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1938 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

1938 American baseball competition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ4564278 ↗
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The 1938 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the sixth playing of the mid-summer classic between the all-stars of the American League (AL) and National League (NL), the two leagues comprising Major League Baseball. The game was held on July 6, 1938, at Crosley Field in Cincinnati, Ohio, the home of the Cincinnati Reds of the National League. The game resulted in the National League defeating the American League 4–1.

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Players in italics have since been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1938 Major League Baseball All-Star Game” is 1938 American baseball competition. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Major, League and Baseball, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1938—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Major, League and Baseball is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “1938 Major League Baseball All-Star Game” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.