Museum: Major League Baseball All-Star Game Balls. The Midsummer Classic—home of glorious multicolor-laced ROMLB-ASG baseballs! Every official MLB All-Star baseball used in the Bigs is pictured, from 1979–2026.
1979–1991 MLB All-Star Game Baseballs (Originals)
1979 MLB All-Star Game Ball, 50th All-Star Game, Seattle Mariners (Haiti Sweet Spot Stamp). 1980 Los Angeles Dodgers (Haiti SS). 1981 Cleveland Indians (Haiti SS). 1982 Montreal Expos (Haiti SS). 1983 MLB ASG 50th Anniversary, Chicago White Sox (Haiti SS). 1984 San Francisco Giants (Haiti SS). 1985 Minnesota Twins (Haiti below Rawlings logo). 1986 Houston Astros, Blue-stamped On-field Game Ball (Haiti/Rawlings) & 1986 Red-stamped (BP or Prototype. Rawlings/Haiti). 1987 Oakland Athletics (Rawlings/Haiti & Haiti SS variants). 1988 Cincinnati Reds (Rawlings/Haiti & Haiti SS variants). 1989 California Angels (Rawlings/Haiti & Costa Rica reverse variants). 1990 Chicago Cubs (Costa Rica & Haiti reverse variants). 1991 Toronto Blue Jays (Costa Rica reverse).
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Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game Ball and The Rebirth of Multicolored Laces.
1992–1999 MLB All-Star Game Baseballs (Originals)
1992 1st Multicolor-Laced ASG Ball, San Diego Padres (Costa Rica reverse). 1993 ASG Baltimore Orioles (No added hand stamp. Country of manufacture stamp discontinued late 1992). 1994 Pittsburgh Pirates. 1995 Texas Rangers. 1996 Philadelphia Phillies. 1997 Cleveland Indians. 1998 Colorado Rockies. 1999 Boston Red Sox (Final old Rawlings logo ASG ball).
Reprinted versions of vintage All-Star balls have flooded the hobby. When ASG and World Series commemorative logo, special event on-field game balls were first produced, Rawlings and MLB allowed continued print runs for several seasons. In 2009, all seasons were opened for annual reprints. Over time, stamping plates would be replaced with new plates containing minor variances. The Rawlings logo also evolved. And more obvious changes are evident, like a missing country of origin stamp (that little “Haiti” or “Costa Rica” hand-stamp). We aim to showcase the original on-field game ball first, and we’ll gradually add modern reprint counterparts, plus the occasional misprint and error balls.
2000–2014 MLB All-Star Game Baseballs (Originals)
2000 Atlanta Braves. 2001 Seattle Mariners. 2002 Milwaukee Brewers. 2003 Chicago White Sox. 2004 Houston Astros. 2005 Detroit Tigers. 2006 Pittsburgh Pirates. 2007 San Francisco Giants. 2008 New York Yankees. 2009 St. Louis Cardinals. 2010 LA Angels of Anaheim. 2011 Arizona Diamondbacks. 2012 Kansas City Royals. 2013 New York Mets. 2014 Minnesota Twins. (MLB Commissioner Bud Selig Signature Stamped)
2015–2025 MLB All-Star Game Baseballs (Manfred Commissioner)
2015 MLB ASG On-field Ball Cincinnati Reds (first Manfred). 2016 San Diego Padres. 2017 Miami Marlins. 2018 Washington Nationals. 2019 Cleveland Indians. 2020 Los Angeles Dodgers (CANCELED, pandemic). 2021 Atlanta Braves (CANCELED, politics). 2021 Colorado Rockies (relocated game). 2022 Los Angeles Dodgers. 2023 Seattle Mariners. 2024 Texas Rangers. 2025 Atlanta Braves. 2026 Philadelphia Phillies. (2027 and beyond: Chicago Cubs, Toronto Blue Jays, Baltimore Orioles. Boston Red Sox? Milwaukee Brewers? Tampa Bay Rays? Chicago White Sox?)
MLB All-Star Game Promotional and BP / Practice Balls
2015 Cincinnati Reds Allan H. ‘Bud’ Selig Edition (for logo unveiling press conference and limited promotional use). 2022 Red-Laced BP/Practice Ball Los Angeles Dodgers. 2023 Red-Laced BP/Practice Ball Seattle Mariners. 2024 Red-Laced BP/Practice Ball Texas Rangers. 2024 MasterCard Logo / Texas ASG Red-Laced (Promotional, for charity signing event). 2X 2025 Red-Laced BP/Practice Ball Atlanta (1 BP-used – Thank you, @2_gregz! 1 New).
MLB All-Star Game Baseballs: Reprints
The most notable differences between reprints and originals, aside from aging or toning of the leather, is the country of origin stamp, or lack the of these stamps on both early and current reprints. The earliest iterations of the All-Star Game balls contain a Haiti hand stamp on the reverse sweet spot. A few from the mid-80s have the “Haiti” text moved to the front top panel, as part of the Rawlings logo stamp.
Several seasons’ baseballs feature a Costa Rica hand stamp, also typically on the sweet spot or just at the edge of the seam near the sweet spot. Worth noting, a few NL/AL and on-field commemoratives have “Costa Rica as part of the Rawlings logo too. Rawlings opened its Costa Rica factory in 1987, but the company did not fully discontinue its Haiti operations until the early 1990s. So, collectors can find MLB baseballs from the same events with either a Costa Rica or Haiti stamp from about 1987 to 1992, and some with no stamp at all.
Sometime in 1993, Rawlings stopped placing country of origin stamps on baseballs. Companies were no longer legally required to do so for certain products, likely because the boxes in which they are packaged already display a country of origin stamp.