July 29

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1900 - With all the National League teams in the East, and no Sunday games allowed, 100 players gather in New York City. Their demands are: release of players who are not going to be used rather than farming them out, and players to share in the purchase price when they are sold. Says veteran Hughie Jennings, "We are not out to fight the owners, but to resolve injustices in the contracts."
1901 - At the Polo Grounds, Boston's Kid Nichols and Christy Mathewson square off for a ten-inning shootout, with Boston prevailing, 5-4. Matty gives up 11 hits in bringing his record to 15-11.
1903 - Pittsburgh's Ed Doheny (12-6) jumps the team to return home because he is convinced he is being followed by detectives. The Pittsburg Post headlines Doheny going AWOL with a headline: 'His Mind is Thought To Be Deranged.' He will return on August 15th.
1903 - Cy Young goes all the way as Boston loses to the Highlanders, 15-14. The New Yorkers had been shut out in their two previous matches in the series. Patsy Dougherty leads the Boston offense by hitting for the cycle, but Cy gets little defense as Boston makes eight errors behind him. New York starter Jack Chesbro is lifted in the 6th for Harry Howell, while Willie Keeler has four hits to lead the Highlander offense. The game lasts two hours 10 minutes.
1904 - Brooklyn's Jack Cronin outpitches Christy Mathewson to beat the Giants, 1 - 0. Brooklyn scores in the first inning when Matty walks two with two runners on base.
1905 - The Giants increase their lead to 7 1/2 games by shutting out the Reds, 3-0. Christy Mathewson scatters six hits in defeating Orval Overall.
1907 - At St. Louis, the Giants edge the Cards 4-3 in 11 innings. New York blows a 2-0 lead in the 9th when Christy Mathewson makes a wild throw to 1B. A triple by Cy Seymour, sandwiched between two hits, gives the Giants a pair of runs, and Matty holds on to win.
1908 - Rube Waddell continues to haunt Connie Mack, again fanning 16 A's in a 5 - 4 win for the Browns.
1908 - John McFarland of Helena (Arkansas State League) loses his perfect game when the 27th batter refuses to bat, resulting in a 9 - 0 forfeit.
1908 - Christy Mathewson defeats the Cardinals again, beating Harry Sallee, 1 - 0. Sallee allows four hits, but the one run scores on an error and passed ball.
1909 - National League president Harry Pulliam, despondent over his inability to handle the problems and controversies of the league, dies after shooting himself in his room at the New York Athletic Club yesterday. Pulliam had been suffering from a nervous breakdown.
1910 - White Sox OF Patsy Dougherty breaks up Detroit's Ed Summers's no-hitter. It is the fourth time in his 10-year career the .284 hitter has ruined someone's no-hitter.
1911 - At Boston's Huntington Avenue Grounds, Joe Wood of the Red Sox whiffs twelve Browns en route to a 5-0 no-hitter.
1911 - Rube Marquard (12 - 4) shuts out the Cards on four hits before 23,000 in St. Louis. The Giants pitcher will beat the Redbird again on the 31st, allowing five hits.
1911 - In his last appearance for Cleveland, Cy Young pitches just three innings and gives up five runs in a 7 - 1 loss to Washington. After this game, Cleveland will waive the veteran (3 - 4) to the Boston Rustlers.
1912 - For the first time, a NL team loses a game because of the rule that holds runners in place when a batted ball hits an umpire. A double by the Giants' Buck Herzog drives in two runs, but the ball hits umpire Garner Bush, and the runs do not count.
1913 - Rube Marquard wins his 9th in a row for the Giants, beating the Cards, 2 - 1.
1914 - The newly acquired Vean Gregg goes seven innings for the Red Sox before exiting, and Boston goes on to beat the host White Sox, 8 - 4, in 10 innings.
1915 - Forty-one year old Pirates' infielder Honus Wagner reaches Brooklyn Robins' hurler Jeff Pfeffer for a grand slam in the eighth inning helping Pittsburgh beat Brooklyn at Forbes Field, 8-2.
1919 - At Navin Field, Dutch Leonard decides to pitch around Braggo Roth with two outs in the ninth inning to face Babe Ruth. Although the Boston slugger, who has already reached the Detroit southpaw with two doubles, responds by tying an American League record with his ninth homer of the month and sixteenth of the season, the Tigers prevail, 10-8.
