East–West All-Star Game
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east-west-all-star-game-172-755114
title:
East–West All-Star Game
text:
The East–West All-Star Game was an annual all-star game for Negro league baseball players. The game was the brainchild of Gus Greenlee, owner of the Pittsburgh Crawfords. In 1933 he decided to emulate the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, using Negro league players. Newspaper balloting was set up to allow the fans to choose the starting lineups for that first game, a tradition that continued through the series' end in 1962. Unlike the MLB All-Star game which is played near the middle of the s
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Annual Negro league baseball game
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%E2%80%93West_All-Star_Game
date created:
2005-07-24T15:13:24Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T17:09:14Z
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