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A second game was played for four seasons, from 1959 through 1962. The All-Star Game Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award was introduced in 1962 and the first recipient was Maury Wills of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The 2008 game featured the longest All-Star Game by time: 4 hours 50 minutes, and tied for innings at 15 with the 1967 game.
Wins: Lefty Gomez 3 Losses : Mort Cooper , Whitey Ford , Dwight Gooden , Catfish Hunter , Claude Passeau , John Smoltz , Luis Tiant , Clayton Kershaw 2 Earned runs: Whitey Ford 11
The Major League Baseball All-Star Game, also known as the "Midsummer Classic", is an annual professional baseball game sanctioned by Major League Baseball (MLB) and contested between the all-stars from the American League (AL) and National League (NL).
Maury Wills (NL) received the first All-Star Game MVP Award when two All-Star Games were played and two awards (Leon Wagner-AL) were presented as the "Arch Ward Memorial Award" in 1962. Willie Mays was the first player to win more than one All-Star Game MVP Award (1963, 1968).
The team, announced by Classic Sports Network in conjunction with the events celebrated around the 1997 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, were chosen by a panel of 36 members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America in a first- and second-place Borda count voting system.
Cy Young, the all-time leader in career wins. This is a list of Major League Baseball (MLB) pitchers with 200 or more career wins. In the sport of baseball, a win is a statistic credited to the pitcher for the winning team who was in the game when his team last took the lead. A starting pitcher must complete five innings to earn a win; if this ...
The only players whose careers began after 1976 to play in 25 MLB seasons were Rickey Henderson, who appeared in 10 All-Star Games, [110] and Jamie Moyer, who appeared in one. [111] The active player with the most All-Star Game selections is Mike Trout, who has been on 11 All-Star Game rosters after 13 seasons. [112]
0–9. 1933 Major League Baseball All-Star Game; 1934 Major League Baseball All-Star Game; 1935 Major League Baseball All-Star Game; 1936 Major League Baseball All-Star Game