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UL All-Star Game --
West Leads All-Time
Series 7-6 |
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MVP |
Goats |
Home Runs |
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1963
East 4-3
Cleveland
(Municipal Stadium) |
East Prevails
in Inaugural All-Star Game
Mickey Mantle and Bob Allison homered off
Billy Pierce in the second and third
innings, setting the East on their way to a
4-3 win in front of 78,000 at Municipal
Stadium. Granny Hamner had two of the East’s
six hits.
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Mickey Mantle (BRO) |
Billy Pierce (CHI)
Gave up four runs, including two homers, in
three innings |
Mickey Mantle (BRO)
Bob Allison (BOS)
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1964
East 8-3
Los Angeles
(Arroyo Seco Stadium) |
East Wins Homer-Happy Classic
Felix Mantilla, Del Crandall, Frank Howard,
and Woodie Held homered in a walkover. The
Orientals punished Dallas pitchers Bob
Purkey and Gordon Jones for six of their
eight runs. Joe Torre, traded to Manhattan
shortly before the game, wore a St. Louis
cap for the last time, hitting a 3-run homer
to win MVP honors.
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Joe Torre (STL) |
Steve Ridzik (SF)
With the game tied 3-3 in the fourth, gave
up back-to-back homers to Crandall and
Howard.
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Felix Mantilla (BRO)
Del Crandall (BRO)
Frank Howard (DET)
Woodie Held (DET)
Joe Torre (STL)
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1965
West 11-8
Washington
(Griffith Stadium)
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West Rallies to First All-Star Win
With an 8-7 lead in the ninth, Boston
reliever Bob Chakales misplayed a Bill Sarni
comebacker, turning a potential game-ending
double-play into a bases-loading error,
leading to a four-spot and the West’s first
All-Star win. Game MVP Harmon Killebrew
drove in four runs.
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Harmon Killebrew (ATL) |
Cloyd Boyer (SF)
Blew a 7-3 lead in the seventh, allowing
five runs on three hits and two walks.
Bob Chakales (BOS)
Literally threw the game away with
ninth-inning error that open floodgates to
four-run rally.
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Billy Williams (SF)
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1966
West 7-6
St. Louis
(Sportsman’s
Park) |
Meal of Veale Seals the Deal
The Occidentals turned back a 4-0 deficit
with a seven-run fifth inning off
Washington’s Bob Veale. Joe Morgan ripped a
bases-clearing double and Roger Maris hit a
two-run homer – the first All-Star to homer
in his own park.
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Joe Morgan (ATL) |
Bob Veale (WAS)
Veale’s bad inning erased a combined 8.1
shutout innings by the other five East
hurlers. |
Roger Maris (STL) |
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1967
East 7-4
Manhattan
(Yankee
Stadium)
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The Golden Freese
Cleveland first
baseman Gene "Augie" Freese made the most of
his first All-Star Game appearance,
collecting three hits--a home run, a bunt
single, and a double--and driving in four
runs to lead the East Division to their
first win in three years.
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Gene Freese (CLE) |
Harmon Killebrew (ATL)
Was 0-for-5 and left six men on base,
hitting into a double play, striking out,
and making the last out of the ninth.
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Gene Freese (CLE)
Orlando Cepeda (BOS)
Don Pavletich (ATL)
Jimmie Hall (LA) |
1968
East 6-4
Chicago
(Comiskey
Park) |
East Exploits Error-Filled Sixth
Dick Allen's
two-run triple off Jim Merritt broke open a
3-1 game in the error-filled sixth inning,
and the East Division stifled a late rally
of three solo homers to defeat the West 6-4. |
Dick Allen (DET)
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Jim Merritt (DAL)
Let in 4 runs, 2 of them unearned, but
one not really, because Merritt committed
one of the three errors in the four-run East
sixth.
Joe Morgan (STL)
The leadoff man was 0-3 at the plate and
made an error.
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Ron Santo (WAS)
Harmon Killebrew (ATL)
Billy Williams (SF)
Andy Etchebarren (DAL)
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1969
East 4-1
Boston
(Fenway
Park)
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Hammerin' Hank
Leads
East to
Third Straight Win
After 14 years in the
West Division, first-year Brooklyn Superba
Hank Aaron ripped a two-run triple in the
fifth inning to lead the East to a 4-1 win
at Fenway Park. Eight East Division
pitchers shut out the West until Don
Demeter's solo homer in the ninth
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Hank
Aaron
(BRO) |
Don Gross (ATL)
Came on in fourth and allowed three
straights--singles by Dick McAuliffe and Ron
Santo, and Aaron's triple.
