1954 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

The 1954 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 21st playing of the midsummer classic between the all-stars of the American League (AL) and National League (NL), the two leagues comprising Major League Baseball. The game was held on July 13, 1954, at Cleveland Municipal Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio the home of the Cleveland Indians of the American League.

Summary

The American League rallied in the bottom of the eight inning, to defeat the National League in an 11–9 slugfest at Cleveland Stadium. Both teams combined for an All-Star Game record 20 runs, on 31 hits, which included six home runs. Al Rosen led the American League offense, going 3-for-4 with two home runs and five runs batted in.

Starters Whitey Ford (AL) and Robin Roberts (NL) matched zeroes until the third inning, when the American League hitters stacked themselves to an early 4–0 lead in the bottom of the inning. Minnie Miñoso opened the frame with a single and Nellie Fox walked, while Roberts struck out Mickey Mantle and retired Yogi Berra on a grounder, but could not overcome a three-run homer by Rosen to make it a 3–0 game. Ray Boone followed with a solo homer before Roberts retired Hank Bauer.

Opening the fourth inning, the National League rallied for five runs to take a 5–4 lead. Sandy Consuegra retired the first batter he faced, but Duke Snider, Ted Kluszewski and Ray Jablonski hit consecutive singles and Jackie Robinson a double, tying the game at four. Bob Lemon relieved Consuegra, but gave up a two-out, RBI-double by the pinch-hitter Don Mueller before retiring Granny Hamner for the third out.

Meanwhile, Chico Carrasquel kept the American League attack alive with a lead-off single in the bottom of the fourth against Johnny Antonelli. Carrasquel moved to third on a one-out single by Miñoso and scored on a sacrifice fly by Beto Ávila, tying the score at five.

The National League picked up two more two-out runs off Bob Porterfield in the fifth to pull back in front, 7–5, after a single by Snider and a two-run homer by Kluszewski. In the bottom of the inning, Berra hit a single off Antonelli and Rosen belted his second home run of the game to tie the score at seven.

The American League regained the lead in the sixth, 8–7, with an RBI-single by Avila off Warren Spahn that brought home Williams.

In the eight inning, the National League bats stayed hot against Bob Keegan. Willie Mays singled and Gus Bell unloaded it with a pinch-hit, two-run homer to put again away the game, 9–8. Dean Stone came in relief with two outs and Red Schoendienst running on third. Schoendienst attempted to steal home and was thrown out by Stone. This third out set the stage for Larry Doby, who pinch hit for Stone with one out in the bottom of the inning and tied the game with a solo home run against Gene Conley, and with it became the first black player to hit a home run in an All-Star Game. After that, Mantle and Berra singled and Rosen walked to load the bases. Carl Erskine replaced Conley and retired Mickey Vernon for the second out, but gave up a two-RBI single to Fox that sealed the 11–9 victory for the American League.

The American League (7) and the National League (6) used 13 pitchers in the game. Stone took the win (without retiring a batter) and Conley was tagged with the loss while Virgil Trucks earned the save. Trucks walked Snider to open the ninth inning, but retired Stan Musial, Gil Hodges and Randy Jackson for the last three outs of the game.

The win broke a four-game All-Star losing streak for the American League. After this game, the AL led the all-time All-Star Series 13–8.

Notes

The 20 runs scored in the contest set an All-Star Game record which lasted until 1998, when the American League defeated the National League, 13–8, at Coors Field.
Al Rosen became the third player to hit two home runs in an All-Star Game. Arky Vaughan did it in 1941, and Ted Williams did it in 1946. This feat would be matched later by Willie McCovey in 1969 and Gary Carter in 1981.^[1]
This was only the second Midsummer Classic to date with more than sixty-thousand fans in attendance (69,751).^[2] The first occurred during the 1935 All-Star Game, which was also held at Cleveland Municipal Stadium (69,812).^[3]
This is the only All-Star Game to date in which one of the managers—in this case Walter Alston—was in his first year of managing the defending league champions he represented. Alston was managing in place of his predecessor as manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Charlie Dressen.

