Sports Quiz – Jan. 11, 2019

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Questions

1. In 2017, Pittsburgh’s Josh Bell set the National League record for most homers in a season by a rookie switch-hitter (26). Who had held the previous mark?
2. Two Texas Rangers pitchers tossed a no-hitter during the 1970s. Name either one.
3. Between 2007 and 2017, how many of the 11 Heisman Trophy winners were either freshmen or sophomores?
4. Name the last second-round NBA draft pick before Milwaukee’s Malcolm Brogdon in 2018 to win the NBA Rookie of the Year award.
5. Who took over as head coach of the Detroit Red Wings after Scotty Bowman retired following a Stanley Cup championship in 2002?
6. In 2018, Joey Logano won the NASCAR Cup Series championship while driving a Ford. Who was the last Ford driver before him to do it?
7. In what year did tennis great Rod Laver win his first Wimbledon men’s singles title?

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1. Atlanta’s Chipper Jones, with 23 homers in 1995.
2. Jim Bibby (1973) and Bert Blyleven (1977).
3. Six.
4. New York’s Willis Reed, in 1965.
5. Dave Lewis.urt Busch, in 2004.
6. It was 1961.

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