July 6

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1901 - NL president Nick Young accedes to a protest regarding umpire Harry Colgan and allows the Giants and Pirates to officiate their own game in Pittsburgh. New York's Charlie Buelow and Pirate Jack O'Connor call the game, won by the Bucs, 6-2.
1902 - Corsicana of the Texas League wins its 27th game in a row, topping Charlotte's record of 25 set earlier this year. Corsicana will finish the year with a 57 - 9 record.
1909 - Red Sox rookie Larry Pape makes his debut with a 2 - 0 win over the Nationals.
1911 - The Cards and Phils combine to hand out 23 walks, tying the record set last year (May 4) by the Cards (16) and Reds (7). Today the St. Louis pitchers walk 13, including a record eight in the 3rd inning.
1912 - In Brooklyn, the cornerstone is put in place and construction on Ebbets Field begins.
1913 - At St. Louis, the Senators push across two runs in the top of the 9th to take a 3 - 2 lead, Walter Johnson, the 4th Washington pitcher, shuts out the Browns in the 9th and is awarded the win. As reported in Sporting Life, President Ban Johnson rules "that when a pitcher leaves the box at the end of an inning he shall not receive benefit of any runs made in the following inning. He says all runs should aid the reliever, not the previous pitcher."
1914 - The A's sell pitcher Boardwalk Brown, 17 - 13 last year, to the Yankees. New York also brings back Birdie Cree by sending Bill Holden and cash to Baltimore (IL) in exchange. Birdie hit .348 in 1911 and .332 next season before injuring his leg. He slumped to .272 last year and was sold to Baltimore, but he will hit .309 in 77 games this year.
1914 - At Washington, it is a battle of the Johnsons -- Boston's Rankin Johnson vs. the Nats' Walter Johnson. George McBride's steal of home in the 4th inning is the only score, and Walter wins the 16th 1 - 0 game of his career.
1915 - Pete Alexander fires his third one-hitter of the season, with the Giants' Fred Merkle getting the lone hit. He doubles in the 2nd for New York's only baserunner in the game.
1917 - Ty Cobb's hit 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 AL mark of 40 straight games, set in 1912, but George Sisler will ring up 41 games in 1922.
1918 - The Reds' Pete Schneider takes a 10-0 one-hitter versus the Phils into the ninth, but walks the first 6 batters. Two relievers later, the Phils have 9 runs, but lose 10-9.
1919 - The Reds take two from Pittsburgh to move into first place. The Reds and Giants will seesaw back and forth until August first, when the Reds gradually begin to pull away, sprinting at the end to a 9-game lead.
1919 - William Veeck, former sportswriter, replaces Fred Mitchell as Cubs president, but Mitchell remains manager for Chicago.
1920 - The Yankees score 14 in the fifth and beat Washington 17-0. It's the biggest inning ever until the Red Sox score 17 in a 1953 game.
1928 - Urban Shocker, in poor health, is released by the Yankees after one appearance on the mound.
1929 - After losing 11 in a row, including a 10-6 loss in the opener, the Cardinals break out in the second game. They score 10 in the first and 10 more in the fifth to wallop the Phils 28-6 on 28 hits. The run and hit totals are NL records. The Cardinals (43) and Phillies (30) combine for a ML-tying 73 hits in the doubleheader at the cozy Baker Bowl.
1929 - After watching the Tigers belt eight HRs on the second, third, and fourth, the Browns use the off day to erect a screen in front of the RF pavilion. The screen stretches 156 feet from the foul pole toward CF, 310 feet down the line from home. In the next day's game, Heinie Manush will hit three balls off the screen against the Yankees' Waite Hoyt, while Ruth will hit two off it in the series. This screen will remain in place into the 1940s, the only stadium with extended OF seating where it is impossible to catch a HR ball.
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."
1933 - At Chicago's Comiskey Park, the first ever All-Star Game is played. Babe Ruth's two-run home run helps the American League defeat the Senior Circuit, 4-2. John McGraw comes out of retirement to manage the NL.
