Fenway Park was chosen for the 1946 Major League Baseball All-Star Game (13th "Midsummer Classic") which was played on July 9 of that year.
Mike Todd, a Broadway producer, had passed on the idea of holding the 1945 All-Star Game in Nuremberg,[4] at a stadium renamed "Soldier Field" where U.S. troops stationed in the European Theater played baseball.
Although baseball's new commissioner, Happy Chandler was reportedly "intrigued" by the idea, it was ultimately dismissed as impractical by military advisors.
[7] The Sporting News All-Star Team made up of eleven members (one player in italics has since been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame), is shown here: A group of sportswriters of the Associated Press (AP) did name 40 AL and NL All-Stars in 1945, after taking nominations from 13 of the 16 MLB managers that season.
The AP sportswriters and Lieb's (TSN) All-Star rosters (6 of the players in italics have since been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame) are shown here: