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Events

• 1889 - The Brotherhood of Professional Base Ball Players' organizational plan for a new Players League is leaked to the press. It calls for clubs to be owned jointly by players and capitalists.
• 1901:
  • At Boston, Cy Young wins his 33rd game, beating the White Stockings, 5 - 2. Nixey Callahan takes the loss.
  • The first-place Pirates jump on Christy Mathewson for three runs in the 1st inning on their way to a 10 - 5 win over the Giants. The Bucs tally 14 hits off Matty to whip the visiting Giants.
• 1905 - After losing three in Chicago, the Giants open a critical series in Pittsburgh by winning, 10 - 4, behind Christy Mathewson's 30th victory. The Giants score five runs in the 1st inning on just one hit. Deacon Phillippe hits a record-tying three batters in the frame and Honus Wagner adds a throwing error. New York now leads by six and a half games.
• 1907 - Pittsburgh's Honus Wagner steals four bases, including second base, third, and home in the 2nd inning against the Giants. Not to be outdone, his teammate Fred Clarke also swipes four bases for the only time in his career.
• 1908:
  • The Senators score five runs in the 9th inning off Cleveland righthander Charlie Chech and beat the Naps, 6 - 1. Former Cleveland owner Frank DeHaas Robison, listening on the telephone to a friend's play-by-play account of the Washington rally, collapses with a heart attack. He dies several hours later.
  • At the Polo Grounds, Rube Marquard makes his major league debut and the Reds rough up the Giants' $18,000 rookie for seven hits and five runs in five innings.
  • Detroit's Ed Summers pitches two complete-game wins over the A's, winning the opener, 7 - 2. The second game is a ten-inning battle with another rookie, Biff Schlitzer, that ends 1 - 0 on a Claude Rossman drive for an inside-the-park home run. Summers allows just two hits. With the White Sox idle, the Tigers move to a half-game out of first.
• 1909 - Washington rookie Bob Groom loses his 15th consecutive game, an American League record that will be surpassed by Jack Nabors (in 1916) and Mike Parrott (in 1980). He will lead the AL with 26 losses.
• 1910:
  • Walter Johnson tosses the first of his two career one-runner games, missing a perfect game when a grounder skips by SS George McBride for a single. Johnson's one-hitter is good for a 3 - 0 victory over the Browns.
  • In the first game of a doubleheader at Philadelphia, the Chicago White Sox stop A's ace Jack Coombs' string of shutout innings at 53 with a run in the 7th. But Coombs beats Ed Walsh, 3 - 1, in 14 innings. The Sox win the nitecap, 5 - 2.
• 1911:
  • Washington's Wid Conroy, in his final season, sets an American League record for total chances by a third baseman with 13 in a 3 - 2 loss to Cleveland.
  • John C. Bender, brother of Philadelphia great Charles Bender, dies the same month he played his final minor league game; it is frequently mistakenly reported as taking place on the baseball diamond for nearly a century.
• 1912 - In Boston, Smoky Joe Wood fires a two-hitter at New York, winning, 6 - 0. The Boston ace strikes out 10 in winning his 33rd game.
• 1916:
  • Boston's Babe Ruth is 2 for 3 and shuts out Cleveland, 2 - 0, on seven hits.
  • The Giants push their record win streak to 21 games by clipping the Cardinals, 1 - 0 and 6 - 2. The old record was set in 1884 when Providence won 20 straight.
• 1917 - The Cards beat the Series-bound Giants, 5 - 3. Ross Youngs debuts for the Giants, and the future Hall of Famer is 0 for 4.
• 1920:
  • The A's lose their 100th game, falling to the Red Sox, 4 - 2. Joe Dugan has three doubles, and finishes the series with seven two-base hits.
  • Behind Shoeless Joe Jackson's homer and two doubles and the pitching of Claude Williams, the White Sox beat host Cleveland, 5 - 1, to shave the Indians' lead down to a half game. Jackson is hitting .387.
• 1921 - At the Polo Grounds, the Yankees thrash the second-place Indians, 21 - 7, to move a full game ahead of the Tribe. The Yanks knock out Ray Caldwell in the 2nd and dust Duster Mails for ten runs in his two innings. Carl Mays goes the distance for the win.
• 1922 - The Giants beat St. Louis, 5 - 4, in ten innings, to clinch John McGraw's eighth pennant and the Giants' tenth in 41 years in the National League.
• 1923 - Rogers Hornsby is fined $500 and suspended indefinitely by the Cardinals when, feeling ill, he refuses to take the field for a game against the Robins, despite the team doctor's opinion that he is in condition to play. Raj is not needed as Jesse Haines tops Brooklyn, 4 - 1, for his 20th win.
• 1925 - For the first time in history and the only time in the National League, teammates hit bases-loaded triples in the same game. Reds RF Curt Walker, in the 3rd, and Rube Bressler in the 5th connect at home in the 18 - 7 win over Brooklyn. Jakie May is the winning pitcher before just 534 fans at Redlands Field. The A's will accomplish the feat next season.
• 1926:
  • The Yankees take two from the Browns to nail down the American League flag, winning the opener, 10 - 2, behind Herb Pennock. Babe Ruth's grand slam is the big blow. In the nitecap, Lou Gehrig homers in the 3rd inning, off Milt Gaston, while Ruth matches him with a two-run home run in the 6th off Win Ballou. Ruth adds a solo shot in the 9th, his 46th, off Joe Giard to seal Waite Hoyt's 10 - 4 victory. Despite the score, the game is played in a new AL record 55 minutes. The National League record is 51 minutes, on September 28, 1919.
  • In the first of two games in Chicago, Sox RF Bill Barrett breaks a 1 - 1 tie with a 9th-inning solo homer of Washington's Walter Johnson to give the win to Tommy Thomas, 2 - 1. The Senators take the second game, 3 - 2, behind Firpo Marberry.
• 1927 - The Cardinals win two to move into second place, while the Pirates take two from Chicago.
• 1929 - At Fenway Park, the game is halted during in the 5th inning as the umpires call time-out and have players from the Yankees and Red Sox gather at home plate. Bill McGowan, a respected ump, informs the teams that Bronx Bomber manager Miller Huggins has just died in New York and asks the crowd to stand for one minute of silence as the flag in center field is lowered to half-staff.
• 1930:
  • Joe McCarthy, not receiving the support of Cubs owner William Wrigley, resigns as manager. Rogers Hornsby is named to finish the season.
  • Harry Hooper, former Red Sox and White Sox star outfielder, is named baseball coach at Princeton University.
