CINCINNATI (AP) -- One of the most famous All-Star endings won't be repeated when the game returns to Cincinnati this summer.
Cincinnati's Pete Rose bowled over Cleveland's Ray Fosse to end the 1970 All-Star Game at Riverfront Stadium. Fosse suffered a significant shoulder injury that curtailed his career.
Major League Baseball has tried to eliminate those home plate collisions the last two years. All-Star catcher Joe Torre, who is MLB's chief baseball officer, watched the collision from the National League bench and thought thought the hit was clean, though devastating to Fosse's career.
''Being a catcher myself, I sort of knew the drill,'' Torre said on Thursday during a conference call.