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.
1938 - The NL wins the sixth All-Star Game 4-1, with the aid of fine pitching and four AL errors. Starter Johnny Vander Meer gets the win. Yankees hurler Lefty Gomez is defeated for the first time in four All-Star starts. National League shortstop Leo Durocher becomes the first Dodger to start in an All-Star Game and gets a 'bunt' home run.
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 NL at the Polo Grounds, 3-1. Mickey Owen also homers for the third run. He does not hit a single HR 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.
1945 - The Braves sweep the Pirates 13-5 and 14-8, as Butch Nieman hits a pinch grand slam in the opener. In the second game, Tommy Holmes hits in his 34th consecutive game to pass Rogers Hornsby's modern National League record of 33 in 1922; Willie Keeler had 44 in the 19th Century.
1945 - P Phil Marchildon rejoins the Athletics. In the Canadian Air Force, he was shot down during World War II and was in a German prison camp for nine months.
1949 - At Crosley Field, Walker Cooper goes 6-for-7, including three home runs and three singles, five runs scored and ten RBIs, to power the Reds over the Cubs, 23-4. Cooper had just been acquired on June 13th from the Giants.
1951 - At the Polo Grounds, the Braves smack two HRs (Willard Marshall and Walker Cooper) in the top of the third, only to have the Giants answer with three HRs - by Westrum, Thomson, and Mueller - in the bottom of the inning. The Giants outslug the Braves for the game 12 - 10.
1952 - Dodgers P Ben Wade homers twice in an 8-2 win over the Braves.
1953 - In his first major league start, Al Worthington blanks the Pirates, 6-0. The Giants rookie will repeat the feat in his next start blanking the Dodgers to tie a major league mark.
1956 - Ford Frick inaugurates the Cy Young Award, to honor the outstanding pitcher each year. The BBWAA will do the voting. Only one pitcher will be honored each year until 1967, when a pitcher in each league will be selected.
1956 - Jim Busby of the Indians hits his second grand slam in as many days as the Tribe beats the A's 4-2.
1958 - A day after he walks outfielder Willie Kirkland with the bases loaded to give the Giants a 5-4 victory, Cardinal reliever Larry Jackson hits Jim Davenport with the bases full in the ninth inning to again force in the winning run.
1958 - Cubs pitchers Dick Drott and Don Elston combine on a 1-hit, 6-2 win over the Dodgers. Jim Gilliam's single in the seventh is the only Los Angeles safety.
1961 - Solly Hemus (33-41) is fired as manager of the Cardinals and replaced by coach Johnny Keane.
1962 - The Indians regain first place from the Angels, as Ruben Gomez beats Early Wynn and the White Sox 5 - 3.
1962 - The Yankees edge the Twins 7 - 5 in Bloomington, as Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris each hit a pair of home runs. The M&M boys hit back to back homers in the 1st inning, off Camilo Pascual (12 - 4), the 3rd time in four games they've hit back-to-back shots. New York is a half-game in back of Cleveland.
1964 - The National League and its umpires settle on a contract lasting until December 1969. The league provides increased pension and insurance payments.
1965 - Don Demeter of the Phillies plays his record 226th consecutive game without an error in the OF. Finishing his string in the AL, Demeter will play 266 games without an error, a ML record, but his 226 mark will subsequently be broken in the NL by Doug Dascenzo; Darren Lewis will later break the MLB record.
1966 - Tying an American League record, Boog Powell knocks in 11 runs in a doubleheader. In game one, the Oriole first baseman hits two home runs, including a grand slam, two doubles and a sacrifice fly to drive in seven runs in the Orioles' 11-0 victory over the Kansas City A's and in the nightcap he adds 4 RBIs.
1966 - The Red Sox sweep a pair from the Yankees, with reliever Don McMahon picking up both wins. He pitches one 2/3 inning in the opener and another two innings in game 2. The only other pitcher to win a doubleheader from the Yankees was the Browns' Dave Davenport in 1916, who threw two CG victories.
