1. Name the catcher who holds the major-league record for most pickoffs of runners in a season.

2. During the 1970s, two A.L. players won the regular-season Most Valuable Player award in their first full seasons in the league. Name them.

3. Which school was the last to join the Big Ten before Penn State (which began play in 1993)?

4. Which team was the last to have the worst record in the NBA one season and reach the playoffs the next?

5. Edmonton's Wayne Gretzky won the Hart Trophy (regular-season MVP of the NHL) eight consecutive seasons (1980-1987). Who won it the year before and the year after Gretzky?

6. Which are the only two schools in NCAA women's soccer history to go undefeated during the regular season and win the NCAA title?

Answers: 1. San Diego's Benito Santiago had 14 pickoffs in 1989.

2. Dick Allen (Chicago White Sox, 1972) and Fred Lynn (Boston, 1975).

3. Michigan State, which began play in 1953.

4. The Denver Nuggets were 17-65 in 2002-03 and made the playoffs with a 43-39 record in 2003-04.

5. In 1980, it was Bryan Trottier of the New York Islanders; in 1988, it was Pittsburgh's Mario Lemieux.

6. North Carolina (10 times) and Portland (once)