Major League Baseball All-Star Game

The Major League Baseball All-Star Game, also popularly known as the "Midsummer Classic," is an annual baseball game between players from the National League and the American League, currently selected by fan vote for the starting position players and by the respective managers (from the previous year's World Series) for pitchers and reserve players. The All-Star Game usually occurs in early to mid-July and marks the symbolic halfway point in the Major League Baseball (MLB) season (though not the mathematical halfway point; in most seasons, the game actually takes place one week later).

Since 2003, the pennant winner of the league winning the All-Star Game has been awarded home field advantage for the upcoming World Series. The most recent All-Star game (2007) was played at AT&T Park in San Francisco, California, home of the San Francisco Giants. The Americans won the game, thus securing home field edge in the 2007 World Series for their league.

The first All-Star Game was held as part of the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago, Illinois, and was the brainchild of Arch Ward, then sports editor for The Chicago Tribune. Initially intended to be a one-time event, its great success resulted in making the game an annual one. Ward's contribution was recognized by Major League Baseball in 1962 with the creation of the "Arch Ward Trophy," given to the All-Star Game's most valuable player each year.

The ballparks

The game's venue is chosen by Major League Baseball and traditionally alternates between the two leagues every year. This tradition has been broken twice. The first time was in 1951, when the Detroit Tigers were chosen to host the annual game as part of the city's 250th birthday. It was broken again in 2007, when the San Francisco Giants were the host for the 2007 All-Star Game. That scheduling also set up the 2008 game to be held in the scheduled final season at Yankee Stadium.

The "home team" is the league in which the host franchise plays its games. The criteria for choosing the venue are subjective; for the most part, cities with new parks and cities who have not hosted the game in a long time--or ever--tend to get the nod. In the first two decades of the game, there were two teams that shared ballparks, Philadelphia and St. Louis. This led two some shorter-than-usual gaps between the use of those venues: The Cardinals hosted the game in 1940, and the Browns in 1948. The Athletics hosted the game in 1943, and the Phillies in 1952.

The last All-Star Game to be played in a stadium that was not hosting its first All-Star Game was the 1999 game in Boston's Fenway Park. The next one is due to be in 2008, when the game will be held at New York's Yankee Stadium.

To date, only three franchises have never hosted a game: the Florida Marlins (although scheduled to host the game in 2000, Major League Baseball later chose Atlanta), the Arizona Diamondbacks, and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The Washington Nationals franchise hosted the game when they were the Montreal Expos, and All-Star Games have been played in D.C. hosted by both incarnations of the Washington Senators.

In the 33 years between 1975 and 2007, the Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Diego Padres, Milwaukee Brewers, Philadelphia Phillies, San Francisco Giants, Seattle Mariners and the Houston Astros, have all hosted the All-Star Game twice, during which time the New York Mets, St. Louis Cardinals, and Kansas City Royals have not hosted it. With the exception of Philadephia and San Diego, the other seven franchises who hosted twice in that time period did so between two stadiums: an original one usually scheduled for demolition, and then a new venue built in its place.

Confirmed future sites

• Yankee Stadium, home of the New York Yankees, will host the 2008 All-Star Game in its 84th and final season before the new Yankee Stadium opens across the street in 2009. It will be New York City's first MLB All-Star Game since 1977, when Yankee Stadium itself last hosted.

• Busch Stadium, home of the St. Louis Cardinals, will host the 2009 All-Star Game. The stadium opened in 2006 and the game will be St. Louis' first MLB All-Star Game since 1966.

• Kauffman Stadium, home of the Kansas City Royals, will host an MLB All-Star Game in one of the years between 2010-2014, as confirmed by commissioner Bud Selig.

The rosters

Selection of managers and coaches

Normally the managers of the All-Star game are the same managers who faced each other during the previous year's World Series. The coaching staff for each team is selected by its manager.

This honor is given to the manager, not the team, so it is possible that the All-Star manager could no longer be with the team with which he won. This happened in 2003, when Dusty Baker managed the National League team despite having moved from the National League champion San Francisco Giants to the Chicago Cubs. This has also included situations where the person is no longer actively managing a team. For the first All-Star Game, intended as a one-time event, Connie Mack and John McGraw were regarded as baseball's venerable managers, and were asked to lead the American and National League teams, respectively. McGraw came out of retirement for that purpose. More recently, in 1979, Bob Lemon managed the American League team after having been fired by New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.

