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Events, births and deaths that occurred on September 15.

Events

• 1889:
  • Brooklyn increases its lead over St. Louis to seven games as the Browns lose in Philadelphia while Brooklyn takes a pair from Louisville.
  • Sioux City (Western Association) sweeps a quadruple-header from visiting St. Joseph winning 6 - 1, 12 - 7, 12 - 5, and 5 - 4. The first three games are five innings apiece and the fourth game is seven innings.
• 1901:
  • In the second of two games with Milwaukee, the White Stockings hit a major-league record five triples in the 8th inning. Their total of six in the game is an American League record not duplicated until September 17, 1920. Chicago wins, 9 - 4, after taking the opener, 5 - 4, and hitting four triples.
  • The Detroit Tigers roll over Cleveland behind Ed Siever with what will be the most lopsided score in American League history: 21 - 0 (equaled on August 13, 1939) - until the Cleveland Indians beat the New York Yankees 22 - 0 on August 31, 2004 at Yankee Stadium. Detroit pounds out 24 hits off rookie Jack Bracken as Pop Dillon leads the way with four hits. The game is mercifully called after 7 1/2 innings to allow Cleveland to catch a train. Bracken's ERA is not helped by this outing and he will end this season, his only one in the majors, with a 6.21 mark, the highest in the deadball era.
• 1903 - In Cincinnati, the Reds knock out Christy Mathewson after five innings and beat the Giants, 8 - 0.
• 1904:
  • Beating the Beaneaters, 3 - 2, Giant hurler Hooks Wiltse runs his career record to 12-0. "Hooks"' dozen consecutive victories establishes the record for the most wins at the start of a career for a starter.
  • Boston edges New York, 3 - 2, to move back into first place in the American League. Jesse Tannehill allows nine hits in besting Al Orth. The nitecap is called after nine innings with the score 1 - 1.
• 1907:
  • Boston slugger Dave Brain hits his tenth homer, off the Giants' Red Ames. Brain's ten round trippers will lead the National League this year, but he will never hit another. The same fate befell Fred Odwell two years ago. Brain will be sold to the Reds in February, the same route that will taken by the 1910 homer champion, Fred Beck.
  • At the Browns-Tigers game in St. Louis, a soda bottle thrown by a fan, Hugo Dusenberg, fells umpire Billy Evans. The crowd beats up Hugo before the police come to his rescue; he is fined $100. Evans is carried from the field and hospitalized, but is not very seriously injured.
• 1908:
  • The Highlanders' Pete Wilson makes his major league debut by shutting out Boston, 1 - 0.
  • The Cardinals rattle Red Ames for five hits in the 8th inning to tie the Giants at 4 - 4. Cardinal killer Christy Mathewson relieves and when Al Bridwell scores the go-ahead run, Matty stops the Birds for his major-league record 24th consecutive win over St. Louis.
• 1910 - Cleveland tops Washington, 3 - 0, with Walter Johnson losing to the Naps after four straight wins against them. The victory goes to Fred Blanding in his major league debut. Nap Lajoie scores a run but is 0 for 3.
• 1911 - Washington manager Jimmy McAleer announces his resignation. Ban Johnson then arranges for McAleer and Robert R. McRoy to buy a half-interest in the Red Sox for $150,000. Clark Griffith will take over as manager and, by purchasing ten percent of the team, its largest single stock holder.
• 1912 - In the second game of a doubleheader, Boston's Joe Wood wins his 16th straight game as he bests the Browns, 2 - 1, in a game called after eight innings because of darkness. Wood scores the winning run in the 8th, scoring from third base on a wild pitch by Earl Hamilton. Earlier in the year, Walter Johnson posted a streak of 16 straight wins.
• 1913 - Frank L. Hough, sports editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, and one of two writers who owned 25 percent of the Philadelphia Athletics when the team was founded, dies.
• 1914 - Yankee SS Roger Peckinpaugh, 23, replaces Frank Chance and becomes the all-time youngest manager, and the seventh in the club's 12-year existence. He will win 9 of 17 games and will manage next at Cleveland in 1928.
• 1915 - The Cubs edge the Braves, 1 - 0, behind Phil Douglas, with Lefty Tyler taking the tough loss. Tomorrow, the Cubs will win another 1 - 0 battle, but it will take them 12 innings to do it.
• 1916 - The Giants, sporting a nine-game winning streak, are losing 2 - 0 to Cincinnati in the 4th inning when rain washes out the game.
• 1917:
  • The Senators toss shutouts in both games today with the A's. Harry Harper wins the opener 5 - 0, and Walter Johnson follows with a 4 - 0 victory.
  • At the Polo Grounds, Boston's Babe Ruth takes an 8 - 0 lead into the 9th before allowing three Yankee runs. He finishes with a complete game 8 - 3 win and slugs his second and last homer of the season.
• 1920 - The Indians give Jim Bagby 14 runs on 22 hits and he coasts over the A's, 14 - 0.
• 1921:
  • Babe Ruth hits home run No. 55 in New York's 10 - 6 win over the Browns. The Yanks also take the second game, 13 - 5.
  • 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 major league game. He fans one batter - Joe Sewell, the hardest batter to strike out in big league history.
• 1922:
  • C Butch Henline is the first National League player to hit three homers in a game since 1897, as the Phils beat the Cards 10 - 9. Henline's third home run ties the game in the 9th inning and Cliff Lee then hits the game-winning home run. Lee ends the year with 17 homers - all at National League Park. Only Gavvy Cravath, in 1914, and Mel Ott will have more homers in a season this century coming all at home.
  • The Browns pull to within a half game of the Yankees - losers to the White Sox - by rallying to beat the Red Sox, 7 - 1. St. Louis trails 1 - 0 after 6 1/2 innings before coming back.
• 1923 - Paul Strand, RF for Salt Lake City (Pacific Coast League), makes his 290th hit, a pro baseball record. He will play in 194 games, make 325 hits, including 66 doubles, 13 triples, and 43 home runs, for a .394 BA, with 180 runs and 187 RBI. He also has 612 total chances in the OF. Strand, 30, had come up to the Boston Braves as a pitcher in 1913 and was 6 - 2 for the 1914 pennant winners, mostly in relief. The Athletics will pay a reported $100,000 (which Connie Mack later says was really $40,000) for him, but he will hit just .228.
• 1926 - The Yankees beat the Indians, 6 - 4, as Bob Meusel drives home three runs with three sacrifice flies. This ties the major-league record set by Harry Steinfeldt in 1909. Bob Shawkey is the winning hurler.
