Who was the first relief pitcher to ever pitch an all-star..

Mischa Gelman (mgelman@city-net.com) writes:
> Patrick Burns wrote:
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>> Anyone know? Thanks!
>
> Lon Warneke

I think that Patrick wanted to know who was the first true reliever to
pitch in an All Star Game was; Lon Warneke was a starter who appeared in
relief. I would think that the correct answer would most likely be Firpo
Marberry.
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ai750.RemoveThis@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Corby Gilmore) wrote in message news:<cbomg7$9ck$1@freenet9.carleton.ca>...
> Mischa Gelman (mgelman@city-net.com) writes:
> > Patrick Burns wrote:
> >
> >> Anyone know? Thanks!
> >
> > Lon Warneke
>
> I think that Patrick wanted to know who was the first true reliever to
> pitch in an All Star Game was; Lon Warneke was a starter who appeared in
> relief. I would think that the correct answer would most likely be Firpo
> Marberry.

I believe the answer is "Fireman" Johnny Murphy - 1937.

For criteria, I used 5 or less starts in the season that the player
was named as an All Star. Murphy started 4 games and relieved in 35 in
1937. He was in the Top 10 in Saves from 1934-1943 for the Yanks - the
first coming of Mariano Rivera.
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Corby Gilmore <news:cbomg7$9ck$1@freenet9.carleton.ca>:
> Mischa Gelman (mgelman@city-net.com) writes:
> > Patrick Burns wrote:
> >
> > > Anyone know? Thanks!
> >
> > Lon Warneke
>
> I think that Patrick wanted to know who was the first true reliever
> to pitch in an All Star Game was; Lon Warneke was a starter who
> appeared in relief. I would think that the correct answer would most
> likely be Firpo Marberry.

Not Rollie Fingers?
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comish4lif.RemoveThis@verizon.net (Mark Wolven) writes:

>I believe the answer is "Fireman" Johnny Murphy - 1937.

Murphy might have been an All-Star that year, but he didn't actually play
in the game. The AL pitching line was GOMEZ, Bridges (4), Harder (7).
I'd guess that the correct answer would be Mace Brown, who pitched three
innings to pick up the save for the NL in the 1938 Mid Season Classic.
Brown appeared in 51 games that year, 49 of them in relief, which
classifies him as a true reliever.

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