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Events

• 1877 - With its 19th victory in the last 20 games, Boston clinches the National League pennant beating the Hartford Dark Blues, 13 - 2. James "Deacon" White, the league's leading hitter, paces the Reds' attack with a 4-for-4 performance.
• 1889 - The Philadelphia National League club releases union activists George Wood and Dan Casey. Meanwhile, the Boston club announces the purchase of the entire Western Association champion Omaha team for 1890. This latter deal will not actually take place.
• 1898 - Reds first baseman Jake Beckley handles a record 22 chances (21 putouts, one assist and no errors) during a victory over the Cleveland Spiders.
• 1901:
  • At Philadelphia, the A's beat the Brewers, 14 - 5, behind Snake Wiltse. Nap Lajoie has three hits including his American League-leading 14th homer, off Jack Bracken.
  • Boston rookie George Wilson, purchased from Albany (New York State League) tops Milwaukee, 7 - 2, in his first game. Next year he'll play under the name George Prentiss.
  • Behind Deacon Phillippe, Pittsburgh defeats the Superbas, 5 - 4, to clinch the National League pennant. Except for a few hours on July 4th, the Pirates have been in first place since June 15th.
• 1904:
  • Bob Rhoads, Cleveland righthander, holds Boston hitless for 8 2/3 innings before Chick Stahl singles. Cleveland wins, 3 - 1.
  • In St. Louis, the Browns' Willie Sudhoff and the A's Charles Bender face off for ten innings without either team scoring. The game ends in a tie.
• 1905 - The Pilgrims' Bill Dinneen, who had not thrown this month because of a sore arm, pitches the fourth no-hitter of the season. The White Sox have 26 official at bats against him in the 2 - 0 Boston win, their first loss to Boston after ten straight wins. Chicago gets revenge in the nitecap, whipping the Pilgrims, 15 - 1. With the A's losing yesterday to the Tigers, Chicago now heads for Philadelphia, trailing by three percentage points. The Pilgrims will play 11 twinbills this month, winning two, losing two, and splitting seven.
• 1907:
  • After leading the American League most of the month, the Athletics (83-54) are beset by pitching problems as Detroit (86-56) comes into Philadelphia for a three-game showdown. Detroit wins the first game, 5 - 4, to take over first place.
  • Pirate star Honus Wagner is hit on the hand by a pitch from Rube Dessau, and will miss the last 12 games of the year.
• 1908:
  • The Reds' Hans Lobert steals second base, third, and home against St. Louis.
  • Ed Walsh blanks the Red Sox, 3 - 0, for a Chicago win. Only four percentage points separate the top three American League teams.
  • The Tigers take over first place with a Sunday 5 - 2 win over the A's behind righty George Mullin.
• 1909 - The first-place Pirates set a National League record with their 16th victory in a row, before the Giants stop them, 8 - 7, in the second game of a doubleheader.
• 1912 - Eddie Plank goes 19 innings for the A's against Bob Groom and Walter Johnson of the Nationals, and takes a 5 - 4 loss when Eddie Collins' wild throw lets the winning run score. Johnson relieves Bob Groom at the end of the 9th, and pitches ten innings of scoreless relief.
• 1913 - The Giants lose to Brooklyn, but the pennant is theirs, as the Phils lose to Boston, 9 - 3.
• 1914:
  • Cleveland's Napoleon Lajoie doubles against the Yankees for his 3000th career hit to become the second modern major leaguer to reach the milestone, after Honus Wagner who did so on June 9th this year.
  • The Athletics clinch the American League pennant.
• 1915 - St. Louis Browns 1B George Sisler makes his second pitching start this month, and gets a no-decision despite giving up four runs in seven innings. The Red Sox beat St. Louis, 8 - 4.
• 1917 - The Red Sox play a benefit game against an American League all-star team and Babe Ruth and Rube Foster combine for a 2 - 0 shutout. The AL squad features Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, and Joe Jackson in the outfield. More than $14,000 is raised for the family of sports writer Tim Murnane, who died February 13th. Murnane had played and managed in Boston in the 19th century. Actress Fanny Brice helps sell programs and former heavyweight champ John L. Sullivan coaches third base for the Sox. Ruth wins the fungo hitting contest with a drive of 402 feet, while Joe Jackson has the longest throw at an impressive 396 feet.
