Baseball on the Brain: 1007 Trivia Challenges »

Dennis Purdy is an all-around baseball scholar. He wrote The Team-by-Team Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball; edited and published The Vintage & Classic Baseball Collector Magazine; created the syndicated newspaper feature Baseball Trivia Game; and is the author of more than 100 baseball-related magazine articles.

Covering three centuries of players, teams, achievements, statistics, lore, terms, history, nicknames, awards, ballparks, and even photographs, Baseball on the Brain is an unmatched feast of knowledge.

But it's knowledge dressed up as trivia, in 1,003 challenges—not solo questions, but half-page games, every one involving matching multiple players to their accomplishments, or evaluating clues to discover a mystery subject or identity, or digging into the history.

Each game, each question is designed to make you feel inordinately smart if you know the answer, and if you don't, give you "Aha!" moments of edification. Batter up!

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Let the Gameâ Progress
Baseball Terminology
Teamwork
From the Hallowed Halls
Baseball Birthplaces
The World Series
Mound Magnificence
The All-Star Game
Defunct, But Not Forgotten
Assume the Position
The League Championship Series
Media
Notable Quotables
Beyond the Color Line
Name That Team
Teams-Miscellaneous
He Said it All
Players-Miscellaneous
Team by Team
Baseball in the Movies
The Ballparks
Now Batting
Now Pitching
When Did it Occur?
First Things First-Player and Team Potpourri
Dream Teams by the Numbers
Presidents
Victims
By the Decade
Batting Records-Unsurpassed and Surpassed
Pitching Records-Unsurpassed and Surpassed
Baseball Grab Bag
Baseball Name-O-Mania
Answers