⚾ On This Day in MLB History ⚾

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August 4, continued. Oh those rowdy old-timers. WWII baseball.
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1925 - Every player in each team's lineup has at least one putout in the ★ Indians-Yankees game.
1926 - Stanford star fullback Ernie Nevers pitches his first complete game for the Browns, beating the A's, 3 - 1. Nevers will be 6-12 in his brief baseball career, but he will win a place in the Pro Football Hall of Fame playing with the Duluth Eskimos and Chicago Cardinals (1926-1931).

1935 - Walter Johnson resigns as ★ Cleveland manager and is replaced by Steve O'Neill.

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1942: - The Giants-Dodgers game ends in a 1 - 1 tie as Pee Wee Reese's grand slam in the top of the 9th is wiped out. As was the case the day before, the game is called because of the government's. 9:14 curfew on lights during WWII It is the last twilight game played at the Polo Grounds.

1955 - Ernie Banks hits three homers at Wrigley Field vs three Pirate pitchers, as the Cubs win, 11 - 10.
1960 - Well.... Believing that Chicago's Jim Brewer is throwing at him, Reds 2B ★ Billy Martin throws his bat toward the mound. Then, he advances to retrieve it from Brewer, who has picked it up. The two exchange words and Martin launches a hard overhand right that fractures orbital bone of Brewer's right eye. Both benches empty and Martin continues swinging, decking Frank Thomas. Brewer requires surgery and will be out of action for a month. The Cubs win, 5 - 3, on Ernie Banks' homer. Martin will be fined $500 for the punch and Brewer and the Cubs will sue the combative infielder on August 22nd. for $1,000,000 Years later when the courts award Brewer $100,000. Martin's comment will be, "How can they ever collect it? I haven't got that kind of money ".

1980: - The Seattle Mariners fire manager Darrell Johnson and replace him with ★¿Maury Wills, who becomes the third black MLB manager .

1983 - While warming up before the 5th inning of the Yankees' 3 - 1 win over the Blue Jays at Toronto's Exhibition Stadium, New York OF Dave Winfield. accidentally kills a seagull with a thrown ball. After the game, Winfield is brought to the Ontario Provincial Police station on charges of cruelty to animals and is forced to post a $500 bond before being released. The charges will be dropped the following day..
1992 - At an auction, actor Charlie Sheen. pays $93,500 for the "Mookie Ball" which went through Bill Buckner's legs, capping the miraculous Met comeback in the sixth game of the Fall Classic in 1986. Arthur Richman, the team's traveling secretary, who was given the ball that night by right field umpire.

1997 - ★ Manny Ramirez homers and drives in four runs, and ★ Jim Thome hits his 30th homer as the Indians beat Detroit, 7 - 2. ★ Charles Nagy improves to 12-4 lifetime against the Tigers, his most wins against any club. Thome is the first Cleveland lefthanded hitter to hit 30 homers in successive seasons since ★ Hal Trosky in 1936-1937.

~ And finally ~

2004 - Continuing a tradition over a half a century old, the Cardinals announce their new ballpark scheduled to open in 2006, will also be known as Busch Stadium. In 1953, a month after Anheuser-Busch purchased the Cardinals, the brewery bought Sportsman's Park renaming it Busch Stadium and then kept the name in its new downtown stadium which opened in 1966, calling the facility Busch Memorial Stadium..

August 4. What a day in MLB history.

mjp28

August 5.

Taking a break, will conlinue later. GO CLEVELAND GUARDIANS !

mjp28

August 9.. Oh those rowdy old-timers. And some Indians news.

1905: - Mistaking her husband for a burglar, the mother of minor league outfielder ★ Ty Cobb shoots and kills him, an incident that will be cited as the reason for Cobb's intense desire to succeed. The "Georgia Peach" will make his major league debut with the Tigers later this month.
- 1905 - In Pittsburgh, Bill Klem narrowly escapes a beating at the hands of gamblers The heavily-favored Pirates are down, 5 - 2, in the 9th inning against Boston when a number of Pirates start mocking Klem's flamboyant calls. The rookie umpire chases them down and fines each $10 thereby incurring the wrath of the gamblers, who go looking for Klem. He wisely hides in the ladies room.
- 1918 - Reds manager Christy Mathewson suspects Hal Chase of taking bribes. to fix games and suspends him "for indifferent play." Chase will be reinstated and play for the Giants in 1919.