• 1919 - Babe Ruth's 29th home run is his first of the year in Washington; he is the first to hit one in every park in the league in one season.
• 1920:
  • Carl Mays and the Yankees beat the A's, 3 - 0, as Mays allows just four hits. It is his third straight shutout over Philadelphia and his tenth straight win against them. Babe Ruth drives in all the runs on a pair of homers over the right field fence off Eddie Rommel, his 52nd and 53rd homers of the campaign. He hits two other liners to left and center that are close to the wall.
  • Behind the pitching of Dickie Kerr, the White Sox top Detroit, 2 - 0. In the clubhouse following the game, copies of the Chicago papers are spread on the table. The headlines feature Philadelphia writer Jimmy Isaminger's interview with Billy Maharg where Maharg admits to his involvement, and that of former pitcher Bill Burns, in the Black Sox Scandal.
  • The Indians continue on their war path by topping the Browns, 8 - 4. Duster Mails wins his sixth straight and Tris Speaker breaks out of a slump by collecting two hits. He had been 1 for 19. Charlie Jamieson adds four hits.
  • At the Polo Grounds, the Braves eliminate the second-place Giants in the second game by a 3 - 2 score on Tony Boeckel's homer in the 9th. The Giants win the opener, 2 - 1. The loss clinches the pennant for Brooklyn.
• 1921:
  • The Browns' Urban Shocker stops the Yanks, 2 - 0, racking up his fifth win in nine decisions against New York this year. It is his 27th win of the year.
  • In the first of two at Boston, Braves C Ray Powell hits three triples, tying the Major League mark, in an 8 - 5 win over Brooklyn. Dana Fillingim is the winner over Burleigh Grimes.
• 1922 - In the Giants', 3 - 2 win over the Phils, rookie Travis Jackson debuts, going 0 for 2. Jackson will play 15 years for the Giants, eventually going to the Hall of Fame.
• 1923:
  • Red Sox owner Bob Quinn announces that Frank Chance will not manage the team next year.
  • Signed in June for a $1,500 bonus, and recently brought up from Hartford (Eastern League), Lou Gehrig hits the first of his 493 home runs. It comes off Bill Piercy at Fenway Park in an 8 - 3 New York win.
• 1924:
  • Down 4 - 0 in the 1st, the Senators rally to top the Red Sox, 7 - 5, as the Fenway Park crowd of 20,000 cheers the Washington win. Rookie pinch hitter Wade Lefler, who had one at-bat with the Braves previously, drives in three runs with a bases-loaded double to win it. Lefler drove in Washington's only run in Friday's loss, but his five games with Washington (5 for 9 with three doubles) and one with Boston will sum up his major league career. In Philadelphia, the A's beat the Yankees, 4 - 3, to give the Senators a two-game lead with two to play.
  • Rookie Pedro Dibut (3-0) hurls the Reds to a 10 - 1 win over the Cardinals. Except for a brief relief appearance next year, that will be it in the white major leagues for the chunky Cuban, who played in the Negro Leagues for the Cuban Stars before the Reds. He sets an oft-tied National League record for most wins without a loss in a career, a mark that will be eclipsed by Ben Shields (4-0 in two leagues).
  • Behind Jack Bentley's four-hitter the Giants clinch their fourth straight pennant, beating the Phils, 5 - 1, while Brooklyn is losing, 3 - 2, to Boston.
• 1925 - In a doubleheader split with the Braves in St. Louis, the Cards' player-manager, Rogers Hornsby, hits his 38th and 39th home runs of the year, along with a single, double, and triple to push his average to .403. In batting practice tomorrow, Hornsby will foul a ball off his foot splitting his toenail, and will sit the last three games. The Rajah calls reporters into the clubhouse to view his bloody toe, "because some of those in the East may say I'm stallin' because I want to save my .400 average." Hornsby will be the only player-manager to win the triple crown, which he does by topping .400 for the third time in four years, while his 39 home runs and 143 RBI are National League highs. His .756 slugging average will be the NL record until topped by Barry Bonds in 2001. The Cards take the opener, 6 - 5, and lose the nitecap, 7 - 6.
