Tag: All-Star Game

This day in baseball: Invisible hosts in Cleveland

July 9, 2013

There is a good reason why Major League Baseball today makes every effort to ensure that every team be properly represented at the All-Star Game.

On 9 July 1963, the Midsummer Classic was held at Cleveland Municipal Stadium, home of the Indians.  Unfortunately for Cleveland’s baseball fans, however, no players from the Indians took part in the contest as the American League lost 5-3.  The only member of the Tribe to even make the roster was pitcher Jim “Mudcat” Grant, who never made an appearance in the game.  Perhaps it comes as no surprise, then, that attendance at the exhibition was a mere 44,160 fans.

What was surprising was that the American League outhit the National League 11-6.  Evidently, the AL couldn’t capitalize and a lot of those base runners were left stranded.

Mudcat Grant (Photo source: Baseball-Almanac)

This day in baseball: The NL’s first ASG win

July 7, 2013

The Midsummer Classic is upon us!  And speaking of the All-Star Game, on July 7, 1936, Major League Baseball experienced the fourth of these annual exhibitions.  It proved to be the first victory for the National League, winning 4-3 at Braves Field in Boston.  The American League won the first three All-Star contests.

 

And, if you’re curious, the anniversary of the first All-Star Game was yesterday, played on July 6, 1933 at Comiskey Park in Chicago.  The American League won that game 4-2.

1936 all star game