Sports Quiz – July 1, 2022

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Questions

1. Who holds the New York Mets’ record for highest career batting average?
2. Who were the only two major-league pitchers to strike out Hall of Famer Ted Williams three times in one game?
3. The Seattle Mariners played their first major-league season in 1977. In what year did they record their first winning season?
4. What is Alabama football coach Nick Saban’s record in national championship games?
5. Which of these franchises was the first to win a Stanley Cup — the Boston Bruins or the Chicago Blackhawks?
6. Who were the “Four Kings,” a group of boxers who all fought each other throughout the 1980s?
7. What was the last year that a Ferrari won the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race?

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1. John Olerud, with a .315 average.
2. Bobo Newsom in 1939, and Jim Bunning in 1957.
3. It was 1991, when the Mariners were 83-79.
4. 7-3. The losses came against Clemson (twice) and Georgia.
5. The Bruins won a Stanley Cup in 1929, five seasons before the Blackhawks did it.
6. Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Thomas Hearns and Marvin Hagler.
7. 1965.

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