today in baseball history

[Jocko]

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: To Mickey, the hell raisinest, p***y chasinest, homerun hittinnest, p***y GETtinest Hombre ever to piss between a paira cleats.

[Jocko]

On August 13 in Baseball History...

1906 - The Cubs' Jack Taylor is knocked out by Brooklyn in the third inning, ending a string of 187 complete games and 15 relief appearances in which he finished each game. The record run began June 20, 1901. In ten years he will fail to finish only eight of 286 starts.

1908 - Cy Young Day is celebrated by 20,000 at Huntington Avenue Grounds in Boston. He pitches briefly against an All-Star team that includes Jack Chesbro, Hal Chase, Willie Keeler, Harry Davis, and George Mullin. The game is interrupted several times for presentations to the great hurler.

1910 - In the most evenly matched game ever played, Pittsburgh and Brooklyn each have eight runs, thirteen hits, 38 at bats, five strikeouts, three walks, one hit batter, one passed ball, thirteen assists, 27 putouts, two errors, and use two pitchers.

1922 - New York Yankee Everett Scott nears 1,000 consecutive games played, but it takes an extra effort to keep the streak alive. He spends $40 to hire a car to get to Chicago in time for the game after a train he is on is wrecked.

1931 - Tony Cuccinello of the Cincinnati Reds had six hits in six at-bats against the Braves in Boston. Cuccinello had a triple, two doubles and three singles to knock in five runs as the Reds won 17-3.

1945 - Branch Rickey becomes the principal stockholder of the Dodgers. He and associates Walter O'Malley and John Smith acquire the 50 percent interest of the Ebbets estate for a reported price of $750,000.

1948 - The promise of Satchel Paige on the mound brings 51,013 to Comiskey Park. Paige pitches his first major league shutout as Cleveland wins 5-0.

1962 - Infielder Bert Campaneris of Daytona Beach (Florida State League) pitches ambidextrously in a relief appearance.

1969 - Jim Palmer of the Orioles, plagued by arm trouble the year before, pitched an 8-0 no-hitter against the Oakland A's in Baltimore.

1978 - The Baltimore Orioles benefited from the rain-out rule. The Orioles were leading New York 3-0 after six innings but the Yankees scored five runs in the top half of the seventh. Heavy rains ended the game in the bottom half of the inning and the score reverted to the end of the last completed frame, giving the Orioles the triumph. This rule was changed in 1980.

1979 - Lou Brock collects his 3,000th career hit, a single off Dennis Lamp, as the Cardinals top the Cubs 3-2.

1987 - The Cardinals outfield sets a major league record by failing to record a single putout in a 4-2, 13-inning win over the Phillies. The 1905 St. Louis Browns, who played an 11-inning game with no outfield putouts, held the previous mark.

Baseball Birthdays on August 13...

1858 - Briody, Fatty 1859 - Geer, Billy 1865 - Burnett, Hercules 1869 - Sharrott, Jack 1871 - Jones, Fielder 1884 - Schumann, Hack 1884 - Perring, George 1886 - Anderson, Wingo 1886 - George, Lefty 1888 - McKenry, Limb 1889 - Knaupp, Cotton 1903 - Swetonic, Steve 1906 - Garrison, Cliff 1906 - Moore, Carlos 1906 - Wicker, Kemp 1907 - Susce, George 1907 - Shires, Art 1910 - Finney, Lou 1913 - Flowers, Wes 1917 - Gordon, Sid 1918 - Weingartner, Elmer 1930 - Wiesler, Bob 1930 - Mizell, Vinegar Bend 1933 - Giggie, Bob 1935 - Grant, Mudcat 1939 - Stafford, Bill 1940 - Cloninger, Tony 1941 - French, Jim 1947 - Stanley, Fred 1948 - Thomason, Erskine 1949 - Thornton, Andy 1950 - Gerhardt, Rusty 1955 - Davis, Odie 1959 - Niedenfuer, Tom 1963 - Ballard, Jeff 1963 - Powell, Dennis 1964 - Buhner, Jay 1964 - Cooper, Gary 1964 - Prince, Tom 1965 - Lemke, Mark 1969 - Fernandez, Alex 1970 - Gaillard, Eddie 1974 - Washburn, Jarrod 1974 - MacRae, Scott 1977 - Ohman, Will 1979 - Patterson, Corey

Baseball Deaths on August 13...

