A Chicago Tribune Editor created baseball's All-Star game as a way to promote a world's fair in Chicago, but it became an annual classic.
Crowds lined up at Comiskey Park on the morning of July 3, 1933, to buy bleacher tickets for"The Game of the Century" between American and National league all-star teams.
“Foxx once played third base for the Athletics and played it pretty well,” the Tribune noted. “The fans began voting for Foxx the third baseman.” “I made baseballs with twine, black tape and glue,” he recalled. “I practiced pitching against the side of that barn. I pictured myself as a major league pitcher or shortstop.”Fred Miller, president of the Miller Brewing Company of Milwaukee, left, and Arch Ward, sports editor of the Chicago Tribune, sign a contract which gives the Miller company television and broadcast rights to the annual All-Star football game and an option to air the Golden Gloves in 1953.
“Schmeling knew then and there that there was no escaping this cold, expressionless figure whose opening blast blurred his eyes and raised a welt on his left cheek,” Ward recalled decades later. “A half smile caught on his face became a fixed grin.”In 1932, Ward ignited another fans’ debate, by noting that Jack Chevigny, coach of the Chicago Cardinals professional football team, thought that the 1930 Notre Dame squad was the best football team he had ever seen.
“A huge spotlight shined down from a far corner of the field. The band struck up ‘The Maize and the Blue’ and Michigan men and women began to shout. Then into the spotlight alone stepped Michigan’s great center Chuck Bernard. Next came the songs of Purdue and Pittsburgh, and Fritz Febel of Purdue and Frank Walton of Pittsburgh, guards on this great All- American team, took their turns before the floodlights.
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