Gabby Hartnett Interview 1938

July 6 1938 All Star Game Baseball had a glamorous new hero — Cincinnati lefty Johnny Vander Meer. Never a big winner, he had electrified baseball that summer by pitching back-to-back no-hitters against the Boston Bees and Brooklyn Dodgers. “An unbreakable record, I think,” Vander Meer said. “You’d have to pitch three in a row…

July 6 1942 All Star Game The 10th All-Star Game was played July 6, 1942, at New York’s Polo Grounds and by that time, the United States had been at war for seven months. Enlistments and the draft had not yet begun the serious depletion of big-league rosters that would take place over the next…