1933 - Bigelow, Elliot 1936 - Hach, Irv 1940 - Stanley, Buck 1948 - Perrine, Nig 1952 - Haid, Hal 1967 - Hechinger, Mike 1968 - Guise, Lefty 1972 - Besse, Herman 1980 - Miller, Tom 1983 - Gilbert, Charlie 1988 - Almada, Mel 1995 - Mantle, Mickey 1996 - Shore, Ray 1998 - Robles, Rafael 2001 - Hughes, Jim 2002 - Creel, Jack 2003 - Devens, Charlie 2007 - Rizzuto, Phil 2007 - Miller, Ox

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1982 - Pete Rose of the Philadelphia Phillies,in hisfirstat-bat of a 15-11 victory over the Montreal Expos, passed Hank Aaron and moved into first place on the all-time at- bat list with 12,365

1999 - Pee Wee Reese dies

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1982 - Pete Rose of the Philadelphia Phillies,in hisfirstat-bat of a 15-11 victory over the Montreal Expos, passed Hank Aaron and moved into first place on the all-time at- bat list with 12,365

1999 - Pee Wee Reese dies

Add this to today:

Johnny Pesky dies at 92

[Umpire in Chief]

Add this to today:

Johnny Pesky dies at 92

I just read that how sad a true legend.

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[Jocko]

:beerbang Salud, Johnny P! Hit the showers.

[Jocko]

1973 - Willie Mays hits the 660th, and last, home run of his major league career off Don Gullett of Cincinnati.

1971 - Happy Birthday to Jorge Posada.

Hip! Hip! Jorge!

[Jocko]

Today. Derek Jeter hits career HR #250, passing Babe Ruth (15) and tying Yogi Berra for most seasons with 10+ HR (16). Only The Mick has more (18). :

[Jocko]

August 18th

1982 - Pete Rose of the Philadelphia Phillies made his 13,941st plate appearance in a 5-3 victory over the Houston Astros to move into first place on the career list ahead of Hank Aaron.

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1941 - Umpire Jocko Conlan ejects Pittsburgh Pirates manager Frankie Frisch from the second game of a doubleheader when he appears on the field with an umbrella to protest the playing conditions at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field. The rainy argument is later portrayed in a famous oil painting by artist Norman Rockwell.

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1915 - The White Sox obtain Joe Jackson from Cleveland in exchange for outfielder Braggo Roth, outfielder Larry Chappell, pitcher Ed Klepfer, and $31,500.

1919 - Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit, ending a 69-game streak in which he collected 155 hits in 299 at bats for a .505 batting average. The previous record was 49 by Oakland's Jack Ness (Pacific Coast League) in 1915.

1938 - Lou Gehrig hits his last grand slam, the 23rd of his career, and still the record. It comes off Buck Ross in an 11-3 victory over the A's.

1945 - At the age of 17, shortstop Tommy Brown of the Brooklyn Dodgers is the youngest player to hit a major league home run. Brown homers off Pirates southpaw Preacher Roe at Ebbets Field.

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1883 - In the most decisive shutout in major league history, the Philadelphia Quakers rout the Providence Grays 28-0.

1917 - Now with Philadelphia, Chief Bender, 34, pitches his third straight shutout, winning 6-0 over the Cubs. In his last active season, Bender will turn in four shutouts, finishing 8-2 with a 1.67 ERA.

1926 - Ted Lyons of the Chicago White Sox pitched a no-hitter over the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park, winning 6-0 in a quick 1 hour, 7 minutes.

1931 - Babe Ruth hits his 600th home run, off George Blaeholder of the Browns, as the Yankees win 11-7.

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1952 - At the Polo Grounds, in a Cardinals win over the Giants, New York third baseman Bob Elliott is thrown out of the game for protesting a second strike call by Jocko Conlan. Bobby Hofman replaces Elliott, takes a third strike, and is also thumbed for not liking the umpiring.

1970 - Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente compiles his second straight five-hit game during an 11-0 pasting of Los Angeles. He is the first major leaguer this century to collect 10 hits in two consecutive games.

1982 - Seattle pitcher Gaylord Perry is ejected in the seventh inning of a 4-3 loss to the Red Sox for doctoring the baseball. It is the first time in his 20 major league seasons that the self-proclaimed spitball king has been bounced for that offense.

1989 - Rick Dempsey's leadoff homer in the 22nd inning gave the Los Angeles Dodgers a 1-0 victory against the Montreal Expos in the second-longest shutout in major league history.

DEATHS:

• 2003 - Bonds, Bobby
  

[Jocko]

On August 28 in Baseball History...

1884 - Mickey Welch of the New York Gothams sets the all-time major league record by fanning the first nine Philadelphia batters he faces. Welch wins 39 games this year and in just 13 seasons will win 307.

1921 - Babe Ruth starts a record streak in which he gets at least one extra-base hit in nine straight games.

