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Events

• 1900 - Reds SS Tommy Corcoran, coaching at third base in a game at Philadelphia, uncovers a wire in the coaching box that leads across the outfield to the Phils' locker room. There, reserve C Morgan Murphy reads the opposing catcher's signs and relays them to the Phils third base coach by a buzzer hidden in the dirt.
• 1903 - The Boston Americans clinch the AL pennant, beating Cleveland, 14 - 3, but their record of scoring in 17 consecutive innings is stopped in the 7th inning. George Winter coasts to a win, helped by homers from Hobe Ferris and Jimmy Collins.
• 1904 - More than 23,000 fans, reputedly the largest crowd in Boston history, show up for the showdown twinbill with the New York Highlanders. New York scores three runs in each of the first two innings against Bill Dineen. Jack Chesbro (35-8) holds on for a 6 - 4 win, his seventh win in a row. New York briefly takes over first place. But Cy Young tops New York, 4 - 2, in the nitecap, beating Ned Garvin, recently acquired from Brooklyn. The two teams complete their three doubleheaders at 2-2-2.
• 1906 - Playing as "Sullivan," Columbia University junior Eddie Collins makes his debut at SS with the Athletics. He gets one hit off Ed Walsh and strikes out twice. Collins will play 25 years in the majors, bat .333, and become a member of the Hall of Fame.
• 1910:
  • Detroit pitcher Ed Summers, a notoriously poor hitter, bounces two home runs into the stands in a 10 - 3 victory over the A's. The two homers, both off Harry Krause, will comprise his career total and also make him the only hitter with a multi-homer game in the American League that season.
  • A game between Mobile and Atlanta (Southern Association) takes only 32 minutes to complete. The game is conducted as an experiment with batters coming to the plate "on the run" and swinging at any good pitch and both teams taking little time between innings. It is the final game of the season for both clubs. Mobile wins, 2 - 1. Many sources cite this game as the fastest in professional baseball history, but it will be bettered by one minute by a game between Asheville and Winston-Salem on August 30, 1916.
• 1912 - Charlie "Casey" Stengel makes an impressive major league debut, leading seventh-place Brooklyn to a surprising 7 - 3 win over the streaking Pirates. The likable outfielder from Kansas City collects four hits, a walk, a pair of stolen bases and two tie-breaking RBI, the second of which puts Brooklyn ahead to stay and saddles 24-game winner Claude Hendrix with his ninth and final defeat of the season.
• 1913 - Frederick W. Thayer‚ inventor of the catcher's mask‚ dies at 65.
• 1915 - Pittsburgh rookie Carmen Hill makes his mound debut with a 5 - 0 win over the Giants.
• 1916:
  • George Sisler out-duels the Senators' legend, Walter Johnson, 1 - 0. It will be Gorgeous George's last Major League pitching victory, but the former Browns hurler will become a member of the Hall of Fame as a first baseman in 1939.
  • At Comiskey Park, Boston lefty Babe Ruth wins his 20th, beating Red Faber and the White Sox, 6 - 2. A crowd of 40,000 is on hand, the largest turnout to date in Chicago history.
• 1917 - At Boston, the Braves whip the Pirates, 4 - 1. Honus Wagner makes his last appearance of the year and of his outstanding career. He is pinch hit for by Bill Wagner, who strikes out. Honus Wagner has played sparingly since being spiked by Casey Stengel on July 14th; at the Polo Grounds on August 29th, he played SS, his only game of the year at that position.
• 1920:
  • The first-place Indians top the A's, 9 - 3, while the White Sox, behind Red Faber, are again beating the Yankees, 6 - 4. Faber gets 1st-inning help from Eddie Collins, Joe Jackson and Happy Felsch who all hit two-out triples: Collins and Jackson triple later as Chicago totals an American League record six triples. The third-place Sox are one and a half games back.
  • The Tigers' Bobby Veach and the Giants' George Burns hit for the cycle, the first time it has happened twice on the same day. It will be 88 years until the feat is duplicated by Adrián Beltre and Stephen Drew. The Giants beat Pittsburgh in ten innings, 4 - 3, as Burns adds a second double to his cycle. Detroit, behind Veach's 6 for 6, outlasts Boston in 12 innings, despite 20 BoSox batters receiving walks. Eight Tigers walk. Veach is the first Tigers player to hit for the cycle.
  • The Cards set a National League record by cracking out 12 consecutive hits in the 4th and 5th innings against the Braves. Ten of the hits occur in the 4th inning when St. Louis scores eight runs. The last two outs come as Milt Stock tries to stretch a single and Austin McHenry tries the same on a double. Both are thrown out. In the 5th inning, Doc Lavan opens with a double and Cliff Heathcote singles before a Redbird finally makes an out. St. Louis wins, 9 - 4.
• 1921:
  • The Giants win their tenth in a row over the Pirates, and their tenth straight, 6 - 1. They will go on to finish four in front of the Pirates.
  • Spitballer Allen Sothoron runs his record to 12 - 4 as Cleveland beats Washington, 8 - 4. Sothoron, with his third American League team this year, pitches 178 innings allowing no homers, the only post-dead ball era pitcher to accomplish that. The Reds' Eppa Rixey almost matches him, allowing one homer in 301 innings.
• 1922
  • A's catcher Ralph Perkins has his second consecutive game with no putouts or assists, a major league record. Today, he catches Bob Hasty in a 4 - 2 loss to Cleveland's Dan Boone. Yesterday, he caught Eddie Rommel in a 6 - 1 win over Cleveland. Perkins also had no putouts or assists in a 13-inning game on May 17th.
  • Browns southpaw Hub Pruett, who has fanned Babe Ruth nine of ten times over the season, is reached for a home run by the Bambino, but he still beats the Yankees, 5 - 1. One day after being clubbed on the head with an empty bottle, Yankee CF Whitey Witt receives an ovation, but the partisan crowd in center field is quick to wave white hankies in the 8th inning for Yanks pinch-hitter Norm McMillan. Police make them stop. George Sisler has a single to extend his hitting streak to 41 games.
• 1923:
  • The Giants' George Kelly sets a major-league record by homering in the 3rd, 4th and 5th innings against the Cubs' Vic Aldridge as New York rolls to a 13 - 6 win. Kelly adds a single and double to run his total bases to 15 for the game. Kelly has now hit a record six homers off cousin Aldridge this year, a mark off one pitcher that will be tied by Ted Williams (in 1941, off Johnny Rigney) and Ted Kluszewski (in 1954, off Max Surkont). Kelly is the first player to homer in three successive innings.
