July 7 1936 All Star Game

History of the MLB All-Star game – 1936

National League 4,

American League 3

The National League finally came in from the cold July 7, 1936, at Braves Field in Boston. Its breakthrough came largely because of the pitching of its two widely contrasting aces — the ebullient, hard-throwing Dizzy Dean and the self-effacing, screwballing Carl Hubbell — who won 50 games together that year.

Dean worked the first three innings and gave up neither a hit nor a run. Hubbell poker-faced his way through the next three and gave up only two hits and no runs.

The AL started Lefty Grove of the Red Sox and the NL peppered him for two runs in the bottom of the second. Frank Demaree singled and scored on Gabby Hartnett’s triple, with Hartnett then scoring on a fly ball.

Hartnett’s triple was the result of a missed shoestring catch by the AL’s rookie right fielder, Joe DiMaggio. A rookie starting in the All-Star Game was without precedent, but this 21-year-old rookie happened to be hitting .358.

But, for one of the few times in his career, DiMaggio was disappointed. He not only missed the shoestring catch on Hartnett but committed another error that set up the winning run. And, as if that were not enough, he went 0-for-5.

The NL’s first victory was witnessed by the smallest crowd ever at an All-Star Game. Newspaper stories had assured Bostonians the game was a sellout and so many fans stayed home. Attendance was only 25,556 with 15,000 seats remaining empty.

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