There have been some exceptional cases where the usual rule was abandoned.

After the 1964 season and the World Series, the managers, Johnny Keane of the St. Louis Cardinals and Yogi Berra of the New York Yankees, both left their teams and found new jobs in the other league -- Keane was hired to manage the Yanks and Berra became a player-coach with the New York Mets. The Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds had finished in a second-place tie in the NL; the Chicago White Sox had finished second in the AL. Cincinnati's manager, Fred Hutchinson, had died in the off-season, so Gene Mauch of Phillies and Al Lopez of the White Sox were chose to be the managers for the 1965 All-Star Game.

There was no World Series in 1994 due to the players' strike. In 1995, Buck Showalter of the New York Yankees and Felipe Alou of the Montreal Expos were chosen as managers for the All-Star Game on the basis of their teams finishing with the best win-loss records in their respective (National and American) leagues during the previous season.

Selection of players

As of 2007, the rules call for each team to consist of 32 players (squad size for regulation games is 25 maximum, 24 minimum, until September 1). These players are currently selected though the following process:

• Fan voting: Baseball fans vote on the starting position players for the All-Star Game, with ballots distributed at Major League Baseball games before mid-season and, more recently, on the Internet. When the game is played at an American League park, the designated hitter for the AL team is also selected in this manner. This method has been recently criticized because most of the starting players from the American League are from teams that have large fan bases, such as the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox.
• Player voting: Pitchers and one back-up player for each position are elected by the players. If the top vote-getter at a position has also been selected via fan voting, the second-place finisher in this category is selected.
• Manager selection: The managers of the 30 MLB teams and the Commissioner's Office will fill the roster up to 31 players.
• Final vote: After the lists of 31 players for each league is announced, fans will vote for one additional player, chosen from a list of 5 players provided by the manager and the Commissioner's Office.
• Replacements: After the roster is selected, the manager and the Commissioner's Office will replace players who are injured or who decline to participate.

History of player selection methods

From 1935 through 1946, the manager of each All-Star squad selected the entire team.

Fans were given the opportunity to vote on the eight starting position players starting in 1947. In 1957, fans of the Cincinnati Reds stuffed the ballot box (see below), and elected a Red to every position except first base. Commissioner Ford Frick stepped in and removed two Reds from the lineup. As a response to this unfairness, fan voting was discontinued. Players, coaches, and managers were given the sole authority to elect starting position players, for the next dozen years.

Between the lack of fan input and over-exposure due to the double All-Star Games during 1959-1962, interest in the game was thought to be waning. As part of the rise of the MLB Promotion Corporation's attempts to modernize marketing of baseball, fan balloting for the starting eight was restored for the 1970 game.

Sometime in the 1960s, the distinction between left-fielder, center-fielder, and right-fielder was dropped, and it was provided that the top 3 vote-getters in the outfield category would start regardless of position. Prior to that the situation included remarks like "If you had Clemente, you couldn't have Aaron", and so on.

Rico Carty was the first player ever selected to an All-Star team as a write-in candidate by fans, in 1970, the first year that voting was given back to the fans. Upon getting elected, he was quoted as saying "Thanks to the fans for making this possible, and thanks to Gillette for making this all necessary."

Steve Garvey was the second player ever selected to an All-Star team as a write-in candidate by fans, in 1974. He was later the MVP of that game.

Until 2003, reserves and pitchers were chosen by the manager. Player voting was re-introduced in 2003 because the managers were criticized for picking players from their own team over more deserving players from other teams.

One continuing controversy of the player selection process is the rule that each team has to have at least one representative on its league's All-Star roster. Opponents of the rule contend that the purpose of the game is to spotlight Major League Baseball's best players, and that some superior players are left off the roster in favor of possibly less deserving players from weaker teams. This argument is strengthened by the greater urgency of winning the game, due to the rule that the winning league attains home field in the World Series. Supporters of the rule point out that this rule spreads interest in the game, and prevents large-market teams from totally dominating the squad and possibly resulting in, for example, an All-Star Game consisting solely of Yankees and Red Sox playing a team consisting solely of Dodgers and Cubs.

