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Article: Morgan: All-Star game has changed for the worse
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- July 10, 2008
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Joe Morgan looks at what's happened to the All-Star game, and he doesn't like what he sees.
The Hall of Fame second baseman remembers when the top stars played all nine innings, when the All-Stars drew huge ratings.
Not anymore.
"Part of the reason the game doesn't bring that energy is it's a different game now. Now it's considered an exhibition, where as before it was considered life and death," he said Thursday during an ESPN conference call to preview its All-Star coverage.
The last time the All-Star game was at Yankee Stadium, in 1977, Morgan led off the game with a home run off Jim Palmer. A 10-time All-Star with the Cincinnati Reds and Houston ...