1946 - All games are played at night for the first time in major league history, four in the American League and four in the National League.
1951: - With possible MLB commissioner Douglas MacArthur looking on, the Dodgers top the Giants 6 - 5, (The general...never did become... the commissioner. )

1960: - Ted Williams blasts his 19th home run and 511th of his career, off Jim Perry, but the Red Sox lose to the. ★ Indians, 6 - 3.

1971: - The ★ Indians score eight runs in the 5th inning to beat the Cubs, 13 - 5, in the annual Hall of Fame Game. Earlier, the Hall had inducted ★ Satchel Paige ★ and the seven others selected in January.

1981 - MLB returns in a big way from its in-season strike as 72,086 fans attend the belated All-Star Game in ★ Cleveland. Vida Blue becomes the first pitcher to win an All-Star game for both leagues. Game MVP Gary Carter of the Expos hits a pair of solo home runs and Phillies 3B Mike Schmidt adds a 2-run shot in the 8th off Rollie Fingers to give the National League a 5 - 4 win. It is the NL's 10th consecutive win and the 17th of the last 18th wins in a row.

2011: - Remember this ? The ★ Indians win a key match-up with their AL Central rivals the Tigers, 3 - 2, thanks to a 14th-inning run. The game is further slowed by a two-hour rain delay, with the winning run scoring at 1:52 a.m. Kosuke Fukudome ends the game with a walk-off hit-by-pitch, served by David Pauley. Seven Indian relievers combine for 12 scoreless innings, with Frank Herrmann getting the win.

2017 - Shortly after losing All-Star OF ★ Michael Brantley to an ankle injury, the ★ Indians acquire Jay Bruce from the Mets.

~ AND Finally ~

2019 - The ★ Indians defeat the Twins, 6 - 2, to pull even atop the AL Central standings after trailing them all season their deficit even reaching 11 1/2 games on June 3rd. Emerging ace Shane Bieber pitches into the 8th inning while José Ramírez has 3 hits.

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mjp28

August 10.

I have a 1 pm doctor appointment, he's a surgeon and wound specialist only in on Wednesdays, not always convenient.

1934 Babe Ruth announces this is his final season as full time player.

1957 — Mickey Mantle became the first player to clear the center-field hedge at Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium when his 460-foot homer hit the base of the scoreboard. The Yankees beat the Orioles, 6-3.

1981 — Major league baseball resumed play after a two-month strike. In the St. Louis Cards-Phillies game at Philadelphia, attended by 60,561 fans, Pete Rose broke Stan Musial’s NL hit record when he singled for his 3,631st hit. It came off Mark Littell in the eighth inning.

1995 — Ball Night at Dodger Stadium turned into the first forfeit in the majors in 16 years. Los Angeles forfeited a game to the St. Louis Cardinals after fans threw souvenir baseballs onto the field three times. The game was called with one out in the bottom of the ninth.

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Got rather busy this afternoon, see you Thursday.

mjp28

August 11.

On August 11, 1912 — Shoeless Joe Jackson completes the stolen base cycle when he swipes home in the seventh inning of the ★ Indians’ 8-3 victory over New York at Cleveland’s ★ League Park. The 25 year-old outfielder had made his way around the bases by stealing second and third base before his thievery of the plate to complete the deed. Jackson becomes the second American League player to steal home twice in a game stealing home in the 1st inning‚ and then in the 7th.

mjp28

August 12. Not as good as my old site that from April 2022 to August .....just disappeared. Hmmm.

1934 - Making a farewell appearance in Boston, Babe Ruth draws a record 46,766 fans, with an estimated 20,000 turned away, at Fenway Park, the place where he began his career as a pitcher twenty years earlier. Ruth leaves the field to standing cheers in the eighth inning of the second game of the doubleheader.

