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1. Name the 1960 NL MVP, whose team went on to win the World Series, and who might be just as well remembered for his basketball career as for his feats on the diamond. As a two-sport athlete in college, this player set the single-season NCAA points record en route to being named the National Player of the Year, then became the first Duke basketball player ever to have his jersey retired in the Cameroon Indoor rafters. (Notably, this man is also the great-uncle of Brooks Koepka.)

Dick Groat

Soccer

Many English football clubs featured paid players long before it was officially allowed, and the Football Association formally assented in July 1885 and legalized professional play. Name the club that won the first two F.A. Cups of the professional era...and had, in fact, won the two before. As of 2020, this club competes in England’s second-highest domestic league, the EFL Championship.

Blackburn Rovers

Racing & Combat

Name the man who said the following, in a 1975 interview: “Looking back, I’m almost happy I lost that fight. Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.”

Max Schmeling