July 11

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1902:
- Bid McPhee resigns as Reds manager and is replaced by interim manager Frank Bancroft.
- In a 6 - 3 win against the Giants, the Pirates' Lefty Davis, 26, in stealing second "broke his leg in the same manner Van Haltren did two months ago on the same spot," according to The Sporting Life. Davis, a .287 hitter with 45 steals in 171 big league games so far, is out for the season. He'll return, but bat only .234 with 20 thefts in 177 more games. (As noted by Bill Deane)
1903 - At Boston, Jimmy Collins collects five hits, including a triple and homer, to pace the Pilgrims to a 8-5 win over Chicago. It is Boston's 45th win of the year.
1904 - The Highlanders salvage the last game of the series with the Pilgrims, 10 - 1, but Boston leaves New York with a two 1/2 game lead in the American League. Patsy Dougherty has four of New York's 17 hits.
1908:
- The White Sox play their 2nd 16-inning game in two days, beating Philadelphia 5 - 4.
- Vic Willis gives the Pirates their 2nd win in a row over the Giants, winning, 6 - 2. Mike Donlin's triple is the only New York hit.
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 embankment 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 Bresnahan requested the car be changed. The day coach that replaced the players' car was 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.
1914:
- Babe Ruth breaks in with Boston, striking out in his first at bat, but pitching a 4 - 3 win over Cleveland. With the score 3 - 3 in the 7th, Duffy Lewis pinch hits for Babe Ruth, singles, and later scores the winning run. Dutch Leonard strikes out four of the six batters he faces in relief.
- Only 26 people are on hand to see Newark (IL) fade, 2 - 0, at Baltimore.
- The Giants outhit the Cardinals, 18-16, and win 13 - 9 in St. Louis. Christy Mathewson goes all the way, walking none but allowing three home runs. Bill Steele takes the Redbird defeat.
1916 - The Red Sox sweep the White Sox, winning 5 - 3 and 3 - 1. Babe Ruth starts both games, lasting a third of an inning in the opener, but pitching a 3 - 1 complete game win in the nitecap. Ruth started the opener to give Rube Foster more time to warm up, and left after retiring the first batter.
1917 - In Detroit, Boston's Babe Ruth tops the Tigers 1 - 0, allowing just Donie Bush's scratch single in the 8th. Ruth deflects the ball but the throw by the shortstop is too late. Ruth has a single and triple, but a pinch triple by Chick Shorten in the 9th drives home the only run. Ruth strikes out Bobby Veach, Sam Crawford and Ty Cobb in the 9th; for the last he shakes off catcher and player/manager Carrigan. In early 1942, in a speech in Los Angeles, Ruth will call this game his greatest thrill. (The Babe also relates to writer John Carmichael that his greatest game was the "called shot" in the World Series of 1932.)
1923 - Harry Frazee, owner of the 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.
1924 - Cubs 1B Lee Cotter equals a major-league record when he makes 21 putouts and one assist in a game against Brooklyn.
1925 - George Sisler drives in seven runs in two innings, tripling with the bases full in the third and hitting a grand slam in the fourth, in a Browns 10-5 win over Washington.
1927 - The White Sox tie a major-league record with eight sacrifice bunts against Detroit.
1935 - Pete Fox's hitting streak is stopped after 29 games.
1936 - The Giants lose 5 - 4 in Pittsburgh as Carl Hubbell, in relief, walks in the winning run. The loss leaves New York eleven games behind the front-running Cubs. New York wins the 2nd game, 14 - 4 as Bill Terry, hobbled with a knee injury, bangs out a single, double and triple. The win sparks a Giants surge that will see them win 39 of their next 47 games.
1938 - The Dodgers buy former major-league hurler Whitlow Wyatt from Milwaukee (American Association).
1939 - With another Yankee-dominated lineup, the AL defeats the NL 3-1 in the seventh All-Star Game, at Yankee Stadium. Cincinnati OF Ival Goodman fractures his shoulder diving for a ball.
1944 - At Forbes Field, Phil Cavarretta sets an All-Star Game record by reaching base five consecutive times. The Cub first baseman's triple, single and three walks helps the National League beat the junior circuit, 7-4.
