⚾ On This Day in MLB History ⚾

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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 !

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July 24. Classics, Addie Joss, Ted Williams again, George Brett.

1901: - In a baseball rarity, the Pittsburgh Pirates score in every inning, a major-league record defeating the Reds, 11 - 2

1911 - An American League All-Star team plays the Naps in ★ Cleveland, raising $12,914 for the late ★ Addie Joss's family. The All-Stars win, 5 - 3. Joe Wood and Walter Johnson pitch for the All-Stars, while Cy Young twirls for the Naps.

1926 - Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth demonstrate that power hitting is not the only thing they can do when Lou scores on a double steal with the Babe in a victory over the White Sox.

1938 - 44-year-old Babe Ruth, roughly three years into his retirement and currently first base coach for the Brooklyn Dodgers, launches one 430 feet out of Sportsman's Park to win the $50 grand prize in a pre-game distance-hitting contest featuring an otherwise active pool of contestants including Cardinals Joe Medwick (the runner-up at 425 feet), Johnny Mize and Don Padgett, as well as Brooklyn's Dolph Camilli and Ernie Koy.

1958 - ★ Another Ted Williams classic. After yesterday's Kansas City spitting episode, Boston's Ted Williams, for the. second time in less than two years, is fined for his transgression, though in this instance by the league rather than his own GM, and for the relatively painless sum of $250 rather than the somewhat draconian $5000 extracted from the "Splinter" on August 7, 1956. Upon being informed of the league's decision, Teddy delivers this heartfelt apology: "I'm sorry I did it. I was so mad at the park that I lost my temper and afterward I was sorry about it. I'm principally sorry about losing the $250".

1968: - Hoyt Wilhelm's 907th game breaks Cy Young's record for major league pitching appearances,

1978: - Pete Rose singles twice, the first time off Pat Zachry, during the Reds' 5 - 3 win over the Mets, extending his hitting streak to 37 games to tie the modern National League record.

1980 - Hours after signing a new five-year contract that will boost his salary to $1 million per year, Kansas City's George Brett goes 2 for 4 in a 12 - 4.

1983 - In the memorable ★ "Pine Tar Game" at Yankee Stadium, ★ George Brett hits an apparent two-run home run off Rich Gossage to give the Kansas City Royals a 5 - 4 lead with two outs in the 9th inning, only to have the homer taken away when Yankees manager Billy Martin, at the urging of coach Don Zimmer, points out that the pine tar on Brett's bat handle exceeds the 17 inches allowed in the rules. As a result, Brett is called out for illegally batting the ball, giving New York a 4 - 3 victory. Brett goes ballistic and the Royals immediately protest. American League President Lee MacPhail overrules his umpires for the first time, saying that the umpire's call went against the spirit of the rule, which should be rewritten and clarified, and that the home run will stand. The game will be resumed from that point on August 18th.
1988 - The New York Mets retire number 41 for pitcher ★ Tom Seaver in pre-game ceremonies at Shea Stadium. The Mets then lose to the Braves, 4 - 2.

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1991: - Recently-recalled 1B Brian Hunter of the Braves hits a home run in Atlanta's 7 - 4 loss to Pittsburgh while his former minor league team, the Richmond Braves, is finishing a suspended game against Pawtucket. Hunter had homered in that game before it was called, giving him round-trippers in the major and minor leagues on the same day.

1992:- Minnesota P Scott Erickson hurls a one-hit, 5 - 0 victory over the Red Sox in the first game of a doubleheader. Tom Brunansky's single is the only hit. Roger Clemens takes the loss. Boston wins the nitecap, 5 - 4, scoring a run with one out in the 9th.
- 1992 - Commissioner Fay Vincent announces that George Steinbrenner can resume active control of the Yankees on March 1, 1993.
1993 - The Mets are defeated by the Dodgers, 5 - 4, as Anthony Young loses his major league record 27th straight decision by walking in the winning run in the 10th inning. Following the game, Mets OF Vince Coleman. tosses a firecracker from his car ? injuring two youngsters and a woman. Coleman will be charged with a felony.

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July 26. Oh those oldies. Some crazy things going on.

1900 - Gus Weyhing is released by the Cardinals but does not get the 10 days' pay he is entitled to. He gets a deputy sheriff to seize the St. Louis share of the gate at Brooklyn, but it comes to less than the $100 he's claiming. Weyhing will pitch briefly in 1901 before calling it quits, the last gloveless pitcher in the majors.
1911 - The league-leading Phils are dealt a blow when catcher-manager Red Dooin suffers a broken leg in a collision at home plate with Cards. runner Rebel Oakes.
1916 - Tigers favorite Harry Heilmann gets an appreciative hand from the crowd for having dived into the Detroit River last night to save a woman from drowning.
1936: - Umpire Bill Summers is forced out the game after he is hit. in the groin by a pop bottle thrown from an unruly crowd of 50,000 at Comiskey Park. The crowd is upset with an out call at first base on Rip Radcliff in the 8th inning of the nitecap. Judge Landis, on hand to watch the game, offers a $5,000 reward over the public address system for the culprit, but only draws more boos. The deluge of pop bottles finally abates when Jimmy Dykes pleads through the field amplifier.

