⚾ On This Day in MLB History ⚾

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1 hour ago, FairHooker11 said:

good - so now that the cheaters got another "accolade" 

may the tide now change and leave the astros as a fortuneless hack club  and falling into the AL west basement.

 

Ya might want them to wait until after the weekend before they start losing. The have the Whitesox in town for a 3 gamer starting tomorrow. Those guys are only 2.5 games behind Cleveland in the standings.

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June 17.

• 1915 - Zip Zabel comes out of the Chicago Cubs bullpen with two outs in the 1st inning to face the Brooklyn Robins. Zabel wins the game in the 19th inning, 4 - 3, in the longest relief effort in major league history. Brooklyn starter Jeff Pfeffer goes the distance, scattering 15 hits as he labors 18 1/3 innings, only to lose on a throwing error by second baseman George Cutshaw.
• 1916 - The Chicago White Sox pound Babe Ruth with 12 hits in eight innings, including three by Shoeless Joe Jackson, to beat the visiting Boston Red Sox, 5 - 0. The loss drops Boston into sixth place.
• 1960 - Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox hits his 500th career home run against the ★ Cleveland Indians at ★ Cleveland Stadium. Williams' two-run shot off Wynn Hawkins helps the Red Sox beat Cleveland, 3 - 1. Williams becomes the fourth player in major league history to hit 500 home runs, joining Babe Ruth, Jimmie Foxx, and Mel Ott. 
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• 1967 - A nine-hour and five-minute doubleheader between the Detroit Tigers and Kansas City Athletics sets a major league record for the longest ever. The first game includes a rain delay, and the second goes 19 innings before a Dave Duncan home run gives the Athletics a 6 - 5 victory. Detroit wins the opener, 7 - 6. 

• 1993: - Baseball owners vote overwhelmingly, 26-2, in favor of expanding the postseason for the first time since 1969. The new system, which is set to begin in 1994, will double the number of teams that qualify to eight by realigning each league into three divisions, with two teams qualifying as wild cards. The 1994 strike will delay its implementation by one year, however.
  • San Francisco Giants outfielder Darren Lewis sets a major league record by playing his 243rd consecutive game without committing an error. It is also the most ever by any outfielder at the start of his career.
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  • 1993 - Carlos Baerga of the ★ Cleveland Indians hits three home runs in a 9 - 5 loss to the Detroit Tigers. Detroit hits five home runs of their own, including a pair each by Travis Fryman and Dan Gladden. Baerga, Fryman and Gladden also tie an American League record for three players with two or more home runs in a nine-inning game.   

Births.

• 1955 - Joe Charboneau, outfielder

Deaths.

• 1984 - Jim Hegan, catcher; All-Star (b. 1920)

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June 19.   Baseball in 1846 ?

• 1846 - At the Elysian Fields in Hoboken, NJ, the New York Ball Club defeats the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, 23 - 1 (some sources say 21 - 1). Alexander Cartwright serves as the umpire, which is curious, as Cartwright is one of the Knickerbockers' best players.  
• 1903 - Lou Gehrig is born in New York City. Gehrig will make his major league debut with the New York Yankees in 1923. He will become the Yankees' everyday first baseman, replacing Wally Pipp and set a record for the longest consecutive games played streak while combining with Babe Ruth to form one of the greatest run-producing tandems of all time.  
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• 1955: - Ted Williams, held hitless for three straight games, blasts a pair of towering home runs as the Red Sox overpower ★ Cleveland, 11 - 8. The Associated Press reports: "Williams leaned into a fastball by rookie fireballer ★ Herb Score for a 450-foot drive into the dead centerfield blea hers in the 5th inning to end a hitless string at ten official times at bat. In the 8th inning, he connected again for a 430-foot drive into the right field stands off the veteran ★ Bob Feller."  

1973: - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds and Willie Davis of the Los Angeles Dodgers both collect their 2,000th hits. It is a single for Rose against the San Francisco Giants and a home run for Davis against the Atlanta Braves.

1977: - The ★ Cleveland Indians fire Frank Robinson, the first black manager in major league history, and replace him with coach Jeff Torborg.

• 2001 - Ellis Burks of the ★ Cleveland Indians hits three home runs in a 10 - 9 loss to Minnesota. 

• 2019 - One day after fouling a bunted ball in his face during batting practice and breaking his nose, Max Scherzer takes the mound for the Nationals against the Phillies sporting a prominent black eye. He still stymies the opposition with 7 scoreless innings in a 2 - 0 win. "Trust me, this thing looks a lot worse than it actually feels," he explains to journalists.