• 1926 - Cleveland 1B George Burns hits his 64th double of the year, as the Indians down Philadelphia, 5 - 4. Indians righthander George Uhle gives up nine hits in winning his 27th against 11 losses. He leads the American League, despite giving up a league-high 300 hits and 118 walks, and posts a 2.83 ERA. It is his best record in a 17-year, 200-win career.
• 1927 - Babe Ruth connects for a grand slam off Lefty Grove while Lou Gehrig hits No. 46 in a 7 - 4 win over the A's. Ruth has 57 with three games to play. The grand slam is the Babe's second in three days.
• 1928:
  • With the Giants just a half game behind the Cardinals, New York loses the first game of a doubleheader to the Cubs, 3 - 2. On a controversial play at the plate in the 6th inning, New York's Shanty Hogan hits a ball back to pitcher Art Nehf who throws to third to get the runner. But the runner, Randy Reese, was off with the crack of the bat and bowls over catcher Gabby Hartnett. Hartnett grabs the runner to keep from falling. and as Hartnett holds him, Reese is tagged out by the Cubs 3B. The Giants bench erupts, but umpire Bill Klem rules Reese is out. The subsequent protest will be disallowed, despite a photo clearly showing Hartnett up the line holding Reese. The Giants win the nitecap, 2 - 0, but a loss tomorrow clinches the pennant for St. Louis.
  • For a remarkable second time in five weeks, Lefty Grove strikes out three batters on nine pitches, this time victimizing the White Sox (Moe Berg, Tommy Thomas and Johnny Mostil) in the 7th inning. Grove also starts the A's scoring with a solo home run and wins, 6 - 3, his sixth straight win over Chicago and his 24th of the year. Not until Jim Bunning, in 1959, will another American League hurler strike out the side on nine pitches.
  • At Boston, the Cardinals erupt for seven runs in the 15th inning to win, 10 - 3, handing the loss to starter Bob Smith. Smith goes 14 1/3 innings, allowing nine hits and 12 walks. Smith and Kent Greenfield allow the seven runs, a major-league record for the 15th inning. The Cards tied the game in the 9th on Andy High's two-out, two-run single.
  • At St. Louis, Bump Hadley pitches the Senators to a 6 - 5 win over the Browns. Goose Goslin, leading the American League batting race, is 2 for 4, while his rival Heinie Manush has one hit, a three-run home run in the Browns' five-run 9th. Manush has 13 homers - all at home.
• 1929 - Phils outfielder Chuck Klein hits home run number 42, tying Mel Ott and equaling Rogers Hornsby's National League record. He'll hit one more to top the NL with 43.
• 1930:
  • Lou Gehrig plays the last of 885 consecutive games at 1B. In the next game, the season's finale, he will take Babe Ruth's LF position.
  • Almost overlooked is Wally Berger's 38th homer for the Braves, at Ebbets Field, as Boston tops Brooklyn, 7 - 1. It is a record for rookies that will be tied by Frank Robinson in 1956 and finally broken by Cody Bellinger in 2017.
  • Hack Wilson clubs two homers to finish with a National League record of 56 that will hold until 1998. The Cubs win, 13 - 8, over the Reds at Wrigley Field as Pat Malone wins his 20th of the year.
  • In Yankee Stadium, Josh Gibson of the Homestead Grays hits what his biographer John Holway will call "perhaps the longest home run ever hit in the House that Ruth Built," and Gibson himself describes as hit "on a line into the bullpen in deep left field." The Pittsburgh Courier's guess-timate is 430 feet while the Amsterdam News says 460. The bullpen in question extends quite a long way, and could easily accommodate anything from a 415-footer to a 500-plus-foot blast.
• 1931:
  • Lou Gehrig hits a home run to tie Babe Ruth at 46 while the Yankees pound Lefty Grove, 13 - 1, and deny him his 32nd victory. Grove throws just three innings in the warmup for the World Series. Gehrig drives in two runs as he (184) and Ruth (163) combine to drive in 347 runs for the year, the most productive duo in history. Bill Dickey has four hits and ends the year with no passed balls, the only American League catcher to do so, while the Yankees are the only AL team to ever accomplish the feat.
