The Day All the Stars Came Out: Major League Baseball's First All-star Game, 1933

by Lew Freedman (Author)

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  Paperback
  2010

  $24.11

  Provides a history of Major League Baseball's first All-Star Game, originally conceived in 1933 as a one-time Game of the Century to lift the spirits of the nation and its people in the midst of the Great Depression. It was so successful that it became a yearly event. The work describes the game the later accomplishments of many of the individuals involved.