<P> Since 1934, the managers of the game are the managers of the previous year's league pennant winners and World Series clubs . </P> <P> The coaching staff for each team is selected by its manager . This honor is given to the manager, not the team, so it is possible that the All - Star manager could no longer be with the team with which he won . This happened in 2003, when Dusty Baker managed the National League team despite having moved from the National League champion San Francisco Giants to the Chicago Cubs . This has also included situations where the person is no longer actively managing a team . For the first All - Star Game, intended as a one - time event, Connie Mack and John McGraw were regarded as baseball's venerable managers, and were asked to lead the American and National League teams, respectively . McGraw came out of retirement for that purpose . Dick Williams resigned after managing the Oakland Athletics to the 1973 World Series . In 1974, he became manager of the California Angels, whose uniform he wore for the game . Tony La Russa, who managed the World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals in 2011, and retired after the season, came back to manage the National League in 2012 . </P> <P> In 1979, Bob Lemon managed the American League team after having been fired by New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner . Lemon led the Yankees to the 1981 World Series but did not make it to the' 82 All - Star Game as manager after again being fired by Steinbrenner, so Billy Martin, skipper of the 1981 AL runner - up Oakland Athletics, led the All - Star squad . </P> <P> There have been some exceptional cases where the usual rule was abandoned . After the 1964 season and the World Series, the managers, Johnny Keane of the St. Louis Cardinals and Yogi Berra of the New York Yankees, both left their teams and found new jobs in the other league--Keane was hired to manage the Yankees and Berra became a player - coach with the New York Mets . The Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds had finished in a second - place tie in the NL; the Chicago White Sox had finished second in the AL . Cincinnati's manager, Fred Hutchinson, had died in the off - season, so Gene Mauch of the Phillies and Al López of the White Sox were chosen to be the managers for the 1965 All - Star Game . </P>

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