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| Date | July 13, 1943 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Venue | Shibe Park | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| City | Philadelphia,Pennsylvania | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Attendance | 31,938 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Radio | Mutual | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Radio announcers | Mel Allen,Red Barber andBill Corum | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The1943 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 11th 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 13, 1943, atShibe Park inPhiladelphia, the home of thePhiladelphia Athletics of the American League. The game resulted in the American League defeating the National League 5–3.
This was the first major league All-Star Game scheduled as anight game.[1]
The lone representative of the host team wasDick Siebert, starting first baseman for the AL, who was hitless in one at bat.
Players initalics have since been inducted into theNational Baseball Hall of Fame.
| Position | Umpire | League |
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| Home Plate | Eddie Rommel | American |
| First Base | Jocko Conlan | National |
| Second Base | Joe Rue | American |
| Third Base | Tom Dunn | National |
The umpires changed assignments in the middle of the fifth inning – Rommel and Dunn swapped positions, also Conlan and Rue swapped positions.[2]
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| National League | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| American League | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 5 | 8 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP:Dutch Leonard (1–0) LP:Mort Cooper (0–1) Sv:Tex Hughson (1) Home runs: NL:Vince DiMaggio AL:Bobby Doerr (1) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The NL started the game with two singles, then scored one run on a sacrifice fly by Stan Musial. The AL jumped ahead 3–1 in the bottom of the 2nd, on a pair of walks followed by a home run from Bobby Doerr. The AL added a run in the 3rd, on back-to-back doubles by Ken Keltner and Dick Wakefield, and another run in the bottom of the 5th, on an error by NL second baseman Billy Herman with runners on first and third with two outs; the AL was up 5–1. The NL later got two runs back from Vince DiMaggio; in the 7th he hit a triple and then scored on a sacrifice fly by Dixie Walker, and in the 9th he led off the inning with a home run. But the NL was unable to rally further, resulting in an AL 5–3 victory.