Seems like the older I get, the more removed I am from the game played on the field.
This is how I remember the All-Stars:
And this is the way it is now:
I understand everything these days is about selling merch, which is what further separates me from today’s fan.
I love thumbing through old baseball magazines and looking at the advertisements in the back. Things like 2×3-foot posters for $2.50. Baseball cards sets for $15. Does anyone remember Manny’s Baseball Land?
That said, I don’t even watch the ASG these past few years. The names of the players are increasingly unfamiliar and the exhibition has become even more so.
At least Chris Berman isn’t calling the Home Run Derby anymore.
Save for one title, there hasn’t been a book about the All-Star game in recent years. They include:
- The Midsummer Classic: The Complete History of Baseball’s All-Star Game (2001)
- Baseball’s All-Star Game: A Game-By-Game Guide (1986)
- The Day All the Stars Came Out: Major League Baseball’s First All-Star Game, 1933 (2010)
- 1970s All-Star Baseball: A History of the Decade’s All-Star Games (2017)
- Baseball’s Greatest All-Star Games (1979)
- The All-Star Game: A Pictorial History, 1933 to Present (1987)
is available on Amazon.com,
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