1953 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

1953 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

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Date	July 14, 1953
Venue	Crosley Field
City	Cincinnati
Managers	Casey Stengel (New York Yankees) Charlie Dressen (Brooklyn Dodgers)
Attendance	30,846 – Time of Game: 2:19
Ceremonial first pitch	Ted Williams
Television	NBC Sports
TV announcers	Jack Brickhouse and Mel Allen
Radio	Mutual
Radio announcers	Al Helfer and Waite Hoyt
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The 1953 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 20th playing of the mid-summer classic between the All-Stars teams of the American League (AL) and National League (NL), the two leagues comprising Major League Baseball. The game was held on July 14 at Crosley Field in Cincinnati, home of the Cincinnati Redlegs of the National League. The team changed its name from Reds to Redlegs this season, during the height of anti-communism in the United States; it returned to the Reds six years later.

This was the second All-Star Game at Crosley Field, which had previously hosted fifteen years earlier in 1938. This game was originally scheduled for Braves Field in Boston, which had hosted in 1936. When the Braves relocated to Milwaukee in mid-March, the game was awarded to Cincinnati.^[1]