• 1931:
  • Sam Rice drops a fly ball and the Yankees rally for five runs in the 8th to beat the Senators, 8 - 3. Babe Ruth has two solo homers to help in the win. The third-place Yanks now trail the Nats by a half game.
  • The A's 19-year-old rookie Lew Krausse makes his first major league start a dandy one, twirling a four-hitter to beat Boston, 7 - 1.
• 1932:
  • Jimmie Foxx hits his 58th home run in the last game of the season to finish two short of Babe Ruth's 1927 record of 60. Foxx adds two singles but the A's lose, 2 - 1, to the Senators' Alvin Crowder. Crowder wins his 26th and 15th straight game, one short of the American League record held by Walter Johnson, Smoky Joe Wood and Lefty Grove. Foxx finishes with 169 RBIs while teammate Al Simmons ties for second with 151.
  • Paul Waner sets a new National League record with his 62nd double, as the Pirates defeat the Cardinals 7 - 1. The second-place Pirates will be the first team to finish above .500 (86-68) while scoring fewer runs than their opponents (701 to 711). The NL won't see it again in a full season until the 1984 Mets, while it won't happen in the American League until 1948.
• 1933:
  • The Giants travel to Ossining for a 9 - 3 win over the Sing Sing prison team. Alabama Pitts, the prison's football star, has two doubles in the seven-inning game. Pitts will be offered a baseball contract in May 1935, but later the offer will be rescinded after a public uproar.
  • In a closed practice, the Series-bound Senators test the less-lively National League ball. Joe Cronin finds it "rides plenty," hitting three of the first four pitches into the stands. "I'm in the wrong league," he says.
• 1934:
  • Lou Gehrig plays his 1,500th consecutive game. His 48th homer is a personal high.
  • Dizzy Dean wins his 28th, beating the Pirates, 3 - 2. The Giants' lead is cut to one game when the Phillies rally in the 9th for a 5 - 4 win.
• 1935 - In a showdown series in St. Louis, the Cubs edge the second-place Cardinals, 1 - 0. Paul Dean strikes out the first four Cub batters before young Phil Cavarretta drives a home run on top of the roof in right field for the only score of the game. Lon Warneke gives up just two hits and walks none in winning his 20th game. It is the Cubs' 19th straight win, and they are now assured of at least a tie for the pennant.
• 1936:
  • Joe Medwick sets a still-standing National League record with his 64th double.
  • Eiji Sawamura throws the first no-hitter in Nippon Pro Baseball history.
• 1940:
  • Bobo Newsom wins a clutch doubleheader for the Tigers, pitching two innings of relief in the opener against the White Sox, and going the distance in the nightcap for his 21st win.
  • Walker Cooper, recently called up from Columbus (American Association), and Mort Cooper, pitching in relief, make up a brother battery in the Cards' 4 - 3 win over the Reds.
• 1941 - Combined with a Cardinal defeat, the Dodgers win their first pennant in 21 years when they beat the Braves, 6 - 0. Whitlow Wyatt throws a five-hitter and Pete Reiser hits a homer in the winning cause.
• 1942 - With the Giants' third-place finish secure, OF Hank Leiber pitches a complete game 9 - 1 loss against the Phillies at the Polo Grounds. He yields nine hits and strikes out five in his only major league pitching appearance. The Phils score five of their runs without a hit.
• 1944 - Going into the final Monday of the season, the Tigers hold a one-game lead over the Browns with the Yankees now out of the running. Russ Christopher of the A's beats the Tigers, 2 - 1, to produce a tie for the lead.
• 1946:
  • The Phils score five runs in the 9th to beat the Dodgers, 11 - 9, a loss that will haunt the Dodgers at the season's end. Phils 1B Frank McCormick makes his first error of the season after a major league record 131 straight errorless games.
  • Handling 13 chances without an error against the Braves in an 8 - 0 loss, Giants SS Buddy Kerr runs his errorless streak to 254 chances, breaking Eddie Miller's 1940 record.
• 1947 - Giants rookie Larry Jansen wins his 21st game of the season, beating the Braves' Red Barrett, 2 - 1. It is Jansen's tenth win in a row, all complete games.
• 1949:
  • The Cardinals, in first place for two months, win their final home game, and the Dodgers lose to Philadelphia, maintaining the Cards' one-and-a-half-game lead.
  • Despite 71 injuries that kept players out of games, Casey Stengel and his Yankees have been in first place all season. But today the Red Sox move into a tie for first place with a 4 - 1 victory over Allie Reynolds. Ted Williams hits his 43rd homer, and Mel Parnell wins his 25th game of the season. The lefty is 16-3 at Fenway Park this year. Joe DiMaggio listens to the game from a hospital, bedridden with pneumonia. The Yankees return to New York and are greeted at Grand Central Station by a huge crowd of fans, including Mrs. Babe Ruth, who predicts, "Whoever wins tomorrow should go all the way."
• 1950 - Both Mel Parnell and rookie Harry Taylor of the Red Sox shut out Philadelphia, winning 8 - 0 and 3 - 0. Parnell throws a three-hitter, and Taylor allows only two hits in the nightcap to win his first major league game.
• 1951:
  • At Crosley Field, Reds catcher Johnny Pramesa clouts a grand slam in the 14th inning to defeat the Cardinals, 7 - 3.
  • The Dodgers continue to slide. After Brooklyn lost two out of three in Philadelphia, Boston sweeps two from them. Warren Spahn wins the opener, 6 - 3, over Ralph Branca, his fourth straight loss, and Jim Wilson coasts to a 14 - 2 three-hit win in the second game. Earl Torgeson drives in six runs in the nitecap. Meanwhile, the Giants win, 5 - 1, over Robin Roberts and the Phils to move a single game back of the Dodgers.
• 1952 - Hal Newhouser of the Tigers wins his 200th game. It is his last win for Detroit, who will release him in early 1953.
• 1954:
  • Duke Snider joins teammate Gil Hodges in the 40-homer club, giving the Dodgers two 40-HR sluggers in two straight seasons. The Dodgers win, 10 - 5.
  • Although they lose 100 games, the same as in the previous season when the club was in St. Louis, the Orioles draw over a million fans.
  • Early Wynn two-hits the Tigers, 11 - 1, for his league-leading 23rd win as the Indians notch their 111th victory, a new American League record eclipsing the 110 wins of the 1927 Yankees.
  • A crowd of 14,175 Fenway faithful fans pays tribute to retiring Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams who is playing his last game at home. The Splendid Splinter's retirement will only last until May when his divorce is finalized with his contract being excluded from the settlement.
• 1955:
  • Detroit OF Al Kaline becomes the youngest batting champ in history, as he takes the American League crown at age 20.