1945 - Aaron Robinson, Yankees C, returns from the military. Red Ruffing is back too, and so are Hugh Mulcahy and Buddy Lewis. Charlie Keller will follow, and a couple of dozen former major-league players will be in uniform before the season is over.
1948 - The Reds' Ken Raffensberger allows just one hit - a single by Marty Marion in the 4th - in shutting out the Cardinals, 1 - 0, in St. Louis. It's his 2nd one-hitter against St. Louis this year.
1950 - Making a leaping, off-the-wall catch of a Ralph Kiner drive in the first inning, Ted Williams fractures his left elbow in the All-Star Game at Chicago. Remaining in the game, he puts the AL 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 - first extra-inning All-Star Game, first time the NL wins at an AL park and the first All-Star game ever shown on national television.
1953 - In his second major-league start, Al Worthington shuts out Brooklyn 6-0 for his 2nd shutout. This ties a ML record, last accomplished by Boo Ferriss of the Red Sox in 1945. Worthington stops the Dodgers' consecutive-game HR streak. During the streak Brooklyn smacked 39 HRs, another major-league record.
1954:
- The Red Sox whip the lowly Athletics 18-0 for one of the worst shutouts in AL history. A's slugger Gus Zernial breaks his collarbone diving for a ball and is out of the lineup until late August.
- Giants OF Don Mueller hits for the cycle, getting his hits off four different pitchers in a 13-7 rout of the Pirates. Five other HRs are added, three in the 3rd as Monte Irvin, Whitey Lockman and Alvin Dark connect.
1956 - The White Sox purchase Cardinal relief pitcher Ellis Kinder.
1957 - In Pittsburgh, Braves IF Felix Mantilla and OF Billy Bruton collide while chasing a pop fly. Mantilla will miss 19 games while Bruton will suffer knee damage and be out almost a year.
1959:
- New Orleans seeks a franchise in the new proposed Continental League.
- Boston SS Don Buddin cracks a 10th inning grand slam, off reliever Bob Turley, to give the Red Sox an 8 - 4 win over New York. Turley replaced Bronstad, who took over when Ryne Duren and Yogi Berra are tossed by ump Bill Summers.
1960 - One-hit shutout pitching by Bob Friend and home runs by Ernie Banks and Del Crandall pace the National League to a 5 - 4 win over the American League at Kansas City's Municipal Stadium in the first of two All-Star Games this year. Friend has notched two of the NL's last three All-Star wins.
1961 - Strong winds dominate the first All-Star Game of 1961. A capacity crowd sees P Stu Miller blown off the mound in the 9th inning at Candlestick Park. A balk is called, and it enables the American League to forge a 3 - 3 tie before losing 5 - 4 in 10 innings. The contest features a record seven errors.
1962:
- For the first time since 1938, when the Waner brothers pulled the trick, brothers Hank Aaron and Tommie Aaron homer in the same inning. Both were hit in the last of the 9th, and Hank's grand slam provides the winning margin in a 8 - 6 Braves win over the Cards.
- The Senators send 1B Dale Long to the Yankees for OF Don Lock. Long will hit .298 in pinstripes this year.
1963 - Jim Maloney strikes out 13 in pitching the Reds to a 7 - 3 win over the visiting Cubs.
1964 - Vic Power of the Angels is fined $250 and suspended 10 days for spitting on ump Jim Honochick after a close play during a doubleheader loss to the White Sox 7 - 4 and 6 - 1 the previous day.
1967 - At Anaheim Stadium, Tony Perez's homer off Catfish Hunter in the 15th inning gives the Senior Circuit a 2-1 All-Star victory over the AL. It is the longest Mid-Summer Classic contest ever played.
1968:
- Groundbreaking takes place for Kansas City's $43 million Jackson County Sports Complex.
- Chicago Cubs P Bill Hands strikes out for the 14th straight at bat in the 2 - 0 Cubs win in the nightcap at New York. The 14 strikeouts in consecutive at-bats (as opposed to plate appearances) are a ML record.
- Minnesota rookie Rick Renick is the 16th American League player to hit a home run in his first ML at bat. The Twins beat the Tigers 5 - 4.
