July 7

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1900 - By defeating the Cubs, 11-4, Beaneaters hurler Kid Nichols takes only nine seasons to win 300 games. The 30-year old righty will amass 361 victories during his 15-year career and will remain the youngest player ever to accomplish the feat.
1903 - In a game with the New York Highlanders, White Sox OF Danny Green is called out at 1B by Jack Sheridan, and after returning to the bench continues to yell at the ump. Sheridan finally rushes the bench and hits Green with his mask, who then belts the umpire. The umpire is taken from the grounds and locked up on charges of disorderly conduct. An hour later he is released after bail is posted by Highlander president Joseph Gordon.
1904 - Jack Chesbro's winning streak of 14 games comes to an end as Boston beats the Highlanders, 4 - 1. Chesbro will win 41 games this year, to set a ML record. Newly acquired Kip Selbach drives in three runs for New York.
1909 - Inventor George Cahill brings his portable lights to Grand Rapids, Michigan for a night game with the Zanesville Infants (Central League). The host team wins 11 - 10 in seven innings, with the only complaints coming from the outfielders, who had trouble seeing balls hit above the lights.
1909 - In the Giants' 3 - 1 win over the Phils, New York collects six straight walks in 6th. This is a a major-league record since tied in National League, but will be broken in the American League next month.
1911 - At St. Louis, Smoky Joe Wood allows a single to Burt Shotton in pitching a one-hitter. Boston wins, 6 - 1.
1912 - To fend off possible future challenges to the legality of the standard contract and its reserve clause, new wording provides for compensation to the player for the right to renew. A player's salary is specified as 75 percent for his services and 25 percent for the privilege of reserving them for the following season.
1914 - Suffering heavy losses from Federal League competition in Baltimore, the Orioles owner Jack Dunn offers Babe Ruth (plus Ernie Shore and C Ben Egan) for $10,000 to old friend Connie Mack, who refuses, pleading poverty. Cincinnati, which has a working agreement giving them the choice of two players, ignores Ruth and takes OF George Twombly and SS Claud Derrick. Dunn finally peddles his threesome to new owner Joe Lannin of the Red Sox for a reported $25,000.
1914 - In an exhibition game in Buffalo, the Bisons (IL) humiliate the Boston Braves, 10 - 2.
1915 - After Brooklyn wins the opener, 4 - 3, over Boston, the two teams battle to a scoreless 16-inning tie. Phil Douglas shuffles all the way for the Robins.
1915 - The A's continue to dismantle, shipping front line P Bob Shawkey to the Yankees for $18,000.
1916 - At Fenway, the Indians score in the first off Babe Ruth, but manage just one more hit through the 7th. With the bases loaded in the bottom of the 7th, lefty hitting reserve Olaf Henriksen pinch hits for Ruth and draws a walk, forcing home the tying run. Boston scores another in the 8th to win, 2 - 1.
1916 - At St. Louis, Pete Alexander shuts out the Cards for a 1 - 0 Phillie win, topping Lee Meadows. Dode Paskert in CF makes two leaping catches off the bat of Bob Bescher to save home runs.
1918 - Rabbit Maranville gets a 10-day leave from the Navy and hits .316 in 11 games for the Braves before going back to sea.
1919 - In the first game of a doubleheader against the Giants, the Phillies steal eight bases in the ninth but lose 10-5. Fred Luderus, Ed Sicking, Hick Cady and Gavvy Cravath each have two thefts.
1922 - Pirates OF Max Carey is the busiest man on the field in an 18-inning 9 - 8 loss to the Giants. He gets six hits, draws three walks, has three SBs, including one of home, and catches seven flies. His 51 stolen bases in 53 attempts is the highest success rate ever achieved by a SB leader, remarkable in a season where the league average success rate on steals is 54%. His record of 31 straight steals without being caught will be broken by Davey Lopes' 38 in 1975. Johnny Gooch also has six hits in the losing effort.
1922 - Commissioner Landis bars ML teams from playing in Montreal.