  • Bobby Hofman underscores the tone of the season for the Giants as he lines into a season-ending triple play against the Phillies in a 3 - 1 loss. Ted Kazanski starts the triple play and also hits an inside-the-park home run; it will be 55 years until Angel Pagan is the next major leaguer to turn both feats in the same game. The Giants win the opener, 5 - 2, as Willie Mays belts his 51st homer of the year.
• 1956:
  • In the wake of the Ted Williams spitting incident, the Massachusetts State Legislature passes a bill to fine fans for profanity during a game. The bill is later killed.
  • At Ebbets Field, Sal Maglie of the Dodgers no-hits the Phils, 5 - 0, for his 12th win against four losses. The win keeps Brooklyn one and a half games behind the Braves who beat Cincinnati, 7 - 1.
• 1960:
  • Ralph Terry clinches the Yankees' 25th pennant with a 4 - 3 win over the Red Sox. Luis Arroyo saves the win. It is Casey Stengel's tenth pennant in 12 years at New York.
  • For the first time since 1927, the Pirates are headed for the World Series. While the Bucs lose, 4 - 2, to the Braves, the second-place Cardinals are mathematically eliminated by 20-game loser Glen Hobbie's 5 - 0 win for the Cubs. A gigantic torch light victory parade in Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle at midnight celebrates the pennant.
• 1962:
  • The Dodgers, hosting eighth-place Houston, lose in ten innings, 3 - 2. Dick Farrell hands ten-game winner Ed Roebuck his first loss of the year. The Dodgers now lead by just two games.
  • Whitey Ford beats Washington, 8 - 3, as the Yankees clinch the American League pennant. Ralph Houk becomes the fifth manager to capture pennants in each of his first two seasons.
  • The Giants keep pace as Billy Pierce beats St. Louis, 6 - 3. Pierce runs his record at Candlestick Park to 11-0.
• 1963 - Stan Musial is named a vice president of the St. Louis Cardinals by owner August Busch. His number 6 is retired.
• 1964:
  • Dean Chance beats the Twins' Jim Kaat, 1 - 0, to become the Angels' first 20-game winner. Chance's five 1 - 0 wins this year tie the major-league record held by four pitchers (Reb Russell, Walter Johnson, Joe Bush and Carl Hubbell).
  • The first-place Phils, just three and a half games in the lead after dropping three games at home to the Reds (1 - 0, 9 - 2 and 6 - 4), throw Jim Bunning at the Braves. Bunning lasts six innings but the Braves topple the host Phils, 5 - 3, as Joe Torre belts two triples to drive home three runs. In the second contest, the woes continue as the Phillies lose, 7 - 5, in 11 innings. Chris Short goes eight innings for Philley before exiting with the score tied, 3 - 3. Torre slams a two-run homer in the 10th, but the Phils match it, before losing it in the 11th. Torre has three hits in the nitecap with three RBIs.
  • At Shea Stadium, Jim Maloney fires a one-hitter in the Reds' 3 - 0 win over the Mets. Joe Christopher's 2nd-inning single is the only hit.
• 1965:
  • The Twins' Mudcat Grant one-hits the Senators to win, 5 - 0. Don Blasingame's double in the 3rd is the only hit for Washington; it is the fourth time that Blasingame has collected the only hit for his team.
  • Sandy Koufax blanks the Cardinals, 2 - 0. He fans 12 along the way, raising his record season total to 356. His shutout of St. Louis keeps Los Angeles a game behind the Giants.
  • Another Kansas City publicity stunt makes the great Satchel Paige baseball's oldest performer. At 59, Paige hurls the first three innings, garners one strikeout, and allows just one hit, to Carl Yastrzemski, in his first major league appearance since 1953 and the final one of his storied career. The Red Sox then jump on reliever Don Mossi for a 5 - 2 win.
  • At age 34, Willie Mays becomes the oldest player to slug 50 home runs in a season. The Giants center fielder was also the youngest to accomplish the feat, hitting 51 homers in 1955.
  • In Houston, the Reds' Jim Maloney allows two hits in beating Houston, 1 - 0.
• 1966 - In a matchup of Jewish pitchers, the Cubs' Ken Holtzman outduels Sandy Koufax to win, 2 - 1. The Dodgers go hitless over the first eight innings. Holtzman, who spent much of the season in military service, will finish the year at 9-0, the first pitcher since Howie Krist (10-0) in 1940 to win that many without a loss.
• 1967:
  • At Forbes Field, the Reds' Jim Maloney pitches a two-hitter to beat the Pirates, 3 - 0. All the scores come on solo homers - two by Mack Jones and one by Lee May.
  • In an afternoon game, the Angels top the leading Twins, 9 - 2 in Minnesota, to move the idle Red Sox into a first-place tie. Detroit loses, 2 - 0, to Yankee lefty Al Downing.
• 1968 - In Mickey Mantle's last appearance at Yankee Stadium, he slices a two-out 1st-inning single off Cleveland's Luis Tiant, the only hit for the Yankees. Tiant tosses his ninth shutout of the year, tops in the American League, to win, 3 - 0. El Tiante's ERA drops to 1.60; the previous low for an Indian pitcher was Stan Coveleski's 1.87 in 1917.
• 1969 - John Allyn buys 50 percent of the White Sox from brother Arthur Allyn Jr., giving him complete control of the club.
• 1970:
  • In the White Sox's 5 - 1 win over the Brewers in the first game of a doubleheader, Luis Aparicio sets a major-league record for most games at shortstop, 2,219. Ed Herrmann hits a three-run home run for the Sox. The Brewers win the second game, 3 - 2.
  • At Pittsburgh, Willie Stargell throws out a runner in the 8th and singles home the winner in the 9th to give the Pirates a 4 - 3 win over the Mets. The Bucs increase their National League East lead to three and a half games over the Mets and Cubs, losers to the Phils.
• 1971 - With rookie C Tim Hosley hitting two homers and driving in five runs, the Tigers trip the Yankees, 10 - 7. Les Cain pitches six innings for the win. Cain finishes with a 10-9 record with 145 innings, but contends he was forced to pitch by Manager Billy Martin while he had a sore arm. Cain later claims that it did permanent damage to his arm and he sues the Tigers. In a landmark decision, the Michigan Bureau of Workman's Compensation will order the Tigers to pay Cain $111 a month for the rest of his life. A lump sum payment is later agreed upon.
• 1973 - It's Willie Mays Day in Flushing as the Mets honor the Say-Hey Kid in an emotional ceremony at Shea Stadium. The Mets beat the Expos, 2 - 1.