Opening lineups

National League			American League
Player	Team	Pos	Player	Team	Pos
Granny Hamner	Philadelphia Phillies	2B	Minnie Miñoso	Chicago White Sox	LF
Alvin Dark	New York Giants	SS	Bobby Ávila	Cleveland Indians	2B
Duke Snider	Brooklyn Dodgers	CF	Mickey Mantle	New York Yankees	CF
Stan Musial	St. Louis Cardinals	RF	Yogi Berra	New York Yankees	C
Ted Kluszewski	Cincinnati Redlegs	1B	Al Rosen	Cleveland Indians	1B
Ray Jablonski	St. Louis Cardinals	3B	Ray Boone	Detroit Tigers	3B
Jackie Robinson	Brooklyn Dodgers	LF	Hank Bauer	New York Yankees	RF
Roy Campanella	Brooklyn Dodgers	C	Chico Carrasquel	Chicago White Sox	SS
Robin Roberts	Philadelphia Phillies	P	Whitey Ford	New York Yankees	P

Rosters

Players in italics have since been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

1954 National League All-Star Game roster

Pitchers

43 Johnny Antonelli

22 Gene Conley

17 Carl Erskine

42 Marv Grissom

42 Harvey Haddix *

36 Robin Roberts

21 Warren Spahn

19 Jim Wilson

Catchers

21 Smoky Burgess

39 Roy Campanella

1 Del Crandall *

Infielders

19 Alvin Dark

2 Granny Hamner

14 Gil Hodges

11 Ray Jablonski

2 Randy Jackson

18 Ted Kluszewski

1 Pee Wee Reese *

2 Red Schoendienst

Outfielders

25 Gus Bell

24 Willie Mays

22 Don Mueller

6 Stan Musial

42 Jackie Robinson

4 Duke Snider

15 Frank Thomas

Manager

24 Walter Alston

Coaches

2 Leo Durocher

40 Charlie Grimm

* = Did not play

1954 American League All-Star Game roster

Pitchers

20 Sandy Consuegra

16 Whitey Ford

25 Mike Garcia *

15 Bob Keegan

21 Bob Lemon

19 Bob Porterfield

22 Allie Reynolds *

26 Dean Stone

33 Bob Turley *

23 Virgil Trucks

Catchers

8 Yogi Berra

10 Sherm Lollar *

Infielders

1 Bobby Ávila

8 Ray Boone

17 Chico Carrasquel

8 Ferris Fain *

15 Jim Finigan *

2 Nellie Fox

1 George Kell *

26 Harvey Kuenn *

7 Al Rosen

3 Mickey Vernon

Outfielders

9 Hank Bauer

14 Larry Doby

7 Mickey Mantle

9 Minnie Miñoso

25 Irv Noren

37 Jim Piersall

9 Ted Williams

Manager

37 Casey Stengel

Coaches

29 Fred Hutchinson

28 Marty Marion

* = Did not play

Umpires

Position	Umpire
Home Plate	Eddie Rommel
First Base	Lee Ballanfant
Second Base	Jim Honochick
Third Base	Bill Stewart
Left Field	Tom Gorman
Right Field	Joe Paparella

Line Score


Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
NL All-Stars	0	0	0	5	2	0	0	2	0	9	14	0
AL All-Stars	0	0	4	1	2	1	0	3	X	11	17	1
WP: Stone LP: Conley Sv: Trucks Home runs: NL: Kluszewski, Bell AL: Rosen 2, Boone, Doby

How the runs scored
Team	Inning	Play	NL	AL
AL	3rd	Rosen homered, Miñoso and Avila scored Boone homered	0	4

NL	4th	Kluszewski singled, Snider scored, Musial to third Jablonski singled, Musial scored, Kluszewski to second Robinson doubled, Kluszewski and Jablonski scored Mueller doubled, Robinson scored	5	4

AL	4th	Avila sacrifice fly to left, Carrasquel scored	5	5
NL	5th	Kluszewski homered, Snider scored	7	5
AL	5th	Rosen homered, Berra scored	7	7
AL	6th	Avila singled, Williams scored	7	8
NL	8th	Bell homered, Mays scored	9	8

AL	8th	Doby homered Fox singled, Mantle and Berra scored	9	11

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