Cracker Jack Old-Timer’s Classic is played at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium

On July 19, 1982, the first Cracker Jack Old-Timer’s Classic is played in front of 29,000 enthusiastic fans at Washington’s RFK Stadium, the American League beats the NL in the first-ever Old-timer’s All-Star Classic, 7-2. Warren Spahn gives up a leadoff homer, over the shortened left-field fence, to 75 year-old Luke Appling, a Hall of Fame infielder who played his entire career with the White Sox. helping the American League old-timers to a 7-2 win over the National League in a 5-inning battle of retired baseball stars.

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