1. Although this player only wore the Yankees ball cap for four and a half season. This Hall of Fame made his mark with the team and made it quick. He was traded to the Yankees in exchange for five players -- Tim Birtsas, Jay Howell, Stan Javier, Eric Plunk, Jose Rijo. Acknowledged baseball expert Bill James once said of this player: "If you could split this guy in two, you'd have two hall of famers." When he was inducted into the hall of fame he had the highest percentage of any other player for the Yankees going into the hall except Babe Ruth. Who is it?

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Answer: Ricky Henderson

2. Who are the three oldest living New York Yankees hall of fame?

Answer: Whitey Ford (83 years old), Yogi Berra (87), and Lee McPhail (94)

3. There are six men in the baseball Hall of Fame who called games for the Yankees. Two of them  -- Curt Gowdy, Russ Hodges and Joe Gariagiola -- each only spent a little more than a year behind the microphone. Name the other three Yankee legendary radio broadcasters whose total tenure added up to almost a half century.

Answer: Mel Allen, Red Barber, Jerry Coleman

4. On June 22, 1972, the NY Yankees retired a team jersey number, not once, but twice. Both of these NY Yankees hall of famers wore the same now-retired number, and both played the same position. What number was retired that day?

Answer: 8

5. Monument Park in Yankee Stadium is the most sacred place the team has. In 1929, when manager Miller Huggins died, the team erected a memorial in his memory. That was the beginning. Lou Gehrig's monument went up in 1941, Babe Ruth's in 1949, Mickey Mantle in 1996 and Joe DiMaggio in 1999. Commemorative plaques followed. After Monument Park, who was the first NY Yankee player to have a commemorative plaque placed in Monument Park on Sept. 20, 1980?

Answer: Thruman Munson

6. On April 15, 1997, all MLB teams symbolically retired the No. 42 to honor the legendary Jackie Robinson. Before that, who was the last or most-recent NY Yankee to have his jersey retired. It took place on Aug. 23, 2003 and unlike 10 of his other honorees, this player is NOT in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Answer: Ron Guidry

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