The only other All-Star Game played at the famous ballpark was Jwhen Ted Williams smashed a dramatic two - out, three - run homer in the bottom of the ninth to give the AL a 7-5 victory. The six-round trippers tied the All-Star Game record set 20 years earlier at the same ballpark, known then as Briggs Stadium (the NL won 8-3). Nineteen future Hall of Famers played in the 42nd MLB All-Star Game, witnessed by 53,599 fans at the home of the Detroit Tigers and an NBC television audience of 58 million.Īided by 85-degree weather and a wind gusts to right field up to 31 mph, six of the eventual Hall of Famers (Johnny Bench, Reggie Jackson, Hank Aaron, Frank Robinson, Harmon Killebrew, and Roberto Clemente) hit homers to account for all of the scoring in the American League’s 6-4 victory over the National League that ended the junior circuits eight-game losing streak. If Tiger Stadium ever earned the designation as the true “Field of Dreams” - instead of a movie set in Dyersville, Iowa - perhaps it happened on a hot and windy summer evening fifty years ago today, July 13, 1971.
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