  • The most desperately contested battle for individual honors takes place in the race for the National League batting title. Chick Hafey, who reported late due to a contract dispute, goes into the final doubleheader with the Reds batting .353, four points over Bill Terry, last year's champ. Hafey gets only two hits in eight times at bat to drop to .349. Bill Terry's Giants are playing archenemy Brooklyn at Ebbets Field. Brooklyn, in its last game as the Robins, wins 12 - 3, behind Watty Clark. Terry gets only one hit in four times at bat. The title goes to Hafey, who bats .3488 to Terry's .3486. Jim Bottomley, Hafey's Cardinal teammate, goes 4 for 8 and finishes at .3481. The Cards win, 6 - 2 and 5 - 3, to win 20 of 22 with the Reds. The nitecap is called on account of darkness after three innings with no score, and will turn out to be the final contest between managers Wilbert Robinson and John McGraw, one-time friends and business partners, but now bitter enemies. McGraw has the edge, 197-190, with five ties.
• 1934 - The Cards close to a half-game of the idle Giants, beating the Reds, 13 - 7. Cincinnati SS Gordon Slade makes three errors in the 1st inning.
• 1935:
  • All American League games are rained out today.
  • The Cubs clinch the National League pennant in the first game of a doubleheader with the Cardinals, 6 - 2, besting Dizzy Dean, as Bill Lee wins his 20th. The Cubs tally 15 hits off Diz, led by Freddie Lindstrom's four. With Roy Henshaw's victory, 5 - 3, in the nitecap, the Cubs extend their win streak to an incredible 21 games and reach the 100-win mark. Only once during the winning streak have the Cubs pitchers given up more than three runs. The streak ties the franchise mark set in 1880.
• 1936 - Replacing Johnny Mize, who is tossed by an umpire for arguing, Cardinal rookie first baseman Walter Alston makes an error in handling two chances and is fanned by Lon Warneke in his only major league at-bat. "Smokey" will, however, win seven pennants and four World Series in his 23-year Hall of Fame career as Dodger manager from 1954 to 1976.
• 1938:
  • With the Pirates 1 1/2 games up on the Cubs, Dizzy Dean shuts out the Bucs for eight innings. In the 9th Bill Lee relieves Dean, and the Cubs win, 2 - 1.
  • Hank Greenberg again hits two homers, extending his record to 11 times in the same season. They are the last he will hit this season, as he falls two short of Babe Ruth's 1927 record of 60.
• 1939 - The hometown White Sox play the first "day-night" doubleheader against Cleveland, but lose both games, 5 - 2 and 7 - 5. Fans are charged separate admission for each game.
• 1940 - Besides Bobo Newsom (21-5), Schoolboy Rowe (16-3), and Tommy Bridges (12-9), the Tigers' pitching staff combines for a losing record. Needing one victory to gain the title, manager Del Baker decides to withhold Newsom and Rowe and picks Floyd Giebell, an obscure rookie just called in from Buffalo. Giebell shuts out the Indians, 2 - 0, to beat Bob Feller, who gives up just three hits. Not eligible for the World Series, Giebell will never win another game in the major leagues. During the game, unruly Cleveland fans shower the field with fruit and vegetables. At one point, a basket of green tomatoes is dropped onto Tigers C Birdie Tebbetts' head while he sits in the bullpen.
• 1941:
  • The National League decides to strike the name of George Pfister, who appears as C for the Dodgers in today's game, from its official records. The NL rules Pfister, who never signed a Brooklyn contract, is the property of Montreal (International League), and his name is removed from the box score, although this will be overruled retroactively as being patently absurd.
  • Ted Williams starts the day with a .401 batting average and refuses Boston manager Joe Cronin's suggestion that he sit out the rest of the season to preserve his average. Against the A's he hits one single in 4 at bats to drop his average to .3995.
