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1946 MLB All-Star Program at Boston Unscored
The 1946 Major League All-Star Game at Boston's Fenway Park, before a near-capacity crowd of 34,906, was a joyous occasion - the first Baseball All-Star Game to follow the end of World War II. Displayed is the 6.5x9.75" program from that game. Programs were simpler in 1946 than in current days. This program had merely 12 pages, and relatively few pages devoted to advertising. The scorecard in the middle of the program is unused. The American League won the game 12-0, as Cleveland Indians Hall of Famer Bob Feller, back from wartime duty in the Navy, took the win. Hall of Famer Ted Williams, who had been a Marine Corps pilot in World War II, put on a tremendous exhibition in his home ballpark as the Splendid Splinter went 4-for-4 with two home runs, four runs scored and five runs batted in. Williams' second home run came with two men on in the eighth inning. Rip Sewell, of the Pittsburgh Pirates, was facing Williams and Sewell threw his famous "Eephus Pitch," a high-arching overhand pitch that traveled almost like a slow pitch softball offering. Williams fouled off the pitch, asked Sewell for another, Sewell complied, and Williams hit it over the wall. Some of the other future Hall of Fame players in the game were: Bobby Doerr, Luke Appling, Joe DiMaggio, Johnny Mize, Pee Wee Reese, Stan Musial, Enos Slaughter. A fascinating notice in the program announces try-outs (two or three times a week) for war veterans, to be conducted by Red Sox coach Hugh Duffy at Fenway Park. The program exhibits darkening. Now 76 years old, it is in excellent condition.
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