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The best of the best team up and face each other at in Baseball’s Midsummer Summer Classic, the All Star Game. The 2008 game is to be held at Yankee Stadium. The last All Star game at “The House That Ruth Built” before they move to their new location next year.
All Star Sports Quotes from some famous All Star people:
“The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I’d rather go fishing for three years.”
Whitey Herzog
“We knew we had to keep playing until the game was decided one way or the other. We played 10, 15 innings sometimes. The All-Star Game was important to us. We weren’t worried about setting records. We were worried about winning.”
Willie Mays
“If I ain’t startin’, I am departin’.” - Garry Templeton (1981 All-Star Game)
“In All-Star Games the players are chosen by balloting. Millions of fans vote. It is Democracy at its most transcendent. All the voters get out of it is the loss of a three-cent stamp or a two-cent postal card. Dishonesty in counting the votes has never been charged.” - Fred Schwed
“I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.” - Earl Weaver (1979 All-Star Game)
“It’s right up there with lobster.” - Gary Gaetti in The Sporting News on being voted to the All-Star Game (August 1, 1988)
“They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.”
Ted Williams
He’s such a big, strong guy he should love that porch (in Tiger Stadium). He’s got power enough to hit home runs in any park, including Yellowstone.” - Sparky Anderson (1971 All-Star Game on Willie Stargell)
“The 1930s also saw an effort to apply the principles of business to baseball, especially in the area of advertising and promotional techniques. The first major breakthrough came in 1933 with the institution of the All-Star Game.” - Richard Crepeau
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