1923 - Cleveland scores in every inning against the Red Sox, but playing at home, the team does not bat in the ninth. In the eight innings, they run up an AL-record 27 runs, including 13 in the 6th, for a 27-3 win. In three innings, Lefty O'Doul gives up 16 runs on 11 hits and 8 walks. This is his last season as a ML pitcher, but he will return to the major-league in 1928 as an OF. The Indians keep it up, scoring three in the first inning of the second game en route to a 8-5 win.
1925 - The seventh-place Cubs install Rabbit Maranville as manager, replacing Bill Killefer.
1927 - The Senators trade righthander General Crowder to the Browns for southpaw Tom Zachary.
1927 - Cubs righthander Charlie Root's one-hitter drops the Pirates into second place, with the Cubs on top. In the second of his 16 years with the Cubs, Root will lead the NL with 26 wins and 309 IP.
1931 - The Browns and the White Sox play a 12-inning game in which not a single strikeout is recorded. It is the longest whiffless game in major-league history. Chicago wins 10-9.
1933 - Phillies 2B Mickey Finn dies following an abdominal operation.
1935 - Phillies 2B Lou Chiozza ties a NL record with 11 assists in a 9-1 win over Boston.
1935 - At a special meeting, the AL owners raise the waiver price to $7,500.
1936 - The National League, having lost the first three All-Star Games, wins 4 - 3 at Boston's National League Park with four different Cub players (Galan, Herman, Hartnett and Demaree) scoring runs. After Dizzy Dean and Carl Hubbell each pitch scoreless 3-inning stints, Curt Davis is hammered by the American League, including Lou Gehrig's home run, but Lon Warneke shuts the door. Meanwhile, the NL is helped by Joe DiMaggio's loose fielding and error and Augie Galan's home run. DiMag is the first rookie to play in an All-Star Game. The NL plays its starting lineup except for two late-inning pinch hitters. Local favorite and 3-time starter Wally Berger doesn't appear. Missing from the NL roster are Dolph Camilli and Buck Jordan, co-leaders at .348, as well as the eventual batting champ Paul Waner.
1937 - With President Franklin D. Roosevelt in attendance at Griffith Stadium in Washington, Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig drives in four runs with a home run and a double to lead the AL to an 8-3 victory over the National League in All-Star action. Dizzy Dean's toe is fractured by a drive off the bat of Earl Averill Sr.. After the injury, Dean is unable to pitch with the same delivery. He uses an unnatural motion, causing an arm injury from which he never recovers.
1939 - Sacramento Solons (PCL) beats San Francisco 5-4 in an exhibition game played inside Folsom Prison.
1942 - A military all-star team that includes Bob Feller, Cecil Travis, Sam Chapman, Benny McCoy, Johnny Sturm and Frankie Pytlak loses 5-0 to AL stars in a game at Cleveland in front of more than 60,000 fans. Jim Bagby Jr. wins against his Indian teammate Feller. Military relief receives $160,000.
1948 - The Indians stun the baseball world by signing Satchel Paige, veteran Negro League pitcher. The move is ridiculed by some as a Bill Veeck publicity stunt, and A.G. Spink in The Sporting News editorializes, "Veeck has gone too far in his quest for publicity. . . . To sign a hurler at Paige's age is to demean the standards of baseball in the big circuits." The 42-year-old Paige will answer the critics in tomorrow, getting a relief decision in a 8 - 6 win over New York in a DH sweep. He will finish at 6-1. Paige is the oldest player to debut in the majors, but not the first 40-year-old: Chuck Hostetler in 1944 was 40.
1949 - Dave Koslo hits the first two HRs of his career while beating the Phils 11-3 at the Polo Grounds.
1950 - The Reds' Connie Ryan steals home in the 11th to give Cincinnati a 5 - 4 win over Chicago.
1951 - OF Hoot Evers of the Tigers goes 5-for-5 and scores five runs against the Indians as the motormen roll, 13 - 3. Bob Cain is the victor with batterymate Myron Ginsberg driving in five runs on four hits.
