ST. LOUIS – I must admit, St. Louis is the greatest baseball town I’ve been too – yes, even better than New York City.
They breathe baseball. St. Louis is like a throwback to the 1950s when football, basketball and anything other than baseball took a backseat in America.
To St. Louis, baseball is life, and the rest are just details.
With that in mind, it made the entire All-Star experience extra special. It was truly one of the best All-Star games I’ve covered.
The Carl Crawford catch is extremely memorable and the 4-3 final was a special treat for a baseball purist like myself.
Here are a couple quick hitters before we say goodbye to St. Louis.
The American League has gone 4-1 lifetime in the five ASG played in the city. WOW!
Despite the AL’s dominance, the NL is still 40-38-2 in the 80 ASG.
For the first time since 1999 at Boston, there were no homers hit in the All-Star Game…That was also the last time no player had more than one hit.
The NL’s five hits Tuesday were the fewest by one team in the ASG since the NL had just three hits in 2001 at Seattle.
The game was played in 2:31, the shortest Midsummer Classic by time since 1988, a 2:26 contest at Cincinnati.
Interesting to note: NL ASG starter Tim Lincecum played Golden Tee in the clubhouse an hour and a half before the first pitch. He seemed to be having a lot of fun.
All the All-Stars had a blast – this reporter included.
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