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Article: GET LOOSENED UP WITH THIS ALL-STAR GAME QUIZ

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Baseball's All-Star Game is Tuesday night in Detroit. Warm up for it with this quiz. Answers are at the end of the column.

1. The first All-Star Game was played in 1933 in (a) Chicago (b) New York (c) Boston (d) Cincinnati

2. True or false: National and American League team owners originally planned to make the All-Star Game a one-year deal.

3. Name the only family to have three brothers selected to play in the All-Star Game.

4. Of players who have appeared in at least six All-Star Games, he has the highest batting average: (a) Pete Rose (b) Willie Mays (c) Derek Jeter (d) Jim Edmonds

5. What former St. Louis Cardinal said "If I ain't startin', I ain't departin' " after he wasn't chosen to ...

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