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ROSTERS NAMED FOR 6TH APBL ALL-STAR GAME
AMERICAN TO HOST GAME AGAIN; AMERICAN LEADS NOMINATIONS WITH SIX

NEW YORK CITY (July 25, 1876) – Final vote tallies taken from fans, coaches, players, and Writers Pool members have been completed, and telegrams detailing the rosters for the 5th American Professional Baseball League All-Star Game have been sent out across the Northeast.

Rosters for the A.P.B.L. Midsummer Classic aren’t the same as those in its NBBO counterpart:

• Twenty players per conference
• Roster places 1-4 go to pitchers – two for each rotation place
• Roster places 5-20 go to batsmen – two for each position
• All six teams from each conference must be represented (see note below)

It’s the Metropolitan Conference’s turn to host the game this year, and it was decided that American should be bestowed with the hosting duties again, given that they’ve won three of the last four A.P.B.L. titles.

The rosters for this year’s All-Star game are led by aforementioned American. They will send six players to their home venue for the game, including both members of their pitching rotation. After American, four teams are tied for the next highest amount of nominees at four each: Knickerbocker, Massachusetts Bay, Niagara, & St. John’s. At the bottom end it’s Gotham, which sent five players to the game last year, that will send only one player to Philadelphia.

This year’s elder statesman is Anthony Mascherino, who, incredibly, is making his seventeenth All-Star Game appearance when combing the pre-split N.B.B.O. and the A.P.B.L. Konrad Jensen will be in his sixteenth A.S.G., and Jim Creighton will be in his fifteenth. There will be seven first-time nominees and zero Greenhorns present.

Here are the All-Star Game rosters, with total All-Star appearances between the N.B.B.O. & A.P.B.L. noted:

Here are the number of nominees representing each team:

• ALLEGHANY: 3 (Cordell, Meier, & Strong)
• AMERICAN: 6 (Boyce, Burke, DiStefano, Everhart, Petty, & Prince)
• EXCELSIOR: 3 (Creighton, Hill, & Oberst)
• FLOUR CITY: 3 (Dugas, Goodman, & Knight)
• GOTHAM: 1 (Altman)
• KINGS CO.: 3 (Bartholomew, Koonce, & Williams)
• KNICK: 4 (Dyke, Landreth, Mascherino, & Romano)
• MASS. BAY: 4 (Berg, Garvin, Gaul, & Stoffers)
• NIAGARA: 4 (Hudspeth, Roper, Schumacher, & Smith)
• ORANGE: 3 (Harmon, Schreiber, & Valentine)
• SHAMROCK: 2 (Bulger & Simon)
• ST. JOHN’S: 4 (Burns, Decker, Jensen, & Todd)

American is the clear leader in nominees with six, but what makes their batch of All-Star Game players unique is that both members of their pitching duo, Simeon DiStefano & Jimmy Everhart, have been nominated on account of the fact that they are the only Pitchers in the A.P.B.L. who currently have 20+ Wins.

There are seven first-time All-Stars this year, and no Greenhorns:

• COLONIAL: 3 (Hudspeth, Smith, & Todd)
• METROPOLITAN: 4 (Everhart, Harmon, Landreth, & Romano)

The 6th APBL All-Star Game takes place next Monday afternoon at Glenwood Field in Philadelphia, with the first pitch scheduled for just after 1:00 PM. A sellout crowd of roughly 12,400 is expected to attend.