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POV: You were one out away from closing out the Nationals’ first-ever playoff series victory. You bounced back from a leadoff double in the top of the ninth to retire the next two batters. You started laboring. You allowed consecutive full-count walks to load the bases, then a ground ball single to tie the score at 7. You are now going to allow both these baserunners to score, because even you can’t believe you’re still in this game.

Who are you?

Drew Storen

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Rome didn’t just love beaky “aquiline” noses on its citizens. An eagle standard, or aquila, had been used by Roman military units for decades before it was elevated to an imperial emblem. That emblem influenced the Great Seal of the United States almost two millennia later, and in turn, a trace of it survives in the logo of Major League Baseball’s National League. Identify the League President who oversaw creation of the current NL logo in 1956. His name is on the League championship trophy that his son–currently the NL’s Honorary President–presented in 2022 to the team he used to co-own.

Warren Giles

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Starting with Rod Laver, who won three grand slams in a single calendar year in 1969, there have been six men to accomplish the three-slams-in-one-year feat in the open era. Fill in the blank in the following list with the missing player. (Interestingly, the other slam winner in '88, at Wimbledon, was also a former world no. 1 from Sweden.)

1969: Rod Laver, Australia

1974: Jimmy Connors, U.S.

1988: __________, Sweden

2004, 2006, 2007: Roger Federer, Switzerland

2010: Rafael Nadal, Spain

2011, 2015: Novak Djokovic, Serbia

Mats Wilander