July 1

From BR Bullpen

Events, births and deaths that occurred on July 1.

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• 1859 - In the first college baseball game ever played, Amherst defeats Williams College, 73 - 32 (66 - 32 by some reports) in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
• 1901:
  • Chicago 1B Jack Doyle, harassed by a Polo Grounds fan, jumps into the stands and hits him once with his left hand, reinjuring the hand which he had broken several weeks before. The Giants' Dummy Taylor trims Chicago's Jack Taylor, 6 - 4.
  • The Phillies hand the Pirates a 1 - 0 loss, for Pittsburgh's only shutout of the year in 139 games. This is a 20th century NL record that will hold up; the 1894 Boston and Philadelphia teams went through the 132-game season without being shut out in the highest-scoring season ever.
• 1902 - Playing his first game for Connie Mack's A's, Rube Waddell faces only 27 batters blanking the Orioles, 2 - 0. The 25-year old southpaw strikes out the side three times by whiffing Billy Gilbert, Harry Howell and Jack Cronin in the 3rd (on just nine pitches) 6th, and 9th innings. C Ossee Schreckengost throws out the two baserunners.
• 1903 - Pitcher Cy Young drives home the only run in the 10th inning as the Boston Americans beat Chicago, 1-0.
• 1905 - White Sox P Frank Owen narrowly misses becoming the first to pitch a doubleheader shutout as the Browns score two runs off him in the two games. The Sox win 3 - 2 and 3 - 0.
• 1906 - Righthander Jack Taylor, 8-9 with the St. Louis Cardinals, returns to the Cubs in exchange for second-string C Pete Noonan, rookie P Fred Beebe and cash. Taylor will help the Cubs by going 12-3 the rest of the year.
• 1910 - White Sox Park opens with a 2 - 0 loss to the Browns. The stadium, since called Comiskey Park, is baseball's biggest and cost $750,000 to build. 24,900 attend the game, 1,100 less than capacity. This stadium will close in the fall of 1990, to be replaced by a new structure, which is named New Comiskey Park.
• 1911:
  • Ty Cobb, who had an infield single off Earl Hamilton in his last game, on June 29th, repeats by beating out another infield hit against the St. Louis lefty. Again, Detroit wins, this time 8 - 0.
  • The A's pound Walter Johnson for 13 runs, the most he'll allow in his career, and beat Washington, 13 - 8. Frank Baker hits his second of five career homers off Johnson in the 6th with a man on.
  • In a 3 - 0 Chicago win over the host Reds, Cubs player-manager Frank Chance leaves the game suffering from a blood clot in the brain. Except for 11 brief appearances at 1B over the next three years, his playing days are over.
• 1912 - At Pittsburgh, Chicago's Wildfire Schulte breaks up a scoreless pitching duel between Marty O'Toole and Jimmy Lavender by legging out an inside-the-park homer in the 12th inning. Lavender and the Cubs win, 1 - 0.
• 1915 - Pittsburgh (FL) drops game 1, 6 - 0, at Baltimore, then scores in every inning of the nitecap to win, 13 - 5. This is the first game since 1894 in which this has happened.
• 1916:
  • Babe Ruth retires the first 10 Washington batters, but the next five reach base, sending the Boston lefty to the showers and to a 4 - 2 loss.
  • At age 42 years and 4 months, Honus Wagner is the oldest player to hit an inside-the-park home run. He connects for the Pirates in the 4th inning at Cincinnati.
• 1917:
  • The Reds' Fred Toney pitches a doubleheader, beating the Pirates, 4 - 1 and 5 - 1. He walks one and allows three hits in each game, the fewest hits allowed by any pitcher winning two games in one day.
  • Despite a state law banning Sunday baseball, the Robins play their first Sunday game in Brooklyn, charging regular admission and beating the Phils, 3 - 2. Charles Ebbets announces that the admission will benefit the Militia of Mercy, a wartime charity, and is for a pregame band concert and military drill exhibition before the game. When the band concert ends ticket sales stop to conform with the Sunday baseball laws. More than 12,000 attend. Despite the maneuver, Ebbets and manager Wilbert Robinson are arrested, and will pay a small fine.
