This Day in Baseball History

[thecaptain]

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]

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.

[chief714]

I hope what Barrow meant was that nobody would ever get paid more than Ruth while Ruth was still playing.

[thecaptain]

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]

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/baseballlibrar...ay/MARCH10.stm

[Knuckles]

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]

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.

That is hard to believe. It seems like just yesterday that he died.

[thecaptain]

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]

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]

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.

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[thecaptain]

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]

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]

1932
? In St. Petersburg, Babe Ruth signs a one-year contract for $75,000. http://www.pubdim.net/baseballlibrar...logy/today.stm

[thecaptain]

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]

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]

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!!!

[ACPS]

This "Bush" you speak of.....is he the one that traded Sammy Sosa?

[thecaptain]

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
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[thecaptain]

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]

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]

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.

[CTB]

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]

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]

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
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[thecaptain]

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]

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.
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[WCNYY]

1996- Derek Jeter hits his first major league home run

[Knuckles]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

. 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.

[Big_E]

And on this day (4/10) in 1913, the NY Highlanders...officially became...

THE NEW YORK YANKEES!!!!!!!!

[thecaptain]

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]

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]

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.
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[thecaptain]

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]

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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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/baseballlibrar...logy/today.stm

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.