Ford Frick announces that players and coaches, rather than the fans, will vote on selections for the All-Star Game

On January 30 1958 — Commissioner Ford Frick announces that players and coaches, rather than the fans, will vote on selections for the All-Star Game.

The vote will not return to the fans until 1970, when Commissioner Bowie Kuhn reverses Frick’s action. The change was made to avoid the stuffing of the ballot box by hometown fans, as was the case when eight Reds were elected to start last season’s Mid-Summer Classic by enthusiastic Cincinnati fans.

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Cincinnati fans threaten to sue Commissioner Ford Frick unless Gus Bell, George Crowe and Wally Post are restored to the All-Star team. They finished first in the ballotting thanks to vote-stuffing by Cincinnati fans, ahead of more deserving players.

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