• 1919 - Going 5-for-5 in a 9 - 4 win over the Phils, Brooklyn's Ed Konetchy gets his 10th straight hit, tying Jake Gettman's record with Washington in 1897. Both will be topped by Walt Dropo in 1952.
• 1920:
  • Leaving Robison Field in mid-season, the Cardinals make their debut as the home team at Sportsman's Park, also the home of the American League's St. Louis Browns, bowing to the Pirates, 6 - 2. After signing a ten-year lease for $20,000 annually with Browns' president Phil Ball, the team moves six blocks to be able to play its home games in a modern ballpark.
  • Walter Johnson pitches a no-hitter, his first, against the Red Sox at Fenway Park. An error by Bucky Harris costs him a perfect game, but Harris's hit drives in Washington's only run. The next day, Johnson comes up with the first sore arm of his life and is useless for the rest of the year, finishing 8-10.
• 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.
• 1925 - The Giants move back on top of the National League, taking two from the Phils. Hack Wilson then hits 2 home runs in the 3rd inning of the 16 - 7 nightcap. The next day the Pirates will edge back on top with a 2 - 1 win over the Reds while New York is rained out.
• 1926 - The Pirates break an 8-game losing streak by beating St. Louis. They move into second place, dropping the Cards to third.
• 1934:
  • Bill Terry is the top vote-getter in the All-Star balloting. Babe Ruth leads all American League outfielders.
  • The Cardinals outlast the Reds 8 - 6 in an 18-inning first game of a double bill in Cincinnati. Dizzy Dean and Tony Freitas duel for 17 innings.
• 1935 - Yankees OF George Selkirk suggests a cinder path, 6 feet wide, be installed in the outfield so a player knows when he is nearing the wall.
• 1936:
  • Powel Crosley, Jr. exercises his 2-year option and buys controlling interest in the Cincinnati Reds.
  • The Athletics send veteran pitcher Bill Dietrich to Washington for the waiver price. He'll be there three weeks before the Senators waive him to the White Sox on July 20.
  • Detroit collects 25 hits off three White Sox pitchers to win 21 - 7.
• 1938 - Dodgers C Babe Phelps fractures the thumb on his throwing hand for the second time this year.
• 1941 - Before 52,832 at Yankee Stadium, Joe DiMaggio leads a sweep of the Red Sox, 7 - 2 and 9 - 2. The second game is called after 5 innings. DiMaggio has 2 hits in the first game and one in the second to tie Willie Keeler's major-league batting streak of 44 games with the help of a difficult decision by the official scorer. Red Sox third baseman Jim Tabor makes a poor throw, but Joltin' Joe is given a hit by New York World Telegram's Dan Daniel. The Yankees have 25 hits in the two games but fail to hit a home run in the first game, ending their streak of 25 consecutive games with at least one dinger. The previous record, set by the Tigers in 1940, was 17 games.
• 1943 - The Sporting News switches to a tabloid format from a standard metro layout as a means of saving newsprint.
• 1945 - Away from the game for four years, Hank Greenberg makes a dramatic return in front of an emotional crowd of 47,700 at Briggs Stadium as he homers off of Charlie Gassaway in his first game following being released from the Armed Forces. Hammerin Hank's round-tripper helps the first-place Tigers beat the A's, 9 - 5.
• 1948 - Brooklyn's Roy Campanella makes his debut, catching Ralph Branca. Campy doubles in his first at-bat, adds two singles, but the Giants win 6 - 4 over Branca.
• 1950:
  • At Boston, Tommy Byrne takes the loss for the Yankees, but reliever Whitey Ford does little to help. In his ML debut, Ford throws 4 2/3 inning, allowing seven hits, six walks, and five earned runs. Boston rolls, 13 - 4. Rookie Walt Dropo hits a grand slam for the Bosox to dump the Yanks into 3rd place.
  • Behind unbeaten rookie Bob Miller, the first-place Phils trip the Dodgers, 6 - 4. Jim Konstanty makes his 30th relief appearance to help Miller win his 7th straight. Mike Goliat and Willie Jones homer to pace an 11-hit attack. By winning their second straight game from Brooklyn, the Whiz Kids move .002 ahead of St. Louis and a game and a half ahead of Brooklyn.
