⚾ On This Day in MLB History ⚾

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July 02. Larry Doby jersey day.

1903: - Seeing that George Davis is playing for the Giants, Ed Delahanty decides to jump to New York too. Leaving the Nationals in Detroit, he boards an eastbound train. He is put off the train for rowdy, and possibly drunken, behavior at Niagara Falls. When he tries to walk across the railroad bridge over the Niagara River, he falls to his death. He had a 16-year career with a .346 batting average.

1918 - The Red Sox clinch the pennant, winning the first of a twin bill from the A's 6 - 1, as Babe Ruth wins his ninth game in his last 11 starts.

1931: - Wes Ferrell of ★ Cleveland hits two home runs, as he beats the White Sox, 13 - 5, at Chicago. He will end his career with a record 37 home runs as a hurler, plus one as a pinch hitter.

1945 - The Senators again muff a chance to go into first place, dropping a pair to the Yankees, 3 - 2 and 3 - 1. In between games, Nats pitcher Bert Shepard receives the Distinguished Flying Cross for his service in World War II. Shepard lost his leg in battle.
1959 - Sandy Koufax fans 18 Giants to set a National League mark in a 5 - 2 Dodger win. The game is witnessed by a crowd of 82,974 spectators (60,194 of whom have paid admission), the largest ever for a regular-season game.
1960 - The World Series-bound Pirates come from behind yet again, trumping the Giants, 7 - 4. Roberto Clemente hits a two-out, two-run homer and Roy Face closes the game. For the Giants, Willie Mays does his best with a single, double and near-homer his first time up, but falls victim to Face in his final at-bat, a 7th-inning strikeout, representing the tying run at the plate. Later, Les Biederman will elicit Willie's post-game prognosis: "The Pirates sure are impressive. Nothing seems to bother them. You're behind 3 - 0, then a couple of hits, a couple of errors and boom! They have confidence and they show it. It's a good team and should go all the way without too much trouble.
1964 - Ground is broken for Anaheim Stadium, future home of next year's California Angels.

1970: - ★ Cleveland edges the Orioles, 10 - 9, helped by Tony Horton, who hits for the cycle. Dennis Higgins is the winning pitcher.

1979 - ★ Indians manager Jeff Torborg announces his resignation effective at the end of the season. In three weeks he will be fired and replaced by Dave Garcia.

1993: - In honor of the team's owner, Royals Stadium is renamed Kauffman Stadium.

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July 03. Get a kick out of some of the oldies names. A lot of Cleveland Indians chit-chat today.

1900 - At Pittsburgh, Jack Chesbro beats the Beaneaters, 2 - 1; the Boston battery is Ted Lewis and Boileryard Clarke.
1906 - At ★ Cleveland, the Naps top the Tigers, 5 - 0, in game called after six innings on account of rain.. To underscore the soggy conditions, Detroit outfielder Germany Schaefer plays the last few innings wearing a raincoat over his uniform.

1912: - The Giants' Rube Marquard nips Nap Rucker, 2 - 1, to capture his 19th straight game this season. With two end-of-year wins in 1911, he has 21 in a row in regular season play. Both marks are records. On the 8th, the Cubs will beat him, but he will ultimately compile a league-leading 26 victories against 11 defeats. Today's game is the Giants' 16th consecutive win. Brooklyn will end the streak tomorrow.

1915: - The ★ Browns ?? lose to the ★ Indians, ?? 3 - 1. Despite walking 9, George Sisler pitches a complete game victory.

1939 - ★ Cleveland's Ben Chapman ties the modern major-league record with three triples, as ★ Bob Feller notches his 13th victory, 4 - 2

1964 - ★ Birdie Tebbetts returns to limited duty as manager of the ★ Indians.
1968 - Luis Tiant registers 19 K's in 10 innings, as ★ Cleveland beats Minnesota, 1 - 0. ★ Tiant sets two modern ML records - most strikeouts in a 10-inning game; and 32 strikeouts in consecutive games - and ties the modern major-league record of 41 strikeouts in three successive appearances. He will top the American League in ERA with .160 !
1973: - Brothers ★ Gaylord Perry (Indians) and Jim Perry (Tigers) pitch against each other for the only time in their careers.. Neither finishes the game, but Gaylord is charged with the 5 - 4 loss.
1992: - ★ Cleveland sends washout speedster Alex Cole (.206 with nine stolen bases) to the Pirates for Tony Mitchell and John Carter. For Cole, it is his fourth team in three years. He'll vacate Pittsburgh for the Rockies after the season
1994 - The ★ Indians retire Larry Doby's uniform number, 47 years after he broke the American League color line.
1998 - ★ Manny Ramirez's two home runs are ★ Cleveland's only hits against Kansas City pitcher Jose Rosado, but they're enough to give the Tribe a 2 - 1 win over the Royals.

And finally.....

2020 - With the release of its schedule for the abbreviated upcoming season, ★ Major League Baseball announces the cancellation of the ★ 2020 All-Star Game, which was supposed to take place in Dodger Stadium on July 14th. It will be the first season without an All-Star Game since ★ World War II. The 2021 game remains scheduled to be played in Atlanta, GA, meaning Dodger Stadium will get its shot in 2022.

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July 04.

1928 - Ray Schalk resigns as White Sox manager; Lena Blackburne replaces him. Blackburne will last one year and in 1930 will start selling his Rubbing Mud from the Delaware River to the American League to use to take the shine off of baseballs. The National League will adopt it in the 1950s.
1929 - A brawl breaks out in the 3rd inning of a game between the St. Paul Saints and the Minneapolis Millers in the American Association. The Millers' Hughie McMullen grounds out to first base, and spikes P Huck Betts, who is covering the bag. Betts replies by firing the ball at McMullen's head in retaliation, but misses him; however, reserve infielder Sam Bohne, who is coaching at first base, enters the fray by punching Betts, and both dugouts empty and a free-for-all ensues. Reporter George Barton describes it as "the most vicious affair ever witnessed at Nicollet Park."