1948 - The★ Cleveland Indians beat the St. Louis Browns 26-3 with a 29-hit barrage. The Indians set a major league record as 14 different players had hits.
1963 - Stan Musial announces he will retire at the end of the year
1970 - Curt Flood loses his $4.1 million antitrust suit against baseball, as Federal Judge Irving Ben Cooper upholds the legality of the sport's reserve clause. Cooper does recommend changes in the reserve system, to be achieved through negotiation between players and owners. In fewer than six years, this recommendation would become a reality.
1994 - The players went on strike for the sport's eighth work stoppage since 1972.
That's the last one ? The other site was really long and detailed. Oh well.......

mjp28

August 14.

On August 14 In Baseball History... still not the best history site.

1888 - Tim Keefe winning streak is stopped at nineteen games when Gus Krock and the Chicago White Stockings beat the Giants before a crowd of 10,240 in New York.
1932 - John Quinn, at 49, becomes the oldest pitcher to win a major league game. Quinn earns the decision for Brooklyn in relief against the Giants.
1933 - Jimmie Foxx hits for the cycle and drives in nine runs to break the American League record, as the A's beat the ★ Indians 11-5. A record eight players will hit for the cycle in 1933.
1937 - The Detroit Tigers scored 36 runs against the St. Louis Browns in a doubleheader to set a major league record. Pete Fox of the Tigers scored eight of the runs.
1958 - ★ Vic Power of the ★ Cleveland Indians stole home twice in the same game. He had only three steals all year. ( I remember Vic Power as a kid back then. )
1988 - Detroit pounds the Red Sox 18-6 at Fenway Park to end Boston's American League record home winning streak at 24 games. Boston was just two wins shy of the major league record held by the 1916 Giants.
1997 - Lights out! The Orioles and Mariners wait out a power outage of nearly two-and-a-half hours in varying degrees of light and darkness before the game is finally postponed. It results in the Mariners having to play back-to-back doubleheaders in different cities.

That's it ? Not a great selection to pick from on The Baseball-Almanac Fast/Facts.

mjp28

August 15. Again from baseball-almanac Fast/Facts.

1889 - The ★ Cleveland Spiders win 19-8 over the Boston Beaneaters, and become the first team in National League history to score in all nine innings of a single game.
1916 - In a classic pitching duel, Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox beat Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators, 1-0, in 13 innings at Fenway Park.
1939 - The White Sox beat the Browns 5-2 in the first night game at Comiskey Park. Johnny Rigney is the winner.
1945 - Commissioner Happy Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette. Ford had been the World Series sponsor since 1934 paying $100,000 annually.
1955 - Pitcher Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves hit a home run off Mel Wright of the St. Louis Cardinals to give Spahn a home run in every National League park.
1964 - Mayor Daley declares "Ernie Banks Day" in Chicago and 26,000 fans cheer the Cubs' slugger. Banks then goes hitless as Pittsburgh wins 5-4.
1975 - Baltimore manager Earl Weaver was ejected twice by umpire Ron Luciano. Weaver was thrown out in the first game and was again before the second game of a doubleheader.
1983 - Braves slugger Bob Horner, who was hitting .303 with 20 home runs and 68 RBI, breaks his right wrist sliding into second base during a 4-0 loss to the Padres and will be sidelined for the rest of the season. In Atlanta, the injury is widely attributed to the ♠︎ "Chief Noc-A-Homa Jinx," ♠︎. In which seems to strike whenever the Braves remove their mascot's outfield teepee in order to sell more tickets.nd
1987 - At the Pan American games in Indianapolis, the U.S.A. and Cuba are tied with two outs in the ninth when Ty Griffin hits a two-run home run to win it. For Cuba it is their first loss in twenty years of Pan Am competition.
1989 - In his second start since returning to the major leagues after cancer treatment, Giants southpaw Dave Dravecky who played college ball at YSU breaks his pitching arm while throwing to Tim Raines in the sixth inning of a 3-2 San Francisco win. Dravecky will not pitch again in the major leagues. Sad story getting his arm amputated at the shoulder but still trying to play.

