April 25
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Events, births and deaths that occurred on April 25.
[edit] Events
- 1901 - At Bennett Park, the Detroit Tigers make an incredible comeback in their American League debut. Trailing 13 - 4 in the bottom of the ninth inning, the Tigers score 10 runs in their last at-bat to defeat the visiting Milwaukee Brewers, 14 - 13. Frank Dillon drives in the game-winning run with a double, his fourth of the game. Dillon's four doubles is an opening day record that will be matched by Jim Greengrass in 1954.
- 1904 - New York Highlanders pitcher Jack Chesbro post the first of his 41 wins on the season, an American League record that still stands.
- 1916 - At the Polo Grounds, Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox pitches a 10-inning complete game to defeat the Yankees, 4 - 3. Ruth gives up two earned runs on eight hits, but is hitless at-bat.
- 1922 - In a 5 - 3 win over Detroit, Ken Williams of the St. Louis Browns hits his sixth home run in four days, off Howard Ehmke, tying Babe Ruth's 1921 feat. Williams will take the home run and RBI American League titles and become the first 30-30 man in major league history, with 39 home runs and 37 stolen bases.
- 1933 - New York Yankees rookie Russ Van Atta makes a successfully major league debut when he pitches a five-hit shutout against the Washington Senators and collects four singles in four at-bats. Earle Combs adds five hits as the Yankees win, 16 - 0 win.
- 1937 - New York Giants pitcher Cliff Melton strikes out 13 batters in his major league debut, but loses a 3-1 decision to the Boston Bees. In spite of the loss, Melton will go on to win 20 games in his rookie season.
- 1948 - Larry Doby of the Cleveland Indians ties a major league record by striking out five times in the Indians 7 - 4 victory over Detroit at Tiger Stadium.
- 1957 - The major leagues adopt a new rule that prohibits baserunners from interfering with batted balls in the field of play. The rule is adopted in reaction to recent actions by several Cincinnati Reds baserunners. Earlier in the week, Don Hoak and Johnny Temple had intentionally interfered with batted balls as a way of preventing double plays.
- 1961 - Two weeks after the Boston Celtics win the NBA championship, their reserve center Gene Conley, pitching for the Boston Red Sox, gets his first American League victory, a 6 - 1 win over the visiting Washington Senators.
- 1962 - Catcher Harry Chiti is traded for himself when the Cleveland Indians sends him to the New York Mets in exchange for a player to be named later. On June 15, the Mets will sell Chiti back to Cleveland.
- 1969 - San Francisco Giants catcher Jack Hiatt drives in seven runs in a 12 - 8 victory over the Houston Astros. Hiatt's unexpected outburst includes a two-run home run in the first inning and a game-winning grand slam in the 13th inning. Usually a light hitter, Hiatt will finish the season with only 34 RBI and a .196 batting average.
- 1976 - Chicago Cubs center fielder Rick Monday rescued the American flag from two trespassers who tried to set it on fire in the outfield of Dodger Stadium. The incident happened in the fourth inning of a 5-4, 10-inning loss to Los Angeles.
- 1977 - George Foster of the Cincinnati Reds had seven RBI, five runs, two home runs, a double and a single in the Reds 23 - 9 victory over the host Atlanta Braves. Cincinnati tied a National League record by scoring 12 runs in the fifth inning off three Braves pitchers.
- 1981 - Seattle Mariners manager Maury Wills is suspended for two games as punishment for ordering the grounds crew to enlarge the batter's boxes at the Kingdome. Wills had decided to tamper with the chalk lines after the Oakland Athletics complained that Seattle's Tom Paciorek repeatedly stepped out of the batter's box while hitting.
- 1982 - Just 14 games into the season, New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner fires manager Bob Lemon and replaces him with Gene Michael, the man Lemon had replaced last September.
- 1990 - At Fenway Park, gimpy-legged Bill Buckner, 41, hits an inside-the-park home run for the Boston Red Sox. It will be his only homer in this, his last, season as he will play just 22 games. The Red Sox lose, 3 - 1, to Kirk McCaskill and the California Angels.