1939: - It's Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day at Yankee Stadium and the "Iron Horse"'s uniform number 4 will be the first ever to be retired. After emcee Sid Mercer informs the sell-out crowd the man of the hour is too moved to speak, Gehrig changes his mind when Skipper Joe McCarthy encourages him, and delivers the keynote address describing himself as "the luckiest man on the face of the earth".

1954 - ★ Indians Mike Garcia, Ray Narleski and Early Wynn (in a rare relief role) shut down the White Sox, 2 - 1, only allowing Minnie Minoso's 9th-inning single.
1987 - With the ★ Indians' and Phil Niekro's 9 - 6 win over the Tigers, the Niekro brothers pass the Perrys (Gaylord and Jim) with 530 combined victories.
1988: - As he did yesterday, Mark McGwire belts a 16th-inning homer to give the A's a 4 - 2 win over ★ Cleveland. Doug Jones pitches three shutout innings for Cleveland, but gets no decision ending his major league-record streak of 15 straight saves.
2002 - The Yankees defeat the Indians, 7 - 1. ★ Jim Thome has his streak of consecutive games hitting a home run stopped at 7, one short of the major league record.

Births.

1930 - George Steinbrenner, owner (d. 2010) Ohio
1969 - Todd Marinovich, drafted pitcher

Deaths.

2005 - Hank Stram, college coach (b. 1923)

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July 05.

1934 - Lou Gehrig hits an inside-the-park grand slam, as the Yankees beat the Senators, 8 - 3. It is his 4th of the season and 17th overall, passing Babe Ruth's career total Gehtig will eventually set a career record of 23 grand slams. Gehrig now has 321 career home runs to Ruth's 698.
1937 - Hal Trosky hits three home runs helping the ★ Indians beat the Browns, 14 - 4.
1947 - Striking out as a pinch hitter in an ★ Indian 6 - 5 loss to the White Sox, 22 year old ★ Larry Doby becomes the first black to appear in the American League. The former Newark Eagles standout will play in the major leagues for 13 years, amassing 1,515 hits, just three less than Jackie Robinson. Tomorrow, he will go 1 for 5 in his first full game at 1B.
1954: - RF Stan Musial outpolls all other National League players in the All-Star balloting
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- 1954 - ★ Indians reserve 1B Billy Glynn hits three home runs in a row and drives in eight runs in a 13 - 6 win over Detroit.
- 1998 - Hot-hitting ★ Manny Ramirez hits two more homers, one a grand slam, in the ★ Indians' 12 - 3 win over Kansas City. Manny had two homers on July 3.

1998 - Juan Gonzalez becomes the. second player in major league history to go over the 100 RBI mark before the All-Star Game. His major league-leading total 101 RBIs is second only to Tiger slugger Hank Greenberg who had 103 in 1935 and finished the season with 170.

2002: - Baseball legend ★ Ted Williams, considered by many the greatest hitter in the history of the game, dies of cardiac arrest a5 the age of 83. The first-ballot Hall of Famer, who was a lifetime .344 hitter, won the Most Valuable Player Award and the Triple Crown twice, led the American League in batting six times, and hit .406 in 1941 during his 19-year career with the Boston Red Sox.

2005 - Passing Eddie Murray, Red Sox left fielder ★ Manny Ramirez hits his 20th career grand slam, now the second-most in major league history. The Dominican Republic native trails only Yankee legend Lou Gehrig, who holds the major league record with 23.

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July 06.

1912 - In Brooklyn, the cornerstone is put in place and construction on Ebbets Field begins.
1917 - Ty Cobb's hitting streak ends at 35 games as White Sox pitchers Red Faber and Jim Scott hold him hitless. His streak began May 31. Cobb holds the American League mark of 40 straight games, set in 1912, but George Sisler will ring up 41 games in 1922.
1932 - Cubs SS Billy Jurges is shot twice in his Chicago hotel room by a spurned girlfriend, Violet Popovich Valli. In a scuffle for the gun, Jurges is hit in the shoulder and hand. Jurges fails to prosecute, and Valli will be signed to a 22-week contract to sing in local nightclubs and theaters. She is billed as "Violet (What I Did for Love) Valli - the Most Talked About Girl in Chicago."

1936 - After the first batter is thrown out trying to bunt, Bob Feller, a 17-year old farm boy from Van Meter, Iowa, strikes out 8 consecutive batters in three innings during an All-Star break exhibition game against the Cardinals' Gas House Gang. It is the rookie's first appearance in a major league uniform.
1941 - A center field monument dedicated to Lou Gehrig is unveiled by the Yankees. The memorial is a tribute by his teammates of their beloved captain who died last month of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
1942 - Powered by first-inning home runs by Indians shortstop Lou Boudreau and Tigers first baseman Rudy York, the American League All-Stars defeats the National League at the Polo Grounds, 3 - 1. Mickey Owen also homers for the third run. He will not hit a single home run during the regular schedule. The game features the first and only starting sibling battery in All-Star history as losing pitcher Mort Cooper throws to backstop Walker Cooper, his brother.

●--------To be continued ------> After my 1:30 pm doctor appointment. Still waiting ?

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July 08. Oh those rowdy old-timers.

1901 - An 8th-inning decision favoring the Brooklyn Superbas infuriates St. Louis fans. When the 7 - 5 Brooklyn win ends, they rush umpire Hank O'Day, who suffers a split lip before players and police can rescue him.

1907 - Bombarded. by pop bottles in Brooklyn, irate Cubs manager Frank Chance throws one back into the stands where it cuts a boy's leg. Chance is mobbed and leaves the park in an armored car with a police escort after the Cubs' 5 - 0 victory. Three-Finger Brown emerges with the shutout win.