~And finally. ~

- 1990 - Philadelphia's Terry Mulholland pitched the record eighth no-hitter of the season as the Phillies beat the San Francisco Giants, 6-0. The season's eighth no-hitter surpassed the modern record of seven set in 1908 and 1917.

mjp28

August 16.

1920 - At the Polo Grounds ★ Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman, 29, is beaned by a Carl Mays pitch. A right-handed batter who crowds the plate, Chapman freezes and fails to get out of the way of the submarine delivery. He is carried from the field .and he dies the next day from a fractured skull.
1927 - Babe Ruth inaugurates the newly-constructed Comiskey Park grandstand roof by cranking a Tommy Thomas pitch over the addition
1954 - In a throwing contest between Jim Piersall and Willie Mays before a Red Sox-Giants charity game in Boston, Piersall hurts his arm. He starts the game but leaves midway. He wakes up the following morning with a sore arm that stays with him a year, and he will never throw quite as well again.
1964 - Curt Flood of the St. Louis Cardinals eight straight hits in a doubleheader against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers won the first game 3-0 and the Cardinals took the second, 4-0.
1964 - Sandy Koufax (19-5) hurts his elbow sliding into second base in a 3-0 win against St. Louis. He will miss the rest of the season. In the nightcap,

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mjp28

August 17.

1920 — ★ Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman died from a beaning by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees on Aug. 16. This was the only on-field fatality in major league history.

1933 — Earl Averill of the ★ Cleveland Indians hit for the cycle in a 15-4 rout of the Philadelphia Athletics.

1933 — New York’s Lou Gehrig played in his 1,308th straight game to break Everett Scott’s record of 1,307. Gehrig’s single and triple didn’t prevent the last-place St. Louis Browns from beating the Yankees 7-6 in 10 innings at Sportsman’s Park.

1944 — Johnny Lindell of the New York Yankees hit four consecutive doubles in a 10-3 victory over the ★ Cleveland Indians.

1980 — George Brett went 4-for-4, raising his batting average to .401, in an 8-3 win over the Toronto Blue Jays. Brett drove in five runs and extended his hitting streak to 29 consecutive games.

1980 — Al Oliver of Texas hit four home runs — one in the opener and three in the nightcap — as the Rangers swept a doubleheader from the Detroit Tigers, 9-3 and 12-6. Oliver also had a double and triple in the opener, giving him 21 total bases which tied the American League record for a doubleheader.

And a bunch of players hit for the cycle.....not much more from this service.

mjp28

August 18. Lodged in pocket ? What ? NO Indians highlights today.

1892 - In the course of a 13-4 win over Baltimore, Browns left fielder Cliff Carroll attempts to field a ground ball. He misjudges it, and the ball becomes lodged in his shirt pocket. Before he can extricate it, the Oriole batter makes it to third base. St. Louis owner Chris Von der Ahe is so incensed that he fines Carroll $50 and suspends him without pay for the rest of the season. The league rejects Carroll's appeal.
1931 - Lou Gehrig is hitless in Detroit, as he plays his 1,000th consecutive game. He is 307 short of Everett Scott's record streak.
1959 - Branch Rickey resigns as chairman of the Pirates to become president of the Continental League, which never plays a game.
1965 - Hank Aaron of Milwaukee hit Curt Simmons' pitch on top of the pavilion roof at Sportman's Park in St. Louis for an apparent home run. However, umpire Chris Pelekoudas called him out for being out of the batter's box when he connected. Nevertheless, the Braves won the game 6-2.
1967 - A baseball tragedy occurs when Tony Conigliaro of the Red Sox is beaned by the Angels' Jack Hamilton. Hit on the left cheekbone, just below the eye socket, Conigliaro will miss the rest of 1967 and all of 1968. He was hitting .267 with 20 home runs and 67 RBI in 95 games. I remember that, his picture was in the local paper, awful. Kind of ruined his career.
1982 - Pete Rose of the Philadelphia Phillies made his 13,941st plate appearance in a 5-3 victory over the Houston Astros to move into first place on the career list ahead of Hank Aaron.
1982 - The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Chicago Cubs 2-1 in a 21-inning game. It was the second longest game in Cubs' history and took two days to complete.
1983 - In the continuation of the ★Pine Tar Game, Hal McRae strikes out and Dan Quisenberry retires the Yankees in order in the bottom of the ninth to preserve Kansas City's 5-4 victory. The conclusion takes just 12 minutes (and 16 pitches) and, as the only game scheduled at the Stadium, is witnessed by a crowd of 1,245.

