Baseball Edition….

Five multipart questions related to baseball and July 4th. Get ALL correct to win the 11 points.

1. Who is the only Hall Of Fame player who was born on the Fourth of July? What year?

2. Which team owner was born on the Fourth of July? What team does he own?

3. His team won on his 53rd birthday what was special about that game? Who did it?

4. Same team different year who was given a day of honor on the Fourth of July? What honor was bestowed on him the first in baseball history?

5. What rare thing did Tim McCarver do very embarrassingly on the Bicentennial Fourth of July? How many runs scored on the play?

Bonus factoids purely for entertainment and informational purposes:

HOFer Harmon Killebrew hit his only insidethepark home run on 04July1961.

Nolan Ryan 1980 and Phil Niekro 1984 both got their 3000th strikeouts on July 4th.

In 1985 the Mets and Braves went 19 innings with postgame fireworks starting at 4:01 am.
The his in question 3 refers to the answer to question 2.

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