1958 - Frank Malzone - All Star Game Bat... Malzone, who played 11 years with the Red Sox and one with the Angels, won the very first gold glove award ever in 1957... he then won in 1958, and 1959, and he most likely would have won more if not for a kid named Brooks took over the award and won the next 16 straight. 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.
1959 - Rice - All Star Game bat... the only MLB player name Rice at the time was Del Rice of the Milwaukee Braves... he was towards the end of his career, and not an all-star, but the bat could have been made for him as he may have been brought as a bullpen catcher for the two Braves pitchers on the team, Spahn and Burdette... The bat could also have been made for LF Umpire Jon Rice, who umpired 3 all-star games '59, '62, '70
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.
