The Major League Baseball All-Star Game, also popularly known as the "Misummer Classic", is an annual baseball game between players from the National League and the American League, currently selected by fan vote for the starting position players and by the respective managers (from the previous year's World Series) for pitchers and reserve players. The All-Star Game usually occurs in early to mid-July and marks the symbolic halfway point in the Major League Baseball (MLB) season (though not the mathematical halfway point; in most seasons, the game actually takes place one week later). The game is usually played on a Tuesday, with no regular season games scheduled for the Monday immediately preceding the game and the Wednesday immediately following the game. These are the only 2 calendar days on which no games in the major professional sports leagues of the United States are scheduled (as the other 3 major sports are in their off season.)