1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

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Date	July 24, 1973[1][2]
Venue	Royals Stadium[1][2]
City	Kansas City, Missouri
Managers	Sparky Anderson[3] (CIN) Dick Williams[3] (OAK)
MVP	Bobby Bonds[1][2] (SF)
Attendance	40,849[1][2]
Ceremonial first pitch	Lefty Gomez, Bill Hallahan and Ewing Kauffman
Television	NBC
TV announcers	Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek
Radio	NBC
Radio announcers	Jim Simpson and Maury Wills
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The 1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 44th midseason exhibition between the all-stars of the American League (AL) and the National League (NL), the two leagues comprising Major League Baseball. The game was played on July 24, 1973, at Royals Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, home of the Kansas City Royals of the American League.^[1] The game resulted in a 7–1 victory for the NL.^[1]

Royals Stadium had not even been open for four months when it hosted this, its first All-Star Game. The game had been hosted in Kansas City once before (1960) when the Kansas City Athletics had been the host team at Kansas City's Municipal Stadium. After this game was played, the Royals did not host another All-Star Game until they were awarded the 2012 All-Star Game.

Arrowhead Stadium, which shares the same parking lot as part of the Harry S. Truman Sports Complex, hosted the 1974 Pro Bowl about six months after this game.

This game marked the 40th anniversary year of the first All-Star Game in 1933. As a part of that recognition, some of the surviving stars from that first game, including Dick Bartell, Joe Cronin, Jimmie Dykes, Charlie Gehringer, Lefty Gomez, Lefty Grove, Bill Hallahan, and Carl Hubbell were in attendance.^[2]