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| Date | July 7, 1937 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Venue | Griffith Stadium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| City | Washington, D.C. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Attendance | 31,391 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ceremonial first pitch | PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Radio | CBS NBC Mutual | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Radio announcers | France Laux,Bill Dyer andArch McDonald (CBS) Tom Manning andWarren Brown (NBC) Bob Elson andTony Wakeman (Mutual) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The1937 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the fifth playing of the midsummer classic between theAll-Stars of theAmerican League (AL) andNational League (NL), the two leagues comprisingMajor League Baseball. The game was held on July 7, 1937, atGriffith Stadium in Washington, D.C., the home of theWashington Senators of the American League. The American League defeated the National League, 8 to 3.
The game, attended byPresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt, is remembered because of a play in whichEarl Averill of the Indians hit a ball that struck Cardinals pitcherDizzy Dean on the toe, breaking it; complications from this injury shortened the career of the futureHall of Fame pitcher.
Players initalics have since been inducted into theNational Baseball Hall of Fame.


| Position | Umpire | League |
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| Home Plate | Bill McGowan | American |
| First Base | Babe Pinelli | National |
| Second Base | John Quinn | American |
| Third Base | George Barr | National |
The umpires changed assignments in the middle of the fifth inning – McGowan and Barr swapped positions, also Pinelli and Quinn swapped positions.[2]
| National League | American League | ||||||
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| Order | Player | Team | Position | Order | Player | Team | Position |
| 1 | Paul Waner | Pirates | RF | 1 | Red Rolfe | Yankees | 3B |
| 2 | Billy Herman | Cubs | 2B | 2 | Charlie Gehringer | Tigers | 2B |
| 3 | Arky Vaughan | Pirates | 3B | 3 | Joe DiMaggio | Yankees | RF |
| 4 | Joe Medwick | Cardinals | LF | 4 | Lou Gehrig | Yankees | 1B |
| 5 | Frank Demaree | Cubs | CF | 5 | Earl Averill | Indians | CF |
| 6 | Johnny Mize | Cardinals | 1B | 6 | Joe Cronin | Red Sox | SS |
| 7 | Gabby Hartnett | Cubs | C | 7 | Bill Dickey | Yankees | C |
| 8 | Dick Bartell | Giants | SS | 8 | Sam West | Browns | LF |
| 9 | Dizzy Dean | Cardinals | P | 9 | Lefty Grove | Red Sox | P |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| National League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| American League | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | - | 8 | 13 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP:Lefty Gomez (1–0) LP:Dizzy Dean (0–1) Sv:Mel Harder (1) Home runs: NL: None AL:Lou Gehrig (1) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||