The first official MLB All-Star exhibition game on July 6, 1933, was held at Comiskey Park (1910–1990) and was part of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair during the city's centennial. It was originally billed as a one-time “Game of the Century,” The game was intended to be a one-time event to boost morale during the Great Depression. Ward decided that the fans would select the starting nine players and the managers the other nine players for each of the NL and AL All-Star teams. The Tribune estimated the game's attendance on July 6, 1933, at 49,000. The proceeds ($45,000, net gate receipts) from the game went to a charity for disabled and needy major league players. The All-Star Game would afterwards be known as MLB's "Midsummer Classic". The legendary Babe Ruth of the Yankees highlighted the game by hitting a two-run home run to right field in the bottom of the third inning and catching a fly ball up against the scoreboard in right-center field in the top of the eighth inning. Twenty of the game's thirty-six All-Stars including Ruth would later be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, New York. Both the game's managers, five out of six coaches, and two out of the four umpires on the field that day would also be future Hall of Famers. This is a lightly shellacked DC/SS/TM (USA) Official American League William Harridge (Blue Print) baseball with 19 signatures in blue/black ballpoint pen. HOF signatures include: Ruth, Foxx, Gehrig, Simmons, Grove, Cochrane, Gomez, Dickey, Averill, Cronin, Gehringer, Manush, R. Ferrell and Lyons. Keys include: Crowder, W. Ferrell, Marberry, Dykes, and Hildenbrand. Signatures overall rate 8-9 in our opinion. This item is accompanied by a full Letter of Authentication from James Spence Authentication (JSA). Please note, however, that the item did not meet the pass standards with other third-party evaluators. It is being sold as is, with no guarantees beyond the JSA opinion.