On July 3, 2020, it was announced that the 2020 Major League Baseball All-Star Game scheduled to be held in
Los Angeles would not be played due to the
coronavirus pandemic. They will instead host in 2022.[1]
The 2021 game was originally scheduled to be played at
Truist Park in
Atlanta, GA, home of the
Atlanta Braves. However, because of a new voting bill being passed in Atlanta, Major League Baseball relocated the game, the 2021 Home Run Derby, and the
2021 MLB draft (a new addition to the All-Star festivities) to Denver.
In June 1993, CBS Sports'
Lesley Visser suffered a jogging accident in New York's
Central Park in which she broke her hip and skidded face-first across the pavement.[6] She required reconstructive plastic surgery on her face and in 2006, she required an artificial hip replacement. She missed the
1993 Major League Baseball All-Star Game due to the accident. In Visser's place in the meantime, came
Jim Kaat.
In June 1993, CBS Sports'
Lesley Visser suffered a jogging accident in New York's
Central Park in which she broke her hip and skidded face-first across the pavement.[26] She required reconstructive plastic surgery on her face and in 2006, she required an artificial hip replacement. She missed the
1993 Major League Baseball All-Star Game due to the accident. In Visser's place in the meantime, came
Jim Kaat.
The
1981 All-Star Game is to date, the only one to be played on a weekend (Sunday night). The game was originally to be played on July 14, but was cancelled due to the
players' strike lasting from June 12 to July 31. It was then brought back as a prelude to the second half of the season, which began the following day.
For
NBC's
1983 All-Star Game coverage,
Don Sutton was in New York City, periodically tracking pitches with the aid of NBC's "Inside Pitch" technology.
In
1984,
Jim Palmer only served as a between innings analyst[45] for
ABC's coverage.
1976 – The
ABC team of
Bob Prince,
Bob Uecker, and
Warner Wolf alternated roles for the broadcast. For the first three innings, Prince did play-by-play with Wolf on color commentary and Uecker doing field interviews. For the middle innings, Uecker worked play-by-play with Prince on color and Wolf doing the interviews. For the rest of the game, Wolf worked play-by-play with Uecker on color and Prince doing interviews.
The
1967 All-Star Game in
Anaheim can be considered the first "
prime time" telecast[50] of a Major League Baseball All-Star Game. The game started at approximately 7:00 p.m. on the
East Coast. Sports Illustrated, noting that the game “began at 4 p.m. in California and ended at 11 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time,” reported “an estimated 55 million people watched the game, compared with 12 million viewers for the
1966 All-Star Game, played in the afternoon.”[51]
The
1969 game was originally scheduled for the evening of Tuesday, July 22, but heavy rains forced its postponement to the following afternoon. The 1969 contest remains the last All-Star Game to date to be played earlier than
prime time in the Eastern United States.
Charlie Jones served as an "in-the-stands" reporter for
NBC's coverage.
During the
1955 All-Star Game,
NBC director Harry Coyle introduced the center field pitcher-batter camera shot to supplement the standard behind home-plate view. The angle allowed viewers to follow the ball from the pitcher's hand all the way into the catcher's mitt.
In
1950, the
Mutual Broadcasting System acquired the television broadcast rights to the World Series and All-Star Game for the next six years. Mutual may have been reindulging in TV network dreams or simply taking advantage of a long-standing business relationship; in either case, the broadcast rights were sold to
NBC in time for the following season's games at an enormous profit.
Up until at least, the late 1970s-early 1980s, a majority of the radio announcing crews for the All-Star Game split play-by-play duties, doing either the first 4½ or last 4½ innings.
On July 3, 2020, it was announced that the 2020 Major League Baseball All-Star Game scheduled to be held in
Los Angeles would not be played due to the
coronavirus pandemic. They will instead host in 2022.[1]
The 2021 game was originally scheduled to be played at
Truist Park in
Atlanta, GA, home of the
Atlanta Braves. However, because of a new voting bill being passed in Atlanta, Major League Baseball relocated the game, the 2021 Home Run Derby, and the
2021 MLB draft (a new addition to the All-Star festivities) to Denver.
In June 1993, CBS Sports'
Lesley Visser suffered a jogging accident in New York's
Central Park in which she broke her hip and skidded face-first across the pavement.[6] She required reconstructive plastic surgery on her face and in 2006, she required an artificial hip replacement. She missed the
1993 Major League Baseball All-Star Game due to the accident. In Visser's place in the meantime, came
Jim Kaat.
In June 1993, CBS Sports'
Lesley Visser suffered a jogging accident in New York's
Central Park in which she broke her hip and skidded face-first across the pavement.[26] She required reconstructive plastic surgery on her face and in 2006, she required an artificial hip replacement. She missed the
1993 Major League Baseball All-Star Game due to the accident. In Visser's place in the meantime, came
Jim Kaat.
The
1981 All-Star Game is to date, the only one to be played on a weekend (Sunday night). The game was originally to be played on July 14, but was cancelled due to the
players' strike lasting from June 12 to July 31. It was then brought back as a prelude to the second half of the season, which began the following day.
For
NBC's
1983 All-Star Game coverage,
Don Sutton was in New York City, periodically tracking pitches with the aid of NBC's "Inside Pitch" technology.
In
1984,
Jim Palmer only served as a between innings analyst[45] for
ABC's coverage.
1976 – The
ABC team of
Bob Prince,
Bob Uecker, and
Warner Wolf alternated roles for the broadcast. For the first three innings, Prince did play-by-play with Wolf on color commentary and Uecker doing field interviews. For the middle innings, Uecker worked play-by-play with Prince on color and Wolf doing the interviews. For the rest of the game, Wolf worked play-by-play with Uecker on color and Prince doing interviews.
The
1967 All-Star Game in
Anaheim can be considered the first "
prime time" telecast[50] of a Major League Baseball All-Star Game. The game started at approximately 7:00 p.m. on the
East Coast. Sports Illustrated, noting that the game “began at 4 p.m. in California and ended at 11 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time,” reported “an estimated 55 million people watched the game, compared with 12 million viewers for the
1966 All-Star Game, played in the afternoon.”[51]
The
1969 game was originally scheduled for the evening of Tuesday, July 22, but heavy rains forced its postponement to the following afternoon. The 1969 contest remains the last All-Star Game to date to be played earlier than
prime time in the Eastern United States.
Charlie Jones served as an "in-the-stands" reporter for
NBC's coverage.
During the
1955 All-Star Game,
NBC director Harry Coyle introduced the center field pitcher-batter camera shot to supplement the standard behind home-plate view. The angle allowed viewers to follow the ball from the pitcher's hand all the way into the catcher's mitt.
In
1950, the
Mutual Broadcasting System acquired the television broadcast rights to the World Series and All-Star Game for the next six years. Mutual may have been reindulging in TV network dreams or simply taking advantage of a long-standing business relationship; in either case, the broadcast rights were sold to
NBC in time for the following season's games at an enormous profit.
Up until at least, the late 1970s-early 1980s, a majority of the radio announcing crews for the All-Star Game split play-by-play duties, doing either the first 4½ or last 4½ innings.