1921 - John McGraw buys OF Irish Meusel, who is hitting .353 but has been suspended by the Phillies for lackadaisical play. McGraw gives up three bench warmers and $30,000. The Giants take three from the Reds and go into the NL lead for the first time. They will fall back by seven games before coming on with a rush in September.
1921 - As part of Cleveland's 125th anniversary celebration, Cy Young, 54, makes a two-inning appearance on the mound in an old-timers' game. Chief Zimmer, 60, is his catcher.
1922 - At the Polo Grounds, the under-performing Pirates crack five homers and trounce the league-leading Giants, 8 - 3. Max Carey hits two and starter Wilbur Cooper another.
1922 - The Browns host the Red Sox and beat them, 4 - 1, behind Urban Shocker. However, both George Sisler and C Hank Severeid are injured, the latter with a split finger on a foul tip. Sisler is spiked in the 4th.
1928 - The Indians score eight in the first and nine in the 2nd in a 24-6 win over the Yankees at home. Johnny Hodapp of the Indians becomes the first AL player to get two hits in an inning twice in a game. He strokes 2 singles in both the 2nd and 6th innings of the game. The Yankees' lead shrinks from 11 1/2 games to 6 in one week.
1931 - Cleveland's Wes Ferrell shuts out Washington 6-0, scattering 10 hits, as the Senators leave 15 runners on base.
1934 - Flint Rhem comes within a lazily fielded bunted ball to 3B of pitching a no-hitter for Boston against the Dodgers. He wins 1-0.
1936 - The football Dodgers? The Dodgers smother the Cardinals, 22-7, in the first game of a twinbill, then lose 5 - 4.
1938 - In a postgame radio interview with Bob Elson, Jake Powell of the Yankees will make headlines with remarks about "beating up niggers and then throwing them in jail" as part of his off-season duties as a policeman. For the statements, Judge Landis suspends Powell for 10 days.
1938 - New York's Spud Chandler pitches 15 innings as the Yankees beat the White Sox 7-3.
1948 - The Red Sox rout the Tigers, 8 - 1, behind Jack Kramer's 10th straight win. Billy Goodman's grand slam, along with homers by Kramer and Bobby Doerr, pace the attack. The victory extends the Red Sox American League lead to a half-game over the idle A's.
1948 - In Boston, Big Bill Voiselle pitches the first-place Braves to a 2 - 1 win over the Pirates, and collects his 5th hit of the year. Voiselle raises his average to .097 average, a point higher than his uniform number. Voiselle has the highest uniform number ever in the majors in honor of his North Carolina home town of Ninety Six.
1948 - The Giants win their 3rd straight shutout, stopping the Reds, 5 - 0, behind Dave Koslo. Larry Jansen and Clint Hartung threw the other two shutouts. Walker Cooper's grand slam, off Ken Raffensberger, is the big blow.
1951 - Before a Stadium crowd of 70,972, the Yankees sweep the White Sox, 8 - 3 and 2 - 0. Joe DiMaggio powers two homers off Lou Kretlow in the opener, and ex-Sox Bob Kuzava outduels Saul Rogovin to win the nitecap. With yesterday's game rained out, the Sox are now six 1/2 out of first place.
1951 - Against the Phillies, Cubs player-manager Phil Cavarretta earns his money by driving home three runs in a first game win, 5 - 4, snapping the Cubs 10-game home losing streak. His triple in the sixth off Robin Roberts ends the Cubs' scoreless inning skein of 31 innings, and the consecutive scoreless innings by Phils pitchers at 41. Cavarretta takes the bench in game two but inserts himself as a pinch hitter in the seventh when Roberts relieves, and hits a grand slam home run as the Cubs sweep, winning the nitecap, 8 - 6. The nitecap loss goes to Bubba Church, who put two runners on before giving way to Roberts. It is Church's first and only career loss to Chicago after nine straight wins.
1951 - In game one at Cincinnati, Willie Mays steals the first of 338 bases. Then pitcher Willie Ramsdell picks him off 2B. But the Giants win, 3 - 1, behind Sal Maglie. New York takes the nitecap as well, 6 - 4, as Monte Irvin (2) and Mays both swipe bases.
1955 - At Crosley Field, Smoky Burgess hits three home runs and drives in nine runs as the Reds rout the Pirates, 16-5 .
1956 - Herb Score and Hank Aguirre of the Indians sweep Baltimore 3-0 and 4--0.
