The 1958 All Star game was the first in Baltimore, and only 4 years after getting a Major League team back in the city... Despite featuring names such as Mantle, Aaron, Banks, Mathews, Williams, Mays, Kaline, and Musial, this was the first All-Star Game to pass without an extra-base hit. The American League had scored in the second on a RBI single by Nelson Fox, cutting the National League lead to 3-2. With the game tied in the bottom of the sixth, Malzone singled... advanced on an error by Pirates third baseman Frank Thomas and then scored the winning run on a single by the Yankees Gil McDougald.
The game featured spectacular pitching by the National League's Don Drysdale who was making the first of eight All-Star appearances. He worked three hitless innings while striking out four. Unexpectedly, the National League took a 3-1 lead into the eight, only to have the American League score three runs, two from a double by O's Gus Triandos. However the National League came back to win it against Whitey Ford in the ninth, as Hank Aaron singled in the tying run, and Willie Mays hit a triple to drive in Aaron and the game winner.