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In 1933 Arch Ward, the sports
editor of the Chicago Tribune, put
together the first All-Star game as a
part of Chicago's exposition that year.
The first three of four years, 1933,
1934, and 1936 the program covers were
basic stock scorecards that were used
during the regular season. Specially
designed All-Star Game covers did not
catch on until the 1937 all-Star game,
played at Griffith Stadium. This 1937 All Star game
program and scorecard features great
cover art by Pulitzer Prize-winning
political cartoonist James T. Berryman,
depicting
Franklin D. Roosevelt throwing a
baseball. FDR was the first American
President to attend the mid-season
Baseball All-Star Game and he threw out
the first pitch.
The
5th annual
Baseball All Star Game was
played at Griffith Stadium, Washington
DC on July 7, 1937. A Crowd of 31,391
watched the American league beat the
National league 8-3. Lou Gehrig hit
the only Home Run in the game. In the
bottom of the third inning, Earl
Averill of the Indians hit a ball that
struck pitcher Dizzy Dean on the toe,
breaking it. Complications of this
injury shortened the career of the
future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher.
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