Births. 

• 1903 - Lou Gehrig, infielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer (d. 1941)
• 1950 - Duane Kuiper, infielder

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June 21.   Some ★ famous and unusual names.  Uecher ?

• 1900 - Brooklyn rallies for five runs in the 9th to beat Philadelphia, 8 - 6, and take over first place. They will hold the lead for the rest of the season. Despite the win, Brooklyn is averaging only 1,100 fans per game and a concerned National League president Nick Young floats the idea of the franchise moving to Washington, DC.
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• 1903 - In a Sunday match in Canton, Ohio, Boston outslugs ★ Cleveland to win, 12 - 7. Buck Freeman is 5 for 6, including the cycle, with six RBIs, while ★ Nap Lajoie is 3 for 5 for Cleveland.

• 1939 - The New York Yankees announce Lou Gehrig's retirement, based on the report that he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The 36-year-old star will remain with the team as captain.

1950: - Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit, a 7th-inning single off the ★ Indians' Marino Pieretti, as the Yanks win, 8 - 2. DiMaggio joins Luke Appling and Wally Moses as the only active players with 2,000 or more hits. Eddie Lopat is the winning pitcher, running his record against ★ Cleveland to 25-6. 

1966: -★  Satchel Paige makes his final professional pitching appearance, going the first two innings for the Peninsula Grays (Carolina League) against the Greensboro Yankees. Satch gives up two runs. Peninsula's regular catcher, Johnny Bench, takes the night off.

• 1967 - ★- Bob Uecker of the Atlanta Braves hits a grand slam for the only time in his career. It comes in the 3rd inning off Ron Herbel of the San Francisco Giants in a 9 - 2 Braves win at Candlestick Park.  
• 1970 - ★ Cleveland wins the first game against Detroit, 2 - 1, but Detroit's Cesar Gutierrez then goes 7 for 7 with six singles and a double to tie a record set in 1892, in a 12-inning, 9 - 8 nitecap win. Mickey Stanley's home run wins it for the Tigers. Gutierrez, wearing #7, starts the game hitting .218, and was 0 for 18 before today. Gutierrez will collect just seven hits in all of 1971, and 128 hits for his career.
• 1971 - ★ Indians slugger Ken Harrelson announces his retirement from baseball to join the pro golf tour. ?
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• 1986: - ★ Bo Jackson, college football's Heisman Trophy winner in 1985 and the first pick (by Tampa Bay) in the NFL draft, stuns observers nationwide by signing with the Kansas City Royals instead.

1997 - ★ Manny Ramirez has 6 RBIs, four on a grand slam, to lead the host ★ Cleveland Indians to a 13 - 4 win over the New York Yankees and Andy Pettitte.

1998 - ★ Cleveland Indians lefty Bartolo Colon coasts to a 11 - 0 shutout over the New York Yankees.

2008 - In a 7 - 2 ★ Cleveland win over the Dodgers, C.C. Sabathia homers off Chan-ho Park. It is ★ Sabathia's second home run  the first time an American League pitcher has hit that many since the DH had been instituted. After the game, ★ Sabathia's career batting line in 42 plate appearances is an impressive .300/.317/.475 for a 107 OPS+. Wow, a DH ?

2012 - Remember him ?  The ★ Cleveland Indians give up on former top ★ prospect Beau Mills, a first-round pick in the 2007 amateur draft, when they send him to the Cincinnati Reds for cash considerations. Mills is hitting only .197 as the first baseman for AAA Columbus, and is being demoted to AA Pensacola by the Reds.

 

 

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June 22..  Honus, Ty, Babe  and the business of baseball.

• 1902 - ★ Cleveland plays its third straight Sunday game in a minor league park, this time in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Cleveland beats Washington, 6 - 4, behind ★ Addie Joss. <-- Also a great story by Matt Underwood.  
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• 1908 - Honus Wagner gets hit No. 2,000 in the 8th against Jake Weimer of the Reds, who wins 4 - 0 over the Pirates. Wagner makes an error when he is struck on the finger in the 1st inning. 
• 1912 - Ty Cobb gets pinch hit for in an unusual scenario. With two outs in the 9th, and the Tigers down 11 - 3, Cobb is nowhere to be found, and George Mullin substitutes and flies out to end the game. It turns out Cobb is in the clubhouse showering. 
• 1916 - Babe Ruth almost duplicates teammate Rube Foster's no-hitter, allowing just three singles, two by Frank Gilhooley, in beating the Yankees, 1 - 0. The game takes one hour, 18 minutes.  
• 1934 - Detroit takes over first place, beating Washington, 11 - 3, dislodging the Yankees who lose, 4 - 1, to ★ Cleveland.
• 1934 - Bill Terry and Joe Cronin, managers of the 1933 pennant winners, are named to head the All-Star teams, establishing a precedent that is still followed.  