1958 - Ted Williams hits his 17th career grand slam, tying him for 2nd place with Babe Ruth, and behind Lou Gehrig, who had 23. Williams also added a 3-run HR, as Boston beats Detroit 11-8.
1961 - Duke Snider's pinch hit home run and Ron Fairly's RBI hit give Los Angeles a 5 - 4 win at Pittsburgh. The Dodgers take over first place from the Reds.
1961 - The Giants' Orlando Cepeda hits a 1st inning grand slam to give the Giants a 4 - 3 win over the Phils. The Phillies will lose 23 straight before another victory.
1962 - Gene Conley contacts manager Pinky Higgins by telegram, stating that he is "mostly tired," and has "other plans." He will return the next day to the Red Sox and will be fined $2,000.
1962 - Don Drysdale pushes his record to 19 - 4 as he completes a three-game Dodger sweep over the Giants, winning 11-1. Frank Howard has a home run and three singles to drive home five runs. Willie Mays accounts for the only Giants run with a home run. Los Angeles now leads the Giants by four games.
1963 - Chicago's Joel Horlen flirts with a no-hitter against the Senators, going eight 1/3 innings before giving up a bouncing single up the middle to Chuck Hinton. One out later, Don Lock keys a 2 - 1 Washington win with a home run.
1966 - At Cincinnati, Jim Maloney strikes out 13 in the Reds 4 - 3 win over Houston.
1966 - The Yankees edge the White Sox, 2 - 1, on Mickey Mantle's 14th homer in 24 games. Mick moves ahead of Lou Gehrig into 6th place on the homer list with the blast.
1967 - The Indians trade Rocky Colavito again, this time to the White Sox for OF Jim King and a player to be named.
1967 - At Fenway, the Twins and Red Sox split a doubleheader. Boston wins the opener, 6 - 3, with the decision going to John Wyatt. In the nitecap, Boomer Scott thrills the crowd with an inside-the-park homer, but Tony Oliva, Harmon Killebrew, Bob Allison (2), and Ted Uhlaender all hit home runs for the Twins. Jim Perry wins, 10 - 3.
1968 - Reds' George Culver throws a 6-1 no-hitter against the Phillies at Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia.
1969 - Yankee reliever Jack Aker's string of 33 scoreless innings comes to an end as the A's rally for three runs to top the Yankees, 6 - 5. Vida Blue, the A's starter, receives credit for his first ML victory.
1970 - Hank Aaron cracks two home runs and drives in five runs to lead the Braves to an 9 - 7 come-from-behind win over the visiting Cards. Hal King also homers to match three round trippers by St. Louis.
1970 - The Cubs purchase 1B/OF Joe Pepitone from the Astros. Pepitone will drive in 31 runs in his first 31 games for his new team.
1972 - Brooks Robinson hits a 2-out home run in the 11th to give Baltimore a 4 - 3 win over the Indians. Frank Duffy hits his 1st ML home run for the Tribe and John Lowenstein hit a home run in the 9th to briefly give the Indians the lead.
1972 - The Padres take 17 innings but finally edge the Reds, 4 - 3, at Riverfront Stadium.
1973 - Wilbur Wood wins his 20th game of the season as the White Sox beat the Twins 8 - 6.
1974 - Detroit hits four home runs in the first inning in an 8 - 2 win over the Indians. Al Kaline, Bill Freehan, and Mickey Stanley hit consecutive home runs off Fritz Peterson, and Ed Brinkman adds another, though not consecutive, off Steve Kline.
1975 - Milwaukee's first two hitters -- Don Money and Darrell Porter -- crack homers off Red Sox pitcher Diego Segui. That's enough for Jim Colborn, who wins, 4 - 0.
1977 - Phil Niekro picks up his 10th win of the year, beating the Pirates 5 - 3 for the Braves. But he has to strike out four Bucs in the 6th inning to do it. He struck out Dave Parker and Bill Robinson, but after Al Oliver doubled, Rennie Stennett whiffed and reached 1st when the ball eluded the catcher. Omar Moreno then made the 4th K in the inning.
1978 - The Yankee Stadium crowd is pleasantly surprised as recently resigned skipper Billy Martin returns to join in on the Old Timers' Day festivities. Much to their delight, the fans are informed "˜Billy the Kid' will return as skipper in 1980.
1983 - Due to a dislocated thumb caused by a collision at home plate trying to score in the first game of a doubleheader against the Braves, Padres' first baseman Steve Garvey's consecutive game streak ends in the nightcap at 1,207.