• 1974:
  • Pittsburgh regains first place by edging the Cardinals, 13 - 12, in 11 innings at Busch Stadium. Pittsburgh scores four times in the 9th to take a 12 - 9 lead, but St. Louis also scores three times to tie it.
  • In a revolutionary surgical operation, Dr. Frank Jobe repairs Tommy John's damaged ulnar collateral ligament by replacing the elbow tendon of the pitching arm with a tendon from the right wrist. The procedure, now known as Tommy John surgery, will give the southpaw, who was unlikely to ever be able to pitch again, an opportunity to post an additional 164 victories.
• 1977 - Detroit pounds out 18 hits against Boston's Reggie Cleveland, but they still lose, 12 - 5. Carlton Fisk, Butch Hobson and Carl Yastrzemski all homer for Boston, giving the Sox a total of 210 for the season.
• 1979:
  • Frank Tanana pitches a 4 - 1 victory over the Royals to clinch the first-ever American League West title for the Angels.
  • Mickey Mahler and Rick Mahler hurl in the same game as the Braves fall to the Astros, 8 - 0. It will be the last instance of brothers pitching for the same team in the same game until twin brothers Taylor Rogers and Tyler Rogers are both members of the Giants' bullpen in 2023.
• 1980:
  • In a 6 - 4 loss to the White Sox, Oakland's Brian Kingman (7-20) loses his 20th game. Kingman will finish 8-20, the last 20-game loser of the century and the first to pitch for a winning team (Oakland will finish 83-79) since Dolf Luque.
  • San Diego's Jerry Mumphrey steals his 50th base of the season in a 5 - 3 loss to the Reds, making the Padres the first team in major-league history to have three players with 50 steals in the same season: Mumphrey, Ozzie Smith and Gene Richards.
• 1981 - The Phils drub the Cubs, 9 - 2, behind Mike Schmidt and Gary Matthews. Mathews drives in five runs while Schmidt adds his 11th homer in his last 12 games at Wrigley Field. He has hit 33 there.
• 1983 - Baltimore clinches the American League East title with a 5 - 1 win over Milwaukee, as Storm Davis and Tippy Martinez combine on a six-hitter.
• 1984:
  • At Shea Stadium, the Mets' Rusty Staub homers to become the second player to homer as a teenager and also at the age of 40. Ty Cobb is the only other, and Gary Sheffield will match the feat in 2009. Staub's blast, a two-run pinch homer, climaxes a four-run 9th inning as the Mets beat Philly, 6 - 4.
  • Red Sox manager Ralph Houk, 65, announces he will retire at the end of the season.
• 1985:
  • Mike Greenwell hits his first major league home run in the top of the 13th inning to give the Red Sox a 4 - 2 win at Toronto.
  • With the score tied 4 - 4 in the bottom of the 9th, Davey Lopes walks, steals second and third base, and scores on a pinch single by Chris Speier as the Cubs beat the Mets, 5 - 4. Gary Carter's grand slam accounts for all the Mets' scoring. Lopes has three steals in the game to give him 47 (in just 275 at bats) and he sets the record for most stolen bases by a player over 40. The record was set by Honus Wagner in 1914 with 23. Lopes is officially recorded at 39 but when he signed at age 22 he was afraid he was too old so he set his age back a year.
  • Rickey Henderson steals his 75th base of the season in the Yankees' 10 - 2 win over Detroit, breaking the club record of 74 set by Fritz Maisel in 1914.
• 1986:
  • In George Bamberger's last game as manager of the Brewers, Teddy Higuera beats Baltimore, 9 - 3, to become the major leagues' third 20-game winner this season. Tom Trebelhorn replaces Bamberger, who is retiring voluntarily.
  • Houston's Mike Scott pitches a 2 - 0 no-hitter against the Giants at the Astrodome, clinching the National League West title for the Astros. It is the first time a pennant has ever been decided by a no-hitter, and the third consecutive game in which Astros pitchers have allowed two hits or less.
• 1987 - In a 5 - 3 loss to the Dodgers, Padres catcher Benito Santiago sets a major league record for rookies by hitting safely in his 27th consecutive game.
• 1989:
  • Boston's Wade Boggs goes 4 for 5 in a 7 - 4 win over the Yankees to become the first player in major league history to achieve both 200 hits and 100 walks in four consecutive seasons. It is Boggs's seventh straight 200-hit season overall, extending his own modern major league record. Dwight Evans also puts his name in the record books by belting his 20th homer. He is the only current player with 20 or more homers in each of the last nine years. The Red Sox also announce the team will not exercise its option on Jim Rice next season, bringing his career to an end, while Bob Stanley, the club's all-time save leader with 173, reports he will call it quits.
  • At Montreal, the Cubs blow a chance to clinch a tie in the National League East, losing, 4 - 3, in ten innings, but back into the tie anyway when St. Louis loses later on. Andre Dawson homers twice off Bryn Smith, his second a bizarre inside-the-park blow that gives the Cubs a 3 - 2 lead. Dawson flies deep to CF Dave Martinez, who catches the ball but suffers a painful muscle pull doing so and drops to the ground. Dawson keeps running as Martinez's teammates surround him. The ball is finally thrown in after Dawson touches home plate. Although at no time did the ball touch the ground or the fence, the umpires award Dawson a homer over howls of protest. Martinez misses the remainder of the series.
• 1990:
  • The Oakland A's clinch their third consecutive American League West title by beating Kansas City, 5 - 0. Dave Stewart (22-10) goes the distance for the win.
  • The Yankees tie a major-league record when their first eight batters all hit safely in a 15 - 3 rout of the Orioles. Anthony Telford allows the first six hits to take the loss. The Yanks hit six homers in the game.
  • Tough day at the office for Terry Mulholland. The Phillies pitcher allows just two Card baserunners - Bernard Gilkey's leadoff triple and double later - and loses, 1 - 0.
• 1991:
  • Atlanta Falcons defensive back Deion Sanders rejoins the Atlanta Braves for the remainder of the season to help the Braves' pennant drive. Sanders still wants to play in the Falcons' game on the 29th against New Orleans.
  • John Kruk hits a grand slam and solo homer to provide all the scoring as the Phils edge the Cubs, 5 - 4.
• 1992 - The Mariners and Rangers use a major league-record 54 players, 29 by the Mariners, in Seattle's 4 - 3 win in 16 innings. The previous mark was 53 set in 1986. Seattle also goes into the record books by using 11 different pitchers; the previous mark was ten. The first sub was pitcher Rich DeLucia, who did not enter until the 7th inning and issues the first walk. The frustrated Rangers strand 20 runners, helped by a club record of 18 strikeouts. After Omar Vizquel drives home the winning run, Brian Fisher picks up the save, his first since 1989 and the last of his career.