  • At Washington, Walter Johnson notches two wins against the Browns, winning one game in relief, and the other as a starter. The first game is 5 - 4, in ten innings, and the second is 12 - 2, in seven innings.
• 1924 - With the Senators and Yankees deadlocked at 83-59, Walter Johnson edges the Indians, 3 - 2. Washington will win tomorrow to sweep the three-game series.
• 1925 - Behind hurlers Ted Wingfield and Paul Zahniser, the Red Sox shut out the Browns twice, winning 2 - 0 and 4 - 0.
• 1926 - The Cardinals regain the National League lead in a 10 - 1 win over the Phils. Light-hitting Tommy Thevenow bangs his first major league homer, an inside-the-park liner off Jack Knight. The Reds continue to nose-dive, dropping a 5 - 4 decision to the Giants on Frankie Frisch's 10th-inning home run. The Reds will lose seven of their final nine.
• 1928:
  • Wilcy Moore, the Yankee pitching hero of 1927, goes home with an ailing arm after working just 60 innings.
  • In the 9th against Chicago, Braves reliever Ray Boggs plunks three Cubbies, walks two and tosses one wild pitch. Chicago manages to score just one run off Boggs, but they win the away game, 15 - 5. Pat Malone picks up the win over Art Delaney.
• 1930:
  • With three consecutive home runs, Earl Averill drives in eight runs in a 13 - 7 Indians victory over the Senators in the doubleheader opener. He narrowly misses a fourth when the umpire rules a long drive foul. Averill then adds another homer in the second game to set an American League record with 11 RBIs in the twin bill.
  • The Braves' Wally Berger adds three home runs in a doubleheader against the Reds en route to a rookie record.
• 1931:
  • In the first of two, the Yankees and Red Ruffing rough up the Browns and George Blaeholder, 17 - 0. Bill Dickey's grand slam is the big blow. The Yanks take the nitecap, 6 - 1, behind Lefty Gomez's three-hitter and Babe Ruth's 41st and 42nd homers of the year.
  • On his 32nd birthday, OF Earl Webb of the Red Sox ties and then sets the still-standing major-league record for two-base hits at 65. Earl doubles in the lidlifter, a 9 - 2 win over the visiting Indians, to tie George Burns' double record at 64. Burns set his record in 1926. In the second game, a 2 - 1 Sox loss, Webb doubles off Pete Jablonowski to set the record. He doubles tomorrow and will finish the season with 67. He would have had 68, but on August 4th, the league corrected a May 1st box score, turning what had been credited as a double into a single.
• 1933 - The Giants spoil Dizzy Dean Day at Sportsman's Park, 4 - 3, but the popular pitcher drives home in a new Buick, given to him by St. Louis fans.
• 1934 - The Yankees reach Detroit for a last-chance series and lose the opener, as veteran Al Crowder beats Lefty Gomez with a 3 - 0 shutout.
• 1935:
  • Dodger OF Len Koenecke, dropped by the team, and put off an American Airline flight for drunkenness in Detroit, hires a private plane to fly him to Buffalo, where he had played previously. During the flight he tries to take over the controls and gets into a fight with the pilot. He dies after the co-pilot hits him over the head with a fire extinguisher.
  • With Terry Moore sidelined after fracturing his foot yesterday, the Cards top Brooklyn, 4 - 2, behind Jesse Haines. Paul Dean saves the game in relief. In the second game of the doubleheader in St. Louis, a tired Dizzy Dean again fails in relief, giving up three runs as Brooklyn wins, 8 - 7. The Cards are now trailing the Cubs by two and a half games.
  • Phils rookie Hal Kelleher makes his first major league start, shutting out the Reds, 1 - 0.
  • The Giants take a 2 - 1 lead against the Cubs, but when Hal Schumacher injures his arm in the 5th inning, the Cubs jump on reliever Allyn Stout to win, 5 - 3. Larry French is the victor.
• 1937 - Cleveland's Johnny Allen wins his 12th straight without a loss, equaling Tom Zachary's 1929 record of 12-0.
• 1939:
  • The Dodgers pull within one game of the third-place Cubs, taking two at Wrigley Field. A yellow-dyed ball is used in the first game.
  • Ted Williams hits a home run off Thornton Lee, one of 31 homers he will hit in his rookie season. Williams will homer off Thornton's son, Don Lee, 21 years later.
• 1941 - In front of only 3,585 fans in St. Louis, twenty-year-old Stan Musial makes his major league debut against the Braves going 2 for 4 with two RBIs. Musial, who started the season in the Western Association (Class C), will hit .426 in 12 games.
• 1947 - Jackie Robinson is named Rookie of the Year by The Sporting News two weeks before the season is over. At the year's end, he will have hit .297, led the league in stolen bases and sacrifices. He will have 14 bunt hits, and in a game against the Cubs in June, he scored from first base on a sacrifice.
• 1951:
  • In Chicago, ex-Dodger Gene Hermanski clouts a pinch homer off Clyde King as the Cubs rally for a 5 - 3 win over Brooklyn. The Dodgers also lose Roy Campanella, who leaves the field on a stretcher after being struck in the head by a pitch from Turk Lown. Campy will remain in a Chicago hospital when the Dodgers leave for St. Louis. He will rejoin the team in Brooklyn in a few days.
  • The Yanks break a 1 - 1 tie in the bottom of the 9th when, with the bases loaded, Phil Rizzuto squeezes home Joe DiMaggio with the winning run. The score, off Cleveland's Bob Lemon, gives Eddie Lopat his 20th win of the year. The Yanks now lead Cleveland by a game and Boston by two and a half games.
• 1953:
  • The Cubs' Ernie Banks goes 0 for 3 and makes an error in his first major league game, as the Phillies win, 16 - 4. He becomes the first black player for the Cubs; second baseman Gene Baker will join him in a few days.
  • Ellis Kinder of the Red Sox sets the American League record for most relief appearances with 62.
  • With a record of 64-82, the Cincinnati Reds fire Rogers Hornsby as their manager with eight games left in the season. Coach Buster Mills replaces him for the remainder of the year.
  • Ferris Fain of the White Sox is sued for $50,000 for his part in an August brawl in a Maryland café.
• 1955 - Future Hall of Famer Brooks Robinson goes 2 for 4 in his first game as the O's top the Senators, 3 - 1.
• 1958 - Despite a wind blowing in at Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle poles a Jim Bunning pitch down the right field line over the roof onto Trumbull Avenue, some 500 feet away. The two-run homer is all that Bunning allows as the Tigers win, 5 - 2.
