, let’s examine these rights.

Your rights are not rights. American rights are a privilege and an honor. For example, you don’t have a right to vote. You have the privilege of voting because someone else dying in a war on foreign soil. I applaud Republicans in restricting your alleged right to vote naked on your couch eating a bag of chips. If a nation cannot verify and secure its elections or defend its borders, then that nation and its rights will no longer exist.

Rights are privileges and those privileges demand vigilance and sacrifice. Millions of Americans have forgotten this as they demand the government to take care of them as though it were not their responsibility to do so in the first place. God have mercy on our nation.

Michael P. Lucas

Hot Springs