• 1993 - Cincinnati P Jose Rijo shuts out the Rockies, 6 - 0, on one hit. Charlie Hayes' broken bat single in the 2nd inning is Colorado's only hit.
• 1995 - Cubs P Frank Castillo one-hits the Cardinals, winning by a score of 7 - 0. Castillo strikes out 13, walks two, and allows only a triple to OF Bernard Gilkey.
• 1996:
  • In a 7 - 5 win over the Dodgers, Barry Bonds goes 1 for 1 and receives an intentional walk, giving him a new National League record of 149 walks in a season. He also swipes two bases, giving him 39. The Dodgers get a homer from Eric Karros, his 34th, and a two-run pinch homer from Billy Ashley. Of Ashley's nine homers, five have been pinch hits, one short of Johnny Frederick's record.
  • The Yankees clinch the American League East title by pounding out 20 hits in a 19 - 2 win over the Brewers in the opening game of a doubleheader. The New Yorkers score ten runs in the 2nd inning after plating four in the opening frame. Tino Martinez leads with five RBIs and David Cone (7-2) is the easy winner. The Yanks take the nitecap, 6 - 2.
  • Jim Leyland loses his last home game as the Pirates manager but receives four standing ovations. The Bucs' fourth error leads to the go-ahead run in the 11th as the Cards win, 8 - 7.
• 1997:
  • Donning uniform number 43 to honor recently-fired manager Cito Gaston, Joe Carter becomes the Blue Jays' career home run leader hitting his 203rd in a 4 - 3 victory over the Orioles. George Bell had been Toronto's home run leader.
  • The Astros clinch their first division title in 11 years by beating the Cubs, 9 - 1. Houston wins the National League Central despite only being five games over .500. Mike Hampton is the winner.
• 1998:
  • With a 6 - 1 win over the Devil Rays, the Bronx Bombers set an American League record with their 112th win. The 1906 Cubs, who went 116-36, are the only team with more victories in a season than the Yankees.
  • Ken Griffey, Jr. hits his league-leading 56th homer of the season and 350th of his career becoming the youngest player ever to reach the 350 mark.
  • By hitting a 462-foot blast at the Astrodome, Sammy Sosa hits #66 (and his final homer of the season) to take the lead in the home run race. Less than an hour later, however, Mark McGwire also hits his 66th in the Cardinals' 6 - 5 victory over the Expos to tie the Cub outfielder in the historic home run race.
  • The fading Mets (88-72) lose another to the Braves, 6 - 5, as Dennis Martinez, the third of seven pitchers, is the winner. Meanwhile, the rampaging Giants top the Rockies to move into a tie with the Mets for the National League wild card.
  • In the 3rd inning of a 7 - 5 Tiger win, Toronto starter Woody Williams serves up consecutive homers to Juan Encarnacion and Frank Catalanotto, walks a batter, and tees up another gopher for Tony Clark.
  • Mo Vaughn has two hits, including his 39th homer, to stay atop the American League batting race and lead the Red Sox to an 8 - 3 win over the visiting Orioles.
• 1999 - Its payback time as the Rangers score eight runs in the 2nd inning on their way to beating the Athletics, 10 - 4.
• 2000:
  • At Jacobs Field, the Indians play both the White Sox and the Twins in the first three-team doubleheader since 1951. The Tribe wins the opener, 9 - 2, but loses the second game, to Minnesota, 4 - 3.
  • The Braves defeat the Expos, 6 - 0, as Tom Glavine becomes the National League's first 20-game winner. Glavine's 20th career shutout gives him 20 victories in a season for the fifth time in his career.
• 2001:
  • In the Brewers' 9 - 4 victory over the Diamondbacks, Richie Sexson and Jeromy Burnitz both hit three home runs. It is the first time in major league history two teammates have hit three homers in the same game.
  • The hot Oakland A's slug the Angels, 9 - 3, using an eight-run 7th inning. It's the A's 13th home win in a row. Jeremy Giambi has a three-run pinch double in the big frame. Angels SS David Eckstein ties the major league rookie record with his 20th hit-by-pitch, tying the mark set by Frank Robinson in 1956.
  • Seattle tops Texas, 13 - 2, setting an American League record for road victories with its 56th of the season.
  • The Pirates rout the Cubs, 13 - 1. Craig Wilson, after getting hits in each of the final three innings of Pittsburgh's last game, gets hits in each of the first three innings against Chicago, giving him hits in six consecutive innings, against six different pitchers, a major league mark. Cubs pitchers fan ten Pirates, giving them 1,250 Ks for the year for a new major league mark as well.
  • Tim Raines joins the odd couple of Ted Williams and Rickey Henderson as the only players in major league history to steal a base in four different decades as the Expos are shut out by the Mets, 2 - 0.
• 2002:
  • Completing the worst season in the franchise's 34-year history, the Milwaukee Brewers replace Wendy Selig-Prieb as president and Dean Taylor as general manager. Ulice Payne takes over as president while Doug Melvin replaces Taylor. Milwaukee (56-106) is one of four teams this year to lose 100 games, a first in major league history. Kansas City will finish 62-100, Detroit (55-106) and Tampa Bay (55-106). The last season with three 100-game losers was 1985 (Cleveland, Pittsburgh and San Francisco).
  • The Braves beat the Phillies, 7 - 1, as OF Andruw Jones clouts three home runs and drives home four runs.
  • Casey Fossum gives up solo homers to Frank Thomas and Joe Crede, but the Red Sox score four in the 6th off Jon Garland to beat Chicago, 4 - 2. Fossum helps his cause by snaring a pop bunt in the 1st inning and trotting to first base to complete an unassisted double play.
• 2003:
  • Sammy Sosa becomes the first National Leaguer to have at least 100 RBI nine seasons in a row. The Cubs right fielder surpasses Mel Ott and Willie Mays who had accomplished the feat eight straight seasons, and joins Rafael Palmeiro and Jimmie Foxx as the only players in major league history to hit 35 home runs and 100 RBI for nine consecutive seasons.
  • Carlos Delgado becomes the 15th player in big-league history and only the fifth American League player to hit four home runs in one game, doing so in a 10 - 8 Blue Jays win over Tampa Bay. The first baseman's first homer is the 300th of his career and his barrage gives him 41 for the season.
• 2007:
  • Prince Fielder hits home runs off Braden Looper and Kip Wells to give him 50 home runs this season. The 23-year-old Brewers slugger becomes the youngest major leaguer to reach the 50-homer level.
  • Neal Huntington is hired as General Manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates. He replaces Dave Littlefield.