• 1928 - In a doubleheader with the Phils, the Cardinals leave 29 runners on base but still manage to win both games, 3 - 2 and 8 - 6. Stranding 29 is a record for two regulation-length games.
• 1929 - In a field day trial, former college track star Reds LF Evar Swanson circles the bases in 13.3 seconds. Two years later, with more sophisticated equipment timing him, he will do it in 13.2 while with Columbus (American Association).
• 1930:
  • The Robins win their 11th straight, although Babe Herman once again stops to watch a home run disappear for a record second time in one season. This time, Glenn Wright lopes past the awestruck Herman to reduce a homer to a single.
  • The Cubs split a pair in Philadelphia when Lefty O'Doul pinch-hits a home run to beat the Cubs 12 - 11 in the first game. It is the second consecutive game in which O'Doul has produced a pinch-hit homer. In the second game of the day's doubleheader, Hack Wilson hits his 50th dinger to pace the Cubs to a 6 - 4 win.
  • Newspapers carry the story of the disappearance of Cardinals P Flint Rhem on the eve of a crucial series in Brooklyn.
• 1931 - The Philadelphia Athletics clinch the pennant, beating Cleveland at home, 14 - 3. Every starter for the A's has a hit and RBI. Eddie Rommel, veteran knuckleball pitcher for the A's, is the winning hurler, as Connie Mack wins his third successive pennant. It is Mack's ninth, and last, American League championship. The A's went into first place for good on May 5th, when they started a win streak of 17 straight games and 20 of their next 21. In mid-July they won 13 straight.
• 1932:
  • At the Polo Grounds, Kiki Cuyler continues to haunt the Giants by clouting an 11th-inning homer to give the Cubs the 8 - 7 win.
  • The Cardinals' Ray Starr makes his first major league start, shutting out the Dodgers, 3 - 0.
• 1933 - The Giants sweep a pair from the Cubs at Wrigley Field, winning, 5 - 1 and 4 - 0. Reliever Hi Bell helps apply the whitewash in the second game, besting Lon Warneke. Starter Roy Parmelee is leading 3 - 0 when he hits Tuck Stainback on the arm, breaking it. He walks the bases full and Bell comes in.
• 1935 - Before an overflow crowd of 41,284 in St. Louis, the Giants' Carl Hubbell outpitches Dizzy Dean to give New York a 7 - 3 win. It is the second time in four days the two aces have matched up. The Giants, winners of 14 out of their last 22 games, are now just one and a half games behind the Cardinals.
• 1936 - Johnny Allen wins his 20th for Cleveland, though he is forced to leave the game with a back injury, after hurling five innings of no-hit ball.
• 1937 - American League President Will Harridge upholds Cleveland's protest of the August 6th Yankee win, and the entire game is replayed as the second game of a doubleheader. The protested game is called a tie with all stats retained except those following the disputed call.
• 1938 - Brothers Lloyd and Paul Waner of the Pirates hit consecutive homers off Cliff Melton in the 5th inning at the Polo Grounds. Pirates P Jim Tobin puts Mel Ott in the record book, hitting him with a pitch three times. Tobin wins 7 - 2. The Waners' feat marks the first time in major league history that brothers have gone deep back-to-back; the next time will come on April 23, 2013, courtesy of B.J. and Justin Upton of the Atlanta Braves.
• 1941 - After 16 scoreless innings, the Dodgers score five in the top of the 17th and beat the Reds 5 - 1. Johnny Allen pitches 15 innings for Brooklyn, and Hugh Casey wins in relief.
• 1944 - Radio announcer Bill Stern reports on a scandal involving the Browns. A Chicago newspaper attributes the Browns' recent slump to the fact that the team wants a larger park for the World Series. Four days later, Stern repudiates the story.
• 1946:
  • Notoriously slow-footed catcher Ernie Lombardi of the Giants slams the ball 483 feet under the stairway in right-center of the Polo Grounds, but barely makes third base. It is the third triple in seven years for Schnozz and the last of his career.
  • After dropping the opener, the Brooklyn Dodgers are stinging the Chicago Cubs 2 - 0 in the 5th inning when a swarm of gnats descends upon Ebbets Field and causes the game to be postponed.
  • In the first game at Griffith Stadium, Josh Gibson hits a home run into temporary bleachers that shorten the left-field fence, helping the Homestead Grays beat the New York Cubans, 8 - 3, to sweep a season-ending Negro League doubleheader. It is Gibson's last career homer. After a few more games, the Grays will close out their season, and Gibson will die from a reported stroke four months later.
• 1949 - Pirates P Tiny Bonham dies following an appendectomy and stomach surgery, just 18 days after his last pitching performance, an 8 - 2 win over the Phillies. Mrs. Bonham will receive the first benefits under the players' pension plan, $90 a month for ten years.
• 1950:
  • At Ebbets Field, Cardinal starter Cloyd Boyer hurts his arm while warming up and is replaced by Red Munger. The reliever goes the distance beating the Dodgers, 6 - 2, getting credit for a complete game, but not for a game started.
  • Ted Williams returns to the Red Sox lineup and raps a home run and three singles in a 12 - 9 defeat of the Browns. The Red Sox will come within two games of the first-place Yankees this week, but will end up in third place, behind both New York and Detroit.
  • In second game of a twinbill, Eddie Waitkus of the Phils gets five hits for the third time this season, as the Phillies beat the Reds, 8 - 7, in 19 innings. Teammate Del Ennis goes 5 for 10. The Reds lead 5 - 0 after five innings, but the Phils tie it up in regulation. Both teams score twice in the 18th, and the Phils score in the 19th on a bases-loaded hit by Ennis. The Phils also win the lid lifter, 2 - 1.
  • For a major league-record sixth time, Johnny Mize hits three home runs in one game, but the Yankees lose, 9 - 7, at Detroit. Mize matches Babe Ruth's mark of doing it in both leagues, but the Babe only had two three-homer games. With the victory, the Tigers recapture first place from New York.
• 1951:
  • The first game of the first championship series (Los Grandes Finales) is played between Licey and Escogido in Santiago. Behind the hitting of Alonzo Perry (.400 series average) and the pitching of Marion "Sugar" Cain, Licey wins, 8 - 0, and will go on to take the series, four games to one, to become the first champion of Dominican Professional Baseball.
  • The seventh-place Pirates rise up and collect 15 hits to whip the first-place Dodgers, 11 - 2. Rookie Jack Merson drives home six runs on a triple, a double, and two singles.
  • The Giants trim the Dodger lead to five games when they cash in homers by Bobby Thomson, Willie Mays, and Don Mueller for a 5 - 2 win over Chicago. Sheldon Jones tops Paul Minner.
