July 9 1940 All Star Game

July 9 1940 All Star Game

It isn’t easy to find an All-Star hero who is closer to anonymity than to celebrity, but the 1940 game supplied one.

Boston Bees outfielder Max West, who hit .261 with seven home runs that year, etched his name into All-Star history in the first inning.

With Red Ruffing pitching, Arky Vaughan and Billy Herman had led off with singles. He sent Ruffing’s delivery into the right-center stands and that was the ballgame, the first shutout in All-Star history.

West had just one at-bat in his only All-Star appearance. In the second, he was injured leaping for Luke Appling’s smash (which went for a double) and had to leave the game.

“I was never nervous on a pitching mound.”

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