1964 all star game roster

Commissioner Ford Frick did retire the following year, but he waited until after the All-Star game to make the announcement. In , a too-early retirement announcement would likely have been denounced as a form of self-aggrandizement. Attending the game in person did not cost an arm and a leg. Fewer players made the All-Star team.

In , each All-Star team consisted of only 25 players, the number of players on an actual team during the regular season. Although the man roster is still the rule in Major League Baseball, All-Star game rosters have been greatly expanded. This year, there were 34 players on each team. Roster expansion actually began back in , when the number of teams in each league expanded from ten to twelve. Technically, the expansion in the number of teams, currently 30, has been greater than the expansion in the size of the rosters.

In , there was a rule, as there is today, that each team must have at least one representative on the team. Players, not fans, selected the starting line-up for the game. In , the All-Star starters except for the pitcher were selected by a vote of Major League players. In , the starters were selected by a vote of the fans.

Before , the starting line-ups were selected by the All-Star team managers, but in , the selection process was turned over to a fan vote. Selection of the starting line-ups was returned to the fans in Throughout the history of the game, starting pitchers have always been chosen by the All-Star managers. However, after the season, Houk was promoted to General Manager of the Yankees with Yogi Berra named to replace him as field manager. Under the rules, Houk was not eligible to manage in the All-Star Game, and he was replaced, not by his Yankee successor, but by Al Lopez, the manager of the Chicago White Sox, who had finished second to the Yankees in Many players never got into the game in , and some starters played the entire game.

Although substitutions were more frequent in the All-Star game than in a normal regular season game, there was no expectation in that every player on the All-Star roster would be used in the game. In fact, it was assumed that several of the starters would play the entire game and that many of the reserves would not get into the game, unless it went into extra innings.

That a significant number of All-Stars failed to be used by their managers did not seem to generate much controversy in Starters who were taken out usually came out only late in the game.

At the end of the 8 th inning of the contest, 10 of 16 starters were still in the game. Altogether only 37 of the 50 roster players appeared in the game, and 5 of the 37 participated only as pinch hitters or pinch runners and another played only one-half inning in the field. In other words, of the 19 position-player substitutes, only 6 played as much as one full inning. Six of the 15 pitchers saw no action at all. Moreover, every starter had been removed from the game by the end of the 6 th inning.

Technically, AL DH Giancarlo Stanton was lifted for a pinch-hitter in the 8 th inning, but that was only because a DH can only be removed by being pinch hit for. Stanton last appeared in the game in the 6 th inning. Curiously, in , for the third year in a row, no San Diego Padre player appeared in the All-Star game although there was, of course, a Padres player on the National League roster each year.

In , almost all All-Star pitchers were starting pitchers, and pitchers were expected to pitch up to the three inning maximum unless it was necessary to pinch hit for them. Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis.

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Losing Pitcher : Radatz. Passed Ball : Torre.