Ninety-one summers ago the inaugural MLB All-Star Game took place at Chicago’s Comiskey Park. The contest featured such future Hall of Famers as Bill Terry, Carl Hubbell, Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, who hit the first All-Star Game home run in history that warm day in 1933.
On July 16th at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas the reigning World Series Champion Texas Rangers will host this year’s All-Star Game.
Last summer we celebrated the Mid-Summer Classic by assembling a hypothetical All-Star starting lineup of baseball Hall of Famers who played for only one MLB franchise. This time around the squad is made up of Cooperstown members who played for only two big-league teams.
Like last year this lineup goes around the diamond, reflecting the candidate’s primary position, and strongly utilizes the popular statistic WAR (Wins Above Replacement), via Baseball-Reference.com, with the WAR rounded to the nearest number.
FIRST BASE
