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112TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. RES. 509 

Recognizing Major League Baseball as an important part of the cultural 

history of American society, celebrating the 2012 Major League Baseball 

All-Star Game, and honoring Kansas City, Missouri, as the host city 

of the 83rd All-Star Game. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JUNE 26, 2012 

Mr. BLUNT (for himself and Mrs. MCCASKILL) submitted the following 

resolution; which was considered and agreed to 

RESOLUTION 

Recognizing Major League Baseball as an important part 

of the cultural history of American society, celebrating 

the 2012 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, and 

honoring Kansas City, Missouri, as the host city of the 

83rd All-Star Game. 

Whereas Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game, the Midsummer Classic, occurs once a year between players from 

the American and National Leagues, allowing baseball 

fans, players, and managers to select players to represent 

each league; 

Whereas the first All-Star Game, held as part of the 1933 

World’s Fair in Chicago, Illinois, at Comiskey Park was 

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cess led to the establishment of the game as an annual 

tradition; 

Whereas the Major League Baseball All-Star Game showcases the best baseball players in the major leagues and 

all across the world, giving baseball fans the opportunity 

to select the starting players; 

Whereas, since 1933, the Major League Baseball All-Star 

Game has taken place every year but one, 1945, in the 

midst of World War II; 

Whereas the 83rd edition of the Major League Baseball AllStar Game for the 2012 season will be held on July 10, 

2012, at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, 

the home of the Kansas City Royals; 

Whereas the event will mark the third time the All-Star 

Game has been played in Kansas City, with Kauffman 

Stadium, then named Royals Stadium, last hosting the 

event in 1973, the stadium’s inaugural year; 

Whereas the event was also held at Municipal Stadium in 

1960, when it was the home of the Athletics; 

Whereas the illustrious baseball history of Kansas City, Missouri, includes the Royals’ 1985 World Series Championship, the contributions of Jackie Robinson, Buck O’Neil, 

and others to the Kansas City Monarchs, and Lou 

Gehrig’s final three innings of play in a 1939 exhibition 

against the Kansas City Blues; 

Whereas, as part of Major League Baseball’s All-Star Summer celebration, Major League Baseball will host a number of events in the Greater Kansas City region leading 

up to the All-Star Game, benefitting the Kansas City 

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Whereas Major League Baseball and the Kansas City Royals 

will hold numerous charity events throughout the region, 

including an All-Star Game Charity 5K & Fun Run, with 

all Major League Baseball proceeds being donated equally between three cancer charities, Stand Up To Cancer, 

the Prostate Cancer Foundation and Susan G. Komen 

for the Cure, Greater Kansas City; 

Whereas, as part of the All-Star Summer celebration, Major 

League Baseball will provide funding to help renovate 

two baseball fields owned by the Kansas City Missouri 

Parks and Recreation Department, Mulkey Square Park 

and Satchel Paige Stadium; 

Whereas the fields will be used regularly by local Reviving 

Baseball in Inner Cities leagues and by Guadalupe Center Youth Baseball; 

Whereas Kansas City, Missouri, has worked to preserve the 

history of the Negro Baseball Leagues by establishing the 

Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, and as part of the AllStar Game summer events, funding will be provided for 

a new traveling exhibit focusing on Negro League Players 

who, after Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color barrier, began participating in All-Star Games in 1949; 

Whereas Kansas City, Missouri, known for world-class 

barbeque, rich jazz history, and a legacy of professional 

sports, including the Royals’ 1985 World Series Championship, will play host to the 83rd All-Star Game, and 

will be showcased in the forefront of baseball history as 

the All-Star Game is broadcast world wide; and 

Whereas the 2012 Major League Baseball All-Star Game in 

Kansas City, Missouri, will be a unique and unforgettable 


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experience for baseball fans across the State of Missouri 

and throughout the country: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) recognizes Kansas City, Missouri, as the 

3 host city for the 83rd Major League Baseball All4 Star Game and supports efforts to achieve an unfor5 gettable Midsummer Classic baseball experience for 

6 all fans; and 

7 (2) recognizes Major League Baseball for spon8 soring the All-Star Game and for its efforts in ener9 gizing the Kansas City community by hosting a 

10 number of baseball-related events that benefit nu11 merous charities, focusing on fan appreciation and 

12 youth involvement, and emphasizing the continued 

13 appreciation of baseball as America’s favorite pas14 time. 

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