Major league baseball is paused in order to play its 86th All-Star Game. Tomorrow’s event takes place in Cincinnati’s Great American Ball Park, home of baseball’s oldest franchise — the Reds. The first All-Star Game was played on July 6, 1933, at Comiskey Park in Chicago. In 1933, all 16 teams in the major leagues were clustered in the northeast of the country, with St. Louis being the southern-most and farthest west outpost of the national pastime. That year, the mean center of the U.S. population was in southwestern Indiana. The number of major league teams has almost doubled since then, expanding to the far corners of the continental U.S. Trends in population growth and migration put the mean center in south-central Missouri. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at <www.census.gov>.