A number of compromises have been suggested in the media, such as limiting the number of representatives a particular team could have, or requiring that a certain percentage of teams be represented. However, Major League Baseball has not indicated that it is considering altering or eliminating the rule in any form.

Stuffing the ballot box

In 1957, fans of the Cincinnati Reds stuffed the ballot box and elected 7 Reds players to start in the All-Star Game. They were:

Johnny Temple, 2B

Roy McMillan, SS

Don Hoak, 3B

Ed Bailey, C

Frank Robinson, LF

Gus Bell, CF

Wally Post, RF

The only non-Red elected to start for the National League was St. Louis Cardinals' first baseman Stan Musial. While the Reds were known to be a great offensive team with many outstanding position players, most baseball observers agreed that they did not deserve seven starters in the All-Star Game. An investigation showed that over half of the ballots cast came from Cincinnati. The Cincinnati Enquirer had printed up pre-marked ballots and distributed them with the Sunday newspaper to make it easy for Reds fans to vote often. There were even stories of bars in Cincinnati not serving alcohol to customers until they filled out a ballot.

Commissioner Ford Frick decided to appoint Willie Mays of the New York Giants and Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves to substitute for Reds players Gus Bell and Wally Post. In addition, Frick decided to strip the fans of their voting rights. Managers, players, and coaches picked the entire team until 1969, when the vote again returned to the fans.

To guard against further ballot stuffing, since 1969, each team has been given the same number of ballots to hand out. In 1998, that number was roughly 400,000 ballots. Since the dawn of the internet age, online voting has again raised fears of ballot stuffing. In one incident in 1999, Nomar Garciaparra gained over 14,000 votes thanks to an automated computer program. Major League Baseball assures its fans that they have taken precautions to guard against this. Similarly, popular players who are injured often garner many votes despite their inability to play in the game.

In 2006 at one point 8 of the 9 starters for the American League were members of the New York Yankees or Boston Red Sox, two of the most popular teams in baseball.

Designated Hitter

In 1989, the DH position was allowed in the All-Star Game for the first time.

The designated hitter rule is applied based on the league in which the host team plays. In an American League ballpark, both teams use a designated hitter to hit for the pitcher. In a National League ballpark, lineups schedule the pitcher to hit, though pinch hitters are almost always used. The last instance in which a pitcher took his scheduled at-bat was in 2004, as the American League lineup batted around in the top of the first inning, enabling AL starter Mark Mulder to bat. (He was not eligible to be replaced by a pinch hitter, as the starting pitcher in any game must pitch (barring injury) to at least one batter before being replaced.)

There is some debate as to allowing the designated hitter in every All-Star Game, since many pitchers (even All-Stars) are not adept at hitting.

Year-by-year teams

This site contains detailed information on the teams year-by-year:

• http://baseball-almanac.com/asgmenu.shtml

Uniforms

From the first All-Star Game, players have worn their respective team uniforms rather than wearing uniforms made specifically for the game, with one exception: In the first game, the National League players wore uniforms made for the game, with the lettering "NATIONAL LEAGUE" across the front of the shirt.

