All-Star Game: 1933-1950

    Baseball's best take the field during the annual All-Star Game. Here's a year-by-year look at the game:.

1933 - The first All-Star Game is held at Comiskey Park in Chicago. That inaugural contest drew more than 49,000 fans and featured Babe Ruth, Lefty Grove, Jimmie Foxx, Lou Gehrig, Gabbie Hartnett and Pie Traynor.  The AL won the game, 4-2, and fans were treated to home runs by Ruth and Frankie Frisch. Rick Ferrell started at catcher for the American League and played all nine innings, keeping Mickey Cochrane and Bill Dickey on the bench. 

1934 - Of the 18 starters in the contest, only one, the Braves' Wally Berger, did not make it into baseball's Hall of Fame. .The AL wins the game, 9-7. Carl Hubbell struck out Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons and Joe Cronin consecutively.  Frankie Frisch said, of the effort, "I could play second base 15 more years behind that guy. He doesn't need any help."

1935 - Hank Greenberg had accumulated 101 runs batted in by the All-Star break, but he didn't make the All-Star team. The Detroit slugger would have been considered third at first base in the American League. Lou Gehrig started for the American League at first and played the entire game. Jimmie Foxx, the other first baseman for the AL, played the game at third base. Lefty Gomez becomes the first pitcher to win two All-Star games. 

1936 - The National League gets its first All-Star Game win, 4-3, in the game at Braves Field. The four NL runs were scored by players from the same team -- Augie Galan, Babe Herman, Frank Demaree and Gabby Hartnett of the Cubs.

1937 - Pitcher Dizzy Dean was upset after surrendering a home run to Lou Gehrig. When OF Earl Averill came up to bat, Dean thought he could fire a fastball past the Cleveland player. Averill connected and hit a line drive that hit Dean on the right foot and broke his toe. Dean went just 1-3 over the rest of the season after trying to come back too soon from injury. The result was that Dean strained his right arm and only won 17 more games in his career.

1937 - The game is held in Cincinnati and the National League wins 4-1.

1939 - Yankee Manager Joe McCarthy, managing the AL team in the game at Yankee Stadium, named six Yankees to the starting lineup -- Red Ruffing, Bill Dickey, Joe DiMaggio, George Selkirk, Red Rolfe and Joe Gordon. In total, the Yankees had nine players on the roster.  Coincidentally, the New York Yankees put together the highest winning percentage  in baseball history that season. The American League wins the game, 3-1.

1940 - Baseball held two All-Star games in 1940. In the real All-Star Game in St. Louis, the National League beats the AL, 4-0. In an impromptu All-Star Game held on St. Patrick's Day to beneft the Finnish Relief Fund, the NL won 2-1.

1941 - Ted Williams hits a three-run HR with two out in the bottom of the 9th inning to give the AL a 7-5 win. Arky Vaughan becomes the first player to hit 2 HRs in an All-Star Game.

1942  - In the All-Star Game at the Polo Grounds, the AL  gets the win, 3-1. Al Benton of Detroit pitches five innings to earn the save. The next night, the AL wins 5-0 over the Service All-Stars, a team made up of MLB  players who have joined the war effort. 

1943 - The two leagues gather at Shibe Park for the first night game. AL wins, 5-3.

1944 - The National League wins the All-Star Game, 7-1, in Pittsburgh as Major League rosters are depleted by the war effort..

1945 - The war effort led to the only cancellation in All-Star history.

1946 - The Yankees tied their own record and placed 9 players on the All-Star roster. The AL destroys the NL, 12-0, in a game at Fenway Park. Ted Williams connects on 2 HRs for the AL. AL pitchers combine to allow the NL stars three singles.

1947 - In the postwar baseball era, attendance is up all around the league and the American League takes the All-Star Game, 2-1, at Wrigley Field.

1948 - In the All-Star Game in St. Louis, the American League wins 5-2.

1949 - Black athletes participated in the All-Star Game for the first time in baseball history. The American League wins 11-7 in the game held in Brooklyn.

1950 - The National League wins, 4-3, in the game held at Comiskey Park. Red Schoendienst picks up the win for the National League with a home run in the 14th inning. Ted Williams broke his elbow in the All-Star Game and is out until September.