• 1946 - Bill Veeck heads a syndicate which purchases the ★ Cleveland Indians. This launches Veeck on a long career as a lively promoter at the major league level, having already achieved success in the minors.  
• 1996: - ★ In Cleveland, Ruben Sierra homers from both sides of the plate as the Yankees beat the Indians, 11 - 9. One of Sierra's home runs comes in the nine-run 6th inning. ★ Albert Belle, back from a two-game suspension, is 3 for 5 with a homer, and Eddie Murray adds his 488th home run for the Tribe. The game takes 4:10.  

2010 - The sale of the Texas Rangers by Tom Hicks to a group headed by Chuck Greenberg is not proceeding smoothly. Although announced in January, it is now before a Federal Bankruptcy Court. Judge Michael Lynn issues a ruling today that creditors are adversely affected by a plan to pay them $75 million and are entitled to vote on it. The sale could fall through if the creditors veto the deal, valued at $575 million overall; at issue is the treatment of $525 million in loans on which Hicks's ownership group defaulted last year.       

• 2015 - ESPN reveals it has obtained a copy of a notebook belonging to Pete Rose which contains evidence of regular betting on baseball games during the 1986 season. The notebook was seized during a police raid on one of Rose's associates in 1989, after Rose was banned from baseball by Commissioner Bart Giamatti, and had been under court-ordered seal since. Its content corroborate the contents of the Dowd Report, which led to Rose's suspension, and make it even less likely that current Commissioner Rob Manfred will reverse it, as Rose has pleaded for him to do.  
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• 2020 - MLB owners agree unanimously on a plan for a 60-game season beginning around July 24th - if everyone signs off on health and safety protocols.

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June 24.  Oh those oldies and other strange things. 

• 1907 - In a Tri-State League contest at Williamsport, a game with Altoona ends in the 4th inning when a bolt of lightning sets fire  to the grandstand. Williamsport pitcher Rube Vickers is so stunned by the ordeal that he needs medical attention.
• 1911 - In a Reds win in Cincinnati, Cards player-manager Roger Bresnahan is called out on strikes by Bill Klem to end the game. When Roger argues too long over the call, Klem belts him. An embarrassed National League president Tom Lynch will fine the arbiter $50  for the punch.

• 1931 - Bill Sweeney, Red Sox 1B, makes 21 putouts, one fewer than Hal Chase's 1906 record. Boston outfielders have no putouts as the Red Sox lose, 7 - 3, in ★ Cleveland.  

• 1936 - Rookie Joe DiMaggio ties three major-league records in New York's 10-run 5th inning against the White Sox, hitting 2 home runs for 8 total bases. With 2 doubles, he equals the modern record of four long hits in a game. New York beats St. Louis, 18 - 4.
• 1946 - A bus careens off a Cascade Mountain pass road, killing nine members of the Spokane (Western International League) club. Jack Lohrke, a young infielder, had gotten off the bus at its last stop before the accident, on orders to report to San Diego. The future Giant and Phil will be known ever after as "Lucky" .  Ben Geraghty is also among the survivors.
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• 1968 - Detroit RF Jim Northrup becomes the 6th American League player to hit two grand slams in one game, connecting in the 5th inning off Eddie Fisher and in the 6th off Billy Rohr, as the Tigers bomb ★ Cleveland, 14 - 3. Denny McLain is the victor. First baseman Willie Smith pitches the last three innings, walking just one and allowing one hit and no runs. Detroit's Don Wert is taken to the hospital following a 6th inning beaning which shatters his  batting helmet. He will miss just a few games.
• 1970:In a doubleheader with the ★ Indians at Yankee Stadium, Bobby Murcer ties Lou Gehrig's record of four straight homers. The Yanks lose the opener, 7 - 2, despite Murcer's 9th-inning home run off ★ Sam McDowell. Murcer next connects off the second game's starter, Mike Paul, hitting a solo shot in the 1st inning. A walk in the 4th, then a two-run homer off Paul in the 5th, and a game-tying homer in the 8th, off Fred Lasher. New York scores in the bottom of the 9th to salvage a 5 - 4 win. Cleveland ★ 1B Tony Horton hears a boo and literally crawls back to the dugout after fanning on two of Yankee hurler Steve Hamilton's "folly floaters." Sensitive to fans booing during the season, Horton will be hospitalized, and at 25, this is his last season.

