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thecaptain
03-08-03, 06:45 PM
1999
? Joe DiMaggio, baseball's "Greatest Living Player," dies at the age of 84 following a long illness.
1998
? Yankees trade IF Andy Fox to the Diamondbacks in exchange for P Marty Janzen and Todd Erdos.
1966
? The Hall of Fame Special Veterans Committee waives election rules and inducts Casey Stengel, recently retired manager of the Mets.
1930
? Babe Ruth signs a 2-year contract for $160,000 with New York. At $80,000 per year, he is the highest paid player of all time. When it is pointed out he is earning more money than the President of the United States, Ruth observes: "I had a better year than he did." Ed Barrow, Yankee GM, assures posterity, "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth."
1918
? The Yankees buy 1B George Burns, 37, from Detroit, then swap him to the A's for another veteran Ping Bodie, 30. Burns will replace Stuffy McInnis, the last of the "$100,000 infield," who went to the Red Sox in January.
Sixty one
03-09-03, 09:56 AM
It's hard to believe that it's already four years since Joe D left us! I wonder how many more books about the real DiMaggio are in the works? I already read a few of them and wonder when the story of his life will be made into a motion picture.:confused: :NY: :NY: :NY:
chief714
03-09-03, 04:31 PM
I hope what Barrow meant was that nobody would ever get paid more than Ruth while Ruth was still playing.
thecaptain
03-09-03, 04:56 PM
1961 The Yankees announce the team will be leaving its spring training home in St. Petersburg to move to Fort Lauderdale by 1963. The Yankee owners also encourage new yet unnamed National League New York franchise to play its home games at the Polo Grounds and not to consider Yankee Stadium.
thecaptain
03-10-03, 09:33 AM
1999
? Yankees manager Joe Torre is diagnosed with prostate cancer. While he is undergoing treatment, the team will be run by coach Don Zimmer. http://www.pubdim.net/baseballlibrary/chronology/today/MARCH10.stm
Knuckles
03-10-03, 01:10 PM
March 10 is also the birthday of Steve Howe, six years in Pinstripes, and seven suspensions.
He went 3-0 with 15 saves in the strike-shortened '94 season.
YANKEE BASEBALL!!!
Luvtino
03-10-03, 05:44 PM
Originally posted by Sixty one
It's hard to believe that it's already four years since Joe D left us! I wonder how many more books about the real DiMaggio are in the works? I already read a few of them and wonder when the story of his life will be made into a motion picture.:confused: :NY: :NY: :NY:
That is hard to believe. It seems like just yesterday that he died. :(
thecaptain
03-11-03, 09:08 AM
2002
Thrown out stealing. The Yankees release OF Ruben Rivera for stealing Derek Jeter's mitt out of his locker, and selling it on the black market for $2,500. There are rumors that Rivera also took other memorabilia items, such as things belonging to Roger Clemens, but Clemens denies it. Rivera had been signed to a one year contract for $1 million.
2001
? The Yankees formally announce the signing of Cuban defector Andy Morales, a third baseman, to a 4-year contract. Morales will wash out and be waived from his minor league team by July. The Yanks will try and sidestep his contract with proof that his listed age of 26 years is really 29
1974
? With Hank Aaron needing only one home run to tie Babe Ruth's career record (714), Atlanta plans to save the event for a home audience by benching him on the road. Commissioner Kuhn plans otherwise, ordering the Braves to start Aaron in at least two of the team's three season-opening games in Cincinnati.
1958
? Starting this season, American League batters will be required to wear batting helmets.
1956
? At Al Lang Field in St. Petersburg, there are no maybes about it as Mickey Mantle hits a Grapefruit League pitch from Larry Jackson over the left field wall into the bay. The Yanks top the Cards 4?3. Musial contends, "no home run has ever cleared my head by as much as long as I can remember." He'll hit another at Al Lang Field on March 20th off Bob Mave to that also lands in the water. Mantle will clock a 500-foot shot in Miami on the 24th against the Dodgers.
Knuckles
03-11-03, 05:10 PM
Former Pirate, Yankee, etc., starting pitcher Dock Ellis was born March 11, 1945. The Yanks had a blockbuster day on December 11, 1975 when they acquired Dock, pitcher Ken Brett, and 2B Willie Randolph from the Pirates for P Doc Medich; and OF Mickey Rivers and P Ed Figueroa from the Angels for OF Bobby Bonds. Dock would go 17-8 in 1976 and win an ALCS game, and then was traded for Mike Torrez the next year. (Mike would do well for the Yanks in 1977, and lose game No. 163 to them in the 1978 season, a la Bucky Dent).
And a bonus: Dock threw a no-hitter for the Pirates, and later claimed he was under the influence of a hallucinogen (Boomer-like? The more things change...). Ellis also once started a game by hitting the first three guys, later admitting it was to get the team motivated, and also done "under the influence."
YANKEE BASEBALL!!!
thecaptain
03-13-03, 08:01 AM
1937
? Lou Gehrig agrees to $38,000, plus a $750 bonus for signing. He'll play his first game March 20 driving in two runs as the Yanks beat the Bees, 5?3.
1915
? In an infamous exhibition at Daytona Beach, Brooklyn manager Wilbert Robinson is set to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane flying at an altitude of 525 feet. Aviatrix Ruth Law supposedly forgets to bring a baseball aloft and instead drops a grapefruit which splatters all over Robbie. Outfielder Casey Stengel is the assumed culprit of the switch.
http://www.pubdim.net/baseballlibrary/chronology/today.stm
thecaptain
03-15-03, 05:44 PM
1885
? A lower court in NY decides that playing baseball on Sunday is a crime. This decision will be overturned, but it will be appealed.
Black Ice
03-16-03, 07:44 AM
hard to believe its been 4 years since The Yankee Clipper died. it seemed like yesterday. i guess time flys. since 2 World Series wins and 1 loss and a no show
thecaptain
03-16-03, 08:33 AM
1932
? In St. Petersburg, Babe Ruth signs a one-year contract for $75,000. http://www.pubdim.net/baseballlibrary/chronology/today.stm
thecaptain
03-17-03, 09:13 AM
1988
? Newly acquired Yankee Jack Clark tears a tendon in his calf while hitting a home run in a spring training game against the Orioles and will miss the start of the regular season.
1969
? St. Louis trades 1B Orlando Cepeda to Atlanta for C/1B Joe Torre. Torre will knock in 100 RBIs in each of the next three seasons topping it off with the MVP Award in 1971.
1946
? In Daytona Beach, the Dodgers take the field against their minor-league farm team, the Montreal Royals. With Jackie Robinson in the lineup for Montreal, the game marks the first appearance of an integrated team in organized baseball in this century. More than forty years later, the field will be renamed Jackie Robinson Ballpark.
1936
? Much-heralded rookie Joe DiMaggio makes his spring debut with the Yankees, getting four hits, including a triple. The day is marred when the Cardinals win 8?7
1921
? The Yankees, training in Shreveport, LA, journey to Lake Charles to play a game against the Cardinals, based in Orange, Texas. The game was proclaimed "Ruth-Hornsby Day," but the Rajah hits only a single while the Babe lofts a home run over the short RF fence. The Yanks win 14?5.
1919
? The Red Sox, minus holdouts Carl Mays and Babe Ruth, sail from New York aboard the S.S. Arapahoe. The trip to spring training is stormy and most of the players will be seasick. Ruth will sign on the 21st in New York and leave the night for Florida. Mays, unsigned will join Ruth and the Sox in Tampa.
1886
? The Sporting News, the weekly that will become "The Baseball Paper of the World," publishes its first issue.
thecaptain
03-18-03, 08:22 AM
1985
? Commissioner Ueberroth reinstates Hall of Famers Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle, who had been banned from association with organized baseball by Bowie Kuhn due to their employment by Atlantic City casinos.
Knuckles
03-18-03, 04:56 PM
March 18 is also the day that Bernard Malamud, author of The Natural, passed away, in 1986. It is a good book, but not at all uplifting, in the end, like the movie.
And in 1989, a group of investors led by a man named Bush, who is getting a lot of ink in the Just Conversation board, purchased the Texas Rangers. It was apparently a good thing to build sports venues on the taxpayers' nickel back in those days.
YANKEE BASEBALL!!!
This "Bush" you speak of.....is he the one that traded Sammy Sosa? :eek: :D
thecaptain
03-21-03, 09:44 AM
2001
? The Yankees reobtain 3B prospect Drew Henson, along with OF Michael Coleman, from the Reds for hot prospect OF Wily Mo Pena and cash. Henson agrees to a 6-year $17 million dollar contract that calls for him to leave the University of Michigan football program and to bypass the NFL. The 21-year-old Henson, a QB, had been projected as a #1 draft choice. Henson will break his hand in April and be out of action till June 14.
1977
? Mark Fidrych, the 1976 Rookie of the Year, rips the cartilage in his left knee and will undergo surgery in ten days. The injury will effectively end the fabled career of the Bird.
1957
? Television Age reports that the major leagues will get $9.3 million for TV-radio rights in 1957.
1954
? Roy Campanella, in attempting to break up a DP in an exhibition game against the Yankees, catches his spikes and chips the bone in his left hand. Though he hits two homers on Opening Day, he will have surgery in early May for the bone chips, returning May 30. As noted by Bill Deane, TSN will surmise that the injury started earlier than the sliding mishap, occurring when Campy was hit on the hand in the 1953 World Series.
1936
Joe DiMaggio runs his spring training record to 12-for-20, in an 11?2 Yankee victory over the newly named Boston Bees. Before the next game is played, the prize rookie is left unattended with his foot in a diathermy machine. The resulting burn ends his spring training and delays his ML debut until May
http://www.pubdim.net/baseballlibrary/chronology/today.stm
thecaptain
03-22-03, 09:07 PM
1972
? In what ranks as one of New York's best trades, they send 1B/OF Danny Cater to the Red Sox for relief P Sparky Lyle. In seven years with the Yanks, Lyle will post a 57-40 record with 141 saves and a 2.41 ERA, win a Cy Young Award, and help the team to three World Series. The deal is completed when the Yanks toss in SS Mario Guerrero.
Jersey Yankee
03-22-03, 10:24 PM
Originally posted by thecaptain
and help the team to three World Series.From '72-'78, Lyle's only Yankee years, the team was in and won the WS twice, not 3x ('77-'78):
http://www.baseballreference.com/l/lylesp01.shtml
thecaptain
03-23-03, 09:29 AM
Originally posted by Jersey Yankee
From '72-'78, Lyle's only Yankee years, the team was in and won the WS twice, not 3x ('77-'78):
http://www.baseballreference.com/l/lylesp01.shtml The Reds made Billy Martin cry in 1976.
2001
? The Yankees reobtain 3B prospect Drew Henson, along with OF Michael Coleman, from the Reds for hot prospect OF Wily Mo Pena and cash. Henson agrees to a 6-year $17 million dollar contract that calls for him to leave the University of Michigan football program and to bypass the NFL. The 21-year-old Henson, a QB, had been projected as a #1 draft choice. Henson will break his hand in April and be out of action till June 14.
worst move Henson ever made he shoulda refused and gone back to Michigan
thecaptain
03-26-03, 08:26 AM
1951
? In an exhibition game at USC, Mickey Mantle propels a homer estimated at 654 to 660 feet. The shot clears Bovard Field and then goes the width of a practice football field before landing. Mantle has two homers, a bases loaded triple, and drives in seven runs as the Yankees flunk the collegians, 15?1.
thecaptain
03-28-03, 08:25 AM
2001
? The Yankees trade 36-year-old Glenallen Hill, who hit .297 with 29 homers last season, to the Angels for minor-league OF Darren Blakely. Hill, taking the place of the just-released Canseco, will go 9-for-66, spend five weeks on the DL, and get his release June 1. 1986
? The Yankees and Red Sox swap designated hitters: Mike Easler goes to New York for Don Baylor.
Four days before his 47th birthday, the Yankees waive pitcher Phil Niekro. He will be signed by the Indians on April 3rd.
1985
? The April 1st issue of Sports Illustrated contains a fictitious article about a Mets pitching prospect named Sidd Finch, whose fastball has been timed at 168 MPH. Author George Plimpton offers bogus quotes from real-life members of the Mets, as well as several staged photos, and fools readers nationwide
http://www.pubdim.net/baseballlibrary/chronology/today.stm
thecaptain
03-30-03, 11:34 AM
1984
? The Yankees trade new author and veteran 3B Graig Nettles to the Padres for rookie P Dennis Rasmussen and a minor leaguer to be named later. Nettles's controversial book Balls, in which he criticizes Steinbrenner, will be not be officially published until April 30th, but the bound books available now make his days in pinstripes numbered.
thecaptain
04-02-03, 09:35 AM
2001
? The Yankees defeat the Royals, 7-3, as Roger Clemens records five strikeouts and ties (or beats) Walter Johnson as the all-time leader in strikeouts in AL history with 3,509. According to Total Baseball, Clemens has 3,509 but the Elias Sports Bureau has him with one fewer. The extra strikeout was first discovered in the early 1990s by John Schwartz and it came on September 12, 1907. The Rocket makes it moot in his next outing.
Former Yankees OF Darryl Strawberry is arrested at a Tampa hospital on a violation of a probation warrant. He has been missing for four days after leaving his drug treatment center on Thursday.
1997
? Paced by Tino Martinez, who belts homers in each of his first three at bats, the visiting Yankees rout the Mariners, 16?2. Martinez's shots, all off starter Scott Sanders, come with the bases empty, one on and two on; in three of his final four times at bat, the bases are full, but Tino fails to connect for his 4th dinger, singling once and walking with the bases loaded. Martinez, who also had a single, drives home seven runs and scores 5.
1972
? Mets manager Gil Hodges dies of a heart attack at West Palm Beach, Florida, two days shy of his 48th birthday. Yogi Berra is named manager.
1931
? Miss Jackie Mitchell, a 17-year-old gate attraction for Joe Engel's Chattanooga Lookouts (Southern Association), pitches against the New York Yankees in an exhibition game in Chattanooga. Babe Ruth waves wildly at 2 pitches and watches a 3rd strike go by. Lou Gehrig gallantly times his 3 swings to miss the ball, but unsmiling Tony Lazzeri, after first trying to bunt, walks and Miss Mitchell leaves the game. The final score is 14-4 Yankees. In 1933 Mitchell will pitch for the House of David team.
1908
? After a 2-year investigation, the Mills Committee, formed on the recommendation of Al Spalding and headed by the former NL president A.G. Mills, declares that baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, NY in 1839. Overwhelming evidence to the contrary is ignored, but the designation makes James Fenimore Cooper's town the most likely site for a Hall of Fame and museum when these establishments are conceived some 30 years later.
http://www.pubdim.net/baseballlibrary/chronology/today.stm
1996- Derek Jeter hits his first major league home run
Knuckles
04-02-03, 12:58 PM
It's also the birthday of four members of the Hall, pitcher Don Sutton, (1945), White Sox infielder Luke Appling (1907), umpire Al Barlick (1915), and manager Hughie Jennings (1869).
There are only 200-some members so having four born on one of 365 days is quite a thing.
YANKEE BASEBALL!!!
thecaptain
04-05-03, 09:11 AM
2001
? Paul O'Neill hits a 1st inning home run, off Dan Reichert, for the only run in the Yankees' 1-0 win over the Orioles. Mike Mussina (7.2 IP) is the winner. It is only the 2nd time in team history that the Yankees win a 1-0 game with a 1st inning home run. Previously, it was done in 1941, with the home run by Phil Rizzuto.
1995
? The Yankees obtain P John Wetteland from the Expos in exchange for minor league OF Fernando Seguignol, a player to be named, and cash considerations. 1988
? Before 55,802 at Yankee Stadium, the Yankees score six runs off Frank Viola in five innings to top the Twins, 8?0. Rick Rhoden allows three hits in nine innings for the win. Roberto Kelly and Willie Randolph each have three hits, while Mike Pagliarulo and Rickey Henderson belt homers.
1982
? Forty-three-year-old Jim Kaat pitches one inning for the Cardinals in a season-opening 14?3 rout of the Astros, setting a new major-league record for pitchers by playing in his 24th consecutive season.
1979
? At Yankee Stadium, 52,719 see Milwaukee jump on Ron Guidry for four runs in the 6th inning and beat New York 5?1. It's the most runs the Cy Young winner has allowed since 1977. The Yanks get singles from their first three hitters, but manage to score just one run in the first off Mike Caldwell.
1977
? The White Sox trade SS Bucky Dent to the Yankees for OF Oscar Gamble, and minor league pitchers LaMarr Hoyt and Bob Polinsky, and an estimated $200,000. Gamble will have a fine season in Chicago and Hoyt will blossom into the ace of the White Sox staff in the early 1980's.
1934
? Three Cincinnati radio stations will broadcast 85 Reds games. Red Barber is hired by Crosley-owned WSAI.
Babe Ruth is to be sponsored by Quaker Oats to do three 15-minute broadcasts a week over NBC. The total of $39,000 for 13 weeks is $4,000 more than Ruth's baseball salary.
1925
? Babe Ruth collapses in the railroad station in Asheville, NC, and winds up in a New York hospital. He'll undergo an operation for an ulcer on April 17th and will be in bed till May 26th.
1915
? In the final match of a 3-game series against the Memphis Turtles (Southern Association), the Red Sox win 10?5 to sweep. Babe Ruth pitches the final five innings in relief. The Sox are traveling north from their spring training camp in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
1913
? An exhibition game with the newly christened Yankees opens Ebbets Field; 25,000 are on hand to watch Nap Rucker beat the American Leaguers, 3?2. The first home run is hit by Brooklyn's Casey Stengel, who legs out an inside-the-parker in the 1st. Jake Daubert legs out another round tripper in the 2nd. The Yanks suffer a loss when Zack Wheat spikes starting SS Claud Derrick on his throwing hand. Derrick will play just seven games before New York ships him to Sacramento (PCL).
BronxBaumer
04-05-03, 10:52 AM
Originally posted by thecaptain
1930
? Babe Ruth signs a 2-year contract for $160,000 with New York. At $80,000 per year, he is the highest paid player of all time. When it is pointed out he is earning more money than the President of the United States, Ruth observes: "I had a better year than he did." Ed Barrow, Yankee GM, assures posterity, "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth."
Take this, do inflation on that price over 70 years. He'd be making A LOT more than A-Rod...
thecaptain
04-06-03, 10:10 AM
Originally posted by BronxBaumer
Take this, do inflation on that price over 70 years. He'd be making A LOT more than A-Rod... i think it is under 1 million in todays dollars.
thecaptain
04-06-03, 10:13 AM
1982
In New York, a foot of snow cancels the Yankees opener with the Rangers at Yankee Stadium. Tomorrow's game with Texas and the first two with the White Sox will also be canceled because of snow and ice. With two games snowed out in Chicago, the Red Sox will return tomorrow to Winter Haven, FL. ( i had tickets to this one)
1974
? The Yankees open their two-year stay at Shea Stadium before a crowd of 20,744. 12-year-old Teddy Kennedy, Jr., flanked by his father and Mayor Abe Beame, tosses out the first ball. Missing from the ceremony is George Steinbrenner, indicted two days ago for illegal campaign contributions. Graig Nettles' two-run homer in the 4th off the Indians Gaylord Perry opens the scoring and the Yanks score four more times to win, 6?1. Charlie Spikes scores the only Cleveland run in the 9th following a triple off starter and winner Mel Stottlemyre. Perry, who is warned once for an illegal pitch, is the loser today, but he will win his next 15 decisions.
thecaptain
04-08-03, 12:30 PM
2002
The Yankees pound out 22 hits in defeating the Blue Jays, 16?3. Alfonso Soriano gets five hits for NY, including a 2B and 3?run home run, while Robin Ventura drives home six runs.
2001
the Yankees 16?5 win over Toronto, Yankee pinch-hitter Scott Seabol becomes the lowest-drafted player (88th round in 1996) to ever appear in ML. This distinction will last just 11 days before Travis Phelps -- the Tampa Bay Devil Rays' selection in the 89th round, also in 1996 -- makes his debut on April 19. Roger Clemens is the winner as batterymate Jorge Posada belts his first grand slam, one of 20 Yankee hits.
1994
Darryl Strawberry enters the Betty Ford Clinic in Rancho Mirage, California, for 18 days of treatment for substance abuse.
1989
? One-handed pitcher Jim Abbott makes his ML debut but lasts only 42/3 innings in California's 7?0 loss to Seattle. Abbott, who bypassed the minors completely after starring at the University of Michigan, will finish the season 12-12 with a 3.92 ERA, the most ML wins in a first pro season since the Browns Ernie Wingard won 13 in his 1st pro season, in 1925.
1978
? At the Opener in Arlington, the Rangers edge the Yankees 2?1 behind newcomers Richie Zisk and Jon Matlack. Matlack scatters eight hits in winning, while Richie Zisk belts a 9th inning solo shot off Goose Gossage to break a tie. Guidry goes seven innings for New York allowing six singles and after this no-decision, he will win 13 straight games.
thecaptain
04-10-03, 09:39 AM
1996
? Before an estimated crowd of 50,000, the Yankees snowball the Royals, 7?3, behind Andy Pettitte. The final tally is seven runs, 10 hits, and two inches?of snow.
1991
? The average baseball salary on Opening Day reaches a record $891,188, with 223 players making at least $1 million.
1990
? On Opening Day, Houston's Glenn Davis ties a major-league record when he is hit by pitches three times in an 8?4, 11-inning loss to the Reds. For the Reds, it is just their 3rd road opener since 1876. On hand are members of the 1965 Yankees and 1965 Astros, the two teams that opened the Astrodome. Of the 32 old timers on hand, former Astro Nolan Ryan has struck out 14 of them.
1989
? Rickey Henderson steals his 800th career base in New York's 4?3 loss to the Indians.
1981
. Before 55,123 at Yankee Stadium, the Yankees gun down the Rangers, 10?3. Bucky Dent and Bobby Murcer hit homers, with Willie Randolph following Murcer's blow with a triple. Dave Winfield, in his New York debut, has two hits and two walks, and Tommy John scatters seven hits in eight innings to win over Jon Matlack.
1971
? The A's trade OF/1B Felipe Alou to the Yankees for two pitchers, Rob Gardner and Ron Klimkowski. Klimkowski will come back to the Yankees next year and Gardner will return in six weeks.
1963
? In the opener at Kansas City, Ralph Terry pitches a complete game 8?2 win for the Yankees. Led by Joe Pepitone's two homers and a double, New York collects 13 hits. Elston Howard adds a homer off starter Diego Segui
thecaptain
04-10-03, 09:43 AM
. 1998
Tino Martinez leads the Yankees to a historical 17?13 win over the A's. Martinez had three hits, including a double and home run, five RBI, and four runs. The teams combine for a Yankee Stadium record with 30 runs, topping the old record of 28 set on June 3, 1933. The Yankees' 17 runs are the most in a home opener since 1955.
1991
? Scott Sanderson hurls eight no-hit innings against the Tigers in his first appearance as a Yankee. He surrenders a wind-blown double to Tony Phillips on his first pitch of the 9th, and is replaced by Greg Cadaret, who finishes the 1-hitter for a 4-0 NY victory.
1982
? The Yankees trade relief pitcher Ron Davis and minor leaguers Paul Boris and Greg Gagne to the Twins for veteran IF Roy Smalley. Gagne hit .270 and .297 the past two seasons at Greensboro.
1980
At Arlington Stadium, Jon Matlack and the Yankees Ron Guidry both pitch shutout ball for nine innings before being lifted. In the 12th, Goose Gossage relieves with Mickey Rivers on 3rd and Richie Zisk at the plate. His first pitch is wild allowing Rivers to score the games on run. Gossage also lost the '78 Opener when Zisk took him deep in the 9th. Each team manages just four hits in the contest with Bob Watson and Jim Sundberg each collecting three of them.
1967
? At D.C. Stadium, LBJ tosses out the first ball to open the season. But the Senators manage just two hits off Mel Stottlemyre as the Yankees win, 8?0. New York jumps on starter Pete Richert for seven runs in the 3rd inning, collecting six straight hits, to put it away.
1962
At Yankee Stadium, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, and Bill Skowron, the three Yankees who combined for 143 homers last season, hit Opening Day homers to lead New York to a come-from-behind 7?6 win over Baltimore. Moose's is a 2-run shot to dead center that he legs out for an inside-the -park homer, while Mantle hits his in the 8th inning to tie the game, Maris hits a 3-run shot in the 5th. Johnny Temple, in his first game for the O's, has three hits, including a home run. Starters Billy Hoeft and Whitey Ford are gone after six innings, and the win goes to Ralph Terry, while Skinny Brown takes the loss.
And on this day (4/10) in 1913, the NY Highlanders...officially became...
THE NEW YORK YANKEES!!!!!!!!
:NY: :NY: :NY: :NY: :NY: :NY: :NY: :NY: :NY: :NY: :NY: :NY:
thecaptain
04-14-03, 09:41 AM
1999
? The Yankees defeat the Orioles, 14?7, as Chuck Knoblauch gets five hits, including his 1st home run of the year, for the winners.
Yankees OF Darryl Strawberry is arrested in Tampa on charges of soliciting a prostitute and possession of cocaine. Strawberry has been at the Yankees' extended training camp while he works himself back into shape following colon cancer surgery last October 3.
1974
? Yankee Graig Nettles blasts four home runs during a doubleheader split with his former team, the Indians. The Yanks win 9?5, then lose 6?9. Nettles will go on to tie the major-league record with 11 home runs in the month of April
1955
Elston Howard becomes the first black to wear the Yankee uniform. He singles in his first at bat, against the Red Sox, as the Yanks win 8-4.
thecaptain
04-15-03, 08:51 AM
1998
? The Yankees defeat the Angels, 6?3, in an afternoon game played at Shea Stadium. The Mets defeat the Cubs, 2?1, in a night game, marking the first time in history that American and National League games are played in the same park on the same day.
1976
? Newly remodeled Yankee Stadium is jammed with 52,613 fans for Opening Day ceremonies. The 1923 Yankees are honored, and Bob Shawkey, winner of the 1923 Stadium opener, throws out the first ball. The Yankees beat the Twins 11?4 on 14 hits, but the only HR is hit by Minnesota?s Dan Ford.
thecaptain
04-17-03, 10:46 AM
1953
? Mickey Mantle hits the longest HR in Griffith Stadium history, a 565-feet shot off of Chuck Stobbs of the Washington Senators. The Yanks win 7-3. 1951 In his major league debut, Mickey Mantle goes 1-for-4 as the Yankees defeat the Red Sox, 5-0.
1929
Babe Ruth and actress Claire Hodgson are married at five A.M. to avoid crowds. The Yankee home opener with the Red Sox is again rained out so the wedding party continues uninterupted.
http://www.pubdim.net/baseballlibrary/chronology/today.stm
thecaptain
04-22-03, 08:55 AM
1997
? After four months of on-and-off negotiations, the Yankees acquire the rights to Japanese P Hideki Irabu from the San Diego Padres for $3 million. New York sends injured OF Ruben Rivera and minor leaguer P Rafael Medina to San Diego. The Padres sweeten the deal by sending three minor leaguers to NY: 2B Homer Bush and outfielders Gordon Amerson and Vernon Maxwell. Irabu's team, the Chiba Lotte Marines, gave the San Diego exclusive rights to the 27-year-old righthander, but Irabu refused to sign with the Padres, saying he would only go with the Yankees.
1960
? In the home opener at Yankee Stadium, Mickey Mantle socks a 4th inning homer off Hoyt Wilhelm, and New York beats Baltimore, 5?0
1959
Whitey Ford pitches 14 innings against the Senators striking out 15. The Yankees finally win it in the 14th on a Moose Skowron solo homer 1?0, the longest contest ending 1?0 on a four-bagger. 1956
? Yankee P Don Larsen slams a HR with the bases loaded off Frank Sullivan of the Red Sox, as New York wins 13-6. 1931
? Babe Ruth collides with Charlie Berry, Red Sox catcher and former pro football player, while trying to score on a sacrifice fly. Ruth is carried off the field at Fenway Park and taken to a hospital. 1923
? The first Sunday game at Yankee Stadium draws an estimated 60,000, but the Yankees suffer their first loss of the year, 4-3 to Washington. 1914
? At age 19, Babe Ruth's first professional game (as a pitcher) is a 6-hit 6?0 win for Baltimore (International League) over Buffalo. The 2nd batter he faces is Joe McCarthy, the manager he will play for 17 years later with New York. Ruth is 2-for-4.
thecaptain
04-24-03, 09:03 AM
2001
? The American League celebrates its 100th anniversary.
1999
? In New York's 2?0 loss to the Cubs, Mets' leadoff man Rickey Henderson bats five times, going 2-for-4, and on each occasion he leads off the inning. The Mets strand 12 as Chicago reliever Terry Mulholland throws six 2/3 scoreless innings. Sammy Sosa homers for Chicago.
1998
? Yankee Stadium is cleared to reopen, so a series that was originally scheduled to be in Detroit opens in New York. Darryl Strawberry homers to complete a four run rally in the 1st in the Yankees 8?4 win. David Cone earns the win, his 150th, over Greg Keagle.
Moises Alou drives in five runs and Carl Everett homers from each side of the plate?the 7th time an Astro has accomplished this?to lead the Astros to an 8?4 win over Montreal.
John Burkett lasts just four 2/3 innings but gives up 11 earned runs?8 in the 2nd?to set a Rangers' club record for earned runs allowed.
The Mets unveil a model of their proposed new stadium. The park, patterned after the old Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, will have a retractable roof and a retractable field, so that it can be used for an assortment of events.
1996
? Twins' manager Tom Kelly apologizes to the fans after his team wallops the host Tigers 24?11, the highest score rung up on Detroit since their loss in 1912 when the team boycotted over the suspension of Ty Cobb and a sub team was hastily cobbled together. Greg Myers and Paul Molitor each drives in five runs as Minnesota scores against all seven Tiger pitchers they face. The 35 runs is the most today as major league teams total 195 runs, the most this century. The average game total of 13.9 runs tops the record of 13.6 set on July 12, 1931.
Reggie Jefferson's 3rd double of the game breaks a 7th-inning tie as Boston edges the Rangers 11?9. Texas is led by unlikely slugger Kevin Elster, who slugs homers in the 2nd and 3rd for five RBIs.
Henry Rodriguez clouts his 9th homer and Shane Andrews singles home the winner in the 10th as Montreal beat the Reds, 7?6, for its 6th straight win, to lead the National League East by two 1/2 games. Rodriguez has now hit six homers in his last 13 at bats.
1995
? Darryl Strawberry is sentenced to six months of home confinement on tax evasion charges. He must also pay the government $350,000 in back taxes.
1994
? Julio Franco and Robin Ventura twice hit back-to-back home runs in Chicago's 7-6 loss to Detroit. It is the 17th time it has happened in major league history, and the 2nd time this week.
1993
? Modesto A's catcher Izzy Molina cycles and collects eight RBIs in a 22?1 blasting of Stockton.
1992
? Former 14-year major leaguer Derrel Thomas is arrested on drug charges in Los Angeles.
Former Yankees vice president Leonard Kleinman drops his $30 million lawsuit against baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent. The suit had been one of the obstacles standing in the way of George Steinbrenner's reinstatement with the Yankees.
1991
? Houston rookie P Darryl Kile hurls six hitless innings against Cincinnati in his 1st big league start. Manager Art Howe removes him with the no-hitter intact rather than risk an injury to his arm. The Reds finally manage a single off Curt Schilling in the 9th as Houston wins, 1-0.
1985
? Pete Vuckovich records his first win for Milwaukee since his Cy Young Award winning season of 1982, pitching seven innings of the Brewers 3?2 win over Chicago. He had been sidelined most of the past two seasons with shoulder problems.
1982
? The Cardinals win their 12th game in a row 7?4 over the Phillies. St. Louis will finally lose tomorrow 8?4 to Philadelphia, as Steve Carlton wins his first game of the season after four straight defeats.
At Toronto, Jesse Barfield hits the first pinch grand slam in Blue Jay history, connecting in the 8th inning off Boston's Tom Burgmeier.
1979
? Substitute umpires consult 28 minutes over a decision, change their minds twice, and finally issue a compromise decision. Both the Mets and the Giants play the game under protest; the Mets win 10?3.
1978
? The Angels Nolan Ryan strikes out 15 Mariners?the 20th time he has had 15 K's in a game?in nine innings, but leaves without a decision. Seattle prevails 6?5 in the 12th frame.
1977
? Fergie Jenkins fires the first shutout ever in Toronto's Exhibition Stadium, as the Red Sox defeat the Blue Jays, 9?0.
1976
? Oakland's Bert Campaneris steals five bases in an 8?7 win over Cleveland.
1974
? A scoreless dual between the Cubs Bill Bonham and the Reds Jack Billingham ends with a bases-loaded 9th inning walk to George Foster. The Reds beat the Cubs, 1?0.
1969
? After belting homers his first two at bats, Reggie Jackson is decked twice by pitches from Dick Woodsen and charges the mound. Reggie gets tossed but the A's win, 6?4, over the Twins.
1966
? Pete Richert enters the major-league record books with seven consecutive strikeouts against the Tigers. Richert still loses a 4?0 decision as the Tigers sweep a pair at Washington.
Atlanta's 5?2 win at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium in the first game of a doubleheader is an National League-record 18th straight home win against the Mets. "Home" for 17 of those wins was Milwaukee.
1962
? Sandy Koufax ties the modern major-league record he shares with Bob Feller by fanning 18 Cubs in nine innings. The Dodgers win 10?2.
Reds rookie Sammy Ellis wins his first ML game, beating the Mets, 7?3. Ellis goes six innings and allows just one hit, but walks 11 and is replaced by Moe Drabowsky.
Mets manager Casey Stengel is fined $500 by Commissioner Ford Frick for allowing his picture to appear in a beer ad.
In a South Atlantic League game at Macon, the Peaches beat Greenville, 32?5. Peaches 2B Pete Rose is 6-for-8 with a home run, triple and six RBIs. Seven Spinner pitchers walked 19 batters, as the Peaches batted around four times.
1960
? The Yankees score eight runs against the Orioles before the first out is made, tying an American League record set by Cleveland July 6, 1954, also against Baltimore. The Orioles respond with grand slams by Albie Pearson and Billy Klaus in the 8th and 9th, but New York holds on for a 15?9 triumph.
Lou Berberet's first-inning grand slam off Early Wynn at Detroit is the AL's 3rd of the day, tying the major-league record for number of slams on one day in one league. The Tigers beat the White Sox 12?4.
Jimmie Coker's slam for Philadelphia off Ted Wieand of the Reds is the day's 4th. This ties the major-league record for most slams in one day, and gives the Phils a 9?5 win.
George Altman of the Cubs earns a "3-ball walk," as umpire Ken Burkhart accidentally counts a balk as a ball in Chicago's game against the Giants. The Cubs add some offense and win, 9?4, behind Don Elston. Billy Loes loses.
1957
? Chicago Cub pitchers walk 9 Reds in the 5th inning, an NL mark, as Cincinnati wins 9-5. Moe Drabowsky starts with 4 walks, Jackie Collum adds 3 and Jim Brosnan has 2 passes.
The NY Board of Estimates fails to act on the Moses plan as outlined by Mayor Wagner.
1956
? AL umpire Frank Umont is the first to wear glasses in a regular season game, between Detroit and Kansas City. The former NFL tackle (New York Giants) still presents an intimidating appearance to most players and fans.
1954
? In the 3rd inning of a 6?1 Boston win, Mickey McDermott of the Senators fractures former teammate Boston P Mel Parnell's left forearm with a pitch. A pinch runner for Parnell, a walk, and then a popped bunt is nabbed by McDermott, who starts a triple play.
At Crosley Field, Wally Post belts a 2-out home run in the 9th inning with a man on to give the Reds a 6?5 win against the Cubs. Kiner and Sauer belt back-to-back home runs for the Cubs in the 7th.
Marv Grissom and the Giants shut out the Phils, 1-0, at the Polo Grounds. Whitey Lockman's 300-foot home run off Robin Roberts is the only score.
The White Sox spoil Vern Bickford's American League debut chasing him after four innings and winning 14?4. The O's use three relievers including former Negro Leaguer Jehosie "Jay" Heard, making his ML debut. Heard is the first black player for the Orioles. He'll make just one other appearance. On September 10, African American OF Joe Durham will make his debut as the second black Oriole.
1953
? Jackie Robinson walks twice in the 6th inning, as the Dodgers score 6 runs en route to a 12-4 pasting of the Giants.
1952
? Leo Durocher charges that the umpires are ignoring the "quick pitch" rule.
1950
? In a pitching duel with vet Ken Raffensberger, Max Lanier drives in the only run to give the Cards a 1?0 win over the Reds.
1949
? Lloyd Merriman of the Reds gets a HR and a triple in his first ML game.
1948
? The Cubs hit 4 home runs at home in a 6-2 win over the Phils. Bill Nicholson's HR, to the right of the Wrigley Field scoreboard, lands on Sheffield Avenue. It bounces off a building and allegedly lands on the hood of a southbound car.
1947
? Johnny Mize of the New York Giants hits three successive home runs in a 14?5 loss in Boston. It is a record 5th time in his career that Mize has hit three home runs in one game; he will do it a 6th time with the Yankees in 1950.
1946
? Eleven former players--Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, Frank Chance, Jess Burkett, Tom McCarthy, Rube Waddell, Eddie Plank, Ed Walsh, Jack Chesbro, Clark Griffith, and Joe McGinnity--are named to the Hall of Fame.
1945
? At a meeting of owners in Cleveland a list of possible successors to Judge Landis is cut to 6: Ford Frick, president of the National League, and five politicians, Jim Farley, Carl Vinson, Robert Patterson, Bob Hannegan, and Frank Lausche. Larry MacPhail suggests adding the name of Albert "Happy" Chandler, a Kentucky senator. The list then narrows to Chandler and Hannegan. On the first ballot Chandler leads 11-5, short of the required three-fourths. One vote switches over, and the owners unanimously approve the selection. Also approved is the Malaney Plan for interleague play, first brought up at the February meeting. Besides the same-city games, Cincinnati will play at Cleveland, Brooklyn at Washington, and Detroit at Pittsburgh. The latter contest will later be scrapped when the ODT refused to grant the Tigers permission to detour 62 miles to get to Pittsburgh. The seven benefit games will held on July nine and 10.
Hitting a 9th inning home run for the 3rd time in four games, Butch Nieman poles a 3-run homer, giving him five RBIs as the Braves defeat the Dodgers, 8?6. Nieman's 3-run home run on April 20 beat the Phils, 6?5, and his 9th inning home run on the 22nd tied the Phils.
1943
? A spokesman for A. G. Spalding defends the ball, saying the 11 shutouts in the first 29 games are the result of it being "too wet and too cold. In time the new ball will prove to be just as lively as the old one." A few days later the company admits that the balls contain an inferior grade of rubber cement, which has hardened. The teams agree to use up their stock of balls left over from the 1942 season while a new supply of higher-quality balls is made.
1938
? Goose Goslin's pinch-hit HR is the 5th of his career, for a new AL record, but the Yankees beat the Senators 4-3.
1934
? President Roosevelt throws out the first ball for the Washington opener, but a rainstorm sends him back to the White House in the 4th inning.
1933
? Giants player/manager Bill Terry is hit by a pitch in a game with the Dodgers, breaking his wrist. He will be out 3 weeks, ending his consecutive-game streak at 468.
Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania signs a bill legalizing Sunday baseball under local option. A statewide referendum will be on the ballot in November.
1932
? The Cubs' Kiki Cuyler breaks a bone in his left foot, as Chicago beats Pittsburgh 12-3.
1931
? Rogers Hornsby, player/manager of the Chicago Cubs, hits 3 consecutive HRs to beat the Pirates at Forbes Field 10-6.
1923
? President Warren G. Harding attends the game at Yankee Stadium and sees Babe Ruth hit a HR in a 4-0 win over the Senators.
1922
? The Browns trip the Tigers, 6?2, as Ken Williams again homers, a two-run shot off Red Oldham.
It takes 11 innings, but Carl Mays and the Yankees edge the Athletics, 6?4. It is Mays' 18th consecutive win against the A's. A 2-run homer by Wally Pipp off Joe Harris decides the game.
Despite setting a team record (since 1911) for errors with 8, the Phillies are just edged out by the Giants, 3?2. The mark will be tied in 1941.
1917
? In front of 3,219 fans, Yankee lefty George Mogridge pitches a no-hitter in Fenway Park for a 2?1 New York win. It is the 2nd of what will be an AL record five no-hitters. The Yankees score on two walks, an error, and a sacrifice fly off Dutch Leonard. Not until Dave Righetti's no-hitter in 1983 will another Yankee lefty toss a no-hitter.
1915
? Frank Allen, Pittsburgh (FL) lefty, pitches a 2?0 no-hitter against the St. Louis Terriers. Allen will win 23 for Pittsburgh, who will finish 3rd just a half game back of the first-place Chicago Whales and the 2nd-place Terriers. The Terriers, in the race all the way, will outdraw the Cardinals and Browns.
At Ebbets Field, the Dodgers beat an aging Christy Mathewson, 7?5. It's the 6th loss in a row for the Giants.
1913
? At Chicago, the Browns' Gus Williams hits three straight triples. in a 3?1 win over the White Sox. The three tie a ML mark.
1911
? Battle Creek of the South Michigan League makes two triple plays in the first two innings against Grand Rapids, a trick never performed in the ML.
NL President Lynch orders his umpires to stop catchers, especially Roger Bresnahan, from verbally attacking batters.
1909
? Sidelined much of April with the flu, Walter Johnson makes his 1st appearance of the year. He should've stayed in bed as the Highlanders rough him up for six runs before he's lifted in the 3rd. Behind Joe Lake, New York rolls to a 17-0 win over Washington.
1906
? Boston makes 20 hits in trouncing the Washington Nationals, 19-2.
1905
? At Baker Bowl, Giants manager John McGraw lets Christy Mathewson hit with two on in the 9th, and the ace promptly singles in two runs to give the Giants a 5-4 lead. Matty then checks the Phils in the bottom of the 9th for the win over Bill Duggleby.
1903
? Against the Pirates, the Cardinals go into the 9th with a 7-6 lead, in part due to three errors by SS Honus Wagner. Honus atones for the miscues by tripling in the 9th and scoring on a Kitty Bransfield single. With two outs in the 11th, Wagner walks, steals 2B and scores the winner on another Kitty bingle, and the Bucs win, 7?6. Wagner finishes with two triples among his four hits, four RBIs, and three stolen bases.
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05-01-03, 09:34 AM
1996
? The Yanks and Orioles continue their marathon play, this one going five hours and 43 minutes before ending at one a.m. Tino Martinez, whose homer snapped yesterday's tie, slugs a grand slam in the 15th to give reliever Andy Pettitte the win. Bernie Williams has five hits while Gerald Williams collects 6?just the 2nd Yankee to get six in a game; Myril Hoag in 1934, is the other. The O's and Yankees strand 15 runners in extra innings, as both teams squander scoring opportunities, and New York survives four errors by two second basemen. Jim Mecir strikes out Brady Anderson with the bases loaded in the 10th after going to a 3?0 count. Cal Ripken is lifted for a pinch runner in the 8th?who is promptly picked off?and sits for the last seven innings, the longest stretch he's rested in 2,180 games. 1951
? The Yankees' new phenom, Mickey Mantle, connects for his first ML home run, off Randy Gumpert of the White Sox. Minnie Minoso becomes the first black to play for the White Sox. He plays 3B and, facing Vic Raschi in his first ML at bat, rips a home run to CF. The Yankees win 8?3, with Mantle collecting three RBIs. 1937
? Joe DiMaggio makes his debut as a starter after missing six games, and strokes three hits against Rube Walberg. New York tips the Red Sox, 3?2.
thecaptain
05-04-03, 09:22 AM
1981
? Yankee reliever Ron Davis strikes out the last eight batters of the game in a 4?2 win over the Angels, tying Nolan Ryan's American League record (done twice) for consecutive strikeouts and setting a new record for consecutive strikeouts by a reliever. 1943
? Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick demonstrates the revised "balata ball" to reporters by bouncing it on his office carpet. This ball will prove to be 50 percent livelier than the 1942 one. When introduced in games on May 9th, six home runs will be hit in four doubleheaders compared with nine home runs hit with the previous ball in the first 72 games. 1931
? At Yankee Stadium, Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, back in the lineup, switch positions to spare Ruth's lame leg. Despite five hits by the pair, the Red Sox beat the Yankees, 7?3, as Gehrig makes an error. It is the last game in which Gehrig plays OF. 1929
? At Comiskey Park, Lou Gehrig wallops three home runs against the Sox in an 11?9 New York shootout. His middle home run, in the 7th inning, is sandwiched between roundtrippers by Babe Ruth and Bob Meusel. With his homer off Red Faber in the 2nd, Gehrig joins Ruth as the 2nd slugger to clear the RF stands, 75 feet high and 360 feet away from home plate. The Ruthian clout came off Tommy Thomas in 1927. His last homer of the day is served up by Dan Dugan.
thecaptain
05-05-03, 01:06 PM
1969
? The Baseball Records Committee reverses its earlier decision and decides to stay with the pre-1920 rules on sudden death home runs. This rule stated that a team batting last in the 9th or in extra innings could not win by more than one run. Before 1920 if a player hit an outside-the-park home run with a runner(s) on base, he was not credited with a home run. Babe Ruth (July 8, 1918) and 36 other players "lost" home runs because of the ruling reversal. 1956
? The Yankees clout four homers -- Yogi Berra's, Hank Bauer's inside-the-park, and two moonshots by Mickey Mantle -- to top the A's, 5?2. Mantle's 2nd homer hits the RF facade just inside the foul pole, and almost clears the roof. 1935
? Thirty thousand fans are on hand in Boston to watch two superstars face each other?the Cardinals with young Dizzy Dean on the mound against the Braves with 40-year-old Babe Ruth. Diz walks Ruth his first two times up, then with two strikes on the Bambino, Dean waves his outfielders back and pipes a fast ball down the middle that Ruth misses. Dean wins the game, 7?0, and in his first at bat, homers over Ruth's head in right. Dean will face Ruth again on the 19th, holding the Babe hitless again, and win that game as well.
thecaptain
05-06-03, 08:38 AM
2000
? The Yankees defeat the Orioles, 3-1, as Roger Clemens records his 250th career victory. He is the 39th pitcher to reach the mark.
1998
? In one of the finest pitching efforts ever, Chicago Cub rookie righthander Kerry Wood fans 20 Houston Astros in a 2?0, one-hit victory to tie the major league mark for strikeouts in a 9-inning game. Making only his 5th big league start, the 20-year-old ties the record held by Roger Clemens, who performed the feat twice…….. In a wild game, the Yankees (22?6) beat the Rangers, 15-13, after jumping out to a 9-0 lead with two in the 1st and seven in the 2nd. But the Rangers came back with seven in the 3rd. After the Yankees score four in the top of the 4th, the Rangers score three to cut the lead to 13-10, then tie it with three in the 6th. Jorge Posada's RBI single gives the Yankees the lead in the 8th. Derek Jeter has four hits, including a triple and homer, and five RBI, while Paul O'Neill contributes three hits, two runs, two RBI, a double and a home run. Juan Gonzalez has three hits, five RBI, three runs and a home run for the Rangers. The game is a turning point for David Wells. After Wells allows seven runs on seven hits in two 2/3 innings, he receives a tongue lashing from Joe Torre which proves therapeutic.
