Puerto Rico’s resurgence on display at ASG

The 1997 All-Star Game took place in Cleveland, but it was a Puerto Rican party. The tiny island in the Caribbean had an outsized impact on the American League and National League rosters that year, with a record-high eight Puerto Rican representatives between the two squads. Each of the game’s four runs was driven in by a player of Puerto Rican descent, with the winning home run hit by MVP Sandy Alomar Jr.