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Inneresting All Star Game Trivia

SteveJRogers Apr 02 2007 08:57 PM

Been doing a little research for a pet project of mine, an "Ultimate All Star Game Database" sort of thing, and came up with couple of interesting trivia: 1) Who was the first reliever to be selected to an All Star Game? This is pure reliever, not a guy who started roughly half of the games he pitched that season. 2) What year did a team have the most players selected on the All Star Game? This also includes players selected but then replaced.

Frayed Knot Apr 02 2007 09:03 PM

WAGs: 1) Elroy Face 2) The '58 Reds

SteveJRogers Apr 02 2007 09:06 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 02 2007 09:15 PM

Frayed Knot wrote: WAGs: 1) Elroy Face 2) The '58 Reds Nope, go further back on both. Good guess with the Cinci-nutty ballot box stuffing Reds, but the answer is a stuffing of a different kind. BTW, the years of the stuffing for the Reds were 1956 (5 players elected, 8 overall) and 1957 (7 elected, two were tossed out but one was selected anyway) 1958 they took away the fan vote (untill 1970) and only two Reds were selected.

cooby Apr 02 2007 09:11 PM

Wow, cool hint!

SteveJRogers Apr 11 2007 05:53 PM

The first reliever in ASG history was a fellow named [url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/r/russeja01.shtml]Jack Russell[/url] who made the 1934 team with the Washington Senators (Cronin was the AL skipper) Definatly a pure reliever back in that time as he pitched in 54 games and started only 9. Only 7 saves, but I guess he was a manager's decision. Johnny Murphy of the Yankees was next, another skipper's discretion though, but he actually put up decent numbers (for the time of course) which included 19 saves in 1939. Speaking of 1939, and I may need some further research on this as there are some years I need to double check, the AL manager, Joe McCarthy, had 10 guys on the ASG roster. Well 9, which was done another time in a McCarthy led year, and the Yanks did it again in 1959, although that was a 2 game ASG year so I need to do a ruling on it, if you take away Lou Gehrig. This was done because from 1937 to 1946 the manager selected all of the players on the roster! Here are your 1939 Yankee All Stars: 2B Joe Gordon (starter) 3B Red Rolfe (starter) OF Joe DiMaggio (starter) OF George Selkirk (starter) C Bill Dickey (starter) P Red Ruffing (starter) SS Frankie Crosetti P Lefty Gomez P Johnny Murphy 1B Lou Gehrig named to the team but obviously wasn't a player in the game Hank Greenberg of the Tigers and Joe Cronin and Doc Cramer rounded out the Yankee...errrrr AL starting nine!

Yancy Street Gang Apr 11 2007 06:46 PM

Have there ever been any intentional walks in All-Star games? I doubt that it would be common, but maybe it will be more likely now that the games "count."