Sports Quiz – December 22, 2023

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Questions

1. Dan Baker has served as the public address announcer for what Major League Baseball team since 1972?
2. What Pro Football Hall of Fame running back announced his retirement from the NFL via a fax letter to “The Wichita Eagle” newspaper in July 1999?
3. Name the American tennis player who won nine Grand Slam women’s singles titles in the 1950s and died of ovarian cancer at age 34 in 1969.
4. The Florida Tuskers, Hartford Colonials, Omaha Nighthawks and Virginia Destroyers were teams that competed in what pro football league that operated from 2009-2012?
5. What Italian boxer won two middleweight title fights against Emile Griffith in a trilogy of bouts from 1967-68?
6. Industrialist Tom Yawkey was owner of what Major League Baseball team from 1933-76?
7. What Baseball Hall of Famer from Puerto Rico was National League Rookie of the Year in 1958 and NL MVP in 1967?

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1. The Philadelphia Phillies.
2. Barry Sanders.
3. Maureen Connolly.
4. The United Football League (UFL).
5. Nino Benvenuti.
6. The Boston Red Sox.
7. Orlando Cepeda.

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