The Major League Baseball All-Star Games of the Sixties

The National League had made inroads in trimming their Major League Baseball All-Star Game deficit against the American League to 16 wins for the AL to their 11.During the Sixties, a decade of radical change; results for the Major League Baseball All-Star Game would be changing too. What the American League had done to them, the National League was about to do, and more, during the thirteen Major League Baseball All-Star Games held from 1960-1969. So dominant would the NL prove to be, that before man would walk on the moon in 1969, the National League would be comfortably ahead of the American League in these Major League Baseball All-Star Games.

1960- The two-game format that baseball came up with in 1959 would continue for three more years. On July 11th, in Cleveland, the National League jumped out front 5-0, thanks in great part to homers from Ernie Banks and Del Crandall off of Boston's Bill Monbouquette. A late inning Al Kaline blast could only make the final score 5-3. Banks once was quoted as saying, "The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose." If this was true, then Ernie must have been the best sport of them all, the way the Cubbies found ways to reinvent losing each season. In game two of the Major League Baseball All-Star Game doubleheader of 1960, played two days later in Yankee Stadium, the NL rode homers from Eddie Matthews, Stan Musial, Ken Boyer, and Willie Mays to a 6-0 whitewashing of the American League. This Major League Baseball All-Star Game would be the great Ted Williams' last one. He wound up hitting over .300 in these affairs, with four homers and a dozen RBI. A nineteen time All-Star, Williams passed the torch to Mays when he said, "They invented the (Major League Baseball) All-Star Game for Willie Mays.