1978
In a 9?5 loss to Texas, Yankee 2B Willie Randolph pulls the hidden ball trick on Texas Bump Wills in the first inning. In 1980, Randolph will have it pulled on him (as noted by Bill Deane) and he joins Orlando Cepeda as the only two players known to pull off and have pulled on them the HBT. 1964
? The Yanks hit four home runs -- two by Hector Lopez and one apiece by Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris -- to back Jim Bouton's 9?2 opening win over the Senators. Washington comes back from a 4?0 deficit to win the nitecap, 5?4, despite a three-run Mantle homer off starter Claude Osteen.
1962
? Mickey Mantle hits home runs right- and lefthanded for the 9th time, in the 2nd game of a doubleheader, as the Yankees win 8?0 over the Senators at the Stadium. His first homer follows a Roger Maris round-tripper. The shutout is Jim Bouton's first win the majors. In the opener, a 4?2 Nats win, Mantle accounts for both Yankee runs with a lefthanded homer.
1955
? At Fenway, Mickey Mantle lines a first inning solo shot into the Yankee bullpen, and Bob Turley shuts out Boston the rest of the way for a 6?0 New York win. Frank Sullivan is the losing pitcher.
1930
? The Yankees get Red Ruffing, loser of 47 games in the past two years and with a lifetime 39-96, from the Red Sox for $50,000 and Cedric Durst.
1915
? Red Sox P Babe Ruth clouts his first ML home run, off the Yankees Jack Warhop in the 3rd inning at New York's Polo Grounds. Ruth has two other hits but loses the game in the 13th, 4?3, as the Sox makes four errors behind him. Cy Pieh is the winner.
1911
? The Yankees top the Red Sox, 6?3, and turn their first ever triple play as well. It happens in the 9th inning with Russ Ford on the mound when Bill Carrigan lines into a game ending triple play.
thecaptain
05-08-03, 10:23 AM
1994
? Danny Tartabull, Mike Stanley, and Gerald Williams hit back-to-back-to-back home runs for the Yankees in the 6th inning of NY's 8-4 win over Boston
1991
? Howard Spira is found guilty of trying to extort money from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. Spira had already received $40,000 from Steinbrenner.
1964
? In Cleveland, there are tornado warnings, but New York supplies damage when Mickey Mantle cracks a 3-run homer off Tommy John in the 4th inning to lead New York to a 10?3 win.
1927
? The Yankees draw a record 52,000 to Comiskey Park but Waite Hoyt spoils the party by winning one of his league-leading 22 games, 9?0, the 2nd straight shutout of the Sox. Batterymate Pat Collins homers in the 7th, while Lou Gehrig adds a pair of triples. http://www.pubdim.net/baseballlibrary/chronology/today.stm
thecaptain
05-09-03, 07:50 AM
1999
? The Yankees defeat the Mariners, 6-1. Relief P Mike Stanton makes his 1st major league start for NY, ending his major league record streak of 552 consecutive relief appearances prior to his 1st start. the previous record of 443 was set by Gary Lavelle of the Giants.
1966
? At Minneapolis, the Yankees (6?20) edge the Twins, 3?2. Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle, and Joe Pepitone, with the game-winner in the 9th inning, hit homers for New York.
1964
? At Cleveland, Pedro Ramos gives up four home runs to New York -- Tony Kubek, Mickey Mantle, Joe Pepitone, and Hector Lopez -- as the Yankees win 6?2.
1944
? Joe McCarthy returns as Yankees manager after missing much of spring training and the early season due to illness.
thecaptain
05-10-03, 09:41 AM
1996
Yankees' P David Cone undergoes surgery to remove an aneurysm in his pitching arm.
1959
The Yanks sweep two from the Senators at the Stadium, winning 6?3 and 3?2 in 10 innings. Mickey Mantle's homer in the 3rd inning of the opener starts the Yanks scoring as they beat Chuck Stobbs. Mantle singles and scores the winning run in the 10th of the nitecap. Yogi Berra has a home run in the nitecap and sets a new major-league record for consecutive errorless games by a catcher with 148.
1956
? At Yankee Stadium, Bob Lemon gives Cleveland a 7?2 win over the Yankees. Mickey Mantle has a solo homer in the 6th for New York. For Mantle, it is his 20th homer of May, a new record. The slugger adds a double and two singles and is hitting .425 with 50 RBIs.
1926
? At Yankee Stadium, Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth hit back-to-back homers off Tiger starter Sam Gibson, and the Yankees outscore the Tigers, 13?9. Herb Pennock is the winner.
1913
? The Yankees commit eight errors, but still end up beating the Tigers, 10?9, in 10 innings. Three of the miscues are by three by SS Claud Derrick, who will field just .872 for the year. Related? In 10 days, the Yanks deal for SS Roger Peckinpaugh.
1909
? Organized baseball's longest no-hitter takes place in a Blue Grass League contest between the Lexington Colts and the Winchester Hustlers. Fred Toney, later to pitch in the only double no-hitter, throws a 17-inning no-hitter for Winchester, winning 1-0. He fans 19 opponents and walks only one, in beating Lexington's Baker, who allows seven hits. A squeeze play ends the game.
thecaptain
05-12-03, 08:07 AM
2002
? The Yankees top Minnesota on Mother's Day, 10?4, giving Joe Torre his 1,500th career win as manager.
1982
? In their 2nd major trade in as many days, the Twins deal C Butch Wynegar and P Roger Erickson to the Yankees for IF Larry Milbourne, minor leaguers John Pacella and Pete Filson, and cash. The Twins' frugal owner, Calvin Griffith, is roundly criticized for the deals, in which he appears to be unloading high-salaried veterans at the expense of a winning ball club.
1961
In the 8th inning at Yankee Stadium, Tiger OF Rocky Colavito goes into the stands behind 3B after a drunken fan who has been heckling Rocky's wife and father. Colavito is ejected, but the Tigers win in the 9th on P Frank Lary's home run. For Lary, it is his 25th win over the Yankees again 1959
? At Yankee Stadium, Yogi Berra's errorless streak of 148 games comes to an end when he makes an error on his 34th birthday today. Berra also homers, as do Elston Howard and Mickey Mantle, but New York loses 7?6 to the first-place Indians. st just eight losses.
1933
? The Red Sox pay the Yankees $100,000 for P George Pipgras and rookie SS Bill Werber.
thecaptain
05-14-03, 09:12 AM
1998
? Baltimore pitcher Mike Mussina's nose is broken when he is hit in the face by a line drive off the bat of Cleveland's Sandy Alomar in a 5?4 Indian win. Mussina had just recently returned from the DL where he had been placed because of a wart on his right index finger.
1996
? Dwight Gooden, on the verge of being dropped from the Yankees just two weeks ago, twirls a no-hitter to sink the Mariners, 2?0. Dr. No walks two in the 9th, but retires Ken Griffey, Jr., K's Jay Buhner, and induces Paul Sorrento to pop out to end it. Gerald Williams saves the no-hitter when he runs down a 400-foot Alex Rodriguez liner in the first inning and turns it into a double play. Gooden (2?3) has now thrown 16 straight innings of hitless ball
1967
? Mickey Mantle becomes the 6th member of the 500-HR club in New York's 6?5 win against Baltimore. Mantle connects batting left-handed off Stu Miller.
Jersey Yankee
05-17-03, 07:24 AM
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Hammerin' Hank in a league of his own
By Larry Schwartz
Special to ESPN.com
May 17, 1970
With an infield single, Hank Aaron becomes the ninth player to reach 3,000 hits, but the first to reach that milestone and hit 500 hitters. Only one other player has gotten 3,000 hits and 200 homers, and that's Stan Musial (475 homers, 3,630 hits), who along with Atlanta Braves president Bill Bartholomay presents the record ball to Aaron.
After going hitless in the first game of a doubleheader in Cincinnati, Aaron gets No. 3,000 off Wayne Simpson when his grounder over second base is knocked down by Reds second baseman Woody Woodward near the outfield grass. The crowd of 33,217, the largest in Crosley Field in 23 years, gives Aaron a huge ovation.
In his next at-bat, also against Simpson, the 36-year-old slugger blasts his 570th homer. The 17-year veteran singles again, raising his hit total to 3,002, but the Braves are swept in the doubleheader.
"I'm relieved to get No. 3,000 and I'm glad it's all over," says Aaron, who is somewhat subdued. "It's been a long day."
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May 17th
2002
» After the Twins score three times in the top of the 14th, the Yankees come back to win, 13–12, on Jason Giambi's one-out grand slam, hitting the first pitch from reliever Mike Trombley over the RF fence. It is the 21st time in history that a player has hit a game–winning grand slam—the ultimate grand slam—with his team down by three runs. Babe Ruth, in 1925, was the only previous Yankee to have performed the feat. Giambi's home run is one of six by New York as each team has 20 hits. The last time that two teams reached 20 hits was also on May 17—1996. Baltimore beat Seattle, 13–12 on 41 hits total.
The Mets score eight runs in the 7th inning, highlighted by Mike Piazza's grand slam, to defeat the Padres, 13–4.
Erubiel Durazo hits three home runs and a double and drives in nine runs for the Diamondbacks as Arizona downs Philadelphia, 12–9. It is Durazo's 2nd game of the season after spending six weeks on the DL with a broken right hamate bone. Phillies 2B Marlon Anderson strokes five hits, including a double.
The Royals send P Bryan Rekar to the Rockies. In return, KC receives minor league P Eduardo Villacis.
2001
» Desi Relaford of the New York Mets became the third position player this year to take the mound as he pitches the ninth inning of a 15-3 blowout by the San Diego Padres. Relaford displays a 91-mph fastball as he fires a perfect inning. Starter Steve Trachsel takes the loss and sets a club record by serving up four homers (to Alex Arias, Rickey Henderson, Ryan Klesko, and Bubba Trammell) in the 3rd inning. The Pads set a team record with 11 extra base hits.
2000
» The Rangers defeat the Devil Rays, 11-6, as 1B Frank Catalanotto gets five hits in the game.
1999
» The Devil Rays outgun the Rangers, 13-3, as 1B Fred McGriff extends his major league record by hitting a home run in his 35th big league stadium—The Ballpark in Arlington.
The Mariners defeat the Twins, 15-5, as LF Butch Huskey gets four hits, including two homers, and drives home seven runs. DH Edgar Martinez also hits a pair of 4-baggers for Seattle and scores five times.
1998
» Yankees pitcher David Wells hurls the 13th perfect game in modern major league history with a 4–0 win over Minnesota. Wells fans 11 batters in his masterpiece. OF Bernie Williams strokes three hits for New York, including a home run.
Cardinals' OF Brian Jordan collects five hits, including a home run, and drives home four to lead St. Louis to a 13–4 win over the Marlins.
1997
» Led by Kenny Lofton, the Braves pound out 19 hits to beat the Cardinals, 11–6. Lofton has his 3rd five-hit game of the season and winning pitcher John Smoltz (5–3) adds two hits to lift his average to .435 (10-for-23).
At the Metrodome, Darrin Jackson, hits a grand slam and drives in a six runs to lead Minnesota to an 11–5 win over the Red Sox. Jackson, who played the last two seasons in Japan, was brought up from Triple-A earlier in the day. The Red Sox have lost seven straight and 11 of 12.
1996
» Jermaine Dye, filling in for David Justice, smacks a home run in his 1st ML at bat to back Greg Maddux's 8–2 win over the Reds. Dye is the first Brave to debut with a homer since Chuck Tanner did it on April 12, 1955.
Manny Ramirez hits a grand slam, off Gil Heredia (1–3), as the Indians score six runs in the 7th inning to outslug the Rangers, 12–10. Cleveland's Eddie Murray and Texas SS Kevin Elster each have four hits: Elster has two homers and two doubles to drive in and score four runs. Murray's two RBI moves him into 10th place on the all-time list with 1,840.
Dave Nilsson becomes the first Brewer to homer twice in an inning, as Milwaukee scores 11 runs in the 6th to beat the Twins, 12–1. Nilsson's 1st homer, off Jose Parra, snaps a 1–1 tie, and his 2nd blast, a 3-run homer off Erik Bennett pushes the score to 10–1.
At Baltimore, the Orioles outlast the Mariners, 14–13, and outhit the M's 21 to 20. The winner is Alan Mills, despite his giving up four earned runs in one 1/3 innings. Rafael Palmeiro and Alex Rodriguez each collect six RBI, while the O's Chris Hoiles chips in with 4. The Orioles bang four homers and score seven runs in the last two innings, while the M's hit two homers and score seven runs in the last three innings. Each team strands 13 runners in the four hour, 20 minute marathon. Palmeiro strokes five hits for the Orioles. Hoiles becomes only the 4th player in history to hit a game-ending grand slam on a 3-2 pitch with two outs and his team trailing by three runs.
1995
» LA pitcher Hideo Nomo hurls seven innings of 2-hit shutout ball, fanning 14 batters in the process, but still fails to record a win. The Pirates score twice in the 8th and once in the 9th to eke out a 3-2 victory.
1994
» Six St. Louis Cardinals pitchers combine to shut out the Pirates on two hits, 2-0. It is only the 3rd time in National League history, and the 2nd time in three days, that six hurlers have combined to blank another team. Tom Urbani gets the win, allowing one hit in seven 1/3 innings.
Pitcher Frank Viola undergoes surgery to repair a torn ligament in his left elbow and will be out for the year.
Marcel Lachemann is named manager of the Angels, replacing Buck Rodgers.
1993
» Seattle 3B Mike Blowers hits a grand slam to pace the Mariners to a 16-9 victory over Texas. Blowers also hit a grand slam yesterday, making him the 13th big leaguer to hit them in consecutive games.
Philadelphia 1B John Kruk gets five hits in the Phillies' 10-3 victory over Florida.
1992
» With a 3–2 loss to Seattle, the Blue Jays pass the one million mark in attendance, the earliest this has been accomplished. It took the Jays just 21 dates to do it. The previous mark was shared by the 1991 Blue Jays and the 1981 Dodgers.
In Boston's 3–1 loss to California, Wade Boggs has hit #2,000, the 6th Red Sox to reach the mark (after Yaz, Williams, Rice, Evans, and Doerr). Mark Langston is the winner.
1987
» Terry Kennedy hits Baltimore's only home run in a 3–2 win over the Angels, ending the Orioles' streak of nine consecutive games with at least two home runs. The Orioles will go on to hit home runs in 14 consecutive games.
1985
» The Cardinals trade OF Lonnie Smith to the Royals for minor leaguer John Morris, unloading Smith's $850,000 salary and clearing the way for rookie OF Vince Coleman to play every day.
The Rangers fire manager Doug Rader and replace him with Mets 3B coach Bobby Valentine. Texas was 9-23 under Rader, the worst record in the majors.
Oriole rookie Fritz Connally hits his 2nd major league home run—and his 2nd grand slam—in a 11–3 win over Seattle. Connally will hit one more home run before returning to the minors to stay.
1984
» In the 3rd inning at Cincinnati, Mario Soto strikes out four Cub batters (Tom Veryzer, Dick Ruthven, Bob Dernier and Ryne Sandberg) enroute to a 5–3 Reds victory.
1979
» The wind is really blowing out at Wrigley as the Cubs (6) and the Phillies (5) combine for a ML-record-tying 11 home runs and 97 total bases during a wild 10-inning slugfest won 23–22 by the Phils. Dave Kingman has three home runs and six RBIs for the Cubs, while teammate Bill Buckner has a grand slam and seven RBIs. Mike Schmidt's two home runs include the game-winner in the 10th off Cub relief ace Bruce Sutter. Bob Boone has five RBIs and Larry Bowa five hits. The Phils jump to a 7–0 lead in the 1st and lead 15–6 after three innings, and 21–9 going into the bottom of the 6th but can't hold it. Rawly Eastwick shuts out the Cubs for two frames to win. The two teams combine to have 21 different players score runs and the 2-team total of 47 extra bases on long hits (24-Phi) sets a ML mark for an extra inning game. It is the largest scoring game in the majors since August 25, 1922, when these same two teams met.
1978
» Lee Lacy hits a pinch home run as the Dodgers beat the Pirates 10–1. It is Lacy's 3rd consecutive home run in a pinch-hitting role, setting a ML record. His previous blasts were on May 2nd and 6th.
1977
» The Cubs hit seven home runs and wallop the Padres 23–6. Three of the home runs are consecutive shots in the 5th by Larry Biittner, Jerry Morales, and Bobby Murcer. With a lead of 22–2, starter Bill Bonham is yanked after six frames and Ramon Hernandez finishes, allowing up four earned runs in three innings. But he 'earns' his first and only save as a Cub. He goes from Cubman to Hubman in 11 days when Chicago swaps him for Boston's Bobby Darwin.
Sparky Lyle, in relief of Ron Guidry, pitches six scoreless innings and the Yanks push across three runs in the 15th to defeat Oakland, 5–2.
1976
» The Cubs send Andre Thornton, hitting just .200, to Montreal for P Steve Renko and OF Larry Biittner.
1975
» In Montreal, Johnny Bench and Ken Griffey hit homers in the 10th inning as the Reds beat the Expos, 5–3.
1973
» Angels OF Bobby Valentine breaks a leg trying to scale a wall to prevent a Dick Green home run during a 5–4 loss to the A's.
1972
» The Rangers take 18 innings to beat the Royals, 4–3.
Willie Mays, playing CF for the Mets, coaxes a leadoff walk in the first and scores on a triple by Ted Martinez. Sliding home, he knocks the ball out of C John Boccabella's glove and into the dugout, allowing Martinez to score. The Mets beat Montreal, 2-1.
1971
» The Red Sox sign P Luis Tiant, who had been released by the Twins and Braves during the preceding five weeks, and assign him to Louisville. He will put together three 20-win seasons for the Red Sox in five years.
Atlanta's Ralph Garr homers in the 10th and 12th innings of a game against the Mets, tying a major-league record for most home runs in extra innings. He's just the 4th to do it and the 2nd NLer. Art Shamsky last did it, in 1966. The Braves win 4–3.
Washington OF Tom McCraw "slugs" a 140-foot home run against the Cleveland Indians. SS Jack Heidemann, CF Vada Pinson, and LF John Lowenstein collide on his short pop fly to left center, and McCraw circles the bases before the ball is retrieved.
1970
» At Crosley Field, Hank Aaron collects his 3,000th hit, a first-inning infield single, and his 570th home run, off Wayne Granger, but the Reds beat Atlanta, 7–6 in 15 innings. Pete Rose's 9th inning homer knots the game at 3–3, and the Reds score another three in the 10th to tie the game at six apiece. The Reds score in the 10th on a double by Tony Perez and homers by Johnny Bench (who starts the game in CF) and Lee May. Don Gullett pitches the last two innings and drives in the winner with a single. Perez is 5-for-7 in the contest. Aaron is collared in game 1, a 5–1 Reds victory. The DH draws 33,217, the largest crowd at Crosley Field since 1947.
1968
» Joe Sparma takes a one-hitter into the 9th against the Senators, but Frank Howard homers to give the Nats a 3–2 lead. In the bottom of the inning, Jim Northrup wins the game, 7–3, with a grand slam, one of five he will hit this season. Howard homers for the 5th straight game; it is his 8th and the most anyone has hit in a 5-game span.
1967
» The Orioles become the 8th club in American League history with four or more home runs in one inning when Andy Etchebarren, Sam Bowens, Boog Powell, and Dave Johnson connect in a 9-run 7th. Also homering for Baltimore is Frank Robinson, Brooks Robinson and Paul Blair, the only time seven teammates have each homered. Those home runs make the difference in a 12–8 Baltimore win over the Red Sox. Boston's Carl Yastrzemski hits two homers, one coming in the bottom of the 7th; the total of five in one inning equals the ML record. Rounding out the round trippers is Don Demeter for Boston.
Philadelphia defenders record just one assist in a 7–1 victory over the Reds. This ties the National League record for fewest assists in a 9-inning game. Jim Bunning is the winning P.
Behind 8–2 to the Indians, the Yankees score five runs in the 7th inning. The big blows are back-to-back homers by Tom Tresh and Mickey Mantle into the RF bleachers. New York falls short, losing, 8–7.
Detroit's Mickey Lolich stops the Yankees on five hits to win, 4–2. Mickey Mantle has a homer and drives in both New York runs.
1966
» Reds ace Jim Maloney allows two hits in shutting out the Mets, 4–0, at Shea.
1965
» At Chavez Ravine, Don Mincher cracks a pinch homer to tie the game at 4–4, but the Angels push across a run in the 10th to top Minnesota, 5–4. Bob Lee is the winner. Mincher's homer will be the only Twins round tripper this year at Chavez.
1964
» Mickey Mantle's 2-run homer in the 1st starts the scoring and New York outscores the A's, 11–9.
1963
» Don Nottebart pitches the first no-hitter in Houston's ML history with a 4–1 win against the Phils. Carl Warwick goes 4-for-4 with a home run to back Nottebart, now 5–1 for the 9th-place Colt 45s.
At Cleveland, the Twins Bob Allison cranks out three consecutive home runs to lead Minnesota to an 11–4 win over the Indians.
1961
» Roger Maris connects for his 4th homer, and his first of the year at Yankee Stadium, against the Senators. Roger will hit an incredible 24 homers in his next 38 games.
1956
» Pittsburgh continues swapping by sending OF Bobby Del Greco and P Dick Littlefield to St. Louis for OF Bill Virdon. Virdon, the 1955 Rookie of the Year, was hitting just .211 for the Cards when GM Frank Lane unloads him. Virdon will hit .334 the rest of the year for Pittsburgh.
1955
» Paced by Joe Adcock's four hits, including a home run, the Braves defeat the Giants, 9–4. Gene Conley is the winner, despite giving up home runs to Willie Mays and Hank Thompson, but he does stop Don Mueller's 24-game hit streak.
At St. Louis, Cards rookie Grant Jackson hands the Dodgers their first shutout, stopping the league leaders, 3–0. St. Louis takes advantage of the removal of the screen from the RF pavilion by banging two homers -- by Red Schoendienst and Ken Boyer -- into the sector, 310 feet away.
1953
» In a 10-inning 6–5 win over the visiting Browns, the Yanks and Browns use 41 players to set a new ML record. New York uses 23. The 3 hr. 33 minute game necessitates the nite game being called after three 1/2 scoreless innings. The Browns jump on Whitey Ford, threatening to hand the lefty his first defeat ever as a starter, but three relievers bail him out. Don Larsen goes nine 1/3 for the Browns, with Mike Blyzka losing.
In the first game of a doubleheader, the Reds outslug the Dodgers, 13–5. In game 2, Carl Erskine of the Dodgers allows only one hit—Gus Bell's 6th-inning bunt single—in a 10–0 victory over the Redlegs.
1952
» Behind the spectacular pitching of Ben Wade, the Dodgers coast to a 12–7 win over the Pirates. Wade strikes out six batters in a row and does not allow a hit until rookie Tony Bartirome's single in the 6th when the Corsairs plate six runs. The Brooks get 11 hits including a bases loaded triple by Duke Snider. Roy Campanella is hit on the hand by a pitch from Ron Kline but x-rays reveal no fracture.
Vet Hank Edwards, replacing the slumping Johnny Wyrostek in RF, is 5-for-5, including two doubles and a triple, as the Reds defeat the Phils, 7–3.
1951
» Gus Zernial hits his 7th home run in four successive games to tie the major-league record set by Tony Lazzeri in 1936, as his A's beat the Browns 7–6.
The Browns trade C Les Moss to the Red Sox for C Matt Batts, P Jim Suchecki, Jim McDonald, and $100,000.
The Cards trade Erv Dusak and 1B Glenn "Rocky" Nelson to the Pirates for SS Stan Rojek.
1950
» After 11 straight losses to Max Lanier, the Dodgers finally top the Cardinal lefty 6–2 for the first time since 1943. Don Newcombe is the winning pitcher. Lanier helps his downfall with three balks, to tie the National League-record.
The Yankees reinstate Dick Wakefield, but he is not asked to rejoin the team.
The Giants sell catcher Ray Mueller to Pittsburgh and buy infielder Spider Jorgensen from the Dodgers.
1947
» A seagull flies over Fenway Park and pelts St. Louis Browns P Ellis Kinder with a 3-pound smelt, missing him by a gill. The unflappable Kinder holds on to top the Red Sox, 4–2, giving up six hits, including Eddie Pellagrini's 3rd homer of the year. Mel Parnell gives up three runs in four innings for the loss.
In Philadelphia, Hoot Evers breaks up a scoreless duel between Hal Newhouser and rookie Joe Coleman by hitting a two-out two-run homer in the 9th inning. The A's load the bases with no outs in the bottom of the 9th, but score just one run.
The Dodgers outhit the Pirates 12 to 4, but the Bucs win, 4–0, behind Fritz Ostermueller. Hank Greenberg's homer off Rube Melton in the first frame provides all the scoring until the 8th. Cookie Lavagetto has three hits, while Robinson, Furillo and Bruce Edwards collect a pair. The Dodgers have left 45 runners in five games, one reason they are 1–4 in that span.
The Yanks win a pair from the White Sox by 4–3 scores. Spec Shea wins the opener, collecting three hits a two runs scored. Joe DiMaggio's homer in the bottom of the 9th, off Maltzberger, is the winner. Bill Dickey has a pair of hits and a stolen base for the White Sox. In the nitecap, George McQuinn has three hits and scores the winning run in the 8th to break up the pitching duel between Spud Chandler and Chicago' Ed Lopat.
1946
» In the first of two at Cleveland, Bob Feller fans 14 in shutting out the Senators, 4–0. Feller allows five hits while the Tribe manages just six off Mickey Haefner. The nitecap is stopped after eight innings because of darkness with Walt Masterson the winner for Washington, 6–4.
1945
» The Giants score six runs in the 8th to vanquish the Cubs, 8–5. For New York, it is their 12th win in 13 games. Rookie Al Gardella starts at 1B for New York, and his brother Danny Gardella is announced as a pinch hitter in the 8th, but is switched for Billy Jurges.
Trying for their 12th win in a row, the Dodgers are scuttled by the Pirates, 12–3. Nick Strincevich stops the Dodgers, who fall three games behind the Giants. Luis Olmo's hit streak is also stopped at 14 games.
1944
» In the nitecap of a doubleheader, Bobby Doerr hits for the cycle, but last-place Boston loses to the Browns, 12–8. The loss leaves the Browns just a half game behind the Yankees. Boston outhits the Browns, 15–14, but Red Sox hurlers, including a 2-inning stint by infielder Eddie Lake, walk 14 batters. Emmett O'Neill is the loser to Al Jurisich. In the opener, Boston's Tex Hughson allows four hits in the 5–1 win.
1941
» The city of Philadelphia and the state of Pennsylvania declare a legal holiday to honor the A's manager on Connie Mack Day at Shibe Park. Connie declines to agree to a name change for Shibe Park to Connie Mack Stadium. George M. Cohan sings a new baseball song and then the Tigers put a damper on the day's festivities with a 6–5 come-from-behind win. Frank Croucher has three hits, including a triple, for Detroit.
The Phils Johnny Podgajny outduels the Reds Bucky Walters to win, 2–1.
Myril Hoag's clutch hitting paces the White Sox to a 3–2 win over the Yankees, as Chicago wins the rubber game in the 3-game series.
1940
» Chicago's Stan Hack, is struck by a foul line drive off the bat of teammate Hank Lieber and suffers a concussion. Hack was the runner at 3rd base and in foul territory when he was struck. The Cubs top the host Giants, 4–0, with Claude Passeau outdueling Hal Schumacher. Passeau allows just two singles, both by Joe Moore.
Ival Goodman cracks an 11th inning grand slam to pace the Reds to a 7–2 victory over the Phils in Philadelphia. Frank McCormick's 2-run home run in the 8th tied the score.
Cleveland rolls over the Senators, 18–1, scoring 10 runs in the 1st inning.
1939
» The first baseball game ever televised, Princeton against Columbia at Baker Field, Columbia's home field, is seen by a handful of viewers via W2XBS in New York City. Bill Stern announces, as Princeton wins 2–1 in 10 innings. The 2nd game of the doubleheader is not televised. Reviewing the game the next day, the New York Times sniffs, "it is difficult to see how this sort of thing can catch the public fancy."
Brooklyn and Chicago play a 19-inning 9–9 tie game at Wrigley Field.
Boston Bees P Fred Frankhouse beans Harry Craft of the Reds and is accused of throwing spitballs. Boston wins 6–1.
In a Northern League game at Crookston, Joe Hatten of Crookston strikes out two Superior Blues batters to win, 5–0. Hatten's ML call up won't come until 1946.
1935
» Washington 2B Buddy Myer is 3-for-3 with four RBIs as the Nats top Detroit, 10–8.
1934
» In his first game in Philadelphia since the Phillies traded him to the Cubs, Chuck Klein hits two home runs to pace first-place Chicago to a 10–3 win. Gabby Hartnett adds another as Chicago pounds four hurlers for twenty hits. Kiki Cuyler and Dolph Camilli have four apiece to back the five hitting pitching of Bill Lee and Pat Malone. Malone gets credit for the win.
Down 2–0 in the 8th, Browns manager Rogers Hornsby inserts himself as pinch hitter and ties the game with a homer off Red Sox lefty Fritz Ostermueller. The Browns add another and hold on for a 4–3 win.
The Giants defeat the Reds, 6–3, behind the hitting and pitching of Fred Fitzsimmons. Fitz poles a homer, has a single in a 5th inning rally, and scatters eight hits.
1931
» Willie Kamm, star White Sox 3B, is traded to Cleveland for Lew Fonseca, who will manage Chicago next season.
1929
» At Baker Bowl, the Robins hang on to edge the Phillies, 14–13. Chuck Klein hits a 2-run homer in the 9th, but the Phils leave the bases full when George Susce grounds out. O'Doul is 4-for-4 with four runs scored, while for Brooklyn, Babe Herman has four hits, including a homer.
1927
» Charlie Grimm singles in Hack Wilson with the winning run in the 22nd inning to give the Cubs a 4–3 victory over the Braves at Boston. Braves pitcher Bob Smith goes the distance, while Bob Osborn hurls 14 runless relief innings to win for Chicago. The two teams have now combined for a major-league record 40 innings in their last two games. Smith's 22-inning stint, the 5th longest in history, will not be matched this century. Only Oeschger-Cadore on May 1, 1920 and Coombs-Harris on September 1, 1906, were longer.
1925
» A 9-game winning streak propels the A's past Washington into first place. The A's will hold the top spot through June with the Senators always at their heels.
Washington's lefty Tom Zachary throws the pitch that Cleveland's Tris Speaker socks for his 3,000th hit. Zachary still is victorious today, 2–1, over George Uhle.
The Browns roll by the Red Sox, 11–6, behind the pitching of Milt Gaston. Red Sox P Buster Ross doesn't help his cause, committing four errors for an American League record.
1923
» When the Giants return big southpaw Rube Walberg to Portland (PCL) after a 2-game trial, the A's buy him. He'll be 4-8 in the first of his 15 ML seasons.
Grover Alexander finally issues a walk after starting the season with 52 IP without a pass for the Cubs. He walks three in a 7–4 win over the Phils.
Herman Pillette and the Tigers win, 6–2, at Boston, but Harry Heilmann's 21-game streak stopped by Red Sox P George Murray.
The Braves Dick Rudolph wins 1–0 over Pittsburgh's Wilbur Cooper in 10 innings. This is the only win of the year for the 35-year-old coach. He stops Charlie Grimm's 25-game hit streak.
1922
» In a 13 inning, 3–1 win, A's catcher Ralph Perkins has no putouts or assists. A's starter Fred Heimach and White Sox starter Red Faber go the distance. Perkins will have two straight games like today in September.
1912
» Boston's Fenway Park, built at a cost of $350,000, is formally dedicated, but the White Sox take a 5–2 win before an overflow crowd.
Chicago 3B Heinie Zimmerman goes 0-for-5 with three strikeouts to end his batting streak at 23 games. The Phillies win, 7–5.
1911
» Fred Luderus cracks an 11th-inning home run to give Grover Alexander a 4–3 win over Pittsburgh. The Phils (23-9) move back into first place.
1910
» Chief Bender follows up his no-hitter with a shut out, allowing four hits in beating the White Sox, 3–0.
1909
» After giving up a leadoff triple to Dick Egan, Christy Mathewson shuts down the Reds and the Giants paddle Jack Rowan to win, 6-0.
Red Sox catcher Bill Carrigan and Detroit infielder George Moriarty earn a suspension by AL Prexy Ban Johnson for their fight in a game in Detroit.
1907
» Pirates P Lefty Leifield's shutout over Brooklyn is preserved by a great catch by RF Goat Anderson. Leifield wins 1-0.
At the Polo Grounds, the Giants sweep two from the Cards by the scores of 2-1 and 4-0. Christy Mathewson wins the opener, allowing just three hits in 12 innings, while striking out 11. Matty's single in the bottom of the 12th off Fred Beebe provides the winning score. Joe McGinnity's shutout in the nitecap is New York's 16th victory in a row.
1906
» Detroit's Ty Cobb's bunt single spoils Rube Waddell's no-hit bid. The Philadelphia A's win 5-0.
Pittsburgh's Sam Leever faces just 27 Giants batters, allowing three singles, to top New York, 3-0.
1905
» Waseda University of Tokyo defeats Los Angeles High School 5-3 in the first game of an American tour. It is the first baseball game ever played by Japanese outside Japan. Waseda starts a powerhouse tradition at Japan's Big Six universities that continues today.
1903
» Ed Doheny outpitches Joe McGinnity, allowing just six Giants hits to give the Pirates a 3-2 win. Doheny also earns a 3-day suspension when, after hitting a popup in front of the plate, tosses his bat at Frank Bowerman while the big catcher is attempting to catch the fly.
With Sunday baseball banned in Cleveland, the Blues and Highlanders play at Columbus, Ohio. with Cleveland's Addie Joss defeating Clark Griffith , 9-2. Dave Fultz is not in New York's lineup today because he opposes Sunday baseball.
1902
» The Reds take another from the Giants, defeating Christy Mathewson, 6-1. Bill Phillips scatters six hits to win.
1901
» The Philadelphia Common Pleas Court rejects the Phillies’ suit against Nap Lajoie, Chick Fraser, and Bill Bernhard. The decision is appealed to the State Supreme Court, but the trio remains with the Athletics all season. Lajoie will hit .422, while Fraser wins 22 and Bernhard 17 for the 4th-place Athletics.
1899
» Honus Wagner is 3-for-5 against the Cleveland Spiders, but Louisville loses when Wagner is doubled off 2nd base to end the game. Honus forgot how many outs there and did not get back to the base in time. Cleveland OF Louis Sockalexis is fined in police court for public intoxication. The club releases him, and he signs with Hartford of the Eastern League.
Sporting Life indirectly criticizes joint ownership of two clubs with this comment: "Syndicate Baseball Results—May 17, 1898, Cleveland 16 W, eight L; May 17, 1899, Cleveland three W, 20 L."
1898
» Boston's Ted Lewis shuts out Brooklyn 12–0, giving up only one hit, a 9th-inning single, to opposing hurler Joe Yeager.
1897
» Pirates lefty Frank Killen, a 30-game winner last year, allows two hits to defeat Amos Rusie and the Giants 3–2. Pittsburgh's Denny Lyons has two fingers broken after being hit by a Rusie pitch.
1892
» Bill Hart of Brooklyn becomes the 3rd pitcher in less than two weeks to lose a no-hitter in the 9th inning in a 7–0 victory over Boston.
thecaptain
05-17-03, 10:06 AM
2002
? After the Twins score three times in the top of the 14th, the Yankees come back to win, 13?12, on Jason Giambi's one-out grand slam, hitting the first pitch from reliever Mike Trombley over the RF fence. It is the 21st time in history that a player has hit a game?winning grand slam?the ultimate grand slam?with his team down by three runs. Babe Ruth, in 1925, was the only previous Yankee to have performed the feat. Giambi's home run is one of six by New York as each team has 20 hits. The last time that two teams reached 20 hits was also on May 17?1996. Baltimore beat Seattle, 13?12 on 41 hits total.
1998
? Yankees pitcher David Wells hurls the 13th perfect game in modern major league history with a 4?0 win over Minnesota. Wells fans 11 batters in his masterpiece. OF Bernie Williams strokes three hits for New York, including a home run.
1977
Sparky Lyle, in relief of Ron Guidry, pitches six scoreless innings and the Yanks push across three runs in the 15th to defeat Oakland, 5?2.
1961
? Roger Maris connects for his 4th homer, and his first of the year at Yankee Stadium, against the Senators. Roger will hit an incredible 24 homers in his next 38 games.
thecaptain
05-18-03, 07:11 AM
1999
? The Yankees lose to the Red Sox, 6-3, as Joe Torre returns as Yankee manager after being treated for prostate cancer.
1962
? Mickey Mantle suffers a pulled groin muscle, tears muscles in his right thigh, and injures his left knee trying for an infield hit that becomes the final out of New York's 4?3 loss to Minnesota. He will miss one month.
1956
? Mickey Mantle hits home runs from both sides of the plate for the 3rd time in his career, eclipsing the mark of Jim Russell. The shots come off Billy Pierce and Dixie Howell, the 2nd tying the game. Mantle and Yogi Berra, the American League's top home run hitters, combine for 20 bases as the visiting New Yorkers nip Chicago 8?7 in 10 innings.
1955
At the Stadium, Mickey Mantle's 8th inning grand slam off Mike Fornieles powers the Yankees past the White Sox, 11?6. In the play before Mantle's blast, a grounder was ruled a dead ball after Hank Bauer interfered with Nellie Fox at 2nd, leaving the sacks jammed. The Sox lose Minnie Minoso for two weeks with a hairline fracture of the skull after he is hit by a pitch from Bob Grim.
1912
? The Tiger players protest Ty Cobb's suspension and vote to strike. Faced with a $5,000 fine for failing to field a team, club owner Frank Navin orders manager Hugh Jennings to sign up some local amateurs. Al Travers, Bill Leinhauser, Dan McGarvey, Billy Maharg (whose real name was Graham, "Maharg" reversed), Jim McGarr, Pat Meany, Jack Coffey, Hap Ward, and Ed Irvin put on Tiger uniforms. Two Detroit coaches, Joe Sugden, 41, and Jim McGuire, 48, complete the lineup, and score the only two runs for Detroit. The Athletics win 24?2, as Travers goes all the way, giving up 26 hits and 24 runs in eight innings. The only recruit to hit for Detroit is Irvin, who laces two triples in three at bats and closes his ML career with a 2.000 slugging average (only three other players will debut with two triples -? Roy Weatherly, Willie McCovey, and John Sipin). Only one ever plays another ML game: Maharg will bat once for the Phils in 1916. He will also be involved as a conspirator in the Black Sox scandal of 1919. A's starter Jack Coombs leaves after three innings with a 6?0 lead, good enough for a win under the rules at the time. Boardwalk Brown and Herb Pennock divide the rest of the pitching for the A's. Starter Travers, having pitched his only ML game, returns to his studies at St. Joseph's College and later becomes a Catholic priest
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thecaptain
05-19-03, 06:57 AM
1998
The Yankees defeat the Orioles, 9?5, in a game marked by a brawl which results in five ejections. Players involved will be suspended for a total of 18 games. The melee begins when Baltimore relief P Armando Benitez hits Tino Martinez in the back with a pitch following an 8th?inning home run by Bernie Williams.
1957
? At Yankee Stadium, New York knocks out Bob Lemon and tops Cleveland 6?3. Mickey Mantle hits a homer in the 6th inning rally, his 6th off the future Hall of Famer.
1929
? At New York, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig hit back-to-back homers in the 3rd off Boston's Jack Russell but in the 5th a cloudburst at Yankee Stadium sends a standing-room-only crowd rushing for the exits. A stampede in the RF bleachers leaves two dead, 62 injured. Jake Ruppert vows never again to sell more tickets than seats. There are two outs in the 5th when the game is stopped at 3?0.
thecaptain
05-21-03, 09:20 AM
1970
? A generous Mel Stottlemyre hands out 11 walks to Washington in eight 1/3 innings, but the Senators are unable to score. Steve Hamilton gets the last two outs to preserve the 2?0 win. The 11 walks in a shutout ties Lefty Gomez, who did complete his 1941 shutout. Danny Cater's 2-run homer in the 5th accounts for the scoring off Dick Such, making his first ML start.
1963
At Kansas City, Mickey Mantle homers in the first inning off Orlando Pena, then adds another in the 5th. Roger Maris follows with another homer and New York wins, 7?4.
1932
? Before 60,000 at Yankee Stadium, the Bronx Bombers roll over Washington, 14?2 and 8?0. Washington collects just 11 hits off Herb Pennock and Johnny Allen. In the opener, Ruth homers in the 5th off Lloyd Brown and he and Lou Gehrig connect in the 6th off Frank Ragland. Tony Lazzeri is 6-for-7 on the afternoon, including a HR, two doubles and a triple.
1930
? Babe Ruth hits three consecutive home runs in the first game of a doubleheader against the A's, then batting against Jack Quinn in the 9th, Ruth decides to hit right handed. After two strikes, he switches to lefty but strikes out. This is the first of two career 3-homer games for the Babe. Max Bishop draws five walks for the 2nd time in his career (he is the only player to do this twice), and Jimmie Foxx homers to help the A's to a 15?7 victory. Ruth is homerless in the 2nd game, a 4?1 Yankee loss, but Bishop has three more walks. Bishop will walk eight times in a doubleheader in 1934, the only player to collect more than six walks in an afternoon.
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05-23-03, 06:54 AM
1999
The Yankees defeat the White Sox, 10-2, in the 1st game of a DH. Roger Clemens gets the win for NY, giving him an AL record 18 consecutive victories over the course of two seasons. The White Sox come back to take the 2nd game by a score of 2-1.
1963
At Yankee Stadium, New York blows a 7?0 lead and allows Kansas City to tie the game and send it into extra innings. Mickey Mantle, leading off the 11th, is fooled by Bill Fischer on a slow curve, then cannons a 2?2 pitch that almost clears the RF roof. "The hardest ball I ever hit," Mantle later comments, a ball that, by some accounts, was still rising when it struck a foot below the top. It is conservatively estimated by Dr. James McDonald, a physicist who studies long-ball trajectories, that the ball would have traveled 620 feet if it had not struck the facade. "That was the only homer I ever hit that the bat actually bent in my hands," Mantle tells Dale Long, from whom he borrowed the bat.
1962
? Roger Maris, who went all of 1961 without receiving an intentional walk, gets four in a 12-inning 2?1 win against the Angels to set an American League record. Maris receives five walks in all. Four Yankee pitchers (Whitey Ford, Jim Coates, Bud Daley, and Bob Turley) combine to give up just one hit in 12 innings. Ford leaves after seven innings because of back spasms, and Coates gives up the lone hit, a one-out 9th-single to Bob Rodgers. 1922 The Yankees, who have been sharing Polo Grounds with Giants since 1913, begin construction on their own stadium in the Bronx.
thecaptain
05-23-03, 06:59 AM
2001
? The Yankees defeat the Red Sox, 7-3 as SS Derek Jeter gets five hits, including a double and home run. David Cone (0-1) takes the loss, going five innings and giving up three runs. Andy Pettitte is the winner.
1979
The Yankees trade pitchers with the Cubs, sending Dick Tidrow to Chicago for Ray Burris. Tidrow will regain his form in the Windy City, while Burris will be just 1?3 in pinstripes before being banished to the Mets.
1962
? Yankee rookie Joe Pepitone becomes the 6th player in American League history to hit two home runs in one inning. New York's 9-run 8th sinks Kansas City 13?7.
1957
? At Ebbets Field, the Yanks top the Dodgers, 10?7, in the Mayor's Trophy game. Al Cicotte allows two hits in six innings, and smacks two himself. Mickey Mantle is 4-for-5.
1948
? Joe DiMaggio hits three consecutive home runs for the New York Yankees in a 6?5, first-game win against the Indians. The first two home runs are off Bob Feller. Behind Don Black, the Indians take the nightcap, 5?1, to preserve first place -------------------------------- 1935 The first-ever scheduled major league night game is rained out in Cincinnati.
thecaptain
05-24-03, 08:33 AM
1996
? In Seattle, Ken Griffey, Jr. sinks the Yankees with three home runs, scoring five runs and driving in six as the Mariners win, 10?4. It is the first 3-homer game for Griffey. Scott Kamieniecki takes the loss, his last game with the Yankees. His season will end in a month when he goes on the Triple-A DL.
1989
? Yankees reliever Lee Guetterman gives up five runs in the 9th inning of New York's 11?4 loss to California, ending his consecutive scoreless inning streak at 30 2/3. It is the longest season-opening streak in the majors since Harry Brecheen's in 1948, and the longest season-opening streak ever by a reliever.
1979
? Billy Martin issues a public apology to Reno sportswriter Ray Hagar, with whom he brawled last November. Hagar had filed suit for assault, leading to an out-of-court settlement.
1977
? Carlos May and Graig Nettles hit back-to-back homers in the 6th as the Yankees come from behind to defeat the Red Sox, 6?5.
1967
? The Yankees top Baltimore, 2?0. Mickey Mantle's 3rd inning drive to the wall is caught by Frank Robinson but the ball pops out and over the fence for a home run.
1964
Mickey Mantle hits his second homer, off Fred Newman, in two days to start the scoring for New York. The Yanks top the Angels, 8?5
1956
? Mickey Mantle goes 5-for-5 with an intentional walk in an 11?4 win against the Tigers. Mantle is hitting .421. He combines with Joe Collins for back-to-back homers, off Duke Maas.
1952
? Jimmy Piersall and New York's Billy Martin first exchange insults before a game in Boston, then exchange punches in the tunnel under the stands. It takes coaches Bill Dickey and Oscar Melillo, along with starter Ellis Kinder, to break the fight up. Piersall goes to the clubhouse to change his bloody shirt and gets into another brawl with teammate Maury McDermott. He sits as Ellis Kinder stops the Yanks, 5?2.
1951
Mickey Mantle is 0-for-5 but reaches base twice after striking out on a wild pitch. The 2nd time, in the 6th inning, he reaches 2B before Detroit C Joe Ginsberg can retrieve the ball, and Joe DiMaggio follows with a homer to deep left field. New York wins, 11?1, behind Joe Ostrowski.
1936
? Yankees 2B Tony Lazzeri sets several slugging marks with two grand slams, a 3rd home run, and a triple for 15 total bases in a 25?2 slaughter of the Athletics at Shibe Park. Tony has now hit seven home runs in four games and six in three games. He also sets a new AL mark of 11 RBIs in one game. DiMaggio has three hits, including a homer, and Frank Crosetti also goes deep as a league mark is tied when nine Yanks score two or more runs. Another major-league record is tied when Ben Chapman draws five walks as the Yanks are handed 16 bases on balls. Gehrig exits early and is replaced by his favorite sub, Jack Saltzgaver. Monte Pearson is the winner over George Turbeville in the laugher.
1930
? In New York, the Yanks and A's play their 3rd doubleheader in four days. Babe Ruth homers in both games, giving him eight in six games, and drives home seven runs to help New York sweep, 10?6 and 11?1. Newly acquired Red Ruffing is the easy winner in the nitecap.
1935 At Crosley Field, the era of night time baseball begins as 20,000 fans watch the Reds beat the Phillies 2-1 in the first major league game ever played under the lights. During the pre-game ceremonies, President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushes a button at the White House to illuminate the field.
thecaptain
05-25-03, 09:40 AM
1994
The Dodgers release OF Darryl Strawberry.
1974
? The Yankees send C Duke Sims to the Rangers for P Larry Gura. Gura will go 5?1 with New York but because of reported differences with Billy Martin, Gura will be peddled to KC.