  • The Reds' Ewell Blackwell has to go ten innings but finally beats the Cubs, 5 - 3, striking out 14 and allowing just two hits. One of the hits is Andy Pafko's 3-run home run in the 9th.
  • Eddie Ford's Yankee debut is less than impressive as he gives up five runs on seven hits and walks six in 4 2/3 innings of relief against the Red Sox at Fenway Park. The lefty will go on to become the winningest pitcher in franchise history and will be better known as Whitey.
• 1951:
  • Elmer Valo belts three homers to help the A's sweep the Senators, 10 - 7 and 3 - 2. Two of his homers come in the first game, when teammate Gus Zernial hits his 18th homer. Irv Noren has a pair of doubles and a homer for the Nats.
  • Philadelphia's Russ Meyer and Jim Konstanty hold Brooklyn to one hit but lose anyway 2 - 0. Pee Wee Reese's 2-run triple follows two walks in the third and accounts for all the hits and runs.
  • 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 2B, goes to 3B on a errant pickoff, and scores on a 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.
  • In the second game of a doubleheader, the Browns' Ned Garver, en route to a 20-win season, limits the White Sox to two hits, winning, 3 - 1. The loss drops the Sox out of the American League lead. Chicago wins the opener, 2 - 1 in 11 innings on Minnie Minoso's 400-foot homer to left center. Minnie's blow breaks up a pitching duel between loser Duane Pillette and Ken Holcombe.
  • Before 58,815 at Yankee Stadium, the Yanks top the Red Sox, 5 - 2, behind Eddie Lopat's 6-hitter. The win moves the Yankees ahead of the White Sox by four percentage points. Jerry Coleman homers off Mel Parnell, while Johnny Pesky connects for the Sox. Bobby Doerr singles for his 2,000th career hit.
• 1952 - The Indians' Larry Doby walks five times in a 19-inning game.
• 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.
• 1957:
  • Cincinnati fans threaten to sue Commissioner Ford Frick unless Gus Bell, George Crowe and Wally Post are restored to the All-Star team. They had gotten into the game thanks to vote-stuffing by Cincinnati fans ahead of more deserving players.
  • Orioles pitcher George Zuverink and catcher Frank Zupo form the first 'Z' battery in major league history as the Yankees beat the Birds, 3 - 2.
• 1958 - The Cubs' Tony Taylor hits a ball inside the third base line that falls into the rain gutter in fair territory at Wrigley Field. San Francisco rookie OF Leon Wagner chases the ball, but is fooled by Cubs relief pitchers staring intently under the bench. Wagner does not look for the ball in the gutter 40 to 50 feet further down. Taylor reaches home on the hit.
• 1959 - The Reds purchase veteran 3B Willie Jones from the Indians.
• 1960:
  • The Pirates are not big base-stealers, but aggressive baserunning is their stock in trade, as evidenced by today's win, wherein Joe Christopher and Roberto Clemente combine to "steal" the game. Catching them in the act is Los Angeles Times beat writer Frank Finch: "Christopher then tied the score by racing in (from second) on Clemente's infield single. Maury Wills fielded the bouncer and pegged to Gil Hodges. Clemente was safe by inches, and Christopher slid in a fraction of a second before Hodges' peg to the plate arrived. Hitless in three previous trips and the target of boo-birds, Dick Stuart sliced a lazy fly ball down the right-field line. Clemente, of course, was off and running at the crack of the bat. Frank Howard lumbered over to pick up the ball, hesitated before throwing, and then fired wildly between third base and home as Clemente scored standing up. An accurate throw might have nailed the mercurial Puerto Rican, but the Pirates aren't about to play this one over."
  • Cards reliever Ernie Broglio is nothing but efficient, tossing a total of 2 1/3 innings of relief in two games with the Braves. Ernie wins both. The Cards blow a 7 - 0 lead in the opener before winning in the 10th, 8 - 7. They blow a 5 - 0 lead in the nitecap, but win 7 - 5. Fellow reliever Lindy McDaniel gets rapped in both games.
