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Do you remember all the way back in December of 2021 when suddenly all of your social media feeds were beginning to fill up with weird grids of green and yellow squares? It took barely any time at all for Wordle to take over the world, becoming a simple and viral sensation that had people all over the globe guessing five-letter words and posting their results for all to see on the daily.

Well, now there's a new game in town, and it caters to baseball fans. It's called Immaculate Grid, and its nine-squared results grid has begun to creep it's way across the internet to the current tune of about 200,000 players per day. If you're not yet one of the converted, your goal is to guess players whose careers meet the criteria listed at the top of each square's row and column. More often than not, this means simply being able to name someone who played for both of the teams where that cell intersects — the more obscure, the better.

That's why much of my free time over the last few weeks has been trying to dig through the recesses of my memory to recall, say, the name of a random benchwarmer I vaguely remember played for both the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Oakland Athletics in the early 1990s. Of course, if answering this for two teams is challenging, why stop there?

For today's quiz, I'm narrowing the