- 1995 - Major League Baseball returned after a 257-day layoff as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Florida Marlins 8 - 7. Players had gone on strike the previous season.
- 1997:
- Matt Williams hit three home runs and David Justice hit a pair as the Cleveland Indians and Milwaukee Brewers combined to match a major league record for home runs in a nine-inning night game with eleven. Cleveland hit a club-record eight in all, including three in one inning as the Indians beat the Brewers 11 - 4.
- Ken Griffey, Jr. of the Seattle Mariners hits three home runs in a 13 - 8 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. The three homers give Griffey a major league-leading 13 on the year, and a major-league record for the month of April. The first two dingers come off Roger Clemens and the 3rd, off Mike Timlin is the 250th of Griffey's career. He also had a three homer game in May of last year.
- 2000 - Honoring the work stoppage called by Cuban-Americans over the Elian Gonzalez situation, Alex Fernandez, Vladimir Núñez, Michael Tejera and Mike Lowell of the Marlins, Jose Canseco of Tampa Bay, and Mets' Rey Ordóñez and Cookie Rojas do not participate in major league action.
- 2001 - Rickey Henderson of the San Diego Padres set a major league record with his 2,063rd base on balls in San Diego's 5 - 3 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies.
- 2006:
- Preston Wilson ended the longest regular-season game in Minute Maid Park history when he hit a sacrifice fly in the 14th inning of Houston's 4 - 3 victory over the Dodgers. Willy Taveras scored the winning run in the 4-hour, 48-minute game. In Game Three of last year's World Series, the Chicago White Sox beat Houston 7 - 5 in a game that took 5:41.
- Jonny Gomes hit his American League leading 10th home run in Tampa Bay's 9 - 1 defeat to the Yankees. Gomes tied the club record for home runs in a month with Jose Canseco and Aubrey Huff.
- Kevin Mench extended his home run streak to five games, matching a Texas Rangers record in a 5 - 3 victory over Oakland. Mench became the fourth Texas player to homer in five straight games, joining Carl Everett, Mark Teixeira and Alex Rodriguez.
- Toronto Blue Jays minor league pitcher Edward Rodriguez was suspended for 50 games after testing positive for a banned performance-enhancing substance.
[edit] Births
- 1864 - Tom Quinn, catcher (d. 1932)
- 1865 - Dick Conway, pitcher (d. 1926)
- 1867 - Jim Sullivan, pitcher (d. 1901)
- 1868 - Fred Hartman, infielder (d. 1938)
- 1883 - Russ Ford, pitcher (d. 1960)
- 1884 - Pop Lloyd Hall of Famer (d. 1965)
- 1885 - Hack Spencer, pitcher (d. 1969)
- 1886 - Ralph Good, pitcher (d. 1965)
- 1887 - Lee Dashner, pitcher (d. 1959)
- 1890 - Red Bird, pitcher (d. 1972)
- 1890 - Lloyd Bishop, pitcher (d. 1968)
- 1891 - Pete Standridge, pitcher (d. 1963)
- 1893 - Hank Swasey, college coach, scout (d. 1980)
- 1894 - Snipe Conley, pitcher (d. 1978)
- 1895 - George Lowe, pitcher (d. 1981)
- 1896 - Fred Haney, infielder, manager (d. 1977)
- 1896 - Marty Shay, infielder (d. 1951)
- 1898 - Red Thomas, outfielder (d. 1962)
- 1900 - George Fiall, Negro League infielder (d. 1936)
- 1900 - Jake Freeze, pitcher (d. 1983)
