Baseball's All-Star Game Reference Guide 1933-2007: 78 Games in 74 Years

There are All-Star games and then there are All-Star games. But there are none like this All-Star game...

. Get to know its many names

. All seventy-eight games are recounted in descriptive play-by-plays with uniquely crafted box scores

. Select from the roster section your favorite player or star or Hall of Famer to learn how they performed on the second biggest baseball stage

. Check out the record section to discover who set or tied a wide range of pitching and hitting milestones

. Note the subtle changes in how the game was played back in the day and how it is played today

. Peruse the list of all 168 home run hitters and their victims

. Veterans fade away and rookies blend into a game that was at first exclusive for one color and now welcomes international line-ups

. Ballparks come and go or change names; one team changed leagues

. Note the players who have won the MVP award more than once

. Compare the movement of players from team to team and from league to league before and after free agency; managers move around, too

. Read the exploits of the players you know and the players you don't know

. The play-by-play puts your imagination between the white lines-pitching, hitting, fielding, and strategizing; imagine being there

. Notice how each league has had winning and losing streaks in at least eight games over seventy-four years

. Review the 2004 contest that became the reason baseball's Mid-Summer Classic has a direct impact on baseball's Fall Classic-the only sport that ties an exhibition game to a championship

Players are the heart of this book, a chronicle for historians as well as fans.