Here are the San Francisco Chronicle's picks for the 10 most memorable All-Star Game moments.

-- AT-BAT: When John Kruk stood in against Randy Johnson, during 1993 game in Baltimore, the 6-10 Johnson's first pitch was a 98-mph fastball that sailed over Kruk's head and hit the backstop. Kruk was dazed and amused as he backed off from three more pitches, all strikes.

-- PITCH: Rip Sewell was on the mound at Fenway Park as the game visited Ted Williams' home ballpark in 1946. Sewell threw one of his "eephus" balls, a high-arcing, slow-moving bloop pitch, and Williams drilled it into the right-field bullpen for a homer.

-- COMEBACK: Stan Musial led off the 12th inning against Frank Sullivan of the Red Sox and blasted a Sullivan pitch over the wall at County Stadium in Milwaukee in 1955 to give the National League a victory.

-- STRATEGY: Tony La Russa was the manager for the American League at the 1989 game in Anaheim and he had a roster full of talent but no obvious candidate to be the leadoff hitter. La Russa took advice from pitching coach Dave Duncan and settled on Bo Jackson, who started the game by blasting a 448-foot homer off NL starter Rick Reuschel.

-- HOME RUN: Reggie Jackson turned the 1971 All-Star Game in Detroit into his coming-out party when he hit a home run that cleared the right-field fence 370 feet from the plate, went through a light tower and slammed against a generator atop the roof at old Tiger Stadium nearly 100 feet above the field.

-- CONTROVERSY: After 11 innings, the 2002 All-Star Game in Milwaukee was tied at 7-7 and managers Joe Torre of the American League and Bob Brenly of the National League had used all of their players. Neither skipper had a fresh pitcher left, and both Freddy Garcia and Vicente Padilla had already worked two innings. Commissioner Bud Selig declared the game over.

-- DOMINATION: The All-Star Game was in its second year in 1934 when Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants put on a pitching performance that may never be equaled. Left-handed Hubbell used his uncanny screwball to strike out five consecutive batters, all future Hall of Famers — Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons and Joe Cronin.

-- CEREMONY: A highlight of the 1999 All-Star Game was a pregame ceremony in which Major League Baseball gathered many of its greatest legends for a promotional "All-Century Team." When the final legend was introduced, Boston's own Ted Williams, nearly 90 former and current players crowded around him for an extended baseball love-fest.

-- PLAY: The most rehashed play in All-Star history ended a 12-inning battle in Cincinnati and gave the National League a victory over the American League in 1970 as Pete Rose knocked over catcher Ray Fosse.

-- FAREWELL: At Cal Ripken's final All-Star appearance in 2001, he was elected the starting third baseman, but was ushered into his old position, shortstop. Then, in his first at-bat, in the third inning, Ripken hit the first pitch off Chan Ho Park into the visitors' bullpen, becoming, at 40, the oldest player to hit an All-Star homer.