1969: - Richie Allen is fined $2,500   and suspended indefinitely when he fails to appear for the Phillies twi-night doubleheader game with the Mets. Allen had gone to New Jersey in the morning to see a horse race and got caught in traffic trying to return. He will stay suspended until July 20th. Allen picked up a $1000 fine in May when, for two straight days, he reportedly arrived at the ballpark after the game had started. Without Allen, the Phils drop a pair, 2 - 1 and 5 - 0. 

• 1988 - Cleveland's ★ Doug Jones celebrates his 31st birthday by saving his 14th game in 14 appearances, breaking the major-league record for consecutive saves set last season by Steve Bedrosian. Jones retires all seven batters he faces to close out the Indians' 7 - 5 win over the ♠︎ Yankees.  

1989 - ★ Cleveland's Joe Carter hits three home runs in a game for the third time in his career as the Indians beat Texas, 7 - 3. The Rangers' Charlie Hough and Kenny Rogers combine to allow just six hits - all homers.

1998: - The ★  Indians trade OF Geronimo Berroa to the Tigers for P Tim Worrell and minor league OF Dave Roberts. 

• 2008 - For the first time since Game 7 of the 1960 World Series, the New York Yankees visit Pittsburgh, PA. After Bill Mazeroski, the hero of that Game 7, throws out the ceremonial first pitch, the home team pulls off a reenactment of their last meeting, upsetting ♠︎ New York. The Pirates top the Yanks, 12 - 5, with six Bucs getting multiple hits. Ryan Doumit goes 3 for 5 with a homer, two runs and two RBI and Freddy Sanchez scores three times while Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter and Jason Giambi go a combined 1 for 12.  

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June 25.   Kind of a slow day. 

1902: - A federal court judge rules that Brooklyn has no claim on C Deacon McGuire, who jumped to Detroit. Two weeks later, another U.S. judge denies jurisdiction to ★ stop Nap Lajoie from playing for ★ Cleveland, thus ending the Phillies' chances of regaining him legally.

• 1939 - ★ Cleveland batters Ben Chapman, Hal Trosky and Jeff Heath homer in the 7th inning to tie a major-league record, while beating Philadelphia, 8 - 4.
• 1961: - ★ Vic Power is the baserunner on first base in the bottom of the 9th, when Chuck Essegian pinch-hits a single. Power, thinking it is a home run, waits to shake hands with Essegian, and is forced out at second base. Detroit and Jim Bunning win, 6 - 3, then ★ Cleveland takes the nightcap, 4 - 3. 

1967: - Heavyweight contender Joe Frazier wants to hold a clinic to teach baseball players how to fight. "All they do is hurt themselves instead of the other guy," he said from his training camp. "Look at Joe Pepitone. He banged up his hands without getting a punch across. Baseball players should know about combinations as well as double plays." Frazier said he would hold a clinic on a day when the Yankees are off.  

• Boston C Carlton Fisk, injured last June 23rd, returns to action for the first time in a year in an 8 - 5 loss to ★ Cleveland.
• 1980 - Five ★ Cleveland pitchers issue 14 walks, including five with the bases loaded, in a 13 - 3 loss to Detroit.
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• 2005 - In a game against the Orioles, the Mariners battery consists of a pair of 42-year olds as Jamie Moyer throws to backstop Pat Borders. It marks the first time in major league history that two players 42 years or older have been the starting pitcher and catcher for a team.

2011 - The Giants may not score a ton of runs, but they have a knack for winnin' ugly. Today, they score the game's lone run in the 7th on a bases-loaded balk by ★ Cleveland's Tony Sipp. The inning begins poorly for San Francisco, with Nate Schierholtz hitting a lead-off double, then slipping between second and third base in trying to stetch it to a triple and being tagged out easily; Miguel Tejada then reaches on a throwing error by 2B Cord Phelps, who later commits a second error on a ground ball by pitcher Matt Cain, before reliever Sipp commits the fateful mistake. Cain is the winner over ★ Justin Masterson, who deserved a better fate.

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Today in baseball 3 Astros pitchers combined to no-hit the Yankees in new Yankee Stadium 3-0, only the 2nd no hitter against them since 1958. The other was by the Astros in the old Yankee Stadium in 2003. Interestingly the Astros' ace reliever Pressly came in with the 3-0 lead in the 9th, struck out the first two and ground out the last. Ironically on Thursday night he came in with same 3-0 lead, walked the first two, gave up a 3 run HR equalizer and then the winning RBI single by Judge to lose the game 7-6.

