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| Date | July 11, 1939 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Venue | Yankee Stadium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| City | Bronx,New York | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Attendance | 62,892 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ceremonial first pitch | None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Radio | CBS NBC Mutual | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Radio announcers | France Laux,Arch McDonald andMel Allen (CBS) Tom Manning,Paul Douglas andWarren Brown (NBC) Red Barber,Bob Elson andAl Helfer (Mutual) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The1939 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the seventh playing of the mid-summer classic between theall-stars of theAmerican League (AL) andNational League (NL), the two leagues comprisingMajor League Baseball. The game was held on July 11, 1939, atYankee Stadium inThe Bronx, New York City, the home of theNew York Yankees of the American League. The game resulted in the American League defeating the National League 3–1. The Yankees went on the win theWorld Series that year, making them the first team to host the All-Star Game and win the World Series in the same year.
Players initalics have since been inducted into theNational Baseball Hall of Fame.
| Position | Umpire | League |
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| Home Plate | Cal Hubbard | American |
| First Base | Larry Goetz | National |
| Second Base | Eddie Rommel | American |
| Third Base | George Magerkurth | National |
The umpires changed assignments in the middle of the fifth inning – Hubbard and Magerkurth swapped positions, also Goetz and Rommel swapped positions.[2]
| National League | American League | ||||||
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| Order | Player | Team | Position | Order | Player | Team | Position |
| 1 | Stan Hack | Cubs | 3B | 1 | Doc Cramer | Red Sox | RF |
| 2 | Lonny Frey | Reds | 2B | 2 | Red Rolfe | Yankees | 3B |
| 3 | Ival Goodman | Reds | RF | 3 | Joe DiMaggio | Yankees | CF |
| 4 | Frank McCormick | Reds | 1B | 4 | Bill Dickey | Yankees | C |
| 5 | Ernie Lombardi | Reds | C | 5 | Hank Greenberg | Tigers | 1B |
| 6 | Joe Medwick | Cardinals | LF | 6 | Joe Cronin | Red Sox | SS |
| 7 | Mel Ott | Giants | CF | 7 | George Selkirk | Yankees | LF |
| 8 | Arky Vaughan | Pirates | SS | 8 | Joe Gordon | Yankees | 2B |
| 9 | Paul Derringer | Reds | P | 9 | Red Ruffing | Yankees | P |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| National League | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| American League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 3 | 6 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP:Tommy Bridges (1–0) LP:Bill Lee (0–1) Sv:Bob Feller (1) Home runs: NL: None AL:Joe DiMaggio (1) Boxscore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||