Once The All-Star Game Mattered
Once, the baseball All-Star Game mattered, so much so, that we gathered one or two National League fans and some American League to watch the tilt on television. One year an uninvited guy in the area banged so hard on the door he gained entry.
Now you would have to pay me to sit through one.
However, memories abound:
Stan Musial hitting a game ending home run before my time and forty years ago on this date, an excellent player named Fred Lynn, hit what is still the only grand slam home run in All-Star Game annals.
Alas it is 90 years inclusive (1934-2023) since Carl Hubbell struck out 5 great American League players at the famed Polo Grounds in the ’34 game.
Write in with the names of the 5 baseball immortals, (Hubbell certainly was one as well) that Carl fanned in succession in the ’34 game.