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June 26.    Kind of a slow day. 

• 1916 - Cleveland players, in a game with the White Sox, wear numbers pinned to their sleeves, marking the first time players are identified by numbers corresponding to those on the scorecard. Jack Graney, leading off for the Tribe, is the first batter to wear a number in the 20th Century.  
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• 1939 - In Philadelphia, the Yankees play the first night game in history losing to Connie Mack's A's, 3 - 2.

1958 - Joe Gordon replaces Bobby Bragan as manager of the ★ Cleveland Indians, signing a contract through 1959.

1961 - * At Los Angeles's Wrigley Field, Angel reliever Art Fowler, who has allowed just one hit in his last 12 innings, serves up a 9th-inning home run to Bill Skowron as New York wins, 8 - 6. Mickey Mantle adds an earlier homer, off Ken McBride, and Whitey Ford wins his 13th. Yogi Berra collects his 2,000th career hit, all as a Bronx Bomber. To celebrate the achievement a huge cake is rolled out.

1964 - University of Wisconsin star Rick Reichardt receives the highest bonus to date ($200,000) as he signs with the Angels.   

• 1968 - Cardinal Bob Gibson pitches his 5th straight shutout  shutout in the first game of a doubleheader with Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh wins the second game, 3 - 1, although the Cardinals stop Maury Wills' 24-game hitting streak.
• 1996 - Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda undergoes an angioplasty after suffering a mild heart attack. Bill Russell is named Los Angeles' interim manager. 
• 2010: - Oh my ! - The Red Sox get bad news before today's game, learning that 2B Dustin Pedroia, their hottest hitter this year, has a fractured left foot, the result of fouling off a ball in last night's game. He joins four other Sox regulars on the DL  disabled list - Josh Beckett, Jacoby Ellsbury, Mike Lowell and Jeremy Hermida. Then, in the game against the Giants, pitcher Clay Buchholz comes up lame in the top of the 2nd inning after reaching base with his first major league hit and must be removed from the game. But the bullpen comes up big, as seven relievers give up only 2 runs in 8 innings and the Sox win, 4 - 2. Darnell McDonald and Mike Cameron homer for Boston. Before the game, the Giants retire number 20 in honor of Hall of Fame OF Monte Irvin. In tomorrow's game, ★ C Victor Martinez will suffer a broken left thumb, adding to Boston's injury woes.

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June 27.    Oh those rowdy old-timers.  .  A lot of ★ Cleveland Indians news today.  And ♠︎ Elvis.

 

• 1900 - In a New York State League game, Binghamton tops Oswego, 2 - 1. Playing for Binghamton is heavyweight boxing champ  James J. Corbett, making the last of 37 appearances in the minors. He is 0 for 3.
• 1915 - In the first of two at ★ Cleveland   the Red Sox win 5 - 3 behind Babe Ruth and Carl Mays,
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• 1918 - Tris Speaker is. suspended for the remainder of the season because of his assault on umpire Tom Connolly following a dispute at home plate in a game in Philadelphia.
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• 1926 - The ★ Indians use the same lineup in two victories over the Red Sox, including Dutch Levsen, who pitches the 6 - 1 and 5 - 1 sweep. He strikes out none
• 1932 - Due to the anticipation of an eclipse the Red Sox complete a game several days earlier than scheduled with the ★ Indians and beat the Tribe in 11 innings, 4 - 3. Three days later, Fenway Park goes dark for twenty minutes during the solar event.
• 1939 -★ Cleveland OF Jeff Heath punches a taunting fan leaning over the railing, but the umpires MISS the incident and he goes unpunished. 
• 1950: - Earle and Roy Mack, Connie's sons by his first marriage, purchases 54 % interest in the Athletics from Connie Mack, Jr., their younger brother from a second marriage. Earle, Roy and Connie Mack now own 1,198 shares out of 1,500. "As long as dad wants to manage," the two announce, "he will continue to manage."
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• 1950 - At Fenway Park the Red Sox come back from 10 - 0 and 12 - 1 deficits to beat the ★  Indians 15 - 14.★ Bob Feller is the loser, this time in his only relief appearance of the season, coming in for starter ★ Bob Lemon, the American League's winningest pitcher. Dom DiMaggio's two triples and a single pace the offense. It is the second day in a row the Tribe has blown a big lead, losing a seven run advantage yesterday  
• 1951: - The ★ Indians triumph over the A's, 1 - 0, on Bob Kennedy's homer off Sam Zoldak. It is Sam's second 1 - 0 loss to the Tribe. Early Wynn wins his 15th to keep the Indians a game ahead of New York, 7 - 5 winners in 10 innings at St. Louis.
• 1959: - Before 70,938 fans in ★  Cleveland, the first-place White Sox top the 2nd-place Indians, 7 - 3, behind the pitching of Bob Shaw. The Tribe now trail by 2 1/2 games.
• 1970: - ★ Cleveland and California split a pair, with the Angels taking the opener, 3 - 2 and the Tribe the nitecap, 5 - 1. Cleveland's ★ Tony Horton plays his last professional game. The 25 -year-old budding star, despondent over a batting slump and fans' booing, will be hospitalized for depression. 
• 1981: - ★ Cleveland's John Denny shuts out Seattle, 1 - 0.
• 1983 - The Indians trade pitcher ★ Len Barker to the Braves for Rick Behenna, cash, and two players to be named later. The two turn out to be  OF Brett Butler and 3B Brook Jacoby.