• 1961 - In Detroit, Roger Maris triples off Terry Fox in the 7th to put the Yanks ahead. Detroit ties it and, then in the 12th, Maris faces Fox again with Tony Kubek on second base. Maris steps out of the box to watch a long skein of Canadian geese fly over Tiger Stadium, then steps in a belts the first pitch for his 58th homer of the year.
• 1963:
  • Sandy Koufax gets his 11th shutout, a modern major league season record for a lefty. His eight strikeouts give him 306, a National League record, as the Dodgers top the Cards, 4 - 0.
  • At the Polo Grounds, Frank Thomas and Joe Hicks hit pinch home runs for the Mets, but they still lose to the Reds, 4 - 3.
• 1964:
  • The Yankees whip the Angels, 6 - 2, to lock on to first place for good with a two-percentage-point lead over the idle White Sox and Orioles. Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle each have three hits. Mantle's include his 2,000th career hit and his 450th home run, his 31st of the year. The Yankees have won two in a row and will run their win streak to 11 games.
  • In the National League, the Phillies defeat the Dodgers, 4 - 3 ,on Dick Allen's grounder that scores Ruben Amaro in top of the 9th inning. The Phils lead the NL by six and a half games with just 12 remaining. Tomorrow, their epic historic collapse will begin.
• 1965 - The first-place Giants lose for the first time in 15 games as Phil Niekro outpitches Juan Marichal. The Braves win, 9 - 1. The Giants will then win their next three games to push their lead to four games over Los Angeles.
• 1966 - Cleveland pitchers set an American League record by fanning 19 batters in the first nine innings of a ten-inning, 6 - 2 win at Detroit.
• 1967 - California's Jim Weaver gives up Reggie Jackson's first major league homer but holds on to beat Kansas City, 4 - 3.
• 1968:
  • At Candlestick Park, Giants hurler Gaylord Perry (14-14) no-hits the Cardinals and Bob Gibson, 1 - 0, with the only run of the game being tallied on Ron Hunt's solo home run. Tomorrow the Redbirds will return the favor and no-hit San Francisco.
  • Detroit clinches the American League pennant with a 2 - 1 win over the Yankees. Detroit is ahead, 1 - 0, when Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey phones Tiger general manager Jim Campbell with the news that the Sox have beaten the Orioles, clinching the pennant for the Tigers. Campbell keeps the score off the radio and the scoreboard, fearing the news will send fans rampaging onto the field. Don Wert singles home the winner in the 9th and the fans tear down the left field screen.
  • Yutaka Enatsu fans Sadaharu Oh to set a new strikeout record. He will finish the day with 354 and have 401 by the end of the "Year of the Pitcher", which is as much of a thing in NPB as it is in the major leagues.
• 1969 - The great race in the National League West finds San Francisco ahead in the morning, Los Angeles in front in the afternoon, and Atlanta atop the division at the end of the night. Houston nips the Giants, 2 - 1, while Atlanta takes the Dodgers, 6 - 5.
• 1970:
  • "Sudden Sam" McDowell wins his 20th game as the Indians beat the Tigers, 6 - 2. Joe Niekro (12-13) is the loser.
  • The Dodgers lose to the Astros, 10 - 5, clinching the National League West for the idle Reds.
  • With the Yankees losing to Boston, the Orioles clinch the American League East despite losing to Washington, 2 - 0. Dick Bosman is the winner, allowing five hits.
• 1971 - The White Sox defeat the Angels, 9 - 4, with each Chicago player in the lineup driving in one run.
• 1973 - The Pirates wallop the Mets, 10 - 3, to lead the National League East by one and a half games. Willie Stargell collects four extra-base hits including his 40th home run of the season.
• 1974 - St. Louis beats Pittsburgh, 2 - 1, in 13 innings. It is the sixth straight win for the Cardinals and the sixth straight loss for the Pirates, turning the Bucs' three-and-a-half-game lead in the National League East to a two-and-a-half-game margin for the Cards.
• 1976:
  • Shades of 1964. In Chicago, the faltering Phils lose to the Cubs, 4 - 3, when Champ Summers scores with two out in the 12th. Meanwhile, the Pirates top the Mets, 4 - 1, for their 18th win in 22 games. Doc Medich (7-11) picks up the victory. Since August 24th, the Bucs have shaved 12 1/2 games off the Phillies' lead.
  • At Milwaukee's County Stadium, 40,383 fans are on hand to celebrate "Hank Aaron Day." Among those gathered are commissioner Bowie Kuhn and Jack Ford, representing his father Gerald. Hank goes hitless in five at-bats, and the first-place Yankees spoil the night by winning, 5 - 3, in 11 innings. Graig Nettles hits a solo homer in the 11th for the game winner, and an insurance run scores on a suicide bunt. Ed Figueroa tallies his 19th win, and the Yanks pad their lead to 11 games.
• 1977 - The Pirates top Montreal, 6 - 3, as Frank Taveras steals his 64th base of the season to become the Bucs' all-time single-season base stealer. Max Carey had been the Pirates' theft leader. Omar Moreno will break Frank's record next season.
• 1978 - Boston finally wins against the Yankees, taking a 7 - 3 victory in Yankee Stadium as Dennis Eckersley and Andy Hassler combine to stop the Yankees on four hits. The Yanks score two unearned runs in the 8th on Butch Hobson's second error of the game (and his 42nd of the year). Carl Yastrzemski, playing CF in place of the injured Fred Lynn, collects his 14th homer of the year in the 9th inning.
• 1979 - The Royals' George Brett collects his 20th triple of the season in a 16 - 4 romp over the Angels. Brett becomes the sixth player ever, and the first since Willie Mays in 1957, to collect 20 doubles, 20 triples and 20 home runs in the same season. He will finish with totals of 42, 20 and 23.
• 1980:
  • The Royals become the first team to clinch a division title this year, as Dennis Leonard shuts out the Angels, 5 - 0, in the first game of a doubleheader.
  • After surrendering a two-run home run to Rusty Staub, Rick Langford is removed with two outs in the 9th inning of Oakland's 6 - 4 win over Texas, ending his consecutive complete game streak at 22.
  • The Reds' Mario Soto stops Houston, 7 - 0, beating Joe Niekro, who gives up a grand slam to Ray Knight. Houston and Los Angeles are tied for first (82-62) with 17 games left on the schedule.