1984: - Commissioner Bowie Kuhn announces that free agent pitcher Vida Blue will be suspended for the remainder of the season as a result of his conviction on ● cocaine possession charges last November.

1991: - Cincinnati 3B Chris Sabo pushes an autograph seeker into a window in Busch Stadium following a 5 - 1 loss to the Cardinals..

1998: - Don Sutton and ★ Larry Doby are inducted into the Hall of Fame along with Lee MacPhail, George Davis and Joe Rogan.

2000: - The Blue Jays defeat the ★Indians, 8 - 1, as David Wells wins his major league-leading 16th game. Bartolo Colon takes the loss for Cleveland, despite striking out the first six batters to face him to tie ★ Bob Feller's team record.
2008 - Remember this ? The Dodgers, dissatisfied with young third basemen Blake DeWitt and Andy LaRoche, pick up ● Casey Blake from the ★ Indians for ● Carlos Santana and Jonathan Meloan. ★ Cleveland then acquires former World Series star Anthony Reyes from the Cardinals for Luis Perdomo.

2009: - Rickey Henderson, Jim Rice and Joe Gordon are inducted into the HOF Hall of Fame in a ceremony in Cooperstown, NY. Gordon is the first player to be voted in by the Veterans Committee since its rules were reformulated following the controversial election of Bill Mazeroski in 2001.

2020 - And finally It's only the end of the opening week-end of this year's delayed major league season, but already there is no unbeaten - or winless - team left. For the first time since 1954, when there were only half as many teams, no team has started the year 3-0.

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July 27. AL/NL Peace treaty ? A lot of Indians today.

1904 - John McGraw and John Brush say they have no. intention of playing a post-season series with the American League champions. "The Giants will not play a post season series with the American League champions. Ban Johnson has not been on the level with me personally, and the American League management has been crooked more than once." says McGraw. "When we clinch the National League pennant, we'll be champions of the only real major league " Ban Johnson fires back: No thoughtful patron of baseball can weigh seriously the wild vaporings of this discredited player who was canned from the American League." As the New York Highlanders battle for the AL pennant, local pressure mounts, but Brush, still angry over the inter-league peace treaty., and McGraw, who despises Ban Johnson, are adamant.

1909: - Star minor league pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander is hit in the forehead with a ball while running the bases and is knocked unconscious. Alexander will recover but his vision will be affected for months and he will not pitch again for Galesburg. The Indianapolis ★ Indians purchase his contract.

1927 - Mel Ott, 18 years old, hits his first major league home run, an inside-the-park round-tripper. It is the only inside-the-park homer he will hit of his 511 career.
1928 - At Chicago's Comiskey Park, A's outfielder Ty Cobb starts for the last time in a regular-season game. The 41 year old. "Georgia Peach" singles and doubles before he is hit in the chest with a pitch and leaves the game hitting. 332.
1945 - The Cubs purchase P Hank Borowy from the New York Yankees in an unexpected waiver deal. Borowy, 10-5 with the Yankees, was put on waivers, apparently to solve a roster problem, and was passed over by 15 teams. The Cubs snatch him for $97,500 and he will help the Cubs win the pennant with an 11-2 record,
1950 - ★ Stan Musial goes hitless to end his 30 game hitting streak. But everyone else in the Cards lineup has a safety.

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1963 - The Mets hand Jim Piersall his release and the veteran outfielder will sign with the Angels.

1968 - In Baltimore, Denny McLain shuts out the Orioles, 9 - 0, for his 20th win of the season, against three losses, for the first-place Tigers.

1978 - The Yankees win the first game of a doubleheader, 11 - 0, but the ★ Indians rebound to win the second, 17 - 5. ★ Duane Kuiper ties the MLB record with two bases-loaded triples in the nightcap, only the third player (after Bill Bruton and Elmer Valo) to do so in the 20th Century.

1995 - The ★ Indians obtain pitcher ★ Ken Hill from the Cardinals in exchange for minor leaguers David Bell, Rick Heiserman and Pepe McNeal.

2007 - The ★ Cleveland Indians bring back ★ Kenny Lofton for a third go-around, trading prospect Max Ramirez to the Texas Rangers for him. It is the second time Ramirez is traded straight up for a major league veteran.

2010 - With the spotlight on the Yankees' Alex Rodriguez, sitting on 599 homers on his birthday, the ★ Indians' ★ Josh Tomlin grabs the headlines, giving up only 3 hits in 7 innings in winning his. major league debut 4-1 ! A-Rod finishes the night. 0 for 4. ★ Way to go Josh ,

2013 - For the first time since September 4, 1965, three American League games end on 1 - 0 scores. Chris Archer of the Rays throws a two-hitter at the Yankees while ★ Justin Masterson of the ★ Indians and Wade Davis of the Royals need bullpen help for their victories, over Texas and Chicago, respectively.

2014: - A huge crowd estimated at 48,000 is on hand for the annual. HOF. Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cooperstown, NY. This year's class is unusually large and prestigious, featuring three players elected on the first ballot: 300-game winners Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine and slugger Frank Thomas, a member of the 500 home run club. Joining them are three managers who stand at #3, 4 and 5 on the all-time win list in Tony LaRussa, Bobby Cox and Joe Torre. Maddux, Glavine and Cox all found their greatest success in the great Atlanta Braves teams of the late 1990s.