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Bull Durham immortalized minor baseball in the Triangle. Unlike Crash Davis, some Triangle minor leaguers have enjoyed considerable major league success. Four league MVPs once played for Triangle-area minor league teams: a two-time winner for the Detroit Tigers played for the Raleigh Capitals in 1930, a winner for the Red Sox played for the Capitals in 1959, a two-time winner for the Cincinnati Reds played for the Bulls in 1963, and a winner for the Atlanta Braves played for the Bulls in 1992.

Name three of these four players.

Hank Greenberg, Carl Yastrzemski, Joe Morgan, Chipper Jones

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The so-called “New Hampshire mafia” includes Dan Mullen, Ryan Day, and what man who served as the school’s offensive coordinator from 1999 through 2006 before heading out west for his next job?

Chip Kelly

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The foundation of the all-conquering West Indies team that dominated cricket during my childhood, going undefeated in Test series from 1980 through 1994, was their production line of fast bowlers capable of maiming a batter at any given moment. The greatest of them all was Malcolm Marshall, the most devastating in short spells was Curtly Ambrose, but the fastest of them all might have been Jamaica’s Michael Holding, whose bowling delivery had a short, casual light-footed run-up, which stood in contrast to the long-striding speedy approach of most fast bowlers, and served to give him one of the great nicknames in sport. What was that nickname?

A. Kingston Cobra
B. Whispering Death
C. Great Vengeance and Furious Anger
D. Afternoon Goodnight

B