1993 ‐  The Mets sign P Kirk Presley, their top pick in this year's amateur draft, for $960,000. The pitcher is a distant cousin of ♠︎ Elvis Presley. In 1999, Gerry Hunsicker will recall his decision to draft Presley: "I didn't make one of the brightest decisions of my career when I passed on a young pitcher out of Ferrum College (Billy Wagner) and chose another who never got out of A ball." 

• 2020 - Because Jackie Robinson Day, normally celebrated on April 15th, was shut out by the Coronavirus pandemic this year, it is rescheduled today, on the anniversary of Martin Luther King's March on Washington. It takes place amidst nationwide questioning on racial relations, following the brutal shooting  of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, WI earlier in the week, and the Astros and Athletics elect not to play, staging instead a brief ceremony in Robinson's honor, following in the steps of other MLB teams and other sports who have done the same over the past two days. The producers of the film 42 had made a 4.2 million donation  of medical equipment for the African-American community on the original day, but today everyone is saddened upon hearing of the passing at 43 of actor Chadwick Boseman, who portrayed Jackie Robinson in the 2013 film.

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June 28.   A so-so day in MLB. 

• 1911 - Just two and a half months after a fire destroyed the old Polo Grounds, the new grounds open for business. The old bleachers, seating 10,000, were untouched, but the new double-decker grandstand seats another 16,000. Only 6,000 fans show up for the inauguration as Christy Mathewson shuts out the Rustlers, 3 - 0, on nine hits. On the front end of a double steal, Mathewson swipes home in the 4th inning. While guests at the Highlanders' Hilltop Park, the Giants won 21 of 29 games.
• 1925: - Tris Speaker connects for the 658th double of his career, breaking ★ Nap Lajoie's career record. He will go on to set the all-time record - still standing - with 792.
• 1927: - The Yanks build a 9 - 0 lead against the A's, and withstand an 8-run rally by the Mackmen in the 9th to win, 9 - 8. New York now leads the American League by 10 games. Lou Gehrig collects his 100th hit of the year, belting his 23rd homer with one on. Babe Ruth, nursing a sore right knee, sits out his third straight game.
• 1928 - Babe Ruth slugs two home runs to lead the Yankees to a 10 - 4 victory over the Athletics, and Ty Cobb appears in his 3,000th career game.

• 1974 - At ★ Cleveland, Indians OF Leron Lee crashes into Boston C Carlton Fisk, knocking him out of the game. Fisk's left knee injury is so serious he will not return to action this year, and, with a broken arm sustained in next year's spring training, will not play until June 1975.  
• 1997: - Yankees P David Wells starts the game against★ Cleveland wearing Babe Ruth's autographed cap from the 1934 season. Manager Joe Torre makes him take it off after the 1st inning since it doesn't conform to the team's current uniform. Without the cap, Wells blows a 3 - 0 lead as the ★ Indians go on to a 12 - 8 victory. The Indians mount a 19-hit attack, as CF Marquis Grissom  accounts for five of the hits, while 3B Matt Williams gets four hits, including a pair of homers, and drives home six runs.
• 2016: - The ★ Indians defeat the Braves, 5 - 3, behind ★ Corey Kluber, for their ★ 11th straight win. It is the team's longest winning streak since 1982 and they now lead the AL Central by 5 1/2 games. 

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• 1880 - ★ Cleveland beats Boston, 6 - 5, with Gid Gardner pitching his first game of the season. Jim McCormick had pitched complete games in all of Cleveland's 31 previous National League games.

