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1. What New York Yankee, who once got a hit in 56 straight MLB games, played four years in the Pacific Coast league between 1931-1935?
2. What Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher has the distinction to be the oldest rookie and the oldest first time all-star?
3. What Baseball Hall of Fame "southpaw" pitcher, who compiled a record of 300-141 for the Philadelphia Athetics and Boston Red Sox, started his career by playing five years with the minor league Baltimore Orioles?
4. Former career minor league pitcher and high school science teacher, Jim Morris attended an open tryout held by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 1999 and remarkably was signed to a contract. Morris made his Major League debut in 2000 at age 35. What event prompted Morris to attend the tryout?
5. Jackie Robinson, Hall of Fame second baseman and the first African-American Major League player of the modern era, never played in the minor leagues.
6. Which of these Baseball Hall of Fame sluggers played in the minor leagues before debuting as the right fielder for the Milwaukee Braves on April 13, 1954?
7. What NBA superstar temporarily retired from basketball in 1994 to pursue a career in minor league baseball?
8. What Los Angeles Dodger pitcher, known as "El Burro", played for four years in Mexican and American minor leagues, then won the Cy Young and Rookie of the Year Award in 1981?
9. Mordecai Brown was a Hall of Fame pitcher during the first part of the 20th century. Brown played many years on minor league teams before debuting in the Major Leagues at age 26. What is his celebrated nickname that stems from damage to two of his fingers on his right hand?
10. What do Hall of Fame baseball players Judy Johnson, Buck Leonard, and Cool Papa Bell have in common?
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