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The 1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, the 42nd edition, was played on Tuesday, July 13. [1] [4] The all-stars from the American League and the National League faced each other at Tiger Stadium, home of the Detroit Tigers, and the home team AL won 6–4.
1971 World Series: Pittsburgh (NL) def. Baltimore (AL), 4 games to 3. Inter-league playoff: Pittsburgh (NL) declined challenge by Tokyo Yomiuri Giants. World Series MVP: Roberto Clemente; All-Star Game, July 13 at Tiger Stadium: American League, 6–4; Frank Robinson, MVP
Derek Jeter is the only player to win the All-Star Game MVP and World Series MVP in the same season, doing so in 2000. Among prior MVP winners who are no longer active players, only five won the award in what turned out to be their only All-Star Game appearance; LaMarr Hoyt, Bo Jackson, J. D. Drew, Melky Cabrera, and Eric Hosmer.
The ace finished the 1971 season with 24 wins and won both the AL MVP and AL Cy Young awards. The next year, the A’s won the World Series. In 1973, Blue engineered his second 20-win season as ...
A second game was played for four seasons, from 1959 through 1962. The All-Star Game Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award was introduced in 1962 and the first recipient was Maury Wills of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The 2008 game featured the longest All-Star Game by time: 4 hours 50 minutes, and tied for innings at 15 with the 1967 game.
It is the only AL All-Star victory between 1962 and 1983. Jackson's home run goes 520 feet, and Robinson is named MVP. August 4 – St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bob Gibson wins his 200th game, a 7–2 victory over the San Francisco Giants at St. Louis. August 10:
All-Star Game MVP Note: This was re-named the Ted Williams Most Valuable Player Award in 2002. Carl Yastrzemski was the first Red Sox player to be made the All-Star Game's MVP. 1970: Carl Yastrzemski. [138] 1986: Roger Clemens. [139] 1999: Pedro Martínez. [140] 2008: J. D. Drew. [141] 2024: Jarren Duran. [142]
World Series MVP. 1966: Frank Robinson; 1970: Brooks Robinson; 1983: Rick Dempsey; AL Championship Series MVP Note: This was re-named the Lee MacPhail MVP Award. 1983: Mike Boddicker; All-Star Game MVP Note: This was re-named the Ted Williams Most Valuable Player Award in 2002. 1991: Cal Ripken Jr. 2001: Cal Ripken Jr. 2005: Miguel Tejada