All-Star Baseballs Gallery Completed
- Rawlings Official All-Star Game Baseballs
BigLeagueBaseballs.com now has its first completed photo gallery, the Rawlings Official All-Star Baseball gallery in the Museum of Baseballs. You can visit this gallery here.
Contained in this gallery is the complete run – a sample of every single game ball used for MLB All-Star games – from 1979-2009. The 2010 Rawlings All-Star Game ball (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, hosting) will be added as soon as its released.
Rawlings and Major League Baseball began using official game balls with commemorative logos for All-Star Games in 1979 (Seattle Mariners, Kingdome were the host city, team and stadium). Each year, the print color of the ball would alternate red or blue – opposite that season’s World Series baseball. This trend ended with the 1991 Toronto Blue Jays All-Star Baseball, which repeated with blue stamping (perhaps at the request of the Blue Jay’s organization to match its primary uniform color).
- Rawlings 1991 All-Star Game Ball, Toronto Blue Jays
In 1992, a new trend began, multiple lace colors. All-Star Game baseballs would be sewn with two different colors of laces as opposed to the typical red found on all previous Rawlings MLB game balls. The color of stitching on the ’92 ball was based on the San Diego Padres uniform colors, the host of the game that year.
This trend continues today, basing the laces and often the print color on the host team’s uniform colors. A great variety of colorful baseballs have resulted, along with ever-changing commemorative All-Star logos. Check out the gallery to see how the Mid-Summer Classic’s baseballs have evolved throughout the past 30 years!
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When will you have the 2010 All Star ball?
We’re hoping to have information and photos by the end of the month. We may have some available for sale in late March.
It’s now loaded in the All-Star Game Baseballs Gallery: http://photos.bigleaguebaseballs.com/rawlings-official-all-star-game-baseballs/ and I’ve posted a blog about the ball on the homepage.