Sports records broken often

1. Name the only modern baseball player to not have a team logo on the cap of his Hall of Fame plaque.

2. In 2006, Jhonny Peralta set a Cleveland Indians franchise record for most home runs in a season by a shortstop (24). Whose mark did he break?

3. Name the last college football program before Southern Cal in 2004-05 to have different players win the Heisman Trophy in back-to-back seasons.

4. In 2005-06, Utah’s Andrei Kirilenko became the fourth player in NBA history to average at least 15 points, eight rebounds, four assists and three blocks a game for a season. Name two of the other three to do this.

5. When was the last time the New York Islanders advanced past the first round of the NHL playoffs?

6. Who is the only player to win Olympic gold medals in both indoor volleyball and beach volleyball?

Answers

1. Jim “Catfish” Hunter, who played for both the Athletics and the Yankees during his career.

2. Woodie Held hit 23 home runs in 1961.

3. Army — Doc Blanchard in 1945 and Glenn Davis in 1946.

4. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bob Lanier and David Robinson.

5. In 1993, when the Islanders lost in the conference final to Montreal.

6. Karch Kiraly (indoor volleyball, 1984, 1988; beach volleyball, 1996).