1926 - Dutch Levsen of the Cleveland Indians pitched two complete-game victories over the Boston Red Sox, 6-1 and 5-1. He did not strike out a batter in either game. The Indians used the identical lineup in both games.

1932 - The Red Sox eclipse the Indians in the second game of a doubleheader 4-3 in 11 innings. The game was previously scheduled for August 31, but a solar eclipse was due and blackened the ballpark for twenty minutes, so the game is played today instead.

1938 - On Connie Mack Day at Shibe Park, the A's win a doubleheader from the White Sox, setting a league record by playing their seventh successive twinbill in eight days.

1950 - Earle and Roy Mack, Connie's sons by his first marriage, purchase 54 percent interest in the Athletics from Connie Mack, Jr., their younger brother from a second marriage. Earle, Roy and Connie Mack now own the club outright.

1951 - The Braves sell pitcher Johnny Sain to the Yankees for $50,000 and a young pitcher named Lew Burdette. It is another late-season insurance measure for the New Yorkers.

1951 - The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the New York Giants 2-0, snapping the Giants' 16-game winning streak. The streak enabled the Giants to cut the Dodgers 13 1/2-game lead to six.

1958 - White Sox second baseman Nellie Fox sets a record for consecutive games without striking out (98).

1967 - Boston signs free-agent outfielder Ken Harrelson. Harrelson reportedly receives a $75,000 bonus and salary package for 1967 and 1968. Harrelson will homer in his first Boston at bat but will hit just .200 for the Red Sox in 1967. The next year, however, he will become an All-Star and lead the American League with 109 RBI.

1971 - Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Rick Wise hit two home runs to help himself to a 7-3 victory over the San Francisco Giants.

1977 - Steve Garvey hit three doubles and two home runs in five at-bats, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers to an 11-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. One of Garvey's homers was a grand slam.

1977 - In a 6-1 loss to the Baltimore Orioles, Nolan Ryan of the California Angles struck out 11 batters to pass the 300-strikeout plateau for the fifth time in his career.

1983 - Greg Luzinski becomes the first player to park three home runs onto the roof at Comiskey Park, connecting off Boston's Oil Can Boyd in a 6-2 Chicago victory. Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams each accomplished the feat twice.

1987 - Mike Schmidt continues to climb baseball's all-time home run list, passing both Ted Williams and Willie McCovey with the 522nd of his career in an 8-1 win over San Diego.

1989 - Frank Viola and the Mets outduel Orel Hershiser and the Dodgers 1-0 in the first-ever regular-season matchup of defending Cy Young Award winners.

1990 - Ryne Sandberg homers in the Cubs' 5-2 win over the Astros to become the first second baseman ever to post back-to-back 30-home run seasons. He will finish the year with 40 home runs to become the first second baseman since Rogers Hornsby in 1925 to lead the league in that category.

1992 - The Milwaukee Brewers set an American League record with 31 hits and 26 singles in a 22-2 rout of the Toronto Blue Jays.

1996 - The Cleveland Indians finished the season 12-0 against Detroit Tigers to become the seventh team to sweep a season series since 1900.

[Jocko]

Some good ones today

On August 30 in Baseball History...

1905 - Ty Cobb makes his major league debut, doubling off Jack Chesbro, as Detroit defeats New York 5-3. The double is the first of his 4,189 hits, a record topped by Pete Rose in 1985.

1906 - After pitching a shutout in his major league debut, right-hander Joe Doyle of the Highlanders becomes the first player to start out with two shutouts when he beats the Nationals, 5-0. Of his 23 lifetime victories, seven will be shutouts. He is nicknamed Slow because of his time-consuming pace on the mound.

1910 - Tom Hughes of the New York Yankees pitched a no-hitter for 9 1/3 innings before giving up a single to Harry Niles of the Cleveland Indians. The Yankees lost 5-0, with Hughes giving up seven hits in 11 innings.

1912 - Earl Hamilton of the St. Louis Browns pitched a 5-1 no-hitter against the Tigers at Detroit.

1916 - Dutch Leonard of the Boston Red Sox pitched a no-hitter against the St. Louis Browns for a 4-0 victory.

1918 - The New York Giants beat the Brooklyn Dodgers, 1-0, in a game that took only 57 minutes to play.

1922 - After hitting number 28 in the first inning, Babe Ruth argues too strongly over a called strike on his next at bat, and he is thrown out of the game. He is suspended for the fifth time of the year and is out for three days.

1965 - Following his doctor's advice, Casey Stengel announces his retirement as manager of the Mets. He will head up Mets scouting in California. The 75-year-old Stengel has been in professional baseball since 1910.

