Vintage Chicago Tribune: Ninety years ago today, the biggest names in baseball played against each other for the first time.
The Chicago Daily Tribune announced baseball's first All-Star game taking place at Comiskey Park in Chicago in July 1933.
The annual tradition was created by the Tribune’s sports editor.Connie Mack of the athletics, left, and John McGraw, former giant boss, opposing managers at the first All-StarGame, meet at home plate in pregame festivities on July 6, 1933, in Chicago. “This is an announcement of the greatest baseball game ever scheduled,” Arch Ward wrote in the May 19, 1933, edition of the Tribune. “Never has the maximum strength of one major league been pitted against the maximum strength of the other.”
Ward decided fans should select the starting nines on the 18-player teams with the managers picking the rest. The Tribune and 55 other newspapers around the country distributed ballots to millions of readers.Chicago hosted the first All-Star Game on July 6, 1933, at Comiskey Park. The price of a grandstand ticket was $1.10, or about $25 in today’s dollars. A single ticket for Tuesday’s All-Star Game in SeattleWard died in his sleep in 1955 at age 58.
Crowds lined up at Comiskey park on the morning of July 3, 1933, to buy bleacher tickets for the Game of the Century between American and National league all-star teams.
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