In celebrate the opening of the 1998 baseball season. The Crimson invites its readers to try our around spring baseball quiz: Ten points for each correct answer.

If you score 200 or better, rate yourself a baseball expert and show up for this paper's sports comp next fall. Scoring 150-200 means you can hold your own in any barroom argument, about 100 makes you a fun person to watch at game with and 50 or better shows that you probably don't frustrate your date too often.

1. Bobby Thomson won baseball immortality when his ninth inning home run won the 1951 pennant for the Grants. For five points each, name the players who hit nigh inning homers which also won pennants for the 1938 Cubs and the 1976 Yankees.

2. Yankees' owner George Steinbrenner chose not to resign Reggie Jackson after the 1981 season believing the slugger was past his prime How many American League home run titles has Jackson won or shared in the last three years' And flow many times has be hit 300 in his career.'

3. Everyone knows that Jim and Gaylord Perry have won over 500 games between them, by far the most for any part of brothers. For five points, can you name the brothers who have the second highest total' For five more, identify the family which had live sons play in the big leagues.

4. Who was the last switch-hitter to win the American league MVP Award' It wasn't Mickey Mantle.

5. Of the seven top strikeout pitchers of all time, five are still active, and at least three should surpass Walter Johnson's record of 3506 this year. Two points for each of the five you can name."

6. Since the World Series began in 1903, the Yankees have won the most Fall Classics--21. Which club, not counting expansion teams, took the longest to win its first Series?

7. One team had remarkable success in the early history of the Series. It appeared six times in the first 15 Series and won all six. But its 1918 victory was also its last. Can you identify the team?

8. In the last 20 years, five players have won MVP Awards during their first season after joining a team (one was a rookie). Two points for each one you can name.

9. Before Robin Young, who was the last shortstop to win an MVP Award in the American League? The National? Five points each.

10. Substitutes have played dramatic roles in some World Series, such as Dusty Rhodes with his three-homer performances for the Giants in 1954 Identify the players who stood in:

* At shortstop for the 1968 Tigers:

* In Center field for the 1972 A's:

* At second base for the 1978 Yankees?