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1. College baseball has two awards akin to the MVP. One of the awards is “likened to the Heisman Trophy in college football,” according to MLB.com; the other, according to its website, is given to "the top amateur baseball player in the nation ... who best exhibits exceptional on-field ability and exemplary sportsmanship." Future MLBl MVPs who won these awards are Buster Posey and Kris Bryant (who won both) and Bryce Harper (who won the latter). Name either award.

Dick Howser Trophy, Golden Spikes Award

Olympics

Fill in the blank with the one man who fills in both of these blanks in this chronological list that runs from 1984 through 2008: Alonzo Babers, Steve Lewis, Quincy Watts, _______, ________, Jeremy Wariner, LaShawn Merritt. (Your answer should be just one person.)

Michael Johnson

Baseball

Speaking of stealing, the American League stolen base leader in 1978 and 1980 seems to have influenced two different characters in Major League (1989). Like Willie Mays Hayes, he was an unscouted center fielder with blazing speed and unpolished skills; and like Ricky Vaughn, he was playing baseball in a penal league when he got his big league break. Name him.

Ron Leflore