Reggie Jackson (DET)
The league
HR leader was 0-for-3 with 3 strikeouts.
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Don Demeter (LA) |
1970
West 6-4
San
Francisco
(Seals
Stadium) |
Otis
Elevates Hosts: West Ends 3-Year Drought
Chicago center fielder Amos Otis homered,
singled, and stole a base to lead the West
to their first All-Star Game win since 1966
with a late comeback in an exciting
back-and-forth contest. The East took the
lead three times, 2-0, 3-2, and 4-3, but
each time the West responded quickly,
finally pulling ahead in the seventh and
holding on for a 6-4 win.
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Amos
Otis
(CHI)
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Jerry Koosman (BOS)
Let in the two go-ahead runs in the
seventh, including a solo homer by Lou
Brock, of all people. . .
Reggie Jackson (DET)
Doubled
with one out in ninth, but killed rally when
he was gunned by the "Toy Cannon" Jimmy Wynn
trying to stretch it into a triple.
Why?
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Amos
Otis
(CHI)
Lou Brock (SF)
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1971
West 5-4
Detroit
(Kiner
Field)
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Bench Lifts West to 5-4
Win
Boston's Petrocelli MVP in Losing Effort
Johnny Bench
delivered a two-run single in the bottom of
the eighth to put the West ahead for the
first time and
Ken Tatum
saved the game, as the West won back-to-back
All-Star Games for the first time since
1965-66. Boston's Rico Petrocelli won Player
of the Game honors with three hits and 2
RBIs.
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Rico Petrocelli (BOS) |
Cecil Upshaw (MAN)
Blew
a 6-4 lead by allowing 3 runs in the eight
on Pete Rose's homer and Bench's
game-winning 2-run single.
Mickey Mantle (BRO)
The only
player to get five at-bats, Mantle took the
collar with a pair of whiffs and was the
third out three times.
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Willie
Crawford
(DAL)
Pete Rose (SF) |
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1972
West 6-3
Atlanta
(Fulton County
Stadium) |
Pinson Nettles: West
Wins Thriller
Graig Nettles hit an RBI double in the 8th
to break a 3-3 tie and Johnny Bench tacked
on a two-run double in the ninth as the West
All-Stars rolled to their third straight
win.
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Vada Pinson (MAN) |
Ken Holtzman
(DET), John Strohmayer (WAS), and
Cecil Upshaw (MAN) allowed
four runs in the last three innings to spoil
a 3-2 East lead. |
Felix Mantilla (CHI)
Vada Pinson (MAN)
Ken Singleton (LA) |
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1973
West
4-0
Dallas
(Turnpike Stadium)
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West Blanks East For
Fourth Straight Win
Bob Moose and seven
other West pitchers combined for a
four-hitter in the first shutout in All-Star
Game history. Brooklyn's Dick McAuliffe had
three of the East's four hits and took MVP
honors.
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Dick McAuliffe (BRO) |
Bobby Bonds
(DET) was 0-for-4 with a strikeout
and left four men on base.
Cleanup hitter
Orlando Cepeda (BOS) was
0-for-3 and left two on base. |
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1974
East 3-2
Brooklyn
(Frank
Thomas Memorial Stadium)
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Cepeda Homer Carries
the Day
Orlando Cepeda became the first reigning HR
king to homer in the ASG, delivering a 3-run
blast off Bill Singer in the first that held
up. Young Boston closer Wayne
Twitchell got the save.
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Orlando Cepeda (BOS) |
Bill Singer
(CHI) allowed three runs in the
first and the West never recovered.
Rod Carew (DAL) and
Joe Torre (ATL) were a combined
0-for-6. |
Orlando Cepeda (BOS) |
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1975
West 10-7
Los
Angeles
(Arroyo
Seco Stadium)
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Wild
Wild West
The East's six-run seventh put them ahead
7-6 but the West countered with four
unanswered runs in the 7th and 8th.
Dave Parker got four hits and Joe Torre
became the first player to homer in two
All-Star Games in the same stadium.
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Dave Parker (ATL) |
Jim Kern (STL)
retired just one batter and put six
men on base, all of whom scored.
Craig Robinson (MAN) committed two
errors.
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Joe Torre (ATL) |
1976
Washington
(Griffith
Stadium)
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1977
Denver
(Mile
High Stadium)
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