  • A first-refusal option for chief minority stockholder H. Gabriel Murphy to buy the holdings of Washington owner Calvin Griffith expires. Murphy will lose two court decisions in efforts to keep Griffith from moving the Senators to Minnesota.
• 1961:
  • At Milwaukee, Gordy Coleman collects eight hits and leads the Reds to a sweep over the Braves. The Reds win the opener, 8 - 5, as Coleman collects five hits, including a 3-run homer in the 13th off Warren Spahn. Gordy chips in with three more hits in the nitecap, a 4 - 3 Reds win.
  • The Senators stake rookie Carl Mathias to a 3 - 0 lead over New York, but a Mickey Mantle solo shot, a few feet left of the 456-foot sign in left at Yankee Stadium, puts New York on the board. The Nats up the score to 5 - 1, but Mantle then bangs a 3-run homer to make it 5 - 4 and knock out Mathias [who in his 11 ML games will give up three homers to Mantle]. In the 9th, Roger Maris poles a two-run homer, his 28th, to give New York a 7 - 6 victory.
• 1962:
  • Albie Pearson becomes the first player to go hitless in 11 at bats in a doubleheader (both 9-inning games). Los Angeles splits with the Yankees, losing 6 - 3 before winning 12 - 5. Reliever Art Fowler helps himself to a win in the nitecap by driving in four runs on a pair of singles. The Yanks take over 1st place.
  • The White Sox drop Cleveland to 3rd place while winning a pair, 5 - 4 and 7 - 6. In the 2nd game, they also set a major-league record with three run-scoring sacrifice flies (by Juan Pizarro, Nellie Fox and Al Smith) in the 5th inning when they score six runs. Indian RF Gene Green makes the first putout of the 6th inning, but then muffs two other fly balls, both of which are credited as sacrifice flies, the scorer assuming the runners on 3rd could have scored anyway.
• 1963 - The Reds send C Jesse Gonder and cash to the Mets for 3B Charlie Neal and C Sammy Taylor. Cincinnati also sells 2B Don Blasingame to Washington.
• 1964:
  • Say It Ain't So... Juan. While Juan Marichal is reducing his ERA from 2.54 to 2.44 in the course of a 2 - 1 win over Bob Veale and the Bucs, Willie Mays and Roberto Clemente resume their personal war for National League hitting honors. Clemente singles twice, drives in the Pirates’ only run, and finishes at .349. Mays doesn’t have much of a chance to close ground; after his first-inning home run, the Bucs’ moundsmen walk him the next three times up. However, the one hit jumps him from .344 to .347. Ironically, the Pirates’ only run is driven in by Clemente when Marichal resorts to a quick-pitch with the bases loaded in the fifth. Clemente speaks with Giants beat writer Bob Stevens: "'I was trying to smooth out the dirt around the plate,' Clemente said, 'not looking, when I hear someone on the bench yell at me. I look up and see the ball, and I try to just punch at it with one hand.' He got just enough of it to drive it into the ground in front of the plate and bounce it so high that Orlando Cepeda had to wait helplessly for it to come down as the run scored and Clemente fled across the base. Clemente laughed in reminiscence. 'I don’t remember anybody try to quick-pitch me since Don Bessent do it with Brooklyn. 'I punch it for double.'"
  • At Crosley Field, the Reds score four runs in the bottom of the 9th to tie the Cubs, 5 - 5. Pete Rose ends the game with a 10th inning homer.
  • It's "Taxi Day" at Yankee Stadium and nearly 5,000 cabbies and their families are on hand as Kansas City runs up the meter to win, 5 - 4.
• 1966 - At Washington, Mickey Mantle homers in the first inning off Phil Ortega, as New York edges the Senators. 8 - 6. Mick scores another run when Joe Pepitone cracks a two-run homer.
• 1967:
  • Baltimore's Jim Palmer gives up a grand slam - but it is in the minors. Sent to Rochester (International League) to rehabilitate from back problems, Rochester manager Earl Weaver starts the 21-year-old against Buffalo, in a game moved to Niagara Falls because of racial disturbances on Buffalo's east side. Palmer is given a 7 - 0 lead, but the Bisons score five runs in the 3rd, four coming home on a grand slam by Johnny Bench. Rochester hangs on to win, 10 - 8.