1970 - Tommie Agee hits for the cycle to pace the Mets to a 10 - 3 win over the Cardinals. Jim McAndrew is the WP.
1970 - Brave Felix Millan goes 6-for-6 and collects 4 RBIs in a 12-4 victory over the Giants. He is the first Braves player to get 6 hits in one game.
1970 - At Wrigley Field, it's all Ron Santo today. Ron's 2-run homer in the opener gives the Cubs a 3 - 2 win over the Expos. In the nitecap, Santo drives in another eight runs on two homers and a bases-loaded walk as the Cubs win, 14 - 2.
1971 - Norm Cash belts a pair of 3-run homers to power the Tigers to a 12 - 7 win over the Yanks. Mickey Lolich goes all the way for the win.
1972 - The Twins fire manager Bill Rigney, promoting 33-year-old coach Frank Quilici to take his place.
1973 - Chicago Cub P Fergie Jenkins beats the Padres, 8 - 5, for his 13th straight win over San Diego. The streak began on May 12, 1969.
1973 - The Expos take two in a doubleheader with the Astros, 12 - 8 and 14 - 6. In the first game, John Boccabella hits two home runs in the 6th inning for Montreal.
1975 - For the 2nd time this season against the Braves, a team uses three sacs (no flies) in an inning. Houston does it in the 9th in a 6 - 2 win behind J.R. Richard.
1976 - Houston's J.R. Richard allows 10 walks but no runs in shutting out the Mets, 1 - 0, in 10 innings. Starter Jon Matlack is the losing pitcher.
1977 - In Atlanta, the Reds outlast the Braves, winning 15 - 13. The Braves spot the Reds six runs, then tie it up with a 6-run 4th inning. The Braves tie in the 7th at nine apiece, but the Reds score six in the 8th inning, four on a grand slam by Dave Concepcion. Atlanta scores one in the 8th and three in the 9th to complete a wild game.
1977 - The Expos top the Cubs, 8 - 6, as pitcher Dave Stenhouse helps the offense with a grand slam, off Bill Bonham. It is Stenhouse's only ML homer.
1978 - Carl Yastrzemski's 3-run homer in the first gives Boston a lead at Comiskey Park, but the White Sox eventually tie at 6 - 6. In the 10th inning, former Bosox pitcher Jim Willoughby serves up a home run to Fred Lynn, Lynn's 13th, and Boston wins, 7 - 6. Bill Campbell picks up the victory.
1980 - Steve Carlton (14-4) becomes the major leagues' left-handed strikeout king, fanning seven Cardinals in a 8 - 3 Phillies win to bring his career total to 2,836. Mickey Lolich had held the record with 2,832.
1980 - Cub relief pitchers hold the Pirates hitless for 12 2/3 innings but it goes for naught in a 5 - 4, 20-inning loss. Cliff Johnson's 2-out homer in the 9th off Bert Blyleven tied it for Chicago. Jim Bibby (11 - 1) takes the win.
1983 - In the 50th anniversary All-Star Game at Chicago's Comiskey Park, the American League routs the National League 13 - 3 for its first win since 1971. The AL breaks the game open with seven runs in the 4th inning, highlighted by Fred Lynn's grand slam - the first ever in All-Star competition. It is Lynn's 4th All-Star homer, tying him with Ted Williams for the AL record.
1985 - At Pittsburgh, a 2-out single by Marvell Wynne plates the winning run as the Pirates sink the Padres, 8 - 7. Steve Kemp homers for Pittsburgh, and would've added a single but is thrown out at 1B in the 7th by RF Tony Gwynn in a 9 - 3 putout.
1986 - In the A's 6 - 3 win over Milwaukee, Tony Phillips of the A's, ties the ML mark with 12 assists at 2B. It'll be matched again next month.