1984 - The first two Phillies batters -- Juan Samuel and Von Hayes -- greet Montreal's Bill Gullickson with home runs. Hayes adds another homer and the Phils win on a 2-run pinch homer by Len Matuszek in the 9th, 6 - 4.
1986 - Sparky Anderson, the first manager to win the World Series in each league, also becomes the first manager to win 600 games in both the National and American Leagues when his Tigers beat the Brewers, 9-5.
1987 - The Royals trade SS Buddy Biancalana to the Astros for pitching prospect Mel Stottlemyre, Jr.
1988 - The Orioles trade pitcher Mike Boddicker to the Red Sox in return for Brady Anderson and Curt Schilling. Boddicker will have two successful years with Boston while Anderson will become a productive lead off man for Baltimore and Schilling will became one of baseball's most dominant pitchers of his era.
1988 - In the Cubs' 8 - 3 win over Kevin Gross and the host Phillies, Rick Sutcliffe swipes home, the first pitcher since Pascual Perez in 1984 to steal home. It comes on the front end of a double steal with Mitch Webster. Sutcliffe is the first Cubs pitcher to steal home since Hippo Vaughn in 1919.
1989 - The White Sox trade their all-time home run leader, Harold Baines, and IF Fred Manrique to the Rangers for IF Scott Fletcher, OF Sammy Sosa, and P Wilson Alvarez.
1989 - Oakland's formidable Rickey Henderson has no official at bats, but scores four times on four walks and five stolen bases. It's all for naught as the Mariners swamp Oakland, 14 - 6. Randy Johnson is the winner.
1990 - At Detroit, the Red Sox bang out 12 doubles, setting an American League record, in a 13 - 3 win over the Tigers. Wade Boggs has 3, while Tim Naehring, Jody Reed, and Ellis Burks each have 2. Greg Harris wins easily. The previous AL record was 11, set on July 14, 1934 by Detroit against New York. The 12 two-baggers will be tied in 1996 by Cleveland.
1991 - The Mariners hit four consecutive doubles in an inning of their 11-4 victory over the Orioles, falling one shy of the major league record.
1991 - During a game at Yankee Stadium, Oakland OF Jose Canseco is bombarded with assorted objects by unruly fans. Included among the objects are an inflatable doll, a transistor radio, and a head of cabbage. Oakland escapes with a 10 - 8 victory, and Canseco strokes a double in four at bats.
1993 - The Phils complete a three-game sweep of the Cardinals and now lead the National League East by seven games.
1993 - Reds P Tom Browning is arrested for possession of marijuana.
1995 - Toronto defeats Oakland in an 18-11 slugfest at the SkyDome. A's P John Briscoe allows two runs in the 6th inning without letting a ball leave the infield. He allows an IF hit, a walk, a hit batsman, another walk, and another hit Batsman.
1995 - Star P Osvaldo Fernandez of the Cuban national team defects as his team plays Team USA in Millington, Tennessee.
1995 - The Royals top the Tigers 5 - 4 on Jon Nunnally's home run in the 16th inning, KC's first extra-base hit in the game following 21 singles, including five by OF Vince Coleman. The American League record is 26 set by the Brewers in 1992. Nine players hit in the 9th slot, including winning P Hipolito Pichardo, who bats twice. He is the 1st Royals' pitcher to go to the plate since Mark Littell in 1977, though IF David Howard, who tossed two innings in '94, batted while pitching.
1996 - After a mild heart attack last month, Tommy Lasorda, 68-year old Dodger manager of twenty years, announces his retirement due to his health. Bill Russell is named as his replacement.
1996 - The Indians trade 2B Carlos Baerga and IF Alvaro Espinoza to the Mets in exchange for 3B Jeff Kent and SS Jose Vizcaino. Baerga, a former All-Star, is last in hitting and fielding among American League second basemen.
1996 - In the Reds 2 - 1 loss to the Astros, Reds IF Chris Sabo shatters his bat in the 2nd inning strewing pieces of cork over the field. He'll be suspended for seven games for using a corked bat.
1997 - The Mariners and Randy Johnson knuckle under to Tim Wakefield and the Red Sox, 4 - 0. Mo Vaughn's 2-run homer is the big blow for Boston.
1997 - The Rangers ship Ken Hill, 16 - 10 last year, to the Angels for C Jim Leyritz and a player to be named. Hill struggled to a 5 - 8 record this season. Leyritz is insurance in case the Rangers can't sign Ivan Rodriguez, but they will ink Pudge in two days to a 5-year deal worth $42 million.