1951 - At Fenway, the Yankees lose to the Red Sox, 10 - 4 with the Sox being led by Clyde Vollmer's grand slam in the first inning. Vollmer had a 2-run triple in yesterday's 6 - 2 win over the Yankees.
1953 - The Browns set the major-league mark for consecutive home defeats, as they drop their 20th in succession, 6-3 to the Indians. The streak dates back to June 3rd.
1953 - The Dodgers set a major-league record for most HRs in consecutive games with 24 games.
1958 - NL President Warren Giles appoints a committee to study the possible expansion of the league to 10 teams. At the NL meeting, William Shea outlines plans for a $12 million stadium at Flushing Meadows, the eventual site of Shea Stadium.
1959 - At Forbes Field, Hank Aaron's eighth inning single ties the score and a triple hit by Willie Mays plates Aaron with the winning run in the 5-4 All-Star victory in the first of the two Mid-Summer Classics to be played during the season. Don Drysdale pitches perfect ball the first three innings.
1963 - 3B Jim Ray Hart debuts with the Giants, singling and doubling during a 15-inning, 4 - 3 squeaker over the Cards at Candlestick. In the 2nd game, Hart suffers a broken collarbone when hit by a Bob Gibson pitch.
1964 - Johnny Callison's 9th-inning 3-run home run off Dick Radatz caps a 4-run rally and gives the National League a 7 - 4 win in the All-Star Game at Shea Stadium. This evens the series at 17.
1968 - Phil Regan picks up two wins in relief for the second time this season as the Cubs sweep the Pirates, 5 - 4 and 4 - 3, edging Bob Veale and Elroy Face. Regan won a pair on April 21st for the Dodgers, and no reliever has ever won a pair twice in a season. The Vulture will the top the National League with 12 relief wins and 25 saves.
1968 - Denny McLain, the major leagues' winningest pitcher with 16, helps Detroit take a nine 1/2 game lead in the A.L. at the All-Star break, as the Tigers sweep the A's 5 - 4 and 7 - 6. McLain wins the opener when Willie Horton clubs a 3-run homer, and Al Kaline matches that in the nitecap.
1970 - Brooks Robinson cracks a 10th inning grand slam off New York's Lindy McDaniel to give the Orioles a 6 - 2 win.
1971 - Commissioner Kuhn announces that players from the Negro Leagues elected to the Hall of Fame will be given full membership in the museum. It had been previously announced that they would be honored in a separate wing.
1971 - At Anaheim, the Red Sox beat the Angels, 5 - 3, in 10 innings despite the loss of manager Eddie Kasko. Kasko gets tossed after feigning a faint over a call at home plate.
1972 - In the Pirates' 10 - 2 lid lifter win over Atlanta, Milt May goes 5-for-5 to lead a 20-hit attack. May has two more hits in the nitecap, but the Pirates lose, 3 - 2, to Jim Hardin.
1972 - Back in the Expos lineup for the first time since June 27, Ken Singleton drives in three runs to support Bill Stoneman's 7 - 2 win over the Giants. Singleton wears a special uniform to prevent a rash from reoccurring because of his allergy to materials in the Expos' regular uniforms.
1973 - The Brewers unload on 18-year-old P David Clyde to whip the Rangers 19 - 5 and hand Eddie Rodriguez his first ML win, a complete-game effort. Milwaukee has a 5-run 6th and 7-run 7th and is paced by Bob Coluccio's grand slam and Don Money's 3-run homer.
1974 - In the opener of a doubleheader, Don Money sets a major-league record for consecutive errorless games at 3B with 78. The Brewers beat the Twins 8 - 5, then lose 5 - 3. Money will end the season with just five errors, breaking George Kell's record set in 1950. Money also holds the National League record with just 10 errors, set with the Phils in 1972.
1974 - In a 11 - 2 win over the Cards, the Reds' Darrel Chaney hits a grand slam home run. Chaney will hit 14 homers in the ML, but the radio call on the slam will end up as his front door bell chime.
