Game Notes and Records
Claude Osteen was credited with the win. Clyde Wright was charged with the loss. Mel Stottlemyre, who permitted the tying run to score in the bottom of the ninth, was charged with a blown save.
Rico Carty became the first player in history to be elected to the All-Star team by the fans as a write-in candidate.
23 year old Ray Fosse suffered a fractured and separated left shoulder when Pete Rose collided with him on the last play of the game. The damage was not immediately noticed in X-rays taken that evening. While he continued playing for about a month, by his own admission, he never regained his swing and never returned to the level of play that he played at before the injury. In a 1999 San Francisco Chronicle interview, he demonstrated that he still could not lift his left arm, and suffers from arthritis as a result of the injury.
This was the NL's eighth consecutive win. The AL would end the streak next year.
Carl Yastrzemski tied the All-Star Game record for hits in a game (4), and singles in a game (3).
Carl Yastrzemski became the second and (as of 2008) last player to win the MVP award while playing for the losing team.
Prior to this year, the award given to the MVP of the game had been called the Arch Ward Memorial Award. Starting this year, the award would be called the Commissioner's Trophy. It would be restored to its original name in 1982 before being renamed for Ted Williams in 2002.
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