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  • The Man the Ballot Stuffers Forgot

    07/16/2011 10:13:14 AM PDT · by BluesDuke · 7 replies
    Throneberry Fields Forever ^ | July 15, 2011 | Yours truly
    No All-Star break ever seems to pass without at least one mention (including mine) of the 1957 ballot box stuffing scandal, the one that cost the fans the All-Star starting lineup vote until 1970. Everyone remembers the seven Cincinnati Reds voted to the starting lineup. Everyone thus also remembers that, somehow, Stan Musial sort of snuck through the stuffing to make the starting lineup. And, that commissioner Ford Frick removed Gus Bell and Wally Post from the starting lineup in favour of Willie Mays and Hank Aaron. Forgotten often enough, however, is the Red who didn’t make the stuffing cut....