• 2008:
  • The Mets stay just ahead in the wild card race, beating the Cubs, 7 - 6. In a losing cause, Micah Hoffpauir goes 5 for 5 and hits his first two big league home runs.
  • Ryan Braun hits a grand slam off Jesse Chavez with two outs in the bottom of the 10th to break a 1 - 1 tie and help Milwaukee to a 5 - 1 win over Pittsburgh. Milwaukee remains just short of New York in the wild card race; they will go on to win it.
• 2009:
  • In a 4 - 2 Puerto Rican win over Australia, R.J. Rodriguez gets his fourth save of the 2009 Baseball World Cup. This marks a new tournament record.
  • Alfredo Despaigne hits his tenth home run of the World Cup in Cuba's 5 - 1 win over Team Canada. This breaks the record set by Justin Smoak five days ago.
  • In the last remaining division race in the major leagues, Michael Cuddyer hits his 30th home run and drives in two runs in Minnesota's 9 - 4 win against the Royals. With Chicago shutting out Detroit, 2 - 0, behind Jake Peavy, the Twins are two games behind the Tigers in the AL Central. The two teams will play a four-game series in Detroit's Comerica Park next week.
  • The Rangers top Tampa Bay, 8 - 3. Texas's Ian Kinsler hits his 30th homer, becoming the third second baseman in major league history to have a 30-30 season. He follows Alfonso Soriano and Brandon Phillips.
  • Tuffy Rhodes reaches 3,500 total bases in Nippon Pro Baseball. He is the 23rd player to do so and takes the fewest games, 1,668, breaking Hiromitsu Ochiai's mark of 1,675 games.
• 2011:
  • Jacoby Ellsbury hits a two-out, three-run homer off Scott Proctor in the 14th inning to give Boston a 7 - 4 win over the Yankees in the second game of a doubleheader at New Yankee Stadium, halting a four-game skid. They lost the first game, 6 - 2, while Tampa Bay won, 5 - 2, over Toronto. As the day ends, the Sox's lead in the American League wild card race is down to a single game. Ellsbury's home run, his 30th of the year, makes him the first member of the Red Sox to join the 30-30 club.
  • In the National League wild card race, St. Louis beats the Cubs, 3 - 2, on Rafael Furcal's 8th-inning solo homer. They also pull within a game of the leaders, Atlanta, who are shut out, 3 - 0, by Washington. In the Cards' win Albert Pujols' streak of reaching base in 40 consecutive games is stopped with an 0 for 4 day.
• 2012:
  • The Angels tie a major league record by striking out 20 opponents in a 5 - 4 win over the Mariners. Zack Greinke starts things off by fanning 13 in five innings, tying a modern record, and relievers Garrett Richards, Kevin Jepsen and Ernesto Frieri add seven more over the last four frames.
  • The Atlanta Braves clinch a spot in the postseason as one of the National League's two wild cards with a 4 - 3 win over the Marlins on Freddie Freeman's two-run homer off Mike Dunn in the bottom of the 9th. The game also marks the 22nd consecutive start by Kris Medlen which the Braves have won, matching a record set by two Hall of Famers: Carl Hubbell in 1936-1937 and Whitey Ford, whose streak lasted from 1950 to 1953, with a two-year interruption for military service.
• 2013:
  • The Braves fall behind the Cardinals in the race for the best record in the National League with a 4 - 0 loss to the Brewers. The game is marred by a bench-clearing brawl in the 1st, after Carlos Gomez takes Paul Maholm deep to open the score, then admires the flight of the ball, flips his bat and trots slowly around the bases while shouting at Maholm. Gomez, Atlanta 1B Freddie Freeman and back-up C Gerald Laird are all ejected as a result of the melee; Gomez later explains that Maholm had twice hit him with pitches in previous games and it was his way of evening the score. Kyle Lohse needs only 89 pitches to pitch the two-hit shutout. Gomez will be handed a one-game suspension and a fine for his actions, as will Braves OF Reed Johnson, who although not ejected was the first player to leave the bench to join the confrontation.
  • For the third straight year, the Astros set a new team record for losses as they bow to the Rangers, 7 - 3, extending their current losing streak to 12 games and pushing their season's total to 108. Houston lost 106 games in 2011 and 107 in 2012, after never topping 97 losses in its first 49 seasons. The Rangers have taken advantage of their cross-state rivals' ineptitude to stay alive in the American League wild card race as rookie Martin Perez records his tenth win of the year.
• 2014:
  • In his last-ever home game Derek Jeter provides a storybook ending with an opposite-field, game-ending single in the bottom of the 9th that gives the Yankees a 6 - 5 win over the Orioles. His hit off Evan Meek sends pinch-runner Antoan Richardson racing home from second base, after David Robertson had given up three runs in the top of the inning to tie the score, making Captain Clutch's final heroic moment possible.
  • The Diamondbacks officially announce the hiring of Dave Stewart as their new General Manager, replacing the fired Kevin Towers. Stewart was the pitching ace for the Oakland A's when Tony LaRussa, now the D-Backs' President, led the team to three consecutive World Series appearances from 1988 to 1990.
  • Japan beats Mongolia, 21 - 0, in five innings in the 2014 Asian Games, but Mongolia gets their only two hits in three games in the Asiad. Pitcher Munkhbat Dashzeveg connects off Takayuki Kato for the first Mongolian hit and Unubold Oyunbaatar adds the second. Ryota Ito goes 4 for 4 with five RBI for Japan.
• 2015:
  • Aaron Altherr hits an inside-the-park grand slam and adds three more hits including another homer as the Phillies defeat the Nationals, 8 - 2. The last player to have hit a slam inside-the-park was Randy Winn in 1999 and the last for the Phillies was Ted Kazanski in 1956.
  • Jose Fernandez has the worst start of his career for the Marlins, giving up a lead-off homer to Nick Markakis of the Braves on his way to a four-run 1st inning, and leaves after allowing six runs in five innings, but his teammates pick him up, and he ends up a 12 - 11 winner. He is now 17-0 at home for his career, breaking the record for most consecutive wins at home at the start of a career that was shared by Johnny Allen and LaMarr Hoyt.
• 2016:
  • Jose Fernandez, 24-year-old All-Star pitcher with the Miami Marlins, dies tragically in a boating accident in Miami Beach, FL in the small hours of the morning. The scheduled game between the Marlins and Braves is canceled in mourning.
  • The Red Sox win their 11th straight, 3 - 2, when Dustin Pedroia dekes Rays catcher Luke Maile with a tremendous slide, scoring the winning run on David Ortiz's 10th-inning double in the DH's last at-bat at Tropicana Field. Boston pitchers combine for a major league record 21 strikeouts through the first nine innings, including a record 11 in a row between the 4th and 7th innings. Starting pitcher Eduardo Rodriguez ties a career mark with 13 Ks, while reliever Heath Hembree strikes out all five batters he faces.
