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The Major League Baseball All-Star Game, also known as the "Midsummer Classic", is an annual professional baseball game sanctioned by Major League Baseball (MLB) contested between players from the American League (AL) and the National League (NL), currently selected by fans for starting fielders, by managers for pitchers, and by managers and players for reserves. The game usually occurs on either the second or third Tuesday in July, and is meant to mark a symbolic halfway-point in the MLB season (though not the mathematical halfway-point which, for most seasons, is usually found within the previous calendar week). Both of the major leagues share a common All-Star break, with no regular-season games scheduled on the day before or the day after the All-Star Game itself. Some additional events and festivities associated with the game take place each year close to and during this break in the regular season. No official MLB All-Star Game was held in 1945 including the official selection of players due to World War II travel restrictions. For a brief period in MLB history, players were named to the AL roster and NL roster for two All-Star Games held during the 1959, 1960, 1961, and 1962 seasons, but this format was subsequently abandoned. ==Venues== (詳細は1933 World's Fair in Chicago, Illinois, at Comiskey Park (1910-1990) and was initiated by Arch Ward, then sports editor for the ''Chicago Tribune''. Initially intended to be a one-time event, its great success resulted in making the game an annual one. The venue for the All-Star Game is chosen by Major League Baseball. The criteria for the venue are subjective; generally, cities with new ballparks and those who have not hosted the game in a long time—or ever—tend to get selected. Over time, this has resulted in certain cities being selected more often at the expense of others, mainly due to timely circumstances: Cleveland Stadium and the original Yankee Stadium are tied for the most times a venue has hosted the All-Star game, both hosting four games. New York City has hosted more than any other city, having done so nine times in five different stadiums. At the same time, the New York Mets failed to host for 48 seasons (1965-2012), while the Los Angeles Dodgers have not hosted since 1980 (35 years as of 2015). Among current Major League teams, the Washington Nationals, Miami Marlins, and the Tampa Bay Rays have yet to host the All-Star game; after 2018, the Tampa Bay area will remain the only city with a major-league franchise that has yet to host. In the first two decades of the game there were two pairs of teams that shared ballparks, located in Philadelphia and St. Louis. This led to some shorter-than-usual gaps between the use of those venues: The Cardinals hosted the game in 1940, and the Browns in 1948. The Athletics hosted the game in 1943, and the Phillies in 1952. The venues traditionally alternate between the American League and National League every year. This tradition has been broken several times: The first time was in 1951, when the A.L. Detroit Tigers were chosen to host the annual game as part of the city's 250th birthday (corrected by the N.L. hosting the next two seasons). The second was when the two-game format during the 1959-1962 seasons resulted in the A.L. being one game ahead in turn. This was corrected in 2007, when the N.L. San Francisco Giants were the host for the 2007 All-Star Game, which also set up the 2008 game to be held at the A.L.'s (the original) Yankee Stadium in its final season. It will be broken again for the 2016 All Star Game when the San Diego Padres host at Petco Park, in 2017 when the Miami Marlins host at Marlins Park, and again in 2018 when the Washington Nationals host at Nationals Park. The "home team" has traditionally been the league in which the host franchise plays its games, however the American League will be designated the home team for the 2016 All Star Game, despite its being played in Petco Park, home of the National League San Diego Padres. This decision was made following the announcement of Miami as host for the 2017 All Star Game, which will be the third consecutive year in which the game is hosted in a National League ballpark. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Major League Baseball All-Star Game」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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