• 1934 - Lou Gehrig is beaned in an exhibition game played in Norfolk, Virginia, and suffers a concussion.
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• 1940 - ★ Bob Feller fans 11 White Sox in gaining his 12th win of the year, 7 - 3. The Tribe now lead the American League by 2 1/2 games.
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• 1941 - In a doubleheader with the Senators, Joe DiMaggio ties and then breaks the American League consecutive game hitting streak of 41 established by George Sisler. In the opener, he knots the record with a double off Dutch Leonard, and in the nightcap the "Yankee Clipper" tops the record with a 7th-inning single against Walt Masterson. 
• 1965: - The Yankees lose Roger Maris for 49 games with bone chips in the heel of his right hand.
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• 1965 -★ Indian P Ralph Terry's 8 - 5 win at Boston gives Cleveland
• 1968 - The Red Sox finally score on ★ Luis Tiant, but Cleveland tops Boston, 8 - 1. Tiant strikes out 13 in the win.
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• 1968 - In the first game of a doubleheader, Mickey Mantle ties the score with a 2-run homer in the 6th, but rookie Reggie Jackson breaks the tie in the 8th with his 9th homer of the year. The A's win, 5 - 2.
• 2000 - The Royals defeat the ★ Indians, 6 - 1. ★ Bartolo Colon takes the loss for Cleveland, in the process becoming just the 4th pitcher in major league history to start a game by walking the first four batters he faces.

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June 30.   A lot of Cleveland from 1901 to 1914+.   And a lot of other stuff. 

• 1901 - Pete Dowling of ★ Cleveland throws the first no-hitter in American League history, 7 - 0 against his former team, Milwaukee - except hardly anyone notices. This is because most game reports credit him with a one-hitter, the single safety being hit in the 7th inning by Wid Conroy on a ball that 3B Bill Bradley fails to snag.★ However the official scorer soon reverses his decision, charging Bradley with an error, and Milwaukee's papers give the hurler proper credit, but they're reach is not wide enough to prevent Dowling's feat to be largely lost in the mists of history until it is re-discovered in the 21st century.
• 1902: - ★Cleveland is the first American League team to hit three consecutive home runs in one inning as Nap Lajoie, Piano Legs Hickman and Bill Bradley connect in the 6th off St. Louis, with all the hits ending in the LF bleachers at St. Louis. The last two come on the first pitch thrown. Jack Harper tees up the gopher balls in the 17 - 2 loss. The feat was last done on May 10, 1894.  
• 1905: - ★ Nap Lajoie is sidelined by blood poisoning  from neglect of a spike wound. He will play in only ★ 65 games, losing a chance to lead the American League in batting for the 5th straight year. 
• 1912 - In game two of a doubleheader at St Louis, Joe Jackson ties the major-league record with three triples to pace ★ Cleveland to a 15 - 1 pasting of the Browns.
• 1914 - ★ Cleveland's Terry Turner ends a long dry spell by hitting a three-run homer off the Browns' Earl Hamilton. Turner's last home run was back in 1906: he had gone 3,186 at bats without a round-tripper.
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• 1918 - In the 10th inning, Babe Ruth hits his 11th homer to beat Walter Johnson, 3 - 1, and boost the Red Sox back into first place. Ruth is playing CF when not pitching. 

1948 ★: - In his first full season  as a pitcher, Bob Lemon of the ★ Cleveland Indians pitches a ★ no-hitter, beating the Detroit Tigers, 2 - 0 in front of 49,628 at Briggs Stadium. Lemon has only two scares: Dale Mitchell makes a miraculous catch of a George Kell drive in the fourth and Ken Keltner makes a great stop behind third base in the 5th. The Tigers' home was the last park in the junior circuit to use lights, installing illumination only two weeks ago.

1950 - Joe and Dom DiMaggio both hit home runs in the 10 - 2 Red Sox victory over New York in the nightcap of a doubleheader. It has been 15 years since two brothers homered in a game.

