After four years in 1963, the league had returned finally to the original single game format. This game was held in Cleveland , in which the NL won by 5-3. Bill White at first, Ken Boyer at third and Dick Groat at shortstop were the three Cardinals been selected to start the All Star game. By this game baseball came back to a single All Star game. Into the starting lineup Pittsburgh 's Bill Mazeroski was selected as the second baseman. He missed the game because of an injury and was replaced by the Cardinal's Julian Javier. Earlier the American League had not permitted the National League from trying series at 16-16. The National League had won eight straight games, dropped one and then won another eleven in a row. By this game Stan Musial was making his twenty-fourth and final appearance. He gave six homeruns and twenty hits in sixty-three at-bats for a .317 average in the All Star record. The fans and players had both expressed mixed emotions and they felt that it was confrontation of the integrity of the All-Star exhibition.