Atlanta to host 2025 MLB All-Star Game after dropping 2021 recreation over objections to voting legislation

ARLINGTON, Texas — Major League Baseball will play its 2025 All-Star Game in Atlanta, 4 years after transferring the sport from Truist Park to Denver’s Coors Field over objections to modifications in Georgia’s votings rights legal guidelines.

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred made the announcement Thursday following an homeowners’ assembly.

Atlanta was awarded the 2021 All-Star Game in May 2019, however MLB moved it in April 2021, simply three months earlier than the sport was performed.

Critics complained then that the voting rights modifications had been too restrictive. Manfred made the choice to maneuver the All-Star occasions and the newbie draft from Atlanta after discussions with particular person gamers and the Players Alliance, a company of Black gamers fashioned after the demise of George Floyd in 2020.

Next 12 months’s All-Star Game might be in Arlington and the 2026 recreation in Philadelphia to make the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.