"For any diehard Cardinals rooter, or any true-blue baseball fan, Cort Reynolds has again scored big with his latest volume of baseball trivia. There are hours of pure entertainment, as well as a good deal of EYE-OPENING education for even the well-seasoned fan. "Cardinals Home Run Derby Trivia" is a bases-clearing game-winning hit by one of our most entertaining sportswriters."

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Game/book contains over 1,000 Cardinal brain-teasers and informative, detailed answers to entertain and test Redbird fans. Great players, moments, playoff games, nicknames, jersey numbers, records, controversies, rivalries, Big Mac vs. Sammy, Bird broadcasters, special feats, St. Louis skippers, trades, switch hitters, NLCS history, pinch hitters, Gold Glovers and much more to challenge and please casual and hard-core Cardinal fans alike!

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Players try to answer over 1,000 St. Louis Cardinal baseball trivia questions from over 100 categories in an attempt to hit "home runs" and win. Players can compete one-on-one, in teams or alone. If the game is played in teams, a batting order must be set. The book is arranged in two sections, with the questions located in the first 42 pages and all the answers from pages 43-68.

To start, Player A (the youngest player or aggregate team total age) bats first. He then goes to the first topic in the questions section in the first page of the book. The category, such as "Cardinal World Series Heroes", contains four questions in descending order of difficulty. The first question is a single and is the easiest of the four. The second question (double) is harder than the first, the third (triple) is harder than the second, and the fourth (home run) is the hardest on each topic.

The first question, if answered correctly, results in a single. If answered wrong, the player is out and the opposing team's "batter" is up. Each team (or player if you're competing one-on-one) bats until they have made one out in an inning.

After "singling," a player next tries for a double, meaning he must also try to answer the second question. If he answers it correctly, he can go for a triple by attempting to answer the third question. If he gets the triple right, he goes to question number four, which will be a home run if he answers correctly. However, if a player misses any question along the way, he is out. If a player hits a home run, he keeps batting by going on to the next topic and so on indefinitely until he makes an out.

Each topic in the question section category has a number in parentheses next to its heading. That number tells you which page the answers to that particular set of questions are listed on. For your convenience, the answer section also has the number in parentheses where the questions to that category are located.

EXTRA RUN HOMERS-Players receive an extra run for each answer along the way in which they get tile additional answer right to a question which has an asterisk following it. For example, if the answer to a question is "who had the most career Cardinal hits* how many hits" and you first guess correctly Stan Musial, the player then can guess how many hits and move on to the next question in that category. If the player goes on to hit a home run on that topic and also gets the asterisk part of the question right, he gets an extra run for a two-run homer. If you get two asterisk additions right, it would be a three-run homer; three right and it would be a grand slam. There is no penalty for missing the asterisk part of the question. The asterisk part of the answers are listed in bold type in the answer section.

Players can also answer all four questions of each topic before checking the answers. If the game is tied after nine at bats by each team, play continues in extra innings until one team outscores the other.

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A. genius B. nothing

Double-What Cardinal became the first rookie to homer in an LCS and World Series?

A. David Green B. Willie McGee C. Andy Van Slyke

Triple-What ex-Cardinal hurler was called "the Arkansas hummingbird"?

A. Mort Cooper B. Lon Warneke C. Johnny Beazley D. Al Brazle

Home Run-How many 7-game World Series did St. Louis play in a row to end the 20th century?

*name the years A. Four B. Five C. Six D. Seven E. Eight