1935 - The American League continues its ★ All-Star Game reign, winning the third event, at ★ Cleveland's ★ Municipal Stadium, 4 - 1. Jimmie Foxx is the hitting star with a homer and three RBI. The rule that no pitcher can throw more than three innings unless the game goes into extra innings will be instituted after Yankee Lefty Gomez pitches six outstanding innings in the Mid-Summer Classic.
1951 - The ★ feud between Joe DiMaggio and Casey Stengel reaches a head in the 2nd inning against the Red Sox. Because of a misplay in the 1st, Stengel sends reserve Jackie Jensen out to CF to relieve the Yankee Clipper after he has already taken his position. The Red Sox clip the Yankees, 6 - 3, as the red-hot Clyde Vollmer belts a two-run homer.
1960 - The Cuban revolution led by ★ Fidel Castro brings an end to Havana's International League team. The Sugar Kings relocate in Jersey City, marking that city's return to the IL after a 10-year absence. Poor attendance at Roosevelt Stadium will prompt the parent Reds to cease the minor league operation there following the season however.

1974: - ★ Cleveland's Gaylord Perry loses to Oakland in 10 innings, 4 - 3. Vida Blue is the winner.

1988 - In a game with the Angels, ★ Cleveland's Bud Black hits Jack Howell, Devon White and Johnny Ray with pitches in the 4th inning of a 10 - 6 loss, tying the major league record. Bert Blyleven will match him in September.
1997 - The American League defeats the National by a score of 3 - 1 in the annual ★ All-Star Game, played in Cleveland.★ Indians C Sandy Alomar Jr. hits a two-run home run and is named the game's Most Valuable Player. Alomar is the first hometown player to homer since Hank Aaron in Atlanta in 1972.
2019 - Youth dominates at the ★ Home Run Derby held at Progressive Field in ★ Cleveland, OH, as two rookies face each other in the final round. Pete Alonso, the major league rookie leader with 30 homers prevails over Vladimir Guerrero Jr., 23 to 22, but the 20-year-old from the Blue Jays has a veritable coming out party, even if he comes into the event with just 8 major league homers: he slugs an incredible total of 91 over the three rounds, including the longest of the night at 488 feet. For his part, the Mets' Alonso more than doubles his annual salary with the prize of $1 million awarded to the winner.

Deaths.

2015 - Ken Stabler, drafted pitcher (b. 1945)

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July 09.

1936 - The temperature is ★ 106 degrees in Central Park, the hottest July 9th on record in New York, as the ★ Indians take on the Yankees at Yankee Stadium. The Yanks score four in the 1st inning, but Cleveland comes back to score 11 runs on 15 hits, including five homers, to win 11 - 4.

1937 - Joe DiMaggio hits for the cycle as he delivers two home runs, a triple, a double and a single helping the Yankees maul the Senators, 16 - 2. The "Yankee Clipper" will accomplish this feat only once again, in 1948.

And some ★ All Star Game memories. ★

1946 - With seven Red Sox teammates on the American League squad, Ted Williams stages a power show with two homers, two singles, a walk, 4 runs scored, and 4 RBI to lead the AL to a 12 - 0 laugher over the National League at Fenway Park. The highlight of the 1946 All-Star Game is Williams's home run off a Rip Sewell blooper pitch.
1957 - At Busch Stadium in St. Louis, the American League nips the National League, 6 - 5, in the 24th All-Star Game. Both teams score 3 in the 9th inning, but Minnie Minoso's running catch with the bases loaded chokes off the NL's last-half rally.
1960 - Major League Baseball announces that the 1960 season will open one week later than this year in hopes of getting better weather.
1991 - Cal Ripken Jr.'s three-run home run lifts the American League to a 4 - 2 win over the National League in the annual All-Star Game. Andre Dawson homers for the NLers who lose for the 4th straight year. Ripken, who also won the pre-All-Star Game Home Run Derby, is named the game's MVP. Tony LaRussa becomes the first manager with three straight All-Star victories.
1999 - ★ The uniform Lou Gehrig wore when he made his famous "luckiest man on earth" speech on July 4, 1939 is sold for $451,541 at auction. Leland's spokesman Marty Appel says the flannel pinstripe uniform worn by the Hall of Fame first baseman was purchased by a south Florida man who did not want his name made public. The winning bid was made over the phone. Yesterday Carlton Fisk's home run ball that won Game 6 of the 1975 World Series for the Boston Red Sox sold for $113,273.

2001 - Arizona OF Luis Gonzalez beats Chicago OF Sammy Sosa in the Home Run Derby during the All-Star festivities.

2010 - The Seattle Mariners trade ★ ace hurler Cliff Lee, Mark Lowe and $2.25 million to the Texas Rangers for prospects Justin Smoak, Blake Beavan, Josh Lueke and Matthew Lawson. Seattle goes for a youth movement after acquiring Lee for prospects last winter, while Texas, in first place in the AL West, pushes for a playoff run.

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July 10. Oh those rowdy old-timers. A lot of interesting things today.

1911 - Sherry Magee, star OF for the Phillies, knocks out umpire Bill Finneran with one punch after being ejected for disputing a called third strike. He is suspended for the season, but upon appeal he will be reinstated after five weeks and 36 games. The Phils win, 4 - 2, behind Grover Cleveland Alexander, who strikes out 9.
1932 - Indians flychaser Johnny Burnett collects a record nine hits in 11 at-bats in an 18-inning game iin which the A's outscore the Tribe, 18 - 17. Jimmie Foxx hits 3 home runs, and has 16 total bases and 8 RBI for the A's. After Philadelphia starter Lew Krausse is knocked out in the 1st inning,

And mixed in highlights of the ★ All Star Games . ★

1934 - The second annual ☆★ All-Star Game produces Carl Hubbell's amazing feat of striking out five future Hall of Famers in a row. Off to a shaky start with two on base in the 1st inning, Hubbell uses his screwball to fan Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Jimmie Foxx. He adds Al Simmons and Joe Cronin to start the 2nd. After three scoreless innings he leaves with the National League ahead, 4 - 0. The American League rallies, scoring nine runs off Lon Warneke, Van Mungo and Dizzy Dean, while ★ Mel Harder pitches five shutout innings in relief of Red Ruffing to hold the lead. Frankie Frisch and Joe Medwick hit homers. Earl Averill's three RBI are decisive for the AL's 9 - 7 victory.

