1954 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

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Date	July 13, 1954
Venue	Cleveland Municipal Stadium
City	Cleveland, Ohio
Managers	Walter Alston (Brooklyn Dodgers) Casey Stengel (New York Yankees)
Attendance	69,751 –Time of Game: 3:10
Television	NBC
TV announcers	Mel Allen andGene Kelly
Radio	Mutual
Radio announcers	Al Helfer andJimmy Dudley
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The1954 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 21st 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, 1954, atCleveland Municipal Stadium inCleveland,Ohio, the home of theCleveland Indians of the American League.

The American League rallied in the bottom of the eighth inning, to defeat the National League in an 11–9slugfest at Cleveland Stadium. Both teams combined for an All-Star Game record 20 runs, on 31 hits, which included sixhome runs.Al Rosen led the American League offense, going 3-for-4 with two home runs and fiveruns batted in.

StartersWhitey Ford (AL) andRobin Roberts (NL) matched zeroes until the third inning, when the American League hitters stacked themselves to an early 4–0 lead in the bottom of the inning.Minnie Miñoso opened the frame with asingle andNellie Foxwalked, while Robertsstruck outMickey Mantle and retiredYogi Berra on agrounder, but could not overcome a three-run homer by Rosen to make it a 3–0 game.Ray Boone followed with a homer before Roberts retiredHank Bauer.

Opening the fourth inning, the National League rallied for five runs to take a 5–4 lead.Sandy Consuegra retired the first batter he faced, butDuke Snider,Ted Kluszewski andRay Jablonski hit consecutive singles andJackie Robinson adouble, tying the game at four.Bob Lemon relieved Consuegra, but gave up a two-out, RBI-double by thepinch-hitterDon Mueller before retiringGranny Hamner for the third out.

Meanwhile,Chico Carrasquel kept the American League attack alive with a lead-off single in the bottom of the fourth againstJohnny Antonelli. Carrasquel moved to third on a one-out single by Miñoso and scored on asacrifice fly byBeto Ávila, tying the score at five.

The National League picked up two more two-out runs offBob Porterfield in the fifth to pull back in front, 7–5, after a single by Snider and a two-run homer by Kluszewski. In the bottom of the inning, Berra hit a single off Antonelli and Rosen belted his second home run of the game to tie the score at seven.

The American League regained the lead in the sixth, 8–7, with an RBI-single by Avila offWarren Spahn that brought home Williams.

In the eighth inning, the National League bats stayed hot againstBob Keegan.Willie Mays singled andGus Bell unloaded it with a pinch-hit, two-run homer to put again away the game, 9–8.Dean Stone came in relief with two outs andRed Schoendienst running on third. Schoendienst attempted to steal home and was thrown out by Stone. This third out set the stage forLarry Doby, who pinch hit for Stone with one out in the bottom of the inning and tied the game with a home run againstGene Conley, becoming the first black player to hit a home run in an All-Star Game. After that, Mantle and Berra singled and Rosen walked to load the bases.Carl Erskine replaced Conley and retiredMickey Vernon for the second out, but gave up a two-RBI single to Fox that sealed the 11–9 victory for the American League.

The American League (7) and the National League (6) used 13 pitchers in the game. Stone took the win (without retiring a batter) and Conley was tagged with the loss whileVirgil Trucks earned thesave. Trucks walked Snider to open the ninth inning, but retiredStan Musial,Gil Hodges andRandy Jackson for the last three outs of the game.

The win broke a four-game All-Star losing streak for the American League. After this game, the AL led the all-time All-Star Series 13–8.

• The 20 runs scored in the contest set an All-Star Game record which lasted until1998, when the American League defeated the National League, 13–8, atCoors Field.
• Al Rosen became the third player to hit two home runs in an All-Star Game.Arky Vaughan did it in 1941, andTed Williams did it in 1946. This feat would be matched later byWillie McCovey in 1969 andGary Carter in 1981.^[1]
• This was only the second Midsummer Classic to date with more than sixty-thousand fans in attendance (69,751).^[2] The first occurred during the1935 All-Star Game, which was also held at Cleveland Municipal Stadium (69,812).^[3]
• This is the only All-Star Game to date in which one of the managers—in this caseWalter Alston—was in his first year of managing the defending league champions he represented. Alston was managing in place of his predecessor as manager of theBrooklyn Dodgers,Charlie Dressen.

Players initalics have since been inducted into theNational Baseball Hall of Fame.

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