when did toronto host the mlb all-star game
July 9, 1991
title: Major League Baseball All-Star Game text: first time in 1942, at the Polo Grounds, located in New York City. Since 1970 every ASG has been played under the lights, though when held at venues near enough to the west coast, the game starts in daylight in the late afternoon. In April 1945, with severe wartime travel restrictions in effect, the game scheduled to be played at Boston's Fenway Park was deferred to the next season. There were two All-Star Games played each season from 1959 through 1962. The second game was added to raise money for the MLB players' pension funds, as well as other causes. title: Major League Baseball All-Star Game text: The experiment was later abandoned on the grounds that having two games watered down the appeal of the event. In 1981, the game was moved from July to August, after the middle portion of the 1981 season, including the scheduled All-Star break, had been erased by the MLB players' strike. To promote the resumption of the season, the game (in Cleveland) was moved from its original July date to August 9. Second-half regular-season play began the next afternoon with a game in Wrigley Field in Chicago. Since 1985, the Home Run Derby, a contest among home run hitters, has been title: Major League Baseball All-Star Game text: starting players (including a designated hitter of the AL team), and the players selecting the reserve players for each position and five starting pitchers and three relief pitchers. The final All-Star player vote still exists, but the MLB commissioner's office will now fill out the remaining roster spots instead of the managers. The 88th All-Star Game is scheduled to be held on July 11, 2017, at Marlins Park, home of the NL East Division's Miami Marlins. The first All-Star Game was held on July 6, 1933, as part of the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago, at Comiskey Park (1910–1990) and title: Toronto St. Michael's Majors text: IceDogs and Brampton Battalion, and also an inter-league game versus the Montreal Rocket. In 2003-04 and 2006-07 seasons, the Majors played two home games vs the Ottawa 67's at Scotiabank Place in Kanata, Ontario. This arose from the common ownership between the St. Michael's Majors and the Ottawa Senators by Eugene Melnyk. The Mississauga St. Michael's Majors played home games at the Hershey Centre in northeast Mississauga, near the junction of Highway 401 & Highway 403. The Hershey Centre hosted the OHL All-Star Game in 2000. The arena also hosted the 2011 Memorial Cup from May 19–29. List of modern title: Major League Baseball All-Star Game text: was initiated by Arch Ward, then sports editor for the "Chicago Tribune". Initially intended to be a one-time event, its great success resulted in making the game an annual one. The venue for the All-Star Game is chosen by Major League Baseball. The criteria for the venue are subjective; generally, cities with new ballparks and those who have not hosted the game in a long time—or ever—tend to get selected. Over time, this has resulted in certain cities being selected more often at the expense of others, mainly due to timely circumstances: Cleveland Stadium and the original Yankee Stadium are