1997 - The Blue Jays pick up veteran Mariano Duncan from the Yankees for cash and a minor leaguer.
1997 - The Orioles purchase veteran Harold Baines from the White Sox. Baines is hitting .305 for Chicago.
1997 - Pedro Martinez strikes out 13 Rockies, including Andres Galarraga four times, in Montreal's, 3 - 0 win. Martinez gives up just three hits in going all the way.
1998 - The White Sox swap P Matt Karchner to the Cubs for P Jon Gardner, the Cubs 1st round pick (10th) in 1997.
1998 - After 16 straight starts without a win, Devil Rays' pitcher Tony Saunders gives up just five hits in six 2/3 inning in a 6 - 0 win over Oakland. He'll end the year at 6 - 15.
1999 - The Athletics obtain P Omar Olivares and IF Randy Velarde from the Angels in exchange for P Elvin Nina and outfielders Jeff DaVanon and Nathan Haynes.
1999 - Thirteen National League umpires lose their jobs as the resignations they tendered on July 14 are accepted.
2000 - The Brewers hold Bob Wickman All-Star Poster Night a day after the team trades their All-Star reliever to the Indians.
2000 - The White Sox trade catcher Brook Fordyce and three minor league pitchers to the Orioles for catcher Charles Johnson and designated hitter Harold Baines.
2000 - The Cardinals obtain P Mike Timlin from the Orioles for 1B Chris Richard and P Mark Nussbeck.
2000 - Recently acquired Mets make good first impressions as Mike Bordick goes 2-for-3, including a homer on the first pitch he sees as a Met, and Rick White pitches a scoreless inning to get the win; the other newcomer, Bubba Trammell, will homer in his first at-bat in his Met debut tomorrow.
2000 - The Pirates defeat the Padres, 10-2, as OF Brian Giles goes 5-for-5 with a pair of doubles.
2002 - The Phillies trade 27-year-old third baseman Scott Rolen along with minor league reliever Doug Nickle to the Cardinals in exchange for infielder Placido Polanco, southpaw Bud Smith and reliever Mike Timlin. Reportedly, the former Philadelphia third sacker rejected a 10-year pact estimated to be worth $140 million due to his feud with manager Larry Bowa.
2002 - The White Sox trade C Sandy Alomar Jr. to the Rockies. In return, Chicago gets P Enemencio Pacheco.
2002 - The text of the letter signed 40 Hall of Famers and sent to baseball commissioner Bud Selig and union head Donald Fehr urges all sides 'to protect the game we all love and have given so much to, we suggest you agree to a qualified mediator that will allow you to find the common ground necessary to avoid a work stoppage is released. The former outstanding players, who include Reggie Jackson, Willie Mays and Warren Spahn, believe another work stoppage would be a terrible mistake.
2004 - In a 10-1 victory over the Expos, Eric Valent becomes the eighth player in franchise history to hit for the cycle. After singling in the second, doubling in the third, homering in the fifth, the Met reserve triples in the seventh to join Phillie David Bell, Pirate Daryle Ward, and Brewer Chad Moeller in accomplishing the feat this season.
2007:
- Barry Bonds remains stuck at 754 home runs, going 1 for 4 in a loss to the Marlins. It is his last chance to tie Hank Aaron's record at a home game before a visit to Dodger Stadium. Bonds manages to get his one hit on an infield single, showing he can still run.
- Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken Jr. are inducted into the Hall of Fame.
- Major League Baseball sets a single-day attendance record as 717,478 fans show up for 17 games. It easily breaks the 640,412 record set on July 3, 1999.
- Ichiro Suzuki collects the 1,500th hit of his major league career, a single off of Lenny DiNardo. It came in his 1,060th game. Only two players - Al Simmons (1,040) and George Sisler (1,048) had accumulated 1,500 MLB hits in fewer games.
- The Dutch national team tops the U.S. college national team 9-3. It is notable for two things - first of all, Dirk van 't Klooster played in his 163rd game for the Netherlands, tying the record held by Marcel Joost. The second notable element is that it is the first visit by the Dutch team to the USA for a head-to-head series. The US had taken the first game easily. Dave Draijer had blown a late 1-0 lead in game two, which the USA won 2-1. Dave Bergman tossed six shutout innings in the finale while 1B Percy Isenia drove in 3 and LF Harvey Monte rapped three hits.