From 1935 to 1946, all of the players on the All-Star teams for the Major League Baseball All-Star Game had been decided by their respective managers. In 1947, fan voting was introduced, allowing fans to place ballots for the selection of the eight starting position players for each league. After 1957, fans temporarily lost the privilege of voting for any player on the All-Star team after Cincinnati Reds fans chose players from that single for nearly every position (seven of the eight they could select for the National Team). National) filling out the ballot.

Ford Frick, the Major League Baseball Commissioner during that time, took it upon himself to remove two of the Reds’ voted players from the roster: right fielder Wally Post and right/center fielder Gus Bell, whom he replaced with Hank Aaron, a right fielder for the Milwaukee Braves, and Willie Mays, a center fielder for the New York Giants, and fan voting did not return to all-star selection until 1970. From 1958 to 1969, the players and coaches from each league chose the starting position players. and managers.

However, when interest in the All-Star game began to wane among fans, partly due to a lack of fan input and partly due to the decision to play two All-Star games each season, which led to to an excessive exposition of the previous novel. event between the 1959-1962 seasons: fan voting for the eight starting position players from each team was reinstated in 1970, hoping to regain their attention.

That year, for the first time in the history of the game, the fans were able to select a write-in candidate, Ricardo Adolfo Jacobo Carty (or, more simply known as Ricardo Carty), an outfielder for the Atlanta Braves. In 1974, Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Steve “Mr. Clean” Garvey became the second fan-voted write-in candidate to earn a spot on the All-Star team, for the National League, and even he won the Most Valuable Player Award for his performance in that year’s All-Star Game.

In 2003, player voting became the determining factor for each team’s reserves and pitching, in response to complaints about managers’ tendencies to dominate the higher-serving players of teams in their leagues with the interest of favoring the players of their own teams.

As of 2009, each league had been allocated 32 player spots on their respective All-Star teams, compared to 24–25 allowed on teams during the regular season. As of 2009, each team was assigned a 33rd spot on their roster for an additional pitcher. However, 2010 introduced even more changes to the selection of players for the All-Star Game, beginning with the allocation of a 34th spot on each league’s roster for the addition of an additional position player.

As it stands, players can be selected for each league through a combination of fan voting, player voting, and manager selection. There is a separate selection process for a replacement player roster that designates players to be added in the event that the starting selections are injured or not interested in playing. The selection process can be difficult for lesser-known players to navigate, but all players want to be involved and have a chance at winning the coveted MLB All-Star MVP sports award.