1936 - The Yankees roll to an easy victory over the ★ Indians, as Red Ruffing takes the shutout, 18 - 0. Lloyd Brown, the first of three pitchers, is the loser.★ Lou Gehrig has a pair of homers to take over the American League lead with 23.

1945 - The All-Star Game at Fenway Park is ★ canceled because of travel restrictions. During the break in the schedule, 7 inter-league games are played for war charity. Plans for a USO-sponsored all-star game in Europe do not materialize, although the war in Germany is over and fighting in the Pacific will be over in 6 weeks.
1947: - In a rain-interrupted game before 47,871, Don Black of the ★ Cleveland Indians pitches a no-hitter, beating the Philadelphia Athletics 3 - 0 in the first game of a doubleheader. It is the first no-hitter at ★ Municipal Stadium.
1948: - After yielding a two-run homer to the A's Hank Majeski to tie the score, reliever Satchel Paige gets his first major league win as Larry Doby hits a two-run homer and the ★ Indians tack on another run in the 9th to beat Philadelphia, 8 - 5.
1956 - In the 1956 All-Star Game, Ken Boyer of the Cardinals makes three sparkling plays at 3B and gets 3 hits as the National League defeats the American League, 7 - 3. Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams and Stan Musial all homer. Mays's pinch-hit two-run home run off Whitey Ford is his 7th straight hit against the Yankee lefty.
1962 - At newly-opened D.C. Stadium, ★ John F. Kennedy becomes the first president ever to throw the ★ ceremonial first pitch at an All-Star Game. Thanks to the game's MVP Maury Wills scoring two of the team's three runs and Willie Mays's amazing game-ending catch, the National League beats the Junior circuit, 3 - 1, in the first of two Mid-Summer Classics to be held this summer. Roberto Clemente has three hits.

1984 - On the ★ 50th anniversary of Carl Hubbell's legendary five consecutive strikeouts in the 1934 All-Star Game, National League pitchers Fernando Valenzuela and Dwight Gooden combine to fan six batters in a row for a new All-Star Game record in the NL's 3 - 1 triumph. After Valenzuela whiffs Dave Winfield, Reggie Jackson and George Brett in the 4th inning, Gooden, the youngest All-Star ever at age 19, fans Lance Parrish, Chet Lemon and Alvin Davis in the 5th.
1986 - ★ Oil Can Boyd (11-6) flies into a rage after learning that he has been left off the American League All-Star team and storms out of Fenway Park prior to Boston's game against the Angels. He will be suspended indefinitely by the Red Sox and eventually. scuffle with local police before checking into a hospital for psychiatric testing.. The weirdness continues into the game as the Angels score three in the 12th to take a 7 - 4 lead. Boston then scores three to tie and when Todd Fischer replaces Mike Cook, he balks in Dwight Evans with the winning run.
2017 - Aaron Judge adds another flourish to his outstanding rookie season as he wins the ★ Home Run Derby, staged at Marlins Park on the eve of the 2017 All-Star Game, with a total of 47 homers , including four measured at over 500 feet. He defeats Miguel Sano for the title as local favorite and defending champion Giancarlo Stanton is eliminated in the first round.
Births.
1964 - Urban Meyer, minor league infielder

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July 11. A lot of unusual things and ★ All-Star Game ★ moments.

1911 - The Federal Express of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, carrying the St. Louis Cardinals to Boston, plunges down an 18-foot embankmen. outside Bridgeport, CT, killing 14 passengers. The team's Pullmans were originally just behind the baggage coaches near the front. When noise prevented the players from sleeping, manager Roger Bresnahan requested the car be changed . The day coach that replaced the players' car is crushed and splintered. The players help remove bodies and rescue the injured, then board a special train to Boston, where the day's game is postponed. The railroad pays each player $25 for his rescue work and for lost belongings.

1923 - Harry Frazee, owner of the Boston Red Sox since 1916, sells out for over $1 million to a group of ★ Ohio businessmen, who bring in veteran front office man Bob Quinn from St. Louis to run the club. Frazee's departure is welcomed by Boston fans who are fed up with the sale of Frazee's best players over the years, many of them to the rival New York Yankees.

And some ★ All Star Game ★ highlights included.

1939 - With another Yankee-dominated lineup, the American League defeats the National League, 3 - 1, in the seventh ★ All-Star Game, at Yankee Stadium. Cincinnati OF Ival Goodman fractures his shoulder diving for a ball.

1950 - Making a leaping, off-the-wall catch of a Ralph Kiner drive in the 1st inning, Ted Williams ★ fractures his left elbow in the All-Star Game at Chicago. Remaining in the game, he puts the American League ahead, 3 - 2, with an RBI single. Kiner's 9th-inning home run ties the game, and Red Schoendienst's blast in the 14th wins it. Williams later states. he was never the same after this injury. It's a game of firsts - the first extra-inning All-Star Game, the first time the NL wins at an AL park, and the first All-Star Game ever shown on national television.
1989 - ★ Bo Jackson and Wade Boggs lead off the bottom of the 1st inning with back-to-back home runs off Rick Reuschel to spark the American League to a 5 - 3 win in the ★ All-Star Game at Anaheim Stadium. Jackson earns MVP honors.

1995: - ★ Mickey Mantle's ★ final public appearance increases awareness of organ donation programs. Wow, I remember that.

1996: - In the Twins' 11 - 7 loss to the ★Indians, Chuck Knoblauch completes his 10th multi-hit game in a row - the longest such streak in the majors since 1978. ★Manny Ramirez and ★ Albert Belle drive in nine runs between them for the Tribe, and Jack McDowell picks up the win.
1998 - Padre reliever Trevor Hoffman, brother of opposing manager Glenn Hoffman, save he Padres' 4 - 1 victory over the Dodgers. It's the ★ first time in major league history a player has faced his brother as a manager.