1986 - Bob Horner becomes the 11th player to hit four home runs in a game, but it isn't enough as the Braves fall to the Expos 11 - 8. Horner is only the second to hit his four home runs in a losing cause; Ed Delahanty of the Phillies on was the first, on July 13, 1896. On the winning side, Al Newman cracks his first ML home run, off Zane Smith; it'll be his only homer, as Newman will go to the American League next year and set the junior circuit record by going to bat 1,893 times without a 4-bagger.
1989 - Mike Schmidt becomes the first retired player to be elected to start an All-Star Game. The Phillies third baseman, who announced his retirement on May 29, is hitting only .203 this season and decides not to play. A's OF Jose Canseco, who has not played all season because of a wrist injury, is picked to start for the American League, but neither will play in the game.
1990 - Disgusted with the team's performance, Whitey Herzog resigns as manager of the Cardinals after 10 years. Red Schoendienst will replace him temporarily and Joe Torre will be named permanent manager on August 1st.
1990 - In his first start since losing a no-hitter, Andy Hawkins pitches 11 2/3 innings of shutout ball only to lose in the 12th 2 - 0 to the Twins. Hawkins is now 1-6.
1991 - Manager John McNamara is fired by the Indians and replaced by 1B coach Mike Hargrove.
1991 - In a 9-7 loss to Oakland at Royals Stadium, Danny Tartabull of the Royals becomes the 1st Royal to hit three home runs in a game.
1992 - Commissioner Fay Vincent orders realignment of the National League for the 1993 season, forcing the Cubs and Cardinals into the Western Division.
1992 - The Cardinals-Padres game at Jack Murphy Stadium is held up for four minutes when a wild skunk wanders out onto the field. The Cardinals eventually win the game by a score of 4 - 0 on Mark Clark's 4-hitter.
1995 - The Red Sox obtain P Rick Aguilera from the Twins in exchange for P Frankie Rodriguez and a player to be named.
1995 - The Astros defeat the Padres, 5-4 in 12 innings, as Houston pitchers fan 17 SD batters. Padres SS Andujar Cedeno fans five times, while teammates Melvin Nieves and Roberto Petagine whiff four times each. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, no team over the past 15 years has had three players strike out four or more times in the same game. SD pitchers fan 15 Houston players themselves.
1995 - Atlanta P Greg Maddux shuts out the Dodgers, 1-0. In the process, he extends his streak of innings without issuing a walk to 49.
1996 - During the Yankees' 2 - 0 win over the Brewers, the team announces the purchase of Darryl Strawberry's contract from Columbus. John Wetteland preserves Jimmy Key's win with a save in his 20th consecutive appearance, breaking Lee Smith's record.
1996 - The Seattle Mariners ride three solo home runs by Edgar Martinez to a 9-5 win over the Texas Rangers.
1997 - At Anaheim, Chuck Finley allows four hits and strikes out 13 to lead the Angels to a 8 - 0 shut out over the Mariners. Dave Hollins' fourth inning grand slam is the big blow, while Darin Erstad also homers, the first by a lefty off Jeff Fassero (8-5) in over three years. Tim Salmon also hits a solo homer in the third, his third in three games. Fassero left the game earlier in the 3rd inning after spraining his right ankle fielding Craig Grebeck's bunt single.
1997 - Roger Clemens becomes the American League's first 13-game winner this season, pitching a four-hitter as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the New York Yankees, 2 - 0. Clemens has 10 strikeouts and one walk in his first shutout of the year. Ramiro Mendoza takes the loss.
1997 - In Detroit, the Tigers top the Orioles, 14 - 9, their 3rd straight win after 11 consecutive losses. Brian Johnson and Travis Fryman homer for the Tigers while teammate Bobby Higginson adds a two-run inside-the-park homer, his fifth round tripper this week. For Scott Erickson (11-4) it is the worst start of his career for Baltimore, allowing all 12 runs, 11 earned, and 10 hits in four 1-3 innings. Willie Blair (6-4) takes the win in relief. The O's are led by Rafael Palmeiro's homer, triple and single and homers by Geronimo Berroa, Jeff Reboulet and Tony Tarasco.
