Whether it was a promotional tool or a motivation to sell more books, Sports Illustrated assembled 22 baseball experts and presented them with the enviable task of selecting an all star team for the ages.
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In a decade long career, the 2001 National League Rookie of the Year has won six Silver Slugger Awards, appeared on the All Star team nine times and is the proud owner of a diamond and ruby encrusted 2006 World Series ring.
Fans can compare players of different eras and dream up their own all-time all-star team.
Dominican teammates Edwin Encarnacion, Nelson Cruz, Reyes and Rodney joined Cano on the all-star team.
Two-thirds of coaches who once played in the NBA never made an All-Star team.
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Usually the all-star team starts getting recruited into other projects and the initiative just seems to disappear.
Ever since he made his first All-Star team, D12 has led his team to a playoff spot.
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Potential evaluators also believed their player would score more, and would be more likely to make the All-Star team.
Brook Lopez, chosen to his first All-Star team Wednesday, scored 21 points for the Nets, who had their eight-game home winning streak snapped.
Notes: Chandler was chosen to the Eastern Conference All-Star team on Thursday, the first selection for last year's Defensive Player of the Year.
Nomo won rookie of the year honors, made the All-Star team, pitched a no-hitter and posted a respectable 69-61 win-loss record during his U.S. career.
Randolph looked like the player who made the All-Star team this season and led the Grizzlies to the second round of the playoffs two years ago.
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Because of Rajon Rondo's torn ACL, he will need to be replaced on the Eastern Conference All-Star team, and Hawks coach Larry Drew hopes Commissioner David Stern looks at Smith or Horford.
The Knicks actually trailed by 10 when Stoudemire entered in the first quarter, then went on to challenge the franchise-record victory margin of 48 points and kept alive Mike Woodson's chances of coaching the Eastern Conference All-Star team.
On any all-time all-star baseball team one's first baseman would not be Greenberg but, indubitably, Lou Gehrig.
The 30-year-old Wright is a six-time All-Star and the team's career hits leader.
But it was Wright, a six-time All-Star and the fourth team captain in franchise history, who delivered the big blow that stirred the Mets' dugout.
Williams is playing on a winning team with current All-Star Brook Lopez and former All-Stars Joe Johnson and Gerald Wallace, but the success has come at the cost of his own statistics.
The left-hander struggled against an All-Star lineup Wednesday as the Venezuelan national team roughed him up for six hits and four runs en route to a 14-10 win in its final tuneup for the World Baseball Classic.
Imagine a baseball team with a veteran All-Star first baseman and a hot 22-year-old who has been tearing it up in Triple-A. They want to get their young prospect some playing time, but don't believe he'll really benefit much from another season facing Triple-A pitching.
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On Wednesday, the judge granted a six-month extension for McCourt, giving the Dodgers until April 25 to file a reorganization plan and until June 25 to solicit votes on the plan from creditors, which means McCourt could still be running the team through the 2012 All-Star game.
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The 31 wins for the Nets at the All-Star break are the fourth-most in team history.
Led by Larry Lindsey, a former Federal Reserve governor, Bush's team is like a conservative All-Star squad from the Reagan-Bush years, a combination of supply-siders like Anderson and Harvard's Martin Feldstein, with do-no-harm pragmatists like Boskin.
Trading away Gay also eases a luxury tax hit due next season, while concentrating the team around center Marc Gasol and All-Star forward Zach Randolph.
After Tyreek Duren's two foul shots tied it 74-all at the 1:07 mark, Mississippi star and team lightning rod Marshall Henderson missed an off-balance bank shot that would have given the Rebels the lead.
"We're going to try and shock the world and become the first team to win a championship without an All-Star, " he said.
One factor that teams take into consideration when deciding to bid to become an NBA All-Star Game host city, is commemorative events surrounding the team taking place in a given year.
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Bynum, a one-time All-Star, has never been the best player on any team in the NBA, and he has shown a few signs of inconsistency despite being in the NBA for only one season less than Howard.
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Thunder coach Scott Brooks was impressed that his team was able to win despite losing its All-Star point guard.
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