MLB Top 10 Quiz

One all-time leaderboard — career home runs, hits, wins, strikeouts, stolen bases and so on — and its top ten names, hidden. Type them in any order. A name already on the board is free, so forgetting what you have said costs you nothing, but a name that is not on the board is an out and you only get three. When the round ends the rest of the list fills in, so you always find out who you missed.

• Start with the men you are certain about. Outs are the scarce resource; certainty is not.
• All-time leaderboards lean old. Counting statistics accumulated across long careers in high-workload eras, so a board of modern names is usually wrong.
• If you have named eight and are stuck, think about the position rather than the player. Most of these lists are dominated by one or two roles.
• Negro League records are included, which changes the top of several boards from the numbers you may remember.

Leaderboards are the part of baseball history that fans genuinely carry around, which makes them a fair test and a frustrating one — you almost always know eight and cannot place the last two. The reveal at the end exists because the two you missed are the interesting part. Boards are drawn from career totals across the whole of major-league history rather than from a modern window, which is why the names skew toward long careers in high-workload eras: a nineteenth-century pitcher who started sixty games a season sits on the wins board for reasons that have more to do with how the sport was played than with how good he was. A leaderboard that came up recently will not come back for at least nine days.

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