1966
? At Yankee Stadium, the Yanks maul the Angels 11?6. Mickey Mantle has two homers, one off Dean Chance and the other coming off reliever Lew Burdette.
1953
? The Yankees and Red Sox play the longest 9-inning game to date, lasting three hours and 52 minutes. Boston lefty Mickey McDermott take two hours, 45 minutes to pitch six of the innings, as Boston outlasts New York, 14?10. Mickey Mantle hits an opposite field homer off McDermott.
1935
? Babe Ruth has a last hurrah, hitting three home runs at Pittsburgh. The first shot is hit off Red Lucas, while the last two homers come off veteran Guy Bush. The final one, the last of his 714 career home runs, is the first to clear the RF grandstand at Forbes Field and is measured at 600 feet. With that, Ruth sits down in the dugout?Pittsburgh's?next to rookie Mace Brown. Ruth, who hit three homers in a game just once in the American League (May 21, 1930), is the first player to turn this hat trick in both leagues. Ruth lifts himself in the 7th inning, finishing the day at 4-for-4 and six RBIs. But Ruth's old teammate Waite Hoyt, in relief of Bush, is the winner as Pittsburgh defeats the hapless Braves, 11?7.
1922
? Babe Ruth is suspended one day and fined $200 for throwing dirt on ump George Hildebrand after being called out at 2B while trying to stretch a single in the 3rd. Babe then goes into the stands after a heckler and is restrained by GM Ed Barrow. On his way to the CF clubhouse Ruth gestures to another heckler in RF. Babe gets stripped of his title as team captain as a result. New York beats the visiting Nationals, 6?4.
1919
? Ever-popular Casey Stengel, now a Pirate, is good-naturedly applauded when he comes to bat in the 7th inning, doffs his cap in response, and to everyone's delight releases an "irate but much relieved" sparrow he had hidden there.
2002 Former major league pitcher David Cone is hired as a part-time television analyst by the YES cable network. The assignment also includes serving as a studio analyst on selected pregame and post game shows, covering five games Staten Island Yankees (Class A) and being a WCBS announcer for the June 14th Yankees-Mets game.
thecaptain
05-26-03, 09:17 AM
1993
? Texas OF Jose Canseco has a fly ball off the bat of Cleveland's Carlos Martinez bounce off his head and into the stands for a home run. The Indians defeat the Rangers, 7-6. 1962
? In New York, Al Kaline suffers a broken right collarbone while making a diving, game-saving catch off Elston Howard's bat to seal Detroit's 2?1 win against the Yankees. He will be out until June 23rd. 1959
? In a singular performance, Harvey Haddix of the Pirates pitches a perfect game against Milwaukee for 12 innings, only to lose in the 13th. Felix Mantilla opens the last inning by reaching base on an error. A sacrifice and an intentional walk to Hank Aaron brings up Joe Adcock, who hits one out of the park in right-CF for an apparent 3?0 victory. Aaron pulls a "Merkle," leaving the field, and Adcock passes him on the basepaths. Both are called out as Mantilla scores. Lew Burdette goes all 13 innings for his 8th win, scattering 12 hits. As a consequence of the baserunning in the 13th, the Braves leave an National League-record one runner on base. Haddix's gem makes him the 9th pitcher to lose a no-hitter in extra innings; A combined effort of three Reds pitcher, on May 26, 1956, was the last. Making Haddix's effort even more remarkable is the fact that the Braves hitter knew what was coming. In 1993, Bob Buhl admitted that the Braves pitchers were stealing the signs from Smoky Burgess, who could not crouch down all the way. They would place a towel on the bullpen fence in such a way to signal fastball or breaking ball. ------------------------------->>>>>> 2000 At Yankee Stadium, a fan falls from the upper deck and remains motionless on the screen behind home plate for about five minutes while the game is delayed against the Red Sox. The 24-year old man suddenly sits up and raises both arms high before being arrested on a disorderly conduct charge.
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thecaptain
05-27-03, 08:37 AM
1996 The Yankees pound the Angels, 16?5, to remain in first place by a game over the Orioles. Bernie Williams, making his first start in 14 games because of injuries, has his 2nd 5-hit game of the year, The Yankees, down 5?4 after four innings, jump on former teammate Jim Abbott (1?8) and two relievers to score eight runs in the 5th inning. Abbott will lose another five before winning. 1984 At Chicago, the Reds edge the Cubs 4?3 in a contest protested by both clubs. Ron Cey belts a 3rd inning blow originally called a homer by umpire Steve Rippley. The Reds argue the call and, after an ump conference, the ruling is a foul. The Cubs then protest. The umps then huddle with Reds manager Vern Rapp and tell him that P Mario Soto is ejected from the game. Soto charges the field tackling Cubs coach Don Zimmer and then gets re-ejected. Both teams then file a protest . 1953
? Eddie Lopat beats the Senators for the 8th straight time as he allows three hits in a 3?1 Yankee win. Joe Collins, Billy Martin, and Yogi Berra hit solo homers for New York. Mickey Vernon has a pair of hits to extend his hitting streak to 20 games. The win starts the Yankees on an 18-game winning streak, the 3rd longest American League streak of the century.
1943
? In a 3?2 loss to the Tigers, the Yankees Johnny Allen, incensed over a balk call, attacks umpire George Barr and is suspended for 30 days and fined $200. On May 21st, Frank Crosetti made his first start after serving a 30-day suspension for umpire pushing. This occurred in the 3rd game of the World Series when Crosetti pushed Bill Summers.
thecaptain
05-28-03, 08:29 AM
1999 Yankee OF Darryl Strawberry pleads no contest to cocaine possession and solicitation charges, and is sentenced to 18 months probation
1977
A Stadium crowd of 54,881, on hand for Jacket Day, watch as the White Sox cuff Ron Guidry for 16 hits, enroute to a 9?4 win over the Yankees.
1976
? Yankees Ed Figueroa and Tippy Martinez beat the Tigers 9?5 and hold Ron LeFlore hitless for the first time since April 17th. LeFlore had hit safely in 30 straight games, tying the 3rd longest streak in club history.
1967
? New York beats Cleveland, 5?0, and Mickey Mantle hits his 2nd homer in two days, and his 11th of the season. 1961
? After losing the first game 14?9 at home to Chicago, the Yankees take the nightcap 5?3 with the help of a Roger Maris home run. Maris's 9th home run of the season is one of 27 hit in today's seven American League games?a record. Twelve more in four National League games make a total of 39, a one-day major-league record for 11 games in the two leagues. 1960
? Casey Stengel is hospitalized with a virus and high fever and will miss 13 games. New York goes 7-6 under interim manager Ralph Houk. Today the Yanks top the Senators, 5?1, behind Jim Coates' 5th straight win. The game is scoreless until Mickey Mantle cracks a 5th inning opposite field homer off Jim Kaat, who then walks three, hits two batters, and a serves up a Gil McDougald 2-run triple good for three runs. Later Mantle homers again, and Roger Maris, leading the American League, also homers, the first time the two have hit round trippers together in a game. 1946
? The Washington Senators edge the New York Yankees 2?1 before 49,917 fans in the first night game at Yankee Stadium. 1941
? The New York Yankees edge the Washington Senators, 6?5, before 25,000 in the first night game at Griffith Stadium. George Selkirk twinkles with a pinch grand slam, and Joe DiMaggio triples against Sid Hudson. 1934
? In St. Louis, Lou Gehrig hits a 6th inning homer, off Paul Andrews, then follows Babe Ruth's 7th inning homer with another round tripper. The back-to-back homers, off Jack Knott, are the last the pair will combine on. New York gets homers from Jack Saltzgaver and Tony Lazzeri to rumble to a 13?9 victory. 1905
? New York City's police commissioner instructs his policeman to stop any Sunday baseball until the issue is resolved in the courts. The edict stops the Giants-Brooklyn game scheduled today at Washington Park, and almost gets Giants' ace Iron Joe McGinnity arrested. McGinnity is asked to pitch in a semi-pro game at a field at 46th and 2nd Avenue, but upon arriving gets into an argument about money and refuses to put on a uniform. The police moved and arrest all the players except Joe, who is in street clothes.
thecaptain
05-29-03, 08:39 AM
2000
? The Yankees defeat the A's Olivares, 4-1, on Pettitte's 2-hitter. In the 6th inning, Oakland 2B Randy Velarde turns an unassisted triple play, just the 11th in history, on a line drive by Shane Spencer. With runners on 1st and 2nd running with the pitch, Velarde tags Jorge Posada as he nears 2B, then touches the bag to retire Tino Martinez. In 1995, while with the Yankees, Velarde turned an unassisted triple play against the Dodgers in spring training following the strike. 1997
? The Yankees finally agree to terms with Japanese pitcher Hideki Irabu, signing the fireballer to a 4-year contract worth $12.8 million. The deal includes a signing bonus of $8.5 million. 1982 At Minnesota, the Yanks put runners on 1B (Graig Nettles) and 2B (Bobby Murcer) with no outs. When Roy Smalley strikes out on a wide 3-2 pitch from Terry Felton, Murcer attempts to steal 3B. But Sal Butera's throw beats him so badly he retreats to 2B only to find Nettles there. Gary Gaetti tags Murcer who is standing safely alone on the base, and then throws to Kent Hrbek to catch Nettles heading back to 1B. Murcer then tries for 3B and Hrbek's throw to Felton covering completes the triple play. Alas, Felton, 0?8 coming into the game gets a no-decision, and will lose another five to finish his career with an 0?16 record. 1934
? The Yankees purchase -- rent? -- spitballer Burleigh Grimes from the Pittsburgh Pirates. After 10 apperances with the Yankees, the Yanks will release Grimes on August 8th and the Pirates will pick him back up. 1928
? At Yankee Stadium, the Yankees sweep a pair from Washington, 3?2 and 12?3. Leo Durocher's bases-loaded triple in the opener gives George Pipgras (8-1) the win. Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth both slug a pair of homers in the nitecap: Lou hits his 9th in the 3rd, off Washington starter Milt Gaston, then Ruth and Gehrig hit back-to-back dingers in the 4th off Lloyd Brown. Ruth adds his 18th off Brown in the 7th. Earle Combs also homers.
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thecaptain
05-30-03, 08:52 AM
1986 The Yanks and Sox complete a six-player swap with Ron Kittle, along with Wayne Tolleson and C Joel Skinner coming to New York. The White Sox receive?again?Ron Hassey, along with Carlos Martinez and a player to be named later (Bill Lindsey). Hassey was traded from the Cubs to the Yanks in December 1984, back to Chicago (Sox) in December 1985, back to the Bronx in February, and now to Chicago. 1979
? New York's Cliff Johnson crashes into home plate umpire Lou DiMuro in the 11th inning in a game against Milwaukee. DiMuro, unconscious for 32 minutes, is taken to the hospital. Johnson scores the 2nd of three runs for the Yanks in their 11-inning, 5?2 win.
1970 All-Star Game voting is returned to the fans, as computerized punch-card ballots appear in stores and ballparks coast to coast. Since 1958 the All-Star squads had been selected by managers, coaches, and players. 1968
? New York and Washington split, with the Yankees winning the opener, 13?4, and the Senators the nitecap, 6?2. In the first game, Mickey Mantle goes 5-for-5 with two home runs, and five RBIs for New York. He sits out the 2nd game. Mantle's last 5-for-5 game was on May 24, 1956. 1967
? Yankee Whitey Ford, nearing 41, announces his retirement from baseball because of an elbow injury. His final appearance was a start in Detroit on May 21st, but he lasted just one inning. The stylish lefthander closes out with 236 career wins and only 106 losses for a .690 percentage. He played in only seven games this season. 1961 Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle, and Moose Skowron each belt two home runs, tying the major-league record for most players (one club) with multiple home runs in a 9-inning game. Berra adds a homer as New York wins at Fenway Park 12?3. 1960
? At the Stadium, the Yanks earn a split with the Senators when, in game 2, Yogi Berra belts a two-run homer in the 8th inning. When Mickey Mantle makes a catch for the final out, he is surrounded by a group a fans, one of whom punches him in the face as he races for the dugout. Because of the incident, the Yankees announce that ushers using ropes -- a tactic used at one point with Joe DiMaggio -- will escort Mantle off the field. 1956 Mickey Mantle hits one of the most memorable home runs in his career, in the 2nd game of a doubleheader with the Washington Senators. He tags a pitch from Camilo Pascual that comes within 18 inches of leaving Yankee Stadium, something never accomplished by any major leaguer. The ball was still climbing when it caromed off the upper-stand facade, about 396 feet from home plate. Estimates are that the ball could have traveled more than 600 feet. It is Mantle's 20th home run of the season; no one else has ever hit 20 home runs before June. Mantle also homers in the opener, off Pedro Ramos, with two on as New York sweeps, 4?3 and 12?5. 1951
? In a doubleheader loss with Boston, Yankee slugger Mickey Mantle strikes out three times in the opener, and twice more to start the 2nd game: Casey Stengel lifts the slugger in the middle of the game for Cliff Mapes 1938
? The largest crowd in Yankee Stadium history, 83,533, sees Red Ruffing end Lefty Grove's 8-game winning streak in a 10?0 victory over the Red Sox. Six thousand fans are turned away, and 511 are given refunds because there is no place to sit. The Yankees also took the 2nd game of the doubleheader, 5?4, in a game made famous for a fight between Yankee OF Jake Powell and Boston player-manager Joe Cronin. The brawl starts when Boston P Archie McKain hits Powell with a pitch in the stomach. Powell's charge to the mound is intercepted by Cronin and the two pummel each other for 2-3 minutes. Cronin and Powell are ejected but continue the fight in the area beneath the stands, until they are separated by Yankee players. Both players are fined and suspended for 10 days. 1932
? A plaque in memory of Miller Huggins, former Yankee manager, is dedicated at Yankee Stadium, the first of an array of monuments erected in the ballpark. The Yanks then sweep the Red Sox, 7?5 and 13?3 to increase their lead to five games over Washington>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>1922 Traded between games of a doubleheader, Cliff Heathcote and Max Flack exchange their Cardinal and Cub uniforms respectively. Both get hits for their new teams in the nightcap.
1927 Cubs' shortstop Jimmy Cooney completes an unassisted triple play as he snares Paul Waner's liner, steps on second to double up Paul's brother, Lloyd, and the tags Clyde Barnhart coming from first for the third out.
1935 Babe Ruth plays his last major league game going hitless in one at-bat against the Phillies.
thecaptain
05-31-03, 09:32 AM
1989
At Yankee Stadium, New York rookie Deion Sanders makes his debut. He throws out one Seattle runner, drives in a run, and triggers a 5-run rally in the 7th with a single to give New York the win.
1983
? American League President Lee MacPhail suspends Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for one week, citing "repeated problems" with the outspoken owner's public criticism of umpires. Steinbrenner, who had been fined $50,000 by Commissioner Kuhn during spring training for berating some National League umpires, cannot attend games or be in his Yankee Stadium office during the suspension. >>>> 1961
? Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris again homer as New York edges Boston, 7?6. Mantle's is #14, two ahead of Roger. In the 8th inning, Carroll Hardy pinch hits for rookie Carl Yastrzemski: last year he pinch hit for Ted Williams, making him the only player to go in for both future Hall of Famers. >>1931
? Yankee Earle Combs' hitting streak ends at 29, although the Yankees beat Washington, 4?2, in a rain-shortened 7-inning game. 1928
At Yankee Stadium, Herb Pennock tosses his 2nd shutout, beating Washington, 4?0, for his 8th win. Irv Hadley is the loser, giving up a home run to Cedric Durst and another to Babe Ruth, his 19th. Babe almost adds his 20th when he blasts a long high fly with two on, but Leo Durocher, the runner on first, holds up to see if the ball will be caught. Durocher scores but the Babe is cut down at the plate.>>>>>>>>>>1869 The first rain out in professional baseball occurs as heavy rain postpones the Red Stockings game against the Anioch Nine.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>1927 There is an unassisted triple play for the second consecutive day in the major leagues. During the ninth inning of a 1-0 game at Navin's Field, first baseman John Neun saves the victory for the Tigers as he completes an unassisted triple play by catching a Homer Summa line drive, tagging Charlie Jamieson who was on first, and beating Glenn Myatt to second base. >>>>>>>>>>>>1938 First baseman Lou Gehrig plays in his 2000th consecutive game and collects a RBI single helping the Yankees defeat the Red Sox, 12-5.
thecaptain
06-02-03, 08:19 AM
1998 The Phillies select University of Miami 1B Pat Burrell with the 1st pick in the First?Year Player Draft. Burrell's .888 slugging percentage is 2nd in NCAA history. The Athletics follow by taking Michigan State P Mark Mulder at No. 2; the Cubs take high school OF Corey Patterson with No. 3; Stanford P Jeff Austin is grabbed by the Royals at No. 4; and last year's top pick, J.D. Drew is selected by the Cardinals as No. 5. Drew will debut in September. The 19-year-old Patterson will get a record $3.7 million from the Cubs, but will sign too late to play in 1998, while Mulder will pocket $3.2 million from the A's. Picking 9th, the Padres select Sean Burroughs, son of former MLer Jeff Burroughs. Drew Henson, Michigan QB, drops to the 3rd round where the Yanks take him. 1996 At Oakland, the Yankees win 11?4 and do it the old?fashioned way?by stealing eight bases. Gerald Williams, with 10 career steals, has four steals to tie a club record, and rookie Derek Jeter adds 2. Kenny Rogers (4?1) is the benefactor, pitching six 1/3 innings for the win, as the Yankees stay one 1/2 games ahead of the O's.
At Duluth's Wade Stadium, Darryl Strawberry, in his comeback attempt, hits his first home run for the St. Paul Saints (Northern League), a mammoth 522-foot blast off Duluth Dukes pitcher Pat Ahearne. 1958 Yankee P Whitey Ford fans six in a row to tie an American League record as he shuts out the White Sox 3?0. Sox pitcher Jim Wilson allows just six hits but three -- 2 by Hank Bauer and one by Mickey Mantle -- are out of the Stadium. On a botched hit-and-run attempt, Luis Aparicio is thrown out at 2B ending his streak of 26 consecutive steals.
1941
? New York Yankees 1B Lou Gehrig dies of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at age 37 in New York. From that time on, the illness is known primarily as Lou Gehrig's Disease. 1935
? Babe Ruth announces his retirement as a player at age 40.
penguin4
06-02-03, 08:04 PM
1925 -- Yankees firstbaseman Wally Pipp gets beaned by batting practice pitcher Charlie Caldwell. Some rookie named Gehrig takes his place that day. Pipp will never start regularly at first base for the Yankees again; not sure what happened to that Gehrig guy, though....;)
Originally posted by penguin4
1925 -- Some rookie named Gehrig takes his place that day.
not sure what happened to that Gehrig guy, though....;)
:eek:
I heard he played in a few games in a row... something like that...
:lol:
thecaptain
06-03-03, 08:31 AM
1991
? LHP Brien Taylor of East Carteret HS in Beaufort, NC, is selected by the Yankees as the 1st pick in the major league draft. The Yanks will sign him for $1.55 million?three times the previous high
1980
The New York Mets select 18-year-old Darryl Strawberry from Los Angeles's Crenshaw High School with the first pick in the annual June free-agent draft.
1972
Bobby Murcer and Thurman Munson crack 3-run home runs in the Yankees' 8-run 13th inning to beat the White Sox 18?10. Murcer scores five runs on four hits.
1959
? At Detroit, Mickey Mantle homers off Ray Narleski in the 9th to give the Yankees a 6?5 win. New York chases nemesis Frank Lary with five runs in the 3rd.
1958
? Led by Mickey Mantle's 3-run homer in the first, the Yanks jump on Dick Donovan, who does not retire a batter. New York rolls to an easy 13?0 win over the White Sox.
1953
? Congress cites the research of New York City librarian Robert Henderson in proving that Alexander Cartwright "founded" baseball and not Abner Doubleday. His 1947 book Bat, Ball and Bishop documents Cartwright's contributions to the origins of the game of baseball.
1937
? Josh Gibson is credited with a drive that hits just two feet below the rim of Yankee Stadium, about 580 feet from home plate. It is estimated that the ball would have traveled nearly 700 feet.
1933
? Against the Yankees in New York, the A's score 11 runs in the 2nd inning, then watch New York score 10 in the 5th. The A's fail to score after the 2nd, as pitcher Jumbo Brown strikes out 12 A's in six 1/3 innings of relief. The Yanks win 17?11. Not until the Red Sox in 1998 will another opponent tally eleven runs in an inning at Yankee Stadium.
1932
? Lou Gehrig hits four consecutive HRs and narrowly misses a fifth in the Yankees-Athletics slugfest won by New York 20-13. Tony Lazzeri hits for the cycle, and the teams set a still-standing record for extra bases on long hits in a single game (41).>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>1998 Orlando Hernandez makes his major league debut defeating the Devil Rays, 7-1; 'El Duque', who escaped from Cuba by boat six months ago, allows a run on 5 hits in 7 innings.
thecaptain
06-04-03, 09:11 AM
1992
Carl Stotz, creator of Little League baseball, dies at age 82 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
1990
After selecting Carl Everett with the 10th overall pick, the Yanks pull two winners out of the low rounds: Andy Pettitte in the 20th round and Jorge Posada in the 24th.
1988
? Rickey Henderson steals two bases in New York's 7?6, 14-inning loss to the Orioles, giving him a club-record 249 as a Yankee.
1986
? Joe Niekro no-hits the Angels for 7 2/3 innings before Gary Pettis doubles, and Niekro combines with Al Holland for an easy 11?0 one-hitter. Dave Winfield homers twice for the Yankees.
1980
? The Yankees, with no picks in rounds one and two, select 18-year-old Billy Cannon Jr. with their 3rd round pick. After protests from at least two other teams, Bowie Kuhn rules that all the teams but the Yankees had been misled by a telegram sent by Bill Cannon, Sr, saying his son was going to play football. A special draft (excluding the Yanks) in August is won by the Indians, but Cannon elects to play football at Texas A&M. Following in the footsteps of his Heisman dad, Cannon will be the number one pick of the Cowboys in 1984, but a neck injury curtails his career. 1975
Lee Mazzilli of the Visalia Oaks (California) ties the minor league record when he steals seven bases. He will end the year with 49.
1969
? With the Twins ahead of the Yankees 3?2 in the 8th, Minnesota loads the bases, then pulls off their second triple steal of the year. Again, it is Rod Carew on the front end, his 5th swipe of home this year.
1944
? In Hawaii, Joe DiMaggio hits a 435-foot HR, but the seventh Army Force team loses 6-2 to a Navy team, as former major-league P Bob Harris throw a 4-hitter for the Navy.
1915
Ty Cobb steals home in the 9th inning of 3?0 Detroit win, the only steal of home that late in a game in his career. Yankee pitcher Ray Caldwell is so angry at the safe call he throws his mitt in the air and is promptly ejected by umpire Silk O'Loughlin. It is Cobb's 2nd steal of home while Caldwell is on the mound (the first was on May 12, 1911).
thecaptain
06-05-03, 08:40 AM
2002
Baseball commissioner Bud Selig announces that the sport will contract by at least two teams before the 2003 season.
1977
The Yankees hit six home runs, their most in three years, and barely edge the White Sox, 8?6. Bucky Dent, Reggie Jackson, Thurman Munson, Carlos May, Graig Nettles and rookie George Zeber connect. Zeber's clout, his first ML homer, comes off Dave Hamilton, and is the game winner.
1974
? Oakland's Reggie Jackson and Bill North engage in a clubhouse fight at Detroit. Jackson injures his shoulder, and Ray Fosse, attempting to separate the combatants, suffers a crushed disk in his neck He'll spend 12 weeks on the DL, virtually ending his season.
1965
? At Yankee Stadium, Mel Stottlemyre goes 10 innings to win 4?3 over the White Sox. Stottlemyre also clouts a 4th inning homer, off Gary Peters, for the first Yankee score in 24 innings. Mickey Mantle adds a homer in the 6th off Peters, and Elston Howard, recovering from elbow surgery a month ago, wins the game with a single in the 10th.
1963
? Mickey Mantle fractures a bone in his left foot and suffers ligament and cartilage damage to the left knee running into the chain link fence at Baltimore chasing down a Brooks Robinson drive. The Mick will be out for 61 games. Whitey Ford beats Milt Pappas 4?3, as the Yankees return to first place
1961
? In the first of two games at the Stadium, Mickey Mantle hits an 8th inning homer to help New York top the Twins 6?2. Mantle, Roger Maris, and Colavito each have hit 15.
1960
? The Yankees sweep two from the Red Sox, taking the opener on homers by Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris. Roger's blow is a three run shot to give New York a 5?4 victory. Art Ditmar is the CG winner in the nitecap, winning 8?3.
1958
In the opener of two, the Yanks rout Sox starter Early Wynn for a 12?5 win at the Stadium. In the 3rd, Mickey Mantle legs out his 3rd inside-the-park homer in a month. The Sox take the nitecap, edging New York, 3?2.
1936
? Lou Gehrig plays in his 1,700th consecutive game, as the Yankees beat Cleveland 4-3.
1920
? A's vice president Thomas Shibe denies charges that the baseballs currently being used are livelier. Shibe, a member of the firm that manufactures the balls, cites the abolition of the spitball and other "freak" pitches as the reason for the increase in HRs this season.
thecaptain
06-06-03, 09:28 AM
1999
The Mets defeat the Yankees, 7-2 to end Roger Clemens' 20-game winning streak. The Mets also end SS Derek Jeter's streak of reaching base in 53 consecutive games as they snap an 8-game losing streak of their own.
1990
? A week after the Mets fire their manager, the Yankees follow suit. Bucky Dent, the Yanks' skipper for just 89 games, is replaced by Stump Merrill, who managed the Columbus farm team.
1987
? Needing a replacement for the injured Don Mattingly, the Yankees reluctantly trade knuckleballer Joe Niekro to the Twins for C Mark Salas. Salas, not knowing that he's been traded, pinch hits a homer in the 9th to tie the game with the Rangers. He stays in, adds a single in the 11th, and the Twins win 3?2 in the 13th when Steve Lombardozzi's 2-out single scores Tom Brunansky from 1B.
1958
In New York, Mickey Mantle homers in the first against Indians P Dick Tomanek, then ties the game at 4?4 with a 3-run tomahawk off the Tribe starter. New York wins 6?5.
The Little League announces that four foreign teams will play in its World Series.
1944
? All major-league games are canceled as the country's focus is turned toward Europe while allied forces invade occupied France.
1921
? Babe Ruth hits a HR off Jim Bagby of Cleveland. The 4-bagger is the 120th of his career, breaking the post-1900 career mark of Gavvy Cravath.
1939 Bert and George Bebble and Carl Stotz form the Little League organization in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The three youth teams in the league have uniforms thanks to a $35 donation.
1941 The New York Giants become the first team to wear protective headgear as they don plastic helmets in a game against the Pirates.
1957 After an 86-minute delay, the first fog out in major league history occurs at Ebbets Field when the umpires call off the Dodgers' game against the Cubs due to poor visibility.
1965 Tom Tresh hits three consecutive home runs as the Yankees blast the White Sox, 12-0.
thecaptain
06-07-03, 07:58 AM
1980
? Yankee pitcher Tommy John posts his 200th victory, a two-hit, 1?0 win over Seattle.
1973
The Yankees trade three players -- 1B Frank Tepedino, OF Wayne Nordhagen and a player to be named -- to the Atlanta Braves for P Pat Dobson. Dobson had struggled in his one year in Atlanta after the Braves had acquired him from the Orioles. The player to be named will turn out to be 2?Alan Closter and Dave Cheadle. The Yanks also purchase 30-year-old Sam McDowell (1?2) from the San Francisco Giants for $100,000+. McDowell, who will later admit to a drinking problem (teammate Dick Radatz later remarked, "We thought he was just stupid. It turned out he was never sober") will pitch two seasons in New York before being released.
1971
? The Brewers trade Danny Walton to the Yankees for prospects Bobby Mitchell and Frank Tepedino. Walton hit 17 home runs in 1970, but is hitting just .203 this year.
1961.
The Twins lose to the Yankees, 5?1, for their 13th straight loss. They'll reach 14 losses in a row in 1982. Ralph Terry allows the Twins a run in the 1st on two hits, then pitches hitless ball for the next eight innings. Berry and Mickey Mantle homer off Pascual in the 3rd; it is a record setting 31 homers in the last 16 consecutive games.
1939
? In his first at bat since April 29th, Joe DiMaggio triples to pace the Yankees to a 5-2 win over the White Sox at Comiskey Park.
1927
At New York, ae Ruth and Lou Gehrig clout back-to-back homers in the 4th inning, off Al "Tommy" Thomas, to beat the White Sox, 4?1 and increase the Yanks lead over Chicago to two games. Pat Collins also homers for NY, while Bud Clancy matches for Chicago.
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thecaptain
06-08-03, 08:18 AM
1969
Mickey Mantle Day in New York. With 60,096 fans on hand, Mantle's number seven is retired and plaques he exchanges with Joe DiMaggio will hang on the CF wall at Yankee Stadium. DiMaggio's plaque comes as a surprise to the Yankee Clipper. The Yankees then sweep the White Sox 3?1 and 11?2.
1960
? Bob Turley tosses a 3-hit shutout against the White Sox, and Mickey Mantle adds his 9th and 10th homers of the season. His 2nd homer, in the 8th, is followed by Roger Maris's 16th of the year, matching his season total last year with KC. It is the first time the M Boys have hit back-to-back homers.
1951
Before 53,940 at Comiskey Park, Vic Raschi and the Yankees edge the Sox, 4?2. Mantle, leading the Yankees with 33 RBIs, ties the game with a single and throws out Nellie Fox, who tries to score from 3B on Minoso's fly to right.
1950
The Yankees score seven runs in the 6th to beat the Tigers, 11?4. Phil Rizzuto's record string of 238 errorless chances ends when he fumbles a grounder in the 5th.
1935
? In the lidlifter in Boston, Lou Gehrig is 3-for-3 with four RBIs to lead New York to a 13?6 win. Gehrig collides with Carl Reynolds on a play at 1B and leaves the game with arm and shoulder injuries. He does play in game 2, a 4?2 Boston win. Lefty Gomez walks eight and wild pitches home two runs to help lose his 7th.
1927
? Tony Lazzeri clouts three homers in the Yankees 11-inning, 12?11, win over the White Sox. Tony's first two round trippers come off Red Faber, and his 3rd is a 2-run line drive in the 9th inning off George Connally that ties the game. The Yanks were behind, 11?6, going into the 9th inning. New York wins it in the 11th after Cedric Durst triples, Lazzeri is intentionally walked, and Ray Morehart singles over Barrett's head in RF.
1921
? Babe Ruth is arrested for speeding in New York, fined $100, and held in jail until 4:00 p.m. Game time is 3:15, so a uniform is taken to him. He changes in jail and follows a police escort to the ballpark where he enters with New York trailing 3-2. They rally for a 4-3 win.
thecaptain
06-09-03, 08:31 AM
1999
The Mets lose to the Red Sox, 3-2, in 12 innings. NY manager Bobby Valentine is ejected in the 12th inning for arguing a call. He later returns to the dugout wearing dark glasses and a lampblack mustache. For his indiscretion, he will be suspended for two games and fined $5,000.
1992
? The Yankees trade P Lee Guetterman to the Mets in exchange for P Tim Burke.
1973
? At KC, the Yankees rally for five runs in the 9th to stop the Royals, 6?4. Newcomer Pat Dobson pitches five innings and allows one hit to win in relief. New York moves into first with the win.
1961
? Ryne Duren sets an American League record with seven straight strikeouts against the Red Sox. He fans 11 batters in a 5?1 win for the Angels.
In a rain-interrupted game in New York, Mickey Mantle's 3-run homer in the 3rd is the difference in a 8?6 win over Kansas City. Roger Maris also homers, the third time this year the two have gone deep in the same game.
1927
At New York, the Yanks win for the 3rd straight over Chicago, winning 8?3. New York knocks Blankenship out of the box in the 7th and Ray Morehart hits reliever Cole's 1st pitch for a 3-run homer. Babe Ruth follows with a triple and then steals home. The Yanks score six in the frame.
1922
At Chicago, the Yankees use a courtesy runner against the White Sox (as noted by Retrosheet). On a 2-out single to SS, Wally Schang is injured in the sixth inning when he slides into 1B, and is replaced by Al De Vormer. After the third out, Schang returns to catching. When Schang reaches base in the eighth, De Vormer again runs for him, this time staying in to catch.
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June 10th
1921 - Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees became baseball's career home run leader by hitting his 120th off Cleveland's Jim Bagby in the third inning. The Indians took the game 8-6.
thecaptain
06-10-03, 08:45 AM
2002 In front of 45,698 fans at Yankee Stadium, Marcus Thames becomes the 17th player in history to hit a home run on the first pitch he sees in the major leagues. The New York rookie, who hit his two-run dinger off four-time Cy Young winner Diamondback southpaw Randy Johnson, joins John Miller (1966) as only the second Yankee to homer in his first at-bat.
1998
Yankee OF Tim Raines steals the 800th base of his career in NY's 6?2 win over the Expos. He is the 5th player in history to reach that milestone. The Yanks lose Bernie Williams to the DL list when he injures his knee sliding.
1978
The Yankees send former ace Ken Holtzman back to the Cubs, his first team, in exchange for minor leaguer Ron Davis. Holtzman proved a disappointment in New York, and he will not recapture his form in Chicago. Davis will blossom in 1979 when his 14?2 mark sets a record for most wins by a rookie reliever. The previous mark was 13 wins by Yankee Wilcy Moore.
1975
? The Yankees sponsor Army Day at their temporary home, Shea Stadium (Yankee Stadium is being refurbished). During a ceremonial 21-gun salute, glass is splintered, the park is filled with smoke, part of the fence is blown away, and another part is set afire.
1966
The Yankees and Royals make a trade with New York acquiring P Fred Talbot and C Billy Bryan in exchange for pitchers Bill Stafford and Gil Blanco, and promising OF Roger Repoz.
1961
At New York, ex-Yank Hank Bauer hits a inside-the-park homer over Mickey Mantle's head to the CF monuments, but Mantle's homer in the bottom of the 8th off rookie Bill Kunkel cements New York's 5?3 win over Kansas City.
1960
? In New York, Mickey Mantle cracks his 3rd homer in three days to ruin a good relief effort by Cleveland's Dick Stigman. The 8th inning solo shot gives New York a 4?3 win.
1959
? Rocky Colavito hits four consecutive home runs in Baltimore's Memorial Stadium to lead the Indians to an 11?8 win. Colavito joins Lou Gehrig and Bobby Lowe as the only ML players to hit four consecutive four-baggers.
thecaptain
06-10-03, 12:57 PM
Originally posted by koko
June 10th
1921 - Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees became baseball's career home run leader by hitting his 120th off Cleveland's Jim Bagby in the third inning. The Indians took the game 8-6. It is a position the 'Sultan of Swat' will hold until Hank Aaron hits number 715 in 1974.http://www.baseball-reference.com/r/ruthba01.shtml
thecaptain
06-11-03, 08:31 AM
1993
The Yankees-Brewers game at County Stadium is interrupted by some 100 sea gulls who swoop down onto the field, apparently in search of moths hatching in the infield and outfield grass. The Yankees eventually win the game by a score of 5?4.
1988
? Batting seventh as the Yankees DH, ahead of Rafael Santana and Joel Skinner, pitcher Rick Rhoden hits a sacrifice fly in New York's 8?6 win over Baltimore. He is the first pitcher to start a game as a DH since the rule was adopted in 1973. Later, Jose Cruz replaces Rhoden as the DH.
1987
? Having traded for him last December, the Phillies deal Mike Easler back to the Yankees for a pair of minor leaguers.
1981
? The White Sox beat the Yankees 3?2, handing pitcher Doug Bird his first loss since August 16, 1978. The journeyman righthander had won 12 consecutive decisions.
1974
? Mel Stottlemyre makes his 272nd consecutive start, with no relief appearances, to set an American League record but he loses to California, 5?4. Dick Lange is the wining pitcher.
1964
? After a 2-week absence, Mickey Mantle is back in the lineup and clouts two home runs at Fenway off Bill Monbouquette. The Yankees win easily 8?4.
1961
? The Yankees sweep two the Angels, winning the opener, 2?1 behind Ralph Terry's 5-hitter. Yogi Berra clouts a pair of solo homers. In the nitecap, Mickey Mantle's 1st inning homer, #19, gives him the American League lead, but Roger Maris adds a pair of home runs, his 19th and 20th, as New York wins 5?1. The Yanks have won 10 of 11 games.
1927
In New York, Babe Ruth clouts two consecutive home runs (numbers 19 and 20) off Garland Buckeye, but in his next time up Ruth is set upon by Cleveland C Luke Sewell who demands that the umpires inspect the Bambino's bat. The umps find nothing illegal, but the crowd of 30,000 cheer the Babe, who strikes out. Lazzeri adds a homer and New York wins, 6?4. Burns is 3-for-3 with two doubles for the Tribe.
1915
? Yankees P Ray Caldwell hits a pinch home run for the 2nd day in a row. Nobody else in the AL repeats the feat until Joe Cronin in 1943. Tomorrow Caldwell will hit another, but he is on the mound in that game.
thecaptain
06-12-03, 08:22 AM
1995
? The Royals send Bob Hamelin, the 1994 American League Rookie of the Year, to the their Triple-A Omaha team. Hamelin, hitting .175 with two home runs, is the first top rookie to be demoted in his sophomore year since 1982 when the Yankees sent Dave Righetti down.
1962
The Yankees trade INF Billy Gardner to the Red Sox for Tommy Umphlett and cash.
1959
The Yanks top Jim Bunning and Detroit, 6?4, to give Casey Stengel his 1,000th win as the Yankee skipper. Don Larsen picks up the win.
1957
? Mickey Mantle again hits HRs from both sides of the plate, and drives in four runs, but the Yankees lose to Chicago 7-6.
1943
? Roy Weatherly of the Yankees, who caught 10 fly balls in a game April 28, does it again. He is the first OF to have 10 putouts in a game twice in one season.
1939
? The greatest gathering of members and future inductees of the Baseball Hall of Fame assembles in Cooperstown, NY, for the dedication of the museum. A six-inning game at Doubleday Field presents lineups studded with players who will be elected in the future, as Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Walter Johnson, Grover Alexander, Nap Lajoie, George Sisler, Eddie Collins, Tris Speaker, Cy Young, and Connie Mack accept their plaques.1839 The first baseball game is played in America.1928 Lou Gehrig collects fourteen total bases to lead the Yankees to a 15-7 win over the White Sox; the New York first baseman blasts two triples and two homers.1939 In front of a record crowd of 23,864 fans at Ruppert Stadium, Lou Gehrig plays his last game as a Yankee during an exhibition game against the Kansas City Blues, their AA farm team. Playing only three innings and batting eighth, the' Iron Horse' grounds out weakly to second base in his only at-bat.1981 Major League Baseball's first strike which begins after the start of a season cancels thirteen regular-season games.1997 After 126 years of major league play, the first interleague games in history are played as the Giants defeat the Rangers, 4-3, at the Ballpark in Texas. Glenallen Hill becomes the National League's first regular season designated hitter.http://www.nationalpastime.com/
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thecaptain
06-13-03, 08:34 AM
1975
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The Yankees Elliott Maddox, hitting .305, is sidelined for the remainder of the season with torn cartilage in his knee. The injury occurs in a fall on the wet Shea Stadium turf during a 2?1 win over the White Sox.
1970
? In a 9?4 Yankee win over Kansas City, Yankee infielder Gene Michael successfully pulls the hidden ball trick on the Royals Joe Keough in 6th after Joe singles in tying run. Michael will pull it again next month.
1964
Mickey Mantle is 3-for-3, including a homer, to lead New York to a 6?3 win over the first place White Sox. Mantle is hitting .331 and leading the Yanks in homers with 11.
1948
? The Yankees retire Babe Ruth's No. three jersey in the Babe's final appearance at Yankee Stadium on the 25th anniversary of Yankee Stadium. After the ceremonies the Yankees beat the Cleveland Indians 5-3.
1927
? New York defeats the Indians 14?6 at New York. Ben Paschel belts two homers, a triple and double to scores five runs to lead NY. Lazzeri, Collins and Dugan also homer with Collins a grand slam. Herb Pennock is the winner.
1924
? The first-place Yankees come to Detroit with the Tigers close on their heels. New York leads 10-6 in the top of the ninth. Bob Meusel takes a pitch in his back, hurls his bat at P Bert Cole, and charges the mound. Players from both teams start swinging. Fans rush out of the stands, eager to mix it up with players, police, and each other. The fight goes on for nearly 30 minutes while umpire Billy Evans, unable to clear the field, forfeits the game to New York. Cole and Meusel are suspended for 10 days; Meusel is fined $100, and Cole and Ruth $50 each.
1908
? Chicago's Three Finger Brown pitches a 2-hit victory over the Phillies, with both hits coming off the bat of Sherry Magee.
1994 At the age of 34, Cub second baseman Ryne Sandberg suddenly retires walking away from $16 million.
thecaptain
06-14-03, 08:20 AM
1998
? By defeating the Indians, 4?2, the Yankees tie the major league mark for most consecutive non?losing series at 24. The 1912 Red Sox and 1970 Reds also accomplished the feat. David Cone fans 12 in recording the win.
1994
? Baseball owners make a salary cap proposal, asking players to split revenue 50-50. Salary arbitration would be eliminated, and free agency for players reached after four years in the majors instead of 6. The players will reject the proposal on June 18th.
1978
The Yankees acquire OF Jay Johnstone from the Phillies in exchange for P Rawly Eastwick, who was a disappointment after New York signed him for more than $1 million.
1969
The Yankees trade OF Tom Tresh to the Tigers for OF Ron Woods.
1960
? New York beats KC, 6?2 behind Jim Coates and Roger Maris. Maris drives in five runs with a home run, double, and single. The Yankees have now 7th straight, all since Stengel returned from the hospital, and now are in a virtual tie with the Indians and Orioles for 1st place.
1958
The Cardinals obtain P Sal Maglie (1?1) from the Yankees for Joe McClain and $25,000. For Maglie, who will go 3?7 for the Cards, this will be his 4th straight year of pitching in both leagues, a ML record.
1934.
Yankee P Johnny Broaca, two weeks out of Yale University, gives up a 3rd inning single to Sammy West, the only St. Louis hit, to top the host Browns, 7?0.
1933
? At Boston, Lou Gehrig's consecutive-game streak survives, even though he and manager Joe McCarthy are thrown out of a game in the 7th inning for protesting that Boston's Rick Ferrell ran out of the baseline between 1B and 2B. Joe McCarthy is suspended three games but Gehrig's streak, now at 1,249, continues. Gehrig is 1-for-3 with a triple in the 13?5 loss to Tommy Bridges.
2002 Due to 14 interleague contests all played in National League parks, a designated hitter is not used in a full slate of major league games for the first time since 1972. Visiting hurlers will get plenty of opportunities to swing the bat as there isn't a home game scheduled in American League park for the 10 consecutive days.
thecaptain
06-15-03, 07:44 AM
1979
The Yankees send Cliff Johnson to the Indians for P Don Hood. Johnson had been in the Yankee doghouse ever since his brawl with teammate Goose Gossage that put Goose on the DL for two months. 1976 In what stands as one of the O's best trades ever, Baltimore obtains pitchers Rudy May, Tippy Martinez, Dave Pagan, Scott McGregor and C Rick Dempsey from the Yankees for veteran pitchers Doyle Alexander, Ken Holtzman, Grant Jackson and C Elrod Hendricks. The veterans will help the Yankees win in 1976 and then fade.
1974
? The Angels sell Rudy May (0?1) to the Yankees where he will post an 8?4 record this year.
1968 The Yankees sign outfielder Rocky Colavito after his release by the Dodgers. In another deal, New York sells P John Wyatt to the Tigers. 1961
? Undefeated Ralph Terry's 11-inning 3?2 win at Cleveland moves the Yankees into first place. Mickey Mantle's homer ties the score at 1?1 and Johnny Blanchard's pinch single in the 11th wins it. 1957
? In more fallout over the Copacabana incident, the Yankees trade Billy Martin to Kansas City with SS Woodie Held and OF Bob Martyn for P Ryne Duren, 2B Milt Graff and OFs Harry Simpson and Jim Pisoni. 1951 The Yanks swap pitchers, sending Tommy Byrne to the Browns for Stubby Overmire: New York adds $25,000 to the deal. The Yanks also deal three RH pitchers?Bob Porterfield, Tom Ferrick, and Fred Sanford?to the Senators for needed lefty Bob Kuzava. Porterfield will blossom into the Nats ace over the next five years, but Kuzava will save the final World Series game in 1951 and 1952. 1919
? A rain check dispute arises. Cincinnati rain checks read "not to be used after four and a half innings have been completed." But the game is called with the Reds at bat with one out in the bottom of the fifth and the game tied 1-1. The Reds honor the rain checks, but the Braves demand their share of the gate ($2,600), as a legal game has been played, based on the wording of the rain check. In a compromise, the Braves accept $1,300, and the other 6 clubs agree to share the cost. In future all rain checks will read "not good after five innings." 1938 In the first night game played in Brooklyn, Reds Johnny Vander Meer pitches his second consecutive no-hitter beating the Dodgers, 6-0.
thecaptain
06-16-03, 08:23 AM
2002 Mo Vaughn belts a 3-run home run in the bottom of the 8th off David Wells to give the Mets a 3?2 win over the Yankees. Mark Guthrie, in relief of Pedro Astacio, picks up the win. In the 5th, Piazza throws out Alfonso Soriano, ending a streak of 51 successful runners against Mike, not counting a 1-3-6 throwout on April 16. >>>>>>>>>>>> 1996
? Long-time voice of the Yankees Mel Allen dies at age 83.
>>>>>>>> 1977
? Ron Guidry throws his first complete game, a 7?0 win over the Royals. >>>>>>>>> 1966
? In New York, Rocky Colavito robs Mantle of a 1st inning homer by making a great catch at the bullpen gate. Mantle then hits a 3rd inning homer to the opposite field off Sam McDowell, and New York goes on to top the Indians, 7?6. >>>>>>>>> 1962
? A limping Mickey Mantle returns after a one-month absence to crack a 3-run pinch-hit home run in the 8th to give New York a 9?7 lead against Cleveland. The Tribe comes back to win it 10?9 in the 9th on Jerry Kindall's 2-run home run. Cleveland now leads the 3rd-place Yankees by a game and will sweep the 4-game series. >>>> 1938
? R-E-S-P-E-C-T. After hitting number 19 yesterday, Jimmie Foxx is walked a record six consecutive times by four Browns pitchers. One is intentional and one semi-intentional. But the visiting Red Sox win anyway, 12?8, before 1,028 paying customers.>>>>> 1909
Jim Thorpe makes his baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount (Eastern Carolina League) with a 4-2 win over Raleigh. It is the professional play in this year that will cause him to lose the medals he'll win in the 1912 Olympics.
thecaptain
06-17-03, 09:01 AM
2000
? The White Sox edge the Yankees, 10-9, despite seven runs driven in by NY's Bernie Williams. Williams strokes a single, a pair of doubles, and a home run in the losing effort.
1999
? Calling it "a bad biorhythm day," Chili Davis lines into a triple play and a double play as the Yanks go down to the Rangers, 4?2. New York wastes a 12-strikeout performance by Roger Clemens.
1987
? Dick Howser dies at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City. He led the Royals to their first World Championship in 1985, but was forced to give up managing during the 1986 season because of a brain tumor. His uniform number, 10, will be retired by the club on July 3rd.
