MLB All Star

The venue of the game is usually chosen by Major League Baseball and traditionally alternates between the two leagues every year. This tradition has been broken twice. The first time was in 1951, when the Detroit Tigers were chosen to host the annual game as part of the city's 250th birthday. It was broken again in 2007, when the San Francisco Giants were the host for the 2007 All-Star Game.

It is a set rule from the year of 2003, which the pennant winner of the league winning the All-Star Game is being awarded with home field advantage for the upcoming World Series. The game was played in 2007, at the AT&T Park in San Francisco, which is a base of the famous team named San Francisco Giants. The American League won the game, which secured home field advantage in the 2007 World Series for the sixth straight season; it had included all five seasons under the recent format set by the league.

There is certain criterion for the selection of the venue; generally it is preferred to give chance to the cities with new parks, and those who have not hosted the game in a long time. In the first two decades of the game, ballparks in St. Louis and Philadelphia were home to more than one team. This led to some shorter-than-usual gaps between the uses of those venues. The last All-Star Game to be played in a stadium that was not hosting its first All-Star Game was the 1999 game in Boston's Fenway Park.

On a general basis there is no such change in the managers of the All-Star game those, who faced each other during the previous year's World Series. It is also decided that the coaching staff for each team is selected by its manager. There is a logic behind the formation of the rule, as the honor is given to the manager as it is quite possible that they could no longer stay with the team with which they had won.

This has also included situations where the person is no longer actively managing a team. For the first All-Star Game, intended as a one-time event, Connie Mack and John McGraw were regarded as baseball's venerable managers, and were asked to lead the American and National League teams, respectively. In the year of 1979, Bob Lemon managed the American League team after having been fired by New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.

It happened in the 1964 season and the World Series that the managers, Johnny Keane of the St. Louis Cardinals and Yogi Berra of the New York Yankees, had left their teams and found new jobs in the other leagues. There was no World Series in 1994 due to the players' strike. In 1995, Buck Showalter of the New York Yankees and Felipe Alou of the Montreal Expos were chosen as managers for the All-Star Game on the basis of their teams finishing with the best win-loss records in their respective National and American leagues during the previous season.

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