1975 - In an 8 - 6 loss to the Cardinals, Giants catcher Marc Hill -- as well as the Cards -- ties a mark last accomplished in 1905 when he tags out three Cards runners at home on throws from the outfield. The three Cards dealt out are: Ken Reitz, in the first inning on a throw from LF Gary Thomasson. Reitz tries scoring from 2B on a Mike Tyson single; Ron Fairly in the 6th inning thrown out by RF Bobby Murcer on a Tyson fly ball; Bake McBride in the 7th thrown out by LF Chris Arnold when he tries to score on a Willie Davis fly.
1976 - The Reds come back from a 3-run deficit to beat the Expos, 4 - 3. Cincy scores three in the 9th, with two scoring on Cesar Geronimo's triple.
1977 - New York completes a 3-game sweep of Cleveland behind the four-hit pitching of Catfish Hunter. New York wins, 8 - 2.
1977 - Chicago's Rick Reuschel shuts out the Cardinals to run his record to 12-2. Reuschel has not given up an earned run, except a homer, since June 1.
1978 - The Brewers' Mike Caldwell beats the Yankees' Ron Guidry 6 - 0. For Guidry (13-1), it is his first loss of the season. Caldwell shut out the Yankees nine days earlier, and will shut them out again on September 19th.
1979 - Mike Schmidt homers in his first three times up for the Phillies, to give him a ML-record-tying four straight over two games. Schmidt flies to the warning track in his next at bat, and the Phils lose 8 - 6 to the Giants. Schmidt will hit three more home runs in the next three games to tie the National League record of seven home runs in five games.
1982 - Harold Baines hits three consecutive home runs, including a grand slam, to lead the White Sox over the Tigers, 7-0.
1982 - The Reds rally scoring five runs in the top of the 9th to beat the Pirates, 6 - 3. Wayne Krenchicki's pinch three-run homer off Kent Tekulve is the tie-breaker in the frame.
1982 - Houston's Don Sutton wins his 250th career game, a 5 - 1 four-hitter against the Cubs.
1985 - Floyd Youmans, ticketed for the minors after the game to make way for Bill Gullickson coming off the DL, pitches the last three innings to get his 1st ML win as the Expos outlast the Astros, 6 - 3 in 19 innings. A 2-out error by Enos Cabell and a 2-run single by Mike Fitzgerald do it for the Expos.
1986 - The first two Phillie hitters in the game -- Gary Redus and Juan Samuel -- hit home runs off Atlanta's David Palmer.
1991 - Umpire Steve Palermo and former pro football player Terence Mann are shot while coming to the aid of two women during an attempted robbery in a restaurant parking lot in Dallas. Palermo is listed in stable condition after being shot in the stomach.
1992 - Pittsburgh's Andy Van Slyke becomes the first OF in nearly 18 years to record an unassisted double play, in the Pirates' 5 - 3 win over the Astros. Van Slyke raced in from center field to catch a fly ball, then continues in to double up Ken Caminiti, who was running from 2nd base on the play.
1993 - Mets P Bret Saberhagen throws a firecracker under a table near reporters at Shea Stadium, but no one is hurt.
1993 - In Philadelphia, the Phillies defeat the Dodgers, 7-6, in a 20-inning marathon when Lenny Dykstra hits a bases-loaded 2-run double off Rod Nichols. The game takes six hours and 10 minutes, and concludes at 1:47 AM. The Phils' Mitch Williams blows a 5 - 3 lead in the 9th, allowing a hit and walking three before being ejected by Jim Quick. Afterwards, John Kruk says, "I came here and I wanted to kill Mitch, but they told me it was against the law." Phils rookie Kevin Stocker makes his ML debut, playing all 20 innings.
1993 - Montreal P Kirk Rueter makes his ML debut with eight 1/3 innings of shutout ball against the Giants. John Wetteland comes in to get the final two outs in Montreal's 3-0 victory.