  • The Cardinals take 11 walks, a record-tying five by Solly Hemus, and beat the Braves 10 - 1. Boston's starter Dave Cole walks the first three batters he faces, then hits Enos Slaughter to force in Hemus.
• 1952:
  • In a Cold War move, the Russians decry the American game of baseball by citing their own game of "lapka" as being the progenitor of baseball. They call American players "slaves." The State Department links the Soviet claim as the founders of baseball as part of its "Hate America" campaign.
  • The Pirates become the first team to wear helmets in which the temples are protected. The headgear is worn both at the plate and in the field.
• 1959:
  • Dodger SS Maury Wills goes 5 for 5 in a ten-inning, 8 - 7 win over the Braves.
  • The Giants whip Warren Spahn and the Braves, 13 - 6, behind Jack Sanford. Willie Mays has four hits and five RBI. The Giants are now two games in front with eight to play.
  • Carl Yastrzemski plays for Minneapolis (American Association), but the game is protested by Omaha because Yaz is not eligible to play until OF Lee Howell leaves for military duty on the 18th.
• 1960 - Giants superstar Willie Mays ties a major league mark by hitting three triples in an 8 - 6 victory over the Phillies.
• 1961:
  • The Yankees set a new American League record for most homers in a season 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 seven-hitter.
  • With ten strikeouts in an 11 - 2 win against the Braves, Sandy Koufax has 243 strikeouts, most ever for a National League lefty.
• 1962:
  • The Pirates beat Jack Sanford 5 - 1, the first loss by the Giant hurler after 16 straight wins.
  • At Cleveland, 22-year-old Sudden Sam McDowell pitches six scoreless innings, striking out seven. He leaves after one out in the 7th after his hard throwing causes him to break two ribs. With two outs in the 9th, the Twins score three to win, 3 - 2. Lee Stange, in relief, gains his first major league win. McDowell, just recalled from Portland (Pacific Coast League), where he compiled an 8-0 record, including a one-hitter and no-hitter in consecutive starts, will go 11-4 this year.
• 1966:
  • Seven pitchers are used by Al Dark's A's in an 11-inning, 1 - 0 shutout of the Indians. Kansas City wins its seventh straight game.
  • Tom Phoebus of Baltimore begins his major league career with a 2 - 0 shutout of the Angels.
  • Don Drysdale (10-16) gives up two home runs with two outs in the 9th, to Roberto Clemente and Willie Stargell, but holds on to give the Dodgers a 5 - 3 win over Pittsburgh. The Dodgers now lead the Bucs by two and a half games. The Bucs and Dodgers will split the next two games.
• 1967:
  • There are just two runs scored in the Phils-Dodgers doubleheader, and Los Angeles scores both, winning 1 - 0 in each game. In the opener, Phils OF Tony Gonzalez is 2 for 4, giving him 30 hits for his last 55 at bats.
  • At the spacious Astrodome, Jimmy Wynn becomes the first Astro to hit three homers in one game. The "Toy Cannon's" performance isn't enough as the Braves beat Houston, 9 - 8.
• 1968 - The Cardinals clinch the National League pennant with a 7 - 4 win at Houston. Roger Maris hits his 275th, and last, regular-season home run, off Don Wilson in the 3rd, and Curt Flood racks up five hits.
• 1969:
  • The Dodgers sweep a pair from the Reds, winning the nitecap in 12 innings. Jim Brewer wins both games with an inning of relief in the opener and four more in the second game.
  • Denny McLain records his ninth shutout, a Tiger record, beating New York, 2 - 0 at Yankee Stadium.
  • Steve Carlton of the Cardinals fans a major league-record 19 batters and still loses. Ron Swoboda hits a pair of two-run home runs, and New York beats St. Louis, 4 - 3.
• 1970:
  • The White Sox hire manager Chuck Tanner from the Pacific Coast League. He replaces Don Gutteridge, who had been fired on September 3rd. Coach Bill Adair ran the team in the interim.
  • Ken Holtzman wins his 15th, and the Cubs top the Cardinals, 5 - 3. Chicago moves into third place, just a game behind the first-place Mets and Pirates.
• 1971:
  • The Giants suffer their third straight loss and their tenth in 11 games, losing to the Reds, 4 - 2. The Giants maintain their one-game lead in the NL West.
  • Making his debut against the Braves, Astros' hurler Larry Yount injures his right shoulder on his very first warm-up pitch and will never get another chance to pitch in the bigs. Robin's older brother's total major league experience will consist of just that one warm-up pitch.
  • At Shea Stadium, Mike Jorgensen hits a two-out single in the 7th to break Burt Hooton's no-hit bid, and Ken Singleton follows with a homer to tie the match at 2 - 2. But Billy Williams clocks a pinch homer in the 9th and Hooton finishes the 3 - 2 victory with 15 strikeouts, notching his first major league win. In the opener of the twi-night doubleheader, Bill Hands beats Jerry Koosman, 6 - 2. Hands starts the Cubs' scoring with a two-run single in the 2nd.
• 1972:
  • In a record-setting effort, the Reds and Padres combine for 28 strikeouts for a nine-inning game, the Padres winning 1 - 0, on Cito Gaston's 4th-inning homer. Winning P Fred Norman strikes out 15, while Don Gullett fans 11 Pads. Pedro Borbon notches the other two.
  • Steve Carlton beats the Expos, 5 - 3, raising his record to 24-9. The rest of the Phillies pitchers have a combined record of 26-80.
• 1973 - With a runner aboard and the Braves already trailing, 2- 0, Dusty Baker makes what The Sporting News will call "the greatest catch in Atlanta Stadium history," literally climbing the center field fence to prevent Pittsburgh's Richie Hebner from doubling Atlanta's deficit with one swing of the bat. Though coming in the 4th inning, the play will later prove pivotal when, thanks to Baker, the three runs finally pushed across by game's end gives Atlanta a 3 - 2, walk-off win.
• 1974 - Cleveland's Gaylord Perry works hard for his 20th win, beating Baltimore's Ross Grimsley, 1 - 0. Perry will go 21-13 and will be the last Indian pitcher this century to win 20.
• 1975:
  • Red Sox lefty Roger Moret holds on for a 9 - 7 win over the visiting Brewers. Jim Colborn takes the loss. For Moret, this is his last win as a Red Sox as he'll go to Atlanta over the winter after a 14-3 season. For the years 1970-1975 he finishes with an 18-7 record at Fenway Park, the second best Red Sox lefty at home.
  • Late-season call-up Mike Vail extends his hitting streak to a rookie-record 23 straight games as the Mets edge the Expos, 3 - 2.