From the 1970s through the early 1990s, players were allowed to wear their alternate uniforms for the All-Star Game. These were commonly worn by players from the Oakland Athletics. For example, in the 1975 game Reggie Jackson, Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers wore their alternate green jerseys along with their regular white pants while Gene Tenace and Bert Campaneris wore their alternate yellow jerseys along with their regular white pants. Vida Blue also wore his yellow jersey, but he wore instead the Oakland A's alternate yellow pants while Claudell Washington was the only Oakland Athletics player to wear his regular white jersey and regular white pants. The AL All-Stars were wearing their regular white jerseys since they were the home team, except for Baltimore Orioles pitcher Jim Palmer, who wore his alternate orange jersey and Cleveland Indians outfielder George Hendrick who wore his alternate navy jersey. Also, in 1979, Pete Rose wore the alternate Philadelphia Phillies red/violet jersey with the standard light blue away pants & in 1985, he wore the Cincinnati Reds alternate red jersey with standard grey away pants along with his fellow Reds teammate Dave Parker. In 1983's ASG, 3 Califonria Angels players were selected to the ASG (Bob Boone, Doug DeCinces & Fred Lynn), which DeCinces and Lynn wore their regular Califronia Angel home uniform, while Boone wore his alternate Angel uniform (black Angel jersey with red-white-red stripes on the shoulder portion of the jersey with the standard white pants). Also in the '83 game, even though he was the lone Oakland Athletic representative, Rickey Henderson wore his alternate Oakland A's uniform (yellow jersey with "Oakland" highlighted in greeen with the standard white home pants). From 1986 till 1996, less players started to wear their alternate jerseys. In the 1994 game, Cleveland Indians outfielders Kenny Lofton & Albert Belle wore their alternate navy jerseys. Chicago White Sox pitcher Jason Bere wore his alternate black jersey, while the other White Sox players wore their standard grey away jerseys. The 1996 game was the final one to feature alternate jerseys being worn, which was done so by Cleveland Indians pitcher Charles Nagy.

If a player's league's All-Star team is the away team and a player's actual team doesn't have a grey/light blue away jersey, the player wears his alternate colored jersey & white/colored pants. Today, every player wears his standard team jersey for the All-Star Game, and they no longer use their alternate jerseys.

The players also wore their teams' batting practice jerseys from 1980 until 1997, when MLB made specific NL and AL All-Star batting practice jerseys. MLB also made specific batting practice caps for the 2007 game & will continue to do so for the upcoming years.

Game notes

In 1945, with severe wartime travel restrictions in effect, the All-Star Game scheduled to be played at Boston's Fenway Park was deferred until the next season.

There were two All-Star Games played each season from 1959 to 1962. The second game was added to raise money for the players' pension funds, as well as other causes. The experiment was abandoned on the grounds that having two games watered down the appeal of the event.

At Fenway Park in Boston on July 31, 1961, the first All-Star Game tie in history occurred when the game was stopped after the 9th inning due to rain. The only other rain-shortened game had been in 1952, but it had a winner.

The 1967 game lasted 15 innings, the longest MLB All-Star game in innings as of 2007.

The middle portion of the 1981 season, including the scheduled All-Star break, had been erased due to the players' strike. To promote the resumption of the season, the game (in Cleveland) was moved from its original July date to Sunday night, August 9. Second half regular-season play began the next afternoon with a game in Wrigley Field in Chicago. The 1981 game is the only MLB All-Star Game to be played on a weekend.

The 2002 All-Star Game, held in Milwaukee, ended in controversy in the 11th inning, when both teams ran out of substitute players available to pitch in relief. At that point, Commissioner Bud Selig, coincidentally a Milwaukee native and former owner of the Brewers, declared the game to end in a tie. The crowd booed and the media were highly critical of this unsatisfying conclusion.

To provide additional incentive for victory, Major League Baseball reached an agreement with the players union to award home-field advantage for the World Series to the league that won the All-Star Game, for 2003 to 2004. Since then, the agreement was extended twice, in 2005 and 2006. Previously, home field advantage in the World Series alternated between the two leagues each year.

Even under the new rules, there is no guarantee that a repeat of the 2002 situation might not occur. To avoid future ties due to lack of eligible players, managers have been instructed to hold back, and have voluntarily held back, a few select position players and pitchers. This has resulted in some disappointment and controversy when those players are never actually used in the game. Such a catch-22 has resulted in calls to allow limited re-entry of players who have been replaced during the game (in addition to catchers, which is already allowed), thereby giving the freedom to use all the players on the roster without restricting teams into a situation where no players are available.

A tie game could also be deemed a "suspended game" in which case it would become a tie if no make-up date was scheduled. It would be extremely difficult to find such a make-up date: Major League Baseball would have to postpone one or more days of the regular season and/or schedule the make-up date on the travel day between the regular season and the Division Series. However, there is an offday for all teams the day after the All-Star game. If necessary, the game could be finished in the morning or afternoon on Wednesday.