1997 - Veteran catcher Mickey Tettleton announces his retirement. He was on the Rangers' DL for more than two months.
1999 - The White Sox lose to the Royals, 8-7. Chicago OF Chris Singleton hits for the cycle, becoming the first rookie to do so since Oddibe McDowell in 1985 and just the 16th since 1900. Singleton goes 5-for-6 and drives home four of Chicago's runs.
2000 - The Yankees clip the Orioles, 13-9, scoring eight runs in the 2nd inning to come back from a 7-run deficit. Sidney Ponson helps with four straight walks in the inning. Yankee Scott Brosius ties the major-league record for 3B by starting four DPs in the game.
2000 - The American Sportscasters Association names Dodgers legend Vin Scully as the No. 1 sportscaster of the 20th century. Howard Cosell finishes 2nd, followed by Mel Allen and Red Barber. The Dodger veteran broadcaster's 51-year career has included play-by-play of 25 Fall Classics and 12 All-Star Games.
2000 - Dodgers P Orel Hershiser announces his retirement.
2000 - The Reds defeat the Cardinals, 12-6. St. Louis rookie C Keith McDonald homers in the 2nd inning, becoming only the 2nd person in major league history to hit home runs in each of his 1st two big league at bats. Bob Nieman, in 1951, is the other. McDonald walks his 3rd time up.
2001 - Braves SS Rafael Furcal dislocates his shoulder in Atlanta's 6 - 5, 10-inning win over Boston. He will be out for the rest of the year.
2001 - Playing in the 101st different park since 1876, the Cubs beat the Tigers in Comerica Park, 15-8. The Cubs win for the first time in Detroit in 56 years dating back to Game 3 of the 1945 World Series when Claude Passeau threw a 3-0 shutout in Briggs Stadium. Cubs DH Roosevelt Brown gets five hits in the game, including a double and home run.
2001 - Oakland ace Mark Mulder hurls a near - perfect game against the Diamondbacks, surrendering only a single to OF Danny Bautista in the A's 3 - 0 win.
2001 - The Indians defeat the Cardinals, 14 - 2. 1B Jim Thome hits three home runs and drives home six runs for Cleveland.
2002 - The Phillies call up 30-year-old Joe Roa, winner of 20 straight games in the minor leagues. He won his last six decisions with Calgary in 2001 and was 14 - 0 at Wilkes-Barre this year. Roa was closing in on the IL record of 20 straight wins set by Rube Parnham of Baltimore, in 1923. The last 20-game winner in the IL was in 1950.
2002 - Daryle Ward becomes the first player in the brief history of Pittsburgh's PNC Park to hit the Allegheny River on the fly. His fifth inning towering grand slam, which is estimated to travel 479 feet, help the Astros to rout the Pirates, 10-2.
2002 - The Diamondbacks bolster their bullpen by acquiring P Mike Fetters from the Pirates in exchange for minor league prospect Duaner Sanchez.
2003 - Keeping his promise to dye his hair if his last-place Devil Rays won three in a row at any point this season, Devil Rays' skipper Lou Piniella becomes a blonde. Last night's 3-2 victory over the White Sox gave Tampa Bay their first three-game winning streak since last September.
2004 - Recently acquired outfielder Richard Hidalgo establishes a club record homering in five straight games for the Mets. In 16 games with New York, the former Astro has eight home runs compared to hit just four with Houston in 56 games.
2007 - Kevin McClatchy steps down as CEO of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
2008 - The Braves and Astros set a Turner Field record by going 17 innings. Atlanta uses 21 players, Houston 20. Yunel Escobar comes to the plate 9 times, getting 4 hits. The contest ends when Mark Teixeira hits a bases-loaded single off of Tim Byrdak.