The Final 9

The Angels and the city of Anaheim have been selected to host the 2010 All-Star Game.
Commissioner Bud Selig is expected to make the announcement at a press conference at Angel Stadium on Wednesday, marking the fourth time the game will be played in the Los Angeles area since the Dodgers moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in 1958. The game is scheduled to be played on July 13, 2010.

The Angels, who expanded into the American League in 1961, have hosted the game twice, in 1967 and 1989. It'll be a first for the club, though, under the ownership of Arte Moreno, who purchased the team from Disney five years ago.

The decision has been in the works since last summer, when Selig said that the 2010 game and its three days of festivities certainly would go to an AL team. After Pittsburgh and San Francisco of the National League hosted back-to-back games in 2006 and 2007, Selig said he was determined to go back to the traditional rotation of one year at an AL site and the next at an NL site.

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