And finally......

1989 - Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken, Jr. plays in his number 1,208 consecutive game to move past Steve Garvey into third place on the all-time list.

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August 19. And my old site is finally back, woo-hoo.

1911 - Thirty-five thousand gather at the not-yet-completed Polo Grounds to watch the Reds finally get to Christy Mathewson after 22 straight losses, beating him for the first time since May 1908.

1917 - Coaching at third base in a 1 - 1 game against Washington, Ty Cobb gives baserunner George Burns a shove when Burns stops at third on a long hit; Burns keeps going and scores the winning run. Clark Griffith protests, and Ban Johnson upholds him, as the rules now ban coaches from touching a runner. The game is replayed, and Washington wins, 2 - 0.
1918 - Walter Johnson beats St. Louis, 4 - 3, in 14 innings. The Big Train will work in 15 extra-inning games, including two of 18 innings, one of 16 innings, and another of 15 innings.
1920 ★ - The ★ Indians beat New York, 3 - 2. They leave town with a half-game lead over Chicago and 1 1/2 over the Yankees, in what will be the tightest race since 1908.
1921 - At the age of 34, Ty Cobb becomes the youngest player to collect 3000 hits when he singles off Red Sox hurler Elmer Myers. Ty Cobb was in a lot of highlights back then.
1941 - Pittsburgh Pirates manager Frankie Frisch is ejected by umpire Jocko Conlan from the second game of a doubleheader when he appears on the field with an umbrella to protest the playing conditions at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field. The rainy argument is later portrayed in a famous oil painting by artist Norman Rockwell.
1950:The Gillette Safety Razor Co. pays $800,000 for TV rights to the World Series. Radio rights will add another $175,000 more.
1951 - Wearing uniform number 1/8, forty-three inch tall Eddie Gaedel walks on four pitches from Bob Cain in his only major league appearance. Bill Veeck's idea of playing the midget was legal at the time but is later outlawed.
1957 - The New York Giants Board of Directors votes 9 - 1 in favor of moving the team to San Francisco.

1962 - ★ Cleveland Indians President Mike Wilson dies at age 74.

1969: - John Hollison dies in Chicago at age 99. He was the last surviving major league pitcher to throw from a mound 50 feet from home plate. He pitched in one game in 1892.

1983 - The Dodgers trade pitchers Dave Stewart and Ricky Wright to Texas for star pitcher Rick Honeycutt, who is 14-8 with an American League-best 2.42 ERA for the Rangers. Honeycutt will go 2-3 down the stretch for the Dodgers, but still wins the AL ERA title because his 174 2/3 innings pitched were already enough to qualify.

~And finally. ~

2009 - ★ Cliff Lee continues to dominate since the Phillies acquired him from Cleveland at the trading deadline. He pitches a two-hitter in an 8 - 1 win over Arizona, after taking a no-hitter into the 6th inning. It is his 4th win and 2nd complete game in four starts since the trade.

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August 20. Fighting, court stuff and a lot of unusual things in baseball today.

