East-West All-Star Game

CTL-E-5929 · Event · other · 1933–1950

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07172 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5929.

The East-West All-Star Game was the Negro leagues' annual showcase, first played September 10, 1933, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, where the West defeated the East 11–7 before 19,568 fans. Players were chosen by fan balloting conducted through Black newspapers; in the first vote Oscar Charleston led all players with 43,793 ballots and Willie Foster drew 40,637. Bill Foster pitched a complete game for the win and Mule Suttles hit the game's first home run. The classic ran from 1933 to 1950 and became Black America's premier recurring sporting event: the 1939 edition drew a record 40,000 fans, and the 1947 game outdrew that year's Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Wrigley Field by 7,000. Historian Larry Lester has called it the biggest event in Black America, with the sole exception of a Joe Louis fight.

The record

• Also known as: East-West Classic, Negro Leagues East-West All-Star Game

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 2 — 747 Program, Wave 9; second Scan Tail packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no East-West All-Star Game entity in the live graph at 3,603 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5929 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 4 — Scan Tail Wave 1 packet ordered reserve, position 4 of 20 (corpus-gap-candidates-2026-10-15.json ranked clean survivor #444). The scan supplied the NAME STRING ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Negro leagues showcase founded and staged in Chicago; Black Chicago sports core scope. Vital status: n/a (Event). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): First game: September 10, 1933, attendance 19,568, West 11, East 7 (SABR). First fan ballot: Oscar Charleston 43,793 votes, Willie Foster 40,637 (SABR). Record crowd 40,000 (1939); the 1947 edition outdrew the MLB All-Star Game at Wrigley Field by 7,000 (Wikipedia, summarizing the standard histories). MEDIA: photo HELD (1933 East-West All-Star Game team photograph at Comiskey Park named as candidate; no file-page verification in this pass); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5929-east-west-all-star-game.svg); video HELD (no matching-entity CTL Short or verified-rights archival video staged); audio HELD (no rights-cleared matching-entity audio staged). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Non-place record; no map attaches at the entity layer.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No audiobook excerpt or author recording with a CTL rights basis was staged in this pass.)

Relationships

• Original Comiskey Park Site — held at
  The first East-West All-Star Game was played September 10, 1933, at Comiskey Park, Chicago, whose site is CTL-E-0236.

Sources

• SABR Games Project, "September 10, 1933: The Game of Games — the first Negro League All-Star Game" (accessed 2026-10-16) — date, Comiskey Park site, 11–7 West win, 19,568 attendance, fan balloting totals (Charleston 43,793; Foster 40,637), Bill Foster's complete game, Suttles home run — https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/september-10-1933-the-game-of-games-the-first-negro-league-all-star-game/ (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, "East–West All-Star Game" (accessed 2026-10-16) — the 1933–1950 run, the 1939 record crowd of 40,000, the 1947 comparison with the MLB All-Star Game, and Larry Lester's assessment — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%E2%80%93West_All-Star_Game (build store)

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