(1), (2), (3) What three people are honored with large monuments in Monument Park behind the leftfield wall in Yankee Stadium?
(4) Where were the monuments located before the Yankee Stadium remodeling in 1974-75?
Lou Gehrig's "luckiest man" farewell occurred in 1939. The second-most famous speech at Yankee Stadium took place 11 years earlier. (5) What is the most memorable line from that speech, and (6) who made it?
(7) Yankee Stadium's announcer Bob Sheppard acquired the nickname "The Voice of God." Who was the first player he introduced on the stadium's public address system?
(8), (9) The Yankees have 17 retired numbers in Monument Park. But only 2 players of these people played EXCLUSIVELY for the Yankees, AND wore that number in EVERY game they played for them. Name them.
(10) Only two Yankees with a retired number also played for the Red Sox. Of course the Babe is one, but who was the other?
(11), (12) No one ever hit a fair ball out of Yankee Stadium. . . irrefutably, that is. But two non-Yankee sluggers are believed to have either done so or come extremely close.
On October 9, 1996 at Yankee Stadium, (13) who was sitting in Section 31, Box 325, Row A, Seat 3, and (14) why was that significant?
(15) That same person became the all-time hit leader at what college?
(16) What was the original famous Yankee Stadium façade made of?
(17) The Death Valley fence was moved in 5 times, and never moved out. What was its original distance?
(18) The total time of play on August 18, 1983 was just 12 minutes. Why?
(19) And for those 12 minutes, who was the Yankee centerfielder? (20) Who was the second baseman?
(21) This Yankee Stadium event was even shorter, lasting just 124 seconds in June 1938. What?
(22) The Yankees routinely packed the house for October baseball, and the Stadium was full again on October 4, 1965. But wait. . . the Yankees dynasty was over, with the team tumbling to 6th place in the American League, and the season ended for the Yankees on October 3rd. So why was Yankee Stadium full on October 4th?
To some, they described the deep, palpable feeling that surrounds Yankee Stadium; but to one Red Sox player, they (famously) sounded simply like the names of two “nightclub dancers”? (23), (24) Who were they... (25) and who was the player?
(26) Fenway Park opened on April 20, 1912, but that was not front page news. . . not even in Boston. What else happened that day?
(27) Actually, the first game at Fenway was a few weeks earlier. . . who was the Red Sox opponent in this exhibition game?
(28) What was left field called in the early years of Fenway Park?
(29) And the centerfield bleacher area was once known for an unfortunate Red Sox hero. . . who?
(30) And the right field fences were moved in in 1940, to make room for new bullpens. What were the bullpens quickly nicknamed?
(31) The Green Monster underwent a major change in 1947? What was it?
(32) What is the official nickname of the Fenway right field foul pole, and (33) why does it have this name?
(34) "Gods do not answer letters." Who wrote that, and about what Fenway Park event?
(36) When Carlton Fisk hit his famous homer in the 1975 World Series, his even more famous reaction was often credited to the revolutionary thinking of Harry Coyle, the producer of the game for NBC. But Coyle actually directed the cameraman to follow the ball. Why did cameraman Lou Gerard disobey Coyle. . . thereby creating sports’ first (and arguably still most famous) “reaction shot”?
(37) Off whom did Bucky Dent hit his famous homer into the screen over the Green Monster in the 1978 American League East playoff? (38) And who’s bat did he borrow to hit it with?
(39-45) Seven numbers are retired at Fenway Park. . . name the honored players and those numbers (credit only for both):
After the 4th of these numbers was retired, the sequence of the first four numbers was quite problematic for Red Sox fans. (46) What was the sequence, and (47) what was the problem?
(48), (49) Whose initials appear in morse code on the famed manual scoreboard? (Two answers)
(50) Why is that seat in the right field bleachers painted red?