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1. One of the most famous trades in baseball history enabled the New York Yankees to obtain Babe Ruth. My little otter buddy has a clue as to which team traded the Bambino to New York after the 1919 season. Which was it?
2. Henry Aaron played 25 seasons with the Braves, beginning in Milwaukee in 1954 and ending in Atlanta in 1974. Thirty days after hitting his last Brave homer (number 733), he was traded to an American League team, which was able to use him as a designated hitter. For which team did he play another two years?
3. Gaylord Perry's Hall-of-Fame career spanned 22 years and nine teams, although he spent two hitches with the Texas Rangers. During the 1983 season, the Seattle Mariners designated him for assignment, preparatory to cutting him loose after a 3-10 start. Which team picked him up on waivers (and with whom he became only the third pitcher to pass 3,500 strikeouts before retiring)?
4. The Milwaukee Braves' acquisition of Red Schoendienst from the New York Giants in 1957 was undoubtedly a key to the Braves' only World Series title in Milwaukee. However, Schoendienst was a nine-time All Star and won four other World Series titles as a player and coach with the team that traded him to the Giants in the first place and to whom he returned after four years in Milwaukee. Who is that other team?
5. Coming up in 1947, Larry Doby was the first black player in the American League and only the second in the Major Leagues. The team he broke in with actually traded him twice, first to the White Sox in 1955, and then later to the Tigers in 1959. So which team first brought him into the "Bigs"?
6. Greg Maddux broke in with the Chicago Cubs and his Hall of Fame plaque will show him with a Cub cap. But in 1993 he made a free agent deal with the team his only World Series title came with. In what city did Maddux play his home games and win three of his four Cy Young Awards from 1993 to 2003?
7. In 1990 a blockbuster trade involving four players whose careers would produce a total of 27 All-Star appearances, the San Diego Padres acquired Fred McGriff and Tony Fernandez in exchange for Joe Carter and future Hall-of-Famer Roberto Alomar. With which American League team did the Padres complete this deal?
8. Although Andre Dawson entered the Hall of Fame in 2010 with a Montreal Expos cap, the team he broke in with, after playing 10 years in Canada on Olympic Stadium's artificial surface, Dawson made a free agent deal with another team so he could play on natural grass to protect his knees. In the "friendly confines" of what field with its ivy-covered wall did Dawson play from 1987 to 1992?
9. Known as "Mr. October" for his World Series exploits with two different teams, Reggie Jackson won three titles with the Oakland A's, who later retired his #9. In 1977 he played for a team who would later retire his number 44 (and for whom he would help win two World Series titles). Who is that team?
10. The first player to ever earn MVP honors in both the American and National Leagues, Frank Robinson entered the Hall of Fame in 1982 as a Baltimore Oriole. In what has been called the most lop-sided trade in history, which team dealt Robinson away after ten years which included the Rookie-of-the-Year Award and an MVP Award?
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