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1968 ALL-STAR GAME · East 6, West 4
East Exploits Error-Filled Sixth
West Homers Fall Short, Narleski Saves
CHICAGO (June 29) -- Dick Allen's two-run triple off Jim Merritt broke open a 3-1 game in the error-filled sixth inning, and the East Division stifled a late rally to defeat the West 6-4 in the Sixth UL All-Star Game at Comiskey Park. 

Starting pitchers Bob Moose and Johnny Podres were nearly perfect.  Bernie Allen's first inning double and Roberto Clemente's single in the third were the only hits in the game until the bottom of the fourth, when Ron Santo's two-run homer off San Francisco's Jim Ray put the East up 2-0.  The West got a run back in the fifth, when Clemente doubled for his second hit to plate Felix Mantilla, who walked. 

But the East put the game out of reach with a four-run sixth, aided by three West errors.  With Dallas' Jim Merritt pitching, Joe Torre reached on Joe Morgan's error, moved to third on Mickey Mantle's single, and scored on Merritt's botched pickoff throw.  The West intentionally walked Orlando Cepeda to set up a force play, but instead Ron Santo laid down a surprise sacrifice bunt, setting up Dick Allen's triple to the gap in right center, scoring Mantle and Cepeda and opening up a 5-1 lead.  Allen scored on Frank Howard's groundout, making it 6-1, but Felix Mantilla couldn't end the inning, booting a Harvey Kuenn groundball for the third error of the inning before Clay Carroll finally induced a Dick McAuliffe fly ball to end the inning.  The West never recovered from the disastrous inning, though they clawed back with a run in the seventh and two in the eighth.

Harmon Killebrew welcomed Turk Farrell to the game with a 384-foot homer to left, and Billy Williams and Andy Etchebarren homered off Ted Abernathy in the eighth to pull within two runs.  Roberto Clemente opened the ninth with a single, bringing the tying run to the plate, but Boston's Ray Narleski, who became the league's all-time save leader just eight days earlier, retired John Hiller, Bob Bailey, and Marv Throneberry in order to earn his first All-Star save and lock down the 6-4 win for the East, which leads the all-time series 4-2.

Moose vs. Podres
Gray Sox, Maroons Lead All-Star Selections
CHICAGO (June 27) -- Rookie San Francisco righthander Bob Moose (8-5, 1.69) will face two-time Cy Young winner Johnny Podres (10-3, 1.73) in the sixth UL All-Star Game here Saturday night.  Moose, the second overall pick this spring, leads the league in ERA and VORP and is undefeated in his last 11 starts.  He gets the All-Star nod over Los Angeles' Fritz Peterson (13-5, 2.55), the league leader in wins who has led the Outlaws to first place.
   Manhattan led the league with eight All-Star selections, and St. Louis led the West with seven.  Defending champions Atlanta joined Chicago and Detroit with just two All-Star nominations.  Moose is one of five rookies among the 56 players named to the All-Star rosters, along with teammate Jim Ray, Manhattan pitchers Tom Seaver and Cecil Upshaw, and Washington's batting leader Cleon Jones.
 

