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Baseball’s Midsummer Classic returns to Anaheim Tuesday for the third time since the All-Star Game began in 1933, but the event has changed quite a bit since the city first hosted the exhibition (in 1967 when the NL won in dramatic fashion on a Tony Perez home run in the 15th inning).

The facts are these. Yao has missed 92 games the last four years with the Rockets advancing beyond the first round of the playoffs just once in that period.