Major League Baseball All-Star Game venues

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The Major League Baseball All-Star Game venue is chosen by Major League Baseball and traditionally alternates between the American League and National League every year. This tradition has been broken twice. The first time was in 1951, when the Detroit Tigers were chosen to host the annual game as part of the city's 250th birthday. It was broken again in 2007, when the San Francisco Giants were the host for the 2007 All-Star Game. That scheduling also set up the 2008 game to be held in the scheduled final season at Yankee Stadium.

The "home team" is the league in which the host franchise plays its games. The criteria for choosing the venue are subjective; for the most part, cities with new parks and cities who have not hosted the game in a long time—or ever—tend to get the nod. In the first two decades of the game there were two pairs of teams that shared ballparks, located in Philadelphia and St. Louis. This led two some shorter-than-usual gaps between the use of those venues: The Cardinals hosted the game in 1940, and the Browns in 1948. The Athletics hosted the game in 1943, and the Phillies in 1952.

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[edit] Ballparks that have hosted more than one All-Star Game

Active baseball parks
Defunct baseball parks

[edit] Ballparks that have never hosted an All-Star Game

Active baseball parks (oldest parks listed first)
defunct baseball parks (oldest parks listed first)

[edit] The last time each franchise has hosted an All-Star Game

from least recent to most recent

[edit] Major League Baseball cities in order of most All-Star Games hosted

# City All-Star Games
7 Chicago, Illinois Comiskey Park (1933, 1950, 1983), Wrigley Field (1947, 1962, 1990), U.S. Cellular Field (2003)
7 New York, New York Polo Grounds (1934, 1942), Yankee Stadium (1939, 1960, 1977), Ebbets Field (1949), Shea Stadium (1964)
5 Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland Stadium (1935, 1954, 1963, 1981), Jacobs Field (1997)
5 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Forbes Field (1944, 1959), Three Rivers Stadium (1974, 1994), PNC Park (2006)
4 Boston, Massachusetts Braves Field (1936), Fenway Park (1946, 1961, 1999)
4 Washington, DC Griffith Stadium (1937, 1956). RFK (1962, 1969)
4 Cincinnati, Ohio Crosley Field (1938, 1953), Riverfront Stadium (1970, 1988)
4 St. Louis, Missouri Sportsman's Park (1940, 1948, 1957), Busch Memorial Stadium (1966)
4 Detroit, Michigan Tiger Stadium (1941, 1951, 1971), Comerica Park (2005)
4 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Shibe Park (1943, 1952), Veterans Stadium (1976, 1996)
3 Milwaukee, Wisconsin Milwaukee County Stadium (1955, 1975), Miller Park (2002)
3 San Francisco, California Candlestick Park (1961, 1984), AT&T Park (2007)
3 Houston, Texas Houston Astrodome (1968, 1986), Minute Maid Park (2004)
2 Baltimore, Maryland Memorial Stadium (1958), Oriole Park at Camden Yards (1993)
2 Los Angeles, California Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (1959), Dodger Stadium (1980)
2 Kansas City, Missouri Municipal Stadium (1960), Royal Stadium (1973)
2 Minneapolis, Minnesota Metropolitan Stadium (actually in Bloomington) (1965), Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome (1985)
2 Anaheim, California Angel Stadium (1967, 1989)
2 Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium (1972), Turner Field (2000)
2 San Diego, California Jack Murphy Stadium 1978, 1992
2 Seattle, Washington Kingdome (1979), Safeco Field (2001)
1 Montreal, Quebec Olympic Stadium (1982)
1 Oakland, California Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum (1987)
1 Toronto, Ontario SkyDome (1991)
1 Arlington, Texas Rangers Ballpark in Arlington (1995)
1 Denver, Colorado Coors Field (1998)
0 Miami Gardens, Florida In MLB since 1993
0 St. Petersburg, Florida In MLB since 1998
0 Phoenix, Arizona In MLB since 1998
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Major League Baseball All-Star Game
1930s: 1930 • 1931 • 1932 •1933 • 1934 • 1935 • 1936 • 1937 • 1938 • 1939
1940s: 1940 • 1941 • 1942 • 1943 • 1944 • 1945 • 1946 • 1947 • 1948 • 1949
1950s: 1950 • 1951 • 1952 • 1953 • 1954 • 1955 • 1956 • 1957 • 1958 • 1959 • 1959²
1960s: 1960 • 1960² • 1961 • 1961² • 1962 • 1962² • 1963 • 1964 • 1965 • 1966 • 1967 • 1968 • 1969
1970s: 1970 • 1971 • 1972 • 1973 • 1974 • 1975 • 1976 • 1977 • 1978 • 1979
1980s: 1980 • 1981 • 1982 • 1983 • 1984 • 1985 • 1986 • 1987 • 1988 • 1989
1990s: 1990 • 1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 • 1996 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999
2000s: 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009
2010s: 2010 • 2011 • 2012 • 2013 • 2014 • 2015 • 2016 • 2017 • 2018 • 2019
² — Two All-Star Games were played these seasons.