Reversals of fortune

The All-Star Game has seen several "eras" in which one league tended to dominate. During the 1930s and 1940s, the American League won the majority of the games. Starting in the 1950s, the National League reversed that trend and by the end of the 1970s was winning nearly every one of the games. In the 1980s that trend reversed again, and by the 2000s the Americans were winning nearly all the time, including a five-game winning streak during 2003-2007.

With that oscillation of periods of dominance, as of the 2006 All-Star Game, the cumulative run totals for all 77 games played was 652, evenly split between the leagues at 326 runs apiece.

The 2007 game was a 1-run decision, thus keeping the cumulative totals very close.

Individual notes

It would be reasonable to expect that the talented players in these games could be candidates for the Baseball Hall of Fame eventually. Of the eighteen players who started the 1934 game, only one, Wally Berger, is not in the Hall of Fame.

Brooks Robinson (1966) and Carl Yastrzemski (1970) are the only players to be named All-Star MVP while playing for the losing team.

In 1983, Fred Lynn became the first player to hit a grand slam in an All-Star Game.

In 2007, Ichiro Suzuki became the first player to hit an inside the park home run in an All-Star Game.

Other events connected with the game

Since 1985, the Home Run Derby, a contest between home run hitters, has been played on the day before the All-Star Game.

Since 1999, the All-Star Futures Game has been held during All-Star Week. The two teams, one consisting of young players from the United States and the other consisting of young players from all other nations, are usually chosen based on prospect status in the minor leagues.

Since 2001, the Taco Bell All-Star Legends and Celebrity Softball Game pits teams with a mixture of former stars from the host team's past, as well as celebrities from music, film, and television. This game is held the day before the Home Run Derby.

Major League Baseball All-Star Game results (1933-present)

78 All-Star Games have been played, with the National League winning 40 and the American League winning 36, with 2 ties. (Ironically, the official website MLB.com has incorrect tallies.) The National League has the longest winning streak of 11 games from 1972-1982. The American League currently has a league-best 11-game unbeaten streak (including the tie in 2002), and has dominated the game since 1988 (losing only 3 times and tying 1). They previously dominated from 1933-1949, winning 12 of the first 16. The National League dominated from 1950-1987, winning 33 of 42 with 1 tie. This included a stretch from 1963-1982 when they won 19 of 20.

