In baseball, the Holliday season started in July, when the Baltimore Orioles took a high school infielder named Jackson Holliday with the first pick in the amateur draft.
He played like a happy Holliday, reaching base in nearly half of his 90 plate appearances in the minor leagues.
He also played for Tony La Russa, who once managed a fellow named Steve Christmas.
Matt Holliday played his last game in 2018, the same year Gift Ngoepe — the first major league player from Africa — played his.
And here is our annual gift to you: a baseball quiz put together with care, in hopes that your answers soon will be there.