Major League Baseball All-Star Game results

Seventy-nine Major League Baseball All-Star Games have been played since the first one in 1933, with the National League winning 40, and the American League winning 37, with two ties. (Interestingly, the official website MLB.com has incorrect tallies.) [ [http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/history/all_star.jsp "All-Star Results"] from "Major League Baseball History" on MLB.com, 2007.] The National League has the longest winning streak of 11 games from 1972-1982. The American League currently has a league-best 12-game unbeaten streak (including the tie in 2002), and has dominated the game since 1988 (losing only 3 times and tying 1). They previously dominated from 1933-1949, winning 12 of the first 16. The National League dominated from 1950-1987, winning 33 of 42 with 1 tie. This included a stretch from 1963-1982 when they won 19 of 20.There was no All-Star award for 'MVP' until by|1962; Maury Wills won the inaugural award.

The 2008 game featured the longest All-Star Game by time: 4 hours 50 min., and tied for innings at 15 with the 1967 game.

Game results

Future sites

Confirmed

* Busch Stadium, home of the St. Louis Cardinals, is scheduled to host the 2009 All-Star Game. The stadium opened in 2006 and the game would be St. Louis' first MLB All-Star Game since by|1966. [cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2732393|title=Selig signs off on 2009 All-Star Game for St. Louis|publisher=ESPN.com|date=2007-01-16|accessdate=]

* Angel Stadium of Anaheim, home of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, is scheduled to host the 2010 All-Star Game. This would be Angel Stadium's third All-Star Game; its other two were in by|1967 and 1989, when it was known as Anaheim Stadium. The selection of Angel Stadium, opened in 1966, is a departure from the recent trend of using the All-Star Game to highlight newer baseball stadiums, the most notable exceptions being Fenway Park in 1999 and Yankee Stadium in 2008. [cite web|url=http://losangeles.angels.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080523&content_id=2753329&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb|title=Angels to host 2010 All-Star Game|author=Bloom, Barry M.|publisher=MLB.com|date=2008-05-23|accessdate=] 2010 will also mark the Angels' 50th season as an American League franchise.

Although this would be its third All-Star Game, it would be the first in the latest configuration of Angel Stadium (following the remodeling after the Northridge earthquake). It is also the third configuration the game will have been hosted in; the 1967 game was played prior to the expansion of the park to the state it was in during the 1989 game.

Potential future sites

* Chase Field, home of the Arizona Diamondbacks, is "expected" to host the 2011 All-Star Game.cite web|url=http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AizfIVuLVTyGt0T_xLXjfKwRvLYF?slug=ap-all-stargame-anaheim&prov=ap&type=lgns|title=Selig finally admits Angels hosting 2010 All-Star game|author=Peters, Ken|publisher=Yahoo! Sports|date=2008-05-28|accessdate=2008-06-01]

* Kauffman Stadium, home of the Kansas City Royals, is supposed to host an MLB All-Star Game, its first since by|1973, in one of the years between 2010-2014, likely 2012, as confirmed by commissioner Bud Selig. [cite web|url=http://kansascity.royals.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060322&content_id=1359278&vkey=news_kc&fext=.jsp&c_id=kc|title=Selig sends All-Star Game to KC|author=Kaegel, Dick|publisher=MLB.com|date=2006-03-22|accessdate=] If selected, Kauffman Stadium would be another departure from the trend of using the All-Star Game to showcase newer ballparks. Renovations to the stadium are scheduled to be completed sometime in 2009.

* With New York and Los Angeles' American League teams hosting All-Star Games in 2008 and 2010, respectively, those cities' National League teams are both vying for the 2013 All-Star Game:
**Citi Field, new home of the New York Mets, according to ESPN, is "likely" to be the host for the 2013 All-Star Game, Selig told Mets CEO Jeff Wilpon. [cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3291524|title=Official: Mets 'likely' to host All-Star Game in '13|author=Marchand, Andrew|publisher=ESPN.com|date=2008-03-13|accessdate=]
**The Los Angeles Dodgers are also vying to host the 2013 game, once extensive renovations to the 51-year-old (by that time) Dodger Stadium are completed. [cite web|url=http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080528&content_id=2787958&vkey=allstar2008&fext=.jsp|title=Dodgers angle for 2013 ASG bid|author=Bloom, Barry|publisher=MLB.com|date=28 May 2008]
*2014 All-Star Game
**According to MLB.com the new Minnesota Twins ballpark Target Field is hoping to be shown off four years after it opens. [http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080910&content_id=3450637&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb]

References

ee also

*Major League Baseball All-Star Game