A baseball quiz to test fans as spring training approaches

Nelson Cruz and Fred McGriff.I want to report a theft. On myself. I am blatantly stealing from my friend, the terrific baseball writer Tyler Kepner. In The New York Times, now annually during the holiday season, he delivers a baseball quiz that does what the best baseball quizzes should do: Fluster, fascinate, fixate and put the “f” in fun.

Inspired by Tyler, I am offering my own quiz.

What happens during the course of days, weeks and years working on columns is I come across items that motivate me to go on deep dives. The result of diving so deep is often to be elated by discoveries — I had no idea (fill in the blank) did (fill in the blank).

I haven’t used some of the recent research — at…