The Major League Baseball All-Star Game, also known as the "Midsummer Classic", is an annual professional baseball game sanctioned by Major League Baseball and contested between the all-stars from the
2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game in St. Louis
1933 AL All-Stars – Jimmie Foxx, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Al Simmons
1937 AL All-Stars – Lou Gehrig, Joe Cronin, Bill Dickey, Joe DiMaggio, Charlie Gehringer, Jimmie Foxx, and Hank Greenberg
Bess and Margaret Truman submitting their ballots for the 1953 Major League Baseball All-Star Game rosters
Willie Mays
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Willie Howard Mays Jr., nicknamed "the Say Hey Kid", was an American professional baseball center fielder who played 23 major league seasons. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time
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…and distributed them with the Sunday newspaper to make it easy for Reds fans to vote often for their favorite stars. Commissioner Ford Frick appointed Willie Mays of the New York Giants and Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves to substitute for Reds players Gus Bell and Wally Post, and took fan voting rights away…
Mays with the New York Giants in 1955
1952 Bowman Willie Mays
Mays' baseball glove he used during "The Catch" on display at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008
Mays in 1955