All-Star Game Notes

The (5-3) win by the American League All-Stars made the A.L. record in such games, hosted by the defending world champion, (3-0).

One such was held 90 years earlier, at the fabled Polo Grounds, the home of the 1933 champion New York Giants.

Five years later, the A.L. again prevailed in the ’39 game at Yankee Stadium, the home of the then 3 time champion, Yankees, who would make it 4 straight crowns under “Marse” Joe McCarthy that season.

While the American League did win the ’34 All-Star tilt, the game will always be remembered for the great Giants’ pitcher, Carl Hubbell striking out 5 greats, in succession, in innings one and two.

Those greats were/are Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmy Foxx, Al Simmons and Joe Cronin.

The ’39 Yankees were the first of 3 teams in the 94 previous years of All-Star tilts to host that game and win that year’s World Series.

The L.A. Dodgers did so twenty years later in 1959 and the Yankees did so in 1977.