• 1976 - Braves rookie Al Autry goes five innings and gets the win in a 4 - 3 decision over the Astros. Willie Montanez's three-run homer is the big blow for Atlanta as a crowd of just 970 watches. For Autry, this is his only big league decision: Earl Huckleberry, of the 1935 Athletics, was the last pitcher to bow out with a 1-0 record in his only game.
• 1977:
  • The Orioles forfeit to the Blue Jays when manager Earl Weaver pulls his team off the field in the 5th inning citing a hazardous condition - a small tarpaulin held down by bricks on the bullpen mound. The Jays are ahead, 4 - 0, when the forfeit is called. The O's will end the season tied for the second place with the Red Sox at 97-64.
  • The Reds come back from an 8 - 3 deficit to beat the Dodgers, 9 - 8. Cincy scores four in the 8th and two more in the 9th on Ken Griffey's homer.
  • The Royals set a club record of 16 straight wins as they defeat the A's in ten innings in the nightcap of a doubleheader, 5 - 4.
• 1978:
  • Phil Garner hits his second grand slam in two days as the Pirates beat the Expos, 6 - 1. Garner is the first National League player to have slams in consecutive games since Jimmy Sheckard (September 23-24, 1901) and the first major leaguer since Brooks Robinson, in 1962. Garner will end the season with 12 dingers.
  • The Yankees, now one and a half games in front of Boston, open a three-game series in the Bronx with the Red Sox. Ron 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 four-run 4th inning.
  • Tom Seaver pitches a two-hitter to give the Reds a 6 - 1 win over the Giants at Candlestick Park. A single and a Darrell Evans homer are the only safeties.
  • The White Sox score five runs in the 10th inning to top the Mariners, 8 - 3, and win their first extra-inning game of the year. The Sox had lost their previous eight. With the victory, Chicago avoids becoming the first team in history not to win an extra-inning game.
  • The Dodgers become the first major league team ever to draw three million fans. Jay Blood is the historic three millionth spectator as the Dodgers shut out the Braves, 5 - 0. The victory is dampened when coach Jim Gilliam suffers a brain hemorrhage; he will pass away on October 8th.
• 1979:
  • In a 10 - 2 victory over the Orioles, Red Sox Bob Watson becomes the first modern major leaguer to hit for the cycle in both leagues.
  • At Los Angeles, the Reds' Dan Driessen hits a long drive to center field with two outs in the 9th that bounces off the glove off Derrel Thomas and over the wall for a home run. The Reds win it over the Dodgers, 2 - 1.
• 1985 - The Yankees trade pitcher Jim Deshaies and two other players 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.
• 1987 - Mets 1B Keith Hernandez collects his 2,000th major league hit as New York pounds Chicago, 12 - 4. Earlier in the day the second-place Mets obtained pitcher John Candelaria from the Angels for a pair of minor leaguers.
• 1990:
  • Despite solo homers in the 5th by brothers Billy Ripken and Cal Ripken, both off David Wells, the Orioles lose, 4 - 3, to Toronto. The Jays score three in the bottom of the 9th on Kelly Gruber's home run to make a winner of reliever Willie Blair. The brothers Ripken will homer together one more time, in 1996, again in the same inning.
  • Striking out pinch-hitter Danny Heep, Bobby Thigpen saves his 50th game as the White Sox beat the Red Sox, 7 - 4. The Chicago closer played the outfield in college.
• 1991:
  • Cardinals rookie Ray Lankford hits for the cycle in a 7 - 2 win over the Mets.
  • In Baltimore's 4 - 3 win over Cleveland, O's OF Joe Orsulak - he starts today in LF and switches to RF - has an assist, his sixth in an 11-day stretch. He leads major league outfielders with 20 assists and will finish with 22.
• 1992:
  • Houston 1B Jeff Bagwell gets five hits in the Astros' 9 - 6 victory over the Giants. His three-run homer in the 11th inning is the deciding blow.
  • At St. Louis, the Pirates edge the Cards, 4 - 2, behind homers by Jeff King, Barry Bonds and Andy Van Slyke. Mark Clark (3-10) is the loser. Bucs RF Alex Cole helps with a 9-3 putout in the 2nd inning to nip Clark.
• 1993 - The National League announces realignment of its teams into three divisions, with Pittsburgh agreeing to move into the Central Division.
• 1994 - The Mets are informed that P Dwight Gooden is in violation of his aftercare program for substance abuse.
• 1996:
  • Thanks to Andres Galarraga's three-run homer, the Rockies establish a big league record for runs scored at home. Colorado, which will amass 658 tallies at Coors Field, scores its 626th, 627th and 628th runs of the season when the "Big Cat" goes deep, to surpass the 1950 Red Sox who crossed the plate 625 times.
  • Frank Thomas breaks the White Sox mark for home runs established by Carlton Fisk in 1993. His 215th homer comes off Tim Wakefield in a 9 - 8 loss to the Red Sox.
  • Philadelphia C Benito Santiago drives in all his team's runs with three consecutive home runs in the Phillies' 6 - 1 win over the Cubs At Wrigley Field. Santiago will hit a homer tomorrow in his first at bat to tie a record for consecutive homers.
  • In a 16 - 6 rout of the Tigers, the Orioles break the major league record for team home runs in a season passing the 1961 Yankees mark of 240.
• 1997:
  • The Braves beat the Giants, 5 - 4, on Fred McGriff's two-out, two-run homer off Rod Beck in the 9th inning. The homer caps a four-run rally for the first-place Braves.
  • Ken Griffey, Jr powers homers #51 and #52 in Seattle's 7 - 3 win over the Blue Jays. Junior has now hit 100 homers in a two-year span, just the sixth major leaguer to do so.
  • Baltimore OF Eric Davis returns to action in the Orioles' 6 - 5 win over Cleveland only two months after having a cancerous tumor removed from his colon. Davis goes hitless in the contest, but rips a long fly out to deep right-center in his first at bat.
  • The Mets, 1 - 0 winners yesterday on a home run by diminutive Luis Lopez, use the long ball today to tie the Phils. New York collects four home runs in the 7th and 8th to tie the score at 5 apiece, then stitch six straight singles in the 10th to score five and win, 10 - 5. In the nitecap, the Mets lose, 2 - 1 to Darrin Winston, a 31-year-old rookie released by the Mets in the spring.
  • Anaheim Stadium, the Big A, gets a new name: Edison International Field of Anaheim. Edison, a utility giant, will pay $50 million over 20 years for a package that includes the name of the stadium, home to the Angels.