West Division All-Stars		East Division All-Stars
St. Louis (7) SP Lew Burdette CL Bob Locker MR Chet Nichols SS Jim Fregosi RF Reggie Smith 2B Joe Morgan C Johnny Romano Dallas (6) SP Jim Merritt C Andy Etchebarren 3B Bob Bailey LF Boog Powell 2B Rod Carew 1B Marv Throneberry	Los Angeles (6) SP Fritz Peterson SP Jim McGlothlin CL Frank Baumann CL John Hiller LF Frank Robinson 2B Felix Mantilla San Francisco (5) *SP Bob Moose MR Clay Carroll *MR Jim Ray LF Lou Brock RF Billy Williams Atlanta (2) 1B Harmon Killebrew CF Bob Allison Chicago (2) CL Russ Kemmerer CF Roberto Clemente	Manhattan (8) SP Bob Anderson *SP Tom Seaver CL Dick Radatz *MR Cecil Upshaw C Joe Torre 3B Pete Ward CF Vada Pinson 1B Willie Stargell Cleveland (6) SP Johnny Podres MR Turk Farrell CL Ted Abernathy 2B Bernie Allen SS Harvey Kuenn RF Johnny Callison	Boston (5) SP Mike Cuellar CL Ray Narleski RF Rocky Colavito C Bill Freehan 1B Orlando Cepeda Brooklyn (4) SP Gene Conley CL Dave Sisler SS Dick McAuliffe RF Mickey Mantle Washington (3) MR Rob Gardner *LF Cleon Jones 3B Ron Santo Detroit (2) 1B Dick Allen LF Frank Howard
Starting Lineup 2B Joe Morgan 1B Rod Carew LF Frank Robinson 3B Harmon Killebrew CF Bob Allison SS Felix Mantilla  C Johnny Romano RF R. Clemente  P Bob Moose		Starting Lineup 2B Dick McAuliffe SS Bernie Allen  C Joe Torre CF Mickey Mantle LF Orlando Cepeda 3B Ron Santo 1B Dick Allen RF Frank Howard  P Johnny Podres
Feedback Mixed on Hall of Fame Choice Beachville Pick Unleashes Jingoistic Firestorm NEW YORK (June 29) -- Reaction to the selection of Beachville, Ontario as the home of the UL Hall of Fame provoked strong reactions on both sides from across the league.  The selection was praised by some owners, but harshly condemned by others in a wave a anti-Canadian rhetoric.  Below is a summary of the reaction across the league:
TSN: Do you agree with the idea of putting the Hall in Beachville, Ontario? Shawn Martin (BOS): I completely disagree with the Ontario site for the United League Hall of Fame.  I would have certainly considered a Canadian city such as Beachville for a "Baseball Hall Of Fame," but that is not what we (the UL owners) have invested our money into.  Our contributions were to go for a League-specific Hall, and since we currently hold no Canadian franchises in our major leagues, I believe it is a very poor choice - and one that should have been put up for vote at the least.  I am willing to boycott my votes for any future Hall of Fame inductees until this is rectified. Charlie Qualls (CLE): I don't see the controversy.  This shows real forward thinking on the part of the Hall committee, as well as an appreciation for the past.  The spirit of the United League has always had a universal flair, so just short of my proposal to put the Hall on an orbiting satellite, erecting it in another country suits me fine. Beachville is a thoughtful, scenic and historic spot. Lance Mueller (CHI): Absolutely, positively not! Whatever the origins of the game of "base-ball" may be, the modern game as we know it and as we play in the UL is intrinsically American. Baseball is America's pastime, it is America's favorite spectator sport, it is the birth point of some of America's most iconic sporting heroes. Recognizing the roots of baseball in North America is all well and good, but building the Hall to it's greatest luminaries in a country that doesn't even have a single professional team is just plain wrong. The reality is that Beachville is the location of the "first fully documented" game of baseball, there is really no way to know where the game truly began in North America. Build them a statue if you must, but do not build them our Hall.  If you do, I for one will never visit! Peter Vays (LA): I agree with putting the Hall in Canada.  The Canadians have so little and understand even less about baseball that perhaps this will get them introduced and maybe in the future a team can even be formed there.  I hear Toronto and Montreal are nice cities. Jeff Tonole (SF): Oh, Canada? I don't know that I agree with the idea of putting a shrine celebrating the American Pastime in an entirely different country -- especially one known more for harboring draft-dodgers than baseball.  I shouldn't need a passport to go see the history of our country's finest game. Sean Holloway (DET):  With the wave of change hitting the nation, I am awash in a sea of change and love for my fellow man (except where prohibited or illegal).  We will rise up and ride this wave of change until we are all changed by the changing tides and changing attitudes that are changing minds across this great changing land of ours.  We must include our brothers and sisters from the North in this change, and the only way to do that is by having the HOF in Ontario.		TSN: What site were you pulling for? Lance Mueller (CHI): Personally, I think the grand old lady of cities herself, New York, would be a perfect place for the UL's Hall.  New York is the hometown of Alexander Cartwright who, in the 1840s, initiated both the early codification of baseball's rules from which the modern game has evolved AND the replacement of a soft ball with a "hard-ball", the very hardball we so love to play today.  Another point in Cartwright (and NYC's) favor is the fact that the United States Congress in 1953 officially recognize Cartwright as the inventor of "modern baseball."  There is no question that the UL Hall will recognize the deep, rich past of baseball, but the Hall itself should be rooted in the modern game, recognizing the greatness of today's players while reflecting on the contributions of all that have shaped the game.  What better way to root the Hall in the modern game then by locating it in the most modern of cities, New York. Jeff Tonole (SF): As a West Coast team, we were offended by the Northeast-centric locations that were on the short list of potential sites. The site we supported was Pasadena, California, on the property where Jackie Robinson grew up. Shawn Martin (BOS): I believe that either Hoboken or Cooperstown would have been suitable for our needs, and both have a valid claim for such an honor. Sean Holloway (DET): I would have preferred Wikwemikong, but seeing as how I was born in Detroit and raised in nearby Warren (home of the M1A1), and how Beachville is only 255 km (that's about 3 hours by car for you silly Americans), I can see no better place other than Beachville.  Well, actually, now that I think about it, Mackinaw City, MI, may have been better.  There would have been a great view of the bridge, and it also would have allowed despondent Griffins fans an easy way out via one small jump...  P.S. I'm sooo drunk.