Posts Tagged ‘all-star game’
Can You Name the 17 Mormon All-Stars?
July 15th, 2014 | 
Author: In the history of the MLB All Star Game, seventeen Mormons have been selected, including four current players who have been on a MLB roster this year.
As I watched the game this evening, I did the research and put together a list of those Mormons who have been selected in some year. I was surprised to discover that the first Mormon appeared in 1936! And this is only the 3rd year since 1997 that no Mormon player has been selected.
Can you name the four current players who have been all stars? How about the other 13 Mormons who have been selected?
Posted in History | 
Tags: all-star game, Bryce Harper, Harmon Killebrew, Jacoby Ellsbury, John Buck, Josh Johnson, Most Appearances, Most Mormons | 
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Chosen as an All Star
While injuries prevented the Mormons on last year’s All Star teams, Roy Halladay and Jacoby Ellsbury, from making this year’s team, almost as if it were destiny a last-minute injury led to the selection last Friday of National League rookie Bryce Harper as an All Star. Since Mormons don’t believe in predestination, but in ‘fore-ordination,’ which requires effort and merit and allows for agency, Harper must deserve the spot, right?
Posted in Profile, Religion |
Tags: all-star game, Bryce Harper, Chosen One, Home Run Derby, Robinson Cano |
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Two Mormons in Baseball’s 2011 All-Star Game
Roy Halladay
While 13 Mormons are among the 750 active players on Major League Baseball rosters at this point, just two (of 68 players) are on the rosters for tomorrow’s All-Star game. And with one player in each league, there is no clear team to root for in tomorrow’s game.