• 1998:
  • Rolando Arrojo (14-12) sets a record for wins by an expansion pitcher as the Devil Rays defeat the Angels, 8 - 1.
  • Ken Griffey, Jr. hits homer #52 and drives in the 1,000th run of his career in the Mariners' 12 - 7 win over the Twins. He becomes the fourth-youngest player in history to reach the RBI milestone, after Mel Ott, Jimmie Foxx, and Lou Gehrig. Junior hit his 52nd on this date last year.
  • Ending a six-game drought without a homer, Mark McGwire, pinch-hitting in the 9th inning, hits his 63rd homer; the solo shot off Jason Christiansen in the Cardinals' 8 - 6 loss to the Pirates allows "Big Mac" to regain the home run lead over Sammy Sosa.
  • OF Manny Ramirez hits home runs in his last three at bats to help the Indians to a 7 - 5 win over Toronto.
  • Working the 9th for his 40th save in the Rangers' 6 - 5 win over the Orioles, John Wetteland joins three other pitchers in major league history to have three or more 40-save seasons. Dennis Eckersley, Jeff Reardon and Lee Smith have also accomplished the feat.
• 1999:
  • The Phillies defeat the Astros, 8 - 6, as OF Doug Glanville gets five hits, including a double and home run, for the victors. The loss snaps the Astros' 12-game win streak, a club record.
  • Baseball approves the sale of the Cincinnati Reds to Carl Lindner for $67 million, ending Marge Schott's 15-year reign as owner.
  • Baseball owners vote to merge the administrative operations of the American and National leagues. National League President Leonard Coleman, concluding his job has become irrelevant, announces his resignation effective after the World Series. He will become a senior adviser to Commissioner Bud Selig.
• 2000:
  • The Tigers outlast the Red Sox, 7 - 6. The two teams combine to use a league record-tying 42 players in the contest.
  • A's 1B Jason Giambi sets a team record by hitting his fourth grand slam of the season as Oakland drubs the Devil Rays, 17 - 3. The bases-loaded shot also ties a major league record for the most grand slams by a team in a single season, 12.
  • In a 5 - 4 victory over the Giants, Padres' closer Trevor Hoffman becomes the third player history to have four 40-save seasons.
  • Passing both Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron, Mariner Rickey Henderson scores two runs to take over second place on the career list for runs scored. Henderson with a total of 2,175 will need to tally 71 runs to pass all-time leader, Ty Cobb (2,245).
• 2002:
  • The Diamondbacks beat the Brewers, 6 - 5, as Curt Schilling fans eight batters to give him 300 on the season. He and Randy Johnson become the first teammates to record 300 strikeouts in the same season.
  • Defeating the Indians, 5 - 0, after a 67-minute rain delay, the Twins clinch the American League Central Division flag. Minnesota, which will be making its first playoff appearance since 1991, was almost eliminated during the off-season due to contraction.
  • The Angels trounce the Rangers, 13 - 4, as 3B Troy Glaus strokes three home runs.
  • The Cubs shut out the Reds, 6 - 0, as OF Sammy Sosa drives in his 100th run of the season on a three-run home run in the 8th inning. In doing so, he joins Mel Ott and Willie Mays as the only National League players to post eight consecutive 100-RBI seasons.
• 2003:
  • With his 2,063rd career base on balls, Barry Bonds passes Babe Ruth on the all-time walks list. The Giant left fielder now only trails Rickey Henderson, who has 2,190 free passes.
  • Rafael Palmeiro joins Jimmie Foxx as the only players to hit 35 homers and drive in 100 runs in nine consecutive seasons. The Hall of Fame member Foxx accomplished the feat playing for the A's and Red Sox from 1932 to 1940.
  • Thousands of Hanshin Tigers fans jump off the Ebisubashi Bridge into the Dotonbori River in celebration as their hometown heros clinch the Central League title for first time in 18 years. It has become a local ritual to jump into the murky river when the team wins.
• 2007 - Prince Fielder's 3rd-inning homer against Kirk Saarloos gives him 46 on the year - the first Milwaukee Brewers player to have hit so many. Gorman Thomas and Richie Sexson had each hit 45 in the past; Sexson had done so twice.
• 2008:
  • With his team tied for the lead in the National League Wild Card race, Ned Yost is fired as manager of the Brewers and replaced by Dale Sveum; Milwaukee is coming off being swept in four games at the hands of their main rivals, the Phillies.
  • Mariano Rivera passes Lee Smith for second on the all-time save list behind Trevor Hoffman as the Yankees top the Pale Hose, 4 - 2, to try to keep their playoff hopes alive; Chicago's lead in the AL Central falls to a game and a half.
• 2009:
  • In Boston's 4 - 1 win over the Angels, David Ortiz hits a home run, a record 270th as a designated hitter, breaking the mark held by Frank Thomas. Daisuke Matsuzaka, making his first start for the Red Sox after a three-month stay on the disabled list, pitches six scoreless innings for the win.
  • Andre Ethier of the Dodgers hits a two-run homer in the 13th inning as Los Angeles beats Pittsburgh, 5 - 4. It is his 6th walk-off home run of the season.
• 2010 - The Rays take back first place in their see-saw battle with the Yankees for top spot in the AL East with a 4 - 3 win at Tropicana Field. Dan Johnson hits a pair of two-run homers off Phil Hughes to account for all of Tampa Bay's runs.
• 2012:
  • The Dodgers beat the Cardinals, 4 - 3, on a pair of runs in the bottom of the 9th. Closer Jason Motte is on the mound with two outs and no one on when the Dodgers start their winning rally. Andre Ethier singles and pinch-runner Dee Gordon steals second base. Luis Cruz doubles him in, then Juan Rivera singles, driving in another pinch-runner, Elian Herrera, with the game-winner.
  • Ivan Nova is a winner in his return from the disabled list, 5 - 3, over the Rays. Curtis Granderson and Eduardo Nunez hit back-to-back homers in the 2nd to give the Yankees a 3 - 0 lead, and they never look back. Out three weeks with a shoulder inflammation, Nova picks up his 12th win and puts the Bronx Bombers one game ahead of their main rivals, the Orioles, who lose to the A's, 5 - 2. For their part, the Rays are now four games back and in danger of falling out of playoff contention altogether.
  • By flubbing a simple ground ball hit by the Reds' Drew Stubbs, SS Jose Reyes of the Marlins is charged with the 500,000th error in major league baseball history.
