The 2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game will be the 80th midseason exhibition between the all-stars of the American League (AL) and the National League (NL), the two leagues comprising Major League Baseball.^[1] The game will be held on July 14, 2009, at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, the home of the National League St. Louis Cardinals.^[2][3] The game will be the first all star game held in St. Louis since 1966.^[4] It will determine home field advantage in the 2009 World Series. This will be the seventh year in which the all-star Game determines home field advantage, with the American League winning all six games to date under this format. Currently, the National League leads, 40–37–2, but has not won since 1996. Fox will televise the contest; pre-game activities starting at 7 PM US EDT, with Joe Buck and Tim McCarver in the booth for the game broadcast. Outside the USA, Rogers Sports Net (Canada) and ESPN America (Europe) will carry MLB's international feed with their own video feed and announcers.

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• ... that not one single player in the National Baseball Hall of Fame has even been selected with 100% of the possible ballots?
• ... that rookie hurler Larry Gowell hit a double off of pitcher Jim Lonborg for his first and only Major League hit and the last by a pitcher in a regular season American League game before the start of the designated hitter rule?
• ... that Ron Blomberg became the first official designated hitter in Major League Baseball history when he came to the plate moments before Orlando Cepeda did?
• ... that Tom Seaver became the first pitcher to hurl more than two-hundred strikeouts during eight consecutive seasons that happened during the Expansion Era?
• ... that through the 2005 regular season, and since 1876, there have been a total of sixteen-thousand two-hundred nineteen major league baseball players who have made their major league debuts?
• ... that Don Larsen is the only pitcher to pitch a perfect game in the World Series?

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