2002 - The★ Indians. fire their manager , ★ Charlie Manuel, and name third base coach Joel Skinner as the interim skipper. After issuing an ultimatum to the front office about his status, the 58-year-old is released after piloting Cleveland to a 39-47 record, 9 1/2 games behind first-place Twins in the AL Central.

2016 - Giancarlo Stanton wins the annual ★ Home Run Derby staged as part of the All-Star Game festivities in San Diego, CA. Stanton outhomers defending champion Todd Frazier, 20 to 13, in the final round.

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July 12. Oh those oldies names. And in 1979 "Disco sucks".

1900 - Frank "Noodles" Hahn of Cincinnati twirls a 4 - 0 no-hitter over Philadelphia. The Reds lefty gives up five walks to the visiting Quakers who are playing without ★ Nap Lajoie. Hahn strikes out 7,

1905 - Chicago's Three-Finger Brown scores the first of nine straight wins over Christy Mathewson, 8 - 1, as he allows just two New York hits.

1916 - With the temperature at Fenway Park near 100 degrees, Boston sweeps the White Sox behind complete game wins by Ernie Shore, 2 - 1, and Dutch Leonard, 3 - 1.
1928 - Baseball's biggest battery is recorded, appropriately, with the New York Giants, as Garland "Gob" Buckeye, a 260-pound pro football lineman in the off-season, makes his National League pitching debut with 250-pound Shanty Hogan behind the plate. The Giants lose to the Cardinals.
1949: - The major league owners agree to install ★ warning tracks made of cinder in front of outfield fences prior to the start of next season
- 1949 - The National League commits five errors, allowing the American League to record an 11 - 7 triumph in the ★ All-Star Game at Ebbets Field. The contest marks the first appearance of black players in an All-Star Game: Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe in the NL lineup, and ★ Larry Doby among the AL stars.
1951: - At ★ Cleveland, Allie Reynolds of the New York Yankees blanks Cleveland, 1 - 0, for the first of his two no-hitters this season. Gene Woodling's 7th-inning homer off loser★ Bob Feller is the difference in the 1 - 0 game.
1966 - St. Louis hosts a hot midsummer All-Star classic. Maury Wills' 10th-inning single scores Tim McCarver, as the National League wins, 2 - 1, in the 105° heat Brooks Robinson's stellar game (3 hits, eight chances) earns him the game MVP award. Asked about the new ballpark, Casey Stengel remarks, "it holds the heat well." On field temperature is 113°.
1968: - Eddie Stanky is fired as manager of the White Sox and replaced by ★ Al Lopez.
1979 - ★ A classic, the Disco Demolition Night ★ After a delay of an hour and 16 minutes, the White Sox are forced to forfeit the second game of twi-night doubleheader against the Tigers when over 5,000 fans refuse to leave the field during a Disco Demolition Night promotion gone awry. Mike Veeck's promotion involves admitting fans for 98 cents with a disco record, collecting the vinyl and then. literally blowing up the LPs and 45s in center field.

1989 - ★ Ron Guidry retires from baseball. During his 14-year career with the New York Yankees, "Louisiana Lightning" compiled a 170-91 record with a 3.29 ERA.

1996 - Minnesota star Kirby Puckett announces he is ★ retiring effective immediately, because of glaucoma in his right eye.

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July 13.

1904 - With Napoleon Lajoie lining a major-league record three triples, Cleveland rolls past the Highlanders, 16 - 3.
1920 - The fans are flocking to see the mighty Babe Ruth hit home runs (12 in June). A twin bill with the Browns draws a Polo Grounds record of 38,823, the third record-breaker of the year.
1922:The smallest crowd in Fenway Park history - just 68 fans - Browns' Herman Pillette shut out the Red Sox, 2 - 0.
1944 - A .300 hitter as a rookie for the Tigers in 1943, Dick Wakefield finishes Navy air training and then is released from the service pending assignment. He rejoins the Tigers and will hit .355 the rest of the season, pushing

1950 - Doctors remove seven bone fragments from ★ Ted Williams' elbow in a 75-minute operation. He was injured in yesterday's All-Star Game and will be sidelined until mid-September. But he will go on to hit .350 for the rest of 1950 and .336 throughout the rest of his career, including .388 and .328 to lead the American League in 1957 and 1958 respectively

1954 - At ★ Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, Senators hurler Dean Stone does not retire a batter, but gets the win in the American League's 11 - 9 ★ All-Star Game victory as he throws out Red Schoendienst trying to steal home in the 8th inning for the third out before retiring a batter. The AL breaks the National League's four-game winning streak. ★ Larry Doby's pinch home run in the bottom of the 8th, followed by Nellie Fox's two-run single, ends the highest-scoring All-Star Game in history. The two teams combine for 31 hits, with the AL amassing 17. The Indians' Al Rosen has two homers and 5 RBIs.
1963 - At Kansas City in the second game of a doubleheader, ★ Cleveland's 43-year-old Early Wynn leaves with a lead after struggling through five innings. Four scoreless relief innings by Jerry Walker enable Wynn to score his 300th career victory, 7 - 4. It has taken Wynn eight tries to cop his 300th (and last) career win.

1964 - The Yankees clout four homers in ★ Cleveland to top the Tribe, 10 - 4.
1965 - For the first time in All-Star history, the National League takes the lead in games won over the American League as the Senior Circuit edges the junior loop, 6 - 5, at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota. Willie Mays homers, walks twice and scores twice. Game MVP Juan Marichal throws three scoreless innings.
1966 - Manager Don Heffner (37-46) is fired by the Reds and replaced by coach Dave Bristol.
1984:
The Yankees retire the uniform numbers of Roger Maris (# 9) and Elston Howard (# 32). The team also erects plaques in their honor to pay tribute to their achievements as Bronx Bombers.