  • Spain beats Germany, 8 - 6, for third place in the 2012 European Championship. American Paco Figueroa and Venezuelans Dewis Navarro and Jesús Golindano each get three hits for Spain, with Navarro contributing a three-run homer. In a losing cause, both Ludwig Glaser and Jendrick Speer go deep. Italy and the Netherlands, already set for a match tomorrow in the finale, play a close game. Italy wins, 4 - 3, as Dwayne Kemp just misses a grand slam in the 9th with a long foul. The Rotterdam native had already gone 3 for 4 with a homer before striking out following his long foul drive.
• 2013:
  • With a 1st-inning home run off Daiki Enokida at Jingu Stadium in Tokyo, Wladimir Balentien breaks the all-time Japanese record for homers in a season. That shot is the 56th of the year for the Yakult Swallows slugger, breaking the mark of 55 held jointly by Sadaharu Oh, Tuffy Rhodes and Alex Cabrera. Later in the game, he pads his record total with another long ball. Yakult wins, 9 - 0, over the Hanshin Tigers. Balentien also breaks the Asian record of 56, held by Seung-yeop Lee.
  • Nick Swisher homers from both sides of the plate to lead the Indians to a 7 - 1 win over the White Sox. The win brings Cleveland within a half-game of Tampa Bay and Texas for the second wild card spot in the American League. It is the 13th time that Swisher has accomplished the feat, tying him with former teammate Mark Teixeira for most ever.
  • In the Czech Republic, Draci Brno wins its 18th Extraliga title in 19 years, beating Kotlarka Prague, 5 - 1, to take this year's finals, three games to one.
• 2014:
  • The Angels are the first team to clinch a postseason spot this year, securing at least a wild card berth after an 8 - 1 win over the Seattle Mariners. Rookie Matt Shoemaker wins his 16th of the year with another outstanding performance, but has to leave the game in the 8th with an apparent injury.
  • The Mets' Jacob deGrom ties a major league record when he strikes out the first eight batters he faces before his opponent on the mound for the Marlins, Jarred Cosart, singles to right. DeGrom ties the record set by Jim Deshaies in 1986. He strikes out 13 in seven innings but ends up with a no-decision as the Marlins win, 6 - 5.
• 2015:
  • The Rangers move past Houston into first place in the AL West with a 6 - 5 win over their in-state rivals. Mitch Moreland drives in the winning run with a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 9th. The Rangers were eight games back of Houston on August 1st.
  • The Rockies set a major league record by using 30 players and 13 pitchers in a 5 - 4, 16-inning win over the Dodgers. The combined totals of 58 players and 24 pitchers are also records. Among the players is rookie P Jason Gurka who spends an inning in right field, taking over for an exhausted Carlos Gonzalez in the bottom of the 16th. David Hale is the winner and Gonzalez Germen is credited with a save, while Mat Latos, the 11th man to take the mound for Los Angeles, is charged with the loss.
• 2016 - Major League Baseball suspends Padres General Manager A.J. Preller for 30 days without pay for submitting false medical records in the trade of Drew Pomeranz to the Red Sox earlier this season.
• 2017:
  • The Indians' record-breaking winning streak ends after 22 wins when they are beaten, 4 - 3, by the Royals.
  • The Red Sox set a team record with 24 strikeouts in a 15-inning, 13 - 6 win over the Rays. The game takes 6 hours and 5 minutes to play, and ends after the Sox score seven times in the top of the 15th and the Rays cannot reply. The game features 21 pitchers in all. Chris Sale strikes out nine in 5 2/3 innings, and all eight men who succeed him on the mound record at least one K.
• 2018:
  • The Indians become the first team to clinch a division title this season with a 15 - 0 win over Detroit. It's a third straight AL Central title for the Indians.
  • One day after homering twice in a 3 - 0 win over the Cardinals, the Dodgers' Yasiel Puig is at it again, with a three-homer game and a career-high seven RBIs in a 17 - 4 win which puts L.A. a half game ahead of the Rockies atop the NL West standings.
• 2019:
  • The Netherlands wins its third straight European Championship. In the finale, they top previously unbeaten Italy, 5 - 1. Kevin Kelly gets the win in relief of Donny Breek, while Kalian Sams hits a grand slam and John Polonius adds a solo homer. Alberto Mineo homers for the lone Italian run. The European Championship MVP is slugging outfielder Ademar Rifaela, who has six homers and 17 RBI in eight games for the Netherlands.
  • In the Bronze Medal Game, Spain holds off first-time entrant Israel in a 16 - 11 slugfest as nine players hit homers. Oscar Angulo drives in four for Spain, Danny Valencia four for Israel.
  • Also in the 2019 European Championship, Czechia beats host Germany, 4 - 3, for the final spot in the 2019 Europe/Africa Olympic Qualifier (the four teams in the Gold and Bronze Medal Games had made it alongside South Africa). Martin Červenka hits a three-run homer and Martin Schneider the game-winning homer, while Jan Novák gets the victory.
• 2021 - The Toros de Tijuana complete a remarkable comeback from losing the first three games of the Serie del Rey, the championship series of the Mexican League, against the Leones de Yucatan, by winning Game 7, 3 - 0. Peter O'Brien and Leandro Castro go deep to support Teddy Stankiewicz's pitching, while 44-year-old Fernando Rodney, who led the Liga with 16 saves during the regular season, notches another one. Efrén Navarro is named MVP of the finals.
• 2022 - On Roberto Clemente Day, the Rays make history by fielding an all-Latino line-up (excluding starting pitcher Shane McClanahan). It consists of C René Pinto, 1B Harold Ramirez, 2B Isaac Paredes, SS Wander Franco, 3B Yandy Díaz, LF David Peralta, CF José Siri, RF Randy Arozarena and DH Manuel Margot, with five different countries being represented. All wear Roberto Clemente's iconic uniform number, 21, as they go on to defeat the Blue Jays, 11 - 0.
• 2023:
  • Coors Field is the site of a rare low-hit game as San Francisco heads into the 9th inning hitless but leading 1 - 0 against the Rockies after scoring a run off Chase Anderson in the 2nd on two walks, a fly out and a ground out. For the Giants, Logan Webb keeps Colorado off the scoreboard on just two hits through the first seven innings, before the Rockies tie the game in the 8th on a double by Ryan McMahon and a single by Ezequiel Tovar. The Giants finally get a hit when J.D. Davis leads off the top of the 9th with a double off Nick Mears, then scores the go-ahead run on a bases-loaded walk. But Colorado is not done, as Charlie Blackmon also hits a lead-off double, off closer Camilo Doval, in the bottom of the 9th, and Nolan Jones draws a walk. Both score on a single to left by Elehuris Montero when Mike Yastrzemski's throw hits a sliding Blackmon at home and gets away from C Patrick Bailey, allowing Jones to score as well. The Giants appeal that Blackmon's slide prevented Bailey from catching the ball, but their claim is rejected, allowing Colorado's 3 - 2 win to stand.
