1941 Major League Baseball All-Star Game


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Date

July 8, 1941

Venue

Briggs Stadium

City

Detroit, Michigan

Managers

Bill McKechnie (CIN)
Del Baker (DET)

Attendance

54,674

First pitch

None

Radio

Mutual, CBS, WWJ

Radio announcers

Red Barber, Bob Elson (Mutual)
Mel Allen, France Laux (CBS)
Ty Tyson (WWJ)

The 1941 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the ninth playing of the mid-summer classic between the all-stars of the American League (AL) and National League (NL), the two leagues comprising Major League Baseball. The game was held on July 8, 1941, at Briggs Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, the home of the Detroit Tigers of the American League.

The game resulted in the American League defeating the National League, 7–5. Ted Williams hit a walk-off home run with two outs in the ninth inning to win it for the AL.

Rosters

Players in italics have since been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

National League

Starters
Position	Player	Team	All-Star Games
P	Whit Wyatt	Dodgers	3
C	Mickey Owen	Dodgers	1
1B	Johnny Mize	Cardinals	4
2B	Lonny Frey	Reds	2
3B	Stan Hack	Cubs	3
SS	Arky Vaughan	Pirates	8
LF	Terry Moore	Cardinals	3
CF	Pete Reiser	Dodgers	1
RF	Bill Nicholson	Cubs	2

Pitchers
Position	Player	Team	All-Star Games
P	Cy Blanton	Phillies	2
P	Paul Derringer	Reds	5
P	Carl Hubbell	Giants	8
P	Claude Passeau	Cubs	1
P	Bucky Walters	Reds	4
P	Lon Warneke	Cardinals	5

Reserves
Position	Player	Team	All-Star Games
C	Harry Danning	Giants	4
C	Al López	Pirates	2
1B	Dolph Camilli^[1]	Dodgers	2
1B	Frank McCormick	Reds	4
2B	Billy Herman	Dodgers	8
SS	Eddie Miller	Braves	2
3B	Cookie Lavagetto	Dodgers	4
OF	Bob Elliott	Pirates	1
OF	Hank Leiber^[1]	Cubs	3
OF	Joe Medwick	Dodgers	8
OF	Mel Ott	Giants	8
OF	Enos Slaughter	Cardinals	1

American League

Starters
Position	Player	Team	All-Star Games
P	Bob Feller	Indians	4
C	Bill Dickey	Yankees	8
1B	Rudy York	Tigers	2
2B	Bobby Doerr	Red Sox	1
3B	Cecil Travis	Senators	3
SS	Joe Cronin	Red Sox	7
LF	Ted Williams	Red Sox	2
CF	Joe DiMaggio	Yankees	6
RF	Jeff Heath	Indians	1

Pitchers
Position	Player	Team	All-Star Games
P	Al Benton	Tigers	1
P	Sid Hudson	Senators	1
P	Thornton Lee	White Sox	1
P	Red Ruffing	Yankees	5
P	Marius Russo	Yankees	1
P	Eddie Smith	White Sox	1

Reserves
Position	Player	Team	All-Star Games
C	Frankie Hayes	Athletics	3
C	Birdie Tebbetts	Tigers	1
1B	Jimmie Foxx	Red Sox	9
2B	Joe Gordon	Yankees	3
3B	Ken Keltner	Indians	2
SS	Luke Appling	White Sox	4
SS	Lou Boudreau	Indians	2
OF	Roy Cullenbine	Browns	1
OF	Dom DiMaggio	Red Sox	1
OF	Charlie Keller	Yankees	2

Game

Umpires

Position	Umpire	League
Home Plate	Bill Summers	American
First Base	Lou Jorda	National
Second Base	Bill Grieve	American
Third Base	Babe Pinelli	National

The umpires changed assignments in the middle of the fifth inning – Summers and Pinelli swapped positions, also Jorda and Grieve swapped positions.^[2]

References

1 2 Player declined or was unable to play.
↑ "American League 7, National League 5". Retrosheet. 8 Jul 1941. Retrieved 23 Oct 2016.

External links

Major League Baseball All-Star Game

Games

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Players

American League All-Stars
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Events

Results and Awards

See also

² — Two All-Star Games were played these seasons. Italics indicate future games.

1941 MLB season by team
American League	Boston Chicago Cleveland Detroit New York Philadelphia St. Louis Washington
National League	Boston Brooklyn Chicago Cincinnati New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh St. Louis
1941 All-Star Game 1941 World Series

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Related programs

Major League Baseball on CBS (1955–1965; 1990–1993)
Major League Baseball Game of the Week (1985–1997)
Sunday Night Baseball (1990–1997)

Commentators

Key figures

Color commentators	Sparky Anderson Johnny Bench Rick Cerone Al Downing Steve Garvey Brooks Robinson Duke Snider Jeff Torborg Joe Torre
Pre-1976 commentators	Mel Allen Red Barber Boake Carter Bob Elson Jack Graney Fred Hoey Ted Husing France Laux

Lore

World Series games	Babe Ruth's called shot (1932) Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning (1977) Michael Sergio (1986) Kirk Gibson's 1988 World Series home run 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
LCS games	Francisco Cabrera game (1992) Jeffrey Maier (1996)

AL Championship Series

NL Championship Series

AL Division Series

NL Division Series

All-Star Game

World Series

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Related programs	Major League Baseball Game of the Day
Related articles	Major League Baseball on the radio
Commentators	All-Star Game World Series
Key figures	Mel Allen Red Barber Buddy Blattner Jack Brickhouse Jim Britt Dizzy Dean Jimmy Dudley Don Dunphy Bob Elson Gene Elston Earl Gillespie Art Gleeson Gabriel Heatter Al Helfer Fred Hoey Waite Hoyt Gene Kirby France Laux Arch McDonald Bob Neal Van Patrick Bill Slater Bob Wolff
Lore	"Slaughter's Mad Dash" (1946) "Shot Heard 'Round the World" (1951) "The Catch" (1954)
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World Series	1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956

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