Bill Center, longtime sportswriter for U-T San Diego, is an employee of the Padres.
San Diego native Ted Williams hit arguably the most dramatic home run in All-Star Game history on July 8, 1941, to give the American League a 7-5 victory.
With the AL hosts trailing 5-4 with two out in the bottom of the ninth at Briggs Stadium in Detroit, Williams hit a walk-off, three-run homer off the National League's Claude Passeau.
Trailing 2-1 going into the seventh, the NL had taken a 5-4 lead on a pair of two-run homers by shortstop Arky Vaughan of the Pittsburgh Pirates.