1937 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

1937 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

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Date	July 7, 1937
Venue	Griffith Stadium
City	Washington, D.C.
Managers	Bill Terry (NYG) Joe McCarthy (NYY)
Attendance	31,391
First pitch	President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Radio	Mutual, CBS, NBC
Radio announcers	Bob Elson, Tony Wakeman (Mutual) France Laux, Bill Dyer, Arch McDonald (CBS) Tom Manning, Warren Brown (NBC)
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The 1937 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the fifth playing of the mid-summer classic between the all-stars of the American League (AL) and National League (NL), the two leagues comprising Major League Baseball. The game was held on July 7, 1937, at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C., the home of the Washington Senators of the American League. The game resulted in the American League defeating the National League 8–3.

The game, watched by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is remembered because of a play in which 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.

Players in italics have since been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

The umpires changed assignments in the middle of the fifth inning – McGowan and Barr swapped positions, also Pinelli and Quinn swapped positions.

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