1940 All-Star Game Box Score by Baseball Almanac

1940 All-Star Game Box Score

Baseball Almanac is pleased to present the box score to the 1940 Midsummer Classic which was played on July 9, 1940 at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, Missouri.

"Max West was the hero of the (1940 All-Star) game, but he only had one at-bat. He left the game after crashing into the outfield wall in the second inning." - The Sporting News


Name	Pos	AB	R	H	RBI
Cecil Travis	3b	3	0	0	0
Ken Keltner	3b	1	0	0	0
Ted Williams	lf	2	0	0	0
Lou Finney	rf	0	0	0	0
Charlie Keller	rf	2	0	0	0
Hank Greenberg	lf	2	0	0	0
Joe DiMaggio	cf	4	0	0	0
Jimmie Foxx	1b	3	0	0	0
Luke Appling	ss	3	0	2	0
Lou Boudreau	ss	0	0	0	0
Bill Dickey	c	1	0	0	0
Frankie Hayes	c	1	0	0	0
Rollie Hemsley	c	1	0	0	0
Joe Gordon	2b	2	0	0	0
a-Ray Mack	ph-2b	1	0	0	0
Red Ruffing	p	1	0	0	0
Bobo Newsom	p	1	0	1	0
Bob Feller	p	1	0	0	0
Totals		29	0	3	0


Name	Pos	AB	R	H	RBI
Arky Vaughan	ss	3	1	1	0
Eddie Miller	ss	1	0	0	0
Billy Herman	2b	3	1	3	0
Pete Coscarart	2b	1	0	0	0
Max West	rf	1	1	1	3
Bill Nicholson	rf	2	0	0	0
Mel Ott	rf	0	1	0	0
Johnny Mize	1b	2	0	0	0
Frank McCormick	1b	1	0	0	0
Ernie Lombardi	c	2	0	1	0
Babe Phelps	c	0	0	0	0
Harry Danning	c	1	0	1	1
Joe Medwick	lf	2	0	0	0
Jo-Jo Moore	lf	2	0	0	0
Cookie Lavagetto	3b	2	0	0	0
Pinky May	3b	1	0	0	0
Terry Moore	cf	3	0	0	0
Paul Derringer	p	1	0	0	0
Bucky Walters	p	0	0	0	0
Whit Wyatt	p	1	0	0	0
Larry French	p	0	0	0	0
Carl Hubbell	p	0	0	0	0
Totals		29	4	7	4

a: Struck out for Gordon in 8th inning.

Double Play: Coscarart-Miller-McCormick.
Double: Appling.
Error: Hemsley.
Home Run: west.
Left on Base: N.L. 7, A.L. 4.
Sacrifice Hits: McCormick, French.

All-Star Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
American League	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1
National League	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	x	4	7	0


Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
Red Ruffing	3.0	5	3	3	0	2
Bobo Newsom	3.0	1	0	0	1	1
Bob Feller	2.0	1	1	1	2	3


Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
Paul Derringer	2.0	1	0	0	1	3
Bucky Walters	2.0	0	0	0	0	0
Whit Wyatt	2.0	1	0	0	0	1
Larry French	2.0	1	0	0	0	2
Carl Hubbell	1.0	0	0	0	1	1

Hit by Pitcher: May (by Feller).
Losing Pitcher: Ruffing.
Winning Pitcher: Derringer.

Attendance: 32,373.
Length of Game: 1:53.
Umpires A.L.: HP: George Pipgras, 2B: Steve Basil.
Umpires N.L.: 1B: Beans Reardon, 3B: Bill Stewart.

Did you know that the one-hour fifty-three minute game length is an All-Star record for shortest Midsummer Classic ever played?

Five National League hurlers combined to blank the American League in this, the first ever All-Star shutout game.

This was the first Midsummer Classic ever played at Sportsman's Park which also hosted All-Star Games in 1948 and 1957.

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