- Earl Weaver, who never played in the majors, manages his first game with the Baltimore Orioles. The Birds defeat the Washington Senators, 2-0, on Dave McNally's 2-hitter. Baltimore will win 11 of its first 15 games under Weaver.
1969:
- The Red Sox swat the Orioles twice, winning 7 - 4 and 123. Reggie Smith is 7-for-9 and stretches his hit streak to 19 games. Carl Yastrzemski has a homer in each game as the Red Sox total 22 hits in the nitecap, including five by Mike Andrews.
- Harmon Killebrew hits a pair of homers and a double to boost his RBI total to a American League-high 90. The Twins beat the Pilots, 9 - 2.
1971:
- The Reds win game one against the Mets, 5 - 2, then complete the sweep as Tony Perez drives in all five runs to defeat the Mets, 5 - 3. Perez puts the Reds ahead with a 3-run homer off Tom Seaver in the 8th. Jim McGlothlin strikes out 12 in the game two win.
- Deron Johnson hits three home runs, giving him four straight over two games, helping the Phils beat the Expos 11 - 5.
1971 - Tony Conigliaro, who had gone 0-for-8 with five strikeouts for the Angels during their 20-inning loss two days earlier, calls a five A.M. press conference to announce his retirement. Later tests will show that the sight in his left eye, injured in a 1967 beaning, has deteriorated.
1972:
- Cub Billy Williams goes 8-for-8 in a doubleheader split with the Astros. The Astros win the opener 6 - 5, and the Cubs take the nightcap 9 - 5. Williams is 5-for-5 in the 2nd game to raise his average to .328. He'll go 3-for-5 and 4-for-5 in his next two games as he will go on a 22-for-38 tear.
- At Oakland, Boston's Marty Pattin has his no-hit bid foiled when Reggie Jackson hits a one-out single in the 9th. Boston wins, 4 - 0.
1973:
- Jim Northrup, knocks in eight runs and scores three times as the Tigers rout the Rangers, 14-2. The 3-for-4 performance by the Tiger's leadoff hitter helps him record the 500th run and RBI of his career.
- In San Diego, the Pirates drub the Pads 10 - 2. Willie Stargell contributes the 302nd home run of his career to pass Ralph Kiner as the all-time Pirate home run leader.
1974 - The Padres release OF Matty Alou. Matty's brother, Felipe Alou, was released by the Brewers on April 29th. Younger brother Jesus Alou keeps the Alou name alive in ML baseball, playing for the A's.
1976:
- At Fenway, the Red Sox win over the Twins, 6 - 4 when the Twins CF drops a long fly ball for a double after a bucket of popcorn falls in his eyes.
- In a pre-game promotion at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, 34 couples are married at home plate. The nuptials are then followed by Championship Wrestling in an evening billed as "Headlocks and Wedlocks." The Braves then pin a 9 - 8 loss on the Mets.
- Hank Aaron's 10th-inning homer, his 9th of the season, in game two gives the Brewers a doubleheader sweep over the Texas Rangers and a sweep of the 4-game series. Milwaukee wins 6 - 3 and 5 - 4 with the W's going to Jim Slaton and Bill Castro.
1977 - The Angels fire manager Norm Sherry. Dave Garcia takes over.
1978 - At Jack Murphy Stadium, Steve Garvey becomes the first two-time MVP in All-Star history. The Dodgers' first baseman game-tying, two-run single and a triple helps the National League to beat the AL, 7-3. Vida Blue starts for the NL, the first pitcher to start for both leagues. Blue also started in 1971 and 1975 for the American League.
1980 - The Dodgers sell knuckleballer Charlie Hough to the Rangers.
1982 - As noted by Floyd Connor and John Snyder, the Cincinnati Enquirer features a contest in which readers are asked to pick the date and time that the last-place Reds will be eliminated from the NL West race. The winner gets two tickets to the last game of the year, while the runner-up gets four tickets to the same game.
1983 - With his club in the National League West cellar, 15 1/2 games behind the Braves, Reds president Dick Wagner is fired by the club's general partners.
1985 - Nolan Ryan becomes the first pitcher to record 4,000 strikeouts, fanning Danny Heep in the 6th inning of Houston's 4 - 3 win over the Mets. Ryan finishes with 11 strikeouts in seven innings but gets no decision. Bill Doran's 5th hit drives home Dickie Thon in the 12th with the winning run.
