The 2025 Major League Baseball All-Star game will be played in Atlanta, Georgia, despite its past boycott over the state’s voter laws.
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred announced on Thursday that the game will be played in Atlanta in 2025 following an owners’ meeting. Per ESPN:
Atlanta was awarded the 2021 All-Star Game in May 2019, but MLB moved it in April 2021, just three months before the game was played.
Critics complained then that the voting rights changes were too restrictive. Manfred made the decision to move the All-Star events and the amateur draft from Atlanta after discussions with individual players and the Players Alliance, an organization of Black players formed after the death of George Floyd in 2020.