Year	Winning League	Score	Venue/Host team	MVP/Notes	Winning Pitcher	Losing Pitcher
1933	American	4-2	Comiskey Park, Chicago White Sox		Lefty Gomez, New York (AL)	Bill Hallahan, St. Louis (NL)
1934	American	9-7	Polo Grounds, New York Giants		Mel Harder, Cleveland (AL)	Van Mungo, Brooklyn (NL)
1935	American	4-1	Municipal Stadium, Cleveland Indians		Lefty Gomez, New York (AL)	Bill Walker, St. Louis (NL)
1936	National	4-3	National League Park, Boston Bees		Dizzy Dean, St. Louis (NL)	Lefty Grove, Boston (AL)
1937	American	8-3	Griffith Stadium, Washington Senators		Lefty Gomez, New York (AL)	Dizzy Dean, St. Louis (NL)
1938	National	4-1	Crosley Field, Cincinnati Reds		Johnny Vander Meer, Cincinnati (NL)	Lefty Gomez, New York (AL)
1939	American	3-1	Yankee Stadium, New York Yankees		Tommy Bridges, Detroit (AL)	Bill Lee, Chicago (NL)
1940	National	4-0	Sportsman's Park, St. Louis Cardinals		Paul Derringer, Washington (AL)	Red Ruffing, New York (AL)
1941	American	7-5	Briggs Stadium, Detroit Tigers		Eddie Smith, Chicago (AL)	Claude Passeau, Chicago (NL)
1942	American	3-1	Polo Grounds, New York Giants		Spud Chandler, New York (AL)	Mort Cooper, St. Louis (NL)
1943	American	5-3	Shibe Park, Philadelphia Athletics		Dutch Leonard, Washington (AL)	Mort Cooper, St. Louis (NL)
1944	National	7-1	Forbes Field, Pittsburgh Pirates		Ken Raffensberger, Philadelphia (NL)	Tex Hughson, Boston (AL)
1945	Not held because of World War II
1946	American	12-0	Fenway Park, Boston Red Sox		Bob Feller, Cleveland (AL)	Claude Passeau, Chicago (NL)
1947	American	2-1	Wrigley Field, Chicago Cubs		Spec Shea, New York (AL)	Johnny Sain, Boston (NL)
1948	American	5-2	Sportsman's Park, St. Louis Browns		Vic Raschi, New York (AL)	Johnny Schmitz, Chicago (NL)
1949	American	11-7	Ebbets Field, Brooklyn Dodgers		Virgil Trucks, Detroit (AL)	Don Newcombe, Brooklyn (NL)
1950	National	4-3 (14 innings)	Comiskey Park, Chicago White Sox		Ewell Blackwell, Cincinnati (NL)	Ted Gray, Detroit (AL)
1951	National	8-3	Briggs Stadium, Detroit Tigers		Sal Maglie, New York (NL)	Ed Lopat, New York (AL)
1952	National	3-2 (5 innings, rain)	Shibe Park, Philadelphia Phillies		Bob Rush, Chicago (NL)	Bob Lemon, Cleveland (AL)
1953	National	5-1	Crosley Field, Cincinnati Reds		Warren Spahn, Milwaukee (NL)	Allie Reynolds, New York (AL)
1954	American	11-9	Municipal Stadium, Cleveland Indians		Dean Stone, Washington (AL)	Gene Conley, Milwaukee (NL)
1955	National	6-5 (12 innings)	County Stadium, Milwaukee Braves		Gene Conley, Milwaukee (NL)	Frank Sullivan, Boston (AL)
1956	National	7-3	Griffith Stadium, Washington Senators		Bob Friend, Pittsburgh (NL)	Billy Pierce, Chicago (AL)
1957	American	6-5	Sportsman's Park, St. Louis Cardinals		Jim Bunning, Detroit (AL)	Curt Simmons, Philadelphia (NL)
1958	American	4-3	Memorial Stadium, Baltimore Orioles		Early Wynn, Chicago (AL)	Bob Friend, Pittsburgh (NL)
1959-a	National	5-4	Forbes Field, Pittsburgh Pirates		Johnny Antonelli, San Francisco (NL)	Whitey Ford, New York (AL)
1959-b	American	5-3	Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles Dodgers		Jerry Walker, Baltimore (AL)	Don Drysdale, Los Angeles (NL)
1960-a	National	5-3	Municipal Stadium, Kansas City Athletics		Bob Friend, Pittsburgh (NL)	Bill Monbouquette, Boston (AL)
1960-b	National	6-0	Yankee Stadium, New York Yankees		Vern Law, Pittsburgh (NL)	Whitey Ford, New York (AL)
1961-a	National	5-4 (10 innings)	Candlestick Park, San Francisco Giants		Stu Miller, San Francisco (NL)	Hoyt Wilhelm, Baltimore (AL)
1961-b	TIE rain	1-1 (9 innings, rain)	Fenway Park, Boston Red Sox