• 1981 - Dodger rookie sensation Fernando Valenzuela sets the National League rookie mark with his eighth shutout of the season. The record had been shared by Irv Young (1905), Grover Cleveland Alexander (1911) and Jerry Koosman (1968). He ties the major league mark of Russ Ford (1910) and Reb Russell (1913).
• 1983:
  • The Chicago White Sox clinch their first-ever American League West division title, beating Seattle, 4 - 3, on Harold Baines' sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 9th.
  • A record regular-season crowd of 53,790 packs Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium on Johnny Bench Night, and the retiring superstar responds with a two-run home run and a single. But the Reds lose to Houston, 4 - 3.
• 1984:
  • On the 17th anniversary of his first major league round-tripper, Reggie Jackson connects off Kansas City pitcher Bud Black in the bottom of the 7th inning for his 500th career home run. The milestone hit proves to be only run the Angels score in the Royals' 10 - 1 victory. The Royals beat California to move into first place in the American League West. Jackson is the 13th player in major league history to hit 500 home runs.
  • Harold Baines slugs three home runs to lead the White Sox to a 7 - 3 win over the Twins and drop Minnesota into second place in the AL West.
  • Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 batters for the second straight start to tie the major-league record of 32 strikeouts in consecutive games, but balks home the winning run in the 8th inning of a 2 - 1 loss to the Phillies. It is Gooden's fifth straight outing with ten or more strikeouts.
• 1986 - The Mets clinch the National League East title with a 4 - 2 win over the Cubs at Shea Stadium as Dwight Gooden tosses a six-hitter. The Mets will win 108 games this season, most in the National League since the 1975 Reds.
• 1988 - Pitching the 9th inning for his 40th save, Jeff Reardon becomes the first pitcher to save 40 games in both leagues as the Twins defeat the White Sox, 3 - 1. The Dalton, Massachusetts native also saved 42 games for the Expos in 1985.
• 1990 - The Blue Jays' 6 - 4 win over the Yankees is watched by 49,902 at the SkyDome, giving Toronto a major league season attendance record. The Jays will finish the season with 58 consecutive sellouts and a total attendance of 3,885,284.
• 1992 - The Philippine team is stripped of its Little League World Series title, as Little League authorities say the Asians used ineligible players. The team from Long Beach, California, is awarded the title.
• 1993:
  • Houston P Pete Harnisch hurls a one-hit, 3 - 0 shutout against the Padres. A questionable bunt single by Jarvis Brown is San Diego's only safety.
  • Texas Ranger superstar Nolan Ryan strikes out Angels catcher Greg Myers for his 5,714th and final career strikeout.
  • Expos OF Curtis Pride - who is mostly deaf - gets his first major league hit in Montreal's 8 - 7, 12-inning win over the Phillies, a pinch double off Bobby Thigpen that drives in two runs in the bottom of the 7th. The Phillies score all seven of their runs in the 6th when they knock out Dennis Martinez as Darren Daulton homers and Lenny Dykstra hits a triple in the frame. Mitch Williams walks two and gives up a hit in the 12th in losing. Tim Scott is the winner, striking out the side in the 12th. Pride will later say that he could feel the stadium shaking as Montreal fans give him a tremendous ovation after his double.
  • The Rockies defeat the Dodgers, 12 - 3, as they surpass the four million mark in attendance, setting a new single-season record.
  • In a last try for the pennant, the Yankees obtain 40-year-old vet Frank Tanana from the Mets for minor league P Kenny Greer. Tanana will go 0-2 to finish out his career at 240-236, and set a major-league record for most wins without racking up a 20-win season.
• 1995:
  • Florida's Pat Rapp one-hits Colorado as the Marlins trounce the Rockies, 17 - 0. It's Rapp's seventh win in a row as a bloop single by Dante Bichette is Colorado's only safety. The Marlins pound six Rockies pitchers for 21 safeties, including five for OF Gary Sheffield, who drives in four runs before being lifted for a pinch-hitter in the 8th. Rapp will shut out the Mets in five days in a rain-shortened game, the first Marlin to toss two shutouts in a row.
  • San Diego whips the Cubs, 11 - 3, as Ken Caminiti homers from both sides of the plate for the second game in a row, tying a major league record. Only Eddie Murray (May 8-9, 1987) has done that.
• 1996:
  • The Padres jump out to a 6 - 0 lead over the Giants, but San Francisco fights back to defeat San Diego, 9 - 7, to drop the Pods one and a half games behind the Dodgers in the National League West.
  • Pittsburgh manager Jim Leyland announces he will leave the Pirates at the end of the season.
  • Dodgers P Hideo Nomo hurls a 9 - 0 no-hitter against the Rockies in hitter-friendly Coors Field. Nomo fans eight and walks four in winning his 16th game of the year. A researcher will later determine that this was the most impressive no-hitter of all-time, given the hitting environment of Coors Field and the strength of the opposition's hitters.
• 1997:
  • Ryan Klesko has four hits including a grand slam off Bobby Jones, to pace the Braves to a 10 - 2 win over the Mets. Jones faces eight batters, walking four and retiring none. Greg Maddux easily wins his 19th. Klesko's slam gives the Braves 12 for the year, a new major league record. The Braves set another record as they become the first team to clinch six straight postseason appearances.
  • Mark McGwire blasts his 53rd homer, the most since 1961, to pace the Cards to a 12 - 9 win over the Cubs. Rod Myers serves up the gopher ball.
  • The Giants beat the Dodgers, 2 - 1, to move a game behind Los Angeles in the National League West.
  • Mo Vaughn responds to the boos of the crowd with a two-run home run in the 8th inning to lead Boston past Toronto, 4 - 3. Vaughn, who makes it 4 - 2 with the homer off Dan Plesac, is booed during introductions and during his first three at-bats in response to his earlier comments that he does not want to return to the Red Sox next season.
• 1998:
  • Cleveland OF Manny Ramirez ties a major league record by hitting his sixth home run over a three-game span. It's his 43rd on the year. The last American League player to do so was Gus Zernial in 1951. The Indians defeat the Minnesota Twins, 9 - 1.
  • Red Hoff, the oldest ex-major leaguer, dies at the age of 107. Hoff pitched for the Yankees and Browns between 1911 and 1915 and struck out the first batter he ever faced - Ty Cobb.
  • Ken Griffey, Jr. hits his 53rd homer to pace the Mariners to an 8 - 0 whipping of Oakland. Tom Candiotti serves up the helping of gopher to Junior.