1978
? Ron Guidry strikes out 18 batters?15 in six innings?in a 4-hit 4?0 shutout of the Angels, setting an American League record for lefthanders. The victory raises the Yankee southpaw's record to 11?0.
1961
? With two out and two on in the 9th, Mickey Mantle homers off Paul Foytack into the RF upper deck. Elston Howard follows with a home run, but Detroit hangs on to win 12?10 over the 3rd-place Yanks.
1960
In Chicago, Bill Veeck's new $300,000 exploding scoreboard is silent as no Sox players hit homers. However, when Clete Boyer bangs one in the 2nd inning, all the Yankees light sparklers and greet the third baseman on the dugout steps. Berra leads the sparklers in the bullpen. Mickey Mantle's 8th inning homer prompts another round of sparklers as the Yanks win, 4?2.
1959
? At Yankee Stadium, Mickey Mantle lashes a Ray Moore 3?0 pitch some 470 feet into the RF bleachers to lead New York to a 7?3 win over the White Sox.
1952
? The Holy Cross Crusaders defeat the University of Missouri 8-4 to win the NCAA College Baseball title.
1941
? Joe DiMaggio is credited with a hit in his 30th consecutive game when an easy grounder to short bounces up and hits Luke Appling on the shoulder. Chicago beats the Yankees 8-7.
1917
? The Giants and Yankees play the first Sunday game in New York for a war charity; 21,000 fans turn out.
thecaptain
06-18-03, 08:38 AM
1999
? Yankees OF Darryl Strawberry is suspended for 120 days, retroactive to April 14, for violating baseball's drug policy and aftercare program. He will be eligible to return on August 11.
1997
? At a packed Yankee Stadium, the Yankees edge the Mets, 3?2 on a 10th-inning RBI single by Tino Martinez. Solo home runs by Chad Curtis and Cecil Fielder off Rick Reed gives the Yankees their lead and Yankee starter David Cone dominates his former team and does not allow a hit until John Olerud's leadoff double in the seventh. The three games at Yankee Stadium draw 168,719.
1996
The Yanks manage just three hits off Brad Radke, but one is a 2-run home run by Tino Martinez, as the Yanks beat Minnesota, 2?0. Radke had retired the first 20 batters. Kenny Rogers pitches eight shutout innings for the win.
1984
? With 40,315 on hand in Detroit, Phil Niekro (10?3) stops the Tigers on three hits, 2?1. Kirk Gibson's homer in the first is the only score, while Don Mattingly's double in the 5th drives in the game-winner for New York.
1977
? New York's Reggie Jackson loafs after a Jim Rice bloop double during a 10?4 loss to Boston and is taken out by manager Billy Martin right after the manager removes starter Mike Torrez. Jackson and Martin nearly come to blows in the dugout as national television cameras watch. Boston connects for five homers in the game, two each by Carl Yastrzemski and Bernie Carbo. Fenway Park sees the largest Saturday afternoon crowd (34,603) in 20 years.
1976
? Commissioner Kuhn voids the A's sales, totaling $3.5 million, of Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers to the Red Sox, and Vida Blue to the Yankees, saying they are "not in the best interest of baseball." A's owner Charlie Finley files a $10 million damage suit against Kuhn, and will refuse to use any of the three players until June 27th.
1965
? The Yankees rout the first-place Twins 10?2 on four homers. Mickey Mantle cracks a grand slam in the first inning, and his replacement Ross Moschitto adds his first and only ML home run. New York is still 10 back in 7th place.
1960
? New York continues the fireworks in Chicago with long home runs by Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris and Skowron to win 12?5 and sweep the 4-game series in Chicago. The Mantle home run is over the CF fence and is followed by Maris's clout to the upper deck in right.
1938
? Babe Ruth is signed as a Dodgers coach for the rest of the season. He is in uniform for batting demonstrations the following day.
1979 Billy Martin returns to dugout to manage the Yankees for second time.
thecaptain
06-19-03, 08:22 AM
2002
The Yankees pound out 19 hits, including three home runs, as they defeat the Rockies, 20?10. But the Rockies are just the second major?league team to score seven runs in an inning (4th), but still lose by 10 or more.
2000
? The Yankees embarrass the Red Sox, 22-1. The Yankees break open a close game by scoring nine times in the 8th inning, and seven times in the 9th.
1995
? The Yankees sign OF Darryl Strawberry.
1994
The Giants sign OF Darryl Strawberry, recently released from a drug rehabilitation program in California, and then released by the Dodgers.
1979
? In New York 36,211 fans show up to witness the return of Billy Martin as Yankee manager, but the Yanks lose to the Blue Jays 5?4. Martin had been named to replace Bob Lemon (34-31) the previous day, and begins his 2nd stint as New York's skipper, a season earlier than previously announced.
1951
Before 61,596 at Yankee Stadium, Mantle has a homer and four RBIs, but misses two catchable balls. But the Yankees top the White Sox, 11?9 in the first of two games. In the nitecap, Mantle again homers, a three shot off Joe Dobson, but the first-place Sox take a 5?4 win.
1936
? Joe McCarthy is named to manage the AL All-Stars, rather than the high-strung Mickey Cochrane, who is very close to a nervous breakdown.
1922
? In the Yankees eighth straight loss, a 3?2 decision to the Indians, Babe Ruth explodes at umpire Bill Dinneen and gets tossed. He'll receive a two day suspension, his fourth suspension of the year, when he continues to complain tomorrow about the umpire. Again, it was a call at 2B that sets the Bambino off.
1907
? Miller Huggins, diminutive 2B of the Reds, leads off the game against New York with a home run off Christy Mathewson. The rare occurrence (he hits only nine in his career) astonishes the home town fans and they celebrate by presenting him with a pair of shoes, a gold watch, a 5-pound box of chocolates, a scarf pin, and a Morris chair. The Reds win in the 9th when Larry McLean drives home two runs for a 3-2 win.
1846 The very first organized baseball game is played between Alexander Cartwright's New York Knickerbockers and the New York Nine. It is proclaimed to be the very first ever game played in public using Cartwright's rules. (Our thanks to Alexander Joy Cartwright IV for reminding us of this historic fact)
1941 Joe DiMaggio goes 3-for-3 against the White Sox to extend his consecutive game hit streak to 32.
1961 Roger Maris' 25th HR, a ninth inning shot off Kansas City pitcher Jim Archer, puts him seven games ahead of Babe Ruth's record pace
thecaptain
06-20-03, 09:25 AM
1983 Yankee outfielder Bobby Murcer retires as an active player..... 1989
? The Yankees trade OF Rickey Henderson back to the A's for journeymen pitchers Eric Plunk and Greg Cadaret and OF Luis Polonia.
1956
? At Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle poles two Billy Hoeft pitches into the right CF bleachers, something no other player had done since the bleachers were built in the late 1930s. New York wins 7-4.
1946
? A Fortune magazine story gives some rare details of baseball finances, showing the 1945 Yankees revenue of $1.6 million and profit of $306,000, cut to $201,000 after minor league losses. Of the gross income, $896,000 is from home ticket sales
thecaptain
06-21-03, 10:00 AM
1997
Six inches of rain fall in a few hours in Milwaukee, flooding Milwaukee County Stadium to the third row. The dugouts are filled with water to the roof.
1996
? The Yankees acquire Billy Brewer and give Steve Howe his release.
1964
The Yankees move into first place by eight percentage points over Baltimore, as they outpitch the White Sox to win 2?0 and 2?1. Mickey Mantle and Elston Howard home runs win it 2?0 for Jim Bouton in the opener against White Sox pitcher Juan Pizarro, and an error wins the nightcap 2?1 in the 17th. The Yankees sweep 4, giving up just one run in 41 innings, and take nine games from Chicago in 11 days.
1960
? Whitey Ford outduels Yankee Killer Frank Lary to give New York a 6?0 win in Detroit. Mickey Mantle is 3-for-5 with two homers off Lary.
1950
? Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit, a 7th-inning single off the Indians Chick Pieretti, as the Yanks win 8?2. DiMaggio joins Luke Appling and Wally Moses as the only active players with 2,000 or more hits. Eddie Lopat is the winning pitcher, running his record against Cleveland to 25?6.
2002 During the New York-Penn League game between New Jersey Cardinals and Staten Island Yankees, a fan hops a fence goes and goes onto the field to argue an umpire's call at first base. The 38-year old woman is at the game with her 8-year-old daughter's Brownie troop.
thecaptain
06-22-03, 10:09 AM
2001
The Braves send controversial P John Rocker and IF Troy Cameron to the Indians in exchange for pitchers Steve Karsay and Steve Reed.
1999
In Atlanta's 2?1 loss to Montreal, Brian Jordan is hit on the right wrist by a pitch from Mike Thurman, and his batting will be hampered for the remainder of the season.
1996
In Cleveland, Ruben Sierra homers from both sides of the plate as the Yankees beat the Indians, 11?9. One of Sierra's home runs comes in the 9-run 6th inning. Albert Belle, back from a 2-game suspension, is 3-for-5 with a homer, and Eddie Murray adds his 488th home run for the Tribe. The game takes 4:10.
1994
? OF Ken Griffey Jr. leads the Mariners to a 12-3 win over the Angels by stroking his 31st home run of the season. In doing so, Griffey breaks Babe Ruth's record for most home runs before the end of June.
1977
It's not easy but the Yankees stop their 5-game losing streak with a 12?11 win over Detroit. The Yankees are led by Graig Nettles, with a three run homer, and Reggie Jackson, who belts a 2-run triple.
1965
? Ray Barker's ML-record-tying 2nd consecutive pinch-hit home run is wasted in a first-game, 6?2 Yankees loss to the A's. Mickey Mantle adds a home run in the opener, but in the 4?2 nightcap win he tries to score from 2nd on a wild pitch and snaps a upper-thigh hamstring. He will be out for three weeks. The June 21st Sports Illustrated cover features Mantle with the prescient title "New York Yankees: End of an Era?"
1961
? Roger Maris leads the Yankees on an 8?3 thrashing of the A's by belting his 27th homer of the year. He adds two doubles and a single. Maris has now hit 20 homers in the past 30 days (May 24 - June 22) to tie the mark set by Ralph Kiner in 1947.
1959
At Kansas City, Mickey Mantle drives in six runs with a triple and two homers to lead New York to a 13?6 win. Skowron adds his 4th homer in four days to move New York to three games out of first place.
1928
? Journeyman hurler Hank Johnson of the Yankees blanks the star-studded Athletics 4-0. In the game for Connie Mack's team are Ty Cobb, Mickey Cochrane, Al Simmons, Jimmie Foxx, Eddie Collins, Tris Speaker, and Lefty Grove.
1918
? It's a hot day in New York, and umpires George Hildebrand and Billy Evans don't show up, so Giants coach Mike Donlin and Browns trainer Bits Bierhalter take their places. The game takes 15 innings to reach an inconclusive 4-4 tie. 1916
Babe Ruth almost duplicates teammate Rube Foster's no-hitter, allowing just three singles, two by Frank Gilhooley, in beating the Yankees, 1?0. The game takes one hour: 18 minutes.
1930 Babe Ruth ties a major league record by hitting five homers in two games and six homers in three games. The Yankee outfielder hit three homers in the second game of the doubleheader yesterday, two homers in today's opener and one more in the nightcap. 2002 Commissioner Bud Selig decides to postpone the scheduled game between St. Louis and the Cubs when pitcher Darryl Kile is found dead in his Chicago hotel room. The 33-year old Cardinal pitcher is found dead in his Chicago hotel room apparently dying from natural causes as no signs of forced entry or foul play are found.
thecaptain
06-23-03, 10:33 AM
1997
In Detroit, Yankee righty David Cone strikes out 16, his highest total in six years, and Cecil Fielder hits a three-run homer as New York wins, 5–2. Cone, who had shoulder surgery to repair an aneurysm on May 10, 1996, allows four hits, including homers by Bob Hamelin and Damion Easley, in eight innings
1988
» George Steinbrenner fires Billy Martin for the 5th time, replacing him with Lou Piniella. In 1985, Piniella was fired and replaced by Martin. In 1985, Martin was fired and replaced by Piniella. New York's 40-28 record is the 4th best in the big leagues, but the Yankees had just completed a 2-7 road trip.
1963
Jimmy Piersall of the New York Mets hits the 100th home run of his ML career—and his only one in the National League—and celebrates by running around the bases backwards. Dallas Green of the Phillies, who gave up the home run, is not amused. Neither is Commissioner Ford Frick, who is in the stands. Nor are the Mets who will hand Jimmy his walking papers in a few days.
1962
Mickey Mantle returns to the Yankee lineup and homers against Paul Foytack. But it is not enough as Detroit wins, 5–4.
1959
» The Yankees ride 2-run homers from Mickey Mantle, Bauer and McDougald to a 10–2 win over KC.
1957
» Prime Minister Kishi of Japan, wearing a Yankees cap, is one of 63,787 fans at Yankee Stadium to see New York split with Chicago, winning the first 9-2 and dropping the second game 4-3. Mickey Mantle goes 6-for-9 as the Yankees maintain their 1Ž2 game lead over Chicago. Mantle is leading the AL in hitting, HRs and is one behind the Senators' Roy Sievers in RBIs.
1932
» Lou Gehrig plays his 1,103rd successive game in a New York uniform, equaling Joe Sewell's record with one team (Cleveland).
1927
» At Boston, Lou Gehrig leads New York to an 11–4 victory by hitting three home runs, a first at Fenway Park. Gehrig hits a two run homer in the 2nd, and solo shots in the 6th and 8th, off Danny MacFayden. He adds a single to his total as Dutch Ruether coasts to the win.
1917
» In the first of two games at Boston, Babe Ruth starts for the Red Sox and walks the leadoff man, griping to plate umpire Brick Owens after each pitch. On ball 4, Ruth plants a right to the umpire's jaw and is ejected. Ernie Shore hastily relieves. The runner Ray Morgan is then caught stealing, and Shore retires all 26 men he faces in a 4–0 win, getting credit in the books for a perfect game. Ruth is not fined, but draws a 10-day suspension. Boston's Dutch Leonard then beats Walter Johnson, 5–0, in the nitecap. Ruth is suspended for his actions, a ban that will last nine days. He also is fined $100.
thecaptain
06-24-03, 08:49 AM
1997
? 1B Tino Martinez hits two singles, a double, and a pair of home runs while driving in four as the Yankees top Detroit, 12-9. Chad Curtis adds five ribbies for NY.
1996
Former Yankees P Steve Howe, released by the team just two days ago, is arrested at Kennedy International Airport for carrying a loaded gun in his luggage. He will plead guilty to a misdemeanor and receive three years probation and 150 hours of community service.
1992
? Yankees P Steve Howe is permanently banned from baseball by Commissioner Fay Vincent after having pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of attempting to purchase a gram of cocaine. It is Howe's 7th ban from the game, as he becomes the 1st player ever permanently banned from baseball because of drugs.
1977
? Before 54,940 at Yankee Stadium, Roy White launches a dramatic 2-out 2-run home run in the bottom of the 9th to give the Yanks a 5?5 tie with the Red Sox, and New York scores in the next inning on Reggie Jackson bases-loaded single to win, 6?5. White's key hit comes after Bill Campbell retires the first two Yankees in the 9th and then Willie Randolph triples to bring up Murcer. Sparky Lyle picks up the win, handing Boston their 1st loss in eight games. With homers from Yaz, Hobson and George Scott, the Sox set a major-league record of 33 homers in 10 games.
1970
In a doubleheader with the Indians at Yankee Stadium, Bobby Murcer ties Lou Gehrig's record of four straight homers. The Yanks lose the opener 7?2, despite Murcer's 9th-inning home run off Sam McDowell. Murcer next connects off game 2's starter Mike Paul, hitting a solo shot in the 1st inning. A walk in the 4th, then a 2-run homer off Paul in the 5th, and a game-tying homer in the 8th, off Fred Lasher. New York scores in the bottom of the 9th to salvage a 5?4 win. Cleveland 1B Tony Horton hears a hoo and literally crawls back to the dugout after fanning on two of Yankee hurler Steve Hamilton's "folly floaters." Sensitive to fans' booing during the season, Horton will be hospitalized, and at 25, this is his last season.
1967
? Mickey Mantle breaks a 3?3 tie in the 9th with a home run off Detroit's Fred Gladding to give 9th place New York a 4?3 win.
1962
? A marathon between the Tigers and Yankees concludes in the 22nd inning when Jack Reed's home run?his only one in the ML?gives New York and Jim Bouton a 9?7 victory. Reed replaced Pepitone in the 13th. For the Tigers, Phil Regan takes the loss and Rocky Colavito has seven hits. Bobby Richardson ties a mark by going to the plate 11 times. At an even seven hours, the game is the slowest extra-inning contest in league history and it is the longest game in innings in Yankee history.
1958
? The Yankees erupt for five runs in the 4th inning off Early Wynn to beat the Sox 6?2 at Comiskey Park. Mickey Mantle's clout into the CF bleachers leads off the inning, followed by a single, walk and Jerry Lumpe's first ML home run, and a home run by Siebern. Duren K's six of the last nine batters to preserve Bob Turley's win
1936
? Joe DiMaggio ties three major-league records in New York's 10-run 5th inning against the White Sox, hitting 2 HRs for 8 total bases. With 2 doubles, he equals the modern record of four long hits in a game.
1934
? After being hitless in his last 21 at bats, Babe Ruth hits a grand slam in a 5?0 Yankee win over the White Sox
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RYMASTER or Ryan_Yankees
06-24-03, 10:56 AM
Bad day for Steve Howe. :lol:
thecaptain
06-25-03, 09:27 AM
1984
? At Yankee Stadium, Dave Winfield hits five singles and drives in four runs to lead New York to a 7?3 win over Detroit. Ron Guidry (6-5) is the beneficiary of Winfield's hitting. Dave is now hitting .750 against Detroit this year. Winfield has three five-hit games this month, tying a record set by Ty Cobb.
1977
? Mike Torrez outduels Luis Tiant to give the Yankees a 5?1 win over the Red Sox. Greg Nettles 3-run homer is the big blow. New York now trails the Sox by three games.
1976
? Ranger Toby Harrah becomes the only SS in ML history to go through an entire doubleheader without a fielding chance.
1967
Heavyweight contender Joe Frazier wants to hold a clinic to teach baseball players how to fight. "All they do is hurt themselves instead of the other guy," he said from his training camp. "Look at Joe Pepitone. He banged up his hands without getting a punch across. Baseball players should know about combinations as well as double plays." Frazier said he would hold a clinic on a day when the Yankees are off.
1934
? Johnny Broaca, Yankee P, fans five times in a row while beating the White Sox 13?2. Not until Bernie Williams, on August 21, 1991, will another Yankee fan five times (by Bret Saberhagen). Gehrig hits for the cycle for the first time in his career, and the Yankees regain first place from the Tigers, losers 13?11 in Philadelphia.
1941 Breaking the record set by Wee Willie Keeler in 1897, Joe DiMaggio runs his hitting streak to 45 consecutive games, with a home run off of Red Sox hurler Heber Newsome.
1972 After a legal battle, Beatrice Gera finally becomes the first woman professional umpire as she works a minor game in Geneva, New York. Auburn manager Nolan Campbell argues a close call which brings the new arbitrator reportedly to tears, and she will resign after the game.
1985 Due to bat boy Butch Wynegar being hit by a line drive foul ball, Yankees officials enact a new rule mandating the team's bat boys wear protective helmets during all games.
thecaptain
06-26-03, 08:54 AM
1980
? Commissioner Bowie Kuhn voids the Yankees' drafting of highly touted high school shortstop Billy Cannon, Jr. Four teams had complained that Billy Cannon, Sr., college football's Heisman Trophy winner in 1959, misled them with telegrams saying that his son would go to college, in the hopes that he would then be drafted by the Yankees. In a special draft, the Indians will pick Cannon but he chooses to attend Texas A & M instead. The young Cannon will be drafted number one by the Dallas Cowboys in 1984.
1979
? The Yankees reacquire the popular Bobby Murcer from the Cubs in exchange for P Paul Semall and cash. Murcer will once again thrive in Yankee Stadium hitting .273 with eight home runs.
1977
In front of 55,039 fans, the Yankees complete a 3-game sweep of the Red Sox, avenging the three losses last week to the Sox at Fenway. New York takes 4?1 lead into the 9th, but the Sox tie the game. In the bottom of the 9th, Paul Blair bounces a bases-loaded ball over the head of Butch Hobson at 3B to pin the loss on reliever Bill Campbell.
1961
? At LA's Wrigley Field, Angel reliever Art Fowler, who has allowed just one hit in his last 12 innings, serves up a 9th inning home run to Bill Skowron as New York wins 8?6. Mickey Mantle adds an earlier homer, off Ken McBride, and Ford wins his 13th.
1920
? Lou Gehrig gets his first national mention when, as a high school junior for New York City's School of Commerce, he steals the show in a high school championship game against Lane Tech in Chicago. His grand-slam HR in the eighth gives the NY team a 12-8 victory. Scouts sit with open mouths as the ball sails out of the NL park (later known as Wrigley Field).
1916 Three fans at the Polo Grounds are arrested for petty larceny by the NYPD for keeping balls hit into the stands.
1939 In Philadelphia, the Yankees play their first night game in franchise history losing to Connie Mack's A's, 3-2.
1944 At the Polo Grounds with over 50,000 fans looking on, the three New York major league teams played against each other in a six inning three-team game (a team played consecutive innings against the other two teams then sat out an inning). The contest, which was played to raise money for war bonds ended with the final score of Dodgers 5, Yankees 1, Giants 0.
1961 The Yankees beat the Angels, 8-6, and Yogi Berra collects his 2000th career hit, all as a Bronx Bomber. To celebrate the achievement a huge cake is rolled out in Wrigley Field in Los Angeles.
1964 University of Wisconsin star Rick Reichardt receives the highest bonus to date ($200,000) as he signs with Angels.
1985 At Clearwater's Jack Russell Stadium, Wilbur Snapp, the organist, is ejected by umpire Keith O'Connor from a Class A Florida League game for playing Three Blind Mice following a close call.
1987 Although the Red Sox have 9-0 second inning lead over the Yankees, Roger Clemens is unable to hold the lead with the Yankees winning 12-11 in ten innings. Boston's third baseman Wade Boggs sees his 25-game hitting streak come to an end.
thecaptain
06-27-03, 08:55 AM
1978
? New York's Graig Nettles belts a two-run homer in the 14th to give the Yankees a 6?4 win over the Red Sox. Dick Drago serves up Nettles' 13th homer of the year. Sparky Lyle (6?1) wins in relief. Ron Guidry (13-0) starts for NY and gives up eight hits in six innings. 1973
Led by 1B Joe Torre, who hits for the cycle, the Cards tally 22 hits to roll over the Pirates 15?4. Torre hit a double in the 1st, homered in the 3rd, and tripled in the 4th. After hitting into a double play, and then walking in the 8th, Torre asks to be pinch run for, but Red Schoendienst leaves him. Torre then singles in the 9th inning completing the cycle, and raising his average to .338.
2000
The Atlanta Braves back off from their decision to bar from their chartered flights four team announcers who had raised questions about the catcher's box at Turner Field. After TBS discussed the width of the catcher's box in a game against the Brewers three days ago, Skip Caray, Pete Van Wieren, Joe Simpson and Don Sutton were kicked off a flight to Montreal and had to take a commercial flight. TBS aired a video showing the catcher's box was four to five inches smaller than it was the previous night, when Milwaukee management complained about where Braves catcher Javy Lopez was setting up. Opposing teams have long said that Atlanta pitchers are given the benefit of an extra-wide strike zone, particularly on the outside corners. Catchers who set up wide of the plate can increase the chances of an outside pitch being called a strike. The video was shown after a rare balk call against Fernando Lunar, the Braves catcher. Home-plate umpire John Shulock ruled that Lunar set up with his right foot outside the 43-inch-wide box. The balk led to Milwaukee's first run and a heated argument between Shulock and Braves manager Bobby Cox, who was ejected. Atlanta lost the game 2-1.
1951
? Former Cubs farmhand Boyd Tepler brings a $450,000 suit against baseball, the Chicago Cubs, and William Wrigley, citing an arm injury he suffered in 1944. His suit contends that "negligent" coaching allowed him to continue with flaws in his pitching motion that resulted in damage to his arm and the end of his promising career.
1940 To honor the lyricist of Take Me Out to the Ballgame Jack Norworth Day is celebrated at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. Norworth or his partner Albert Von Tilzer, who wrote the music, had never seen a game when they created the song in 1908.
1911
? In the 7th inning at Huntington Avenue Grounds, the A's Stuffy McInnis steps into the batter's box to lead off and hits Ed Karger's warm-up pitch for an inside-the-park home run while the Red Sox are still taking their positions. Boston manager Patsy Donovan's protests to ump Ben Egan, but Egan rejects the protest on the basis of Ban Johnson's new rule prohibiting warm-up pitches. The A's win, 7?3. Ban Johnson's time-saving rule, which declares that pitchers must throw as soon as the batter is in the box, is soon withdrawn.
thecaptain
06-28-03, 12:30 PM
1997
Yankees' P David Wells starts the game against Cleveland wearing Babe Ruth's autographed cap from the 1934 season. Manager Joe Torre makes him take it off after the 1st inning since it doesn't conform to the team's current uniform. Without the cap, Wells blows a 3-0 lead as the Indians go on to a 12-8 victory. The Indians mount a 19-hit attack, as CF Marquis Grissom accounts for five of the hits, while 3B Matt Williams gets four hits, including a pair of homers, and drives home six runs.
1962
? Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle break a 0?0 tie in the 4th with back-to-back home runs to lead the Yanks to a 4?2 win over the Twins.
1939
? The Yankees hit eight HRs in the first game of a doubleheader with the A's, and five more in the nightcap. Both are major-league records, as is the 53 total bases in a doubleheader. Joe DiMaggio, Babe Dahlgren, and Joe Gordon each hit three HRs. The Yankees win the opener 23-2 and take the nightcap 100.
1928
? Babe Ruth slugs two HRs to lead the Yankees to a 10-4 victory over the Athletics, and Ty Cobb appears in his 3,000th career game.
1927
The Yanks build a 9?0 lead against the A's, and withstand an 8-run rally by the Mackmen in the 9th to win, 9?8. New York now leads the American League by 10 games. Lou Gehrig collects his 100th hit of the year, belting his 23rd homer with one on. Ruth, nursing a sore right knee, sits out his 3rd straight game.
1907 Yankee catcher Branch Rickey is behind the plate as the Senators steal 13 bases in one game. Although not a terrific player, 'the Mahatma' will become one of the premier baseball administrator in the history of the game.
1949 Joe DiMaggio returns to the line-up after missing the first 69 games of the season due to an ailing heel. The Yankee Clipper will hit four HRs in a three-game sweep against the Red Sox.
1996 Darryl Strawberry's 300th career round-tripper is a dramatic ninth inning, two-run dinger which gives the Yankees a come-from-behind 3-2 win over the Royals.
2000 The Rockies draw their 20 millionth fan to one ballpark faster than any other team in major league history. Taking less than six years, Colorado eclipses the Dodgers' mark of taking nine years in two stadiums to reach the milestone.
1999
? Hack Wilson ups his RBI total for the 1930 season to 191. 69 years after the season, an RBI is added by the commissioner's office, which also gives Babe Ruth six additional walks, raising his career-record total to 2,062. "There is no doubt that Hack Wilson's RBI total should be 191," commissioner Bud Selig said. "I am sensitive to the historical significance that accompanies the correction of such a prestigious record, especially after so many years have passed, but it is important to get it right." The missing RBI came from the 2nd game of a doubleheader between Wilson's Chicago Cubs and the Cincinnati Reds on July 28, 1930 where Charlie Grimm was credited with two RBIs in the game and Wilson with none. Ruth's walks total is now 2,062
thecaptain
06-29-03, 02:13 PM
2000
In a prescient move, the Yankees obtain OF David Justice from the Indians for OF Ricky Ledee and two players to be named. When Shane Spencer goes down in 10 days, Justice will take over LF. The trade occurs minutes before the start of the game against Detroit, an 8?0 Yankee win, and Ledee is scratched from the lineup. The Yanks tie a major-league record with three sac flies in one inning.
1991
The visiting Yankees score three in the 9th off Dan Plesac to beat Milwaukee, 9?8. Kevin Maas and Jesse Barfield homer for the Bombers. Teddy Higuera (3?2), in the first year of a $13 million, 4-year contract pitches seven innings, allowing three runs. Higuera, who started the year on the DL, will go on the DL again when a significant tear to his rotary cuff is discovered. This is his last ML appearance.
1968
In the first game of a doubleheader at the Stadium, Mickey Mantle ties the score with a 2-run homer in the 6th, but rookie Reggie Jackson breaks the tie in the 8th with his 9th homer of the year. The A's win, 5?2.
1966
? At Fenway Park, Mantle opens the scoring in the first inning with a 3-run shot, then sandwiches a homer between round trippers by Bobby Richardson and Joe Pepitone in the 3rd inning in New York's 6?5 win. The consecutive trifecta was last done for the Yankees in 1947, when Keller, DiMaggio, and Lindell connected. Richardson is 5?for-5 in the game. Mantle's two homers today, his 37th and 38th at Fenway, will be his last in Boston, and ties him with Babe Ruth for most homers by a Sox opponent.
1965
The Yankees lose Roger Maris for 49 games with bone chips in the heel of his right hand.
1950
Whitey Ford is called up by the Yankees from Kansas City (AA).
1941
? Joe DiMaggio singles against Washington knuckleballer Dutch Leonard in the sixth inning in the first game of a doubleheader to tie George Sisler's AL consecutive-game hit record of 41. In game two he collects a seventh-inning single off of Walt Masterson to set the record at 42 games.
1934
? Lou Gehrig is beaned in an exhibition game played in Norfolk, Virginia, and suffers a concussion.
1983
? Mark Fidrych, in the 2nd year of an extended comeback attempt with the Pawtucket Red Sox (International League), retires. The 1976 American League Rookie of the Year was 2?5 with a 9.68 ERA.
thecaptain
06-30-03, 08:50 AM
1986
The Yankees trade OF Ken Griffey to the Braves for OF Claudell Washington and SS Paul Zuvella.
1977
? Cliff Johnson becomes the 2nd player in three days to hit a pair of homers in an inning. He hits three consecutive home runs, including two in the 8th inning, as the Yankees rout the Blue Jays 11?5. New York (42?33) is a half-game behind the Red Sox
1972
? Joe Pepitone rejoins the Cubs after a brief retirement, and is 1-for-4 in the Cubs, 4?3 win over the Pirates
1961
? Whitey Ford (14?2) tops the Senators 5?1 to give the 2nd place Yankees their 22nd win of the month. Roger Maris drives in three runs and Mickey Mantle lines shot over CF Willie Tasby's that rebounds for an inside-the-park home run.1961 Whitey Ford becomes the first pitcher in American League history to win eight games in one month. 'Slick's' complete-game 5-1 victory over the Senators is the Yankees' 22nd win in June.
1960
New York beats up on their cousins from Kansas City by banging out five homers to win 10?5. Skowron leads with two home runs, with one each from Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris and Kubek.
1954
? Tom Morgan of the Yankees hits three Red Sox in the third inning of a 6-1 loss. Mickey Mantle's HR against Willard Nixon is the only Yankee tally.
1952
? Satchel Paige is named to the All-Star team.
1950
? Joe and Dom DiMaggio both home run in the 10?2 Red Sox victory over New York in the nightcap of a doubleheader. It has been 15 years since two brothers homered in a game.
1927
A crowd of 3,000 at Yankee Stadium see the Yanks hand the Red Sox their 12th straight loss, beating the visitors, 13?6 on 19 safeties. Lou Gehrig takes over the home run lead when he clouts his 25th in the first inning, a bounce home run off Slim Harriss, but Babe Ruth, back in the lineup, golfs his 25th in the 4th, also off Slim. Gehrig has three hits and also swipes home. New York (49?20) wins its 5th straight while Boston loses its 12th straight.
1959
? At Wrigley, a bizarre play occurs in the 4th inning when two balls are put into play. On a 3?1 count, Bob Anderson's pitch to Stan Musial is wild and bounces back to the screen. Catcher Sammy Taylor ignores the ball, assuming it ticked off Musial's bat, but Cubs 3B Alvin Dark rushes in to retrieve the wild pitch/foul tip. The bat boy tosses the ball to field announcer Pat Piper, and Dark finally retrieves it from him. Meanwhile home plate ump Vic Delmore has handed a second ball to Anderson. Through all this, Musial reaches first with what he thinks is ball four, and then streaks for 2B. Simultaneously, Dark and Anderson fire to the bag. Anderson's throw goes into CF, but Dark's to Banks catches the sliding Musial. Stan ignores the tag and rambles to 3B as play is stopped. Delmore then rules Musial is out at 2B, while Al Barlick rules Stan safe at 1B. Both managers play the game under protest, but the Cards drop theirs after dropping the Cubs, 4?1. The National League will drop Vic Delmore at the end of the season.
thecaptain
07-01-03, 09:52 AM
1990
? Yankees Andy Hawkins throws the season's 6th no-hitter, but still loses 4?0 to the White Sox. With two out in the bottom of the 8th, New York's Mike Blowers misplays Sosa's routine grounder for an error, and Hawkins walks two to load the bases. Outfielders Jim Leyritz and Jesse Barfield drop back-to-back fly balls to allow all four runs to score. Barfield loses Ivan Calderon's fly ball in the sun and the ball bounces off his mitt. Ken Johnson in 1964 was the last pitcher to lose a no-hitter.
1966
? At Washington, Mickey Mantle homers in the first inning off Phil Ortega, as New York edges the Senators. 8?6. Mick scores another run when Joe Pepitone cracks a 2-run homer.
1964
? It's "Taxi Day" at Yankee Stadium and nearly 5,000 cabbies and their families are on hand as Kansas City runs up the meter to win, 5?4.
1961
? The Senators stake rookie Carl Mathias to a 3?0 lead over New York, but a Mickey Mantle solo shot, a few feet left of the 456-foot sign in left at Yankee Stadium, puts New York on the board. The Nats up the score to 5?1, but Mantle then bangs a 3-run homer to make it 5?4 and knock out Mathias [who in his 11 ML games will give up three homers to Mantle]. In the 9th, Roger Maris poles a 2-run homer, his 28th, to give New York a 7?6 victory.
1956
? Mickey Mantle switch-hits HRs in the same game for the fourth time in his career. The Yankees win 8-6 over Washington.
1951
Before 58,815 at Yankee Stadium, the Yanks top the Red Sox, 5?2, behind Eddie Lopat's 6-hitter. The win moves the Yankees ahead of the White Sox by four percentage points. Jerry Coleman homers off Mel Parnell, while Johnny Pesky connects for the Sox. Bobby Doerr singles for his 2,000th career hit.
1948
? Brooklyn's Roy Campanella makes his debut, catching Ralph Branca. Campy doubles in his first at-bat, adds two singles, but the Giants win 6?4 over Ralph Branca.
1943
? The Sporting News switches to a tabloid format from a standard metro layout as a means of saving newsprint.
1941
? Before 52,832 at Yankee Stadium, Joe DiMaggio leads a sweep of the Red Sox 7-2 and 92. The 2nd game is called after 5 innings. DiMaggio has 2 hits in the first game and one in the second to tie Willie Keeler's major-league batting streak of 44 games. The Yankees have 25 hits in the two games but fail to hit a HR in the first game, ending their AL streak of 25 consecutive games with at least one HR. The previous record, set by the Tigers in 1940, was 17 games.
1935
? Yankees OF George Selkirk suggests a cinder path, 6 feet wide, be installed in the outfield so a player knows when he is nearing the wall.
1859 In the first college baseball game ever played, Amherst defeats Williams College, 73-32 (66-32 by some reports) in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 1950 'Eddye' Ford's Yankee debut is less than impressive as he gives up five runs on seven hits and walks six in 4 2/3 innings of relief against the Red Sox at Fenway Park. The lefty will go on to become he winningest pitcher in franchise history and will be better known as Whitey.
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07-04-03, 09:19 AM
2002 The Yankees obtain OF Raul Mondesi from the Blue Jays in exchange for minor league P Scott Wiggins. 1978
? Ron Guidry wins his 13th consecutive game, the best start in Yankee history, in beating Detroit, 3?2. With the Yankees down 2?0, Mickey Rivers long drive to right is caught by a fan reaching down to take it away from Detroit's Mickey Stanley. The fan drops the ball and Stanley, waiting for an interference call, fails to retrieve. Rivers motors for an inside-the-park homer and New York ties the game 2?2, eventually winning it.
1970
? Detroit's Joe Niekro no-hits the Yankees until Horace Clarke singles in the 9th inning. The Tigers win 5?0. This is the 3rd time in the month that Clarke has broken up a no-hitter, having spoiled bids by KC's Jim Rooker (June 4th) and Boston's Sonny Siebert (June 19th).
1962
At Yankee Stadium, Mickey Mantle deposits a 6th inning homer halfway up the third tier in right to lead New York to a 8?4 win over the A's. Mick walks his other three times up.
1946
? The Yankees nip the Red Sox 2-1 before a Stadium crowd of 69,107. Spud Chandler walks nine in the first 4 innings but takes a no-hitter into the 9th before Bobby Doerr hits a one-out single. 1941 On sweltering day in front of 52,832 fans at Yankee Stadium, Joe DiMaggio breaks Wee Willie Keeler's 1897's major league record consecutive game hit streak of 45 with a three-run homer off Red Sox hurler Dick Newsome.
1931
? Babe Ruth homers to drive in a run for the 11th consecutive game as the Yankees drub Detroit 12-1. Ruth has 18 RBI in the string.
1930
? Carl Reynolds of the White Sox hits three consecutive HRs in the second game of a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium. Two of them are hit inside the park. The feat is second-billed, as headlines tell of Ruth tearing a nail off his finger on the OF screen.
2002
At Cincinnati, the Astros and Reds play the first inning with non?regulation baseballs, the result of a mix?up by an attendant in the umpires' locker room. The attendant did not notice the word "practice" stenciled on the 144 balls he rubbed up for the game; the practice balls generally have defects such as irregular stitching or weight deviations. Astros pitcher Wade Miller notices the practice ball when warming up and informs ump Mark Hirschbeck, who rules that the practice balls must be used in the bottom of the 1st before switching. Reds starter Wade Miller served up a homer in the 1st to Lance Berkman, who hits another in his next at bat, good for five RBIs. He leads the National League with 74 ribbies. The Astros win in the 10th, 6?5. Austin Kearns has four hits, and Adam Dunn a homer for the Reds.
1987
Jim Eisenreich, making a comeback after being forced out of the major leagues by a nervous disorder. in 1984, hits his first ML home run since 1982 to lead the Royals to a 10?3 win over his former club, the Twins.
1957
? The Women's Christian Temperance Union charges that baseball has become "beerball," since so many broadcasts are sponsored by breweries.
1956
? NBC pays $16.25 million for the TV-radio rights to the All-Star Game and the WS. The players' pension fund will get 60 percent of the revenues.
1939
? In a doubleheader with the Dodgers before 51,435 at the Polo Grounds, the fireworks start two days early. The Dodgers take a uneventful opener 3-2, but in the fourth inning of the nitecap, Dodger player-manager Leo Durocher ends the inning by grounding into a DP and spikes 1B Zeke Bonura as he crosses the bag. Bonura takes off after Durocher, chases him down the RF line, and throws his mitt at him. He finally wrestles him to the ground. Both players are ejected, and the Giants go on to win 6-4. To Bonura's charge of intentional spiking, the Lip retorts, "If that big clown hadn't got his foot in my way, I wouldn't have been close to him."
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07-04-03, 09:31 AM
1996
The Yankees sign Venezuelan Jackson Melian, just turned 16, to a contract for $1.6 million. His bonus is a record for Latino ball players.
1994
The Indians retire Larry Doby's uniform number 47 years after he broke the American League color line.
1980
? The ML's largest crowd in seven years (73,096) watches Wayne Garland 2-hit the Yankees 7?0 at Cleveland Stadium.
1977
Ron Guidry scatters six hits and tosses his 2nd consecutive shutout, a 2?0 Yankee win over Detroit. Roy White breaks the scoreless game with a double in the 8th inning.
1966
? Pitcher Tony Cloninger hits two grand slams and drives in nine runs, as the Braves rout the Giants at Candlestick Park 17?3. Cloninger is the first National League player to slam two in a game, and the first pitcher ever, and his nine RBIs are a major-league record for pitchers, breaking Vic Raschi's mark of 7. The National League record for pitchers was 5, held by several: the last hurler to collect five RBIs in a game is Cloninger, who had five on June 16th against the Mets (as noted by Tom Zocco).
Mickey Mantle hits a first inning homer, and for the 2nd time this week has hit three home runs in consecutive times at bat. New York blows a 5?0 lead in the 8th as the Senators storm back. Bobby Richardson homers in the 11th to give New York a 6?5 lead. In the bottom of the inning, Paul Casanova goes is on first when a sac bunt moves him to 2B. He overruns the bag and decides to head to 3B where he knocks the ball away from Tom Tresh. He then continues to home where he is thrown out by a mile.
1962
? The Yankees need all five home runs -- 2 each by Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, plus one by Bobby Richardson -- to edge the A's 8?7. Mantle's 2nd homer, in the 8th, is the tie breaker.
1960
? Before 50,556 fans in New York, the Yankees sweep two from the Tigers, winning 7?6 and 6?2. In the opener, Ryne Duran fans Charlie Maxwell with the bases loaded and two outs in the 9th. Detroit is ahead 2?1 in the night cap when Norm Cash argues at length about a call at first base, and finally gets tossed. When play resumes, Pete Burnside serves up a 3-run homer to Mickey Mantle, batting righty. The Yankees are 23?5 since June five and lead the American League by three games.
1950
? With rookie Joe Collins not hitting and Tommy Henrich still injured, Casey Stengel asks Joe DiMaggio to play 1B in an experiment. In the 7?2 loss he handles 13 cleanly but is clearly not happy with the move. After this one-game experiment, Joe returns to the outfield.
1922
? Bob Meusel hits for the cycle for the 2nd time in his career to pace the Yankees to a 12?1 whipping of the Athletics. Meusel and Ruth go back-to-back in the 7th as Carl Mays cruises to his 22nd straight win over the Athletics. As noted by historian Ted Farmer, all of the wins have been complete games.
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07-04-03, 09:44 AM
1939
? A tearful Lou Gehrig tells 61,808 fans at Yankee Stadium, "I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth," Gehrig's uniform #4 is retired, the first major-league player so honored. 1996
? The Yankees provide the fireworks, signing Darryl Strawberry. On June 24th, Yankee GM Bob Watson said five times that Strawberry "doesn't fit."
1984
? Phil Niekro strikes out five batters in the Yankees 5?0 win over Texas to become the 9th pitcher in ML history to record 3,000 career strikeouts.
1983
? Dave Righetti pitches the Yankees' first no-hitter since Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series, handcuffing the Red Sox 4?0 before a holiday crowd of 41,077 at Yankee Stadium. It's the first no-hitter by a Yankee lefty since George Mogridge in 1917.
1967
In Minnesota, Mudcat Grant(< I still get a kick out of this name) stops the Yankees to give the Twins a 8?3 victory. Mickey Mantle drives in all three New York runs with two homers.
1964
In New York, Minnesota is leading 5?4, when Mickey Mantle parks a 3-run shot off Al Worthington in the 8th to win it, 7?5. 1960
? Mickey Mantle's 3-run first-inning home run off Hal Woodeshick is the 300th of his career. Mantle becomes the 18th player to join the 300 club, but the Yankees drop a 9?8 decision to Washington.
1959
? Yankee Bob Turley turns in another one-hit masterpiece at Washington. A lazy fly in the 9th by pinch-hitter Julio Becquer drops in front of LF Norm Siebern for the only Senator safety. SS Tony Kubek goes 8-for-10 in the doubleheader, as the Yanks sweep 10?6 and 7?0.
1925
? The Athletics' Lefty Grove battles the Yankees' Herb Pennock 15 innings before taking a 1-0 loss. Pennock is a model of control, issuing no walks and giving up four hits.
1985
? In a marathon game that borders on the surreal, the Mets endure two rain delays and 6:10 of playing time to beat the Braves 16?13 in 19 innings on Fireworks Night in Atlanta. The Mets had taken a 10?8 lead in the top of the 13th inning, only to watch the Braves tie it up. The Mets score again in the 18th, but relief hurler Rick Camp (a .060 hitter who was batting because Atlanta had no more position players available to pinch-hit) ties the score with his first ML home run on a 2-out 2-strike pitch in the bottom of the inning. No pitcher ever homered that late in a game before. Finally the Mets erupt for five runs in the 19th off Camp and Atlanta can respond only with 2. Keith Hernandez hits for the cycle for the Mets, and the game ends at 3:55 A.M. on July 5th, the latest finish in ML history. At 4:01 A.M. the post-game fireworks display begins, causing local residents to think the city is under attack.
1934
? When Dodgers manager Casey Stengel comes out to the mound to remove P Boom Boom Beck from the game in Philadelphia's Baker Bowl, the frustrated Beck turns and fires the ball at the tin wall in RF. Dodgers OF Hack Wilson, not paying attention to the happenings, hears the ball, hurries to retrieve it, and fires a strike to 2B to prevent the imaginary runner from advancing. 1932
Yankees C Bill Dickey breaks Carl Reynolds' jaw with a punch, sidelining the Senators OF indefinitely. Dickey is suspended for 30 days and assessed a $1,000 fine. 1976 When Tim McCarver passes teammate Garry Maddox on the bases he loses his grand slam, but the Phillies still defeat the Pirates, 10-5.
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07-05-03, 10:04 AM
July 5th
2002
The Yankees obtain P Jeff Weaver from the Tigers in a 3?team deal. NY sends P Ted Lilly to the Oakland A's while the Athletics send IF Carlos Pena to Detroit. The Tigers also acquire P Franklin German and a player to be named from Oakland, while the A's get OF John?Ford Griffin and P Jason Arnold from New York.
1961
? At Yankee Stadium, Roger Maris cracks a 7th inning solo home run against the Indians, and also is credited?erroneously, as it turns out?with a 3rd inning RBI on a single. The two RBIs are officially recorded, though just one appears in the game's box score, and the error will not be noted until 1995. With the correction, Maris and Jim Gentile become co-leaders in RBIs for the season.
1950
? In a sloppy game that features 18 walks, Cliff Mapes drives in five runs with a homer and single to pace the Yankees to a 12?8 win over the Athletics. Tommy Byrne (9-3) is the winner despite giving up six hits and six walks in five innings (he walks two in the 6th). He also hits four batters to tie the ML record. Alex Kellner pitches four innings, giving up six runs in the loss. The A's lose Eddie Joost who tears ligaments in his left knee in a collision with Mapes at 2B in the 7th.
1939
? Yankees rookie P Atley Donald wins his 10th game without a loss.
1934
? Lou Gehrig hits an inside-the-park grand slam, as the Yankees beat the Senators 8-3. It is his 4th of the season and 17th overall, passing Babe Ruth's career total. Gehrig will eventually set a career record of 23 grand slams. Gehrig now has 321 career HRS to Ruth's 698.
1917
? In the first of two games in New York, Home Run Baker hits a 13th inning inside the park homer off Walter Johnson to give the Yankees a 5?4 win. It is Baker's 5th home run off Walter.
2002 Baseball legend Ted Williams, considered by many the greatest hitter in the history of the game, dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 83. The first-ballot Hall of Famer, who was a lifetime .344 hitter, won MVP and Triple Crown twice, led American League in batting for six seasons, and hit .406 in 1941 during his 19-year career with the Red Sox.
