Useless Info: All-Star Edition 

July, 15, 2008
07/15/08
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NEW YORK -- Welcome to the All-Star Useless Information blog. We'll do our best to keep up with all the craziness of a special evening. Here goes:

WHAT'S BREWING: OK, try to name the last Brewers pitcher before Ben Sheets to start an All-Star Game. Heheheh. Trick question. There had never been one. The Elias Sports Bureau reports that of the 26 teams that have existed for at least 20 years, the Brewers were the only one that had never produced an All-Star starting pitcher. So now that we've got that group out of the way, those Tampa Bay Rays are officially on the clock.

THE ONE AND ON-LEE: American League starting pitcher Cliff Lee will be delighted to know he moved into second place on the all-time list in this prestigious category: Most All-Star strikeouts by a Lee. No. 1 on that list is -- who else? -- Bill (Don't Call Me Spaceman) Lee, who pitched for the Cubs in the '30s and whiffed six in six All-Star innings in the 1938 and '39 games.

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Jayson Stark
Jayson Stark

Jayson Stark has been a senior baseball writer for ESPN.com since 2000. His regular contributions include the newsy Rumblings and Grumblings column, his eclectic "Three Strikes" blog and his tilted look inside baseball's numbers and quirks, the Useless Information Department.

Stark also makes regular television appearances on "SportsCenter," "Outside the Lines" and "Baseball Tonight." He is a regular ESPN Radio guest of Mike & Mike, the Doug Gottlieb Show, the John Kinkade Show, ESPN Radio tonight and numerous other shows on the network.

Before arriving at ESPN, Stark worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer for 21 years. He was twice named Pennsylvania's sportswriter of the year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. In 2010, he was honored by the Foster Conference for Distinguished Writers for his books and other work. He is the author of two books, "The Stark Truth: The Most Overrated and Underrated Players in Baseball History" (Triumph Books, 2006) and "Worth The Wait: Tales of the 2008 Phillies" (Triumph Books, 2009).

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