Top 10 Worst MLB All-Stars
Clueless fans are to blame for the All-Star Game selection of some of these B-teamers, while others benefited from baseball's requirement that each club supply a warm body. Here are the players who prove that to make baseball's Midsummer Classic — which this year will be played on July 14 in St. Louis — you don't actually have to be any good
Frankie Zak, Pittsburgh Pirates (1944)
How does a slap-hitting, part-time player make an All-Star team? Blame World War II. In 1944 baseball's best — like Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams — were serving in the military, opening spots in the Midsummer Classic for mediocre players like Zak. Plus, the game was being held at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field, so tapping the rookie saved baseball the cost of a train ticket in an era of rationing. That year Zak hit .300 — in just 160 at bats — with no home runs and a measly 11 RBIs. He got eight more hits over the rest of his career and was out of baseball two seasons later.
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