• 1952 - Satchel Paige is named to the All-Star team.  
• 1962: - With the aid of 13 strikeouts and a Frank Howard home run, Sandy Koufax no hits no-hits Bob Miller and the Mets, 5 - 0 in Los Angeles. Sandy starts off the game by fanning the side on nine pitches  in the 1st inning, the first National League pitcher to strike out the side on nine pitches since Brooklyn's Dazzy Vance, in 1924. It will be the first of four career no-hitters thrown by Koufax.
• 1970 - A sellout crowd of 51,050 is on hand for the dedication of Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium, rushed to completion so the Reds can host the All-Star game. There is no electricity in the refreshments , and the scoreboard occasionally misfires, but Hank Aaron doesn't misfire as he hits the park's first home run off Cincinnati starter Jim McGlothlin in the 1st inning. The Braves win, 8 - 2.
• 1978: - Larry Doby becomes the second black major league manager, replacing Bob Lemon as skipper of the White Sox. Chicago has a 34-40 record attime, and will go 37-50 the rest of the way.
• 1986: - 1985 Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson makes his professional baseball debut with the Memphis Chicks of the AA Southern League and goes 1 for 4 with two strikeouts.  
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• 1993 - The ★ Indians finish their home stand with a 4 - 2 win over the White Sox. The Indians have now ★ won  23 straight at   Jacobs Field.
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• 2020 - Remember this ?    Minor League Baseball officially announces the ★ cancellation of its season, as Major League Baseball will not make players available to minor league teams this year. Teams will instead keep a "taxi squad" of eligible players ready to be added to the major league roster if the need arises. The decision was pretty much inevitable in any case, as minor league teams are dependent on gate receipts to cover most operating expenses, and did not have the option of playing games solely for a television audience as their major league counterparts are now preparing to do.

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July 01.    A lot of Cleveland Indians stuff today. 

• 1921 - Casey Stengel is traded from the last-place Phils to the second-place Giants, along with IF Johnny Rawlings and P Red Causey for IF Goldie Rapp and outfielders Lance Richbourg and Lee King.
• 1934: - Bill Terry is the top vote-getter in the All-Star balloting. Babe Ruth leads all American League outfielders.

1951 - Veteran ★ Bob Feller pitches the third no-hitter of his career, tying the record of Cy Young and Larry Corcoran, as he beats Detroit's Bob Cain, 2 - 1. Feller loses his shutout in the fourth when Johnny Lipon reaches on an error, swipes second base, goes to third on a errant pickoff, and scores on a sacrifice fly. Rookie Bob Chakales shuts out the Tigers in the nightcap, 2 - 0, for ★ Cleveland's 10th straight win over Detroit. Detroit has scored eight runs in the ten losses. 

• 1952 - The ★ Indians' Larry Doby walks five times in a 19-inning game.
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• 1956 - Mickey Mantle switch-hits home runs in the same game for the fourth time in his career. The Yankees win 8 - 6 over Washington.
• 2007 - ★ Mike Hargrove surprisingly resigns as the manager of the Seattle Mariners with the team in first place in the AL West.
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• 2014 - It requires no less than two video reviews, but the ★ Indians pull an unlikely triple play in the 4th inning of their 10 - 3 win over the Dodgers. With runners on the corners, Adrian Gonzalez slashes a pitch to left field; Michael Brantley runs in to make the catch and guns down Dee Gordon at the plate. Yasiel Puig then makes a late break for second base and appears to beat C Yan Gomes's throw to 2B Jason Kipnis. Indians manager ★ Terry Francona is the first to object, asking for a review of the call at second base, and it is overturned; Dodgers manager Don Mattingly then comes out of the dugout and asks officials to take another look at the out at home, but that one stands, and the Indians have a triple play.

• 2015: - Carlos Carrasco of the ★ Indians comes within one strike of pitching a no hitter. as the Rays' Joey Butler lines a two-out, two-strike pitch in the 9th  over 2B Jason Kipnis' head. The hit comes after Carrasco had walked Asdrubal Cabrera and hit Brandon Guyer with a pitch earlier in the inning and drives in a run; Carrasco is removed from the game and Austin Adams records the last out of an 8 - 1 win.  
• 2016 - The ★ Indians set a new team record with their 14th straight win. but it doesn't come easy as they need 19 innings  to defeat the Blue Jays, 2 - 1. Carlos Santana, who had scored the Indians' first run in the 3rd, homers off infielder Darwin Barney for the winning run. 19 pitchers  are used in the game, with starter ★ Trevor Bauer going the last five innings for Cleveland to earn the win; for its part, Toronto runs out of pitchers in the 18th, and another infielder, Ryan Goins, precedes Barney on the mound.

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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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.  
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.  
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• 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.
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• 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.   
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• 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. 
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• 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.
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• 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
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  • 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.
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• 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.   
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• 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. 
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•  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.   
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• 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.
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• 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.  
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• 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.  
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• 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.
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• 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.   
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• 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.   
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• 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 HOME RUN DERBY is on MONDAY JULY 18, 2022 ★

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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:

1. Kyle Schwarber: 28 home runs
2. Pete Alonso: 23
3. Corey Seager: 21
4. Juan Soto: 19 .............|
5. José Ramírez: 17.........|
6. Julio Rodríguez: 15
7. Ronald Acuña Jr.: 8
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...    
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• 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.   
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• 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.