"What do Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaron, Ted Williams, Stan Musial, Willie Mays, and Yogi Berra all have in common They're all baseball players! And they all played together on the same field at the 1955 MLB All-Star Game at Milwaukee County Stadium. Watch the recap of this historic game from rare, HD footage."

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<p>The 1950s were a decade marked by the post-World War II boom, the dawn of the Cold War and the civil rights movement in the United States. At this time the U.S. economy was booming and more (mostly white) Americans could afford new cars, suburban houses and other consumer goods. But the 1950s also saw great conflict and division, from the nascent civil rights movement to the crusade against communism at home and abroad in the Korean War.</p>


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