June 16

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Events, births and deaths that occurred on June 16.

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1909 - Jim Thorpe made his baseball pitching debut for the Rocky Mount Railroaders (Eastern Carolina League) with a 4 - 2 win over the Raleigh Red Birds. It was the professional play in this year that will cause him to lose his Olympic gold medals won in the 1912 Olympics (thus violating the amateur status rules). In 1983, thirty years after his death, his medals will be restored.
1916 - Salida Tom Hughes of the Boston Braves pitched a 2 - 0 no-hitter over the Pittsburgh Pirates at Braves Field. On August 30, 1910 Hughes had pitched no-hit ball for nine innings against the Indians, only to allow a hit in the 10th inning and then lose the game in the 11th.
1938 - At Sportsman's Park, the St. Louis Browns walked Boston Red Sox star Jimmie Foxx all six times he came to bat. The Browns' decision to pitch carefully to Foxx did not prevent the Red Sox from winning the game, 12 - 8. Being intentionally walked six times in a nine-inning game, Foxx set an American League record and matched the mark set by Walt Wilmot in the National League in 1891.
1940 - A disgruntled group of Cleveland Indians players petitioned owner Alva Bradley to fire team manager Oscar Vitt. Bradley turned down the players' request, but eventually watches the team lose its hold on first place during the final weeks of the regular season.
1945 - Dave Ferriss of the Boston Red Sox loses to the New York Yankees, 3 - 2, after starting his career with eight victories, four of them shutouts.
1953 - Duane Pillette of the St. Louis Browns ended the New York Yankees' win streak at 18 and the Browns' team record 14-game losing streak with a 3 - 1 victory in Yankee Stadium. Johnny Mize became the 93rd player in majoor league history to get 2,000 hits when he singled in the only Yankees' run in the fifth inning.
1957 - Relief pitcher Dixie Howell hit two home runs in the 3-2/3 innings he pitched to lead the Chicago White Sox to an 8 - 6 victory in the second game of a doubleheader against the Washington Senators.
1962 - An injured Mickey Mantle returned after a one-month layoff and hit a dramatic three-run pinch-hit home run in the top of the eighth inning. Although Mantle's blast gave the Yankees a 9 - 7 lead, Cleveland came back to score a run in the bottom of the eight and won the game in the ninth, 10 - 9, on a two-run homer by Jerry Kindall.
1971 - The Oakland Athletics hit five solo home runs in a 5-1 victory over the Washington Senators. Powerful first baseman Mike Epstein banged out home runs in his first two at-bats, giving him homers in four straight at-bats over two games. Joe Rudi also added a pair and Dave Duncan one. Vida Blue (14-2) was the winning pitcher and Denny McLain (4-12) the loser.
1978 - Tom Seaver pitched the first no-hitter of his brilliant career. Seaver struck out three and walked three as the Cincinnati Reds defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 4 - 0, at Riverfront Stadium. Seaver had barely missed pitching no-hitters on three previous occasions, losing the bid each time in the ninth inning.
1986 - The Baltimore Orioles traded seemingly over-the-hill pitcher Dennis Martinez to the Montreal Expos. Martinez will go on to win 100 games for Montreal over the next eight years and will eventually become the winningest pitcher among all Latin Americans with 245 victories.
1989 - Rick Wolff, 37, writing an article on minor-league baseball for Sports Illustrated, finished a three-day stint playing second base for Class-A South Bend White Sox. He replaced Cesar Bernhardt and hit 4-for-7 against the Burlington Braves. Wolff will finish the year with the highest batting average of any Chicago White Sox farmhand.
1991:
- Rookie Andy Ashby struck out the side 1-2-3 in the fourth inning against Cincinnati on just nine pitches. It was only the 12th time in National League history that it had been accomplished and the first by a Phillies pitcher.
- Otis Nixon of the Atlanta Braves recorded six stolen bases against Montreal to set a modern National League record and tied the major league record set by Eddie Collins of the Philadelphia Athletics in 1912. Nixon also picked up three hits in Atlanta's 7 - 6 loss.
1993 - Ken Griffey, Jr. of the Seattle Mariners hit his 100th career home run in Seattle's 6 - 1 victory over Kansas City to become the fourth-youngest to hit the century mark. Only Mel Ott, Eddie Mathews and Tony Conigliaro did it faster than the 23-year-old Griffey.
1995 - Florida Marlins outfielder Andre Dawson hit his 400th National League home run, and 429th of his career, in Florida's 2 - 1 victory over the Phillies.
1996 - Legendary broadcaster Mel Allen died at the age of 83. In 1939, Allen started doing play-by-play for both the New York Yankees and New York Giants, and later narrated the long-running television show, This Week in Baseball. In 1978, Allen received the Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting excellence.
2001 - John Olerud of the Seattle Mariners hit for the cycle as Seattle beat the San Diego Padres 9 - 2. Olerud hit a home run in the ninth to complete the cycle.
2005:
- Atlanta Braves veteran first baseman Julio Franco (46) recorded his first two-steal game since 1994 and teammate pitcher John Smoltz (38) posted his first two-hit game since 1999 in the Braves' 5 - 2 victory over Cincinnati.
- The Colorado Rockies became the seventh major league club since 1900 to go 4-26 in its first 30 road games, joining the Washington Senators (1904), Philladelphia Athletics (1916), Philadelphia Phillies (1928), Chicago Cubs (1981), Minnesota Twins (1982) and Tampa Bay Devil Rays (2005).
- The Pittsburgh Pirates became the only major league team with at least an extra-base hit in every game this season.
- With a 9 - 6 victory over the Dodgers, Kansas City became the first major league team to have three-game sweeps of the Dodgers and Yankees in one regular season. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the Angels and Mariners also swept the Yankees and Dodgers in one season since interleague play began in 1997, but both were not three-game sweeps. At this point, Kansas City has posted a 11-4 record since Buddy Bell took over as manager on May 31.
2008:
- What was to be the final Hall of Fame Game is cancelled due to severe thunderstorms in Cooperstown, NY. The Hall of Fame Game was the last exhibition contest on the MLB schedule.
- The Seattle Mariners fire general manager Bill Bavasi with the Mariners having the worst record in baseball. Vice president Lee Pelekoudas took over the job. Bavasi was criticized for the signings or acquisitions of Jarrod Washburn (20-36 with Seattle), Carlos Silva (3-7), Erik Bedard (4-4) and Richie Sexson.