Midwest League 1974

All-Star Game

All-Stars 3, Iowa Oaks 2

Cedar Rapids, Monday, July 22, 1974

The 1974 Midwest League All-Star Game was played at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Cedar Rapids on July 22, 1974. A team of the league's best players, selected by the league's managers and sports writers, faced the American Association's Iowa Oaks.

The Midwest League Stars scored two in the first on an Al Woods home run, then plated the winning run when Moe Hill--already being billed as the MWL's "Old Man"--singled in Ron Farkas to end the game in the thirteenth inning. Dubuque's Dave Garcia was credited with the win; Iowa's Ken Tatum was the losing pitcher.

Box Score

IOWA                            AB R H BI      ALL-STARS                       AB R H BI
Danny Rourke (IA/CWS) 2B         6 0 1 0       Steve Blomberg (WAT/KC) RF       5 0 0 0
Bill Stein (IA/CWS) 3B           6 1 2 0       Alex Taveras (BUR/MON) SS        6 1 1 0
Jerry Hairston (IA/CWS) DH       3 0 0 0       Al Woods (WR/MIN) CF             5 1 1 2
 Joseph Talley (IA/CWS) DH       2 0 0 0       Moe Hill (WR/MIN) DH             6 0 2 1
Lamar Johnson (IA/CWS) 1B        5 1 1 0       Al Newsome (DUB/SF) LF           2 0 0 0
Sam Ewing (IA/CWS) RF-CF-RF      4 0 1 1        Mark Budaska (BUR/OAK) LF       3 0 1 0
Bobby Tucker (IA/CWS) LF         3 0 1 0       Rick Richardson (DAN/MIL) 1B     4 0 1 0
Leon Brown (IA/CWS) CF-RF-CF     5 0 0 0       Larry Wolfe (WR/MIN) 3B          2 1 1 0
Daniel Adams (IA/CWS) SS         4 0 0 0        Kevin Bell (APP/CWS) 3B         3 0 0 0
Bill Cotton (IA/CWS) C           5 0 1 0       Ernie Young (DEC/SF) C           2 0 0 0
Jim McAndrew (IA/CWS) P          0 0 0 0        Rick Tintor (WR/MIN) C          3 0 0 0
 Butch Stinson (IA/CWS) P        0 0 0 0       Doug Clarey (WR/MIN) 2B          2 0 0 0
 Ken Tatum (IA/CWS) P            0 0 0 0        Ronnie Farkas (WR/MIN) 2B       3 0 0 0
                                               Jeff Gressick (WAT/KC) P         0 0 0 0
                                                Mike Van De Casteele (WR/MIN) P 0 0 0 0
                                                Lafayette Currence (DAN/MIL) P  0 0 0 0
                                                Pat Cristelli (QC/CAL) P        0 0 0 0
                                                Jeff Little (DEC/SF) P          0 0 0 0
                                                Luis Sanchez (CR/HOU) P         0 0 0 0
                                                Mike Larkin (WAT/KC) P          0 0 0 0
                                                David Garcia (DUB/MIN) P        0 0 0 0
 TOTALS                         43 2 7 1                                       45 3 7 3

Iowa              000 101 000 000 0 - 2 7 3
All-Stars         200 000 000 000 1 - 3 7 1

 E - Rourke, Adams, Cotton, Clarey. DP - Iowa 1, All-Stars 2. LOB - Iowa 4, All-Stars 8.
 2B - Stein, Budaska. 3B - Johnson. HR - Woods. SH - Blomberg. SF - Ewing.

IOWA              IP H R ER BB SO
McAndrew         5.0 4 2  2  0  3
Stinson          5.0 1 0  0  2  6
Tatum (L)        2.1 2 1  0  0  0

ALL-STARS         IP H R ER BB SO
Gressick         2.0 1 0  0  2  0
Van De Casteele  2.0 4 1  0  0  0
Currance         1.0 1 0  0  0  1
Cristelli        1.0 1 1  1  1  0
Little           1.0 0 0  0  0  2
Sanchez          2.0 0 0  0  1  3
Larkin           2.0 0 0  0  0  0
Garcis (W)       2.0 0 0  0  0  2

 HBP - by Tatum (Farkas). WP - Currence.

 Umpires - Richard Plank, John Jundt, Richard Runchey, Bob Willman, Martin Imwalle,
 Spencer Thomas.

 Time: 2:47.  Attendance: 1,588.

Notes, Issues, Sources, and Mysteries

• Based on the box score in the 1995 Midwest League Yearbook, with help from the game accounts in the July 23, 1974, editions of the Wisconsin Rapids Tribune, the Cedar Rapids Gazette, and the Des Moines Register; the Gazette and the Register included box scores. The team selections were published in the July 14 edition of the the Register and the July 15 Trib.
• Wisconsin Rapids Manager John Goryl led the All-Star squad, with coaching assistance from John Sullivan of Waterloo and Jimy Williams of Quad Cities.
• No official game MVP was selected.
• Selected, but did not play: Pitcher Mike Messman (Wisconsin Rapids), pitcher Frank Panick (Quad Cities), pitcher Julio Division (Decatur), catcher Tom Mutz (Dubuque), outfielder Ruppert Jones (Waterloo), and outfielder Larry Foster (Appleton). Mutz was injured, and Messman was scheduled to pitch the fourteenth inning; the others had been promoted before the game began.
• A mystery: The Register's July 14 roster listing includes a Ramon Jiminez I've not been able to identify. They seem to think he played for Clinton.