  • By hitting a grand slam off Jesse Scholtens of the White Sox in the 2nd inning of today's 10 - 2 win, the Twins' Royce Lewis sets a number of records. He is the first player with five grand slams among his first 16 career homers, he has hit four slams in the smallest number of games - 18, and is the first in Twins history with four in one season.
  • The Pericos de Puebla win their third Mexican League title, topping the Algodoneros del Unión Laguna, four games to two. It looks like the two teams are headed to a Game 7 when the Algodoneros take a 4 - 2 lead into the 9th, but the Pericos rally for three runs off Thomas McIlraith and Jesse Ibarra. The winning run comes home when Cristhian Adames singles in Miguel Guzman.
• 2024 - Heliot Ramos becomes the first right-handed batter in the 25-year history of Oracle Park to achieve a "splashdown hit" into McCovey Cove, a feat that requires a long blast to right field that clears both the fence and the bleachers. Ramos's homer off Robert Suarez in the bottom of the 9th ties the game, but the Padres go on to defeat the Giants, 4 - 3, in ten innings.

Births

• 1847 - Jim Snyder, infielder (d. 1922)
• 1855 - Ed Hengel, manager (d. 1927)
• 1856 - Doc Bushong, catcher (d. 1908)
• 1858 - Charles Strick, catcher (d. 1933)
• 1861 - Ed Flanagan, infielder (d. 1926)
• 1862 - Elmer Cleveland, infielder (d. 1913)
• 1863 - Jim Brennan, catcher (d. 1914)
• 1868 - Frank O'Connor, pitcher (d. 1913)
• 1874 - George Rohe, infielder (d. 1957)
• 1876 - Nick Altrock, pitcher (d. 1965)
• 1881 - Slow Joe Doyle, pitcher (d. 1947)
• 1887 - Harry Suter, pitcher (d. 1971)
• 1888 - Jean Dubuc, pitcher (d. 1958)
• 1892 - Harry Lunte, infielder (d. 1965)
• 1892 - Aaron McCreary, college coach (d. 1984)
• 1893 - Speed Martin, pitcher (d. 1983)
• 1895 - Hugh McQuillan, pitcher (d. 1947)
• 1896 - Crush Holloway, outfielder (d. 1972)
• 1898 - Hulon Stamps, pitcher (d. ????)
• 1899 - Harry McCurdy, catcher (d. 1972)
• 1900 - Bud Clancy, infielder (d. 1968)
• 1900 - Roy Meeker, pitcher (d. 1929)
• 1902 - Rap Dixon, outfielder, manager; All-Star (d. 1944)
• 1902 - Charlie Hancock, catcher (d. 1974)
• 1902 - Russ Young, catcher (d. 1984)
• 1904 - Richard King "King Tut", infielder and entertainer (d. 1966)
• 1905 - Vance Page, pitcher (d. 1951)
• 1905 - Henry Peploski, infielder (d. 1982)
• 1906 - Charlie Biggs, pitcher (d. 1954)
• 1906 - Emmett O'Donnell, Commissioner-elect (d. 1971)
• 1906 - Johnny Tobin, pinch hitter (d. 1983)
• 1907 - Fritz Ostermueller, pitcher (d. 1957)
• 1909 - Ed Katalinas, scout (d. 1988)
• 1910 - Edsall Walker, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1997)
• 1912 - Ted Alexander, pitcher (d. 1999)
• 1915 - Stan Katkaveck, minor league catcher and manager (d. 1980)
• 1915 - Dan Wilson, outfielder/infielder; All-Star (d. 1986)
• 1916 - Lou Haneles, minor league catcher and manager (d. 2006)
• 1919 - Mike Budnick, pitcher (d. 1999)
• 1919 - Walt Novick, minor league catcher and manager (d. 1989)
• 1920 - Dave Garcia, manager (d. 2018)
• 1922 - Phyllis Koehn, AAGPBL pitcher and utility player (d. 2007)
• 1924 - Jim Davis, pitcher (d. 1995)
• 1926 - Bob Turner, outfielder (d. 1962)
• 1927 - Duke Simpson, pitcher (d. 2021)
• 1928 - Bob Lennon, outfielder (d. 2005)
• 1929 - Lee Wheat, pitcher (d. 2008)
• 1933 - John Fitzgerald, pitcher
• 1934 - Frank Layana, minor league outfielder (d. 2020)
• 1936 - Freddie Burdette, pitcher (d. 2010)
• 1936 - Bill Dial, minor league pitcher
• 1937 - Charley Smith, infielder (d. 1994)
• 1938 - Gaylord Perry, pitcher; All-Star, Hall of Famer (d. 2022)
• 1939 - Hide Koga, NPB outfielder and coach
• 1940 - Frank Linzy, pitcher
• 1941 - Jim Barbieri, outfielder
• 1946 - Billy Farmer, minor league pitcher
• 1946 - Alex Rowell, minor league outfielder
• 1949 - Don Carrithers, pitcher
• 1949 - Dave Pagan, pitcher
• 1950 - Dave Hilton, infielder (d. 2017)
• 1950 - Larry Unser, minor league outfielder (d. 2014)
• 1952 - Don Collins, pitcher (d. 2022)
• 1954 - Oswaldo Olivares, minor league outfielder
• 1955 - Koji Kanemitsu, Japanese national team infielder
• 1956 - John Pacella, pitcher
• 1960 - Todd Fischer, pitcher
• 1962 - Peter Callenbach, Hoofdklasse pitcher
• 1965 - Santiago Bejerano, Serie Nacional outfielder
• 1965 - Satoru Komiyama, pitcher
• 1966 - Doug Simons, pitcher
• 1967 - Paul Abbott, pitcher
• 1967 - Dennis Moeller, pitcher
• 1967 - Takayasu Sakaemura, NPB umpire
• 1968 - Marc Griffin, minor league outfielder
• 1968 - Rich Robertson, pitcher
• 1969 - Herb Perry, infielder
• 1969 - Chris White, minor league pitcher
• 1970 - Jose Zapata, minor league player and manager
• 1971 - Jason Hardtke, infielder
• 1971 - Lloyd Peever, minor league pitcher
• 1972 - Michael Lindstrom, Swedish national team pitcher
• 1972 - Craig Sides, minor league player
• 1973 - Ben Jones, minor league outfielder
• 1973 - Hyun-min Kim, Laotian national team coach