2008 - ★ C.C. Sabathia homers and goes the distance in a 3 - 2 Brewers win over the Reds. Sabathia had homered for the ★ Indians earlier in the season, making him the first pitcher to go deep for a team in each league since Earl Wilson in 1970.
2010: - George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees since 1973, passes away from a heart attack at his home in Tampa, FL. Steinbrenner restored the Yankees to greatness during his ownership, spent lavishly on free agents, fired managers and front office personnel at a sometimes dizzying pace, but saw the team win seven World Series titles. He had relinquished the team's operations to his son Hal Steinbrenner as his health deteriorated badly in 2008.

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July 14. Oh those rowdy old-timers with the crazy names. Indians 50s 60s 70s 80s.

1900 - Noodles Hahn follows up his no-hitter with a 9-hitter, but still shuts out the St. Louis Cardinals, 9 - 0.

1900 - In the minor league American League, Detroit Tigers manager George Stallings, afraid that his home crowd would injure umpire Joe Cantillon after the previous day's hostilities, refuses to let him work, and is ready to forfeit today's game to the ★ Cleveland Lake Shores. But Lake Shores manager Jimmy McAleer agrees to play using reserve player Sport McAllister as the ump, and Detroit wins, 6 - 1.

1903 - And Ohio is now 100 years old. And With ground rules limiting hits into the crowds to three bases, Cy Young drives home Lou Criger in the 10th inning for a 4 - 3 win over the visiting ★ Cleveland Naps. Addie Joss takes the loss.

1939 - A disputed call on a fly ball down the LF foul line at the Polo Grounds touches off a melee in which New York Giants Billy Jurges and umpire George Magerkurth spit at each other. Both will be fined $150 and suspended for 10 days. National League President Ford Frick announces that two-foot screens are to be installed inside all foul poles to prevent future arguments. The American League will eventually also adopt the rule. The Giants lose, 8 - 4, to the Cincinnati Reds, and will add another eight in a row to take them out of contention.
1942 - "There is no rule, formal or informal, against the hiring of Negro players," says ★ Judge Landis in response to an editorial in the New York Daily Worker newspaper.
1952: - Johnny Vander Meer, 38, of the Beaumont Roughnecks in the Texas League pitches a no-hitter. In 1938 he pitched two consecutive major league no-hitters, still a record.
1952 - The ★ Cleveland eveland Indians' power hitters dazzle the New York Yankees with a ★ triple steal triple steal in the 1st inning as Al Rosen scores, Larry Doby goes to third, and Luke Easter, in his only major-league theft, goes to second.
1964 - In the first of two with the ★ Cleveland Indians, Wes Stock wins his 12th straight game, all in relief, 5 - 3. The Kansas City A's take the nightcap, 3 - 2.
:1973 - The Minnesota Twins connect for three consecutive home runs in the 8th against the Cleveland Indians, and all are needed in the 7 - 6 win. George Mitterwald, Joe Lis and Jim Holt homer, all off ★ Gaylord Perry.
1987 - The 1987 Cleveland Indians fire manager Pat Corrales, replacing him with bullpen coach Doc Edwards. Cleveland is in last place in the American League East, 23 games behind the leaders, after finishing 84-78 in 1986.

2000: - ? - The American Tobacco Company's. near mint condition 1909 Honus Wagner card goes for. $1.1 million in an eBay online auction. The high bidder will pay $1.265 million including a 15 percent buyer's premium for the 91-year-old card of the Hall of Fame Pirate shortstop. Other high-priced items in the auction include a baseball autographed by the entire 1919 Chicago "Black Sox" team, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, as well as the umpires who worked the final game of the 1919 World Series, which. sells for $93,666 including a 15 percent buyer's premium. The ball's value, believed to be the most for such an item, is unusually high because the autographs include that of Jackson, who was considered illiterate and usually only signed legal documents. A ball signed by the 1919 Reds goes for $11,208, while a baseball autographed by Babe Ruth sells for $76,020 A contract from Jackson's sale of his Chicago pool hall to teammate Lefty Williams, sells for $36,098 $3the contract, dated October 6, 1921, is for just $1.

~BIG BUCKS for CARDS~

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The 2022 Home Run Derby seeds. Round 1 (5) Ramirez versus (4) Soto. Monday Juliy 18 at 8 pm ET on ESPN. ( 8 pm ET )

The seeds:

Kyle Schwarber: 28 home runs
Pete Alonso: 23
Corey Seager: 21
Juan Soto: 19 .............|
José Ramírez: 17.........|
Julio Rodríguez: 15
Ronald Acuña Jr.: 8
Albert Pujols: 6

Fellow 2021 Dodger Albert Pujols is also in the Derby, in his 22nd and final major league season. He’s the No. 8 seed this year and will face Kyle Schwarber of the Phillies in the first round. This is the fifth Home Run Derby for Pujols, who also took part in 2003, 2007, 2009, and 2015.

★ The Home Run Derby will be televised on ESPN starting at 5 pm PT (is that 8 pm EDST ?) at Dodger Stadium.

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July 16. Some interesting stuff happened today.

1853 - The New York Clipper publishes what is believed to be the first tabulated boxscore of a baseball game.

1903: -★ The 100th Anniversary of Ohio being a state. - The Americans score seven runs in the 1st inning, four coming after a third out is disallowed because the umpire had turned to the bench to ask for new baseballs. Boston rolls to an 11 - 4 win over ★ Cleveland.

1941 - Joe DiMaggio singles off Al Milnar in the 1st inning to extend his hitting streak to ★ 56 games 5He has three hits in the game as the Yankees beat the Indians, 10 - 3 in Cleveland. DiMaggio's. streak will be snapped tomorrow night by Cleveland.

1948 - League-leading ★ Indians. Lou Brissie wins his 4th straight. Joe Coleman will shut out CLE.

1951 - While in Detroit, the Yanks option option rookie ★ Mickey Mantle to Kansas City (AA). Mantle, plagued with strikeouts - 3 on the 13th - and in a slump, will go 0-for-22 in his start with the Blues, before ending with a tear at .361. The Yankees will recall him on August 20th. Art Schallock takes Mickey's place on the Yankee roster...

