2013 MLB All Star Game

Date: July 16, 2013
Time: 8:00pm ET
TV Coverage: Fox Broadcast
Venue: Citi Field
City: Queens, New York City, New York

The Major League Baseball All-Star Game, also known as the "Midsummer Classic", is an annual baseball game between players from the National League and the American League, currently selected by a combination of fans, players, coaches, and managers. In this occasion, the game was decided to be played at the Citi Field in New York City New York, this is the first time that the Mets will host this event since 1964. This is the 9th time this event is held is New York City. The 2013 event will be the 84th edition of this MLB mayor league sports event.

The Citi Field home of the New York Mets is located in Flushing Meadow Corona Park , Queen New York City. It is a fairly new stadium since it was finished in 2009, it was built to replaced the Shea Stadium with was built in 1964. This venue was designed by Popolous( known as HOK Sport), Citigroup purchased the naming rights. The construction cost around $850 million. The very first game that was played after is completion was a college baseball game between St. John's and Georgetown on March 29th, 2009. Soon after that in April 3rd the Mets played their first game in their new home against the Boston Red Sox which was a charity exhibition game.

Below are some of the rules that will dominate the game this time. Some of them were placed back in 2003 and other ones were just modified. Those rules are:

• The designated hitter becomes a permanent fixture of the game regardless of site.
• Whereas fans will vote the starter in, as they have done in previous years when an American League city has hosted the game, the National League's manager will name their DH before the game.
• The rosters of each league team has to increase to 34 players, replacing pitchers who have started a regular season game on the Sunday immediately before the game becoming ineligible to pitch in the game, and those pitchers will be replaced.
• As with any player who is ineligible or unable to play, they will still be recognized as an All-Star.
• The manager is now allowed to select one position player to re-enter a game in the event that the last available position player at any position is injured.

But a lot of baseball bettors feel that, the real fun of the All-star break, starts at Monday's MLB Home Run Derby. There is nothing better than watching mashers mash, and that's the whole point of the Derby. It should be epic. It also should be a lot of fun to bet on.

The Home Run Derby is an event played prior to the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. It is a contest among the top home run hitters in Major League Baseball to determine who can hit the most home runs. State Farm Insurance is the current sponsor for this event. Among former sponsors is Century 21 Real Estate and Service Merchandise. This year for the first time the MLB has decided for the first time to have league captains. The defending champion of last year's edition in Anaheim, David Ortiz of the Red Sox, is captain of the American League squad, while champion of the 2009 edition in St. Louis, Prince Fielder, is captain for the National League squad. The pair will pick any three players of their choice to participate in the derby. On July 7th, the 2013 rosters for this event will be announced, this will be a show that will be presented by Taco Bell televized on national television on TBS. The total amount of players will be 25 for the National League and 24 for the American League, some of these players will be selected by the dan votes that have already been casted.

Since 2005, a gold ball has been used once a player reaches nine outs. If a batter hit a home run using the golden ball, Century 21 Real Estate and Major League Baseball would donate $21,000 (a reference to the "21" in "Century 21") per home run to charity (MLB donated to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, and Century 21 donated to Easter Seals). In both 2005 and 2006, $294,000 was raised for the charities, equaling fourteen golden ball home runs per year. State Farm continued this in 2007 as they designated $17,000 per home run (one dollar for each of State Farm's agencies), to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. In the 2007 event, fifteen golden balls were hit for a donation of $255,000, and ten ($170,000) were hit in the 2008 event. For 2009, State Farm added $5,000 for all non-Gold Ball homers, and $517,000 was collected.

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