The 22nd annual All Star baseball game was played on July 12, at Milwaukee . The National league defeated the American league by the score of 6 to 5, a solo homerun delivered by Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals which was in the national's favour. After 13 losses in the All Star game this was the ninth victory of the National League, there were 45,314 spectators. Arch Ward, a sports editor of the Chicago Tribune, the founder of the All Star game in 1933. He died three days before when the game was played. Through six innings the American League lead by the score of 5-0, but the National League made a late yet a successful comeback. In the seventh inning they made two runs and in the eighth they continued their momentum by scoring three more runs. For the second time the All-Star Game went into extra innings, with the pitchers like Frank Sullivan (AL) and Joe Nuxhall (NL) in the ninth inning. Stan Musial in the bottom of the twelfth, a fastball was thrown out of the park. By this game the National League proved to be the best, it lead the American League and never looked back.