  • Israel qualifies for the World Baseball Classic for the first time with a 9 - 1 win over Great Britain in the finals of Pool D of the 2017 World Baseball Classic Qualifiers in Brooklyn, NY. The Israelis connect for three homers and ride the pitching of major league veterans Jason Marquis and Josh Zeid to a convincing win.
• 2017 - By hitting two homers in an 11 - 3 win over the Royals, the Yankees' Aaron Judge reaches the 50 mark for the season, breaking the rookie record of 49 set by Mark McGwire in 1987.
• 2018:
  • Max Scherzer strikes out ten batters in a 9 - 4 win by Washington over the Marlins. This allows him to reach the 300-strikeout mark for the first time of his career, as he leads the majors in Ks and the National League with 18 wins in a bid for a fourth Cy Young Award.
  • The Softbank Hawks win their seventh straight game, topping the Orix Buffaloes, 8 - 5. Yuito Mori saves the win for Nao Higashihama, giving Mori saves in all seven games of the winning streak. This gives him the all-time Nippon Pro Baseball record that six pitchers had shared previously. Three years prior, Mori had played a role in another historic save, getting the win when Dennis Sarfate set the Pacific League record for saves in a season.
• 2020 - The Marlins cap off their incredible season by clinching a postseason slot for the first time since winning the 2003 World Series with a 4 - 3 win over the Yankees at New Yankee Stadium. They take the lead with a run in the top of the 10th, then load the bases with one out in the bottom of the frame. D.J. LeMahieu, one of the hottest hitters in the majors all season is at the plate against closer Brandon Kintzler, but he bounces into a game-ending double play to trigger a celebration in the empty ballpark.
• 2021 - The Cardinals set a team record with their 15th straight win, a come-from-behind 8 - 5 victory over the Cubs. The win includes a rare double play to end the 8th inning that goes 3-2-5-4-2-8-6. The previous team record had been set by the "Gashouse Gang" in 1935. The well-timed streak has taken their magic number to clinch a postseason slot down to three.
• 2022 - The wildest game of the year takes place between the Mariners, trying to clinch a spot in the postseason for the first time in over two decades, and the Royals in the final game played this season at Kauffman Stadium. Seattle takes an early 11 - 2 lead, thanks to an eight-run 5th inning, but Kansas City comes back by scoring 11 runs in the bottom of the 6th, matching the largest comeback in team history accomplished in 1979. The Mariners add a run in the 7th to bring the score to 13 - 12, but that's how it ends. Strangely enough, the game features only one homer, a two-run shot by Michael Massey in K.C.'s big inning. The fun starts before the game even begins as pitchers Luke Weaver and Robbie Ray engage in a stare down contest in front of their respective dugouts at the end of the performance of the National Anthem and refuse to budge even as starter Max Castillo completes his warm-up tosses; Weaver blinks first, but not before home plate umpire Adrian Johnson has had enough and ejects both men for delaying the start of the contest.
• 2023 - The Swiss national team gets its first European Championship win. After losing their opener in the 2023 European Championship, they upset Belgium (around since the first Euros in 1954 and a one-time champ), 7 - 2. Noah Williamson socks a three-run homer off Kevin De Smedt three batters into the game and 43-year-old James Sanders allows one run in five innings for the win.

Births

• 1846 - Dave Alston, umpire (d. 1893)
• 1865 - George Cobb, pitcher (d. 1926)
• 1872 - Dick Harley, outfielder (d. 1952)
• 1872 - Fred Odwell, outfielder (d. 1948)
• 1874 - Walter Frantz, minor league infielder/pitcher and manager (d. 1957)
• 1885 - George Hogan, pitcher (d. 1922)
• 1888 - Arnold Hauser, infielder (d. 1966)
• 1888 - Matt Zeiser, pitcher (d. 1942)
• 1889 - Dave Robertson, outfielder (d. 1970)
• 1893 - Ed Chaplin, catcher (d. 1978)
• 1893 - Doc Newton, college coach (d. 1971)
• 1893 - Carl Rolling, outfielder (d. 1954)
• 1897 - Walter Anderson, pitcher (d. 1990)
• 1897 - Robert Poindexter, pitcher (d. 1930)
• 1899 - Hoge Workman, pitcher (d. 1972)
• 1900 - Dewitt Owens, infielder (d. 1983)
• 1902 - Pat Malone, pitcher (d. 1943)
• 1904 - Paul Hopkins, pitcher (d. 2004)
• 1905 - Greg Mulleavy, infielder (d. 1980)
• 1907 - Lincoln Jackson, infielder (d. 1970)
• 1909 - Al Leitz, minor league catcher and manager (d. ????)
