"Arch (Ward) called me one day and asked me to have dinner with him. I didn't know he had anything in mind other than a sociable dinner until he sprang the All-Star Game idea on me, and I was flabbergasted at first. The idea was sound enough since that was the first year of the World's Fair in Chicago and Arch wanted to make an All-Star Game one of the highlights. His sales pitch was that it would be a wonderful thing for baseball. I told Arch I would submit the proposition to the owners. The American League owners finally agreed after considerable discussion that it would join strictly as an attraction for the 1933 Fair. At first the National League opposed it, but finally agreed to play the game for only one year. The game turned out to be so wonderful and so well accepted by the fans that the owners quickly agreed to continue the game and it became a solid fixture." - Will Harridge in Professional Baseball: The First 100 Years (1976)

"He's (Willie Stargell) such a big, strong guy he should love that porch (in Tiger Stadium). He's got power enough to hit home runs in any park, including Yellowstone." - Sparky Anderson (1971 All-Star Game)

"If I ain't startin', I am departin'." - Garry Templeton (1981 All-Star Game)

"In All-Star Games the players are chosen by balloting. Millions of fans vote. It is Democracy at its most transcendent. All the voters get out of it is the loss of a three-cent stamp or a two-cent postal card. Dishonesty in counting the votes has never been charged." - Fred Schwed in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957)

"I think the National League has better biorhythms in July." - Earl Weaver (1979 All-Star Game)

"It's (being selected to an All-Star Team) right up there with lobster." - Gary Gaetti in The Sporting News (August 1, 1988)

"The 1930s also saw an effort to apply the principles of business to baseball, especially in the area of advertising and promotional techniques. The first major breakthrough came in 1933 with the institution of the All-Star Game." - Richard Crepeau in Baseball: America's Diamond Mind (1980)

"The only bad thing about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three days." - Whitey Herzog

"The toughest assignment a baseball reporter has is the annual major League All-Star game, because of its many added dimensions. Not only what happens on the field, but the players' team affiliations and past All-Star records, or lack of same, plus ever-changing lineup and position switches, plus the unique characteristics of the game itself - all these must be handled swiftly, completely, briefly, colorfully if possible, and with some semblance of putting first things first." - Charles Einstein in The Fireside Book of Baseball (1956)

"They invented the All-Star Game for Willie Mays." - Ted Williams