Sport: Picked by Pros

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This year there was no stuffing of the ballot boxes. The fans who made a farce of last year's All-Star baseball game by swamping the National League squad with Cincinnati Redlegs, never got into the act. The teams for the 25th annual mid-season show were chosen by votes of players, managers and coaches.*

The men who know baseball best turned a collective cold shoulder on two of the fans' perennial favorites: Boston's Ted Williams (batting .298 at week's end) and New York's Yogi Berra (.217). New faces popped up everywhere in the lineups. Only one man was everybody's choice: St. Louis' Stan ("The Man") Musial was a unanimous pick (discounting a lone myopic dissenter) for National League first baseman.

The starting teams, with batting averages, for the game next week in Baltimore:

National League

c. Del Crandall, Milwaukee (.280) 1b. Stan Musial, St. Louis (.351) 2b. Bill Mazeroski, Pittsburgh (.278) 3b. Frank Thomas. Pittsburgh (.296) ss. Ernie Banks, Chicago (.302) If. Bob Skinner, Pittsburgh (.324) cf. Willie Mays, San Francisco (.373) rf. Hank Aaron, Milwaukee (.266)

American League

c. Gus Triandos, Baltimore (.285) 1b. Bill Skowron, New York (.285) 2b. Nelson Fox, Chicago (.329) 3b. Frank Malzone, Boston (.303) ss. Luis Aparicio, Chicago (.259) If. Bob Cerv, Kansas City (.318) cf. Mickey Mantle, New York (.273) rf. Jackie Jensen, Boston (.297)