QUESTIONS:
1. With the World Series under way, can you name the only Baseball Hall of Famer to have served in the U.S. Senate?
2. Who was the only Baseball Hall of Famer to have served in the House?
3. The New York Yankees are probably the most despised-and admired-team in professional baseball. Who was the last former Yankee player to run for Congress?
4. It was recently announced that the Nation's Capital will again host a major league team. Who was the first President to throw out the first ball to open a baseball season?
5. Who was the last President to go through that ritual in Washington, D.C.?
ANSWERS:
1. Sen. Jim Bunning (R.-Ky.), onetime major league pitcher for four different teams.
2. Bunning, who served in the U.S. House from 1986-96.
3. Bobby Richardson, onetime Yankee second baseman, who was the Republican nominee for Congress from South Carolina in 1976 and '78.
4. William Howard Taft in 1910.
5. Richard Nixon in 1969, the last year that the Washington Senators played in the Nation's Capital.
