The 1933 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the first edition of the All-Star Game known as the "Midsummer Classic". This was the first official playing of the midseason exhibition baseball game
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George Herman "Babe" Ruth was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. Nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the Sultan of Swat
1933 Major League Baseball All-Star Game
…went to a charity for disabled and needy major league players. The All-Star Game would afterwards be known as MLB's "Midsummer Classic". The legendary Babe Ruth of the Yankees highlighted the game by hitting a two-run home run to right field in the bottom of the third inning and catching a fly ball up against…
Ruth in 1920
Ruth's birthplace in Baltimore, Maryland
Babe Ruth's parents, George Herman Sr. and Katherine
Ruth (top row, center) at St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1912