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NEW YORK – Forty-nine Hall of Famers, the largest collection of Major League Baseball greats assembled at a game, helped kick off the 79th All-Star Game on Tuesday — the last to be held at famed Yankee Stadium.

After a parade up Sixth Ave. in midtown Manhattan, the Hall of Fame members gathered on the field at their various positions in the park that opened in 1923 with slugger Babe Ruth as the centerpiece attraction.

Next year, the Yankees will move across the street from the ‘House that Ruth Built’ to a new stadium.

Willie Mays, Hank Aaron and Cal Ripken Jr. won some of the loudest cheers, though the most deafening roars were reserved for former Yankees including Whitey Ford, Reggie Jackson, Goose Gossage and loudest of all for Yogi Berra.

The 83-year-old Berra won 10 World Series as a catcher with the Yankees from 1946-63.

As the starting lineups for the game were announced the players, sporting MLB jerseys, took their places alongside the Hall of Fame players standing at their positions.

The four Yankee Hall of Fame players each threw out ceremonial first balls of the game delivered by Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who was driven onto the middle of the diamond in a golf cart.