  • Denny Neagle pitches six shutout innings as the Braves win, 1 - 0, over Arizona. Neagle wins his 15th and joins teammates John Smoltz, Greg Maddux, Kevin Millwood and Tom Glavine, all of whom have already reached that level. The last team to have five 15-game winners was the 1930 Washington Senators.
  • The Red Sox edge Baltimore, 3 - 2, with Tom "Flash" Gordon picking up his 39th straight save, an American League record.
• 1999:
  • In a 9 - 3 win over Oakland, Kansas City's prize rookie, Carlos Beltran, passes the 100 RBI and 100 runs scored mark, the first rookie to do so since Fred Lynn in 1975.
  • The Rockies pound out 20 hits on their way to an 18 - 10 victory over the Dodgers. OF Dante Bichette drives home seven runs for Colorado on a pair of home runs.
  • The Cardinals score nine runs in the 4th inning on their way to an 11 - 8 win over the Astros. Mark McGwire hits home run #56 on the season, and the 513th of his career. Big Mac passes Ernie Banks and Eddie Mathews on the all-time list.
  • An incident that will help speed the firing of Orioles gemeral manager Frank Wren occurs today. Cal Ripken Jr. is delayed in traffic and calls the team's traveling secretary to assure him that he'd be arriving at the airport within the next ten minutes. At Wren's order, however, the plane takes off without Cal, who arrives at the gate a few minutes later and has to make his own travel arrangements. When Wren is fired after the season, Orioles management blames him for operating in "such an unreasonable, authoritarian manner". The O's defeat the Twins, 8 - 3, as Jesse Orosco preserves Mike Mussina's 15th win. For Orosco, it is major-league record 1,072 appearance. He had been tied with Dennis Eckersley.
  • Seattle general manager Woody Woodward announces his retirement.
• 2001:
  • Montreal scores six times in the 5th inning to take a 6 - 0 lead over the Marlins. However, starting pitcher Javier Vazquez is injured on a bunt attempt and has to leave the game. Florida then comes back with eight runs of its own in its next turn at bat and goes on to defeat the Expos, 10 - 6.
  • Boston OF Carl Everett is suspended for four games by the Red Sox. Everett was late for a scheduled workout on Sunday and got into a shouting match with manager Joe Kerrigan after being told to go home.
  • Bud Smith follows up his no-hitter with a 2 - 1 win over the Milwaukee Brewers. The only run in seven innings against the Cards' budding young ace is unearned. Jeromy Burnitz of the Brewers comes within one fielding chance of joining Harry "Silk Stocking" Schafer (1877), Greasy Neale (1920), Casey Stengel (1920), Bill Nicholson (1945) and Bake McBride (1978) as the only National League right fielders to register 11 chances in a game. The major-league record is held by Tony Armas, who handled 12 chances in an American League game in 1982.
• 2002 - Alfonso Soriano gets five hits, including a double and home run, as the Yankees fall to the Devil Rays, 9 - 7. Bernie Williams scores his 100th run in the loss to reach that mark for the seventh straight year. He is the fourth Yankee to score 100 this year, the first Yankee team to do so since 1941. Williams and Derek Jeter combine to tie the major league record for consecutive years for teammates both having 100+ runs.
• 2004 - Connecting off Jake Peavy's 3rd-inning slider at SBC Park, Barry Bonds hits his 700th career home run. The historic blast touches off a fireworks display and the unfurling of a gigantic light-tower banner featuring Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron, the only two other players to reach the milestone.
• 2005 - Trailing 5 - 0 with two outs in the bottom of the 9th, the Padres shock the Nationals by tying the score thanks to Khalil Greene's first career grand slam. San Diego wins, 8 - 5, as Ramon Hernandez belts a three-run walk-off homer with two out in the bottom of the 12th.
• 2007 - Naoyuki Shimizu hits Greg LaRocca with a pitch. It is the 25th time this year LaRocca has been plunked, a new Nippon Pro Baseball record. Yoshiyuki Iwamoto had held the record since 1952.
• 2009:
  • One week after Mexico's Jesús Cota tied the all-time Baseball World Cup record with three home runs, the USA's Pedro Alvarez becomes the fifth player ever to pull off the feat. Alvarez drives in six and hits half of the USA's homers in a 14 - 3 rout of Taiwan. Lucas May, Terry Tiffee and Jon Weber hit the other US long balls.
  • Also in the 2009 Baseball World Cup, Canada strikes out 18 times and gets just two hits but beats Japan, 3 - 2, in 11 innings. The final run comes when Rene Tosoni charges into Japanese catcher Ryo Saeki, knocking the ball loose.
  • Wade Davis earns his first major league victory with a four-hit shutout of the Orioles. Tampa Bay wins, 3 - 0.
• 2010:
  • Jose Bautista sets a Toronto Blue Jays franchise record by hitting his 48th home run of the season, passing the 47 hit by George Bell in 1987, in the 6th inning of Toronto's 11 - 9 win over Boston. The Jays lead the game 10 - 2 at that point, but the Red Sox make it close by scoring two runs in the 8th and two more in the 9th at Fenway Park. Kevin Gregg retires C Victor Martinez, author of two homers earlier in the game, on a pop-up with a runner on base to end the game.
  • Ubaldo Jimenez wins his 19th game of the year as the Rockies defeat the Dodgers, 7 - 5, to gain a game on the Giants and Padres, who both lose today. Troy Tulowitzki hits a two-run homer in the 1st, his 12th in 14 games, for the winners, who are now one and a half games back of San Francisco and a half-game behind San Diego in the tight NL West race.
  • The Dodgers announce that hitting coach Don Mattingly will succeed Joe Torre as manager when Torre retires at the end of the season. Mattingly had been expected to take over for Torre with the New York Yankees in 2008, but Joe Girardi got the job instead.
• 2011:
  • Mariano Rivera ties Trevor Hoffman's Major League record with his 601st career save in the Yankees' 7 - 6 win over the Blue Jays. Rivera is backed by home runs from Alex Rodriguez, playing in his first game since aggravating a wrist injury on September 9th, and Curtis Granderson, who becomes the first Yankees CF since Mickey Mantle in 1961 to hit 40 home runs in a season.
  • The Phillies crush the Cardinals, 9 - 2, to clinch their fifth consecutive National League East division crown. Shane Victorino, "The Flyin' Hawaiian", homers, as does Raul Ibanez, and Jimmy Rollins has four hits to pace the Fightins' attack. Roy Oswalt, one of the starting rotation's famed "Four Aces", gains the victory on the mound.