2001 Pirate skipper Lloyd McClendon is fined $1,000 for walking off the field with first base in the June 26 Brewers game. It's the first time a manager has been fined for 'stealing' a base.
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07-06-03, 08:29 AM
1941 A center field monument dedicated to Lou Gehrig is unveiled by the Yankees; the memorial is a tribute by his teammates of their beloved captain who died last month of ALS. 2000
? The Yankees clip the Orioles, 13-9, scoring eight runs in the 2nd inning to come back from a 7-run deficit. Sidney Ponson helps with four straight walks in the inning. Yankees Scott Brosius ties the major-league record for 3B by starting four DPs in the game.
The American Sportscasters Association names Dodgers legend Vin Scully as the No. 1 sportscaster of the 20th century. Howard Cosell finishes 2nd, followed by Mel Allen and Red Barber.
1996
During the Yankees 2?0 win over the Brewers, the team announces the purchase of Darryl Strawberry's contract from Columbus. John Wetteland preserves Jimmy Key's win with a save in his 20th consecutive appearance, breaking Lee Smith's record.
1990
? In his first start since losing a no-hitter, Andy Hawkins pitches 11 2/3 innings of shutout ball only to lose in the 12th 2?0 to the Twins. Hawkins is now 1-6.
1962
The Yankees edge the Twins 7?5 in Bloomington, as Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris each hit a pair of home runs. The M&M boys hit back to back homers in the 1st inning, off Camilo Pascual (12?4), the 3rd time in four games they've hit back-to-back shots. New York is a half-game in back of Cleveland.
1920
? The Yankees score 14 in the fifth and beat Washington 17-0. It's the biggest inning ever until the Red Sox score 17 in a 1953 game.
1956
Ford Frick inaugurates the Cy Young Award, to honor to outstanding pitcher each year. The BBWAA will do the voting. Only one pitcher will be honored each year until 1967, when a pitcher in each league will be selected.
1933
? The first major-league All-Star Game is played at Comiskey Park, and Babe Ruth is the star. His 2-run HR is the margin of victory in the AL's 4-2 win. John McGraw comes out of retirement to manage the NL. http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/chronology/today/JULY6.stm http://www.nationalpastime.com/
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07-08-03, 08:21 AM
2000
? The Yankees whip the Mets by identical 4-2 scores in both ends of an unusual day-night doubleheader. With the 1st game played at Shea Stadium and the nightcap at Yankee Stadium, it is the 1st time since 1903 that two teams played two games in different stadiums on the same day. Dwight Gooden wins the first game with a six inning effort in his first start since returning to the Yankees. Roger Clemens wins the night cap and precipitate a near brawl when he drills Mike Piazza in the helmet with an inside fastball. Piazza suffers a concussion.
1982
? Billy Martin records his 1,000th career win as a manager as the A's beat the Yankees 6?3.
1977
? The Yankees, led by home runs off the bats of Thurman Munson and Graig Nettles, beat the Orioles, 7?5. Don Gullett wins his 7th of the year.
1974
? Yankee SS Jim Mason ties the major-league record with four doubles in a 12?5 win over the Rangers. Off the field, the Yankees purchase infielder Sandy Alomar from the Angels.
1966
? In New York, the Senators win the opener, 7?6, then blow a 4-run lead in the nitecap to lose, 7?5. Mickey Mantle is 5-for-8 in DH, including a homer in each game. The 2nd homer, off Jim Hannan, is a 461 foot sky shot over the monuments into the CF bleachers. Mick follows with a sure double in the 5th but tears a hamstring muscle rounding first and will be sidelined for two weeks.
1961
? At Yankee Stadium, Whitey Ford tops the Red Sox 8?5. Mickey Mantle hits a home run in the 4th, off Tracy Stallard, for his 10th roundtripper this year in support of Ford.
1951
? The feud between Joe DiMaggio and Casey Stengel reaches a head in second inning against the Red Sox. Because of a misplay in the first, Stengel sends reserve Jackie Jensen out to CF to relieve the Yankee Clipper after he had already taken his position. The Red Sox clip the Yankees, 6?3, as the red-hot Clyde Vollmer belts a 2-run homer.
1939 Prior to the first game of a doubleheader with the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium, a wall of Japanese beetles form in front of the home dugout. Although over 5000 insects will be captured, the problem will return later in the month.
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07-09-03, 09:24 AM
2000
The Yankees lose to Mike Hampton and the Mets, 2?0. Benitez closes for the Mets, while Andy Pettitte is the loser. The Yanks also lose Shane Spencer, who blows out his knee and ends his season. The game at Shea Stadium draws 54,283, the largest regular season crowd for the Mets since 1970.
1999
The uniform Lou Gehrig wore when he made his famous "luckiest man on earth" speech on July 4, 1939 is sold for $451,541 at auction. Leland's spokesman Marty Appel says the flannel pinstripe uniform worn by the Hall of Fame first baseman was purchased by a south Florida man who did not want his name made public. The winning bid was made over the phone. Yesterday Carlton Fisk's home run ball that won Game Six of the 1975 World Series for the Boston Red Sox sold for $113,273.
1986
The Padres trade P Tim Stoddard to the Yankees for P Ed Whitson, who had become the target of such fan abuse in New York that manager Lou Piniella would no longer pitch him in Yankee Stadium.
1985
New York's Ron Guidry works eight 2/3 innings to win his 10th straight, beating the Royals, 6?4. Guidry allows nine hits and strikes out 1.
1962
? At a meeting held in conjunction with the All-Star Game, the ML players request a reduced schedule for the 1963 season. They also vote unanimously to continue playing two All-Star Games each year.
1939
? The Red Sox win 4-3 and 53 to sweep a 5-game series in Yankee Stadium. The Yankee lead is now 6 1/2 games. Joe Cronin drives in runs in both games, giving him 12 games in a row with RBI.
1937 Joe DiMaggio hits for the cycle as he delivers two home runs, a triple, double and single helping the Yankees maul the Senators, 16-2. The ' Yankee Clipper ' will accomplish this feat only once again in 1948.
1936
? The temperature is 106 in Central Park, the hottest July nine on record in New York as the Indians take on the Yankees at the Stadium. The temperature at the park is 102. The Yanks score four in the 1st inning, but Cleveland comes back to score 11 runs on 15 hits, including five homers, to win 11?4. Hal Trosky, Roy Weatherly and Joe Vosmik all homer in the 2nd frame to tie the ML record. Trosky hits another homer to tie for the American League lead with 23. Lou Gehrig and Earl Averill also homer.
1932
? Yankees OF Ben Chapman has three HRs in the second game of a doubleheader with Detroit at Yankee Stadium. Two are inside the park, as the Yankees win 14-9.
1914
Ossee Schreckengost, 39, peripatetic catcher (7 teams) best known as battery and roommate of Rube Waddell while with the Athletics, dies of uremia at Philadelphia. Skilled defensively on the field, Schreckengost was an eccentric off. He had it written into his contract that Waddell could not eat crackers in bed.
1956 The BBWAA, by a narrow margin of 14-12, vote to establish the Cy Young Award to honor the major leagues' most outstanding pitcher. Commissioner Ford Frick initiated the idea because he felt hurlers were not recognized in the MVP voting, but ironically the first recipient of the Cy Young Award, Dodger Don Newcombe, also won the Most Valuable Player Award.
2002 Despite chants of 'Let them play!' from the sellout crowd of41,871 at Milwaukee's Miller Park, Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig declares the 73rd All-Star Game a 7-7 tie after 11 innings. No player is selected to receive the first Ted Williams Most Valuable Player award, named in honor of the late Red Sox legend who died five days ago.
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07-10-03, 09:24 AM
1997
? Hideki Irabu strikes out nine batters and gets the win in his major league debut as the Yankees defeat the Tigers, 10-3.
1936
The Yankees roll to an easy victory over the Indians, as Red Ruffing takes the shutout, 18?0. Lloyd Brown, the first of three pitchers, is the loser. Lou Gehrig has a pair of homers to take over the American League lead with 23.
1917
? The Yankees righthander Ray Caldwell pitches nine 2/3 innings of scoreless relief, picking up a 7?5 win over the Browns in 17 innings.
1999 The Yankees' winning streak of 124 consecutive games when they led entering the ninth ends as Met pinch-hitter Matt Franco singles off Mariano Rivera giving the Mets a dramatic come-from-behind Subway Series inter-league victory, 9-8.
2002 Bobby-Jo Williams Ferrell, Ted Williams' oldest daughter, in an open letter urges former Senator John Glenn and President Bush to help in preventing her half-brother, John Henry, from freezing the body of their dad at a cryonics lab in Arizona. She believes it her father's wish to be cremated and not frozen.
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07-11-03, 08:28 AM
1995 Mickey Mantle's final public appearance increases awareness of organ donation programs. 2000
? The American League wins its 4th consecutive All-Star Game, beating the National League, 6-3. Derek Jeter of the Yankees and Chipper Jones of the Braves each go 3-for-3 in the contest. Jeter takes MVP honors, while Chicago's James Baldwin gets the victory.
1961
? Strong winds dominate the first All-Star Game of 1961. A capacity crowd sees P Stu Miller blown off the mound in the 9th inning at Candlestick Park. A balk is called, and it enables the American League to forge a 3?3 tie before losing 5?4 in 10 innings.
1945
? Aaron Robinson, Yankees C, returns from the military. Red Ruffing is back too, and so are Hugh Mulcahy and Buddy Lewis. Charlie Keller will follow, and a couple of dozen former major-league players will be in uniform before the season is over
1939
? With another Yankee-dominated lineup, the AL defeats the NL 3-1 in the seventh All-Star Game, at Yankee Stadium. Cincinnati OF Ival Goodman fractures his shoulder diving for a ball.
1914
? Babe Ruth breaks in with Boston, striking out in his first at bat, but pitching a 4?3 win over Cleveland. With the score 3?3 in the 7th, Duffy Lewis pinch hits for Babe Ruth, singles, and later scores the winning run. Dutch Leonard strikes out four of the six batters he faces in relief.
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07-12-03, 09:10 AM
1989 Louisiana Lightning Rod Guidry retires from baseball. 2000
? The Yankees obtain P Denny Neagle and OF Mike Frank from the Reds in exchange for 3B Drew Henson, OF Jackson Melian, and Ps Brian Reith and Ed Yarnall.
1996
Minnesota star Kirby Puckett announces he is retiring, effective immediately, because of glaucoma in his right eye.
1987
? The Yankees trade P Bob Tewksbury and two minor league pitchers to the Cubs for Steve Trout, who has just pitched back-to-back shutouts.
1977
? Willie Randolph hits the game-winning homer and Don Gullett pitches the Yankees to a 5?2 win over the Brewers. The win stops the Yanks loss streak at three games.
1968
The Giants trade P Lindy McDaniel to the Yankees for P Bill Monbouquette.
1959
? NBC uses outfield TV cameras with 80-inch lenses to show the catchers' signals during a Yankee-Red Sox game. Commissioner Ford Frick requests that they halt its use. It doesn't help New York, which drops their last four games to the Red Sox. Boston wins today, 7?3.
1955
? In the All-Star Game in Milwaukee, the AL takes a 5-run lead on a 3-run HR by Mickey Mantle off Robin Roberts, only to see the NL tie it. Braves P Gene Conley strikes out the side in the 12th, and Stan Musial of the Cards homers off Frank Sullivan of the Red Sox to win it.
1951
? At Cleveland, Allie Reynolds of the NY Yankees no-hits Cleveland 1?0 for the first of his two no-hitters this season. Gene Woodling?s seventh inning HR off loser Bob Feller is the difference in the 1?0 game. The Chief's no-hitter is the first by a Yankee since Monte Pearson in 1928. New York takes the nitecap behind Vic Raschi as Joe DiMaggio cinches it with a three-run homer off Chuck Stobbs.
1943
? In Boston, a team of Armed Forces all-stars managed by Babe Ruth and featuring Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams plays the Braves in a fund-raising effort. Ruth pinch-hits in the eighth and flies out to right. The all-stars win 9-8 on a Williams HR.
1931
? The largest crowd in the history of Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, 45,715 (in a ballpark with 35,000 seats), creates a travesty and permanently distorts the record for doubles hit in a game. Easy fly balls drop for ground-rule doubles among the fans encroaching on the field. There are 32 doubles hit in two games, 11 in the first and 21 in the 2nd, for records both for the most doubles in one game and for a doubleheader. 1928
? Baseball's biggest battery is recorded, appropriately, with the New York Giants, as Garland "Gob" Buckeye, a 260 pound pro football lineman in the off-season, makes his NL pitching debut with 250 pound Shanty Hogan behind the plate. The Giants lose to the Cardinals.
1911
Yankee third baseman Roy Hartzell, acquired from the Browns in January for Jimmy Austin and Frank LaPorte, has a career day as the cleanup hitter. He hits a 3-run double and another double in one inning, then piles on a sacrifice fly and grand slam, to drive in eight runs. It is an AL record until Jimmie Foxx's nine RBI in a game in 1933. New York defeats the Browns, 12?2.
1901 At Boston's Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds, Cy Young of the Americans seven-hits the A's, 5-3, to win his 300th game. The 34-year old will win an additional 211 games to establish an amazing major league record of 511 career victories.
1949 The major league owners agree to install warning tracks in front of outfield fences.
1979 The White Sox are forced to forfeit game 2 of twi-night doubleheader against the Tigers due the behavior of disorderly fans during Disco Demolition Night. Mike Veeck's promotion involves admitting fans for .98 cents with a disco record, collecting the vinyl and then literally blowing them up in center field.
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07-13-03, 08:54 AM
1985 The Yankees retire Roger Maris (#9) and Elston Howard (#32) uniform numbers.
1973
Bobby Murcer hits three home runs, all off starter Gene Garber, and knocks in all the runs in the Yankees' 5?0 win over the Royals. Mel Stottlemyre scatters six hits in racking up his 39th shut out.
1964
? The Yankees clout four homers in Cleveland to top the Tribe, 10?4.
1961
Chicago's Early Wynn gets an early departure as he retires just two Yankees in the first inning. Then Mickey Mantle (30th) and Roger Maris (34th) belt back-to-back homers to send the vet to the showers. For Mantle, it is the 13th homer in his career off Wynn, his favorite target. New York wins, 1960 The Yankees host the twenty-ninth All-Star game with American League losing 6-0.
1937
? The Cardinals' Pepper Martin is fined $200 for violation of training rules.
1934
? Babe Ruth hits his 700th HR to win the game at Detroit's Navin Field and put the Yankees back in first place. Lou Gehrig has a lumbago seizure and is helped off the field.
1920
? The fans are flocking to see the mighty Ruth hit home runs (12 in June). A twin bill with the Browns draws a Polo Grounds record of 38,823, the third record-breaker of the year.
1965 For the first time in All-Star history, the National League takes the lead in games won over the AL as the Senior Circuit edges the junior loop, 6-5 at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota.
1972 In a contest which lasts on 93 minutes, the Cardinals play the quickest nine-inning game in their history.
penguin4
07-13-03, 06:55 PM
Originally posted by thecaptain
1985 The Yankees retire Roger Maris (#9) and Elston Howard (#32) uniform numbers.
Your source of information is wrong. That was definitely 1984.
thecaptain
07-14-03, 04:34 PM
Originally posted by penguin4
Your source of information is wrong. That was definitely 1984. there might be a lot of mistakes.
thecaptain
07-15-03, 10:19 AM
2001
? The battle of two first place teams draws 59,470 at Philadelphia as the Yanks lose a sloppy game to the Phils, 9?3. In the 5th, Jimmy Rollins takes 2B on a PB, then swipes 3rd for his 26th straight successful steal. Jorge Posada has three passed balls and should have been charged with a 4th, while Derek Jeter makes a critical error. Posada will lead the majors in PBs this year with 18.
2000
A 1909 Honus Wagner baseball club is auctioned for a record $1.1 million on eBay. Other high priced items in the auction include a baseball autographed by the entire 1919 Chicago "Black Sox" team, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, as well as the umpires who worked the final game of the 1919 World Series sells for $93,666, including a 15 percent buyer's premium. A ball signed by the 1919 Reds goes for $11,208, while a baseball autographed by Babe Ruth sells for $76,020. A contract from Shoeless Joe Jackson's sale of his Chicago pool hall to teammate Lefty Williams, sells for $36,098. The contract, dated Oct. 6, 1921, is for just $1.
1997
? Despite a sluggish performance, Hideki Irabu wins his second major league start, leading the Yankees over Cleveland, 12-6. Irabu gives up five runs and nine hits in five innings, allowing homers to Tony Fernandez, Marquis Grissom, and Matt Williams. Cecil Fielder, the Yank's 270-pound DH, tries to score from first on a double and his head first slide results in a broken right thumb. Fielder will miss eight weeks.
1990
? At New York, Bo Jackson slugs three straight home runs, the 3rd his career 100th, then separates his shoulder in the 6th inning diving for a line drive off the bat of Yankee Deion Sanders. Sanders ends up with an inside-the-park home run but Kansas City takes home a 10?7 win. Jackson will be out for six weeks.
1965
? Mickey Mantle's 5th inning homer, off Phil Ortega, ties the game 1?1, and host New York goes on to top the Senators, 2?1.
1964
? Whitey Ford's 2?0 win over the Orioles raises the Yankees to first place.
1934
? Gehrig returns to 1B and goes 4-for-4, including 3 doubles, off Schoolboy Rowe, but the Yankees lose to Detroit 8-3.
1920
? Babe Ruth ties his 1919 record of 29 HRs with a game-winner in the 13th to beat the Browns 13-10. Two days later, he will break it by hitting two off Chicago White Sox P Dickie Kerr.
1917
? The Yankees send Lee Magee to the Browns for Armando Marsans.
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thecaptain
07-17-03, 09:13 AM
1941 Thanks to the outstanding defensive work of Indian third baseman Ken Keltner, Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak ends at Municipal Stadium in Cleveland in front of 67,000 fans. 1987 Yankee Don Mattingly becomes the first American League player to hit a home run in seven consecutive games.
1990
At Yankee Stadium, Mel Stottlemyre, Jr. makes his ML debut, pitching an inning of relief inning against the Bronx Bombers. He gives up three runs, but the Royals unload on Andy Hawkins (1?8) to win 10?7.
1978
? In the latest incident in his feud with manager Billy Martin, the Yankees Reggie Jackson ignores instructions and attempts to bunt in the 10th inning of a tie game with the Royals. Jackson pops up, the Yanks lose, 9?7, in the 11th, and Martin serves Jackson with a 5-day suspension without pay. The Royals' 3-game sweep at Yankee Stadium leaves New York in 4th place, 14 games behind the Red Sox.
1961
Commissioner Ford Frick decrees that Babe Ruth's record of 60 home runs in a 154-game schedule in 1927 "cannot be broken unless some batter hits 61 or more within his club's first 154 games."
The Yankees top the O's, 5?0, behind Whitey Ford's 13th straight win. Mickey Mantle (#33) and Skowron hit long home runs at Baltimore. The nitecap goes into the 5th when, with two outs and the Yanks up 4?1, a thunderstorm strikes. The umps wait 65 minutes before calling the game, thus washing out homers by Roger Maris and Mantle.
? Following a year-long illness, Ty Cobb succumbs to cancer at age 74 at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.
1950
? Yankee rookie Whitey Ford wins his first ML game, beating the visiting White Sox, 4?3. Tom Ferrick finished for New York.
1914
? At Forbes Field, Rube Marquard and Babe Adams each go a marathon 21 innings before Larry Doyle's 2-run home run gives the Giants a 3?1 win over the Pirates. Adams yields no walks and 12 hits, the longest non-walk game in ML history. Marquard walks two (one intentional) and yields 15 hits. In the 6th, Honus Wagner goes from first to 3B on a hit by Jim Viox. When New York CF Bob Bescher throws to 3B Milt Stock, the ball bounces out of his hands and disappears. Wagner scores before it's discovered that the ball bounced up under his arm and stayed there as he ran home. Wagner is called out for interference, and the Bucs protest. Manager Clarke is then ejected by umpire Bill "Lord" Byron. In a fitting ending to this unusual game, Giants OF Red Murray is knocked unconscious by a bolt of lightning after catching a fly ball for the final out. Murray is uninjured. Marquard's win is his last in 1914. He will lose 10 straight on his way to a 12?22 record.
thecaptain
07-18-03, 10:10 AM
1999 On Yogi Berra Day at Yankee Stadium, David Cone uses just 88 pitches (68 for strikes) to becomes the 16th pitcher in major league history and the third Yankee to toss a perfect game as he beats the Expos, 6-0. In pre-game ceremonies Don Larsen threw out the ceremonial first pitch to Yogi commemorating his 1956 World Series perfect game. .
1995
? The White Sox blast Yankee P Jack McDowell for 13 hits and nine runs in four 2/3 innings in their 11-4 win in the 2nd game of a doubleheader. McDowell makes an obscene gesture to the fans as he is booed walking off the field.
1987
? Don Mattingly hits a home run in his 8th consecutive game, tying the major-league record set by Dale Long in 1956, but the Yankees lose to Texas 7?2. His streak will end tomorrow when he goes 2-for-4 but no homers.
1961
Mickey Mantle poles two homers, off rookie Joe McLain, to pace New York to a 5?3 win over the Senators. In pre-game ceremonies, Mantle teamed with New York Congressman Eddie Dooley to win the homer-hitting contest against other Congressional-player duos.
1927
? The Philadelphia A's Ty Cobb makes his 4,000th hit, a double off Sam Gibson of Detroit. Detroit wins 5-3 over Lefty Grove.
1921
? The Black Sox trial begins in Chicago.
thecaptain
07-19-03, 01:55 PM
1987
? Texas wins a 20?3 laugher over the Yankees. Steve Buechele has two homers to pace the offense. In the 9th inning, catcher Rick Cerone takes the mound and walks one but allows no runs.
1975
? Yankee C Thurman Munson's first-inning single and RBI against the Twins are nullified because the tar on his bat handle exceeds the 18-inch limit. Catcher Glenn Borgmann gets the putout. The Yankees lose, 2?1.
1962
? John W. Cox, owner of Yankee Stadium, donates the facility to Rice University.
1960
The Yankees outslug the Indians, 13?11, behind the slugging of Bill Skowron. Skowron's follows a Berra blast with his 2nd homer in the 8th but Cleveland answers with two in the bottom of the 8th for an 11?8 lead. Moose then hits a bases-loaded double in the 9th to win it. Roger Maris hits his 30th home run and Piersall homers for the Tribe.
1959
? Before 57,000 at the Stadium, the Yankees sweep a pair from the visiting White Sox, winning the nitecap 6?4 on Mickey Mantle's homer off Turk Lown. In game 1, Yankee veteran Enos Slaughter belts a pair of homers: at age 43, he is the oldest player this century to accomplish the feat. Carlton Fisk, a few months older, will top Slaughter in 1991.
1958
? The Yanks Norm Siebern has his second 5-hit game of the month, against the Athletics, as New York loses 6-4.
1909 With two men on base, Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball catches Ambrose McConnell's line drive, gets Heinie Wagner at second, and then tags Jake Stahl completing the first modern major league unassisted triple play in a 6-1 win over the Red Sox.
thecaptain
07-20-03, 04:53 PM
1987 Yankee first baseman Don Mattingly ties a major league mark as he is credited with 22 putouts in one game matching Hal Chase's feat of 1906.
1973 White Sox pitcher Wilbur Wood loses both ends of a doubleheader to the Yankees.
1965 Yankee pitcher Mel Stottlemyre hits an inside the park grand slam against the Red Sox en route to a 6-3 victory.
1859 At a racetrack on Long Island, about 1,500 fans become the first ever to pay to see a baseball game. The spectators spend fifty cents to watch New York defeat Brooklyn, 22-18. http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/chronology/today/JULY20.stm http://www.nationalpastime.com/
thecaptain
07-21-03, 09:13 AM
1988
? In a pair of trades, Seattle sends DH Ken Phelps to the Yankees for OF Jay Buhner and 1B-DH Steve Balboni, and deals OF Glenn Wilson to the Pirates for IF-OF Darnell Coles.
1972
The Yankees sweep the Angels, winning 6?0 and 3?0 over the Angels. Fritz Peterson and Mel Stottlemyre apply the whitewash.
1969
? A gala All-Star Game banquet in Washington is one of baseball's great events. An all-time team and all-time living team is announced. Babe Ruth is selected Greatest All-Time Player, and Joe DiMaggio, Greatest Living Player.
1961
Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris slam back-to-back home runs in the first inning for New York, but it takes a 2-out, 9th-inning pinch-hit grand slam by Johnny Blanchard to finally subdue the Red Sox, 11?8, at Fenway. The pinch slam is the American League's 6th of the season, a new record.
1975 Met infielder Joe Torre becomes the first player in National League history to hit into straight four double plays in one game. Felix Millan singles in four consecutive at bats against the Astros making the dubious mark possible.
thecaptain
07-22-03, 09:08 AM
1998
? The Yanks deflate the Tigers, 13?2, to run their record to 71?25, a major-league record percentage for that number of games.
1989
? The Yankees trade popular 3B Mike Pagliarulo and Don Schulz to San Diego for pitcher Walt Terrell and Fred Toliver. Toliver won't report to New York till September 27 and Terrell will sign with the Pirates on November 29.
1969
? For the first time, the All-Star Game is postponed due to rain.
1961
? John Blanchard does it again with a solo pinch-hit home run to start a 3-run 9th-inning Yankee rally to tumble the Red Sox 11?9.
1960
The Yankees purchase 33-year-old P Luis Arroyo from Jersey City (IL). He will be a key to New York's 1960 pennant and a star in 1961.
1956
? The Hall of Fame announces special rules governing elections. Writers should vote every two years, alternating with the veterans committee; because of criticism, this will revert back in 1962. To be eligible players must have been retired as a player for five years.
1954
? Stengel switches players in an effort to get more power in the Yankee lineup. Phil Rizzuto plays 2B and Mickey Mantle plays SS. Mantle wins the game 3-2 against Chicago with a 10th-inning HR.
1948
? The Yankees take the rubber game of the series with the Indians as Vic Raschi earns the decision over Bob Feller, 6?5. Joe DiMaggio's grand slam is the big blow for the Bombers: he has hit four homers and a triple in Feller's four starts against New York. His eight RBIs in the three games with Cleveland gives him a league-leading 82.
1939
? A Boston Bees fan, outraged when Al Lopez drops a pop foul, his second and the team's seventh of the game, jumps from the stands to punch the Boston catcher.
1925
? The Yankees buy SS Leo Durocher from Hartford (Eastern League).
1910
? Bugs Raymond, talented but hard-drinking spitball pitcher, walks the winning run home in New York's 4th straight loss to the Pirates. John McGraw suspends him for the rest of the season.
1941 Dick Wakefield becomes baseball's first 'bonus baby' when he signs with the Tigers for $52,000 and a new car. The University of Michigan standout will hit .143 in seven at-bat this season.
thecaptain
07-24-03, 09:21 AM
1978
? Reggie Jackson returns to the team and the Yankees win their 5th straight, 3?1, over the White Sox. The next day, Martin will resign under pressure, giving way to Bob Lemon. At the Chicago airport, Martin, reacting to reporters' questions about Jackson and George Steinbrenner, replies, " The two deserve each other. One's a born liar; the other's convicted." The remarks will cost Billy his job.
1966
At Yankee Stadium, the Yanks celebrate Old-timers' Day but lose to the Angels, 7?6, despite a grand slam from Mickey Mantle. The slam, off Marcelino Lopez, is Mickey's 9th. He ties Babe Ruth -- not in home runs, but in games played as a Yankee.
1957
? Mickey Mantle hits for the cycle, and adds a SB, against Chicago's Bob Keegan. The Yankees win 10-6.
1925
? The A's move back into first with a 5-4 win over the Red Sox and an assist from Lou Gehrig, who hits the first of his ML-record 23 grand slams to beat Firpo Marberry and the Senators 11-7. A Pittsburgh win and Giants split with the Phils lifts the Pirates back on top.
thecaptain
07-24-03, 09:34 AM
1983
? In the memorable "Pine Tar Game" at Yankee Stadium, George Brett hits an apparent 2-run home run off Rich Gossage to give the Royals a 5?4 lead with two outs in the 9th inning, only to have it taken away when Yankees manager Billy Martin, at the urging of coach Don Zimmer, points out that the pine tar on Brett's bat handle exceeds the 17 inches allowed in the rules. As a result, Brett is called out for illegally batting the ball, giving New York a 4?3 victory. Brett goes ballistic a the Royals immediately protest, and American League President Lee MacPhail overrules his umpires for the first time saying that, while the rules should certainly be rewritten and clarified, the home run will stand and the game will be resumed from that point on August 18th. 2001
? The Yankees edge the Tigers, 6?5, despite an 8th inning moon shot by Detroit's Juan Encarnacion, off Ramiro Mendoza, that lands in the 2nd row of the empty blue bleacher seats in left CF. It is believed to be the first ball hit into that area since Yankee Stadium was remodeled in 1976.
1991
? In a game against the Mariners, the Yankees score three runs on a ground ball hit back to the pitcher. With runners on 2nd and 3rd and one out in the 4th, Pat Kelly hits a comebacker to Erik Hanson. The Seattle hurler traps Kevin Maas in a rundown between 3rd and home, but Maas scores when 3B Edgar Martinez's throw hits him in the back. The ball rolls up the 1st base line in foul territory where it is recovered by C Dave Cochrane. Cochrane throws home to head off Alvaro Espinoza who is also attempting to score. The throw goes into the Mariners' dugout allowing Espinoza and Kelly to cross the plate with the 2nd and 3rd runs.
1978
In Kansas City, a sobbing Billy Martin reads a prepared statement in which he resigns as the Yankee manager. Dick Howser will fill in that night as the Yanks lose 5?2.
1966
? The Yankees beat the Angels, 9?1, in game one, and Mickey Mantle hits his 2nd homer in two days. The roundtripper, his 493rd, ties him with Lou Gehrig for 6th place on the all-time list.
1961
At Yankee Stadium, 50,000 fans, on hand for the Yankees exhibition game with the Giants, save their biggest cheer for Willie Mays. Willie delivers a 2-run single in the 4?1 victory. The only score for the Yanks is a Mickey Mantle homer.
1954
? After Casey Stengel pulls Phil Rizzuto in the eighth for a pinch hitter, he brings in Mickey Mantle again at SS. Mantle plays SS with Willie Miranda at 2B against lefthanded hitters. Against righties, Miranda and Mantle switch positions. Cleveland wins 5-4 to go 21Ž2 games up on New York.
1934
? Yankee CF Earle Combs crashes into the wall at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis and suffers a fractured skull. New York calls up George Selkirk but learns he broke his arm the same day playing for Newark
1926
? Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth demonstrate that power hitting is not the only thing they can do when Lou scores on a double steal with the Babe in a victory over the White Sox. They had pulled the same double steal against the Red Sox on April 13th.
1958
? Ted Williams is fined $250 for spitting at the Boston fans again.
thecaptain
07-26-03, 08:52 AM
1996
The Yankees unload a 21 hit barrage and bat around twice to whip the Royals, 15?1. This is the most hits New York has collected in nine innings since August 25, 1984, when they had 23 against Seattle. Jimmy Key is the easy winner, giving up three hits in seven innings. Pat Kelly, who had been out the season with surgery, makes his debut and promptly injures a hamstring.
1977
The Yankees open their final series with Baltimore by tying the O's at 4-4 on a Cliff Johnson two-run pinch homer in the 9th. Reggie Jackson then leads off the 10th with a solo home run to win.
1962
? In New York, P Gene Conley and IF Pumpsie Green of the Red Sox mysteriously disappear after a 13?3 loss to the Yankees. They leave the team bus in traffic to use a rest room and fail to return. Conley decides he wants to fly to Israel, and goes to the airport, but is refused a ticket because he does not have a visa. Conley was the loser in the game, pitching two 2/3 inning, and walking in two of the eight earned runs allowed. Pumpsie did not play. Bouton is the winner, shutting out the Hubmen for six innings.
1961
? John Blanchard ties a major-league record by hitting his 3rd and 4th home runs in four at bats over three games. He drives in four of the Yankee runs in a 5?2 victory over the White Sox at the Stadium. New York manages just six hits but four are homers, including one by Mickey Mantle following Blanchard's first-inning clout. Blanchard will end the year with 21 homers in 243 at bats, the first player in history to hit 20 or more in fewer than 250 at bats.
1948
? Ruth makes his last public appearance, at the New York premiere of the film The Babe Ruth Story. He will die three weeks later.
1936
? Umpire Bill Summers is forced out the game after he hit in the groin by a pop bottle thrown from an unruly crowd of 50,000 at Comiskey Park. The crowd is upset with a out call at 1B on Ray Radcliff in the 8th of the nitecap. Judge Landis, on hand to watch the game, offers a $5,000 reward over the PA system for the culprit, but only draws more boos. The deluge of pop bottles finally abates when Jimmy Dykes pleads through the field amplifier. The Yanks sweep a pair from the Sox, winning 12?3 and 11?8 in 11 innings. Lou Gehrig hits his 29th with two aboard to start New York's scoring in the opener. DiMaggio and Lazzeri add round trippers to make it easy for Johnny Broaca. Sugar Cain is the losing pitcher. In the nitecap, Gehrig adds another homer, while Zeke Bonura homers and drives home four runs for the Sox. DiMaggio has one hit, a triple. The sweep increases New York's lead to nine 1/2 games
1933.
The 61-game batting streak of San Francisco's (PCL) 18-year-old rookie, Joe DiMaggio, is stopped by Ed Walsh, Jr. of Oakland.
1935 An unusual double play occurs when a line drive (hit by Yankee Jesse Hill) bounces off the pitcher's head (Senator Ed Linke) in the air to the catcher (Jack Redmond) who throws to second to double off the runner (Ben Chapman).
thecaptain
07-27-03, 02:03 PM
1970
? The Yankees 5?2 beat California, 5?2, behind Mel Stottlemyre, who is helped by Gene Michael in the 9th. With the score tied, Michael pulls the hidden ball trick on Angel pinch runner Jarvis Tatum. The Yanks score three in 10th to win. 1951
? The White Sox, just three 1/2 games behind New York and Boston, open a 4-game series in New York. Trailing 3?1 in the ninth, the Sox make it 3?2 before rain and the Yankees delay the game. Gil McDougald is thrown out for stalling, and Casey Stengel uses five pitchers in the inning. Finally the Yanks win as the game is called after 30 minutes. http://www.nationalpastime.com/ http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/chronology/today.stm
Bot Destroyer
07-28-03, 01:09 AM
July 27 2003, The yankees lost the series, first of the year against the Sux.
thecaptain
07-29-03, 09:04 AM
1991
? During a game at Yankee Stadium, Oakland OF Jose Canseco is bombarded with assorted objects by unruly fans. Included among the objects are an inflatable doll, a transistor radio, and a head of cabbage. Oakland escapes with a 10?8 victory, and Canseco strokes a double in four at bats.
1978
? A surprise announcement at Old-Timers Day in Yankee Stadium: Billy Martin will return to manage the Yanks in 1980. The fans go wild with joy.
1970
? The Cubs purchase 1B/OF Joe Pepitone from the Astros. Pepitone will drive in 31 runs in his first 31 games for his new team.
1969
? Yankee reliever Jack Aker's string of 33 scoreless innings comes to an end as the A's rally for three runs to top the Yankees, 6?5. Vida Blue, the A's starter, receives credit for his first ML victory.
1966
? The Yankees edge the White Sox, 2?1, on Mickey Mantle's 14th homer in 24 games. Mick moves ahead of Lou Gehrig into 6th place on the homer list with the blast.
1951
? Before a Stadium crowd of 70,972, the Yankees sweep the White Sox, 8?3 and 2?0. DiMaggio powers two homers off Lew Kretlow in the opener, and ex-Sox Bob Kuzava outduels Saul Rogovin to win the nitecap. With yesterday's game rained out, the Sox are now six 1/2 out of first place.
1912
? For the first time, a NL team loses a game because of the rule that holds runners in place when a batted ball hits an umpire. A double by the Giants' Buck Herzog drives in two runs, but the ball hits umpire Garner Bush, and
2002 The text of the letter signed 40 Hall of Famers and sent to baseball commissioner Bud Selig and union head Donald Fehr urges all sides 'to protect the game we all love and have given so much to, we suggest you agree to a qualified mediator that will allow you to find the common ground necessary to avoid a work stoppage'' is released. The former outstanding players, which includes Reggie Jackson, Willie Mays and Warren Spaghn, believe another work stoppage in baseball would be a terrible mistake.
thecaptain
07-30-03, 09:17 AM
1999
? The Yankees defeat the Red Sox, 13-3, as 2B Chuck Knoblauch raps out five hits, including a double and home run, and drives home four runs.
1997
? David Wells fires a 3-hitter as the Yankees beat the Royals, 7?0. Tino Martinez hits his 36th homer and Luis Sojo has four hits.
1993
? The Yankees obtain P Paul Assenmacher from the Cubs in a 3-way deal which sees P John Habyan go to the Royals and OF Karl Rhodes to the Cubs.
1990
? In a surprisingly harsh ruling, Commissioner Fay Vincent orders Yankees owner George Steinbrenner to resign as the club's general partner by August 20th and bans him from day-to-day operation of the team for life. The ruling is a result of Steinbrenner's $40,000 payment to confessed gambler Howie Spira for damaging information about since-traded Yankee star Dave Winfield.
1986
? C Ron Hassey is traded for the 3rd time in eight months, this time going to Chicago in a deal that brings OF-DH Ron Kittle, SS Wayne Tolleson, and C Joel Skinner to New York.
1977
? Yankee pitcher Don Gullett picks up his 10th win of the year, a 9?3 victory over the A's. But it will prove to be his final win of the year when he injures his shoulder in the 7th inning and leaves the game.
1955
? The Orioles get P Ed Lopat from the Yankees for P Jim McDonald and cash
1952
? Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick sets a waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs bid with the club lowest in the league to get the first pick. He sets the price at $10,000. He also bars all other deals after July 31st.
1951
Joe DiMaggio makes a rare mental error against Detroit, catching a Steve Souchock fly ball in deep CF and, thinking it's the third out, begins trotting in. It's only the second out, and George Kell scores from 2B to make the score 4?2 in the eighth. Despite the lapse, the Yanks win, 5?4, with DiMag knocking in the winning run in the ninth.
1936
The Yankees, with Jake Powell back in CF for the injured Hoag, drop a 5?4 decision to Detroit. On August 1st, Powell will go to LF, with DiMaggio playing CF for the first time. Selkirk will return to RF. The Yanks loses today when Charlie Gehringer ties the match with a two-run homer in the 8th. Bill Dickey allows a ball to get by him in the 10th and Burns scores the winner. Schoolboy Rowe pitches 10 innings for the win over Johnny Broaca.
At Brooklyn, the Cardinals Jim Winford tosses a 4-hitter in stopping Stengel's men, 7?0. The Cards climb to within a game of the top as the Cubs lose. After the game, at Mama Leone's on W 48th Street, baseball writers give a birthday dinner to Casey Stengel.
thecaptain
07-31-03, 09:51 AM
2001 The Red Sox acquire Expo reliever Ugueth Urbina for two minor league pitchers, Tomo Ohka and Rich Rundles. The hard throwing closer was nearly traded to the Yankees earlier in the season, but the deal was nixed when Urbina failed a physical. 1999
The Yankees bring back C Jim Leyritz from the Padres for P Geraldo Padua. Padua was 25?4 in three seasons in Class A, including a run of 20 straight wins. Mysteriously, Padua will lose 14 straight in the minors in 2000 and earn a release from Altoona (AA) in May, 2001, after serving up three straight homers.
1996
At the trading deadline, Detroit trades 1B-DH Cecil Fielder, 32, to the Yankees for OF-DH Ruben Sierra and minor league P Matt Drews. The Yankees also obtain P David Weathers from the Marlins for P Mark Hutton, but will send him to the minors in three weeks.
1993
The Pirates trade P Stan Belinda to the Royals in exchange for pitchers Jon Lieber and Dan Miceli.
1962
? At D.C. Stadium, Mickey Mantle is on the bench with a wrenched knee, but Skowron supplies the power with a grand slam. New York wins, 9?5.
The National League rejects Commissioner Ford Frick's proposal for inter-league play in 1963.
1951
The Browns acquire Cliff Mapes from the Yankees, sending Bobbie Hogue, Kermit Wahl, Tom Upton and Lou Sleater to New York. The trade frees up an outfield spot for Mantle's return as well as Mapes #7 uniform.
1935
? The Reds oversell their night game, and 30,000 jam in for the match against the Cards. Kitty Burke, a female fan, slips under the ropes around the infield and grabs a bat. Paul Dean lobs a pitch and she grounds out. Manager Frisch demands it count as an at bat.
1929
? Babe Ruth hits a fungo 447 feet in an unofficial test, beating all trial competition records.
thecaptain
08-01-03, 09:53 AM
1993
Reggie Jackson is inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame.
1979
? Following the Yankees 9-1 win over the White Sox, members of the New York club create a minor scandal by autographing the bare behind of a young woman who boards the team bus outside Comiskey Park.
In an 8-player deal, the Rangers send OF Oscar Gamble, minor leaguer Amos Lewis, a former 1st pick in the 1978 draft, and two players to be named to the Yankees and finally acquire OF Mickey Rivers and three players to be named. Rivers had been traded to the Rangers in June but the deal fell through. Both of the players to be named with Gamble will make the majors: Gene Nelson and Ray Fontenot, something that can't be said for the three unnamed to Texas.
1973
? Thurman Munson and Carlton Fisk brawl at Fenway. With a 2?2 score in the top of the 9th, Munson, attempting to score from 3rd on a missed bunt by Gene Michael, crashes into Fisk and they both come up swinging. Boston wins 3?2 in the bottom of the inning.
1975 Billy Martin becomes Yankee manager replacing Bill Virdon.
1968
? Against the Red Sox, Stan Bahnsen strikes out 12 batters, the most ever by a Yankee rookie, in posting his first ML shutout, 1?0. His mark will last 30 years until "El Duque" Hernandez K's 13 batters. A safe bunt by Tom Tresh, a steal, and a single by Bill Robinson accounts for the only run off Dave Morehead.
1941
? Lefty Gomez of the New York Yankees pitches a 9-0 shutout over the St. Louis Browns despite walking 11 batters, the most ever issued in a shutout. Fifteen base runners are left stranded by the Browns.
1937
? Lou Gehrig hits for the cycle against the Browns, as the Yankees win 14-5. It is the second time he has performed this feat in his career.
1928
? Babe Ruth hits HR No. 42 and is four weeks ahead of his 1927 pace.
1925
? The Yankees buy Tony Lazzeri from the Pacific Coast League for spring delivery. Lazzeri will hit 60 HRs with 222 RBI at Salt Lake City and earn the nickname "Poosh-em-up" from his legion of Italian admirers.
1923
? Stepping in against the Indians Sherrod Smith in the ninth inning, Babe Ruth starts off batting righthanded. After taking a strike, he switches to LH and hits his 25th HR of the season. The Indians still win 5-3. The Babe will bat righty four days later.
thecaptain
08-02-03, 12:01 PM
1979
? Yankees C Thurman Munson, 32, perishes at Canton, Ohio, in a crash of the plane he was piloting. A crowd of 51,151 will attend the memorial tribute at Yankee Stadium tomorrow. http://www.thurmanmunson.com/bio.html http://thedeadballera.crosswinds.net/munson.html http://www.cmgww.com/baseball/munson/index.html
thecaptain
08-04-03, 11:23 AM
1998
Leading off for the Yankees, Chuck Knoblauch lines a hit off Mike Oquist's ribs, and the Yankees continue to connect off the Oakland pitcher for 15 more hits, including four homers, in five innings. New York wins, 14?1, scoring all 14 earned runs off Oquist, the most runs allowed since Bill Travers in August 1977. Orlando Hernandez picks up the win.
1982
? The White Sox sweep a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium 1?0 and 14?2, prompting Yankees owner George Steinbrenner to fire manager Gene Michael and replace him with pitching coach Clyde King. King is the Yankees' 3rd manager this season.
1979
The Yankees purchase Lenny Randle from the Pirates and bring up C Brad Gulden and Bobby Brown from Columbus.
1973
? The Braves edge the Padres, 5?4, despite a pinch home run by Dave Winfield. Big Dave's next pinch homer will come on September 29, 1990.
1937
? A Tuesday crowd of 66,767 watches at Yankee Stadium as Lou Gehrig plays his 1,900th consecutive game.
1933
? The Yankees are shut out by the A's and Lefty Grove, 7-0, for their first scoreless game since August 2, 1931. They had tallied in 308 games in a row, during which they scored 1,986 runs (6.5 per game) to 1,434 for the opposition, which New York hurlers blanked 22 times.
1914 Yankee catcher Les Nunamaker throws out three Tigers trying to steal second base.It will be the only time a backstop has accomplished the feat in a single inning this century.
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08-04-03, 06:27 PM
1998
? OF Darryl Strawberry's pinch-hitter grand slam is the big blow in NY's 9?run 9th inning, as the Yankees come from behind to defeat the A's 10?5 in the 2nd game of a DH. It is his 2nd pinch-hitter slam of the season, setting a new American League record, and tying the National League mark held by his former manager, Davey Johnson, and Mike Ivie, both set in 1978. New York also wins the 1st game of the twinbill, 10?4.
1989
? Hard-luck pitcher Dave Stieb loses a perfect game when New York's Roberto Kelly doubles with two out in the 9th inning, and Stieb finishes with a 2?1 two-hitter. It is the 3rd time that Stieb has lost a no-hitter with two out in the 9th.
1983
? While warming up before the 5th inning of the Yankees 3?1 win over the Blue Jays game at Toronto's Exhibition Stadium, New York OF Dave Winfield accidentally kills a seagull with a thrown ball. After the game, Winfield is brought to the Ontario Provincial Police station on charges of cruelty to animals and is forced to post a $500 bond before being released. The charges will be dropped the following day.
1978
? Baltimore and Mike Flanagan hand Ron Guidry his 2nd loss of the year, stopping the Yankees, 2?1.
1972
Bobby Murcer's grand slam in the 7th clinches the Yankees 9?4 win over the Brewers. Murcer also scores twice on walks.
1963
? After missing 61 games, Mickey Mantle returns to the Yankee lineup as a pinch hitter for Steve Hamilton. The Orioles are leading 10?9 in the 7th inning, when the stiff-legged Mantle golfs a line drive to tie the game at 10. The emotional Yankees win it, 11?10, after the O's take the opener, 7?2.
1953
? Yankees hurler Vic Raschi sets the record for RBI by a pitcher with seven, as the Yanks roll over Detroit 15-0. Raschi singles in 2 in the 2nd, doubles home three in the third, and singles home the last two in the eighth. His teammates fill his locker with bats after the game.
1947
? The Yankees sell P Al Lyons to Pittsburgh.
1932
? Bill Dickey returns to the Yankees lineup after his month's suspension with a grand slam and three singles, as New York beats Chicago 15-3.
1908 Playing the entire game with one ball, the St. Louis Cardinals blank the Brooklyn Superbas, 3-0.
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08-06-03, 10:06 AM
1983
? American League president Lee MacPhail suspends Yankees manager Billy Martin for the 2nd time this season because of continuing abuse of umpires. Martin is suspended for two games for calling umpire Dale Ford "a stone liar" after a July 31st game with the White Sox. He earned a 3-game suspension earlier this year for kicking dirt on umpire Drew Coble.
