Vanity post here. I have tried to find websites that list All Star games by year with the rosters, etc. but no luck. Any place you know of that may have that info? I have two autographed baseballs that my BIL gave me when I was a kid - probably 1968 to 1971 range. I think they must be from an All-Star games - probably at the Met Stadium in Minneapolis/St. Paul.
One of them has Sandy Koufax, Ernie Banks, Pete Rose, Willie Mays, Henry Aaron, Joe Torre, Frank Robinson, Bob Veale, and lots of others I don’t recognize. I did not realize that Willie Mays were still around when Pete Rose was playing.
The other is written in a different ink and is more faded and fewer names that I know, but I see Jim Hunter and Bert Campeneras.
I see them listed by year. Don’t know how far back they go. search MLB all star rosters 2000 etc.
I did not realize that Willie Mays were still around when Pete Rose was playing.
*chuckle* Pete Rose was the National League's 1963 Rookie of the Year in a season in which Sandy Koufax won the Most Valuable Player award and the one-across-the-board Cy Young Award. Two years later, Willie Mays won his second National League MVP---eleven years after winning his first, though he probably should have been the league's MVP in 1962; or, at least, perhaps shared the award with Frank Robinson. (There's no way Maury Wills was the league's most valuable player, even with 104 stolen bases to bust Ty Cobb's record---not when missing Sandy Koufax, thanks to a finger circulatory problem, ended up costing the Dodgers the pennant.) Willie Mays ended up retiring after the 1973 season, but he probably should have retired at least four seasons earlier. It was one sad sight to see Willie Mays doing a sad imitation of Willie Mays.