1987 - Billy Ripken, 22, joins his brother Cal Ripken Jr. in the Orioles starting lineup in Baltimore's 2 - 1 loss to the Twins. Orioles manager Cal Ripken, Sr. is the first to manage two sons in the majors.
1989 - Bo Jackson and Wade Boggs lead off the bottom of the first 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.
1990:
- At Comiskey Park, the White Sox honor their 1917 World Championship team by donning old-fashioned uniforms and scaling concessions back to World War I prices. Chicago then loses 12 - 9 to Milwaukee in 13 innings.
- Jack McKeon resigns as manager of the Padres but keeps his position as San Diego's vice president of baseball operations. He is replaced in the dugout by Greg Riddoch. Later in the season, McKeon will lose his front-office job as well.
1991:
- The Reds trade 1B Todd Benzinger to the Royals in exchange for OF-1B Carmelo Martinez.
- Recently released by the Angels, Fernando Valenzuela signs a minor league contract with them and will report to the Midland Angels.
1994:
- Handling four chances in the 8-1 defeat to the Rockies, Cardinal infielder Ozzie Smith passes Luis Aparicio and moves into the top spot on the all-time list for assists by a shortstop. 'The Wizard of Oz' will end his 19-year career in 1996 with 8,375 assists.
- The Pirates unveil a statue of Roberto Clemente outside Three Rivers Stadium.
1995:
- Mickey Mantle's final public appearance increases awareness of organ donation programs.
- The National League defeats the American League in the All-Star Game, 3-2, on an 8th inning pinch-hitter home run by Jeff Conine. Conine becomes the 10th player to homer in his 1st All-Star at bat, and is named the Game's MVP. Frank Thomas, Craig Biggio and Mike Piazza also connect for home runs. Thomas becomes the first White Sox player ever to homer in the Mid-summer Classic as the NL out-homers the American League, 3-2.
1998 - Padre reliever Trevor Hoffman, brother of opposing manager Glenn Hoffman, saves the 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.
1999:
- The Cardinals score all their runs in the 1st inning and go on to defeat the Giants, 5-4, in a game in San Francisco. Prior to the contest, the Giants retire Orlando Cepeda's uniform No. 30, making him the 9th Giant player so honored.
- 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.
- After 14 straight road losses - a club record - the Phils finally win, beating the Expos, 3 - 2, behind Curt Schilling.
- The Diamondbacks defeat the A's, 7-4, as Jay Bell hits a grand slam which wins Gylene Hoyle $1 million. She is the fan who wins the prize for picking the player who would hit a grand slam and the inning in which it would be done.
2000 - The American League wins its 4th consecutive All-Star Game, beating the National League, 6-3. Derek Jeter of the Yankees and Chipper Jones of the Braves each go 3-for-3 in the contest. Jeter takes MVP honors, while Chicago's James Baldwin gets the victory.
2001 - Dodgers P Darren Dreifort had reconstructive arm surgery and is expected to be out until at this time next season.
2002:
- The Marlins send P Ryan Dempster to the Reds for OF Juan Encarnacion, IF Wilton Guerrero, and minor league P Ryan Snare. Florida then sends OF Cliff Floyd, Guerrero, minor league P Claudio Vargas and $1.5 million to the Expos in exchange for P Carl Pavano and Graeme Lloyd, IF Mike Mordecai and minor leaguer Justin Wayne.
- 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 was released after piloting Cleveland to a 39-47 record, 9 1/2 games behind first-place Twins in the AL Central.
- The Mets score eight runs in the 8th inning to break a 1 - 1 tie and defeat the Phillies, 9 - 1.
2004 - Carlos Beltran, selected to be an American League All-Star, will now have an opportunity patrol the NL outfield instead. The former Royals flycatcher, traded to the Astros last month, was invited by Senior Circuit skipper Jack McKeon to replace Ken Griffey, Jr., on the star-studded roster.
2006 - With two outs in the top of the ninth, Michael Young hits a two-run triple off of Trevor Hoffman to give the American League a 3-2 win in the 2006 All-Star Game; it is the 10th straight win by the AL team.