1935
? In a rain-soaked game between the Yankees and the Red Sox, Lou Gehrig leaves in the fourth inning with another lumbago attack. The teams engage in stalling and hurry-up tactics, and AL President Heydler fines managers Cronin and McCarthy $100 each.
1974
? At the top of the 9th inning at Dodger Stadium, during an ABC Monday Night telecast of the Reds-Dodger game, Alex Stein, 19, and his tiny Whippet, Ashley, dash onto the field and begin lofting spectacular Frisbee tosses. The crowd roars and the two are caught on NBC cameras, initiating a Frisbee craze. Stein, who snuck his dog into the stadium, is arrested when he leaves the field.
2002 In a make-up game against the Angels, the Tigers host 'Silent Night'. The fans heard no electronic, video and commercial enhancements during Detroit's 6-3 loss to Anaheim at CoAmerica Park.
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08-06-03, 10:14 AM
1982
The Yankees trade Bucky Dent to the Rangers for Lee Mazzilli. Dent was hitting only .169 and had lost his starting SS job to Roy Smalley.
1979
In a night game following the funeral of Thurman Munson, Bobby Murcer drives in all five runs as the Yankees top Baltimore 5?4. Murcer has a 3-run home run and a 9th inning 2-run single.
1965
? After hitting 7-for-11 against the White Sox, Mickey Mantle loops a homer off Mickey Lolich but Detroit tops the visiting Yankees, 5?4. New York will win tomorrow and Mick will add another homer.
1963
? Stan Williams of the Yankees one-hits the Senators, giving up a double to Don Blasingame.
1961
Mickey Mantle leads the Yankees to a doubleheader sweep of the Twins, going 5-for-9 with three home runs and a double. His four RBIs gives him an even 100 for the year and his homer total is now 43. In the opener, Mantle's had two home runs off his favorite pitcher Pedro Ramos, but it is Johnny Blanchard's homer in the 10th that ties the game at 6?6. In the 15th, Yogi Berra hits a bases loaded grounder and just beat the throw at first to give the Yanks the win. The Yankees win the nitecap by a run as well, when Clete Boyer drives in Mantle in the 9th inning to break a 2?2 tie. New York now leads Detroit by two 1/2 games.
1969 Twin manager Billy Martin punches Dave Boswell sending his pitcher to the hospital to get twenty stitches. The incident happens after a scuffle between Boswell and teammate Bob Allison.
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08-07-03, 09:26 AM
1983 The Yankees honor Bobby Mercer by giving him a day at the Yankee Stadium. 2000
? The Yankees obtain Jose Canseco from the Devil Rays. The move, which mystifies even manager Joe Torre, is presumably designed to keep the high priced slugger away from AL East rivals.
1998
? Rookie OF Shane Spencer gets five hits, including two doubles and two home runs, while driving home three runs and scoring four in New York's 14?2 pasting of Kansas City in the 2nd game of a doubleheader. The Yankees also took the 1st contest by a score of 8?2.
1977
? Mike Torrez snaps a 3-game Yankee losing streak with his 3rd straight victory. The Yankees will win 20 of their next 23 games over Western Division opponents.
1962
? Yankees SS Tony Kubek, in his first at bat after returning from military service, homers in a 14?1 Yankee win over the Twins……
1957
? Hank Bauer of the Yanks hits his second consecutive lead-off HR, against Washington, as the first-place Yankees lose 3-2.
1956
? The Boston Red Sox fine Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at Boston fans, as the Red Sox edge the Yanks in 11 innings on Williams's bases-loaded walk. It is Williams's third spitting incident in three weeks. The spitting started after the crowd of 36,350, a record for night games at Fenway Park, started booing the Splendid Splinter for muffing Mickey Mantle's windblown fly in the 11th. Before the game, RF Jackie Jensen had to be restrained by teammates from going into the stands after a heckler. The previous year Jensen had challenged a fan to come out of the stands.
1949
? Lineup juggling is a Casey Stengel forte as his Yankees suffer injury after injury. Against the Browns, 13 different Yankees score a run in the first game of a doubleheader.
1948
? Before 66,000 fans, New York's Vic Raschi (14-4) allows four singles in stopping the Indians, 5?0. DiMaggio has a pair of doubles, drives in three runs, and swipes home on the front end of a double steal.
1929
? For the 2nd game in a row, Babe Ruth hits a grand slam home run as the Yanks roll to a 13?1 win over the A's in the lidlifter. Cochrane homers in his one at bat for the A's only run as the Yankees score 10 runs in the first two innings. George Pipgras is the winner. The A's take the nitecap, 4?2, as George Earnshaw goes eight innings for the win.
2001 Home plate umpire Angel Hernandez ejects Steve 'Mongo' McMichael from Wrigley Field as the former Chicago Bear football player is about to sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the seventh inning stretch. McMichael, presently a pro wrestler, tells the crowd over the P.A. system "he'll have a talk with the ump" concerning a close call made by earlier in the game and then boos and blows a kiss toward the ump.
2001 Black Betsy, Shoeless Joe Jackson's 40-ounce warped hickory bat, is won by 30-year-old businessman Rob Mitchell in a 10-day eBay auction. The $577,610 price tag is believed to be the largest amount ever paid for a baseball bat 2002 Major leaguers agree to be checked randomly for illegal steroids starting next year. The proposal, which addresses a major issue in the current contract talks, ends the players decades-old opposition to mandatory drug testing.
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08-09-03, 09:41 AM
1972
? The Yankees and New York City sign a 30-year lease on Yankee Stadium that will keep the team in the Bronx till 2002. The City agrees to spend $24 million on renovations, but the actual costs will approach $100 million.
1953
? Yankee southpaws Whitey Ford and Bob Kuzava hurl 1-0 and 3-0 shutouts against the White Sox. Kuzava gives up only Bob Boyd's double in the ninth.
1919
? Casey Stengel is traded to the Phils for Possum Whitted, who will bat .389 for the Pirates in the last 35 games.
1903
? An overhanging gallery atop the LF bleachers at Philadelphia's NL park collapses at 5:40 p.m. during a doubleheader with Boston, killing 12 and injuring 282. The second game is canceled and Philadelphia's remaining home games are played at the AL's Columbia Park.
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08-09-03, 09:49 AM
1987
In a 15?4 Tiger mauling of the Yankees, New York catcher Rick Cerone takes the mound. Again, he walks one batter and allows no runs, the second time in three weeks he's caught and pitched in the same game.
1949
? Dom DiMaggio's 34-game hitting streak is on the line against Vic Raschi and the Yankees. Hitless in his first four at bats, Dom hits a sinking line drive in the eighth that his brother Joe catches at his shoetops. The Red Sox win 6-3 to move 5 1/2 games behind the Yankees. Dom had started his streak after going hitless against Raschi.
1946
? All games are played at night for the first time in major-league history, four in the AL and four in the NL.
1939 Yankee third baseman Red Rolfe begins an eighteen-game scoring streak. The Penacook, New Hampshire native will score thirty runs during this period of time.
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08-11-03, 09:34 AM
1997
Pitcher Greg Maddux signs a $57.5 million, 5-year contract with the Braves to become baseball's highest-paid player.
1977
? Billy Martin installs Reggie Jackson as the Yankees' regular clean-up hitter. The Yanks beat the A's 6?3, as Ron Guidry outpitches Vida Blue. Graig Nettles belts his 26th homer of the season. New York will win 40 of final 53 games, with Jackson contributing 13 home runs and 49 RBIs.
1986 During Billy Martin Day atYankee Stadium, the Bronx Bombers retire uniform #1 to honor their scrappy second baseman and four-time manager.
1968
? On Old Timers' Day at Yankee Stadium, the Twins stop the Yankees, 3?2. New York's only scores are two solo shots by Mickey Mantle off Jim Merritt. It is the Mick's 46th 2-homer game.
1934
? Babe Ruth announces 1934 is definitely his final season as a regular player. He says he will seek a managerial role and will pinch-hit.
1917
? Babe Ruth beats the Tigers, 5?4, giving up just four hits. The Babe's drive into the CF bleachers, said to be the longest hit at Fenway, is the difference. The homer is Babe's first of the year.
1957 Mickey Mantle blasts a 460-foot homer to become the first player to clear the center-field hedge at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore as the Yankees beat the Orioles, 6-3.
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08-11-03, 09:41 AM
1998
? The Yanks David Wells stops the Twins on a four hitter to win, 7?0. In his last start the Yankee lefty pitched a perfect game against the Twins:.
1995
The Yankees trade OF Luis Polonia to the Braves for minor league OF Troy Hughes.
1980
? Reggie Jackson hits his 400th career home run, off Chicago's Britt Burns, in the 3rd inning of a 3?1 Yankees victory. It's Reggie's 31st homer of the year.
1967
? In the 2nd inning of the first game of a doubleheader, Al Downing of the Yankees strikes out the side on just nine pitches. The Yanks beat the Indians 5?3.
1961
Mickey Mantle (44) and Roger Maris (42) belt homers off reliever Pete Burnside to lead New York to a 12?5 pasting of the Senators.
1950
Hitting just .279, Yankee great Joe DiMaggio is benched for the first time in his career. He is currently languishing in a 4-for-38 slump. His sub, Cliff Mapes, wallops a seventh-inning HR to give the Yankees a 7?6 win over the A's.
1929
? Babe Ruth hits home run No. 500, in the 2nd inning off Willis Hudlin of Cleveland, but the Yankees lose, 6?5. Ruth has gone deep six times in his last seven games.
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08-13-03, 07:56 AM
1974
? Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford head a group of six inductees at Cooperstown.
1969
? Citing "personal problems," Yankees 1B Joe Pepitone goes AWOL.
1964
? Mickey Mantle homers from each side of the plate in the same game for the 10th and final time, a ML record, and New York beats Chicago 7?3 at Yankee Stadium. Mel Stottlemyre, in his major league debut, is the winner, scattering seven hits.
1936
? The largest crowd ever to watch a baseball game, between 90,000 and 125,000, sees a "demonstration game" as an event of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. The world amateurs beat the U.S. amateurs 6-5. Carson Thompson pitches four hitless innings in relief.
1934
? Making a farewell appearance in Boston, Babe Ruth draws a record 46,766 fans, with an estimated 20,000 turned away at Fenway Park where he began his career as a pitcher 20 years ago. Ruth singles and doubles in the first game, but the Yankees lose to Wes Ferrell 6-4. Walks hold him to one official at bat in the second game, which the Yankees win, and he leaves the field to standing cheers in the 8th inning.
1994 The MLB Players' Association members go on strike, the work stoppage will lead to the cancellation of the World Series and a delayed opening of next season.
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08-13-03, 08:05 AM
1995 Flags fly at half-mast at the stadium as Yankee legend Mickey Mantle dies of liver cancer at the age of 63 in Dallas, Texas. 1998
Orlando Hernandez sets a Yankee rookie record by striking out 13 in beating Texas, 2?0.
1978
? The Yankees erupt for five runs in the 7th inning to take a 5?3 lead over the Orioles before heavy rains force a delay of the game. Thanks to stalling tactics of Earl Weaver and some slow-moving Baltimore groundskeepers, the game is called, and the score reverts to the last complete inning. The Orioles win 3?0, with Scott McGregor the winner.
1980
? The Yankees trade righty Ken Clay and a player to be named later to the Rangers for 41-year-old pitcher Gaylord Perry.
1964
? CBS buys 80 percent of the New York Yankees, effective November 2.
1957
Mickey Mantle goes 3-for-3 and drives in three runs as the Yankees edge the Red Sox 3-2. Mantle improves his average to .384 while Ted Williams, with 1-for-2, is at .388. A week later Mantle will injure himself when he angrily swings a golf club at a branch and gouges his shinbone. This will effectively take him out of the running for a second-straight triple crown.
1922
? The New York Yankees 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.
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08-14-03, 08:53 AM
1990
? California posts a 9?5 win over the Yankees with the winning margin coming on an inside-the-park grand slam by Luis Polonia. Yankee RF Jesse Barfield misses a shoe string catch and his leisurely pursuit of the ball allows Polonia to score. Jim Abbott is the winner. Barfield will misplay another drive into an 4-run IPHR in two weeks
1977
? The Yankees collect 15 hits, including homers by Rivers and Nettles, to swamp the Angels. 15?3. Dick Tidrow allows just two hits in six innings for the win.
1966
The Yanks sweep two from the Indians, winning the nitecap, 6?4. The Indians help in the 2nd game by making six errors in one inning, one short of the record. Mickey Mantle helps with a homer, off lefty Jack Kralick, but he'll sit the next 12 days after reinjuring his knee.
1960
The Yankees lose a doubleheader to Washington and fall to 3rd place in the American League, a half game behind the Orioles and White Sox. P Camilo Pascual's grand slam is the difference in a 5?4 first-game win. In the 2nd, Mickey Mantle, believing there are two outs, jogs to 1B on a grounder to 3B. The Senators turn a DP, with New York's Roger Maris suffering bruised ribs trying to break it up at 2B. Maris will miss 18 games as a result. Mantle is heavily booed, and Casey Stengel replaces him with Bob Cerv. The clubs set a major-league record by using 17 pinch hitters?9 by the Yankees?in the doubleheader (more than 18 innings), while playing a major-league record 24 errorless innings.
1942
? The Yankees turn a ML-record seven DPs in an 11?2 win over the Athletics. Bill Dickey guns down two runners following third strikes, three are started by the DP combo of Rizzuto and Gordon, reliever Johnny Murphy triggers another, and 3B Red Rolfe initiates one. The seven DPs give the Yankees 150 on the year; they'll finish with 190, just missing the (since surpassed) ML mark they set last season of 194.
1934
The largest weekday crowd in history watches as the Tigers sweep a pair at Yankee Stadium. It is the Tigers' 14th straight; Schoolboy Rowe has won 13 in succession. The next day the Yankees will end the Tiger streak.
1919
? Babe Ruth hits No. 17, the first of seven HRs in 12 days, which will include his 4th grand slam, an AL record until 1959. The Yankees overcome Muddy Ruel's hitting into a triple play and beat the Tigers in 15 innings 5-4.
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08-15-03, 10:15 AM
2002
? The Yankees top the Royals, 7?5, as Bernie Williams gets five hits, including a double.
1991
? Yankees 1B Don Mattingly is benched and fined $250 for refusing to cut his shoulder-length hair, but the Yankees still beat Kansas City, 5?1. He will get one two days later, and the hair will eventually be auctioned off for $3,000 to benefit a children's charity. Mattingly is not alone; Steve Farr, Matt Nokes, and Pascual Perez have all been told their hair length violates club policy. Mel Hall, who wears his hair in a small ponytail before and after games, is warned his appearance is "borderline."
1977
? Mike Torrez throws his 5th straight complete game, a 6?2 win over the White Sox. New York is now just four 1/2 games in back of Boston.
1968
? At Oakland, the Yanks edge the A's, 4?3. Blue Moon Odom gives up a triple to Tom Tresh, a walk, then serves up a three-run homer to Mickey Mantle for the difference.
1961
? Roger Maris hits his 46th homer, off Chicago's Juan Pizarro, for New York's only run in a 2?1 loss to the visiting White Sox. Pizarro allows just four hits. Whitey Ford loses in his bid for his 21st win.
1955
? Mickey Mantle homers from both sides of the plate in the same game for the second time in his career, tying the major-league mark. The Yanks beat the Orioles 12-6 in game two and sweep the doubleheader to move back into first.
1948
? Before 72,468?the largest crowd of the season at Yankee Stadium?the A's sweep a pair from the Yanks by 5?3 scores and regain second place in the American League. The A's win the opener in 10 innings after Joe DiMaggio ties the score with his 20th homer of the year. Joe D also triples home a run in the extra frame but Lou Brissie preserves the win for Carl Scheib. The A's total 20 hits in the two games, including a triple and double by Sam Chapman. New York is now in 4th place, five games back.
1945.
Commissioner Happy Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette. Ford had been the World Series sponsor since 1934, paying $100,000 annually.
1912
? Little-known Guy Zinn, Yankees outfielder, steals home twice in a 5?4 win at Detroit; this will add to last-place New York's major-league record of 18 steals of home for the year. The Yankees will win tomorrow, 9?8, when Zinn hits a 9th inning double. 1941 In spite of leading 6-3, the Senators forfeited the game to the Red Sox because the league ruled the home ground crew deliberately refused to cover the field when it started to rain.
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08-16-03, 08:25 AM
1948 At the age 53, with his wife Claire and his two adopted daughters at his side, Babe Ruth dies of throat cancer at Memorial Hospital in New York City.
1920 At the Polo Grounds, Ray Chapman suffers a fracture skull and will die the next day as a result of being hit by a Yankee Carl Mays fastball. The Indian shortstop will be the only on-field player fatality in major league history.
1961
New York edges 3rd place Baltimore, beating Steve Barber 2?1. Mickey Mantle drives home both runs.
1959
? After beating the Indians, yesterday, the Yanks sweep a doubleheader today to knock the Tribe out of first. New York wins the opener when Berra ties the game in the 9th with a homer, and Mickey Mantle wins it, 7?5, in the 10th with a 2-run shot off Gary Bell. Bobby Shantz wins the nitecap, 4?0. New York is five 1/2 games out of first.
1951
? While in Detroit, the Yanks option rookie Mickey Mantle to Kansas City (AA). Mantle, plagued with strikeouts?3 on the 13th?and in a slump, will go 0-for-22 in his start with the Blues, before ending with a tear at .361. The Yankees will recall him August 20th. Art Schallock takes Mickey's place on the Yankee roster and gives up 7 hits in 2.3 innings in today's
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08-17-03, 07:42 PM
2002
? The Yankees defeat the Mariners, 8?3, as Alfonso Soriano homers to become the first 2B ever to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases in a season. NY OF Bernie Williams singles in his 1st at bat to give him 11 consecutive hits. He makes out his next time up to fall one short of the ML record.
1948
? Tom Henrich hits his 4th grand slam of the season, off the Senators Sid Hudson, to join Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and York?and, later, Al Rosen and Ray Boone?for the American League record. Henrich, who broke in with the Yankees in 1937, had never hit a grand slam before this season. Bob Porterfield wins for New York, 8?1.
1944
? Yankee OF Johnny Lindell, converted from a pitcher the year before, hits four straight doubles 1933
? Lou Gehrig plays his 1,308th consecutive game to break Everett Scott's mark, as the Browns edge the Yankees 7-6 in 10 innings. to share a major-league mark.
1929
The Yankees buy P Lefty Gomez from San Francisco (PCL) for delivery in September 1930.
1920 Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman dies as a result as a result of being hit by a pitch thrown by Yankee submariner Carl Mays; the tragedy remains the only on-field fatality in major league history. 1948 An estimated crowd of 100,000 fans pass by the body of Babe Ruth which is on display at Yankee Stadium.
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08-19-03, 02:13 PM
2001
Danny Almonte, pitching for the Bronx Little League entry, the Rolando Paulino all-stars, hurls the first perfect game since 1957 in the Little League World Series, beating the eventual winner, Apopka, FL, 2?0. The Bronx team will win next week, but all the victories will be stripped from them when an investigation proves a number of rules infractions, not the least of which is that Almonte is too old. His brother, who pitched last year, will also be shown to be too old.
1995
Yankees announcer, and former SS, Phil Rizzuto retires as team broadcaster after 39 years at the mike, reportedly because WPIX-TV refused to allow him to miss a game to attend teammate Mickey Mantle's funeral. Rizzuto eventually will return for the 1996 season.
1989
Dallas Green is fired as manager of the Yankees and replaced by former SS Bucky Dent. It is the 17th time the Yankees have changed managers since George Steinbrenner took over the club in 1973.
1983
? In the continuation of the "Pine Tar Game," Hal McRae strikes out for the last KC out and Dan Quisenberry retires the Yankees in order in the bottom of the 9th to preserve the Royals' 5?4 victory. The conclusion takes just 12 minutes (and 16 pitches) and, as the only game scheduled at the Stadium, is witnessed by a crowd of 1,245. An odd feature of the game is lefty Don Mattingly playing 2B and pitcher Ron Guidry in CF, as the Yanks try to cover all the options.
1979
The Yankees sell Ray Burris (1?3) to the Mets.
1976.
In the Yankees 8?6 win over the Rangers, Roy White homers from each side of the plate.
1962
? Kansas City tops the Yanks for the 2nd day in a row, 5?4. Again, Mickey Mantle homers in the losing cause.
1931
? In New York's 5?4 loss at Detroit, Lou Gehrig is hitless as he plays his 1,000th consecutive game. He is 307 short of Everett Scott's record streak.
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08-19-03, 02:16 PM
1977
? Backed by homers from Reggie Jackson and Bucky Dent, Mike Torrez hurls his 6th complete game in a row and New York beats Texas, 8?1. The Yanks are now two 1/2 games in back of Boston.
1951
? In his most interesting promotional stunt, Bill Veeck signs a 3'7" midget, Eddie Gaedel, who goes to bat wearing the number 1/8 in the first inning of the nightcap with the Tigers. Lefty Bob Cain laughingly walks him on four pitches. Jim Delsing then pinch runs, but the Tigers win, 6?2. Two days later the ML bars Eddie Gaedel from appearing in any more games.
1950
? The Gillette Safety Razor Co. pays $800,000 for TV rights to the WS. Radio rights will add another $175,000 more.
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08-20-03, 09:31 AM
2000 The winningest pitcher in franchise history is honored by the Yankees during Whitey Ford Day ceremonies at Yankee Stadium. The crafty lefty holds the team record for victories (236) , innings pitched (3,170 1/3), strikeouts (1,956) and shutouts (45). 1964
? On the New York team bus following a 5?0 White Sox win, Phil Linz begins to play "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on his harmonica. Manager Yogi Berra orders Linz to stop, then slaps the instrument out of his hands when he continues playing. The incident is reported as indicating dissension on the club and Berra's lack of control, as well as the level of Linz's humor.
1962
Roger Maris hits his 49th and Mickey Mantle his 46th as the Yankees sweep a pair from the Indians, 6?0 and 5?2. Both come in Game One as Terry pitches a 4-hitter. Skowron homers in the nitecap and Mantle notches an RBI with his 101st walk, following a single and two HPBs load the bases.
1961
At Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, both Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris homer in the twinbill sweep. Mantle's first inning three run homer, and Maris ' 9th in the 3rd inning to make it easy for Ralph Terry. In the nitecap, Bill Skowron hits his 21st in the 2nd inning and the Yanks win 5?2. In the 6th, after Bell allows a single and then hits Gardner and Maris, Mantle collects his 101st walk to force home a run.
1957
Yankee Bob Turley pitches a 2-hitter against Kansas City, but loses 1-0.
1954
OF Gene Woodling of the Yanks crashes into the wall, breaking a thumb. He is lost for the season.
1938
? Lou Gehrig hits a first-inning grand slam, the 23rd and last of his career for a still-standing record. It comes off Buck Ross in an 11-3 victory over the A's
1931
? At St. Louis, Lou Gehrig hits his 33rd homer in the 4th to tie Ruth for the ML lead, but the Babe answers in the 9th with his 34th, a grand slam over RF roof, to give the Yanks a 7?3 win over the Browns. Lefty Gomez almost has New York's first shutout of the season, but he weakens in the 9th.
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08-23-03, 09:01 AM
1996
Welcome to the Bigs. Derek Jeter hits a home run off Jason Dickson's first ML pitch, but that's all the scoring for the slumping Yankees as the Angels' rookie wins, 7?1. Chili Davis has a pair of homers, the first off loser Jimmy Key (9?10).
1991
? Yankees OF Bernie Williams fans five consecutive times in a 7-4 loss to the Royals to tie the major league mark for a 9-inning game. He's consoled by Yankee hitting coach Frank Howard, one of the 28 batters who share the mark.
1977
Graig Nettles' home run and double account for both Yankee runs in a 2?1 win over Texas. Ron Guidry picks up his 10th win of the year and Yankees cut the Red Sox lead to one-half game.
1968
? Minnesota's Jim Merritt loses his shutout in the 9th when Mickey Mantle hits a pinch homer, but he wins 3?1. It is Mantle's 534th home run, tying him with Jimmie Foxx for 3rd on the all-time list.
1951
? Baseball owners elect General "Rosey" O'Donnell as the new baseball commissioner, but President Truman overrules the decision. Truman says that O'Donnell is needed in his present job?not a talk show host, but Air Force commanding general of bombing in Korea.
1947
? The first Little League World Series tournament is held in Williamsport, PA. The Maynard Midgets of Williamsport, with a tourney batting average of .625, win the World Series, 16?7.
1936
? Wes Ferrell, in a tantrum for what he considers shabby support, walks off the mound during a Yankee rally and is suspended and fined $1,000 by Boston manager Joe Cronin. It is the second time in five days he has walked off the mound, having done it in Boston last Sunday in a game against the Senators. Ferrell, furious when he hears about the fine, says he will not pay it. "They can suspend me or trade me, but they're not getting any dough from me." The Red Sox lift the suspension in four days and will trade Ferrell after the season.
1933
? The Yankees and White Sox play an 18-inning game which ends in a 3-3 tie
1931
? After belting #599, a grand slam in yesterday's game, Babe Ruth hits his 600th home run, off George Blaeholder of the Browns, as the Yankees win 11?7. Lou Gehrig homers immediately after the Babe's historic blow. In their 10 years as teammates, they will homer in the same inning 19 times and in the same game 72 times
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08-23-03, 09:09 AM
1996
? The Yankees claim Luis Sojo off waivers.
1968
? Jim Merritt loses his shut out in the 9th inning when Mickey Mantle parks a pinch homer at the Metrodome. The Twins win, 3?1. Mick's homer ties him with Jimmie Foxx for 3rd place on the all-time list.
1964
? The Yankees lose the first game to Boston, 5?3, extending their losing streak to six games. Boston scores three runs in the 8th inning to win it. In the nitecap, New York wins, 8?0, as Mickey Mantle and John Blanchard both homer, and Roger Maris drives in three runs. Mel Stottlemyre wins his 3rd game in a row since being recalled from Richmond. The Yanks end the day five 1/2 games behind the Orioles, with the White Sox in 2nd place, one 1/2 games back.
1961
Roger Maris becomes the first player to hit his 50th home run in the month of August, as the Yankees lose to the Angels 4?3 (Ruth and Foxx hit #50 on September 4th). Ken McBride tees up the gopher ball in the 6th inning with one on.
1960
? For Billy Martin's fight on August 5th, Jim Brewer and the Cubs hit back with a $1,040,000 law suit. The claim will be settled in court and Martin will be liable for $25,000 in damages.
1933
William Veeck, president of the Chicago Cubs, urges a midsummer series of inter-league games. He also proposes a split season.
1927
? The Yankees lose their fourth straight for the first time 9-4 to the Indians, despite Babe Ruth's 40th HR. Detroit wins its 13th straight, moving up to second, 12 1/2 games back.
1939 At Comiskey Park, the Yankees win their first night game in franchise history as the Bronx Bombers defeat the White Sox, 14-5.
1965 Juan Marichal thinks Johnny Roseboro throws too close to his head returning the ball to Sandy Koufax and attacks Dodger catcher with his bat. The Los Angeles backstop suffers cuts on the head during the 14-minute brawl.
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08-23-03, 09:17 AM
1999
The Yankees score six runs in the 1st inning on their way to a 21-3 victory over the Rangers. 3B Scott Brosius (6) and C Joe Girardi (7)?the 8th and 9th batters in the NY lineup?drive in 13 of the Yankee runs. Jeter scores his 100th run of the year, the 1st Yank to string together four straight seasons of 100+ runs since Mickey Mantle did it in nine straight seasons (1953-61).
1996
? The Yankees obtain P Graeme Lloyd and former Rookie of the Year Pat Listach from the Brewers in exchange for OF Gerald Williams and knuckler Bob Wickman. Lloyd is put to work and provides late inning relief as the first-place Yankees beat the A's, 5?3. The Yanks will officially complain to the American League that the Brewers sent damaged goods in the two players, but the complaint is ignored. However, the Brewers will take back Listach and send Ricky Bones to the Yanks on the 29th. The Yanks will file a grievance over Lloyd's injury next month.
1979
Commissioner Kuhn slaps Padres owner Ray Kroc with a $100,000 fine for tampering, following remarks Kroc made about potential free agents Joe Morgan and Graig Nettles.
1977
? Behind Mickey Rivers' 5-for-5 and Torrez's 7th straight CG contributing to an 8?3 whipping of the White Sox, the Yanks take over first place in the American League East. With the Red Sox losing, the Yankees go ahead by a half game and will stay in first place to the end.
1968
? Stan Bahnsen outpitches Earl Wilson to give the host Yankees a 2?1 win over Detroit. The two teams then battle for 19 innings, before the 2nd game is suspended by curfew with the score 3?3. The game will be finished tomorrow. In the long tie, Lindy McDaniel retires 21 straight Tiger batters, six on strikeouts. In his last three relief appearances, he has retired 30 batters in a row.
1964
New York tops host Boston, 4?3, as Mickey Mantle starts the scoring with a 2-run homer in the 3rd inning off Earl Wilson. New York will win 26 of their next 33 games.
1942
Walter Johnson pitching to Babe Ruth is the pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for the New York-Washington game at Yankee Stadium that provides $80,000 for Army-Navy relief. Ruth hits the fifth pitch into the right-field stands, and then adds one more shot before circling the bases. Sixteen relief games contribute $523,000 during the season. In the doubleheader between the Senators and the Yankees, the Senators win the opener, 7?6 and New York cops the nitecap, 3?0, in five 1/2 innings.
1930
? The Yankees buy Frank Crosetti from the San Francisco Seals but allow him to play another season in the PCL before reporting. The Yankees will make a similar arrangement for Joe DiMaggio, buying him from the Seals but waiting a year before acquiring him in 1936.
1982 Gaylord Perry of the Mariners is caught by the umpires applying a foreign substance to the ball. Although the righthander has been suspected for years of loaded up the baseball, it is the first time he has been ejected from a game.
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08-27-03, 09:58 AM
1977
? Catfish Hunter notches his final win of the year, an 11?1 four-hit victory over the Twins. New York supports Hunter with homers outages by Roy White, Mickey Rivers, Chris Chambliss and Bucky Dent.
1968
? New York's Mel Stottlemyre tops the Tigers ace Denny McLain, 2?1.
1951
Against Cleveland's Early Wynn, Gene Woodling cracks his 3rd homer off the Tribe ace this year, as the Yanks win, 2?0. Woodling went deep on Wynn on June 24th, July 24th and today. Mickey Mantle makes his first appearance since his recall from the minors.
1963 The Little League World Series is televised for the first time . With ABC's Wide World of Sports providing coverage of the championship game, Grenada Hills (CA) beats Stratford (CT), 2-1.
1985 Yankee Don Baylor ties a major league record when he hit by a pitch for the 189th time in his career.
1989 Pete Rose is banned from baseball for life by Commissioner Giamatti for gambling. The Reds' manager signs a five-page agreement with Giamatti in which he agrees to a lifetime penalty but does not admit to gambling on the national pastime.
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08-27-03, 10:06 AM
2001
The Yankees defeat the Angels, 7?5, as Roger Clemens becomes the 1st AL hurler to go 17?1 to begin a season. OF Paul O'Neill hits his 20th home run of the year, making him the oldest player in history?at age 38?to reach the 20 home run?20 SB mark in a season.
1996
The Yankees dedicate their 1st new monument in 47 years, to Mickey Mantle, in Monument Park in center field at Yankee Stadium. Miller Huggins, Babe Ruth, and Lou Gehrig are also honored with monuments, while 15 men are honored on plaques.
1976
? The Yankees edge the Twins 5?4 in a 19-inning marathon. Grant Jackson is the winner over Pete Redfern.
1968
? The Tigers, ahead 5?0, fail to score with two on in the 4th inning when the Yanks bring in Rocky Colavito. The 35-year-old slugger retires Al Kaline and Willie Horton and tosses two 2/3 innings of scoreless relief to earn the win. In Rocky's only other appearance, in 1958, he also faced Kaline, and the victory by a non-pitcher will be the last this century. Bill Robinson and Bobby Cox crash successive homers to tie the score and, after a walk, Rocky comes around to score the winning run. In the 8th, Yankees reliever Lindy McDaniel ties the American League record for consecutive batters retired by setting down the first Tiger he faces, giving him 32 straight batters retired over four appearances. New York sweeps, winning 6?5 and then topping Mickey Lolich, 5?4. The four losses in New York leaves the Tigers just five ahead of the Orioles.
1966
? Whitey Ford (2-5) undergoes surgery for a circulatory problem in his left shoulder.
1956
? To make room for Enos Slaughter, the Yankees give Phil "the Scooter" Rizzuto his unconditional release. Through the instigation of Ballantine Beer, Rizzuto will be in the announcing booth next year, replacing Jim Woods.
1956 Prior to the Old Timer's Game at Yankee Stadium, shortstop Phil Rizzuto is asked to consult with general manager George Weiss and manager Casey Stengel concerning a player move necessitated by reacquiring Enos Slaughter from the A's. After making several suggestions about who should be cut from the squad, the veteran infielder is told by Weiss he is the player about to be let go.
1952
? In a 1-0 win over the Yankees in Yankee Stadium, Virgil Trucks of the Detroit Tigers pitches his second no-hitter of the season. The no-hitter is in doubt for three innings when a play made by SS Johnny Pesky in the third inning is under debate. The official scorer, John Drebinger, records it as an error when Pesky has trouble getting a ball hit by Phil Rizzuto out of his glove. Dan Daniel of The New York World Telegram convinces Drebinger that it cannot be ruled an error because the ball was stuck in the fielder's glove, and Rizzuto is awarded a hit. In the sixth inning, with Trucks not having given up another hit, Drebinger calls Pesky in the dugout from the press box, and the SS says that he should be given the error rather than Rizzuto the hit. The call is changed again, and Trucks's no-hitter is preserved. Trucks's record is now 5-15.
1951
? Before 66,110 at Cleveland, Mickey Mantle belts an opposite field 2-run homer off Mike Garcia to help the Yankees win, 7?3. New York (77-46) moves to a game in back of the Tribe.
1939
? Red Rolfe scores for the Yankees in his 18th consecutive game, giving him a total of 30 runs.
1935
? Earle Combs of the Yankees collides with teammate Red Rolfe on a fly ball and suffers a severe shoulder injury. It will contribute to his decision to retire at the end of the season.
1921
? With Cleveland waltzing to a 15?1 win over the Yankees, NY hurler Harry Harper, pitching in the 8th, plunks OF Charles Jamieson in the ribs, Larry Gardner in the arm, and Steve O'Neill in the back. O'Neill throws the ball back at Harper precipitates a bench clearing brawl. New York OF Bob Meusel contributes four errors in the game. The Tribe takes over 1st place from the Yankees.
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08-27-03, 10:16 AM
2002 With a solo shot in fourth inning in 10-3 victory over the Rangers, Yankee infielder Alfonso Soriano sets a team record for home runs by a second baseman. The previous mark of 30 was established in 1940 by Joe Gordon. 1997
? The Yankees pound out 22 hits in an 18-2 win over Oakland. Joe Girardi and Rey Sanchez lead the way with four hits apiece.
1977
? New York wins its 12th in 13 games when Graig Nettles triples home two runs in the 9th inning to give the Bombers a 6?5 win over Texas. With the Red Sox losing, the Yankees move in front by two games.
1966
Detroit's Earl Wilson, winner of six straight, hits an 8th inning homer to give himself a 5?3 lead over New York. But the Yankees, batting against reliever Hank Aguirre in the 9th, tally one run on a Clete Boyer single, and win it, 6?5, when Mickey Mantle clouts a pinch homer over a leaping Al Kaline in RF. The win still leaves New York (57?72) in last place.
1962
Robin Roberts, discarded earlier in the year by the Yankees, beats Whitey Ford 2?1 on home runs by Brooks Robinson and Jim Gentile to complete a 5-game Oriole sweep of the sagging Yankees. The Twins and Angels are now three games behind New York.
1961
? Roger Maris belts #51, off KC's Jerry Walker. Roger's homer in the 6th follows a Tony Kubek blast. Bill Stafford allows just one hit till the 9th inning as the Yanks win, 5?1.
1960
? The Yanks crash five solo homers and four pinch hits, the latter tying an American League record, to top the Indians 7?6. Berra's 2nd homer gives New York the win in the 11th. In game 2, the Yankees win 7?5 with Bob Cerv's 3-run home run the big blow.
1956
? The Yankees announce the purchase of OF Enos Slaughter from Kansas City.
1935
? Lumbering 1B Zeke Bonura of the White Sox steals home with two outs in the 15th inning to beat the Yankees 9-8.
1989 The Trumbull (Connecticut) All-stars become the first American team to win the Little League World Series since 1983. >>>>>>> 1939 At Brooklyn's Ebbets Field, NBC televises the first major league game in history on experimental station W2XBS. The Dodgers and Reds split a doubleheader. >>>>>>>>>>>>> 2002 The first video streaming coverage of a major league baseball game takes place on the internet. Approximately 30,000 fans visit MLB.com to see the Yankees defeat the Rangers, 10-3.
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08-27-03, 10:25 AM
1977
? Rangers Toby Harrah and Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park home runs on consecutive pitches off Ken Clay, highlighting an 8?2 win over the Yankees, only the 2nd loss for New York in 14 games. It ties the ML mark and it is the first time since 1946 that two batters have connected consecutively on IPHRs.
1938
? Joe DiMaggio has three triples in the first game of a doubleheader with Cleveland, an 8-7 win in New York. Monte Pearson has a no-hitter in the 2nd game, winning his 10th straight game, 13-0. The Yankees, playing their sixth successive doubleheader, increase their AL lead to 12 games.
1938 Monte Pearson becomes the first pitcher to throw a no hitter in Yankee Stadium. Facing only 27 batters, thanks to two double plays, he beats his former team, the Indians, 13-0 for his 10th consecutive victory.
1935
? The Yankees outslug the White Sox 13-10 in the first game of 2. In the second game, Lou Gehrig ties an AL record with five walks as the Yanks lose 4-3
1922
? The Yankees increase their lead by beating the Browns, 2?1, in 11 innings on Meusel's sac fly. Hank Severeid's HR is the only score for the Browns. An apparent two run double off the LF wall by Eddie Foster in the 10th is ruled foul by Moriarty. The Yanks take the series, 3?1.
1912
In response to demands for an alternative way to rate pitchers besides wins and losses, the NL will officially keep ERA's for the first time; the Giants Jeff Tesreau will lead the league at 1.96. Despite an increase in .300 hitters from 22 to 32 this year, there will be 19 pitchers with ERA's under 3.00. The AL will not make ERA part of their official statistics until 1913.
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09-02-03, 09:49 AM
2001
? The Yankees defeat the Red Sox, 1?0, as P Mike Mussina comes within a strike of hurling a perfect game. Pinch-hitter Carl Everett's two?out, two?strike single in the 9th inning ruins Mussina's gem. It is the 3rd time in his career that the righty has taken a perfect game into the 8th inning. The Yankees score the only run of the contest in the top of the 9th on Enrique Wilson's double. Opposing hurler David Cone, who takes the loss, is the most recent pitcher to toss a perfecto. The Yankees sweep of the Red Sox was the first in baseball history by a team that did not score in the first seven inning of any of the games. In a move that enrages many players, Red Sox GM Dan Duquette abruptly relieves pitching coach John Cumberland of his duties just minutes after the game. A visibly angry Cumberland, who was promoted from bullpen coach to pitching coach last month when Joe Kerrigan became manager, said Duquette told him he was being reassigned to the team's training facility in Fort Myers, Fla. ''I'm not going,'' Cumberland said. ''That's official, that's for damn sure. That's OK. We've had a lot of good people leave this organization, and now it's going to be me because I'm not going to be reassigned.'' 1996
In his first game back in action since undergoing surgery for an aneurysm in his pitching shoulder in May, Yankees' P David Cone hurls seven hitless innings in New York's 5-0 victory over the Athletics. Mariano Rivera gives up one hit in two innings as he finishes up for Cone. Cone's remarkable return sends Kenny Rogers to the bullpen.
1994
? According to acting commissioner Bud Selig, September 9th is the tentative deadline for canceling the rest of the season is no agreement is reached between the owners and players.
1969
? Ralph Houk signs a new 3-year contract with the Yankees at $65,000 a season, the highest managerial salary in either league, and Joe Pepitone is reinstated.
1967
Washington's Bob Priddy loses his 1?0 lead to the Yankees when Mickey Mantle clouts a 2-run pinch homer in the 8th and New York wins, 2?1. Mel Stottlemyre is the winner, allowing six hits and no walks. For Mantle, it is his 14th game-winning hit of the year, eight of them home runs.
1965
Mickey Mantle hits a 1st inning homer with two on as New York scores five runs on their way to an 8?1 win over the Angels. Whitey Ford is the winner.
1961
? Against Detroit's Frank Lary, Roger Maris doubles and takes 3B on a misplay. Mickey Mantle, hurting from a pulled muscle in his forearm, lays down a perfect drag bunt to score Roger. Maris then blasts homers his next two trips to the plate, and Elston Howard adds a three-run homer, for a 7?2 win.
1958
? At Yankee Stadium, New York snaps a scoreless tie with Boston when Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle crash back-to-back 6th inning homers off Dave Sisler. Mantle has hit three this year of Sisler. New York wins, 6?1. Mantle, with 38 homers, leads the American League. Mantle and Berra will hit back-to-back homers 12 times together, and homer in the same game 50 times before they are through.
1955
Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle celebrate Billy Martin's return from the army; Ford throws 6 innings of no-hit ball against Washington before Carlos Paula spoils it in the 7th with Washington's only hit. The Yanks win 4-2 as Mantle hits his 36th HR, a 3-run shot. Mantle is 10 HRs ahead of rivals Al Kaline and Ted Williams. New York stays a half game behind the White Sox, who beat the 3rd-place Indians. Billy Martin will hit .300 in September, and New York will go on a 17-6 tear to win the pennant by 3 games.
1919
? The National Commission recommends a best-of-9 World Series. The lengthier WS is seen as a sign of greed and is abandoned after three years.
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09-04-03, 10:18 AM
1995
? The Yankees drop a 10-9 decision to the Athletics as SS Tony Fernandez hits for the cycle. Fernandez scores three runs and has three ribbies for NY
1973 After 11 years at the helm (944-806- .539), Ralph Houk resigns as Yankee skipper. He will manage the Tigers next season
1992
Baseball owners vote 18?9, with one abstention, calling for the resignation of Commissioner Fay Vincent.
1961
? After taking the first two games against Detroit, New York is down 5?4 in the 9th when Mickey Mantle ties the game with his 2nd homer of the day. Elston Howard wins it with a 3-run drive into the LF stands and Detroit leaves town four 1/2 games in back of New York. Mantle is now at 50 home runs, with Roger Maris at 53, the first teammates in history to hit 50.
1958
? The Yankees spot Boston a 5?3 lead before Mickey Mantle homers in the 8th and Yogi Berra cracks a 3-run homer in the 9th to win it 8?5. Mantle and Berra each have 85 RBIs for the year.
1954
? The Yankees snap Bob Lemon's 11-game win streak to beat the Indians 3-2 and move to 31Ž2 games from first place. Mantle's gigantic blast into the RF upper deck in the 6th started the Yankee scoring.
1947 At Fenway Park, Tommy Henrich and Joe DiMaggio lead the way with four hits each as the Yankees bang out a total eighteen hits, all singles, defeating the Red Sox, 11-2.
1939
? With the Sunday curfew impending, the Yankees stall to avoid a loss in Boston. Irate Fenway fans litter the field with cushions and debris. Umpire Cal Hubbard forfeits the game to the Yankees, but AL President Will Harridge subsequently overrules him and fines the Yankees for their tactics.
1921
? Powered by Babe Ruth's 50th homer and the pitching of Carl Mays, the Yankees down the host Senators, 9?3.
1917
? Trying to keep the Phils in the race, Grover Alexander does double duty, beating Brooklyn 6?0 and 9?3 in a Labor Day twinbill. Rube Marquard and Allan Russell try and stop Pete in the opener, while Jack Coombs and George Smith pitch in the nitecap. Milt Stock lines a homer in the opener when Zack Wheat, hampered by a sore ankle, can't reach his drive. Dode Paskert's bases loaded triple in the 2nd game is the big blow. Alex will win 30 for the 3rd straight year, with a league-leading 1.86 ERA.
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09-04-03, 10:32 AM
1998
? The Yankees (100?38) win their 100th game of the season, defeating the White Sox, 11?6. It is the earliest any American League team has ever reached the 100?win mark. The 1906 Cubs needed 132 games to reach the 100-win mark. Bernie Williams leads NY with a pair of homers and four RBIs.
1996
Andy Pettitte wins his 20th as the Yankees prevail over the A's, 10?3. Paul O'Neill and Tino Martinez solo in the 4th inning. The Yanks last 20-game winner was Ron Guidry in 1985
1993
? Yankees P Jim Abbott tosses a no-hitter against the Indians, defeating them by a score of 4-0.
1992
? Yankees OF Roberto Kelly ties a major league record by reaching base on catcher's interference for the 7th time this year. Pittsburgh's Dale Berra set the mark in 1983. Texas C Ivan Rodriguez is the latest victim of Kelly in NY's 6?3 victory.
1991
? After 30 years, the asterisk attached to Roger Maris' 61 home runs in 1961 is removed by an 8-man Committee for Statistical Accuracy. Regarding the expunging of the asterisk, historian Bill Deane later points out, "It was an easy job: the asterisk never existed. Maris's record was, from 1962 until 1991, listed separately from Ruth's and was never actually defined by 'some distinctive mark.'" The committee also defines a no-hit game as one which ends after nine or more innings with one team failing to get a hit. This removes 50 games from the list that had previously been considered no-no's, mostly shortened games, but also including Harvey Haddix's 12 perfect innings against the Braves in 1959 and Jim Maloney' 1965 1?0 loss in 11-innings. Another casualty is Ernie Shore's 27 straight outs in 1917, a game in which he relieved Ruth with a runner on and no outs in the 1st. It is now a combined no-hitter.
Lou Gehrig's 1938 Yankee road uniform brings $220,000 at a memorabilia auction in San Francisco, becoming the most expensive non-card sports memorabilia item ever sold. A Honus Wagner card goes for $125,500 while an autographed Gehrig bat sells for $47,500.
1978
Behind Ron Guidry's 20th win, the Yankees take the first game against Detroit 9?1. New York scores eight in the 7th. Detroit wins the 2nd 5?4 to keep New York five games behind Boston.
1965
? At Yankee Stadium, the Red Sox sweep two from the Yankees, winning 1?0 and 7?2. Mickey Mantle's homer in the 2nd game, off Dennis Bennett, is the only bright spot for New York.
1964
? The Yankees overcome two homers by Ken Harrelson to beat the host A's, 9?7, in 10 innings. Mickey Mantle and Elston Howard hit back-to-back homers in the 4th inning for New York. With the Orioles losing today, Baltimore (81-54) and Chicago (82-55) are virtually tied for first, with New York (77-56) three games back.
1961
? Mickey Mantle misses the Labor Day doubleheader with a painful and swollen forearm, but the Yanks don't need him as they sweep a pair from the Senators, 5?3 and 3?2. The sweep moves the Yanks six games up on the slumping Tigers, who lose 6?3 to the Orioles and trail 4?1 in a game suspended. Mantle's replacement John Blanchard breaks a 3?3 tie in the opener with an 8th inning homer.
1955
? Mickey Mantle's first-inning 3-run HR allows Bob Turley to coast to an 8-3 win over Washington. This is Mantle's last HR of the year.
