Our focus for the few remaining weeks of baseball season will be on World Series trivia.
Mickey Mantle holds the record for most career WS home runs, with 18. Can you name the other five players who have hit ten or more career WS round-trippers?
Pictured: the just-released bio of Mickey Mantle, authored by Jane Leavy (whose other works include a fantastic bio of Sandy Koufax). Book info here, and interview with the author here.
Babe Ruth, Lou Gerhig, Reggie Jackson.
Leavitt's bio of Koufax is perhaps the best baseball bio ever.
Yogi Berra.
Babe Ruth (15)
Yogi Berra (12)
Lou Gehrig (10)
Reggie Jackson (10)
Looking for one more!
It has to be either Duke Snider or Frank Robinson.
What? No one wants to offer Joe DiMaggio? He had eight, the same number as Frank Robinson.
But the Duke? He had eleven round-trippers.
Thanks for playing. Next week? Pitchers.