1915: - The Giants purchase the contract of George Kelly from Victoria for $1200. Kelly is the nephew of Bill Lange, 1890s star of the Chicago Nationals.
- The White Sox obtain Joe Jackson from ★ Cleveland in exchange for OF Braggo Roth, OF Larry Chappell, P Ed Klepfer, and $31,500 . Roth will lead the American League in homers this year at 7.
- 1923 - A four-piece bat used by Babe Ruth is banned by American League president Ban Johnson because of the glue used on it. A protest is made against the Browns' Ken Williams for using a bat with a wooden plug in it. Johnson rules that all bats must be one piece with nothing added except tape extending to 18 inches up the handle.
- 1931: - Tony Freitas, who will win 342 minor league games, is let out of jail to pitch for Sacramento (Pacific Coast League). wins, then returns to finish a 5 day sentence for speeding.
  - At St. Louis, Lou Gehrig hits his 33rd homer in the 4th to tie Babe Ruth for the major league lead, but the Babe answers in the 9th with his 34th, a grand slam over the RF roof, to give the Yanks a 7 - 3 win over the Browns. Lefty Gomez almost has New York's first shutout of the season,
  - 1938: - Remember this one. At Union ★ Terminal Tower, Frankie Pytlak and Hank Helf, catchers for the ★ Indians, establish record for catching baseballs dropped from a high altitude. The balls fall an estimated. 708 feet and travel an average speed of 140 mph during their 52-floor descent from ★ Cleveland's enduring landmark, the second-tallest building in the world.
  - 1938 - Lou Gehrig hits a 1st-inning grand slam, the 23rd and last of his career, setting a record that will last until 2013.
  - 1948 - ★ The largest crowd (78,382) ever to attend a night game sees ★ Satchel Paige become the fourth consecutive Indian to throw a shutout. The ageless wonder joins Gene Bearden, Sam Zoldak and Bob Lemon in blanking the opposition.
  - 1960 - ★ Ted Williams draws the 2,000th walk of his career in the Red Sox's split of a twi-night doubleheader with Baltimore. Williams joins Babe Ruth as the only batters to collect 2,000 walks. The Splendid Splinter also clouts home runs number 514 and 515 in the first game, an 8 - 6 Boston win. The O's win the nightcap, 6 - 0, but drop into 3rd place, two games behind the 1st-place Yanks.

1966: - Birdie Tebbetts (66-57) resigns as manager of the ★ Indians. George Strickland is named interim boss.
- 1966 - Gaylord Perry is the first 20-game winner of the year, pitching the Giants into first place with a 6 - 1 win against the Braves.
- 1971 - Ferguson Jenkins wins his 20th, beating Houston, 3 - 2. The win pulls the Cubs to 4 1/2 behind Pittsburgh. But following two losses to Houston, Leo Durocher and the players will square off in a clubhouse meeting on the 23rd. Durocher accuses Ron Santo of demanding that the team give him a day, and the third sacker has to be restrained from going after Leo. Leo will finally lip an. "I quit", but stay on through the season in a frosty relationship with the team.
- 1974 - Nolan Ryan of the California Angels whiffs 19 Tigers in a 1 - 0, 11-inning loss to the Tigers. It is the third time the "Ryan Express" has struck out 19 batters in one game this season. Ryan throws a ball clocked at 100.9 mph. making it the fastest pitch ever thrown in major league baseball.
1978 - At Shea Stadium, Dodger Blue becomes black and blue as pitcher Don Sutton and first baseman Steve Garvey begin fighting in the clubhouse prior to their 5 - 4 victory over the Mets.
1980: - George Brett pushes his average to .406 with a 3 for 3 outing in a 5 - 3 win over Texas.
- 1993 - The ★ Indians trade OF Glenallen Hill to the Cubs for OF Candy Maldonado.
- 1996 - ★ The Indians defeat the Rangers, 10 - 4, behind their powerful middle of the lineup: Manny Ramirez hits a grand slam, Albert Belle has a homer and two triples, and Jim Thome homers.
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2000 - ★ The Indians defeat the Mariners, 12 - 4, in a game delayed by a rogue squirrel. The loss is the 7th in a row in which Seattle has surrendered at least nine runs, tying a 99 year old MLB record set by the New York Giants on September 3-6, 1901. The Giants lost seven in a row allowing 10+ runs in each.

mjp28

August 24. Oh those rowdy old-timers at it again.

1901 - Irate Boston fans jump on umpire Joe Cantillon after a call goes against the Americans. Chick Stahl and Ted Lewis rescue the umpire.