1945
? Long-time Yankee batting practice pitcher Paul Schreiber, who last pitched in the ML in 1923 and the minors in 1931, relieves for the Yankees against Detroit in a Tiger rout. Schreiber gives up no hits in 31Ž3 innings, but the Tigers Dizzy Trout wins 10-0.
1941
? The New York Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 6-3 to clinch the AL pennant, the earliest date in ML history. The Yankees need only 136 games, giving them a 91-45 record.
1923
? Yankee Sam Jones no-hits the Athletics, 2?0, beating Bob Hasty. Babe Ruth makes the only strikeout of the game as he slips a point behind Detroit's Harry Heilmann in the batting race. Not till Ken Holtzman's no-hitter in 1969, will another pitcher record a no-hitter with no strikeouts.
In a twilight charity game, Babe Ruth plays 1B for Philadelphia's Ascension Catholic Club. Ruth scores the only run in a 2?1 loss to the Lit Brothers.
1922
? At the start of the day, both New York teams are on top, and both Boston teams are on the bottom. But today, the Red Sox will take two and knock the leaders off their perch as they sweep the Yankees, 4?3 and 6?5. Babe Ruth hits his last regular season home run, in the Polo Grounds. He gets it off Herb Pennock, who also gave up Ruth's first Yankee homer, also at the Polo Grounds.
1908
? In a game, the significance of which will not be recognized for another three weeks, the Pirates and Cubs are tied 0-0 in the last of the 10th at Pittsburgh. With two outs and the bases loaded, Pittsburgh's Owen Wilson singles to CF, scoring Fred Clarke with the winning run. Warren Gill, on 1B, does not get to 2B but stops short, turns, and heads for the dugout, a common practice. The Cubs' Johnny Evers calls for the ball from Jimmy Slagle, touches 2B, and claims the run does not count as Gill has been forced. The lone umpire, Hank O'Day, has left the field. When queried, he rules that Clarke had already scored, so the run counts. The Cubs protest to league president Harry Pulliam, but are denied. This is the first time the Cubs try this tactic, but not the last.
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09-05-03, 10:28 AM
1971
The Tigers tie a major-league record by using six pinch hitters in the 7th inning, but lose 6?5 to the Yankees anyway.
1964
? Blue Moon Odom makes his ML debut, and Mickey Mantle greets him with a 3-run opposite field homer in the first inning. New York hangs on to win, again by a 9?7 score.
Sound familiar? The Yanks acquire veteran P Pedro Ramos from the Indians as pennant insurance. The Indians get two players to be named later: Ralph Terry on October 12, and Bud Daley on November 27.
1995 When the game becomes official in the bottom of the fifth inning, Cal Ripken receives a standing ovation for over five minutes from the sellout crowd at Oriole Park at Camden Yards as he ties Yankee legend Lou Gehrig's record of 2,130 consecutive games.
1961
The Yanks top Washington, 6?1, sending the Senators to their 20th defeat in their last 21 games. Mickey Mantle's homers for his 51st. The Yanks win, coupled with a Detroit doubleheader loss, puts New York ahead by seven 1/2 games.
1950
? The Yankees acquire 1B Johnny Hopp, who is second in the NL in hitting with a .340 mark, from the Pirates for an undisclosed amount of cash. The Yanks believe Hopp will provide late season pennant insurance. .
Purdue Athletic Director Red Mackey criticizes the Yankees for signing his 19-year-old star P/SS Bill Skowron, who was also expected to be the starting right halfback on the Boilermakers? football squad.
1921
? In the Labor Day afternoon game at Boston, won by the Red Sox 8?2, the Yankees outfield makes a American League-record five assists, four by Bob Meusel. Meusel, with one of the strongest arms in baseball, will lead the AL in assists in 1921 and 1922.
1918
? In order to cut down on the use of trains, the first three games of the World Series are played in Chicago, the next three in Boston. The Cubs switch their home games to Comiskey Park with its larger seating capacity. Babe Ruth, having completed 13 scoreless innings in his first World Series two years ago, adds nine more in edging Hippo Vaughn 1?0 in the opener. Also, when 2B Dave Shean bats for Boston, he becomes the oldest player (40 years, three months, 18 days) to play in the World Series, a mark other graybeards will top.
During the 7th-inning stretch, a military band plays "The Star Spangled Banner" and Fred Thomas, on leave from the Navy, snaps to attention. From then on, the song 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 WW II, when the installation of public address systems makes it practical. The first time it is recorded that the song was played at a ball game was on May 15, 1862, at the Union Grounds in Brooklyn. The base ball game was led off by a band concert.
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09-08-03, 08:12 AM
1995
? Cal Ripken plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking Lou Gehrig's long-standing record. The record becomes official after the Angels are retired in the top of the 5th and play is stopped for 22 minutes as Ripken takes a lap around Camden Yards. To complete the perfect evening, Ripken hits a home run off Shawn Boskie in the 4th inning, and the Orioles go on to win by a score of 4-2.
1990
At Yankee Stadium, Deion Sanders strikes out in the 6th for the Yankees ending his rookie (14 games in 1989) season with a .158 average in 57 games. Neon then shakes hands in the dugout, and heads for Atlanta to join the Falcons. On the 10th, he will return a punt for a TD. California scores six in the 9th to beat the Yanks, 12?6.
1973
? The Yankees bid adieu to the Alous, selling Felipe Alou to Montreal and Matty Alou to St. Louis.
1961
? Roger Maris connects for #54, off Tom Cheney of the Senators, as the Yankees win, 8?0, behind Whitey Ford's 5-hitter. Ford is now 23?3. John Blanchard hits a pair of homers, each time following a walk to Mickey Mantle, and Moose Skowron and Bob Hale also homer.
1960
In his final game at Yankee Stadium, Ted Williams thumps his 518th career homer to lead Boston to a 7?1 win. Billy Muffett's shut out is ruined when he serves up a homer to Mickey Mantle with two outs in the 9th.
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09-08-03, 08:24 AM
1978
? The Yankees, four games behind the Red Sox in the American League East, arrive in Boston for a crucial 4-game series. The Yanks begin the "Boston Massacre" with a 15?3 route as Willie Randolph drives in five of the runs. The Yanks collect 21 hits off four Sox pitchers, including three hits apiece by Randolph, Thurman Munson and White. Mike Torrez, with one inning of work, takes the loss. Ken Clay, in relief of Catfish Hunter, is the winner. 1996
? Complaining of abdominal pains the day of his scheduled start at Yankee Stadium, Juan Guzman is rushed to New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital where he undergoes an emergency appendectomy. He won't pitch any more this season and his 2.93 ERA will lead the American League.
1985
? Dave Winfield steals home with the winning run in the Yankees 3?2 win over the A's. Following a pitchout in the 7th, Winfield gets hung up in a rundown but escapes to score.
1966
? The Braves acquire veteran pitchers Hoyt Wilhelm and Bob Priddy from the Angels in exchange for minor league prospects Mickey Rivers and Clint Compton. It will only Hoyt for a little while as the Braves will waive the knuckleballer to the Cubs in September 1970.
1961
? Roger Maris lays down a bunt and also belts his 55th homer of the year in the 3rd inning as New York beats the Senators, 7?3. All of Washington's scores come in the 6th on an inside-the-park homer by Tito Francona, of Bill Terry. When asked by writers after the game why he bunted, a testy Maris replies, "Trying to win the game, you stupid cocksucker. Why do you think."
1955
? Whitey Ford continues his mastery with his 2nd consecutive one-hitter, beating the A's 2-1. Jim Finigan hits a 2-out single in the 7th for the Nats' only hit. Ford is the 5th ML pitcher to throw consecutive one-hitters.
1953
? Campanella sets the ML record for RBI by a catcher when he smacks a 3-run HR in a 6-3 Dodgers' win over the Phils. Campy's 125 breaks Yogi Berra's ML record of 124 set in 1950, and he will finish the season with 142.
1952
? The Yankees' Johnny Mize's pinch-hit grand slam gives the Yanks a 5-1 win at Washington. He has now homered in each one of the 15 ML parks, including Sportsman's Park in St. Louis while in each league.
1934
? Lou Gehrig and Jimmie Foxx, heirs to Babe Ruth's HR championship role, are in battle for the title. Gehrig hits his 44th in Chicago, and Foxx, his 41st in Detroit.
1932
? Babe Ruth is hospitalized with pains in his side. The slugger will be out of action for five days.
1927
? After blasting three HRs in a doubleheader split with the Red Sox the day before, Ruth hits two more in a 12-10 win, giving him a record-tying 5 in 3 games. He leads Gehrig 49 HRs to 45.
1925
After apologizing to his teammates yesterday, Babe Ruth makes his first appearance in a week, collecting one hit in a 5?1 loss to the Red Sox.
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thecaptain
09-08-03, 08:34 AM
1998
? Mark McGwire breaks Roger Maris' single?season home run mark by clouting his 62nd of the year off Steve Trachsel in the 4th inning of the Cardinals' 6?3 win over the Cubs in St. Louis.
1992
? Yankees OF Danny Tartabull goes 5?for?5 with two homers and a double, and drives in nine runs as New York defeats Baltimore, 16?4. Scott Sanderson is the winner.
1987
? With the Cubs in 5th place in the National League East (68-68, 13 games behind), the club fires manager Gene Michael and replaces him with Frank Lucchesi.
1984
? The Yankees break a 4?4 tie with two runs in the 6th to roll over the Red Sox, 12?6. Toby Harrah paces the 15-hit attack with four hits, and Dave Winfield one of the game's 12 doubles to extend his hitting streak to 20 games, which is and will be a career high. Joe Cowley (7?) is the winner.
1983
? Yankees OF Steve Kemp will miss the rest of the season with a fractured cheekbone after being struck in the face by an Omar Moreno line drive during batting practice in Milwaukee. Kemp hit just .242 with 12 home run and 49 RBI in the first year of his 5-year, $5.45 million contract. New York wins today, 6?5.
1979
Greg Nettles hits an 8th inning home run to help the Yankees and Ron Guidry beat Detroit, 5?4. It is Guidry's 10th straight win.
1978
? New York continues its rampage of Boston by scoring two runs in the 1st inning and six more in the 2nd inning. Boston makes seven errors to ease the Yankees to a 13?2 romp. Reggie Jackson hits a 3-run homer and Lou Piniella adds a double, triple and homer to back Jim Beattie's pitching. Dwight Evans and Carlton Fisk both make a pair of errors. New York is now two games in back.
1961
? The Yanks rout the Indians 9?1 as Mickey Mantle hits #52, off Gary Bell. The Yanks win for their 9th straight while Detroit loses their 8th in a row to drop 10 game in back. The Tigers purchase vet Vic Wertz from the Red Sox to shore up the offense.
1951
At an Oldtimer's Day at Yankee Stadium, former manager Joe McCarthy is honored. With the game scoreless in the 7th inning, Mickey Mantle belts a Bob Porterfield pitch into the last row of the RF bleachers, some 460 feet away to break the scoreless tie. Ed Lopat shuts out the Senators for 4?0 Yankee win.
1932
? The Yankees and Tigers replay protested August 1st game as the nightcap of a doubleheader, but end in a 7?7 tie. After the game, Babe Ruth experiences abdominal pains he believes are an appendicitis attack. He will be out of the lineup indefinitely. Sam Byrd, subbing for Ruth in the opener, collects five hits for the Yankees, including two home runs in a 5?4 win.
1922
? The Yankees go back on top, this time to stay, beating the Senators, 8?1, behind Carl Mays. while the Browns lose to Detroit, 8?3. New York's win is triggered by Wally Pipp's 6th inning 3-run homer of Walter Johnson, the 2nd homer Wally has dinged off the Senator's ace in nine days.
1919
? Babe Ruth hits HR No. 26 off Jack Quinn in New York, breaking Buck Freeman's 1899 HR mark of 25
thecaptain
09-09-03, 09:23 AM
1978
? Ron Guidry (21?2) gives up two singles in the 1st inning and that's it. New York sends 12 runners to the plate and scores seven runs in the 4th inning to win 7?0 against Dennis Eckersley and cut the Boston lead to a single game. For Guidry, it is his 7th shutout of the year, and the first lefty shutout in Fenway since 1974 (Ken Holtzman, August 5th). With the Brewers' victory over the Twins, Milwaukee trails by just four 1/2 games.
1961
? On Whitey Ford Day at Yankee Stadium, Roger Maris hits his 56th homer, off Cleveland's Mudcat Grant, as the Yanks come from behind to win, 8?7, New York scores four in the 9th to enable Luis Arroyo to pick up his 12th relief win in a row.
1953
? Mantle's 2-run HR off Chicago's Billy Pierce caps a 7-run 5th inning, as New York wins 9-3 at at Yankee Stadium. Returning to CF after the 5th, Mantle is photographed blowing a huge bubble with a wad of gum. Manager Stengel will publicly rebuke the Mick, who will apologize for the indiscretion. However, Mantle does get an endorsement fee from the Bowman Gum company
1951
The Yanks hit five homers?4 off the Nats' Dick Starr?to win, 7?5. Mickey Mantle's leadoff homer on the first pitch, which starts the scoring, slams against the bottom of the flag holder on the top of the right field stands. Vic Raschi then wins the nitecap, 2?0, in a game called after the 6th inning because of "darkness." Though Yankee Stadium has lights, unlike the National League, these cannot be used on Sunday. The Yankees (88-49) remain virtually tied with the Indians (88-51).
1938
? Lou Gehrig plays his 2,100th consecutive game and has 4 hits to bring his average over .300.
1936 With a doubleheader sweep over the Indians, the Yankees clinch their eighth pennant. The Bronx Bombers will finish the season 19.5 games ahead of the Tigers.
1932
? The Tigers beat the Yankees 14?13 in a 14-inning game in which Lou Gehrig hits a grand slam and drives in eight runs. He has reached this RBI feat twice before. Frankie Crosetti strikes out four times in the game, including twice in one inning. Detroit also tops the Yanks, 4?1, in five innings to finally complete the protested game of August 1st, and the tie of yesterday. The Yanks score their lone run in the 3rd inning off Buck Marrow with their only two hits of the game.
1931
? To raise funds to help the unemployed in the Depression, the Yankees, Giants, and Robins agree to a series of benefit games. Sixty thousand fans, paying regular prices, raise $59,000 in the first matchup, as Babe Ruth homers and the Yankees beat the Giants 7?2.
1928
? A total of 85,265 jam Yankee Stadium to watch the Yankees sweep two from the A's, 3?0 and 7?3, to move back into first place to stay. George Pipgras is the winner in the first game while the Yankee star of the nitecap is Bob Meusel, who takes an Ed Rommel knuckler out of the park for a grand slam in the 8th. Waite Hoyt is the winner. At age 38, Yankee P Urban Shocker dies of pneumonia in Denver, where he had gone for his health. Only now does it become known that he had suffered from an enlarged heart and was unable to sleep lying down for two years. Shocker, who never had a losing season, was 18-6 in 1927 but appeared in only one game in 1928.
1920
? Several hours before the start of game 4, Brooklyn's Rube Marquard, a Cleveland native, is arrested when he tries to sell a World Series ticket to an undercover cop for $350. He will be found guilty and fined a dollar and court costs ($3.80). For their first World Series game on the lakefront, 25,734 Indians fans watch their home team score two in the first and two in the 3rd off Leon Cadore (15-14) and Al Mamaux. Cleveland wins game 4, 5?1.
1965 Sandy Koufax's perfect game against the Cubs bests Bob Hendley's one hit effort, 1-0. It is the Dodger's southpaw record fourth no-hitter
1992 Brewer owner Bud Selig is selected by the owners to serve as acting baseball commissioner until a permanent successor can be found. It will take nearly six years to name a permanent commissioner and it will be Selig.
LuvMyYanks
09-09-03, 10:56 PM
:NY: I haven't been posting here long and I'm probably in the wrong area, but you all seem to be pretty knowledgable, maybe you can help.
I was on the Yankee site looking under mgmt. for a certain person. He's a catching coach and they don't have him listed.
There was a girl in my son's class last year who's father was previously with the organization. At first I didn't believe him until one night at an Open House at the school. I was sitting next to this guy, I glance over and notice this huge ring on his finger, it had the NY symbol on the side. My heart started to pound like crazy! I finally got the nerve up to ask him where he got that ring. He said it was a WS ring he got with the Yankees. I choked and about passed out. I cooly asked him his name and he said Gary Tuck. Didn't ring any bells so I thought maybe it was bull. I mean why are you going to wear a WS ring to your kids Open House???? I didn't question him any further. I am now kicking myself for not doing so.
End of school year my son comes home and tells me that the girl is moving away. He felt bad, she was a nice classmate of his. So here it is, months later and we're watching a Yankee game (rare occasion here). I'm just enjoying my game and there he is. It was the guy, Gary Tuck! Standing right next to Mariano Rivera! The commentator said something about there's Gary Tuck, the Yanks brought him back and it was a good decision to do so. So now I'm kicking myself!! The guy lived one street behind us and I could see his roof from here! Dang Dang Dang! Anyway, I'd like to read up on him. Anyone know anything about him? Sorry this is so long....I'm not making a good first impression!
Try doing a Google search for Gary Tuck Yankees. I think he's the catching coach.
thecaptain
09-12-03, 09:50 AM
Originally posted by LuvMyYanks
:NY: I haven't been posting here long and I'm probably in the wrong area, but you all seem to be pretty knowledgable, maybe you can help.
I was on the Yankee site looking under mgmt. for a certain person. He's a catching coach and they don't have him listed.
There was a girl in my son's class last year who's father was previously with the organization. At first I didn't believe him until one night at an Open House at the school. I was sitting next to this guy, I glance over and notice this huge ring on his finger, it had the NY symbol on the side. My heart started to pound like crazy! I finally got the nerve up to ask him where he got that ring. He said it was a WS ring he got with the Yankees. I choked and about passed out. I cooly asked him his name and he said Gary Tuck. Didn't ring any bells so I thought maybe it was bull. I mean why are you going to wear a WS ring to your kids Open House???? I didn't question him any further. I am now kicking myself for not doing so.
End of school year my son comes home and tells me that the girl is moving away. He felt bad, she was a nice classmate of his. So here it is, months later and we're watching a Yankee game (rare occasion here). I'm just enjoying my game and there he is. It was the guy, Gary Tuck! Standing right next to Mariano Rivera! The commentator said something about there's Gary Tuck, the Yanks brought him back and it was a good decision to do so. So now I'm kicking myself!! The guy lived one street behind us and I could see his roof from here! Dang Dang Dang! Anyway, I'd like to read up on him. Anyone know anything about him? Sorry this is so long....I'm not making a good first impression! you should make this a separate thread so more people will see it.
thecaptain
09-14-03, 01:22 PM
1999
The Yankees rally with a pair of grand slams, just the 3rd time in club history, to beat the Blue Jays, 10?6. Bernie Williams ties the game with a slam in the 8th inning, and Paul O'Neill wins it in the 9th with another slam.
1994
? The remainder of the baseball season is canceled by acting commissioner Bud Selig after 34 days of the players' strike. There will be no World Series for the 1st time since 1904.
1974
? Graig Nettles homers for the Yankees in the first inning, and brother Jim Nettles homers for the Tigers in the 2nd. This is the 2nd time that the two brothers have homered in the same game for different teams, having done it on June 11, 1972, when Graig was on Cleveland and Jim was with Minnesota. Graig's team wins 10?7.
1958
? The Yankees win their 24th pennant, and 9th under Casey Stengel, winning Game One against the A's, 5?3. This ties Casey for first with Connie Mack for the most American League pennants won. New York completes the sweep with a 12?7, 14-inning win in game 2. Virgil Trucks allows two hits over the last six innings for the win.
1953
? The Yanks clinch their 5th straight pennant with an 8-5 win over the Indians. 2B Billy Martin has 4 RBI.
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thecaptain
09-15-03, 09:14 PM
1985
? The Yankees trade minor league pitcher Jim Deshaies and two other minor leaguers to be named later to the Astros for 40-year-old Joe Niekro, reuniting the Niekro brothers as teammates for the first time since 1974 with the Braves.
1978
The Yankees, now one 1/2 games in front of Boston, open a 3-game series in the Bronx with the Red Sox. Guidry again gives up two Boston hits and wins a 4?0 shutout. Chris Chambliss and Graig Nettles hit successive homers, off Luis Tiant, in the 4-run 4th inning.
1961
The Yankees set a new American League record for most homers in a season (222), as they split a doubleheader in Detroit, winning 11?1 and losing 4?2. Circuit blows by Bill Skowron and Yogi Berra in the opener help Whitey Ford win his 24th and increase New York's homer total to 222. This breaks the old mark set by the 1947 Giants and tied by the 1956 Reds. Norm Cash and Steve Boros homer in the nitecap to back Ron Kline's 7-hitter.
1996
? Baltimore C Mark Parent homers in the 3rd inning of his team's 16-6 win over the Tigers. The homer gives the Orioles a new major league record of 241 for the season. The Birds have four other homers in the game, including Brady Anderson's 10th leadoff home run of the year, to total 243, three more than the 1961 Yankees.
1921
? Four A's pitchers help the Indians win 17?3, by contributing 16 walks. Among them is the starting pitcher Arlas Taylor, appearing in his only ML game. He fans one batter?Joe Sewell, the hardest batter to strike out in ML history.
Babe Ruth hits home run No. 55 in New York's 10?6 win over the Browns. The Yanks take game 2, 13?5.
thecaptain
09-20-03, 08:56 AM
1980 In memory of Thurman Munson, a bronze plaque in Memorial Park is dedicated to the deceased Yankee catcher.
1978
The Yanks split a pair with Toronto, with Ron Guidry losing his 3rd game of the year. Lefty Mike Willis wins the duel with Guidry, 8?1.
1968
? At Yankee Stadium, Boston's Jim Lonborg tosses just his 3rd complete game of the year to beat New York, 4?3. Yastrzemski has three hits, including a homer, to raise his average to .306. Mantle hits homer number 536, the last of his career, for New York.
1963
? The Yankees edge the Athletics, 5?4 in 13 innings. Rookie 2B Pedro Gonzalez helps the win by pulling the hidden ball trick in the 11th frame and tagging out A's OF Ken Harrelson, who had advanced to 2B after a single and a sac bunt. As noted by Bill Deane, Gonzalez plays only seven games in the field this year
1961
? The Yankees' 154th game of 1961 (including a tie) is Roger Maris' last chance to beat Babe Ruth, in compliance with Commissioner Ford Frick's statement that, for the record to be broken, Maris must do it in the same number of games as Ruth. Maris' 59th home run of the year, off Milt Pappas, is short of the record, but helps New York beat Baltimore 4?2, clinching its 26th American League pennant. In 1998, Pappas will state that he told Maris the night before that, if the game's outcome is not on the line, he would throw him nothing but fastballs.
1958
? Orioles P Hoyt Wilhelm, in a rare start (he is 0-6 this year when starting), pitches a 1?0 no-hitter, the first in O's history, against Don Larsen of the Yankees, fanning 8. Larsen allows one hit through six innings. The Orioles acquired Wilhelm in August for the $20,000 waiver price. The win, Wilhelm's first ML complete game, and his only this year for the O's, improves his record to 3-10. The winning margin is Gus Triandos' 30th home run, off reliever Bobby Shantz.
1931
? The Yanks run their win streak to 10 in a row, beating the Indians 7?1 and 10?4 in seven innings. Lou Gehrig hits his 45th homer in game one and drives in four runs for the afternoon to break his old RBI mark of 175, set in 1927. By the season's end he will have a total of 184. Ruth also drives home four runs and hits his 44th in game 2.
1923
? The Yanks clinch their 3rd straight pennant, beating St. Louis 4?3 to lead by 18 games. Their final margin is 16.
thecaptain
09-24-03, 09:52 AM
1998
The Yanks win, 5?2, over the Devil Rays and post their 11th win of the year, surpassing the club record 110, set by the 1927 team. Shane Spencer pounds a grand slam, his 8th homer in 57 at bats.
1978
? Ron Guidry (23?3) gains his 3rd 2-hit shutout of the month, 4?0 over the Indians. The two Indian hits are by Duane Kuiper, the 2nd time this year that he has recorded the only hits in a game. The Yankees ace also two-hitted the Red Sox on September 9th (7?0) and 15th (4?0). It is Guidry's 9th shut out of the year, a Yankee record, and just one short of the American League record for southpaws set by Boston lefty Babe Ruth in 1916. The Red Sox stay one game in back of New York by topping Toronto 7?6.
1972
? In the nitecap of a twinbill sweep over the Indians, Sparky Lyle sets an American League record and tying the ML mark by saving his 35th game. The Yanks win, 8?3, after gaining a 5?4 win in the opener when they score two unearned runs on five Indian errors in the 11th. Munson steals 2B by kicking the ball out of Frank Duffy's glove and going to 3B on the error. Duffy then boots a grounder and throws wildly for two more E's. Catcher Gerry Moses then picks up a squibber and fires over 1B and RF Del Unser's throw to the plate is over Moses' head for error 5.
1960
? Mickey Mantle's 11th inning homer off Ted Wilks gives New York a 6?5 win over the Red Sox at Fenway. Mantle had driven in the games first run with a drag bunt in the first.
1958
? The Red Sox close out their home schedule with a 7?5 loss to the Yankees. Mickey Mantle cracks his 42nd homer of the year to put him three ahead of Rocky Colavito, who will finish at 42 home runs.
1957
The Yankees clinch their 23rd pennant and 8th under Casey Stengel, as Kansas City tips the White Sox 6-5.
1946
? Disappointing on the field, the Yankees nevertheless finish their home season with a 2,309,029 attendance. The best previous draw was the 1929 Cubs at 1,485,166. Total ML attendance was 18.5 million, 80 percent more than 1945.
1934
? Idle Detroit wins the pennant, as the Red Sox beat the Yankees 5-0 in the season's finale at Yankee Stadium. Ruth walks in the first inning, limps to 1B, and leaves for a pinch runner in his last home game.
1931
The round-robin playoff among New York City's three ML teams, to raise money for the unemployed, concludes with Brooklyn losing to both the Giants and the Yankees at the Polo Grounds. Again, a near capacity crowd turns out and adds $48,000 to bring the fund to $108,000. In field events held between games, Babe Ruth, normally a left-handed hitter, bats right and wins the fungo hitting contest. He breaks the old distance record held by Big Ed Walsh. Ruth's drive lands in deep center field, 421 feet away. The old record, set 20 years earlier, was 4191/2 feet.
1927
? The Yankees win their 106th, 6-0 over Detroit, for a new AL high. They will win 110, a record until the 1954 Indians win 111.
1920
? In the first game of a twinbill, Babe Ruth hits his 50th home run in the first inning, off the Senators Jose Acosta. He then adds number 51 in a 4-for-4 second game, a 2?1 win, to give the Yankees a sweep.
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terry14420
09-29-03, 12:43 PM
I'll never forget the second homer he hit that day. I actually called for a fastball up and in and after getting shook off three consecutive pitches, I decided to let our pitcher pay the price. He threw him an off-speed pitch which I knew the Babe was looking for. It dropped over the plate about thigh high and I could hear the Bambino grunt that day as clear as if it happened today. By the time that dented and bruised spheroid disappeared far beyond the right field wall, I knew it would be a cold day in **** the next time I let one of those young bucks shake me off again. But on that one sun drenched afternoon, George Herman certainly had his way with us. I'll never forget him or that day. So long Babe. I miss you.
thecaptain
09-30-03, 09:15 AM
1998
Andy Pettitte's strong pitching gives NY a 2?0 lead in their series with a 3?1 victory over the Rangers. Shane Spencer and Scott Brosius hit round?trippers.
1997
? Cleveland scores five runs in the 1st inning, but the Yankees come back to win with five of their own in the 6th to defeat the Indians in Game one of their playoff series, 8-6. Tim Raines, Derek Jeter, and Paul O'Neill hit consecutive home runs in the decisive inning, giving Mario Mendoza the victory
1984.
In the dramatic race for the American League batting title, Don Mattingly goes 4-for-5 in the Yankees season-ending 4?2 win over the Tigers to edge teammate Dave Winfield .343 to .340. Winfield goes 1-for-4.
1962
At Yankee Stadium, Chicago's Ray Herbert tops New York, 8?4. Mickey Mantle, batting leadoff to give him needed at bats, is 2-for-3 and qualifies for 2nd place in hitting (.321) with 502 plate appearances. He also hits a home run, giving him eight straight seasons of 30+ homers.
1960
? The Yankees beat the Red Sox, 6?5, and set an new American League record for homers with 192. Tony Kubek and Jesse Gonder hit the homers today as the Bombers win their 13th straight
1934
Babe Ruth is hitless in his last game in a Yankee uniform
thecaptain
10-02-03, 09:45 AM
1978 - The Yankees and Red Sox, tied for first at the end of the regular season, play a dramatic one-game playoff at Fenway for the American League East title. New York prevails 5?4 behind Bucky Dent's 3-run home run off Mike Torrez and Guidry's 25th win against just three losses. Guidry's .893 percentage is a major-league record for a 20-game winner. Goose Gossage saves the game, getting Yaz to pop out with two on and two out in the 9th. Manager Bob Lemon, who took over for Billy Martin, becomes the 1st manager to win a title after starting the season with another club. >>>>>>>>>>>> 1986 Yankee first baseman Don Mattingly establishes a new team record collecting his 232nd hit of the season breaking 1927 mark set by Earl Comb.
1961 Coming out of retirement, Casey Stengel agrees to manage the New York's National League expansion team, the Mets.
1947 In Game 3 of the Fall Classic, Yogi Berra hits the first pinch-hit home run in World Series history. The Dodgers, however, rally to win the game defeating the Yankees, 9-8.
1920 In the only tripleheader ever played in the 20th century, the Reds win the first two games, 13-4 and 7-3, and the Pirates avoid the sweep in the finale, 6-0. Peter Harrison is the home plate umpire for all three games.
1949 - The Yankees and the Red Sox enter the last day of the season tied for first place and nearly 70,000 pack Yankee Stadium to see the finale. Vic Raschi nurses a 1-0 lead into the eighth against Ellis Kinder before the Yankees score four runs and go on to win the game and the pennant 5-3. Ted Williams also loses the batting title as George Kell goes two-for-three in Detroit (.3429 to .3427).
1921 - The Yankees close the season by beating the Red Sox, 7-6. Babe Ruth hits his fifty-ninth home run off Curt Fullerton.
1932 - The Yankees sweep the Cubs in the World Series. Tony Lazzeri hits two homers and Earle Combs adds another in the 13-6 laugher.
1936 - The Yankees even the World Series and set a Series record for runs as they demolish the Giants 18-4. Lefty Gomez coasts to a six-hit win, while every member of the Yankees lineup makes a hit and scores at least one run. Tony Lazzeri hits a grand slam, the first in World Series play since 1920.
thecaptain
10-04-03, 09:58 AM
2002
? The Yankees blow a 6?1 lead as the Angels bounce back for a 9?6 victory and a two games to one lead in their division series. Tim Salmon and Adam Kennedy homer for Anaheim and Francisco Rodriguez again gets the win in relief.
2002
? The Yankees blow a 6?1 lead as the Angels bounce back for a 9?6 victory and a two games to one lead in their division series. Tim Salmon and Adam Kennedy homer for Anaheim and Francisco Rodriguez again gets the win in relief.
The A's hit four home runs and Barry Zito hurls the club to a 6?3 win over the Twins to give Oakland a two games to one lead in their division series. Ray Durham hits an inside?the?park homer to open the game and Scott Hatteberg follows with another round?tripper. Jermaine Dye and Terrence Long also homer for Oakland.
2001
? The Giants defeat the Astros, 10-2, as Barry Bonds hits his 70th home run of the season to tie Mark McGwire's ML mark. Rookie P Wilfredo Rodriguez surrenders the historic blast.
Rickey Henderson hits a home run to become baseball's all-time career runs scored leader with 2,246. The Padres defeat the Dodgers, 6-3.
Tim Raines Jr. plays center field and Tim Raines Sr. plays left field in the Orioles' 5-4 loss to Boston. They become the 2nd father-son duo to play in the same game, matching the feat turned by Ken Griffey Sr. and Ken Griffey Jr. The Orioles acquired the senior Raines yesterday from the Expos.
2000.
The Yankees even their series with the Athletics at one game apiece with a 4-0 victory. Andy Pettitte holds Oakland scoreless for seven 2/3 innings for the win.
1997
New York goes a game up on Cleveland with a 6-1 victory behind David Wells' 5-hitter. OF Paul O'Neill hits a 4th-inning grand slam, and drives home five of the runs.
1996
The Yankees score twice in the 9th inning to defeat the Rangers, 2-1, despite Juan Gonzalez's 4th home run of the series. NY takes a 2-games-to-1 lead.
1995
Jim Leyritz?s 2-run HR in the bottom of the 15th inning gives NY a 7-5 win over Seattle for their 2nd consecutive win. <<<<<<<<<< I was at this game .
1986
? On the next-to-last day of the season, Dave Righetti saves both ends of the Yankees doubleheader sweep of the Red Sox to give him a ML-record 46 saves. Bruce Sutter and Dan Quisenberry had shared the record with 45.
1980.
The Yankees clinch their 4th AL East title in five seasons, beating Detroit 5?2 in the first game of a doubleheader. Reggie Jackson hits his 41st home run of the season and will share the AL home run crown with Milwaukee's Ben Oglivie.
1962
? At Candlestick Park, in Game One of the World Series, Roger Maris stakes Whitey Ford to a 2-run lead with a first-inning, 2-run double. Only RF Felipe Alou's leaping effort keeps Maris' drive in the park. Ford's record consecutive-shutout-inning streak ends at 33 2/3 innings when a surprise bunt by Jose Pagan brings Willie Mays home. Clete Boyer's 7th-inning home run gives the Yankees a 6?2 win, the last of a record 10 World Series victories for Ford.
1961
? Whitey Ford's 3rd straight World Series shutout, with home runs by Elston Howard and Bill Skowron, gives New York a 2?0 win in the opener against Cincinnati at Yankee Stadium.
1958
? Yankee pitchers Don Larsen and Ryne Duren combine for a shutout as New York wins 4-0. Yankee OF Hank Bauer accounts for all 4 runs, including a 2-run homer in the 7th.
The Sporting News names Washington OF Albie Pearson and Yankee P Ryne Duren as its AL Rookies of the Year; the Giants 1B Orlando Cepeda and P Carl Willey of the Braves as its NL Rookies of the Year.
1953
? In Game 5, Mickey Mantle hits a grand slam off Russ Meyer, and the Yanks hold on to win 11-7.
1952
? The Yankees draw even at home 2-0 behind the shutout pitching of Allie Reynolds. Johnny Mize, inserted at 1B, clubs a HR, single, double, and walk in 4 at bats.
1951
? In the opening game of the World Series, Monte Irvin steals home in the first inning and collects four hits. The Giants defeat Allie Reynolds and the Yankees 5?1 with Dave Koslo going all the way at Yankee Stadium. With the injured Mueller missing the World Series, Bobby Thomson switches to 1B and the Giants field the first black outfield of Hank Thompson, Monte Irvin and Willie Mays.
1950
? Relief ace Jim Konstanty of the Phils starts and loses to Vic Raschi and the Yankees in Philadelphia 1?0 in Game one of the World Series. Bobby Brown doubles and comes around on two long flies to score the lone run.
1941
? In the 7th inning of a scoreless tie, Yankees pitcher Marius Russo breaks P Fred Fitzsimmons's knee with a line drive. The Yankees score 2 in the 8th off Hugh Casey to win 2-1.
1939
? The WS, with the Yankees as heavy favorites, begins in New York. The pitching of Red Ruffing for New York and Paul Derringer for Cincinnati produces a tense, low-scoring duel that is tied 1-1 until the last of the 9th, when Yankees C Bill Dickey singles home the winning run.
1936
? Another attendance record is set at Yankee Stadium, with 66,669 people watching Lou Gehrig lead the way to a 5-2 win behind Monte Pearson's pitching.
1928
The first game is a swift execution before 61,425 at New York. Babe Ruth has a single and double and scores twice, once on Bob Meusel's 4th-inning HR, and Lou Gehrig is 2-for-4 with 2 RBI off Bill Sherdel (21-10). Waite Hoyt (23-7) sets the Cards down with 3 hits, one a solo HR by Bottomley in the 7th, for a 4-1 win.
Intlgirl18
10-17-03, 12:42 AM
Tonight was amazing. I wanted it to go to game seven because that is what makes it soo much fun! I can't belibve it. I am not even tired. :cool:
Our team has soo much history to it that I love it. The Yankees are amazing and they deserve it all too them.
thecaptain
11-18-03, 10:26 AM
1997 The Yankees obtain 3B Scott Brosius from the Athletics to complete the Kenny Rogers deal. 1976
? The Yankees sign free agent pitcher Don Gullett for $2 million. The oft-injured Gullett will go 14?4 in 1977, but spend most of the next three seasons on the injured list
1951 Wanting to stay in California, PCL Los Angeles Angels first baseman Chuck Connors becomes the first player to refuse to participate in the major league draft. The former Cub first baseman and future star of the TV series The Rifleman refusal allows the minor leagues to ask for more money for big league talent.
1966 After posting a 27-9 record with a 1.73 ERA, Dodger great Sandy Koufax unexpectedly retires. The Brooklyn native cites the fear of permanent damage of his arthritic elbow as the reason.
1986 Red Sox Roger Clemens is elected the American League's MVP Award becoming the first pitcher to accomplish the feat since Vida Blue won the honor in 1971. The 'Rocket' receives 19 of the 28 first place votes and Yankee first baseman Don Mattingly is the runner-up.
2000 The Mariners sign Orix Blue Wave's Ichiro Suzuki to a three-year deal making him the first Japanese position player in major league history. Although terms of the contract were not disclosed, Seattle agrees to pay $13 million to his former team for the right to negotiate with Japan's best hitter
thecaptain
11-19-03, 12:54 PM
1968 Yankee pitcher Stan Bahnsen (17-12, 2.05, 162) is named American League Rookie of the Year.
1979 Former Angel Nolan Ryan becomes the first free agent to sign a million dollars per year contract with a new team. The 'Ryan Express' will post a 106-94 record for the Astros.
1996 Free-agent Albert Belle signs a record five-year, $55 million deal with the White Sox making him the first $10 million a year player .
2002 Twenty-four year veteran Jesse Orosco, who is the all-time leader in games pitched at 1,187 agrees to a one-year contract with the Padres estimated at $800,000, At age 45, the lefty reliever, who started his major league with the Mets in 1979 (traded by the Twins for Jerry Koosman), is the oldest player in the majors.
thecaptain
11-20-03, 09:38 AM
1995
? The Yankees trade minor league P Mike DeJean and a player to be named to the Rockies for C Joe Girardi. Girardi will solidify the catching for New York, while DeJean will set a ML mark for most appearances without a loss. He'll go 7?0 through 1998, while making 88 appearances, breaking a little-known mark set by Phil Paine. DeJean will be 2?4 in '99. 1985
? Don Mattingly easily wins the American League MVP Award with a .324 average, becoming the first player from a non championship team to do so since 1978 . 1962
Mickey Mantle is named the American League Most Valuable Player for the 3rd time.
thecaptain
11-21-03, 09:08 AM
1934 The Yankees purchase Joe DiMaggio from San Francisco of the Pacific Coast League. 2000
? The Yankees sign free agent C Joe Oliver to a contract. 1980
? Ending weeks of speculation that he would be fired despite having led the Yankees to 103 wins last season, manager **** Howser "resigns" and is immediately replaced by GM Gene Michael.
thecaptain
11-22-03, 09:30 AM
1957 In a controversial vote, Yankee Mickey Mantle edges out Red Sox superstar Ted Williams to win the American League MVP. In spite of the 'Splendid Splinter' leading the league with a .388 average and 38 home runs, as well as a stunning .731 slugging average, two Chicago writers still list him in the ninth and tenth places on their ballots.1890 The Philadelphia Athletics are expelled from the American Association for violating the league's constitution. A new team is placed in the 'City of Brotherly Love' and franchises are awarded to Boston, Washington and Chicago.
1908 In the first game between a Japanese and an American professional team, the Reach All-Americans defeat Waseda University in Tokyo, 5-0.
1954 The Pirates purchase the contract of Roberto Clemente from Montreal, the Dodger's AAA farm club.
1960 The American League proposes an expansion to nine teams in both leagues with interleague play. If the National League agrees, the Junior Circuit will delay its plans for a Los Angeles franchise.
1982 Steve Sax (.282, 4, 47) becomes the fourth consecutive Dodger to win the National League Rookie of the Year award.
1989 Kirby Puckett becomes the first major league player ever to sign a contract that calls for an average salary of $3 million per year when he inks a pact with the Twins for $9 million over three years.
2000 Although offered more money by three other clubs, switch hitting shortstop Jose Valentin elects to stay with the White Sox signing a three-year deal with a fourth-year option worth $5 million a year.
thecaptain
11-23-03, 09:06 AM
1977 The Yankees sign free-agent Rich Gossage to a six-year 2.75 million dollar contract. The 'Goose' had 26 saves and 1.26 era for the Pirates last season. 1988
? Free-agent 2B Steve Sax leaves the World Champion Dodgers and signs a 3-year contract with the Yankees. 1951
? The Yankees send young C Clint Courtney to the Browns for P Jim McDonald. Courtney, the first major league catcher to wear glasses, appeared in one game for New York.
thecaptain
11-25-03, 08:54 AM
1970 Thurman Munson is named American League Rookie of the Year. The young Yankee backstop receives twenty-three of twenty-four votes cast.
1980 Gene Michael becomes 25th Yankee manager replacing a resigning **** Howser.
1969
? Kansas City OF Lou Piniella is voted American League Rookie of the Year 1952
? The St. Louis Cardinals seek payment from the New York Giants for two televised games in an effort to determine the TV and radio rights of visiting teams for revenue.
thecaptain
12-01-03, 08:52 AM
1954 The Yankees and Orioles complete the largest trade in major league history as 17 players, including Don Larsen, Gene Woodling, Bob Turley change teams. The first phase of the transaction began November 18th and will conclude today after the major league draft.
1964 The Houston Colt 45's become the Astros. The change in name for the three-year old franchise is necessitated due to a dispute with the Colt firearm company and the team's location to NASA.
1998 Bypassing his agent and making the deal himself, Rafael Palmeiro turns down a bigger offer from Orioles and signs a five-year $45 million contract to stay with the Rangers.
2000 Turk Wendell, who wears uniform number 99, agrees to a three-year deal worth $9,999,999.99 with the Mets. The New York reliever had asked that his pact include an option year in which he would play for free, but that plan was unworkable because baseball's collective bargaining agreement sets a $200,000 minimum salary.
thecaptain
12-07-03, 01:08 PM
1939 Lou Gehrig is elected to the Hall of Fame. The five-year waiting rule is waived after the 'Iron Horse' is diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
1939 At the urging of Senator owner Clark Griffith, the other American League owners enact a rule prohibiting the league's pennant winner from buying, selling or trading players during the following season. The winter meeting decision appears to have the desired effect as the Yankees finish in third place.
1973 The Royals trade outfielder Lou Piniella and pitcher Ken Wright to the Yankees for veteran pitcher Lindy McDaniel.
1995 On the day he is traded from the Mariners to the Yankees along with relief pitcher Jeff Nelson and a minor leaguer for pitcher Sterling Hitchcock and infielder Russell Davis, first baseman Tino Martinez's wife gives birth and he signs a $20.25 million dollar contract.
2001 In a rare deal between the cross-town rivals, the Yankees trade outfielder/DH David Justice Justice (.241, 18, 51) to the Mets for third baseman Robin Ventura ( .237, 21, 61) . The teams have exchanged players only six times in forty years with the last time being in 1992 when the Mets dealt Frank Tanana for Kenny Greer, a minor league pitcher.
http://www.nationalpastime.com/
thecaptain
12-08-03, 01:39 PM
2001
» The Yankees sign free agent P Steve Karsay to a 4-year contract.
1994
» Darryl Strawberry and his agent, Eric Goldschmidt, are indicted for allegedly failing to report a half million dollars of income from the sale of autographs at baseball card shows.
1983
» Dr. Bobby Brown, who played 3B for the Yankees before embarking on a successful medical career, is elected president of the AL by the club owners.
1966
» Five years after breaking Babe Ruth's record, the Yankees trade OF Roger Maris to the Cardinals for journeyman 3B Charlie Smith. In two days, the Yanks send Pedro Ramos the Phils for P Joe Verbanic.
1951
» The American League alters its restrictions on night games, adopting the National League's suspended game rule and lifting its ban on lights for Sunday games.
http://www.nationalpastime.com/ http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/chronology/today.stm
thecaptain
12-10-03, 09:38 AM
1992
» The Yankees sign free agent P Jimmy Key to a 4-year contract.
1991
» Admitted gambler Howard Spira is sentenced to two 1/2 years in prison for attempting to extort $110,000 from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.
1988
» Free-agent Willie Randolph signs with the Dodgers. He will replace Steve Sax in the lineup, who earlier this month signed with Randolph's former club, the Yankees. 1972
» The major leagues adopt the save as an official statistic. A pitcher shall be credited with a save if, when entering a game as a reliever, he finds the tying or winning run on base or at the plate, and he preserves the lead. Or he pitches three effective innings and preserves the lead.
The American League votes unanimously to adopt the designated-hitter rule for a 3-year experimental basis. The DH will replace the pitcher in the lineup unless otherwise noted before the start of the game. In the December 1975 meeting the AL will vote to permanently adopt the DH. The National League declines to go along with the AL. 1946
» The Yankees sign veteran 1B George McQuinn, recently released by the A's. The 36-year-old has two good years left in him and will hit .304 with 80 RBI in 1947. 1940
» In Chicago, a curious rule that was designed to "break up the Yankees" is continued by the American League, a rule which prohibits the team winning the championship from trading with any other club. The rule was voted in at the December, 1939 meetings by the seven other AL owners after the New York Yankees won four straight World Series. The major and minor leagues agree that players taken into the military will not count against roster limits.
The sac fly rule, reinstituted last year, is eliminated for the 1941 season. Though he would .400 without the rule change, Ted Williams will have six flies that score runners from 3B in 1941
thecaptain
12-11-03, 09:37 AM
1951 Joe DiMaggio officially retires from baseball. The Yankee Clipper ends his thirteen year career with a life time .325 BA and 361 home runs.
1959 The Yankees trade Hank Bauer, Marv Throneberry, Don Larsen and Norm Siebern to the Kansas City A's for outfielder Roger Maris and two other players.
1975 In a busy day of trading, the Yankees acquire pitchers Dock Ellis and Ken Brett, and second baseman Willie Randolph from the Pirates for hurler Doc Medich. In a separate deal with the Angels, the club trades Bobby Bonds for outfielder Mickey Rivers and pitcher Ed Figueroa.
2000 Alex Rodriguez signs the richest contract in sports history, a ten-year deal with the Rangers worth $252 million. The quarter billion dollars doubles the previous high of $126 million paid by the NBA's Timberwolves to Kevin Garnett in a six-year agreement signed in October, 1997.
thecaptain
12-12-03, 12:14 PM
2002 The Yankees sign free agent P Chris Hammond to a 2-year contract.
1989
» The Yankees trade minor leaguers Hal Morris and Rodney Imes to the Reds for P Tim Leary and OF Van Snider.
1985
» The Yankees trade P Joe Cowley and C Ron Hassey to the White Sox for P Britt Burns (18–11) and minor leaguers Mike Soper and Glen Braxton. Hassey will come back to New York before the season's start. A degenerative hip condition ends Burns' career before he has a chance to pitch for the Yanks.