  • The Orioles lose to Cleveland, 6 - 0. John O'Donoghue wins in relief. Mike Adamson makes his ML debut for Baltimore: he is the first draftee to bypass the minors and go straight to the majors, though he'll play in the minors next year.
• 1968 - A first inning wild pitch that eludes backup catcher Bruce Edwards allows a run to break Bob Gibson's streak of 47 2/3 innings of scoreless pitching (in which he allows just 21 hits). The Cards beat the Don Drysdale and the Dodgers in Los Angeles, 8 - 1. Gibson will pitch 23 innings before giving up another run.
• 1970:
  • The Reds top the Braves, 9 - 2, as Tommy Helms becomes the first Red player to go deep at Riverfront Stadium. Helms' homer, which hits the LF pole just above the wall, is his only homer of the year.
  • The return of Denny McLain following his suspension is witnessed by a gathering of 53,863 fans and 71 writers. He is knocked out of the box in the 6th inning, but the Tigers rally to beat the Yankees in the 11th, 6 - 5.
  • The Cards trade Ted Abernathy, acquired May 29, to the Royals for P Chris Zachary. Abernathy will go 9 - 3 the rest of the year for KC.
• 1971 - The Mets release 2B Al Weis, a World Series hero less than two years earlier.
• 1972 - Nolan Ryan allows five hits and strikes out 16 in pitching the Angels to a 5 - 3 victory over the Athletics. Ryan has a RBI single and is helped by homers from Ken Berry and Leo Cardenas, off Steve Hamilton.
• 1973:
  • At Wrigley Field, the Mets edge the Cubs 6 - 5 in the first game of a doubleheader. Then it is the Cubs' turn, as Randy Hundley bangs a 9th inning 3-run homer to give Chicago the 6 - 5 edge. Ron Santo has seven hits for the afternoon, five in the nitecap.
  • At California, the Twins' Jim Kaat fires a one-hitter to beat the Angels, 2 - 1. Frank Robinson's home run in the 2nd is the only hit. This is the second time in his career that Robby hits a home run to break up a no-hitter: he did it July 30, 1971 against KC's Dick Drago.
  • The Reds, 11 games behind the Dodgers at the beginning of the day, stage two dramatic comebacks to snatch a doubleheader win from LA. Hal King's clutch 3-run pinch hit home run with two outs wins the first game 4 - 3 against Don Sutton, while Tony Perez's 10th-inning hit wins the 2nd 3 - 2. This day will be looked upon as the turning point of the National League's Western Division race.
  • Luis Aparicio of the Red Sox steals the 500th base of his career in a 9 - 5 loss to Milwaukee. It is the highest total in the American League since Eddie Collins retired in 1930.
• 1975 - The Reds win their 4th extra-inning game in five days, beating the Astros 8 - 7 in 15 innings. Pat Darcy is the winner.
• 1976 - The Indians paste the Toledo Mud Hens 13 - 1 in an exhibition game in Toledo. Manager Frank Robinson, hitting as the DH, flies out to CF and, while returning to the dugout, exchanges angry words with Hens P Bob Reynolds. Suddenly, Robby flattens Reynolds with a right-left combination and is quickly ejected from the game.
• 1978 - The Astros trade C Joe Ferguson to the Dodgers for two players to be named later (IF Rafael Landestoy and OF Jeffrey Leonard).
• 1979 - New York hits five homers off Red Sox starter Dennis Eckersley to win, 6 - 5. Boston also loses speedster Jerry Remy, batting .304 on the season, when he injures a knee sliding home. Remy will appear in only seven more games all year. Remy will never swipe more than 16 bases, after averaging 35 steals his first four seasons.
• 1982 - In what is considered a questionable decision at the time, Cal Ripken Jr. is moved from third base to shortstop by Oriole manager Earl Weaver.
• 1983 - Arbitrator Raymond Goetz rules that the 43 players who were on the Disabled List during the 1981 players' strike are not entitled to their salaries for that period. The decision saves the club owners about $2.5 million.
• 1984:
  • Royals pitcher Paul Splittorff, whose 166 victories in 13 seasons are the most in club history, retires.