1904 - In Chicago, Christy Mathewson blanks the Cubs on three hits and the Giants defeat Buttons Briggs, 3 - 0. The second game is called after 10 innings with the score 2 - 2. Chicago fans show their feelings towards the Giants by tossing bottles onto the field. RF George Browne is hit on the leg and is almost hit in the head while chasing a fly ball. John McGraw tells ump Bob Emslie that he will not allow his team to continue play until all the broken glass is cleared, and by the time that occurs it is too dark to continue play.

1910 - Atop the Washington Monument, White Sox pitcher Ed Walsh throws 23 balls before C Billy Sullivan snares one, then catches two more, 555 feet below. It duplicates Gabby Street's catch of August 21, 1908. The estimated speed of the ball is 161 feet per second oh those crazy old-timers.

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mjp28

August 27. - Happy Birthday Big Jim!

I901 - At Boston, Cy Young goes 15 innings to defeat Detroit, 2 - 1, for his 25th win of the year.

1929 - Rogers Hornsb. y has four hits and Sheriff Blake allows six to lead the Cubs to a 4 - 1 win over the Reds. Chicago now leads by 14 1/2 games, the greatest lead a National League team has enjoyed at this stage since the 1906 Cubs.

1938 - Joe DiMaggio has three triples in the first game of a doubleheader with ★ Cleveland, an 8 - 7 win in New York. Monte Pearson has a no-hitter in the second game, winning his tenth straight game, 13

1939 - In the second 1939 East-West Game, Josh Gibson drives in four and Ed Stone gets three hits to lead a 10 - 2 rout by the East.

1950: - The z★ Indians' Ray Boone and Clyde Vollmer of the Red Sox match grand slams today. Boone's comes in the seven-run 3rd to give ★ Bob Feller a 7 - 0 cushion. Vollmer's pinch slam against Al Benton in the Sox's six-run 7th helps Boston to an 11 - 9 win. It is the Red Sox's ninth slam of the season.

1955 - Dodger bonus baby Sandy Koufax fans 14 Redlegs in a 7 - 0 win, as the two-team total of 23 strikeouts ties a record.

1957 - Stan Musial, swinging at a 4th-inning pitch, tears a muscle and chips a bone ending his consecutive game streak. Four days later he will pinch-run in a game suspended on July 21st, officially giving him 895 consecutive games played.

1961: - Detroit's ★ Rocky Colavito ties an American League record with four home runs - three in the second game, in a doubleheader pummeling of the Senators, 7 - 4 and 10 - 1 at Washington.

1965: - The amazing Roberto Clemente - When one hears of a runner being "cut down going from first to third", what immediately springs to mind is probably not the following scenario, enacted in Houston's Astrodome by Pirate right fielder Roberto Clemente and recounted by The Sporting News' Les Biederman: "Clemente made an almost unheard-of assist in this game. With runners on first and second and Pirates charging for the plate, Bob Lillis pushed a bunt into the vacated shortstop position for one run. Walter Bond tried to go from first to third but Clemente, sizing up the situation quickly, came in from right field..." Second baseman Bill Mazeroski recalls: "Roberto raced in from right field, dove for the ball, and with his face in the dirt threw out the runner going to third base!" The dumbfounded Bond becomes the 8th frame's first out while Rusty Staub scores from second, building Houston's lead to two. Two more will score before the inning ends and yet another two in the top of the 9th. The Bucs then mount a furious 9th-inning comeback.

1997 - In honor of first baseman ★ Jim Thome's birthday, the ★ Indians begin pulling up their socks to just below the knees. The Tribe will win 17 of 27 games en route to clinching the American League Central flag while sporting this new look.

1999 - The ★ Indians take out some insurance, picking up DH Harold Baines from the Orioles for P Juan Aracena and a player to be named.

~ And finally. ~

Birthdays today - 1970 - Jim Thome, infielder; All-Star.

mjp28

I'm taking a break from "This Day in Baseball" ive been busy with football and other personal items.

Will return soon !

mjp28

...... edit 9/10..... Well before the season is over, 24 games left.

And now. ----to continue ---->

FairHooker11

Joe Carter came over from the cubs with Mel Hall in a trade for Rick Suttcliff I think?

just reminds me that the Indians had / HAVE top notch scouts who found guys like these.

