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Posted By: Stephen Mitchell

The first All-Star Game (1933) featured 18 pitchers and players per side at a time when 8 teams comprised a league. Pitchers usually went the distance (9 or more innings) and relievers were rarely specialists. And, if memory serves, it wasn't the goal of either Mack or McGraw (or their early successors) to fit everyone into the game.

I propose, simply, that the rosters be expanded to at least 35 players and pitchers per league; that the starters at all positions be used well into the game; and in '03 that managers Pinella and Brenly be unincumbered by having to showcase every star.