• 1973 - Koji Mitsui, NPB pitcher
• 1974 - Shinji Kurano, NPB pitcher
• 1975 - Javier Cardona, catcher
• 1975 - Dan Smith, pitcher
• 1976 - Tomas Eriksson, Elitserien pitcher
• 1976 - Long-Shui Tai, CPBL pitcher
• 1976 - Matt Thornton, pitcher; All-Star
• 1977 - Damian Rolls, infielder
• 1978 - Rob Garibaldi, drafted outfielder (d. 2002)
• 1978 - Rickie Morton, minor league player
• 1978 - Cameron Reimers, minor league pitcher
• 1979 - Brian Allen, minor league pitcher (d. 2019)
• 1979 - Patricia Landry, Canadian women's national team outfielder
• 1979 - Luz Portobanco, minor league pitcher (d. 2008)
• 1980 - Kevin Alexander, minor league infielder
• 1980 - Ke-Fan Chen, CPBL catcher
• 1981 - John Otness, minor league catcher
• 1983 - Jonathan Figueroa, minor league pitcher (d. 2009)
• 1984 - Henderson Lugo, minor league pitcher
• 1984 - Sergio Valenzuela, minor league pitcher
• 1984 - Loek van Mil, NPB pitcher (d. 2019)
• 1985 - Guido Fonseca, minor league pitcher
• 1985 - Chayaphat Suanthong, Thai national team infielder
• 1986 - Owen Reid, Austrian national team coach
• 1987 - Mark Cohoon, minor league pitcher
• 1987 - Patrick Maat, minor league catcher
• 1987 - Roel Santos, Cuban league outfielder
• 1988 - Chih-Wei Teng, CPBL infielder
• 1988 - Andrey Filippov, Russian national team pitcher
• 1988 - Murilo Gouvea, minor league pitcher
• 1988 - Jordan Hershiser, minor league pitcher
• 1988 - Jason Stoffel, minor league pitcher
• 1989 - Jeff Barto, minor league pitcher
• 1989 - Ernesto Irizarry, minor league coach
• 1990 - Parker Markel, pitcher
• 1991 - Quentin Becquey, Division Elite player
• 1991 - Trevor Czerniawski‎‎, First Division infielder
• 1991 - Yu Liu, China Baseball League pitcher
• 1991 - Wander Suero, pitcher
• 1992 - Michael Holback, minor league pitcher
• 1993 - Steve Bean, minor league catcher
• 1993 - Ariel Ovando, minor league outfielder-pitcher
• 1994 - Tres Barrera, catcher
• 1994 - Dakota Hudson, pitcher
• 1996 - Daysbel Hernández, pitcher
• 1997 - Tyler Fitzgerald, outfielder
• 1997 - Justin Slaten, pitcher
• 1997 - Forrest Whitley, pitcher
• 1998 - Ulrich Bojarski, minor league outfielder
• 1998 - Hans Crouse, pitcher
• 1998 - Vladyslav Kosenko, Ukrainian national team outfielder
• 1999 - Long-Ho York Sze, Hong Kong national team infielder
• 2000 - James González, minor league pitcher
• 2003 - Nutdanai Pingti, Thai national team infielder
• 2005 - Yu-Hin Oscar Cheng, Hong Kong national team pitcher

Deaths

• 1909 - Charles Pinkney, minor league infielder (b. 1887)
• 1912 - Al Barker, outfielder (b. 1839)
• 1913 - Frank L. Hough, owner (b. ~1858)
• 1922 - Charlie Jones, infielder (b. 1861)
• 1924 - Frank Chance, infielder, manager; Hall of Famer (b. 1877)
• 1926 - Danny Richardson, infielder, manager (b. 1863)
• 1932 - Harry Kane, pitcher (b. 1883)
• 1935 - Joe Ardner, infielder (b. 1858)
• 1940 - Ed Yewell, infielder (b. 1862)
• 1946 - Tex Wilson, pitcher (b. 1901)
• 1947 - Kuei-Hsing Lin, Taiwan Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1899)
• 1949 - Heinie Beckendorf, catcher (b. 1884)
• 1949 - Tiny Bonham, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1913)
• 1950 - Joe Knotts, catcher (b. 1884)
• 1952 - Bobby Winston, outfielder (b. 1878)
• 1953 - Seth Sigsby, pitcher (b. 1874)
• 1956 - Thomas Hickey, minor league executive (b. ????)
• 1957 - Max Butcher, pitcher (b. 1910)
• 1958 - Snuffy Stirnweiss, infielder; All-Star (b. 1918)
• 1961 - Leon Carlson, pitcher (b. 1895)
• 1963 - Ray Miner, pitcher (b. 1897)
• 1970 - Edgar Washington, infielder (b. 1898)
• 1971 - Roberto Ortiz, outfielder (b. 1915)
• 1973 - Felton Wilson, catcher (b. 1908)
• 1978 - Larry Bettencourt, outfielder (b. 1905)
• 1981 - Earl Caldwell, pitcher (b. 1905)
• 1991 - Smoky Burgess, catcher; All-Star (b. 1927)
• 1992 - Pedro Formental, outfielder (b. 1915)
• 1993 - Ethan Allen, outfielder (b. 1904)
• 1994 - Armando Paytuví, minor league player (b. 1910)
• 1995 - Nap Reyes, infielder (b. 1919)
• 1996 - Andy Pilney, pinch hitter (b. 1913)
• 1997 - Marino Castillo, minor league pitcher (b. 1971)
• 2004 - Mike Yastrzemski, minor league outfielder (b. 1961)
• 2010 - Felipe Leal, minor league pitcher and manager (b. 1943)
• 2010 - Al LaMacchia, pitcher (b. 1921)
• 2011 - Dorothy Harrell, AAGPBL infielder (b. 1924)
• 2011 - Bill Taylor, outfielder (b. 1929)
• 2012 - Max Soriano, owner (b. 1925)
• 2014 - Fred Luciano, minor league pitcher (b. 1924)
• 2014 - Paul Speckenbach, minor league pitcher (b. 1944)
• 2015 - Randy Wiles, pitcher (b. 1951)
• 2017 - Ralph Guyton, minor league outfielder (b. 1928)
• 2017 - Dan Newman, minor league catcher (b. 1939)
• 2018 - Jack Rose, college coach (b. 1926)
• 2018 - Sheng-Feng Tsai, CPBL outfielder (b. 1963)
• 2021 - Satoshi Hirayama, NPB outfielder (b. 1930)
• 2021 - Bill Sudakis, infielder (b. 1946)
• 2022 - John Stearns, catcher; All-Star (b. 1951)
• 2024 - Harry Chappas, infielder (b. 1957)