1952
» Peter J. McGovern becomes president of the Little League, succeeding Charles Durban, who resigns because of ill health. The Little League began in 1939 with eight teams in two leagues and has grown to over 1,800 leagues in 44 states and several foreign countries.
1949
» By a 7-1 vote, the American League rejects a proposal to bring back the legal spitball. The rules committee also alters the strike zone to the space between the armpits and the top of the knees. The new rule eliminates the batter's shoulders being within the strike zone.
thecaptain
12-13-03, 10:22 AM
1961
» Mickey Mantle signs a 1962 contract for $82,000. Only Joe DiMaggio has been paid more by the Yankees. 2001
» The Yankees sign free agent All-Star 1B Jason Giambi to a 7-year, $120 million contract. In another move, New York acquired OF John Vander Wal from San Francisco in exchange for P Jay Witasick. 1999
» The Rangers obtain OF Chad Curtis from the Yankees in exchange for minor league pitchers Sam Marsonek and Brandon Knight. >>>>>>>1974
» Catfish Hunter wins his claim against Charlie Finley and is declared a free agent by arbitrator Peter Seitz.
thecaptain
12-15-03, 09:43 AM
1994
» The Yankees sign free agent SS Tony Fernandez.
1992
» The Yankees sign free agent 3B Wade Boggs to a 3-year contract
1983
» Commissioner Kuhn suspends convicted Kansas City Royals Willie Wilson, Willie Aikens, and Jerry Martin, and Dodgers pitcher Steve Howe for one season without pay for their use of illegal drugs. The suspensions will be shortened by an arbitrator and lifted on May 15th.
1981
» Free-agent P Ron Guidry re-signs with the Yankees for a reported $3.6 million over four years.
1980
» Outfielder Dave Winfield becomes the highest-paid player in baseball when he signs a 10-year, $15 million contract with the New York Yankees.
1964
» Tigers owner John Fetzer announces a 2-year television pact between ML baseball and ABC-TV. The network pays $12.2 million to telecast games on 25 Saturdays, Independence Day, and Labor Day.>>>>>>>>>1896 The first pitching machine, created by Princeton professor Charles E. Hinton, is demonstrated.
thecaptain
12-16-03, 09:48 AM
1983 Replacing Billy Martin (91-71, third place), Yogi Berra is hired for the second time to manage the Yankees.
2002 After declining the $4.6 million two-year December 7 contract offer by the Yankees, which he only had 15 minutes to consider, Mike Stanton (7-1, 3.00, 6 saves) still decides to stay in town by, agreeing to a $9 million, three-year, no trade contract with the cross-town rival Mets. The All-Star reliever wasn't offered salary arbitration by the Bronx Bombers after he failed to respond to their ultimatum. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> 1996
The Rangers sign free agent P John Wetteland to a 4-year contract worth $23 million. Wetteland had 43 saves for the Yankees this year.
1953
» In a ten-player trade, the Yankees send 1B Vic Power, infielders Jimmy Finigan and Don Bollweg, OF Bill Renna, C Jim Robertson, and P John Gray to the A's. Philadelphia packs veteran 1B Eddie Robinson, Loren Babe, P Harry Byrd, and outfielders Tom Hamilton and Carmen Mauro to New York. Byrd, who won 26 games in two years for the A's, will never match his wins in New York. The stylish Power, the American Association batting leader in 1953, will win seven Gold Gloves and make the All-Star team four times.
thecaptain
12-17-03, 11:06 AM
1891 The American Association disbands. The Baltimore Orioles, St. Louis Browns, Louisville Colonels and Washington Senators become part of the 12-team National League.
1924 The Yankees trade three pitchers to the Browns to get back Urban Shocker, a pitcher traded to St. Louis in 1918. Shocker had been a 20-game winner for four consecutive seasons.
1964 The Yankees fire long time television and radio voice Mel Allen. This well known broadcaster popularized the 'going, going, gone' home run call and often said 'how about that' to describe happenings on the ball field.
2001
» The Yankees sign free agent OF Rondell White, who played for the Cubs this past year, to a 2-year contract.
1996
» David Wells signs a 3-year $13.5 million contract with the Yankees.
2000 City and club officials announce plans for the financing and construction of a new, downtown Miami retractable roof ballpark for the Marlins. The state-of-the-art $385 million stadium, which will be a 40,000-seat facility with 60 luxury suites, includes a 40-year lease and an agreement to rename the team the Miami Marlins.
1953
» In a tax-avoidance scheme, the NY Yankees sell Yankee Stadium and Kansas City properties for $6.5 million in a deal with Johnson Corp and the Knights of Columbus, who immediately lease the property back to the Yanks >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.1949
» The Yankees and Detroit swap first baseman, the Tigers getting **** Kryhoski while New York takes **** Wakefield, signed by the Tigers in 1941 with a $52,000 bonus.
1942
» The Yankees trade OF Roy Cullenbine and C Buddy Rosar to the Indians for Roy Weatherly and IF Oscar Grimes. With the draft in mind, all four players are married with one child each. As noted by historian Lyle Spatz, Rosar had been in the doghouse with Joe McCarthy for leaving the team without permission the weekend of July 18-19 to take a police examination in Buffalo. The leave-taking prompted the Yankees to sign vet C Rollie Hemsley.
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1920
» The American League votes to allow pitchers who used the spitball in 1920 to continue using it as long as they are in the league. The National League will do the same. There will be 17 designated spitters in all, eight in the NL and nine in the AL. For the NL: Bill Doak, Phil Douglas, Dana Fillingim, Ray Fisher, Marvin Goodwin, Burleigh Grimes, Clarence Mitchell, and **** Rudolph. For the AL: A.W. Ayers, Slim Caldwell, Stan Coveleski, Red Faber, H.B. Leonard, Jack Quinn, Allan Russell, Urban Shocker, and Allen Sothoron.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.1889
» The PL adopts some new rules, including the 2-umpire system and an increase in pitching distance from 55 1/2 feet to 57 feet. A lively ball is chosen, assuring high scores in the upcoming season.
thecaptain
12-18-03, 08:56 AM
1973 Despite an impending legal showdown with Charlie Finley, the Yankees announce the signing of manager **** Williams. American League president Joe Cronin will void deal two days later. 2001 Filling the void created by Mark McGwire's unexpected retirement, the Cardinals sign first baseman Tino Martinez to a $21 million, three-year contract. After he was replaced in the Yankees lineup by Jason Giambi, the former Bronx Bomber said the Cardinals were his first choice as a free agent. The Royals sign 2B-OF Chuck Knoblauch to a 1-year contract. 1993
» Top Yankees P prospect Brien Taylor injures his shoulder in a fight near his home in North Carolina. The Injury will require surgery and cause Taylor to miss the entire 1994 season. Taylor, who signed for a $1.55 million bonus in 1991 has yet to make it to the majors.
1956
» Former Yankee SS Phil Rizzuto signs as a Yankee radio-TV announcer. 1950
» Yankee great Tommy "Old Reliable" Henrich calls it a career as a player. He accepts a coaching position with the Yankees
thecaptain
12-19-03, 09:36 AM
2002
» The Yankees sign Japanese OF Hideki Matsui to a 3-year contract.
1991
» Former minor league umpire Pam Postema files a sex discrimination suit against the National and American leagues, the Triple-A Alliance, and the Baseball Office for Umpire Development.
Yankees P Steve Howe is arrested in Montana on a charge of possession of cocaine. Howe has been suspended from baseball five times for drug and alcohol problems.
1974
» The race to sign Catfish Hunter begins in the law offices of Cherry, Cherry & Flythe in Ahoskie, North Carolina. Yankee and Red Sox representatives are the first arrivals.
1957
» In a continuing family squabble, Charlie Comiskey, Jr. denies his sister's, Mrs. Dorothy Comiskey Rigney, allegation that he used the "rule or ruin" tactic to gain control of the club.
1934
» The Yankees send five players to San Francisco as part of the payment for Joe DiMaggio. He will play another season in the Pacific Coast League and will report at the end of 1935
thecaptain
12-20-03, 08:07 PM
1966
» The Yankees acquire SS **** Howser from Cleveland for minor leaguer Gil Downs and cash. 1946
» With the trade for Al Lopez, the Indians send young catcher Sherm Lollar and 2B Ray Mack to the Yankees for minor league P Gene Bearden, P Al Gettel, and OF Hal Peck. Peck never played for New York after they acquired him in June. Lollar will play just 33 games in two years, while Mack is swapped after one game. Bearden, as a rookie knuckleballer in 1948, will win 20 games and the lead the American League in ERA 1921
» At the ML meetings, the American League votes to return to the best-of-7 World Series; the National League votes to keep the 5-of-9. Judge Landis casts the deciding vote, and the 4-of-7 format is reinstated. >>>>>>>>>>>>. The Yankees raid Boston again, and come away with P Bullet Joe Bush, SS Everett Scott, and P Sad Sam Jones in exchange for SS Roger Peckinpaugh (who goes on to Washington), pitchers Jack Quinn, Rip Collins, and Bill Piercy, and $50,000
thecaptain
12-21-03, 09:18 AM
1995 After considering an attractive offer from the Orioles, David Cone re-signs with the Yankees as a free agent. The 'hired hand' inks a three-year deal worth $18 million
thecaptain
12-22-03, 08:59 AM
1999
The Expos obtain inconsistent P Hideki Irabu from the Yankees in exchange for P Jake Westbrook and two players to be named. P Christian Parker will be one of those named. >>>>>>>>>>
1987
» The Yankees send P Steve Trout and OF Henry Cotto to Seattle for pitchers Lee Guetterman and Clay Parker and minor leaguer Wade Taylor. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>. 1982
» Versatile Lee Mazzilli is traded for the 3rd time this year. The Yankees send him to the Pirates for four minor leaguers, including pitcher Tim Burke. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 1921
» Socks Seibold, the holder of the American League season home run record before Babe Ruth, dies at 51 when his car plunges over an embankment. http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/chronology/today.stm http://www.nationalpastime.com/
thecaptain
12-23-03, 08:41 AM
1981
» The Yankees sign free-agent OF Dave Collins for a reported $750,000 a year for at least three years. Collins hit .272 for the Reds in 1981 and stole 79 bases in 1979.
1975
» Arbitrator Peter Seitz announces a landmark decision in favor of the Players' Association, making pitchers Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally free agents. Seitz is immediately fired by John Gaherin, chairman of the owners' Player Relations Committee. McNally, who retired June 8th, will not return to the ML, finishing with a 184-119 career record. >>>>1913
» The Sporting News reports that 15 men died from baseball injuries during the 1913 season, according to a list compiled by J.R. Vickery of Chicago (as noted by R.J. Lesch). The only name given is that of J. Whetstone of New Orleans, who suffered "a broken spine sustained in sliding to a base"; all other fatalities were the result of foul tips or pitched balls. The list "does not include a major league player or even a minor league athlete of sufficient experience in baseball to be widely known."
thecaptain
12-24-03, 08:44 AM
2002 In a deal which prompts a Red Sox official to call the Yankees an evil empire, Cuban defector Jose Contreras reaches an agreement New York. The 31-year right-hander, who was considered the top pitcher on Cuba's national team, was declared a free-agent after gaining residency in Nicaragua>>>1969 In a letter to Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, traded Cardinal outfielder Curt Flood states his refusal to report to the Phillies citing he is not a piece of property to be sold. The MLB Players' Association announces support Flood's suit against baseball and will pay legal fees .................................................................................................Text of Curt Flood's Letter
to Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn
Dear Mr. Kuhn:
After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective my wishes. I believe that any system which producesthat result violates my basic rights as a citizenand is inconsistent with the laws of the United States and of the several States.
It is my desire to play baseball in 1970, and I am capable of playing. I have received a contract offer from the Philadelphia club, but I believe I have the right to consider offers from other clubs before making any decisions. I, therefore, request that you make known to all Major League club s my feelings in this matter, and advise them of my availability for the 1970 season.
Sincerely
Curt Flood
thecaptain
12-29-03, 10:10 AM
1933
» Yankees owner Jake Ruppert refuses to release Babe Ruth so he can become manager of the Cincinnati Reds.
1977 Melissa Ludtke, female Sports Illustrated sports writer, files suit against major league baseball, the Yankees and New York City officials for denying her access to the locker room to interview players during the World Series.
thecaptain
12-30-03, 09:02 AM
2002 Citing this will probably be his last year 40-year old Roger Clemens (13-6, 4.35) agrees to a $10.1 million, one-year deal with the Yankees. The 19-year veteran, who has won the Cy Young Award six times, is seven victories shy of 300.
1995
» The Yankees sign free agent P Kenny Rogers to a 4-year contract.
1940
» The Yankees swap sore-armed Monte Pearson to the Reds for OF Don Lang and cash. Tomorrow, they'll Bump Hadley to the Giants for the waiver price and trade INF Bill Knickerbocker to the White Sox for C Ken Silvestri. The military will claim Silvestri for the next four years.
1907
» The Spalding Commission reports that baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839. The Commission is convinced by the testimony of Abner Graves, who claimed to be a childhood companion of Doubleday's. Grave's story is later "verified" when an old, rotting ball is found among his personal effects: The ball is now in the Hall of Fame. The Commission ignores the fact that Doubleday did not graduate from West Point until 1842. http://www.nationalpastime.com/ http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/chronology/today.stm
thecaptain
12-31-03, 09:54 AM
1878 A reported eight million bats are sold in the United States
1972 Pirate outfielder Roberto Clemente is tragically killed when a cargo plane crashes during a relief effort to bring much needed supplies to the victims of the Nicaraguan earthquake.
1974 Free-agent Catfish Hunter signs with the Yankees ending an unprecedented bidding war. The former A's ace inks a five-year, $3.75 million dollar contract (three times more than any other players) to pitch for the Bronx Bombers.
thecaptain
01-03-04, 10:14 AM
1920 The secret deal made on December 26 to sell Babe Ruth to New York for $125,000 (twice the amount ever paid previously for a player) is announced publicly. Harry Frazee, the cash-strapped owner of the Red Sox, also secures a $300,000 loan from the Yankees as part of the deal.
1973 Heading a limited partnership, George Steinbrenner, a Tampa ship builder purchases Yankees from CBS.
1974 The Yankees sign Bill Virdon as manager. Although the former Pirate skipper will manage for two years in New York, he will never win a game at Yankee Stadium (the Bronx Bombers will play home games at Shea due to renovations at the stadium).
thecaptain
01-04-04, 09:45 AM
1928 Shortstop Lyn Lary and infielder Jimmy Reese are bought by the Yankees from the Pacific Coast League.
1932 Casey Stengel returns from the minor leagues to become a coach for the Dodgers.
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1957 The Dodgers become the first team to own their own aircraft when the team buys a 44-passenger two-engine airplane for $775,000.
1977 Mary Shane is hired by the White Sox to become the first female TV play-by-play announcer.
penguin4
01-04-04, 11:54 PM
What are you going to do when you get to March 8 (where this thread began) again? Start over?
thecaptain
01-05-04, 09:16 AM
Originally posted by penguin4
What are you going to do when you get to March 8 (where this thread began) again? Start over? keep going like the energizer bunny .
thecaptain
01-05-04, 09:18 AM
1920 Red Sox owner Harry Frazee defends selling Babe Ruth to the Yankees for cash by calling his former player "one of the most selfish and inconsiderate men ever to put on a baseball uniform".
1934 The new center field bleachers under construction at Fenway Park are destroyed by fire.
1946 The Giants buy catcher Walker Cooper from the Cardinals for $175,000. It is the largest amount ever paid for a single player.
1999 Receiving an apology from owner George Steinbrenner about his dismissal as Yankee manager in 1985 after only 16 games, Yogi Berra says he will end his self-exile from Yankee Stadium and the organization. The Bronx Bomber legend is expected to participate in future Opening Day and old timer's ceremonies.
thecaptain
01-06-04, 09:44 AM
1992
» The Yankees sign free agent OF Danny Tartabull to a 5-year contract.
1988
» Free-agent slugger Jack Clark signs with the New York Yankees, while free agent Paul Molitor re-signs with the Brewers.
1967
» Former Yankees manager Johnny Keane, 55, dies of a heart attack at Houston. It is the 3rd death of a 1966 manager.
thecaptain
01-07-04, 08:39 AM
1924
The Yankees buy the contract of Louisville star, Earle Combs, who hit .380 last year for the Colonels. Colonels owner Bill Kneblekamp gets $50,000, Elmer Smith and an outfielder, and demands that the Yankees play an exhibition game in Louisville with a guarantee that Babe Ruth is in the lineup. This reportedly nets Kneblekamp an additional $5,000.
1920
» Babe Ruth reacts to the trade in the Boston Evening Standard saying, "Frazee is not good enough to own any ball club, especially one in Boston."
1915
» The Tigers waive Wally Pipp to the New York Yankees. Pipp hit .161 in 12 games, but he'll anchor first base in New York for a decade.
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01-08-04, 09:35 AM
1996
» For only the 7th time in history, the Baseball Writers Association of America fails to select a player for induction into baseball's Hall of Fame.
1988
» Faced with a midnight deadline to re-sign with the Yankees, pitcher Bill Gullickson agrees to a 2-year contract with Japan's Tokyo Giants instead.
1987
» Ten free agents (Tim Raines, Lance Parrish, Bob Horner, Andre Dawson, Rich Gedman, Ron Guidry, Bob Boone, Doyle Alexander, Toby Harrah, and Gary Roenicke) fail to meet a midnight deadline and thus will not be allowed to re-sign with their former clubs until May 1st if they are not offered contracts by new teams. The general lack of interest in the players will become the focus of the Players' Association's first anti-collusion suit against the owners.
1941
» The BBWAA in TSN poll names the 1940 All Star team: Hank Greenberg, LF; Joe DiMaggio, CF; Ted Williams, RF; Frank McCormick, 1B; Joe Gordon, 2B; Luke Appling, SS; Stan Hack, 3B; Harry Danning, C. The pitchers are Bob Feller, Bucky Walters, and Paul Derringer.
1913
» Frank Chance inherits Hal Chase and the weakest lineup the New York Yankees will ever have when he signs to manage the team.
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01-09-04, 09:11 AM
1903 Baltimore's American League franchise is sold for $18,000 and is moved to New York.
1997
» The Yankees sign free agent OF Mark Whiten.
1992
» Former Yankee Joe Pepitone is charged with assault after a scuffle at a hotel in Kiamesha Lake, NY. The fight started when Pepitone was called a "has-been."
1974
» Picking first in the January amateur draft, the Rangers select SS Roy Smalley, Jr, son of 10-year ML vet SS Roy Smalley and nephew of manager Gene Mauch. Smalley, who dropped out of USC in the fall to make himself eligible, will sign for $100,000.
1952
» As the Korean War drags on, the marines give notice that they will recall Ted Williams to active duty. He'll be recalled on May 1st.
1918
» Brooklyn sends OF Casey Stengel and infielder George Cutshaw to Pittsburgh for P Burleigh Grimes, P Al Mamaux, and infielder Chuck Ward.
1892
» "Slide, Kelly, Slide," by George Gaskin, makes the popular music charts, the first baseball song to do so.
Cap Anson is quoted in the New York Clipper as saying that "I don't care if they can't field a little bit. In my experience I have found that a man can be taught to almost stop cannon balls, but it is a very difficult task to teach them to line 'em out
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01-10-04, 10:41 AM
1983 A preliminary injunction is issued by New York Supreme Court barring the Yankees from playing their opening games against the Tigers in Denver. The Bronx Bombers sought to move games fearing the renovations to the stadium would not be completed on time.
2002 Although he missed most the second half of the season playing for the White Sox due to undergoing back surgery, the Yankees sign David Wells to a two-year, $7-million contract to re-join the team. After posting a 34-14 record including a perfect game from 1997-98, 'Boomer' was traded to the Blue Jays, where he had his only 20-win season, in a deal for Roger Clemens 1992
» The Yankees trade 2B Steve Sax to the White Sox in exchange for P Melido Perez, Domingo Jean and Bob Wickman.
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01-11-04, 09:53 AM
1983
» For the 3rd time in eight years, George Steinbrenner hires Billy Martin as Yankee manager. Martin replaces Clyde King, who will move to the front office.
One of the few good players to be drafted and also sign in the January free agent draft is Ellis Burks, picked on the first round by the Red Sox. The Yankees pick and sign a Canseco -- Ozzie Canseco -- with their 4th pick.
2001 David Cone agrees to a one-year contract with the Red Sox. The former Cy Young Award winner could make between $4 million and $5 million with Boston, compared to $500,000 guaranteed-offer made by the Yankees, if he makes the roster and pitches regularly during the season.
1915 Colonel Jacob Ruppert and Colonel Tillinghast L. Huston buy the New York Yankees from Frank Farrell and Bill Devery for $460,000. Ruppert, who owns a brewery, is thinking of renaming the team the Knickerbockers to promote his product, but is dissuaded by newspaper men.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.1973 For the first time since 1901, the American and National Leagues will play with different rules as all 24 owners approve the junior circuit's three-year experiment to use a designated hitter.
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01-12-04, 08:39 AM
1997
» The San Diego Padres acquire the rights to 27-year-old Japanese fireballer Hideki Irabu from the Chiba Lotte Marines. Irabu says he only wants to play for the Yankees
1984
» Rich Gossage signs with the San Diego Padres.
1950
» The Yankees sell their Newark franchise to the Cubs, who will move the team to Springfield, Mass. The once-proud Bears, owned by the Yankees since 1932, finished last in the International League in 1949.
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01-13-04, 08:49 AM
1939
» Yankee owner Colonel Jacob Ruppert dies of phlebitis at age 71. On the 17th, Ed Barrow is elected president to succeed Colonel Ruppert.
1978 At the age of 90, former Yankee manager Joe McCarthy dies.
1972 Housewife Bernice Gera wins her lawsuit against baseball. The former umpire will begin working in New York-Penn League in June
1958 New York Senator Keating proposes a ban on major league telecasts within 100-mile radius of minor league territories.
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01-14-04, 08:31 AM
1954 The Yankee Clipper, Joe DiMaggio, marries actress Marilyn Monroe.
1932
» Babe Ruth rejects a Yankee offer of $70,000, as the major leagues vow to cut salaries by $1 million....................................................1916
» Lee Magee, player-manager of the Brooklyn Tip-Tops, is sold to the Yankees for about $25,000.
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01-15-04, 08:57 AM
1958 The Yankees announced 140 games will be televised this season. The deal is worth over one million dollars.
1964 Giant outfielder Willie Mays, the highest paid player in baseball, signs for $105,000.
City.
1934
» Babe Ruth accepts a cut of $17,000 and signs a 1934 contract for $35,000.
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01-17-04, 10:18 AM
1970
» ML teams select a record 357 players in the January phase of the annual free-agent draft, including top pick Chris Chambliss, by Cleveland, and Chris Speier. Fred Lynn, drafted by the Yankees in the first round, will not sign. 1936
» The Yankees trade Jimmy DeShong and Jesse Hill to Washington for Bump Hadley and Roy Johnson. 1989
» Free-agent Claudell Washington leaves the Yankees to sign a 3-year contract with the Angels.
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01-21-04, 08:24 AM
1953
» The Hall of Fame passes over Joe DiMaggio in his first year of eligibility and elects P Dizzy Dean and OF Al Simmons to Cooperstown. Dean gathers 209 votes while Simmons' total of 199 is one more than needed. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> 1960 Stan Musial insists he take a $20,000 pay cut. 'Stan the Man' believes he was overpaid in 1957 and 1958 and his salary should be based on his play last season >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. 1916
» The Yankees buy left-handed P Nick Cullop from Kansas City (FL), infielder Joe Gedeon from Salt Lake City (PCL), and veteran Germany Schaefer from Newark (FL). Schaefer will announce that he is changing his nickname to "Liberty" because of the war. Schaefer noticed that sauerkraut had been renamed "liberty cabbage."
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01-22-04, 08:36 AM
1929
» The Yankees announce they will put numbers on the backs of their uniforms, becoming the first baseball team to start continuous use of the numbers. The first numbers are based on positions in the batting order; thus, Babe Ruth will wear number three and Lou Gehrig 4. In a few weeks, the Indians announce that they, too, will put numbers on the uniforms and by 1931 all American League teams will use them; it will be 1933 before all National League players are numbered. ..............................1982 Free agent Reggie Jackson signs a four-year, nearly four-million dollar contract with the Angels ending his five-year roller coaster ride with the Yankees>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>1962
» Jackie Jensen again announces his retirement from baseball. This time he means it. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>1918
» The Yankees trade P Nick Cullop, P Urban Shocker, C Les Nunamaker, 3B Fritz Maisel, and infielder Joe Gedeon to the Browns for P Eddie Plank and 2B Del Pratt. Plank, a 300-game winner, retires, but Pratt gives New York three good years at 2B. Shocker is the gem, posting four straight seasons of 20 or more wins in St. Louis. Maisel, who the Yankees refused to trade in early 1916 for either Boston's Tris Speaker (and cash) or Chicago's Joe Jackson, will hit just .232 in 90 games and be gone.
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01-24-04, 08:14 AM
2000
Yankee prospect D'Angelo Jimenez suffers a broken neck when a car he is driving in the Dominican Republic collides with a bus. Jimenez is not paralyzed but will miss the 2000 season. He figured to be the Yankee reserve infielder, taking over the role that Luis Sojo, now with the Pirates, filled last season
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01-25-04, 08:23 AM
1966
» Tony Kubek announces his retirement owing to a back ailment.
1945
The Yankees are sold by the Ruppert estate to Larry MacPhail, Dan Topping, and Del Webb for $2.8 million. For that price the trio obtains 400 players, 266 of them in military service, Yankee Stadium, parks in Newark and Kansas City, and leases on other minor league ballparks. Jake Ruppert, who died in 1939, paid more than the new purchase price for the ground on which Yankee Stadium was built in 1923.
1943
» The Yankees send Lefty Gomez to the Boston Braves for cash. He will be released without playing a game and will sign with Washington on May 24th.
1895
» Cap Anson notes that "nobody likes to see a play made with the aid of gloves." He is of the opinion that only catchers should be permitted the luxury of wearing gloves.
1974
» Ray Kroc, fast-food entrepreneur (McDonalds), buys the Padres for $12 million.
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01-26-04, 07:47 AM
1962
» Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle sign contracts with Columbia Pictures to star in Safe at Home!, a movie that is to be shot during spring training.
1963
» The ML Rules Committee votes to expand the strike zone, restoring it to pre-1950 standards: from the top of the shoulders to the bottom of the knees.
1960
» Boston OF Jackie Jensen, 32, announces his retirement from baseball. Jensen will later say, "Looking back, it was foolish to quit. But I thought it would answer my problems [one of which was his great fear of flying]." Jensen will return to play in 1961 before retiring again for good.
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01-29-04, 09:07 AM
1948
» Commissioner Happy Chandler fines the Yankees, Cubs, and Phillies $500 each for signing high school players.
1943
» The Yankees trade 2B Jerry Priddy and minor leaguer Milo Candini to the Washington Senators for righty Bill Zuber and cash. Zuber, classified 4-F in the draft, will not have a winning season in New York, while Candini will go 117 this year.
1930
» Ken Williams, former American League home run champion and a lifetime .319 batter, goes from the Red Sox to the Yankees for the waiver price. He will be released before the season begins.
1901
» Newly named Rules Committee of Connie Mack, John McGraw, and Charles Comiskey, after rejecting a proposal to ban the bunt, recommends no changes at this time.
1951
» Baseball signs a 6-year All-Star Game pact for TV-radio rights calling for $6 million. A number of owners criticize lame duck Commissioner Happy Chandler, stating that in a couple of years the broadcast rights would be worth much more than a million per annum.
1958
» Dodgers C Roy Campanella suffers a broken neck in an early morning auto accident on Long Island. His spinal column is nearly severed and his legs are permanently paralyzed.
1989
» The game-winning RBI is dropped as an official statistic after nine years of use. The Mets Keith Hernandez is the all-time leader with 129.
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01-30-04, 09:41 AM
1948
» Herb Pennock, 53-year-old general manager of the Phillies and former star southpaw, collapses in a New York hotel lobby and dies a short time later at a local hospital
1953
» The Little League names Peter J. McGovern as its first full-time president. Its office is moved to Williamsport, PA.
1923
» The Red Sox continue to feed the Yankees, sending P Herb Pennock to New York in exchange for IF Norm McMillan, P George Murray, OF Camp Skinner, and $50,000.
1958 Commissioner Ford Frick announces fans will no longer vote for the all stars. The teams will now be selected by major league players and coaches
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02-01-04, 08:45 AM
1999 The Yankees trade highly touted third base prospect Mike Lowell to the Marlins for minor league pitchers Eddie Yarnall, Todd Noel and Mark Johnson. Scott Brosius' outstanding 1998 performance made the former minor league player-of-the-year expendable.
2001 Post season hero Jim Leyritz signs a $500,000, one-year minor league contract with the Mets. The former Yankee has hit one home run per every 7.6 postseason at-bats making it the third best performance for players with five or more postseason round trippers
1896
» National League umpires oppose the proposed rule giving them the authority to eject "obstreperous players." They claim that the imposition of fines is a more effective form of discipline.
1947
» After a meeting in New York's Waldorf Astoria, Commissioner Happy Chandler announces the creation of a pension plan for major leaguers. Player with five years experience will receive $50 a month at age 50, and $10 a month for each o the next five years. The plan extends to coaches, players, and trainers active on Opening Day. The plan will be funded by $650,000, with the teams providing 80% and the players the remaining 20%.
1913
» Jim Thorpe signs with the New York Giants, but the Indian Olympic-medal winner will be more of a gate attraction than a threat at the plate.
1926
» Wally Pipp, 33, has lost his Yankee 1B job to Lou Gehrig after 101/2 years; the Reds buy him for $7,500. Pipp had been the Opening Day first baseman for the past 11 seasons.
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02-02-04, 08:15 AM
1998
» Yankees GM Bob Watson announces his resignation. He is replaced by 30–year–old Brian Cashman.
1989
» Bill White, a 6-time All-Star and longtime Yankees broadcaster, is elected president of the National League. He becomes the highest-ranking black official in American professional sports.
1972
» The Special Veterans Committee selects former players Lefty Gomez and Ross Youngs, and former AL president William Harridge for the Hall of Fame.
1954
» Mickey Mantle has his second operation since the end of last season, this one to remove a cyst behind the right knee.
1950
» The TV show WHAT'S MY LINE premiers with Phil Rizzuto as the very first mystery guest.
1936
» The baseball writers vote for the first players to be named to the new Baseball Hall of Fame. Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson each receive the requisite 75 percent of ballots cast. Active players also are eligible in this first election, with Rogers Hornsby finishing 9th, Mickey Cochrane 10th, Lou Gehrig 15th, and Foxx 19th. Tainted former star Hal Chase receives 11 votes for 25th place, and Joe Jackson has two votes to tie for 36th place.
1930
» The Yankees waive Leo Durocher out of the American League and sell him to the Reds. Whispered rumors, repeated by Urban Shocker in his 2001 autobiography, contend that Leo was stealing money and jewelry from his teammates. Allegedly, roommate Babe Ruth beat up Durocher after a theft of marked money confirmed his suspicions. The Yankees, according to Shocker, prevail on the rest of the AL to waive Durocher. [Another story has Durocher, in debt, asking for a $1,000 advance on his salary from Ed Barrow so he can pay a hotel bill. When Barrow turns him down, Leo curses him, and Barrow trades him the next day to the Reds.]
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02-03-04, 08:23 AM
2002 Yankee catcher Jorge Posada (.277, 22, 95) signs a five-year contract with the club. Terms are not announced, but the Bronx Bomber backstop was asking for $7.75 million in arbitration which would make the 30-year-old the second best paid receiver in baseball history.........1982
» Minor league C Angel Rodriguez, who played for the Pirates' Alexandria club (Carolina League) last season, is suspended from organized baseball for one year for telling opposing Latin American batters what pitches were coming. Rodriguez had been suspended by the Pirates last season after being caught in the act during an August 19th game against Lynchburg.......................................................1979
The Yankees buy two players from the A's, P Greg Cochrane for $100,000 and C Bruce Robinson for $400,000. It proves to be expensive cups of coffee.
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02-04-04, 08:05 AM
1984
» The Indians trade 3B Toby Harrah and minor leaguer Rick Brown to the Yankees for P George Frazier, OF Otis Nixon, and minor leaguer Guy Elston
1956
» The American League says it will test the automatic intentional walk during spring training. The Major Leagues vote to establish the Cy Young Memorial Award for outstanding pitcher of the year.
1915
» The Yankees purchase Wally Pipp and OF Hugh High from the Detroit Tigers for a reported $5,000 each. Historian Lyle Spatz (Yankees Coming, Yankees Going) writes that this was the first of some promised funneling of ball players to the recently-sold Yankee franchise.
1893
» The first recorded version of "Casey at the Bat," as sung by Russell Hunting, hits the music charts. DeWolf Hopper's more famous version will not be released until October 1906.
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02-05-04, 08:10 AM
1921
» The Yankees purchase a 20-acre plot of land in the Bronx for the future site of Yankee Stadium. 1942 The Yankees trade Tommie Holmes to the Braves for Gene Moore and Buddy Hassett. Holmes will play ten seasons hitting over .300 for Boston and will establish the National League record consecutive game hitting streakwith a 37 for until it is broken by Pete Rose in 1978.
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02-06-04, 08:37 AM
1998
» The Minnesota Twins trade All–Star 2B Chuck Knoblauch to the Yankees for minor leaguers P Eric Milton, P Danny Mota, OF Brian Buchanan, SS Cristian Guzman, and $3 million.
1995
Darryl Strawberry is suspended for 60 days for violation of baseball's drug policy and his aftercare program. He is also released by the Giants.
1986
» Free-agent P Al Holland, who saved just five games for three teams last season, signs with the Yankees
1958
» Ted Williams signs with the Red Sox for $135,000, making him the highest paid player in ML history.
1935
» Dizzy Dean declares himself a holdout, demanding $25,000. He signs the next day for $19,500.
1926
» The Browns acquire 37-year-old catcher Wally Schang from the Yankees for pitcher George Mogridge and cash. The veteran will backstop for the Browns for three seasons.
1903
» Former ML P and umpire Hardie Henderson is run over and killed by a trolley in Philadelphia.
1891
» The New York Giants' salary list is leaked to the press. It shows a total player payroll of $54,600 with Buck Ewing's $5,500 salary topping the scale.
1887
» At Hot Springs, Arkansas, Albert Spalding meets with the Chicago players and exacts from each man a pledge of total abstinence from drinking during the coming season. With the entire outfield gone from last year's team and P Jim McCormick holding out at home in NJ, the champion White Stockings will have to rely on young players
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02-07-04, 11:25 AM
1949
» Joe DiMaggio signs with the Yankees for $100,000, the first six-figure contract in the ML.
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02-08-04, 08:33 AM
1983
» One day after taking a job as director of sports promotions for Claridge Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, NJ, Mickey Mantle is ordered to sever his ties with ML baseball by Commissioner Kuhn. Mantle joins fellow Hall of Famer Willie Mays as players banned from baseball by Kuhn for involvement with legalized gambling. 1996
» Dave Winfield announces his retirement after 23 seasons. The 12-time All Star joins Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and Stan Musial as the only players with 3,000 hits and 400 home runs.
1984
» One day after losing Type A free agent Tom Underwood to the Orioles, the A's "steal" pitcher Tim Belcher from the Yankees as compensation. The number-one selection in last June's draft, Belcher did not sign with the Twins and was available in the January draft. The Yankees signed him on February 2nd, only to lose him because they had already submitted their list of 26 protected players.
1927
» Sad Sam Jones departs the Yankees for St. Louis, traded for P Joe Giard and OF Cedric Durst. Sam will be 8–14 in his only season in St. Louis.
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02-09-04, 08:26 AM
1980 The late Yankee catcher Thurman Munson is inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame of Kent State University 1995
» Darryl Strawberry pleads guilty to income tax evasion and will spend three months in prison, in addition to paying back taxes, interest, and penalties.
1994
The Phillies trade P Terry Mulholland and a player to be named to the Yankees in exchange for P Bobby Munoz, 2B Kevin Jordan, and minor league P Ryan Karp.
1920
» The Joint Rules Committee bans all foreign substances or other alterations to the ball by pitchers, including saliva, resin, talcum powder, paraffin, and the shine and emery ball. A pitcher caught cheating will be suspended for 10 days. The American League allows each club to name just two pitchers who will be allowed to use the pitch for one more season. The National League allows each club to name all its spitball pitchers. No pitchers other than those designated will be permitted to use it, and none at all after 1920. Other rules changes: the adoption of writer Fred Lieb's proposal that a game-winning home run with men on base be counted as a home run even if its run is not needed to win the game. Also, the intentional walk is banned, and everything that happens in a protested game will go in the records
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02-11-04, 08:05 AM
1971 The Yankees announced their former star first baseman, Bill White, will join the WPIX broadcast team becoming the first black announcer in major league history.
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02-12-04, 09:05 AM
1932
» George Weiss, GM of the Baltimore Orioles (International League), joins the Yankee front office. He will eventually run the club during its years under Casey Stengel's managing.1878 Fredrick Thayer patents the catcher's mask. He is the captain of Harvard University Baseball Club.
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02-13-04, 08:38 AM
1986
» Keep the uniforms? Two months after being traded from the Yankees to the White Sox, C Ron Hassey is traded back to the Yankees along with three minor leaguers in exchange for P Neil Allen, C Scott Bradley, and minor leaguer Glen Braxton. But Hassey will again go back to the White Sox on July 30th.
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02-18-04, 08:43 AM
1999
» The U.S. Postal Service issues a Jackie Robinson stamp as part of their "Celebrate the Century" program. Robinson was selected to represent the 40's, the 2nd ball player chosen. Babe Ruth, last May, represented the 1920s.
The Yankees end the trade rumors by acquiring Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens from the Blue Jays in exchange for pitchers David Wells and Graeme Lloyd, and IF Homer Bush.
1998
Yankees sign OF Bernie Williams to a $8.5 million, 1-year contract, avoiding salary arbitration
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02-19-04, 08:54 AM
1935
» Lou Gehrig signs for $30,000, $7,000 less than he asked for. Gehrig is now the highest paid player in baseball..... >1957
» The Kansas City Athletics ship pitchers Art Ditmar, Bobby Shantz, and Jack McMahan, and infielders Clete Boyer, Curt Roberts and Wayne Belardi to the Yankees. In return they receive pitchers Maury McDermott, Tom Morgan, Gary Coleman, and Jack Urban, OF Irv Noren, plus infielders Billy Hunter and Milt Graff. Roberts didn't go to NYC till May 4, while Boyer went a month later. Hunter and Urban don't switch until April 5. The veteran Shantz and Boyer will be valuable pickups for New York, with Shantz leading the American League in ERA this year, and Boyer a tough defensive 3B for eight years in pinstripes. The A's will eventually admit that when they signed Boyer for a $40,000 bonus in 1955, it was on behalf of the Yankees, with the understanding that they'd later ship him to NY. 1953
» Ted Williams safely crash-lands his damaged Panther jet after flying a combat mission in Korea. The plane was hit by enemy fire.
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02-20-04, 09:00 AM
2001
» Braves OF Andruw Jones wins a record $8.2 million contract in salary arbitration. The previous record of $7.25 million was set last year by Yankees reliever Mariano Rivera. .................................. 1997
» The Phillies sign free agent OF Danny Tartabull. Tartabull will break his foot on Opening Day and sit out for the year before retiring. >>>>>>>>>>>>> 1980
» Just four months after being fired by the Yankees for the 2nd time, Billy Martin signs a 2-year contract to manage the Oakland A's. 1943
» Phil Wrigley and Branch Rickey charter the All-American Girls Softball League. The league will operate around the Chicago area and is formed as a sports backup in case the government shuts down ML baseball. The league will later change its name and switch to hardball with a pitching distance of 40 feet and bases 68 feet apart. 1887
» New York SS and captain John Ward thinks that the open sale of players has gone too far. "I wouldn't play in Kansas City under any circumstances," he says, but a club could force him to play there or not play at all.
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02-21-04, 09:34 AM
2002
» Bob Watson is named to replace Frank Robinson as Major League Baseball's vice president in charge of discipline.
1999
» Florida rookie 3B Mike Lowell, acquired three weeks ago, undergoes surgery for testicular cancer after a small mass is found during a routine exam.
1968
» The first basic agreement between players and owners is ratified. The agreement runs from January 1, 1968 to December 31, 1969.
The minimum ML player's salary is raised to $10,000. Meal money during the season will be $15 a day (up from $12), and players will get $40 a week for training-camp expenses (up from $25).
1919
» The Yankees acquire 36-year-old spitballer Jack Quinn from Vernon (PCL), sending in exchange P Joe Finneran, 1B Zinn Beck, and cash. Quinn will be named a designated spitballer when the wet pitch is outlawed, and in 1921 will help the Yanks to their first pennant. He won't call it quits till he's 50. 1904
» The Yankees purchase 40-year-old Deacon McGuire from the Detroit Tigers. 1974 Tom Seaver becomes the highest-paid pitcher in baseball history when he signs a contract for $172,000 per season to hurl for the Mets.
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02-22-04, 08:08 AM
2000
» A Florida Department of Corrections report says Yankees OF Darryl Strawberry tested positive for cocaine on January 19. http://www.nationalpastime.com/ http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/chronology/today.stm
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02-23-04, 09:04 AM
2001
» In what is believed to be a first of its kind test, umpire Mike Everitt meets with the Milwaukee Brewers to test out baseball's new strike zone.
1996
» The Rules Committee announces that the strike zone will be larger, dropping it from the top of the knees to the hollow below the knees. The change comes out of a series of recommendations to help speed up play.
1988
» A committee of Chicago aldermen vote 7-2 to allow the Cubs to install lights and play up to 18 night games a year at Wrigley Field. The Cubs had feared losing the 1990 All-Star Game, as well as future playoff and World Series games, if lights were not installed.
1987
» Just three days after training camp opens, an extremely frail **** Howser abandons his attempt to come back from a brain tumor and gives up his position as Royals manager. Billy Gardner is named his successor.
1976
» ML owners announce that spring training will not open until a new labor contract is agreed upon.
1954
» The Cards purchase Vic Raschi from the Yankees for $85,000.
1934
» Casey Stengel, who had been a Dodger coach, signs a 2-year contract to manage Brooklyn. He replaces Max Carey.
1918
» Barney Dreyfuss of the Rules Committee launches a campaign to ban the spitter. He will succeed next year.
1888
» James "Pud" Galvin signs with Pittsburgh for $3,000, including $1,000 in advance. The club offered him $3,500 with no advance money, but Galvin needs the $1,000 to tide him over the winter.
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02-24-04, 08:36 AM
1948
» In a key trade for New York, Ed Lopat goes to the Yankees from the White Sox in exchange for C Aaron Robinson, Bill Wight, and Fred Bradley. Lopat will star for seven seasons in pinstripes, winning 21 in 1951 and going 16–4 in 1953. Robinson's main value to the Sox will come at the end of the season when he's swapped for another lefty pitcher, Billy Pierce.
1990
» Former Red Sox slugger Tony Conigliaro dies of pneumonia and kidney failure at the age of 45. Conigliaro was the youngest ML player ever to reach 100 career home runs and then was nearly blinded by a 1967 beaning.
2000
» The National Labor Relations Board certifies the results of the November election that kicked out the Major League Umpires Association and replaced it with the newly-formed World Umpires Association. About 50 of the 71 major league umpires have joined the new union. The decision ends Richie Phillips' 21-year reign as union chief.
1896
» The National League adopts changes in the National Agreement. The minor leagues are divided into six classifications based on population, and new draft fees are instituted.
The NL forbids players from deliberately soiling baseballs, declares that "a ball cutting the corners of the home plate, and being requisite height, must be called a strike," and empowers umpires to eject players.
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02-25-04, 09:02 AM
1994 The Veterans Committee elects Phil Rizzuto to Baseball Hall of Fame.
1941
» The days after the start of spring training, the Yankees sell Babe Dahlgren, the man who took over 1B from Lou Gehrig in 1939, to the Braves. The deal is questioned since no replacement seems apparent. McCarthy claims they would have won another pennant had not Dahlgren made a costly error at first late in the season.
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02-27-04, 08:21 AM
1912 The Yankees announce they will begin wearing pinstripes on their uniforms. It will take a few seasons (April 22, 1915) before it becomes a reality
1985
» The Yankees trade veteran IF Toby Harrah to the Rangers for OF Billy Sample and a player to be named later. The palindromic infielder was a member of the original Rangers in 1972
1907
» The Yankees acquire C Branch Rickey from the Browns in exchange for INF Joe Yeager. As noted by Lyle Spatz, Rickey will not play on Sundays, while new backstop Buelow will.
thecaptain
03-01-04, 08:02 AM
1969
» The Yankees' Mickey Mantle retires.
1996
» The Yankees christen Legends Field, their new $30 million 31-acre complex near the Tampa Airport. The field has the exact dimensions of the stadium in the Bronx. On hand to see Phil Rizzuto toss out the first ball are former Yanks Whitey Ford, Catfish Hunter, Ron Guidry, and Chris Chambliss, who then watch the new Yankees beat the American League Champion Indians, 5–2.
1993
» George Steinbrenner resumes his role as general partner of the Yankees following his suspension from baseball because of his dealings with gambler Howard Spira.
1910
» The National Commission prohibits giving mementos to players on winning World Series teams. This will later be reversed, making way for the traditional winners' watches, rings, and stickpins.
1903
» Baseball rules committee chairman Tom Loftus of Washington proclaims that the pitcher's box must not be more than 15 inches higher than the baselines or home plate
thecaptain
03-02-04, 08:28 AM
1927 Babe Ruth becomes the highest paid player in major league history when the Yankees announce the Bambino will earn $70,000 per season for the next three years. The 'Sultan of Swat' will sign the historic contract on March 4th.
1949
» Joe DiMaggio leaves the Yankee camp to have an ailing right heel examined at Johns Hopkins hospital. He is told that no surgery is needed and he returns to Florida, but the heel will continue to bother him. The star is hitting just 7-for-31 in the Grapefruit League
1888
» The NL meets in New York and abolishes all discounts from the 50-cent minimum admission price. Despite the demands of the Brotherhood and the fact that the rule is practically a dead letter, the NL refuses to drop its $2,000 salary limit rule. The schedule committee recommends that the season go to 140 games from the current 126.
1886
» The American Association meets and overrules president Denny McKnight (also owner of the Pittsburgh club) and suspends Sam Barkley for signing with Pittsburgh before the dispute over his sale is settled.
The AA adopts new rules. The number of balls needed for a walk is reduced from seven to 6; the pitcher's box is one foot deeper, giving the pitcher seven feet behind the 50-foot front line in which to execute his delivery; Stolen bases are adopted as an official statistic, although the definition is rather vague initially.
thecaptain
03-03-04, 10:35 AM
1997
» For the negotiating rights to Hideki Irabu the Yankees offer the Padres a choice of one from a list of players: Brian Boehringer, David Weathers, Chris Cumberland, Andy Fox, and Matt Luke. Also, one player from a list of five minor leaguers, plus $3 million. The Padres are talking to several other teams beside the Yankees. 1932
» In Century, Florida, Boston Red Sox P Ed Morris, 32, dies of knife wounds inflicted in a fight at a party given in his honor two days ago in Brewton, Alabama. Sox owner Bob Quinn is reported to have had a Yankee offer of almost $100,000 for the pitcher.
thecaptain
03-08-04, 07:39 AM
1913
» The Yankees are the first team to train outside the U.S. when they travel to Bermuda for spring practice.
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