After shifting the All-Star Game from Truist Park to Coors Field in Denver four years prior due to opposition to modifications to Georgia’s voting rights legislation, Major League Baseball will hold its 2025 All-Star Game in Atlanta.
Rob Manfred, the commissioner of baseball, announced the decision on Thursday after the owners’ meeting.
Three months before the game took place, in April 2021, MLB shifted the 2021 All-Star Game from May 2019, when Atlanta was originally given the game.
The changes to voting rights were criticized at the time for being unduly restrictive. After talking with individual players and the Players Alliance, a group of Black players founded following George Floyd’s 2020 death, Manfred decided to relocate the amateur draft and All-Star festivities from Atlanta.
To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the 2026 All-Star Game will take place in Philadelphia and the All-Star Game in Arlington the following year.
