To: rhema
Once upon a time, the players actually picked the starting All-Star lineups and position playing rosters. It happened after then-Commissioner Ford Frick stripped the fans of the voting when a ballot-box stuffing campaign put the entire Cincinnati Reds starting lineup except for Stan Musial onto the 1957 game. Funny things happened when the players got the All-Star votes. The All-Star Games were actually good games.
Interesting scout comment about Chase Utley.
3 posted on
07/11/2008 11:01:00 AM PDT by
BluesDuke
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To: BluesDuke
Were any of the Reds' starters Frick didn't replace (Ed Bailey, Johnny Temple, Don Hoak, Roy McMillan, and Frank Robinson) actually worthy of starting that year?
5 posted on
07/11/2008 11:33:48 AM PDT by
rhema
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