Sources: Yankee Stadium to host '08 All-Star Game

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Yankee Stadium will be the site of the 2008 All-Star Game, sources in baseball said, in the last year of the ballpark.

Upcoming All-Star Game hosts
Major League Baseball's All-Star Game, which determines home-field advantage for the World Series, will be in an NL stadium in 2007. The upcoming hosts for the Midsummer Classic: 2007: AT&T Park, San Francisco 2008: Yankee Stadium, New York 2009: Busch Stadium, St. Louis

Commissioner Bud Selig will hold a news conference at New York's City Hall with Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Jan. 31 to make the announcement.

The new Yankee Stadium is scheduled to open in 2009, and old Yankee Stadium closed, 86 years after the ballpark was first built in 1923, and 33 years after the ballpark was remodeled on the same site in 1976. With the All-Star Game slated to be in an AL park in 2008, officials chose Yankee Stadium for the site, believing it to be an appropriate way to usher out the historic building.

The All-Star Game has been held in Yankee Stadium three times previously, the last time in 1977.

Next summer's All-Star Game will be played in San Francisco, and on Monday night, Commissioner Bud Selig formally announced that the 2009 All-Star Game will be played in St. Louis.

Buster Olney is a senior writer at ESPN The Magazine. Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

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