In advance of the All-Star Game selections on Sunday, ESPN.com surveyed 31 of ESPN’s top baseball minds to find out which American League players should start in the 80th Midsummer Classic on July 14 at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. Following are our voting results and the choices at each position. (Stats are through Wednesday’s games.) Who do you think should start for the American League?

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Fresh off winning the championship, the Lakers guard decided not to exercise an early termination option on the last two years of his contract and will return for the 2009-10 season, a league source told ESPN.com’s Chad Ford. Bryant is scheduled to make $23 million next season by not opting out. He also has a player option to opt out of his contract in the 2010-11 season. The Lakers will work with Bryant over the summer and fall to hammer out a new, long-term extension, according to the source.

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Peterson has moved on to a successful career in the NFL, breaking the league record for most yards rushing in a single game and helping the Minnesota Vikings make the playoffs a year ago. He now finds himself awash in the ongoing soap opera over whether Brett Favre will come out of retirement for a second straight year and sign with Minnesota.

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The selection committee announced on a conference call Tuesday it had elected the maximum four players this year. All were eligible for the first time. New Jersey Devils president Lou Lamoriello was elected in the builder category. Yzerman, who in summer 2006 retired after 22 seasons — all with the Detroit Red Wings — ranks sixth all-time in points with 1,755. Yzerman, named captain at age 21, won the Stanley Cup three times, and won a gold medal with Canada at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics. “Even now when I go back home in the summers, it’s really something that’s really important to Canadian hockey fans and Canadians in general that we were able to win that medal,” said Yzerman, who is currently a vice president with the Red Wings as well as executive director of Team Canada, in charge of building the men’s Olympic team for the 2010 Vancouver Games.

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With training camps beginning next month for the final year of the decade, we thought we had sufficient evidence to determine our all-decade teams. ESPN.com tapped into the knowledge of coaches, players, scouts and other league observers to compile the squad. Criteria included statistics, impact on the player’s team, Super Bowl wins/appearances and Pro Bowl berths. It was inevitable that several superstars would be left off. Here are the 11 players who made it:

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Pujols finished off a three-day romp in Kansas City with two homers and six RBIs, helping the St. Louis Cardinals rout the Royals 12-5 Sunday in win No. 2,500 for manager Tony La Russa. “He’s the best hitter in the game,” Royals starter Gil Meche said. Pujols made a mockery of Kansas City pitching in his return to the town where he went to high school, hitting three homers and driving in 10 runs in the Cardinals’ three-game sweep over their cross-state rivals.

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The Hall of Fame began what it hopes will become a new tradition on Sunday, with five Hall of Famers and more than 20 other former major leaguers staging an old-timer’s game at Doubleday Field. “I think it’s a tradition the fans want to see, the nostalgia of the game,” said Feller, who received a warm standing ovation when he was announced and again after he walked to the dugout after facing just two batters, Hall of Famer Paul Molitor and Bobby Grich. “Baseball has a lot of history.” The Baseball Hall of Fame Classic came about to replace the annual Hall of Fame Game exhibition between major league teams. Commissioner Bud Selig said it had become too difficult to fit the extra game in to a season that already featured 162 games in 183 days.

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Hundreds of families spent their Father’s Day at the ball park. Sunday was the first ever hall of fame classic in Cooperstown. Capital news 9 reporter Aaron Goldstein was out there taking in all the action. – 06/21/2009 05:41 PM

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Aikman participated in Saturday’s graduation ceremony on the Westwood campus along with 450 other graduates. He earned his sociology degree earlier this year, having left college as the No. 1 pick in the 1989 NFL draft by the Dallas Cowboys. He was mobbed with requests for pictures with his fellow graduates and received a loud cheer when his name was read while receiving his diploma.

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