• 2012 - The two contenders for the AL Central crown play a make-up game necessitated by a rainout four days earlier. Chicago comes out ahead, 5 - 4, over Detroit. The key play occurs in the 5th when Alex Rios goes barreling into 2B Omar Infante to break up a potential inning-ending double play; his hard slide causes an errant throw which allows two runs to score. The Sox's bullpen then holds the lead as Nate Jones improves to 8-0.
• 2013:
  • Matt Holliday goes 4-for-4 and reaches base five times to lead the Cardinals to an 11 - 4 win over the Rockies. The Cards score six times in the 3rd to give Joe Kelly the win and are once again alone in first place in the tight NL Central.
  • The Rangers snap a seven-game losing streak by defeating the Rays, 7 - 1, in St. Petersburg. The two clubs are now tied for the two wild card spots in the American League, but four other teams are within three and a half games of the pair.
  • The Omaha Storm Chasers win the Triple-A National Championship, 2 - 1, over the Durham Bulls, in Allentown, PA. Chris Dwyer has a perfect game for 6 2/3 innings before Tim Beckham singles off him. Jake Odorizzi, meanwhile, has a streak of 23 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings snapped in the 2nd when Omaha's Lane Adams doubles and comes home on a Manny Pina single. J.D. Martin allows one run in four innings of relief. Durham scores in the 8th when Leslie Anderson homers off Michael Mariot for the final margin. Dwyer is named the game's MVP.
• 2015:
  • The Pirates suffer a bad break, literally, as rookie SS Jung-ho Kang, who is having an excellent season, breaks a leg and tears a ligament in his knee when he is upended by the Cubs' Chris Coghlan, who is trying to break a double play in the 1st inning. Kang is out for the season and possibly the start of 2016, and the Bucs also lose the game, 9 - 5, while Chicago moves within two games of the Pirates in the race to host the Wild Card Game.
  • The Rangers complete a four-game sweep of the Astros with an 8 - 2 win as Mitch Moreland hits a three-run homer and Colby Lewis wins his 16th game of the year. Texas is now two and a half games ahead of Houston in the AL East, one year after the two teams finished at the bottom of the standings in the division.
  • Displaying the disparity in Asian baseball yet again, there are two perfect games in the three contests at the 2015 Asian Championship. Japan's Daiki Tajima and Masahiro Abe toss a six-inning, 15 - 0 mercy rule perfecto against Pakistan while host Taiwan has a 21 - 0, five-inning perfect game versus Indonesia, with Ming-Hsuan Chen doing the pitching.
• 2016:
  • Rookie P Jon Gray sets a Rockies team record by striking out 16 batters in shutting out the Padres, 8 - 0. Tom Murphy homers twice and has five RBIs to lead Colorado's offense. Gray also becomes the second Rockies pitcher to strike out four batters in an inning, doing so in the 2nd, and sets another team mark with six consecutive Ks.
  • Curtis Granderson pulls off an extremely rare feat by homering twice in extra innings in the Mets' 3 - 2 win over the Twins. His first homer, leading off the bottom of the 11th against Brandon Kintzler, ties the game at 2, while the second, off Ryan O'Rourke with two outs in the 12th is a walk-off homer. He is only the eighth player to hit two extra-inning homers in a game, and the third to do so in consecutive innings.
  • After 14 Bronze Medal finishes, the Spanish national team makes the finals of the European Championship for the first time since 1955. They do it in dramatic fashion, as Daniel Alvarez and Rhiner Cruz combine on a no-hitter of the German national team. Spain doesn't score until one out in the bottom of the 8th when Fernando Martínez hits a three-run homer. That leaves Italy with a disappointing Bronze, their worst finish in 13 years.
• 2017 - In a rare highlight for the Tigers this season, Matt Boyd comes within one out of throwing a no-hitter, giving up a two-out double to Tim Anderson of the White Sox in the 9th. He then retires the next batter to complete a 12 - 0 one-hitter.
• 2018 - For the second time this season, Christian Yelich of the Brewers hits for the cycle, this time in an 8 - 0 win over the Reds. His earlier cycle, on August 29th, had also come against the Reds, making him the first player in history to accomplish the feat twice against one team in a season. Overall, he is just the fifth player to hit two cycles in one season.
• 2019:
  • The Giants' Mike Yastrzemski makes the first appearance of his career at Fenway Park, the ballpark his grandfather Carl Yastrzemski called home for 23 seasons, and hits a homer. The game goes 15 innings and features a record-tying 24 pitchers before the Giants end up 7 - 6 winners over the Red Sox.
  • Cavan Biggio hits for the cycle in Toronto's 8 - 5 win over the Orioles. It's just the third cycle in Jays history, the last having been hit by Jeff Frye on August 17, 2001. Biggio's father, Craig, also performed the feat during his career, making them the second father-son duo to do so after Gary and Daryle Ward.
  • The Sacramento RiverCats win the Triple-A National Championship, beating the Columbus Clippers, 4 - 0. Caleb Baragar wins game MVP with five shutout innings and Ricardo Pinto, Melvin Adon and Steven Okert wrap up the shutout. Abiatal Avelino and Levi Michael each get three hits while Peter Maris homers.
• 2020 - The Yankees continue to be nearly unstoppable winning their eighth straight in completing a three-game sweep of the Blue Jays while setting a bunch of records in the process. In today's 10 - 7 win, they tie the major league mark with five homers off Chase Anderson in the 4th inning. With another homer later in the game, they become the first team to hit at least six long balls in three consecutive games, and their three-game total of 19 is another record. With one of the five 4th-inning homers - three of which come on consecutive pitches - Luke Voit is the first player to reach the total of 20 this season; no one else will do so.
• 2022 - HCAW wins the 2022 Holland Series for their first title in 25 years, sweeping Neptunus. After Dennis Burgersdijk shut out Neptunus in Game 2 and Jim Ploeger did the same in Game 3, Lars Huijer fires a two-hitter today to take home Series MVP. Max Draijer drives in Phildrick Llewellyn in the 2nd with the winning run in a 2 - 0 victory.
• 2023:
  • The Barracudas de Montpellier win their first French Division I title in 28 years, beating the Cougars de Montigny in the finals. The last game is anticlimactic as Owen Ozanich and Kevin Canelon combine to fan 11 in an 8 - 0 shutout while Yancarlo Franco scores three runs. Ben Couvreur, one of the top French prospects, wins Series MVP.