- 1900 - Bill Grieve, umpire (d. 1979)
- 1903 - John Wilson, pitcher (d. 1980)
- 1907 - Roy Parmelee, pitcher (d. 1981)
- 1910 - Jimmy Brown, infielder; All-Star (d. 1977)
- 1911 - Bobby Estalella, outfielder (d. 1991)
- 1911 - Tokuhisa Kawamura, NPB infielder (d. WWII)
- 1911 - Connie Marrero, pitcher; All-Star
- 1913 - Woody Davis, pitcher (d. 1999)
- 1917 - John Dagenhard, pitcher (d. 2001)
- 1917 - Red Flaherty, umpire (d. 1999)
- 1917 - Fukuyoshi Okada, NPB infielder (d. 1944)
- 1917 - Kazuo Kito, NPB outfielder (d. 1944)
- 1918 - Tex Shirley, pitcher (d. 1993)
- 1923 - Shizuka Watanabe, NPB outfielder (d. WWII)
- 1924 - Art Schallock, pitcher
- 1930 - Ed Vargo, umpire (d. 2008)
- 1933 - Joyce Ricketts, AAGPBL outfielder (d. 1992)
- 1941 - Chuck Harrison, infielder
- 1943 - Bob Johnson, pitcher
- 1943 - Lew Krausse, pitcher
- 1944 - Joe Hague, infielder (d. 1994)
- 1944 - Ken Tatum, pitcher
- 1950 - Bill Greif, pitcher
- 1950 - Kerry Lamont Taylor, minor league pitcher (d. 1970)
- 1953 - Herminio Domínguez, minor league pitcher; Salon de la Fama
- 1954 - Frank Cacciatore, minor league outfielder and manager
- 1954 - Craig Minetto, pitcher
- 1954 - Greg Wells, infielder
- 1956 - Larry Pashnick, pitcher
- 1958 - Dave Owen, infielder
- 1959 - Tony Phillips, infielder
- 1964 - Blaine Beatty, pitcher
- 1966 - Darren Holmes, pitcher
- 1966 - Erik Pappas, catcher
- 1967 - Mike Sarbaugh, minor league infielder and manager
- 1968 - Tyrone Boykin, minor league player and manager
- 1969 - Joe Buck, announcer
- 1969 - Eric Christopherson, minor league catcher
- 1970 - Sean Mulligan, pinch hitter
- 1971 - Brad Clontz, pitcher
- 1972 - Micah Franklin, outfielder
- 1975 - Jacque Jones, outfielder
- 1980 - Kazuhito Tadano, pitcher
- 1981 - Sean White, pitcher
- 1982 - Brian Barton, outfielder
- 1983 - J.P. Howell, pitcher
- 1983 - Garrett Mock, pitcher
- 1984 - Robert Andino, infielder
[edit] Deaths
- 1890 - Charlie Hodnett, pitcher (b. 1861)
- 1905 - Jackie Hayes, catcher (b. 1861)
- 1910 - Jim Carleton, infielder (b. 1848)
- 1911 - Jack Rowe, infielder, manager (b. 1856)
- 1918 - Dave Williams, pitcher (b. 1881)
- 1919 - Bill Higgins, infielder (b. 1861)
- 1931 - Garry Herrmann, general manager (b. 1859)
- 1937 - George Gilham, catcher (b. 1899)
- 1944 - Tony Mullane, pitcher (b. 1859)
- 1945 - Jim Murray, outfielder (b. 1878)
- 1947 - John Walsh, infielder (b. 1879)
- 1957 - Lazaro Salazar, minor league player and manager; Salon de la Fama (b. 1912)
- 1963 - Hal Elliott, pitcher (b. 1899)
- 1966 - Art Decatur, pitcher (b. 1894)
- 1968 - Billy Kelsey, catcher (b. 1881)
- 1970 - Earl Wolgamot, coach (b. 1895)
- 1970 - Gene Steinbrenner, infielder (b. 1892)
- 1971 - Max West, outfielder (b. 1904)
- 1975 - Bruce Edwards, catcher; All-Star (b. 1923)
- 1978 - Leonardo Alanís, minor league outfielder (b. 1889)
- 1978 - Leo Najo, minor league outfielder (b. 1899)
- 1979 - Lew Carpenter, pitcher (b. 1913)
- 1983 - Carlos Paula, outfielder (b. 1927)
- 1992 - Bob Hazle, outfielder (b. 1930)
- 1994 - Gordon Jones, pitcher (b. 1930)
- 1994 - Mike Kreevich, outfielder; All-Star (b. 1908)
- 2006 - Tokuji Kawasaki, NPB pitcher; manager (b. 1921)