  • Minnesota's Frank Viola stops the Tigers, 9 - 0 on four hits in front of 53,484 at Detroit. Kent Hrbek has three hits, including a homer, and four RBIs.
• 1990 - Yankee Andy Hawkins throws the season's 6th no-hitter, but still loses 4 - 0 to the White Sox. With two out in the bottom of the 8th, New York's Mike Blowers misplays Sammy Sosa's routine grounder for an error, and Hawkins walks two to load the bases. Outfielders Jim Leyritz and Jesse Barfield drop back-to-back fly balls to allow all four runs to score. Barfield loses Ivan Calderon's fly ball in the sun and the ball bounces off his mitt. Ken Johnson in 1964 was the last pitcher to lose a no-hitter.
• 1992 - White Sox SS Craig Grebeck gets five hits in Chicago's 8 - 5 win over the Indians. Bobby Thigpen saves it for Kirk McCaskill, the winner over Jack Armstrong (2 - 10).
• 1994 - The Orioles and Angels combine to hit a major league record-tying 11 home runs in a contest won by Baltimore, 14 - 7. The Orioles smash six of the round-trippers and the Angels hit 5. It is the 8th 11-home run game in history. Surprisingly, none of the homers goes as far as 400 feet.
• 1996:
  • In San Francisco, Barry Bonds and Mark Carreon homer to lead the Giants to a 9 - 6 win over the Rockies. The win snaps a 10-game losing streak, the longest for the Giants since a 10-game skein in 1985 and a 13-game losing streak in 1944.
  • At Yankee Stadium, the Key outguns the Rocket, as Jimmy Key beats Roger Clemens, 2 - 0. Mike Aldrete's solo home run in the 7th is the first score.
• 1998 - Trailing the Mets, 8 - 7, in the bottom of the 8th inning, Toronto comes up with eight runs. New York fights back with two in their half of the 9th, but the Blue Jays hold on for a 15 - 10 triumph.
• 1999:
  • The Brewers defeat the Cubs, 19 - 12, as SS Jose Valentin hits 2-run home runs from each side of the plate. 2B Ronnie Belliard and C Dave Nilsson each get four hits for Milwaukee, while Belliard drives home five runs. The Brewers light up Steve Trachsel for 10 runs in 3 2/3 innings pitched, hanging his National League-high 11th loss on him. The Brew Crew collects 21 hits for the 2nd times in three nights. There are eight homers in the game, including a pair by the Cubs' Mickey Morandini. Not homering after four straight games in which he went deep is Sammy Sosa, who singles twice.
  • Tom Glavine wins his 13th straight game over the Expos, 4 - 1, a streak that stretches back to 1994. He takes no chances with the Braves bullpen, which has blown two leads in the last two games, pitching a complete game. Curiously, before his winning streak, Glavine was 3 - 13 against the Expos.
  • In Toronto's 8 - 6 win over Baltimore, Blue Jays P John Frascatore ties a major league mark with his 3rd win in three consecutive appearances in three days.
• 2000:
  • Whitey Herzog, the winningest manager in franchise's history, and Willie Wilson, a speedy outfielder who was an offensive spark plug, become members of the Kansas City Royals' Hall of Fame.
  • On Canada's 133rd birthday, Florida's Ryan Dempster and Montreal's Mike Johnson hook up in a rare matchup of Canadian starters. Dempster comes out on top as the Marlins defeat the Expos by a score of 6 - 5. Johnson hails from Edmonton, Alberta, while Dempster is a native of Sechelt, British Columbia. Theirs is the first matchup of Canadian-born starters since last September when Dempster took on Eric Gagné of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
  • BARK, the Baseball Aquatic Retrieval Korps, debut at PacBell Park. Six Portuguese water dogs will be used to retrieve splashdown home runs which land in McCovey's Cove.
• 2001:
  • The Giants clip the Cardinals, 5 - 4, on Barry Bonds Day. Barry has a double and three walks as Calvin Murray provides the scoring with a 3-run home run. Mark McGwire is 0-for-4 and is now 0 for his last 22 at bats.
  • The Orioles defeat the White Sox, 11 - 3, on Cal Ripken Jr. Day. Ripken gets three hits in the Baltimore cause.