1993 - Reds P Tom Browning is fined $500 for leaving the Cincinnati dugout during the Reds' 4-3 win over the Cubs at Wrigley Field, and watching the contest from the roof of a 3-story building across Sheffield Avenue.
1994 - Pittsburgh C Don Slaught gets five hits, but it's not enough to keep the Pirates from losing to the Reds, 8-7. His five safeties include a pair of doubles.
1995 - The Twins trade P Scott Erickson to the Orioles in exchange for P Scott Klingenbeck and a player to be named.
1995 - For the 2nd consecutive game, Houston defeats San Diego by a score of 5-4. Padres SS Andujar Cedeno strikes out three times in three ABs, giving him 10 Ks in three games to tie a major league record.
1996 - The Marlins fire manager Rene Lachemann. Florida vice president John Boles replaces Lachemann, although he has not managed at any level in 10 years; except for Ted Turner's one-game stint in the 1970s, Boles is the first manager since Emil Fuchs in 1929 with no professional playing experience at any level. He wins his first game today, 7 - 4, in 10 innings over the Phillies.
1998 - In the highest-scoring game in All-Star history, the American League beats the senior circuit, 13-8 in the thin air at Coors Field in Denver in the 69th All-Star Game. The 21-run total surpasses the previous record set in 1954 when the American League beat the Nationals, 11-9 in Cleveland's Municipal Stadium. Baltimore's Roberto Alomar is named the game's MVP, going 3 for 4 with a home run, RBI, SB and two runs scored.
1999 - The Rockies tie a 1903 major league record scoring in 15 consecutive innings. Phillies ace Curt Schilling ends the streak.
2000 - Drawing one of its largest crowds, the Butte Copper Kings newest promotion, 'John Rocker Awareness Night' is a huge success as the Angel farm club of the Pioneer League offers free admission to anyone belonging to a group insulted by the Atlanta reliever in his Sports Illustrated interview. The 672 fans in attendance include single moms with multiple children, people with purple hair, 'foreigners', as well as people with alternative life styles.
2000 - David Wells (15-2) posts his ML-leading 15th win in Toronto's 6 - 3 victory over the Montreal Expos. Wells becomes just the 2nd pitcher since 1988 to win 15 games before the All-Star break. The portly ace wins his 13th consecutive game on the road, stretching back to September 7, 1999. His only mistake is serving up a gopher to reliever Felipe Lira, who connects for his 1st ML homer. Jose Cruz, Jr. hits his 20th homer, joining teammates Carlos Delgado, Tony Batista and Raul Mondesi as Toronto becomes the first team in ML history with four players hitting 20 homers before the All-Star break.
2001 - Houston 1B Jeff Bagwell drives home seven runs to tie a team record in the Astros' 10 - 8 win over Kansas City.
2001 - Lefty John Halama pitches the first nine-inning perfect game in PCL history as Tacoma tops Calgary, 6 - 0. Halama, who won 14 games for Seattle last year, was demoted June 28, but the perfecto will earn him a recall.
2002 - Cardinals 2B Placido Polanco gets five hits in leading St. Louis to a 12 - 6 win over the Dodgers.
2003 - Shea Hillenbrand goes 5-for-5 with three home runs, seven runs batted in and 15 total bases to lead the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 14-6 win over the Colorado Rockies at Bank One Ballpark.
2004 - Blanking the Royals, 12-0, Twins hurler Kyle Lohse helps to establish a club record throwing the team's third consecutive shutout. Johan Santana (Royals, 4-0) and Brad Radke (Royals, 9-0) started the streak of 27 scoreless innings, also a franchise record.
2005 - The sports of baseball and softball are dropped from the for the 2012 Olympic Games scheduled to played in London. It is the first time in 69 years events have been cut from the world games. There is criticism that these events are two American-dominated, though the Cuban national team won Gold in 2004 and Australia won Silver. Japan has appeared in the Silver Medal game in the past as well. Another reason given is that top professional players do not always appear, though Nippon Pro Baseball and the Korea Baseball Organization have routinely sent top stars, as does the Cuban National League.