only two games to be played outside the month of july the other was in 1981 when it was held on aug 9 because of the players strikethe dodgers also hosted the game at ebbets field in 1949 before they moved to the west coast from brooklynthe dodgers have produced four different allstar game mvps maury wills in 1962 steve garvey in 1974 and 78 don sutton in 1977 and mike piazza in 1996 from the 87yearold wills to the 51yearold piazza all are still living and may have played a part in this years festivitiesscully would surely have made an appearance either in person or via video where he has turned up several times since retiring in 2016 he and brent musburger worked the 1980 game in la for cbs radiothe dodgers had been planning to host the 91st allstar game since being chosen in 2018 they sent teams of planners to washington dc in 2018 and cleveland last year to study what did and didnt work for those host citiesbesides the futures game home run derby and allstar game over three days at the stadium there would have been a fan fest and other events and commercial tieins around the gamein february 2018 the los angeles city council estimated an economic impact of 894 million from hosting the game the dodgers had committed to paying 100000 for city services needed as part of the game