1968 - Cleveland CF ★ Jose Cardenal becomes the 4th outfielder in major league history with two unassisted double plays in one season as he helps the Tribe to a 2 - 1 win over the Angels. He also pulled one off on June 8th versus the Tigers.

1975 - Commissioner Bowie Kuhn is reelected for a 7-year term.

1995 - ★ Cleveland defeats Oakland, 5 - 4, in 12 innings, as Indians ★ 2B Carlos Baerga lashes out five hits including a double. opens Cleveland's lead in the American League Central to 14 1/2games.

2013: - The American League wins the All-Star Game, 3 - 0, over the National League, as batters from the senior circuit only manage three hits. Mariano Rivera, who has announced his ★ retirement at the end of the season, is named the MVP.

2019 - Four ★ Indians. pitchers combine on a one-hitter in an 8 - 0 win over the Tigers. Reliever Tyler Clippard allows the sole hit, a single by Nicholas Castellanos in the 5th. Rookie ★ Zach Plesac starts the game and allows just one walk in three innings, but has to give way to the bullpen after a rain delay of 2 hours and 7 minutes. Nick Goody and Tyler Olson, with two innings of work each, are the other two pitchers in the feat.

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July 17. Oh those oldies. A crazy day in baseball.

1903: - Rube Waddell is arrested for assaultinga fan who had criticized his pitching. Connie Mack bails him out of jail.

1908 - Oh Honus. It is Honus Wagner Day in Pittsburgh, as players from both teams line up to pay homage. Wagner's tribute was originally scheduled for the 16th, but Honus asked that it be moved a day so it does not conflict with the annual benefit picnic for orphans

1924 - On TB Tuberculosis Day at Sportsman's Park, the Cards' Jesse Haines hurls his only shutout in two years, a 5 - 0

1941 - In front of more than ★ 60,000 fans at ★ Cleveland, Joe DiMaggio's hitting streak is ended at 56 games. Indians P Al Smith and Jim Bagby Jr., plus sensational plays by 3B Ken Keltner, stop the Yankee Clipper, but New York edges the Indians, 6 - 5.

1947: - Less than two weeks after Larry Doby's debut with the ★ Indians, Hank Thompson and Willard Brown become the second and third black players in the American League .

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1959: - In a dispute with the umpires, ★ Cleveland manager Joe Gordon is ejected. Cleveland OF ★ Minnie Minoso refuses to stand in the batter's box until the argument is over. Umpire Frank Umont calls him out on strikes. The enraged Minoso charges Umont and gets the thumb also. The Indians win, 8 - 7, to stay on the heels of Chicago.

1978 - In the latest incident in his feud with manager Billy Martin, the Yankees' Reggie Jackson ignores instructions and attempts to bunt in the 10th inning of a tie game with the Royals. Jackson pops up, the Yanks lose, 9 - 7, in the 11th, and Martin serves Jackson with a five-day suspension without pay.

1989: - Reds reliever Kent Tekulve retires, just 20 appearances shy of Hoyt Wilhelm's all-time games pitched record of 1,070. Tekulve had posted a 5.02 ERA in 37 games.

1991: - ★ Cleveland defeats Oakland, 2 - 1, as Indians hurler Rod Nichols gets the victory and breaks a personal 13-game losing streak dating back to September 1989.

1991 - Streakers. Two naked fans run onto the field at Fulton County Stadium then slide into home plate. The duo are apprehended by security guards. Not distracted, the Braves defeatStreaker.

1998 - Both Rafael Palmeiro and ★ Albert Belle hit their 300th homers tonight. Belle's homer - his tenth in ten games since the break. And we haven't had the AS Game yet.

2001: - ★ Indians P Bartolo Colon is ejected from Cleveland's 10 - 4 win over Houston after throwing a pitch near the head of Astros C Scott Servais, which actually hits his bat. Colon will be suspended six games for his actions.

2001 - Expos coach Ozzie Guillen is tossed before the first pitch is thrown, continuing an argument from last night with umpire Greg Gibson.

2002 - Minnesota's Torii Hunter, angered after he is hit by a pitch, picks up the ball and fires it at ★ Indians pitcher Danys Baez in the 5th inning of an 8 - 5 Twins win. Hunter's throw hits the pitcher in the leg but he stays in the game. After the game Baez goes into the Twins clubhouse to apologize. ★ Jim Thome, Bill Selby and Ben Broussard homer for the Tribe.

2009: - ★ Jim Thome drives in a career-high 7 runs with a grand slam and a three-run home run as Chicago defeats the Orioles, 12 - 8.

2017 - Hosting the ★ Cleveland Indians for a make-up game, the Giants fail to sell out AT&T Park for the first time since 2010, ending the longest streak ending the longest streak of sell-outs in National League history at 530 games. They still draw over 39,000 fans, just short of the ballpark's capacity of 41,500. The Indians add to the Giants' miserable season with a 5 - 3 win.

A really crazy day in baseball.

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★ On this day, July 19, 2022. ★ All Star Game Recap and News ★

● AL 3 NL 2, AL wins 9th in a row. Now 24-5-1 in last 30 games.

● Emanuel Clase struck out the side (w/one other AL pitcher) earned the SAVE ! Valdez W, Blackburn L

● Jose Ramirez leads all hitters going 2 for 2, scored 1 run, game's only error

. ● Andres Giminez starting AL 2B

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★ July 19, 2022 All Star Game Box Scores. ★

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This day in baseball July 22. Oh the cost of players 100 years ago ! And today $$$. Plus Ted Turner TBS !

1909: - For the first of four times in his career, Ty Cobb steals second base, third, and home in an inning, it in the 7th.

1911 - The Reds set a major-league record for nine innings by going to bat just 24 times (it will be topped in the American League and tied twice in the National League this century) and the two teams combine for just 48 at bats, to tie a major-league record set April 22, 1910.

1911 - The Pirates pay St. Paul of the American Association $22,500 for right-hander Marty O'Toole, the most expensive purchase of a player to date.

