1962 Major League Baseball All Star Game (first game) 1962-07-10

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Event
1962 Major League Baseball All Star Game (first game)

Date
Tue 10th July 1962 (UTC)
Tue 10th July 1962 (Local)

Timestamp
1962-07-10T00:00:00

Time

00:00:00 UTC (13:00:00 Local)

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24-11-21 16:00 (PST Los Angeles)
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24-11-21 18:00 (CST Chicago)
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24-11-21 19:00 (EST New York)
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24-11-22 00:00 (GMT London)
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24-11-22 01:00 (CET Paris)
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24-11-22 04:00 (GST Dubai)
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24-11-22 05:30 (IST Kolkata)
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24-11-22 09:00 (JST Tokyo)
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24-11-22 11:00 (AEDT Sydney)

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League
Baseball All-Star Games

Season
1962

Round
0

Status
Match Finished

Location
DC Stadium
(45,480 Attendance)

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The first 1962 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 32nd playing of Major League Baseball's annual midsummer exhibition game between the American League and National League. The game took place at Washington, D.C.'s D.C. Stadium, home of the American League's Washington Senators. The stadium was in its first year of use as the Senators' home field. President John F. Kennedy was the second president to attend the event and threw out the first pitch. A highlight of the game was the first presentation of the Arch Ward Trophy. It was first presented in 1962 as a tribute to the man who helped found the All-Star Game in 1933. That first presentation went to Leon Wagner of the Los Angeles Angels (second game MVP) and to Maury Wills of the Los Angeles Dodgers (first game MVP), because two Midsummer Classics were played.