Computers-N-Internet.com

comment by nas88car 300 #48 = 4
Posted on February 3, 2010 at 6:07 pm

ballots at the staduim or local places that gave them out and put them back in a box that was provided or mailed them in…yes snail mail

comment by Chipmake
Posted on February 3, 2010 at 6:07 pm

These funny, olde-tyme things called paper ballots. You reviewed the available names and poked out the chads beside the names you thought (for whatever reasons or criteria) should be that season’s All-Star starters. If you didn’t like anyone, you could write-in candidates at the bottom.
The ballots were collected, mechanically scanned, and votes tallied. Highest scores got the starts, unless a given player was injured.
And thus were funny results generated like Mike Schmidt earning the NL 3B start despite retired, Paul Molitor earning the AL 2B start despite playing no games there, and Jose Canseco getting voted in even though he missed the first half of the season recovering from thumb surgery.
Usually the results made sense, like having Ozzie Smith voted in as the NL SS starter, except for the returns from Florida voting for Carlton Fisk for the position.

comment by nba_gsw
Posted on February 3, 2010 at 6:07 pm

Yea. most ppl just use paper ballots. They are often located at ballparks. And you can vote using those ballots today. At every stadium theres paper ballots around every corner and you punch holes for the players u want to see at the All Star game. Of course I just take the ballots and keep them as a souvenir(mite be worht something in a 100 years). Just a Heads up.

comment by Columbo
Posted on February 3, 2010 at 6:07 pm

Paper ballots. Which may have been better because the voters are the ones that really follow baseball and go to games. Less fairweather fans not following the season’s stats

comment by Richard M
Posted on February 3, 2010 at 6:07 pm

ballots at the stadium

comment by eric d
Posted on February 3, 2010 at 6:07 pm

ballots. the ones that you can still find at the stadiums.