  • The Heidenheim Heideköpfe win their seventh Bundesliga-1 championship, topping the Regensburg Legionäre, three games to one, in the finals. Jared Mortensen is named Series MVP after fanning 13 in a 3 - 1 complete game win over Mark Harrison. Daniel Vavruš drives in two and Shawn Larry scores twice.as
• 2024 - With a stolen base in the 1st inning, Bobby Witt Jr. becomes the first shortstop to have more than one 30-30 season, as he now has 30 steals and 32 homers; he also just the 8th player to accomplish the feat in consecutive seasons.

Births

• 1832 - Nate Berkenstock, outfielder (d. 1900)
• 1849 - Ezra Sutton, infielder (d. 1907)
• 1853 - Joe Blong, outfielder (d. 1892)
• 1853 - Frank Burlingame, umpire (d. 1917)
• 1859 - Ed Kent, pitcher (d. 1943)
• 1863 - Bill Blair, pitcher (d. 1890)
• 1867 - Shiki Masaoka, Japanese Hall of Fame (d. 1902)
• 1870 - Dick Padden, infielder (d. 1922)
• 1870 - Dud Risley, minor league player and manager (d. 1950)
• 1871 - Butts Wagner, infielder (d. 1928)
• 1874 - Willie Sudhoff, pitcher (d. 1917)
• 1876 - Otto Krueger, infielder (d. 1961)
• 1879 - Rube Foster, manager; Hall of Fame (d. 1930)
• 1882 - Frank Schulte, outfielder (d. 1949)
• 1883 - Leo Hafford, pitcher (d. 1911)
• 1883 - Elmer Zacher, outfielder (d. 1944)
• 1884 - Roy Moran, outfielder (d. 1966)
• 1885 - Maury Kent, pitcher (d. 1966)
• 1886 - Farmer Ray, pitcher (d. 1963)
• 1887 - Nick Cullop, pitcher (d. 1961)
• 1887 - Eddie Douglass, infielder, manager (d. ????)
• 1888 - Ed Hearne, infielder (d. 1952)
• 1890 - Ernie Walker, outfielder (d. 1965)
• 1892 - Ed Kizziar, minor league infielder and manager (d. 1950)
• 1892 - Tommy Taylor, infielder (d. 1956)
• 1893 - Whitey Glazner, pitcher (d. 1989)
• 1897 - Joe Green, pinch hitter (d. 1972)
• 1897 - Earl Webb, outfielder (d. 1965)
• 1899 - Sheriff Blake, pitcher (d. 1982)
• 1899 - George Gilham, catcher (d. 1937)
• 1900 - Hughie Critz, infielder (d. 1980)
• 1900 - Roy Luebbe, catcher (d. 1985)
• 1900 - Sam Streeter, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1985)
• 1902 - Joseph Brown, minor league infielder and manager (d. ????)
• 1905 - Cornelius Augustus, pitcher (d. 1981)
• 1906 - Stanley Cayasso, Nicaraguan national team player (d. 1986)
• 1907 - Charlie Bates, outfielder (d. 1980)
• 1909 - Ernie Koy, outfielder (d. 2007)
• 1909 - Zollie Wright, outfielder; All-Star (d. 1976)
• 1910 - Paul Hardy, catcher (d. 1979)
• 1912 - Mo Lisby, pitcher (d. 1995)
• 1913 - Bob Uhl, pitcher (d. 1990)
• 1917 - Antonio Briñez, Venezuelan national team infielder (d. 1999)
• 1917 - Al Gettel, pitcher (d. 2005)
• 1917 - Ralph Wyatt, infielder; All-Star (d. 1990)
• 1918 - Bob Dillinger, infielder; All-Star (d. 2009)
• 1919 - Sam Barber, pitcher (d. 1999)
• 1923 - Les Peden, catcher (d. 2002)
• 1923 - Bob Rothel, infielder (d. 1984)
• 1924 - Warriner Bass, minor league outfielder (d. 2018)
• 1924 - Susumu Yagi, NPB catcher (d. WWII)
• 1925 - Chase Riddle, minor league catcher and manager
• 1925 - Shigeru Sugishita, NPB pitcher and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 2023)
• 1928 - Ed Vargo, umpire (d. 2008)
• 1930 - Jim Umbricht, pitcher (d. 1964)
• 1933 - Chuck Daniel, pitcher (d. 2008)
• 1935 - Tadashi Sugiura, NPB pitcher and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• 1936 - Tom Carroll, infielder (d. 2021)
• 1937 - Scott Breeden, coach (d. 2006)
• 1937 - Orlando Cepeda, infielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer (d. 2024)
• 1937 - Ed Napoleon, coach (d. 2020)
• 1937 - Hachiro Yamamoto, NPB catcher-infielder
• 1938 - Bobby Wine, infielder, manager
• 1939 - Carl Bouldin, pitcher
• 1939 - Jim Woods, infielder
• 1940 - Cisco Carlos, pitcher
• 1940 - Richard Rose, minor league outfielder (d. 2011)
• 1942 - Martin Dihigo Jr., minor league player
• 1947 - Candy Harris, pinch hitter
• 1947 - Toshihiko Kosaka, NPB pitcher
• 1953 - Quency Hill, minor league pitcher
• 1954 - Wayne Krenchicki, infielder (d. 2018)
• 1955 - Marshall Brant, infielder
• 1956 - Thad Bosley, outfielder
• 1956 - Brad McArthur, Canadian national team pitcher
• 1957 - John Ramsden, Australian national team pitcher
• 1957 - Jay Robertson, scout
• 1958 - Tom Waddell, pitcher (d. 2019)
• 1960 - John Franco, pitcher; All-Star
• 1960 - Dave Van Horn, college coach
• 1962 - Koichi Okura, Japanese women's national team manager
• 1964 - Jim Pena, pitcher
• 1966 - Carlos Contreras, minor league infielder
• 1967 - Jack Giese, minor league coach (d. 2023)
• 1968 - Bobby Perna, minor league infielder
• 1969 - Wayne Weinheimer, minor league infielder (d. 2008)
• 1970 - Orlando Binarao, Philippines national team pitcher and manager
• 1970 - Mark Brunell, drafted pitcher
• 1971 - David Hynes, Australian national team outfielder
• 1971 - Keisaburo Tanoue, NPB pitcher
• 1972 - Brady Raggio, pitcher
• 1972 - Brian Smith, pitcher
• 1973 - Bob Spears, minor league pitcher
• 1974 - Pam Davis, female pitcher
• 1974 - Jason Hewitt, Australian national team infielder
