1936 All-Star Game Box Score

Baseball Almanac is pleased to present the box score to the 1936 Midsummer Classic which was played on July 7, 1936 at Braves Field in Boston, Massachusetts.

"There was one time in the late thirties when some people in the National League felt the game was costly to the prestige of their league because the American League had won four of the first five games." - Will Harridge

1936 All-Star Game

American League 3 vs National League 4
July 7, 1936 Braves Field

American League
Name Pos AB R H RBI
Luke Appling ss 4 0 1 2
Charlie Gehringer 2b 3 0 2 0
Joe DiMaggio rf 5 0 0 0
Lou Gehrig 1b 2 1 1 1
Earl Averill cf 3 0 0 0
   Ben Chapman cf 1 0 0 0
Rick Ferrell c 2 0 0 0
   a-Bill Dickey ph- c 2 0 0 0
Rip Radcliff lf 2 0 1 0
   Goose Goslin lf 1 1 1 0
Pinky Higgins 3b 2 0 0 0
   b-Jimmie Foxx ph-3b 2 1 1 0

Lefty Grove

p 1 0 0 0
   Schoolboy Rowe p 1 0 0 0
   c-George Selkirk ph 0 0 0 0
   Mel Harder p 0 0 0 0
   f-Frankie Crosetti ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 3 7 3

 

National League
Name Pos AB R H RBI
Augie Galan cf 4 1 1 1
Billy Herman 2b 3 1 2 0
Ripper Collins 1b 2 0 0 0
Joe Medwick lf 4 0 1 1
Frank Demaree rf 3 1 1 0
   d-Mel Ott ph-rf 1 0 1 0
Gabby Hartnett c 4 1 1 1
Pinky Whitney 3b 3 0 1 1
   e-Lew Riggs ph-3b 1 0 0 0
Leo Durocher ss 3 0 1 0

Dizzy Dean

p 1 0 0 0
   Carl Hubbell p 1 0 0 0
   Curt Davis p 0 0 0 0
   Lon Warneke p 1 0 0 0
Totals 31 4 9 4

 

a: Grounded out for Ferrell in 7rd inning.
b: Singled for Higgins in 7th inning.
c: Walked for Rowe in 7th inning.
d: Singled for Demaree in 8th inning.
e: Struck out for Whitney in 8th inning.
f: Struck out for Harder in 9th inning.

Double Plays: Whitney-Herman-Collins, Appling-Gehringer-Gehrig.
Double: Gehringer.
Error: DiMaggio.
Home Runs: Galan, Gehrig.
Left on Base: A.L. 9, N.L. 6.
Triple: Hartnett.

All-Star Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E

American League

0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 7 1

National League

0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 x 4 9 0
American League
Name IP H R ER BB SO

Lefty Grove

3.0 3 2 2 2 2
   Schoolboy Rowe 3.0 4 2 1 1 2
   Mel Harder 2.0 2 0 0 0 2

 

National League
Name IP H R ER BB SO

Dizzy Dean

3.0 0 0 0 2 3
   Carl Hubbell 3.0 2 0 0 1 2
   Curt Davis 0.2 4 3 3 1 0
   Lon Warneke 2.1 1 0 0 3 2

 

Losing Pitcher: Grove.
Wild Pitch: Hubbell.
Winning Pitcher: Dean.

Attendance: 25,556.
Length of Game: 2:00.
Umpires A.L.: HP: Bill Summers, 2B: Lou Kolls.
Umpires N.L.: 1B: Beans Reardon, 3B: Bill Stewart.


Dizzy Dean was the first right-handed pitcher to start an All-Star Game and the first to win one as well.

Did you know that this first National League All-Star victory also included the first wild pitch thrown by any pitcher from either league?

The attendance at Braves Field in Boston of 25,556 set an All-Star record for smallest crowd in Midsummer Classic history.