1925 - The Yankees buy SS Leo Durocher from Hartford (Eastern League).

1939 - A Boston Bees fan, outraged when Al Lopez drops a pop foul, his second and the team's seventh error of the game, jumps from the stands to punch the Boston catcher.
1941 - Dick Wakefield becomes baseball's first "bonus baby" when he signs with the Tigers for $52,000 and a new car The University of Michigan standout will hit .143 in seven at-bat this season but will eventually turn into a solid outfielder.
1948: - The Yankees take the rubber game of the series with the ★ Indians as Vic Raschi earns the decision over ★ Bob Feller, 6 - 5. Joe DiMaggio's grand slam is the big blow for the Bombers: he has hit four homers and a triple in Feller's four starts against New York. His eight RBIs in the three games with Cleveland gives him a league-leading 82.

1956 - The Hall of Fame HOF announces special rules governing elections. Writers should vote every two years, alternating with the Veterans Committee; because of criticism, this will. revert back in 1962. To be eligible, players must have been retired for five years.

1967 - The White Sox acquire infielders ★ Sandy Alomar and ★ Ken Boyer from the Mets in exchange for infielder Bill Southworth and catcher J.C. Martin.

1969 - For the first time, the All-Star Game is postponed due to rain.
1969 - Umpires Al Salerno and Bill Valentine file a grievance against the American League and its president, Joe Cronin, over their dismissal last year. The grievance is filed by the new umpires union with the National Labor Relations Board.
1976 - Ted Turner, ★ owner of UHF television station WTCG which already broadcasts Atlanta Braves games, buys the team for $12 million (what a deal ! ) largely with borrowed funds. He will soon turn his television station into a national. superstation on which Braves games are a staple product.
1977 - California Angels reserve shortstop Mike Miley is killed in an auto crash in Baton Rouge, LA, at age 23. Miley had been a star football for the LSU Tigers and was chosen ★ twice in the first round of the June free agent draft.

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2000: - Major League Baseball officials order Atlanta Braves reliever John Rocker is to undergo psychological testing following derogatory remarks he made in an interview with Sports Illustrated magazine. Commissioner Bud Selig says he will listen to what the doctors say before deciding what punishment - if any - will be handed down to the pitcher.

2008 - Roger Clemens files a defamation lawsuit against trainer Brian McNamee for statements McNamee made in the Mitchell Report. McNamee had said he injected Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs.
2009: - The Baltimore Orioles sign former Yomiuri Giants right-hander Koji Uehara to a two year $10 million deal with incentives reaching $16 million. The deal, pending a physical, brings the two-time Olympic hurler to the USA. Uehara struggled in 2008 and had the highest ERA of his 10-year career.
- 2009 - The $$$$ New York Yankees finalize their deal with Mark Teixeira for $180 million over 8 years , joining Alex Rodriguez, CC Sabathia, Derek Jeter and A.J. Burnett on the payroll-heavy Yanks.
- 2010: - Andre Dawson, "The Hawk", is elected to the Hall of Fame HOF getting 77.9% of the votes cast by the BBWAA. P Bert Blyleven and 2B ★ Roberto Alomar fall agonizingly short of election, missing the honor by 5 and 8 votes respectively.
- 2016: - Ken Griffey, Jr. is elected to the Hall of Fame HOF by the BBWAA with the highest percentage of votes ever - 99.3%.

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July 23. Iron Man McGinnity. Tough guys/ head case ? And 2021 demise of the Indians.

1912 - Iron Man McGinnity is still pitching doubleheaders, winning a pair of games for Newark against Rochester at age 41.

1922: - When umpires Brick Owens and Tom Connolly miss a train, the Detroit and St. Louis trainers, Bits Bierhalter and Dan Howley, are pressed into service.

1932 - ★ Cleveland P Wes Ferrell makes 10 assists in a 12-inning game, but loses to the White Sox, 6 - 5. The record in both leagues is 12.
1948 - After missing 15 games with a torn rib cartilage , ★ Ted Williams is 2 for 4 to help the Red Sox down the White Sox, 13 - 1.
1956 - Joe Cronin and Hank Greenberg are officially inducted into the Hall of Fame HOF at Cooperstown, NY.
1958 - (a good one) Baseball's pre-eminent hitter (and spitter),★ Boston's Ted Williams, is at it again although today, as noted by Bob Holbrook of the Boston Globe, Teddy Baseball branches out, irrigating an unsuspecting gathering of Kansas City supporters. After hitting a 4th-inning grounder to first, writes Holbrook, "Williams jogged part way to first, saw the play was routine and then made an abrupt turn and started back to the dugout. For his lack of fire on this play the Kansas City fans set up a crescendo of boos of boos. Ted bristled and made his dying swan leap, spitting at the fans as he pirouetted through the air. That's all the fans needed. They set up a th2underous round of boos, the spontaneity of which amazed the observers in this sector." (greatest hitter /head case)

1960 - another head case In an effort to distract Ted Williams during his at-bats in the 6th and 8th innings, Indians CF Jimmy Piersall goes into a war dance ★Piersall gets tossed for his efforts and manager Joe Gordon is also ejected for arguing Jimmy's case. It is Piersall's sixth ejection of the season. Gordon had previously announced that any more ejections would cost Piersall $500 each, but he thinks today's thumbing is unwarranted and waives the fine. American League president Joe Cronin is less forgiving and fines Piersall $100. The Indians win, 4 - 2, behind ★ Jim Perry's pitching and the first major league home run of Mike de la Hoz.

1974 - All-Star games winding down. The National League triumphs in the All-Star Game in Pittsburgh, winning, 7 - 2. Steve Garvey, elected as a starter as a write-in choice, is the
game's MVP.

★ And July 23, 2021 ★ - The ★ Cleveland baseball team announces it will be called the Cleveland Guardians beginning in 2022. The name replaces the name ★ "Indians" which had been used for over 100 years but has grown increasingly controversial over the past two decades. Long live the Cleveland Indians !