1962-a	National	3-1	D.C. Stadium, Washington Senators	Maury Wills, Los Angeles (NL)	Juan Marichal, San Francisco (NL)	Camilo Pascual, Minnesota (AL)
1962-b	American	9-4	Wrigley Field, Chicago Cubs	Leon Wagner, Los Angeles (AL)	Ray Herbert, Chicago (AL)	Art Mahaffey, Philadelphia (NL)
1963	National	5-3	Municipal Stadium, Cleveland Indians	Willie Mays, San Francisco (NL)	Larry Jackson, Chicago (NL)	Jim Bunning, Detroit (AL)
1964	National	7-4	Shea Stadium, New York Mets	Johnny Callison, Philadelphia (NL)	Juan Marichal, San Francisco (NL)	Dick Radatz, Boston (AL)
1965	National	6-5	Metropolitan Stadium, Minnesota Twins	Juan Marichal, San Francisco (NL)	Sandy Koufax, Los Angeles (NL)	Sam McDowell, Cleveland
1966	National	2-1 (10 innings)	Busch Memorial Stadium, St. Louis Cardinals	Brooks Robinson, Baltimore (AL)	Gaylord Perry, San Francisco (NL)	Pete Richert, Washington (AL)
1967	National	2-1 (15 innings)	Anaheim Stadium, California Angels	Tony Perez, Cincinnati (NL)	Don Drysdale, Los Angeles (NL)	Catfish Hunter, Kansas City (AL)
1968	National	1-0	Astrodome, Houston Astros	Willie Mays, San Francisco (NL)	Don Drysdale, Los Angeles (NL)	Luis Tiant, Cleveland (AL)
1969	National	9-3	RFK Stadium, Washington Senators	Willie McCovey, San Francisco (NL)	Steve Carlton, St. Louis (NL)	Mel Stottlemyre, New York (AL)
1970	National	5-4 (12 innings)	Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati Reds	Carl Yastrzemski, Boston (AL)	Claude Osteen, Los Angeles (NL)	Clyde Wright, California (AL)
1971	American	6-4	Tiger Stadium, Detroit Tigers	Frank Robinson, Baltimore (AL)	Vida Blue, Oakland (AL)	Dock Ellis, Pittsburgh (NL)
1972	National	4-3 (10 innings)	Atlanta Stadium, Atlanta Braves	Joe Morgan, Cincinnati (NL)	Tug McGraw, New York (NL)	Dave McNally, Baltimore (AL)
1973	National	7-1	Royals Stadium, Kansas City Royals	Bobby Bonds, San Francisco (NL)	Rick Wise, St. Louis (NL)	Bert Blyleven, Minnesota (AL)
1974	National	7-2	Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh Pirates	Steve Garvey, Los Angeles (NL)	Ken Brett, Pittsburgh	Luis Tiant, Boston (AL)
1975	National	6-3	County Stadium, Milwaukee Brewers	Bill Madlock, Chicago (NL) Jon Matlack, New York (NL)	Jon Matlack, New York (NL)	Catfish Hunter, New York (AL)
1976	National	7-1	Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia Phillies	George Foster, Cincinnati (NL)	Randy Jones, San Diego (NL)	Mark Fidrych, Detroit (AL)
1977	National	7-5	Yankee Stadium, New York Yankees	Don Sutton, Los Angeles (NL)	Don Sutton, Los Angeles (NL)	Jim Palmer, Baltimore (AL)
1978	National	7-3	San Diego Stadium, San Diego Padres	Steve Garvey, Los Angeles (NL)	Bruce Sutter, Chicago	Rich Gossage, New York (AL)
1979	National	7-6	Kingdome, Seattle Mariners	Dave Parker, Pittsburgh (NL)	Bruce Sutter, Chicago	Jim Kern, Texas (AL)
1980	National	4-2	Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles Dodgers	Ken Griffey, Sr., Cincinnati (NL)	Jerry Reuss, Los Angeles (NL)	Tommy John, New York (AL)
1981	National	5-4	Cleveland Stadium, Cleveland Indians	Gary Carter, Montreal (NL)	Vida Blue, San Francisco (NL)	Rollie Fingers, Milwaukee (AL)
1982	National	4-1	Olympic Stadium, Montreal Expos	Dave Concepcion, Cincinnati (NL)	Steve Rogers, Montreal (NL)	Dennis Eckersley, Boston (AL)
1983	American	13-3	Comiskey Park, Chicago White Sox	Fred Lynn, California (AL)	Dave Stieb, Toronto (AL)	Mario Soto, Cincinnati (NL)
1984	National	3-1	Candlestick Park, San Francisco Giants	Gary Carter, Montreal Expos (NL)	Charlie Lea, Montreal (NL)	Dave Stieb, Toronto (AL)
1985	National	6-1	Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minnesota Twins	LaMarr Hoyt, San Diego (NL)	LaMarr Hoyt, San Diego (NL)	Jack Morris, Detroit (AL)
