1963 Major League Baseball All-Star Game
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Date | July 9, 1963 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Venue | NBC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Radio announcers | Bob Neal and George Bryson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 1963 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 34th playing of the midsummer classic between the
From 1959 to 1962, baseball experimented with a pair of All-Star Games per year. That ended with this 1963 game, which also marked the 30th anniversary of the inaugural All-Star Game played in Chicago in 1933.
Scoring summary
The teams traded runs in the second inning. Willie Mays drew a walk off Ken McBride, stole second and scored on a Dick Groat single. The AL tied the score when Jim O'Toole gave up a Leon Wagner single, hit Zoilo Versalles with a pitch and surrendered an RBI hit to his pitching counterpart, McBride.
In the third, both sides scored twice. Behind 3-1, the AL struck back on a double by Albie Pearson and singles by Frank Malzone and Earl Battey to tie it at 3-all.
The NL scratched out a run off Jim Bunning in the fifth to regain the lead, then made it 5-3 in the eighth when Bill White singled off Dick Radatz, stole second and scored on a Ron Santo single. Don Drysdale closed it out in the eighth and ninth, retiring Bobby Richardson on a game-ending double play.
Rosters
Players in italics have since been inducted into the
x - injured
y - replacement for injured player
Note: Bill Mazeroski was selected for the starting lineup, but did not play due to injury. Julián Javier took his spot in the starting batting order.
Game
Starting lineups
National League | American League | ||||||
Order | Player | Team | Position | Order | Player | Team | Position |
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1 | Tommy Davis | Dodgers | LF | 1 | Nellie Fox | White Sox | 2B |
2 | Hank Aaron | Braves | RF | 2 | Albie Pearson | Angels |
CF |
3 | Bill White | Cardinals | 1B | 3 | Al Kaline | Tigers | RF |
4 | Willie Mays | Giants | CF | 4 | Frank Malzone | Red Sox | 3B |
5 | Ed Bailey | Giants | C | 5 | Leon Wagner | Angels |
LF |
6 | Ken Boyer | Cardinals | 3B | 6 | Earl Battey | Twins | C |
7 | Dick Groat | Cardinals | SS | 7 | Joe Pepitone | Yankees | 1B |
8 | Julián Javier | Cardinals | 2B |
8 | Zoilo Versalles | Twins | SS |
9 | Jim O'Toole | Reds | P | 9 | Ken McBride | Angels |
P |
Umpires
Position | Umpire |
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Home Plate | Hank Soar (AL) |
First Base | Bill Jackowski (NL) |
Second Base | Al Smith (AL) |
Third Base | Paul Pryor (NL) |
Left Field | Bill Haller (AL) |
Right Field | Doug Harvey (NL) |
Game summary
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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National League | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
American League | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
WP: Larry Jackson (1-0) LP: Jim Bunning (0-1) |