• 1911 - Bill Atwood, catcher (d. 1993)
• 1915 - Helen Hannah Campbell, AAGPBL executive (d. 2013)
• 1915 - Buck Felder, infielder (d. 1999)
• 1916 - Norm Schlueter, catcher (d. 2004)
• 1917 - Phil Rizzuto, infielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer (d. 2007)
• 1917 - Johnny Sain, pitcher; All-Star (d. 2006)
• 1922 - Doug Danforth, owner (d. 2015)
• 1922 - W. Harrison Daniel, author (d. 2013)
• 1922 - Kuninobu Sunaoshi, NPB manager (d. 2010)
• 1924 - Mario Arencibia, outfielder
• 1924 - Red Webb, pitcher (d. 1996)
• 1926 - Merrill Merkle, minor league pitcher (d. 2012)
• 1929 - Hiroshi Minohara, NPB outfielder (d. 1999)
• 1932 - Yoshiaki Inoue, NPB pitcher (d. 1980)
• 1935 - Fred Blandford, umpire (d. 1986)
• 1945 - Steve Arlin, pitcher (d. 2016)
• 1945 - Garry Benson, minor league pitcher (d. 2022)
• 1945 - Bill Hepler, pitcher
• 1948 - Ray Busse, infielder
• 1948 - Richard Stephenson, minor league pitcher/outfielder (d. 2007)
• 1950 - Mark Littleton, author
• 1952 - Sal Butera, catcher
• 1952 - Mike Stanton, pitcher
• 1953 - Dick Davis, outfielder
• 1953 - Ed Putman, catcher
• 1955 - Jim Wessinger, infielder
• 1957 - Glenn Hubbard, infielder; All-Star
• 1958 - Ron Mathis, pitcher
• 1958 - Larry White, pitcher
• 1959 - Geno Petralli, catcher
• 1960 - Dave Walsh, pitcher
• 1963 - Eric Hetzel, pitcher
• 1965 - Steve Wapnick, pitcher
• 1968 - Reggie Jefferson, designated hitter
• 1969 - Lincoln Gumbs, minor league infielder
• 1969 - Oscar Munoz, pitcher
• 1969 - Bill Simmons, writer
• 1969 - Dave Weathers, pitcher
• 1969 - Tony Womack, infielder; All-Star
• 1970 - Ray Holbert, infielder
• 1970 - Tim Kroeker, Canadian national team outfielder
• 1971 - John Lynch, minor league infielder
• 1972 - Jong-guk Kim, KBO pitcher
• 1972 - Paul LaGreca, minor league outfielder
• 1974 - Rich Hunter, pitcher
• 1976 - Juan Cerros, pitcher
• 1976 - Pao-Hung Chen, CPBL infielder
• 1976 - Jairo Pineda, minor league pitcher
• 1977 - Wil Nieves, catcher
• 1977 - Chris Piersoll, pitcher
• 1978 - Yorelvis Charles, Cuban league infielder and manager
• 1978 - Joel Pineiro, pitcher
• 1979 - Daryl Clark, minor league outfielder
• 1979 - Nic Jackson, minor league outfielder
• 1981 - Rocco Baldelli, outfielder; manager
• 1981 - Jay Bergmann, pitcher
• 1982 - Argenis Reyes, infielder
• 1983 - Miguel Perez, catcher
• 1984 - Phillip Britton, minor league player
• 1984 - Mitch Canham, minor league catcher and manager
• 1984 - Justin Cassel, minor league pitcher
• 1984 - Victor Garate, minor league pitcher
• 1984 - Justin Jones, minor league player
• 1985 - Brad Bergesen, pitcher
• 1985 - Wei-Ming Chu, CPBL infielder
• 1985 - Victor Garate, pitcher
• 1985 - Cole McCurry, minor league pitcher
• 1985 - Ryne Miller, minor league pitcher
• 1985 - Greg Picart, minor league infielder
• 1985 - Bo Schultz, pitcher
• 1986 - Ángel Calero, minor league pitcher
• 1986 - Peter Jansson, Elitserien pitcher
• 1986 - Jeremie Tice, minor league player
• 1987 - Lars Anderson, infielder
• 1987 - Vance Worley, pitcher
• 1988 - Oswaldo Martinez, minor league pitcher
• 1989 - Ofelia Arriechi, Venezuelan womens' national team outfielder
• 1989 - Cheng-Hao Wang, Taiwan national team pitcher
• 1989 - Tyler Wilson, pitcher
• 1990 - Cesar Carrillo, minor league pitcher
• 1990 - Robin Drache, Bundesliga infielder/pitcher
• 1990 - Daniel Fernández, Peruvian national team catcher
• 1991 - Kyle Ryan, pitcher
• 1991 - Eric Stamets, infielder
• 1992 - Yen-Jui Chen, CPBL pitcher
• 1992 - Menghao Wang, China Baseball League pitcher
• 1993 - Geronimo Franzua, NPB pitcher
• 1993 - Vimael Machin, infielder
• 1993 - Matt Swarmer, pitcher
• 1994 - Pablo Zambrano, Chilean national team player
• 1995 - Jake Gatewood, minor league infielder
• 1995 - Javy Guerra, infielder
• 1995 - Jhonleider Salinas, minor league pitcher
• 1996 - Sahan Avishka, Sri Lankan national team infielder-catcher
• 1996 - Bobby Hearn, minor league coach
• 1996 - Carlos Luna, minor league pitcher
• 1997 - Ben Rortvedt, catcher
• 1998 - Hoi-Ting Cheng, Hong Kong national team infielder
• 1998 - Yu-Ming Hsu, CPBL pitcher
• 1998 - Nick Loftin, infielder
• 1998 - Tommy Sommer, minor league pitcher
• 1999 - Rafael García, Dominican national team pitcher
• 2000 - John Garcia, minor league catcher
• 2000 - Daniel Rosell, French Division I infielder
• 2001 - Dasan Brown, minor league outfielder

Deaths

• 1884 - Norman Fenno umpire (b. 1857)
• 1888 - John Bass, infielder (b. 1848)
• 1899 - Sleeper Sullivan, catcher (b. 18??)
• 1908 - Frank Robison, owner (b. 1852)
• 1909 - William Johnson, infielder (b. 1848)
• 1911 - John Bender, minor league outfielder (b. 1878)
• 1913 - Charles Tindill, umpire (b. 1864)
• 1924 - Anthony Mahoney, pitcher, manager (b. 1893)
• 1929 - Valentín Dreke, outfielder (b. 1898)
• 1929 - Miller Huggins, infielder, manager; Hall of Famer (b. 1878)
• 1930 - Joe Wilhoit, outfielder (b. 1885)
• 1939 - Frank LaPorte, infielder (b. 1880)
• 1940 - Mike Jordan, outfielder (b. 1863)
• 1950 - Pep Deininger, outfielder (b. 1877)
• 1951 - Nolen Richardson, infielder (b. 1903)
• 1956 - John McMakin, pitcher (b. 1878)
• 1957 - Marty Becker, outfielder (b. 1889)
• 1966 - Jim Stevens, pitcher (b. 1889)
• 1967 - Phil Geier, outfielder (b. 1875)
• 1968 - Ken Holloway, pitcher (b. 1897)
• 1971 - Lefty Wolf, pitcher (b. 1900)
• 1972 - Jerry Lynn, infielder (b. 1916)
• 1974 - Cliff Brady, infielder (b. 1897)
• 1976 - Red Faber, pitcher; Hall of Famer (b. 1888)
• 1978 - Pepper Daniels, catcher (b. 1902)
• 1991 - Bob Prichard, infielder (b. 1917)
• 1997 - Bill Donovan, pitcher (b. 1916)
• 2001 - John Powers, outfielder (b. 1929)
• 2002 - Ray Hayworth, catcher (b. 1904)
• 2005 - Harold Clem, minor league pitcher (b. 1946)
• 2008 - Larry File, infielder (b. 1922)
• 2012 - Audrey Deemer, AAGPBL player (b. 1930)
• 2012 - William Sowell, minor league outfielder (b. 1929)
• 2013 - Bill Stewart, outfielder (b. 1928)
• 2015 - Tom Kelley, pitcher (b. 1944)
• 2016 - Jose Fernandez, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1992)
• 2022 - Masaaki Ikenaga, NPB pitcher (b. 1946)