1986	American	3-2	Astrodome, Houston Astros	Roger Clemens, Boston (AL)	Roger Clemens, Boston (AL)	Dwight Gooden, New York (NL)
1987	National	2-0 (13 innings)	Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland Athletics	Tim Raines, Montreal (NL)	Lee Smith, Chicago (NL)	Jay Howell, Oakland (AL)
1988	American	2-1	Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati Reds	Terry Steinbach, Oakland (AL)	Frank Viola, Minnesota (AL)	Dwight Gooden, New York (NL)
1989	American	5-3	Anaheim Stadium, California Angels	Bo Jackson, Kansas City (AL)	Nolan Ryan, Texas (AL)	John Smoltz, Atlanta (NL)
1990	American	2-0	Wrigley Field, Chicago Cubs	Julio Franco, Texas (AL)	Bret Saberhagen, Kansas City (AL)	Jeff Brantley, San Francisco (NL)
1991	American	4-2	SkyDome, Toronto Blue Jays	Cal Ripken, Jr., Baltimore (AL)	Jimmy Key, Toronto (AL)	Dennis Martínez, Montreal (NL)
1992	American	13-6	Jack Murphy Stadium, San Diego Padres	Ken Griffey Jr., Seattle (AL)	Kevin Brown, Texas (AL)	Tom Glavine, Atlanta (NL)
1993	American	9-3	Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Baltimore Orioles	Kirby Puckett, Minnesota (AL)	Jack McDowell, Chicago (AL)	John Burkett, San Francisco (NL)
1994	National	8-7 (10 innings)	Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh Pirates	Fred McGriff, Atlanta (NL)	Doug Jones, Philadelphia (NL)	Jason Bere, Chicago (AL)
1995	National	3-2	The Ballpark in Arlington, Texas Rangers	Jeff Conine, Florida (NL)	Heathcliff Slocumb, Philadelphia (NL)	Steve Ontiveros, Oakland (AL)
1996	National	6-0	Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia Phillies	Mike Piazza, Los Angeles (NL)	John Smoltz, Atlanta (NL)	Charles Nagy, Cleveland (AL)
1997	American	3-1	Jacobs Field, Cleveland Indians	Sandy Alomar, Cleveland (AL)	José Rosado, Kansas City (AL)	Shawn Estes, San Francisco (NL)
1998	American	13-8	Coors Field, Colorado Rockies	Roberto Alomar, Baltimore (AL)	Bartolo Colón, Cleveland (AL)	Ugueth Urbina, Montreal (NL)
1999	American	4-1	Fenway Park, Boston Red Sox	Pedro Martínez, Boston (AL)	Pedro Martínez, Boston (AL)	Curt Schilling, Philadelphia (NL)
2000	American	6-3	Turner Field, Atlanta Braves	Derek Jeter, New York (AL)	James Baldwin, Chicago (AL)	Al Leiter, New York (NL)
2001	American	4-1	Safeco Field, Seattle Mariners	Cal Ripken, Jr., Baltimore (AL)	Freddy García, Seattle (AL)	Chan Ho Park, Los Angeles (NL)
2002	TIE insufficient players	7-7 (11 innings)	Miller Park, Milwaukee Brewers	None
2003	American	7-6	U.S. Cellular Field, Chicago White Sox	Garret Anderson, Anaheim (AL)	Brendan Donnelly, Anaheim (AL)	Eric Gagne, Los Angeles (NL)
2004	American	9-4	Minute Maid Park, Houston Astros	Alfonso Soriano, Texas (AL)	Mark Mulder, Oakland (AL)	Roger Clemens, Houston (NL)
2005	American	7-5	Comerica Park, Detroit Tigers	Miguel Tejada, Baltimore (AL)	Mark Buerhle, Chicago (AL)	John Smoltz, Atlanta (NL)
2006	American	3-2	PNC Park, Pittsburgh Pirates	Michael Young, Texas (AL)	B.J. Ryan, Toronto (AL)	Trevor Hoffman, San Diego (NL)
2007	American	5-4	AT&T Park, San Francisco Giants	Ichiro Suzuki, Seattle (AL)	Josh Beckett, Boston (AL)	Chris Young, San Diego (NL)
2008	TBD	July 15	Yankee Stadium, New York Yankees	TBD
2009	TBD	July 7	Busch Stadium, St. Louis Cardinals	TBD

See also

• List of Major League Baseball All-Star Game broadcasters
• Major League Baseball All-Star Games in Pittsburgh

External links

• BaseballLibrary.com - All-Star Game
• All-Star Games by Baseball Almanac : A Midsummer Classic Analysis
• Major League Baseball : Events : All-Star Game
• The Sporting News: History of the MLB All-Star Game