1984 - In a 9-3 win over the Twins, Red Sox slugger Jim Rice grounds into his 33rd double play of the season to break the major league record set by Jackie Jensen in 1954. By season's end, Rice will extend his new record to 36.

1986 - Tommy John, 43, and Joe Niekro, 41, pitched a doubleheader for the New York Yankees against Seattle to become the first 40-plus teammate combo to start a doubleheader since Sept. 13, 1933, when the Chicago Cubs' Sam Jones, 41, and Red Faber, 44, pitched against the Philadelphia Athletics. John lost the opener and Niekro won the second game, 3-0.

1987 - Kirby Puckett goes 6-for-6 with two home runs in Minnesota's 10-6 win over Milwaukee, tying the American League record for hits in a nine-inning game. Combined with yesterday's 4-for-5, two-home run performance, Puckett has a major league-record-tying ten hits in two games.

1988 - Kent Tekulve becomes the second pitcher in major league history to appear in 1,000 games by pitching 2 innings in Philadelphia's 7-5 win over San Francisco.

1995 - Detroit teammates Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell play in their 1,914th game together in a 10-7 loss to the White Sox. The pair tie the American League record for most games appeared in together.

Baseball Birthdays on August 30...

1850 - McVey, Cal 1859 - Powell, Jim 1863 - Rudderham, John 1864 - Weckbecker, Pete 1866 - Pears, Frank 1870 - Thompson, Will 1872 - Dunkle, Davey 1878 - Starr, Charlie 1879 - O'Neill, Peaches 1880 - Armbruster, Charlie 1883 - Brinker, Bill 1883 - Edmonston, Sam 1884 - Sullivan, Andy 1886 - Tooley, Bert 1886 - Smith, Wib 1887 - Seaton, Tom 1891 - Partenheimer, Steve 1892 - Perritt, Pol 1893 - Head, Ralph 1894 - Miller, Bing 1898 - Cuyler, Kiki 1902 - Cote, Pete 1906 - Friedrichs, Bob 1914 - Hancken, Buddy 1916 - Lindell, Johnny 1917 - Embree, Red 1918 - Johnson, Billy 1918 - Williams, Ted 1924 - Sacka, Frank 1925 - Wilson, George 1927 - Goldsberry, Gordon 1935 - Funk, Frank 1941 - Moore, Archie 1943 - Fanzone, Carmen 1944 - McGraw, Tug 1945 - Dean, Tommy 1948 - Simpson, Steve 1950 - Chalk, Dave 1950 - McQueen, Mike 1950 - Merchant, Andy 1955 - Martin, Renie 1956 - Baker, Steve 1956 - Brown, Scott 1956 - Mueller, Willie 1956 - Erickson, Roger 1957 - Smith, Dave 1960 - O'Neal, Randy 1960 - Seilheimer, Ricky 1967 - Cook, Andy 1972 - Herrera, Jose 1974 - Hernandez, Adrian 1974 - Foster, Kris 1976 - Koplove, Mike 1979 - Rivas, Luis

Baseball Deaths on August 30...

1902 - Chambers, Rome 1915 - Coon, William 1931 - Ginn, Tinsley 1935 - Smith, Leo 1937 - Rees, Stan 1944 - Duggleby, Bill 1952 - Vaughan, Arky 1958 - Demaree, Frank 1964 - Jones, Bob 1965 - Papish, Frank 1969 - Bolen, Stew 1969 - McKeithan, Tim 1978 - Sicking, Ed 1986 - Higdon, Bill 1989 - Collins, Joe 1990 - Garland, Lou 1999 - Huston, Warren 2003 - Passeau, Claude

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1918 - The Cubs switch their home games to Comiskey Park with its larger seating capacity for the World Series. Babe Ruth, having completed thirteen scoreless innings in his first World Series two years ago, adds nine more in edging Hippo Vaughn 1-0 in the opener. During the seventh-inning stretch, a military band plays "The Star Spangled Banner." From then on, it is played at every World Series game, every season opener, and whenever a band is present to play it, though it is not yet adopted as the national anthem. The custom of playing it before every game will begin during World War II, after the installation of public address systems.

1921 - Walter Johnson breaks Cy Young's career strikeout mark with 2,287

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1985 - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds became the career hit leader with his 4,192nd hit to break Ty Cobb's record. Rose lined a 2-1 pitch off San Diego pitcher Eric Show to left-center field for a single in the first inning. It was the 57th anniversary of Ty Cobb's last game in the majors.

[Umpire in Chief]

I heard this on the radio today so I thought I'd revive this old thread...

 

On this day (July 19) back in 1909 the first unassisted triple play in Major League history was recorded by Neal Ball of the Cleveland Indians.

 

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