There is still something special about Major League Baseball's All-Star Game.
Perhaps the feelings of competitiveness that marked the event when Pete Rose, Bob Gibson and Willie Mays of the National League were competing against American Leaguers Frank Robinson, Carl Yastrzemski and Harmon Killebrew in the 1960s have waned. However, there is still something special when the best players in MLB queue up along their respective league's baselines after hearing their names announced.
Second baseman Jose Altuve of the Houston Astros and outfielder Mookie Betts of the Boston Red Sox were among the position leaders in the American League in the vote totals that were released by MLB July 2.