• 2003:
  • The White Sox trade three minor league prospects to the Mets to obtain their catcher's brother, Roberto Alomar. The 12-time All-Star, who struggled during his season and a half in New York, is exchanged for left-handed reliever Royce Ring, right-hander Edwin Almonte and infielder Andrew Salvo. Just a few hours later, the White Sox acquire outfielder Carl Everett (.274, 18, 51) from the Rangers. Texas will pick two or three players from a Chicago minor league pool, and the team will also give money to help pay part of the former outfielder's $9.15 million deal.
  • The Marlins set a franchise mark for runs scored and tie a team record with 25 hits, with Miguel Cabrera, Ivan Rodriguez and Luis Castillo collecting four each. The 20 - 1 victory celebration over the Braves is tempered as a photographer is injured in the seventh inning when Darren Bragg's bat slips from the Atlanta outfielder's hand and flies into the stands causing an 18 minute delay as the unidentified man is airlifted to a hospital.
• 2004 - In the game of the year, the Yankees beat the Red Sox 5 - 4 in 13 innings. The score is tied 3 - 3 after 9 innings and both teams have to wiggle their way out of many jams to keep it that way. In the 12th inning, the Red Sox place runners on second and third with two outs when Trot Nixon lifts a fly ball to shallow left field. Yankees SS Derek Jeter races out and catches the ball before diving headfirst into the stands and bloodying his face, forcing him to leave the game. In the top of the 13th inning, Manny Ramirez homers to give the Red Sox the lead, but the Yankees stage a two-out rally in the bottom half of the inning. Ruben Sierra singles, then comes around to score on Miguel Cairo's game-tying RBI double. Pinch hitter John Flaherty, the last man off the Yankees' bench, follows with a game-winning single to score Cairo.
• 2005 - After walking 2,100 miles from Camp Verde, Arizona to reach Wrigley Field, Bill Holden throws the ceremonial first pitch and leads the crowd in singing Take Me Out to the Ballgame during the seventh inning stretch at the Cubs game against the Nationals. Inspired by the DVD, This Old Cub, a documentary about former Cubs All-Star third baseman Ron Santo who lost both his legs to diabetes, the 56-year-old school teacher, with two bad knees, pounds the pavement for 172 days and raises $250,000 with his 'Walk the Walk' campaign for juvenile diabetes research.
• 2007 - Mike Hargrove surprisingly resigns as the manager of the Seattle Mariners with the team in first place in the AL West.
• 2009:
  • Is the era of high scoring over ? For the first time since September 1, 1976, three National League games end in 1 - 0 scores on the same day. All of the shutouts are combined efforts: Mike Pelfrey of the Mets beats Milwaukee, Johnny Cueto leads the Reds over Arizona and the Dodgers defeat Colorado with an 8th-inning run.
  • One day after blowing the lead in a 10-run Oriole comeback, Jonathan Papelbon saves Boston's come-from-behind 6 - 5 win over the Birds. The BoSox score 4 in the 9th to tie the game, giving Papelbon the chance to close it in the 11th, thereby passing Bob Stanley for the franchise lead for saves with 133.