Reminds me also of the huge haul we took from then Montreal trading (our draft pick) Bartolo Colon for

Grady Sizemore, Cliff Lee, Brandon Phillips - who later became trade bait with Cinci..

mjp28

@fairhooker11 said:

Joe Carter came over from the cubs with Mel Hall in a trade for Rick Suttcliff I think?

just reminds me that the Indians had / HAVE top notch scouts who found guys like these.

Reminds me also of the huge haul we took from then Montreal trading (our draft pick) Bartolo Colon for

Grady Sizemore, Cliff Lee, Brandon Phillips - who later became trade bait with Cinci..

I remember how the Cleveland manager at the time on a talk show said Philips was a trouble maker and he had to go.....but the rest of the deal was great.

At the time I liked Colon but the deal turned out well. Colon went on to pitch for a long time.

mjp28

September 16. And oh those rowdy old-timers. Some day for a return.

1903 - The Boston Americans whip Cleveland, scoring in each of the eight innings they bat to win, 14 - 7. Boston collects 23 hits to Cleveland's 12.
1920: - Chicago's Dickie Kerr tops the Yankees, 8 - 3, the loss dropping New York to 2nd place behind ★ Cleveland.
- Duster Mails delivers for the ★ Indians, canceling the Senators, 1 - 0,r his 4th win without a loss. Joe Sewell the lone run.
- 1922 - Pennant fever rages in St. Louis, as the Yankees come to town with a half-game lead. Bob Shawkey outpitches Urban Shocker, 2 - 1, as George Sisler ties Ty Cobb's 1911 record by hitting in his 40th straight game. While chasing a fly ball in the 9th, New York OF Whitey Witt is hit in the head and knocked cold by a soda bottle thrown from the bleachers. Ban Johnson will initially offer a $1,000 reward for the name of the bottle-thrower. Then, to calm the crowds, the American League offers the theory that Witt stepped on the bottle and it flew up and hit him. The incident leads to a ban on the sale of bottled drinks in ballparks.

1923 - The Cubs lose, 10 - 6, to the Giants in Chicago, despite the hitting of Hack Miller who collects three doubles and a triple. A riot occurs in the 8th inning when umpire Charlie Moran makes an out call at second base on Sparky Adams, Moran is pelted by hundreds of pop bottles ★ Judge Landis, in attendance at the game, shakes his cane at the angry mob and play is held up for 15 minutes. John McGraw and the umpires need a police escort at the conclusion.

1930 - Brooklyn's collapse begins. The Cardinals tie for first place when Bill Hallahan outduels Dazzy Vance, 1 - 0, in 10 innings. Flint Rhem returns to the Cardinals with an improbable story that he was kidnapped by gamblers and forced to. drink bootleg whiskey.
1940: - A ruhurb at Ebbets Field results in a suspension and fine for Leo Durocher for "inciting a riot." Perhaps better known from the game is the photo showing an obese Brooklyn fan astride George Magerkurth, pummeling the veteran umpire.

1948 - Joe DiMaggio. (the old time All Stars) hits his 300th career home run, joining Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Mel Ott, Jimmie Foxx, Rogers Hornsby, Chuck Klein and Hank Greenberg as the only major leaguers to reach this milestone.
1951 - At Yankee Stadium, Joe DiMaggio's long triple off ★ Bob Feller scores two runs in the 5th and Allie Reynolds holds on for a 5 - 1 New York win. The Yanks take over first place for good by a margin of .003 over ★ Cleveland.
1969 - Juan Marichal blanks the Braves, 2 - 0, as the Giants regain first place.

1987 - ★ Cleveland's Joe Carter joins the 30/30 club, stealing his 30th base of the season in a 5 - 3 loss to Seattle.

2008 - In the last homestand at ♠︎.Yankee Stadium, Derek Jeter passes Lou Gehrig for the most career hits at the storied ballpark. He collects his 1,270th hit in the venue.

Births

1955 - Robin Yount, infielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer
1958 - Orel Hershiser, pitcher; All-Star
1959 - Tim Raines, outfielder; All-Star