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The top three vote getters in the National League for the 1957 All-Star game were Frank Robinson with 1,833,318, Ernie Banks with 1,780,453 and Don Drysdale with 1,759,986. Starters for the National League will have Stan Lopata of Philadelphia doing the catching. Lopata narrowly beat out Cincinnati's Ed Bailey. At firstbase we had a battle. St. Louis' stan Musial will start over Cincy's George Crowe, but Crowe has put up some big numbers including 26 homeruns along with 58 RBI. Don Blasingame beat out Johnny Temple at second by a close margin of 701,965 to 690,038. Thirdbase will be manned by Milwaukee's Eddie Mathews and Cincy's Don Hoak. Shortstop will be in the good hands of Ernie Banks with 25 homeruns thus far. His back up is Al Dark from the Cardinals. Frank Robinson (Cincinnati) will start in leftfield, Duke Snider (Brooklyn) in centerfield and Henry Aaron (Milwaukee) in right. Wally Moon (Cards), Willie Mays (Giants) and Wally Post (Redlegs) are the back ups. Don Drysdale (Brooklyn) will get the start on Tuesday and he is joined by other starting pitchers, Harvey Haddix (Philadelphia) the league with a 2.16 ERA. Haddix also leads in strikeouts with 103. Others are Milwaukee's Warren Spahn and the Phillies Don Cardwell. Cincinnati lefty Don Gross, who is tied with Spahn with ten victories, will join New York's Al Worthington, Pittsburgh's Vern Law, Clem Labine from Brooklyn and Buster Freeman from Cincinnati rounds out the twenty five man roster and are just relilef pitchers. Here is a list of players that are having very good seasons, but were left off of the 25 man roster. Brooklyn's Gil Hodges who is hitting .335 with 56 RBI will not make the trip to St. Louis. Philadelphia's Richie Ashburn (.333) and Ed Bouchee (.331) along with pitchers Johnny Podres from Brroklyn and El Roy Face from Pittsburgh. Walter Alston will manage the team with his assistants being Bob Scheffing from the Cubs and the Pirates Bobby Bragan