• 1975 - Ryan Jensen, pitcher
• 1976 - Susumu Nakanowatari, NPB pitcher
• 1978 - Dean Lindberg, Elitserien infielder
• 1978 - Danny Sauer, minor league pitcher
• 1979 - Alfredo González, minor league pitcher
• 1980 - Oscar Alvarez, minor league pitcher
• 1980 - Danny Haren, pitcher; All-Star
• 1980 - Oliver Kanthak, Bundesliga outfielder
• 1980 - Ryan Kibler, minor league pitcher
• 1981 - Glenn Bott, minor league pitcher (d. 2018)
• 1981 - Jonathan Castellanos, minor league pitcher
• 1981 - Casey Janssen, pitcher
• 1982 - Sean Burnett, pitcher
• 1982 - Danny Putnam, outfielder
• 1983 - Nick Pesco, minor league pitcher
• 1983 - Richie Robnett, minor league outfielder
• 1984 - Ying-Chieh Liao, Taiwan national team outfielder
• 1984 - Raul Padron, minor league catcher and infielder
• 1985 - Cristo Arnal, minor league infielder
• 1985 - Greg Golson, outfielder
• 1985 - Marco Grifantini, Italian Baseball League pitcher
• 1985 - Eric Hurley, pitcher
• 1985 - B.J. Rosenberg, pitcher
• 1987 - Jonathon Fernández, minor league infielder
• 1987 - Casey Frawley, minor league infielder
• 1989 - Yuhei Nakaushiro, minor league pitcher
• 1989 - Sang-woo Seo, KBO infielder
• 1989 - Alessandro Ularetti, Italian Baseball League pitcher
• 1990 - Jeremy Baltz, minor league outfielder
• 1990 - Sadia Bibi, Pakistani women's national team pitcher
• 1990 - Cody Forsythe, minor league pitcher
• 1990 - Brady Rodgers, pitcher
• 1990 - Marcus Semien, infielder; All-Star
• 1991 - Ryan Bolden, minor league outfielder (d. 2014)
• 1991 - Wayne Booth, South African national team outfielder
• 1991 - Shota Ohmine, NPB infielder
• 1991 - Cole Sturgeon, minor league outfielder
• 1992 - Song-hee Choi, South Korean women's national team pitcher
• 1992 - Kevin García, minor league catcher
• 1992 - Zach Granite, outfielder
• 1992 - José Ramírez, infielder; All-Star
• 1993 - Ming-Hsuan Chen, CPBL pitcher
• 1993 - James Marvel, pitcher
• 1994 - Daniel Castano, pitcher
• 1994 - Armando Dueñas Jr., Cuban league pitcher
• 1994 - Anderson Severino, pitcher
• 1995 - Tzu-Wei Lin, CPBL pitcher
• 1995 - Patrick Mahomes, drafted player
• 1995 - Manon Marie, French women's national team player
• 1995 - Ronald Medrano, minor league pitcher
• 1995 - Bessie Noll, US women's national team outfielder
• 1995 - Cheng-Tang Wang, CPBL infielder
• 1996 - Kyle Dohy, pitcher
• 1996 - Jeff Lindgren, pitcher
• 1997 - Hao-Chun Cheng, minor league pitcher
• 1998 - Jordan Balazovic, pitcher
• 1998 - Oscar Colás, outfielder
• 1998 - Dillon Dingler, catcher
• 1998 - Pedro Pagés, catcher
• 1999 - Hun Sienghai, Cambodian national team player
• 2000 - Ben Joyce, pitcher
• 2001 - Ryan Rodgers, Thai national team player
• 2002 - Yuto Akihiro, NPB outfielder
• 2002 - Alex Khan, Pakistani national team infielder
• 2002 - Abril Marin, Venezuelan women's national team outfielder
• 2002 - James Wood, outfielder
• 2004 - Chun-Wei Liu, CPBL infielder

Deaths

• 1892 - Joe Blong, outfielder (b. 1853)
• 1899 - John Haldeman, infielder (b. 1855)
• 1913 - Frederick Thayer, college coach, inventor (b. 1854)
• 1920 - Charlie Eden, outfielder (b. 1855)
• 1926 - Tom Drohan, pitcher (b. 1887)
• 1930 - Bill Furlong, umpire (b. 1856)
• 1935 - Len Koenecke, outfielder (b. 1904)
• 1937 - Yokio Aoi, amateur pitcher; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1872)
• 1939 - Tom Hart, catcher (b. 1869)
• 1946 - Frank Burke, outfielder (b. 1880)
• 1946 - Bill Chouneau, pitcher (b. 1889)
• 1950 - Jerry Hurley, catcher (b. 1863)
• 1967 - Karl Adams, pitcher (b. 1891)
• 1968 - Elmer Pence, outfielder (b. 1900)
• 1970 - Herman Bell, catcher (b. 1915)
• 1970 - Ed Corey, pitcher (b. 1899)
• 1971 - Hack Miller, outfielder (b. 1894)
• 1973 - Don Eugenio Garza Sada, minor league executive (b. 1902)
• 1980 - Yushi Uchimura, NPB executive; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1897)
• 1989 - Leon Culberson, outfielder (b. 1918)
• 1993 - Pete Elko, infielder (b. 1918)
• 1996 - Billy Bowers, outfielder (b. 1922)
• 1998 - Slim Emmerich, pitcher (b. 1919)
• 1998 - Chet Hoff, pitcher (b. 1891)
• 2000 - Bus Payton, minor league catcher (b. 1914)
• 2000 - Chico Salmon, infielder (b. 1940)
• 2001 - Bubba Church, pitcher (b. 1924)
• 2005 - Donn Clendenon, infielder (b. 1935)
• 2006 - Jack Banta, pitcher (b. 1925)
• 2009 - Dorothy Montgomery, AAGPBL utility player (b. 1924)
• 2010 - Rob Hoffmann, Hoofdklasse pitcher (b. 1939)
• 2012 - Pauline Hill, AAGPBL outfielder (b. 1926)
• 2012 - José Riveira, Cuban league pitcher (b. 1958)
• 2013 - Otha Bailey, Negro League catcher (b. 1930)
• 2015 - Milo Hamilton, broadcaster (b. 1927)
• 2016 - Kazuyoshi Yamamoto, NPB outfielder and manager (b. 1938)
• 2017 - Dave Hilton, infielder (b. 1950)
• 2018 - Vance Carlson, minor league pitcher and manager (b. 1925)
• 2018 - Ted Roebuck, Australian national team coach (b. ~1939)
• 2020 - Steve Shartzer, college coach (b. 1954)
• 2023 - Roric Harrison, pitcher (b. 1946)