What Bartolo Colon’s First All-Star Team Looked Like

Terry Collins announced on Friday that Bartolo Colon will be named to the NL All-Star Team. This makes the former Cleveland Indian and Montreal Expo this year’s oldest All-Star, and will surely be one of the most talked about players in San Diego.

This is the first time that Colon has made a NL All-Star team and the fourth time overall he’s made the Midsummer Classic. His first nod came in 1998 while he was a sophomore with the Indians at Coors Field–  a baseball eternity ago. 

Here was the starting lineup for that game, per Baseball Reference:  

1. Kenny Lofton, LF       1. Craig Biggio, 2B
2. Roberto Alomar, 2B     2. Tony Gwynn, RF
3. Ken Griffey, CF        3. Mark McGwire, 1B
4. Juan Gonzalez, RF      4. Barry Bonds, LF
5. Jim Thome, 1B          5. Chipper Jones, 3B
6. Alex Rodriguez, SS     6. Mike Piazza, C
7. Ivan Rodriguez, C      7. Larry Walker, CF
8. Cal Ripken, 3B         8. Walt Weiss, SS
9. David Wells, P         9. Greg Maddux, P

And here were the reserves:

   R Palmeiro, 1B           A Galarraga, 1B
   M Vaughn, 1B             B Boone, 2B
   R Durham, 2B             F Vina, 2B
   D Easley, 2B             V Castilla, 3B
   S Brosius, 3B            J Kendall, C 
   D Palmer, 3B             J Lopez, C 
   S Alomar, C              D White, CF
   B Williams, CF           G Vaughn, LF
   D Erstad, OF             M Alou, OF
   B Grieve, OF             D Bichette, OF
   P O'Neill, OF            G Sheffield, OF
   M Ramirez, OF            S Sosa, OF
   D Jeter, SS              E Renteria, SS
   O Vizquel, SS                                          
   R Arrojo, P              A Ashby, P 
   R Clemens, P             K Brown, P 
   B Colon, P               T Glavine, P 
   T Gordon, P              T Hoffman, P 
   P Martinez, P            R Nen, P 
   T Percival, P            R Reed, P 
   B Radke, P               C Schilling, P 
   A Sele, P                J Shaw, P 
   J Wetteland, P           U Urbina, P