Site Features: MLB All-Star Game
Posted by Neil Paine on July 12, 2010
The 2010 MLB All-Star Game is next week, so here's a refresher course on the features we have celebrating the Midsummer Classic:
- Game Results: Box scores for every All-Star Game ever played, now updated with the format of regular-season & playoff boxes. (we added Win Probability, etc.)
- Play Index Functionality: Find the best All-Star Batting and Pitching performances in the Game Finders... Also, search ASG Batting and Pitching events using the PI. (example: Every All-Star Game HR)
- Leaderboards: Career and Single-Game ASG Batting and Pitching Leaders.
- ASG Lineups: Every American League and National League Starting Lineup in history.
- Bullpen Wiki: The B-R wiki has its own All-Star Game section, featuring results from the Home Run Derby & the Futures Game.
July 12th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
Is there any place to find the number of all-star selections (even games in which they didn't play) each player has?
July 12th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
I'm pretty sure this list counts situations where they didn't play:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/leaders_most_asgame.shtml
July 12th, 2010 at 4:37 pm
It does. Thanks Neil.
There isn't any place with a complete list, is there?
July 12th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
One thing I couldn't find on this site a few days ago is a list of every player selected in a given year that includes the team they were representing that year next to their name on the same page. I could go to 2004's game and see J. Westbrook (and would have preferred to see it spelled out as Jake Westbrook), but I'd have to click on his name to see that he represented Cleveland that year. I would have liked to have seen who the other Cleveland players were for 2004-2006 at one glance, in order to reply to a message someone posted in another blog entry regarding who got picked over Travis "Pronk" Hafner during that time period.
July 12th, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Good idea DD. I'll see what I can do.
July 12th, 2010 at 11:56 pm
I just added all of the suggestions above.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/bat-all-star.shtml
http://www.baseball-reference.com/allstar/bat-register.shtml
July 13th, 2010 at 9:39 pm
During tonight's broadcast, Joe Buck mentioned Evan Longoria is one of six rookies in MLB history to bat in both an All-Star Game and the World Series. Any idea how I can find out who the other five players are? I thought Chuck Knoblauch was one, but he wasn't an AS until '92 (despite winning ROY and a WS title in '91). Any help is greatly appreciated!
July 13th, 2010 at 10:46 pm
To start: Here's the list of rookie all-stars:
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/history/all_star_event.jsp?story=10
July 14th, 2010 at 1:28 pm
Thanks, Raphy! That list, combined with some Baseball Reference research, led me to the answer. Here are the other five players:
Joe DiMaggio - '36 Yankees
Spec Shea - '47 Yankees
Don Newcombe - '49 Browns
Fred Lynn - '75 Red Sox
Hideki Matsui - '03 Yankees
I hope someone, other than me, finds it interesting.
July 14th, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Can someone post a list of those players with the most All-Star Game appearance who are eligible for the Hall of Fame but have not been elected? For example, Thurman Munson was in 7 ASGs but is not in the Hall. Steve Garvey was in 10 ASGs.
July 15th, 2010 at 8:23 am
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July 15th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
Where will the 2011 and 2012 all-star games be held?
Thank you
July 21st, 2010 at 1:24 pm
2011 in Arizona, 2012 in Kansas City