[edit] Births

• 1855 - Foghorn Bradley, pitcher (d. 1900)
• 1857 - Roger Connor, infielder, manager; Hall of Famer (d. 1931)
• 1859 - John Kiley, outfielder (d. 1940)
• 1861 - John Clarkson, pitcher; Hall of Famer (d. 1909)
• 1861 - Charlie Daniels, pitcher (d. 1938)
• 1861 - Frank Keffer, pitcher
• 1863 - Jim McTamany, outfielder (d. 1916)
• 1870 - Charlie Nyce, infielder (d. 1908)
• 1871 - Jim Duncan, catcher (d. 1901)
• 1876 - Jim Buchanan, pitcher (d. 1949)
• 1878 - Fred Holmes, catcher/infielder (d. 1956)
• 1879 - Jake Atz, infielder (d. 1945)
• 1883 - Jack Quinn, pitcher (d. 1946)
• 1885 - Ed Larkin, catcher (d. 1934)
• 1888 - Ben Taylor, Negro League infielder; Hall of Fame (d. 1953)
• 1889 - Lefty James, pitcher (d. 1933)
• 1893 - Howie Camp, outfielder (d. 1960)
• 1896 - Bert Cole, pitcher (d. 1975)
• 1900 - Louis Brower, infielder (d. 1994)
• 1900 - Mel Simons, outfielder (d. 1974)
• 1902 - Kent Greenfield, pitcher (d. 1978)
• 1913 - Frank Barrett, pitcher (d. 1998)
• 1913 - Wedo Martini, pitcher (d. 1970)
• 1915 - Boots Poffenberger, pitcher (d. 1999)
• 1915 - Babe Young, infielder (d. 1983)
• 1916 - Bob Prince, announcer (d. 1985)
• 1918 - Al Tate, pitcher (d. 1993)
• 1920 - Paul Lehner, outfielder (d. 1967)
• 1924 - Jack Bruner, pitcher (d. 2003)
• 1924 - Ken Wood, outfielder (d. 2007)
• 1928 - Hersh Freeman, pitcher (d. 2004)
• 1930 - Bill Nishita, minor league and NPB pitcher (d. 2003)
• 1933 - Frank Baumann, pitcher
• 1936 - Dick Drott, pitcher (d. 1985)
• 1937 - Ron Nischwitz, pitcher
• 1938 - Craig Anderson, pitcher
• 1945 - Billy Rohr, pitcher
• 1951 - Jim Otten, pitcher
• 1952 - Kerry Dineen, outfielder
• 1952 - Mike Teahen, Canadian national team catcher
• 1956 - Brian Sabean, General Manager
• 1959 - Tony Walker, outfielder
• 1964 - DeWayne Coleman, minor league pitcher
• 1964 - Nikolay Gervasov, Russian national team manager
• 1971 - Jamie Walker, pitcher
• 1979 - Chris Morris, minor league outfielder
• 1980 - Nelson Cruz, outfielder; All-Star
• 1981 - Matt Carson, outfielder
• 1981 - Han-joon Yoo, KBO infielder
• 1982 - Justin Huber, infielder
• 1984 - Richard Leander, Elitserien pitcher-infielder
• 1984 - Chris Mason, minor league pitcher
• 1984 - Rich Thompson, pitcher
• 1985 - Christopher Perez, minor league pitcher
• 1989 - Michael Montgomery, minor league player
• 1991 - Ping-Hung Chi, signed outfielder

[edit] Deaths

• 1903 - Jimmy Cooney, infielder (b.1865)
• 1917 - Al Buckenberger, manager (b.1861)
• 1917 - Henry Mathewson, pitcher (b.1886)
• 1921 - Amos Booth, infielder (b.1848)
• 1937 - Russ Hall, infielder (b.1871)
• 1946 - Hub Knolls, pitcher (b.1883)
• 1948 - Pete Knisely, outfielder (b.1887)
• 1962 - Sam Mayer, outfielder (b.1893)
• 1963 - Earl Moseley, pitcher (b.1884)
• 1964 - Jay Rogers, catcher (b.1888)
• 1966 - Goldie Rapp, infielder (b.1892)
• 1968 - Dave Barbee, outfielder (b.1905)
• 1970 - Herb Hall, pitcher (b.1893)
• 1971 - Walt Kinney, pitcher (b.1893)
• 1972 - Will Koenigsmark, pitcher (b.1896)
• 1980 - Curt Coleman, infielder (b.1887)
• 1981 - Dan Daniel, writer (b. ????)
• 1982 - Footsie Blair, infielder (b.1900)
• 1982 - Ray Scarborough, pitcher; All-Star (b.1917)
• 1988 - Ed Sauer, outfielder (b.1919)
• 1993 - Joseph Styborski, minor league pitcher (b. ????)
• 1998 - Ed Connolly, pitcher (b.1939)
• 2003 - Bill Miller, pitcher (b.1927)
• 2006 - Larry Delo, minor league pitcher (b. 1930)
• 2008 - Jules Tygiel, author (b. 1949)
• 2009 - John Moss, minor league player/executive (b. 1918)
• 2009 - Eugene Okey, minor league pitcher (b. 1923)