June 9
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Events, births and deaths that occurred on June 9.
[edit] Events
- 1909 - Benjamin Shibe, of Bala, Pennsylvania, obtains a patent for a cork-center baseball. Spalding will license the idea and manufacture a ball.
- 1914 - At Baker Bowl, Honus Wagner joins Cap Anson as the only members of the 3,000 hits. It comes in Wagner's 2,332nd game. Nap Lajoie will join the club in September. (Later calculations put the date at June 30th or July 4th).
- 1946 - The New York Giants' Mel Ott became the first major league manager to be ejected in both ends of a doubleheader. The Pittsburgh Pirates won both games, 2 - 1 and 5 - 1.
- 1961 - Los Angeles Angels pitcher Ryne Duren sets an American League record with seven straight strikeouts against the Boston Red Sox.
- 1963 - The Houston Colt .45's beat the San Francisco Giants 3 - 0 in the major leagues' first Sunday night game. The exception is made because of Houston's oppressive daytime heat.
- 1966 - The Minnesota Twins rocks the Kansas City Athletics with the first five-home run inning in American League history. Rich Rollins, Zoilo Versalles, Tony Oliva, Don Mincher and Harmon Killebrew connect in the seventh inning to give the Twins a 9-4 victory.
- 1990 - Eddie Murray of the Los Angeles Dodgers homers from each side of the plate for the tenth time in his career (the second time in 1990) to tie Mickey Mantle's major-league record. The Dodgers beat San Diego 5 - 4 in 11 innings.
- 2007 - Jun-hyuk Yang of the Samsung Lions connects for his 2,000th career hit. He is the first player in Korea Baseball Organization history to reach that level.
[edit] Births
- 1845 - Frank Norton, infielder/outfielder (d. 1920)
- 1878 - Larry Hesterfer, pitcher (d. 1943)
- 1879 - Bill Lauterborn, infielder (d. 1965)
- 1887 - Clarence Kraft, infielder (d. 1958)
- 1888 - Bill Cunningham, infielder (d. 1946)
- 1890 - Harry Glenn, catcher (d. 1918)
- 1893 - Charlie Kavanagh, pinch hitter (d. 1973)
- 1893 - Irish Meusel, outfielder (d. 1963)
- 1893 - Mack Wheat, catcher (d. 1979)
- 1900 - Marty Callaghan, outfielder (d. 1975)
- 1902 - Lee Dunham, infielder (d. 1961)
- 1903 - Mike Ryba, pitcher (d. 1971)
- 1908 - Paul Gregory, pitcher (d. 1999)
- 1911 - Frank McCormick, infielder; All-Star (d. 1982)
- 1912 - George Mucey, scout (d. 1979)
- 1918 - Hajime Kuwashima, NPB infielder (d. 1944)
- 1918 - Robert Schmidt, minor league player and manager
- 1920 - Sal Madrid, infielder (d. 1977)
- 1921 - Ray Shore, pitcher (d. 1996)
- 1922 - Jimmy Newberry, Negro League and NPB pitcher
- 1925 - Jim Pearce, pitcher (d. 2005)
- 1926 - Roy Smalley, infielder
- 1931 - Bill Virdon, outfielder, manager
- 1936 - Howie Gershberg, minor league coach (d. 2003)
- 1937 - Jake Jacobs, outfielder
- 1939 - Doug Clemens, outfielder
- 1939 - Julio Gotay, infielder (d. 2008)
- 1943 - Bruce Look, catcher
- 1946 - Tom Egan, catcher
- 1946 - Kazumi Takahashi, NPB pitcher
- 1950 - Tony Franklin, minor league infielder and manager
- 1951 - Billy Baldwin, outfielder
- 1951 - Dave Parker, outfielder; All-Star
- 1956 - John Fulgham, pitcher
- 1961 - Tom Edens, pitcher
- 1974 - Scarborough Green, outfielder
- 1974 - Shon Walker, minor league outfielder
- 1974 - Randy Winn, outfielder; All-Star
- 1976 - Justin Kaye, pitcher
- 1979 - Jason Anderson, pitcher
- 1980 - Mike Fontenot, infielder
- 1981 - Drew Anderson, outfielder
- 1982 - Buck Coats, outfielder
- 1983 - Won-sam Jang, KBO pitcher
- 1983 - Danny Richar, infielder
- 1984 - Yulieski Gourriel, Cuban National League infielder
- 1984 - Corteze Armstrong, minor league player
- 1984 - Christopher Jones, minor league player
[edit] Deaths
- 1889 - Mike Burke, infielder (b. 1854)
- 1922 - James Dunn, owner (b. 1866)
- 1930 - Lew McCarty, catcher (b. 1888)
- 1930 - Harry Patton, pitcher (b. 1884)
- 1934 - Charlie Dexter, outfielder (b. 1876)
- 1936 - Charlie Bartson, pitcher (b. 1865)
- 1937 - Doc Kerr, catcher (b. 1882)
- 1937 - Bill Watkins, infielder, manager (b. 1858)
- 1952 - Bob McHale, outfielder (b. 1872)
- 1958 - John Fick, pitcher (b. 1921)
- 1959 - Frank Huelsman, outfielder (b. 1874)
- 1962 - Will Thompson, pitcher (b. 1870)
- 1965 - Nakazawa Fujio, Japanese Hall of Fame member (b. 1892)
- 1972 - Del Bissonette, infielder, manager (b. 1899)
- 1974 - Pat Caraway, pitcher (b. 1905)
- 1977 - Tokuro Konishi, NPB manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1894)
- 1977 - Howard Lohr, outfielder (b. 1892)
- 1980 - Odell Hale, infielder (b. 1908)
- 1984 - Bobby Rhawn, infielder (b. 1919)
- 1995 - Zoilo Versalles, infielder; All-Star (b. 1939)
- 1997 - Thornton Lee, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1906)
- 2007 - Seiji Sekiguchi, NPB outfielder (b. 1925)
- 2009 - Ray Hamrick, infielder (b. 1921)
- 2009 - Bill Lillard, infielder (b. 1918)
- 2009 - Jack Littrell, infielder (b. 1929)