• 1942:
  • The Red Sox's Tex Hughson wins his 22nd to tie Mort Cooper for the major league lead, as the Sox edge the Yankees. A Fenway Park crowd of 26,166 - including 4,293 youngsters who gained free admission by bringing 29,000 pounds of scrap metal - watches Hughson scatter 11 hits. Ted Williams, in his final appearance before entering the war, has a single to finish the season at .356 and wins his second straight batting title. Teammate Johnny Pesky is second at .331. Williams also leads the majors in home runs (36), RBI (137), runs (141), and walks (145), for his first of two career Triple Crowns.
  • Phils outfielder Danny Litwhiler completes his 151st errorless game of the season in a game against the Dodgers. Litwhiler becomes the first OF to avoid an error the entire season. He has 308 putouts and 9 assists on the year.
  • The Cardinals clinch the National League pennant by winning the first game of a doubleheader from the Cubs. The final score is 9 - 2.
• 1944 - The Browns give the lead back by insisting on playing the Red Sox in the rain under the arcs and then losing, 4 - 1. The Red Sox had just lost ten straight.
• 1946 - In Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Indian fireballer Bob Feller ties Rube Waddell's strikeout mark with his 343rd K of the season. Future research, however, will show Rube Waddell had struck out 349 in 1904.
• 1949 - The Red Sox, winners of 16 out of the last 19 with the Senators, win the opener in Washington, 6 - 4.
• 1950:
  • The Phils rally for five runs in the 8th to tie, but the Giants win in ten innings, 8 - 7. Monte Irvin, sliding across the plate with the winning run, injures catcher Andy Seminick, limiting his effectiveness. He will play the next day and all through the World Series, later to find out that he has a bone separation. In the nitecap, Bobby Thomson's 1st-inning inside-the-park grand slam is all the Giants need as Jim Hearn wins, 5 - 0. The Dodgers split with the Braves, cutting the Phillies' lead to two games.
  • Against the A's, Whitey Ford relieves and loses his first game after nine wins. The Yanks lose, 8 - 7.
• 1951:
  • Trying for his 23rd win, Preacher Roe loses just his third game, 4 - 3, to Chet Nichols and the Braves. The Dodgers now lead New York by half a game. Future Hall of Fame basketball player Bill Sharman becomes the only man in history to be thrown out of a major league baseball game without ever having played in one. With the score tied at 3 - 3 in the 8th inning, umpire Frank Dascoli clears the entire Brooklyn bench after a home plate call by him results in a violent protest. Sharman, up from St. Paul (American Association) at the end of the season, is one of the players thrown out. Dascoli's safe call at home on Bob Addis's score results in the winning run.
  • Monte Irvin clouts a three-run homer in the 1st inning off Phils righty Andy Hansen and Larry Jansen picks up his 21st win, 10 - 1.
  • Gabe Paul replaces the newly elected National League President Warren Giles as GM of the Cincinnati Reds.
• 1952 - The Braves' Eddie Mathews hits three home runs as Boston breaks a ten-game losing streak and beats Brooklyn, 11 - 3. Virgil Jester wins, his last in the majors and the last victory for the Boston Braves before their relocation to Milwaukee.
• 1953:
  • In a fitting finale, St. Louis plays its last game as the Browns and loses its 100th game, 2 - 1, to the White Sox in 11 innings. Next season the team will move to Baltimore and will become the Orioles. Reserve 1B Ed Mickelson drives in Johnny Groth in the 4th inning for the last run of the Browns franchise.
  • Washington's Mickey Vernon goes into the last game of the season still fighting for the batting title with Cleveland's Al Rosen. Near the end of the game Vernon is hitting .337 when word arrives that Rosen's game is over and Vernon is ahead by .0011 points. The possibility of Vernon coming up to bat again and maybe losing a point is scotched when his teammates contrive to make an out to end the game.
• 1957:
  • Johnny Klippstein of the Redlegs one-hits the Braves, 6 - 0, with Bob Hazle getting the only safety.
  • In a desperate move, New York City Council President Abe "Hit Sign, Win Suit" Stark says the Dodgers should be urged to enlarge and modernize Ebbets Field. In the meantime, Walter O'Malley says he will waive the oil rights to Chavez Ravine.
  • Owner Paul I. Fagan agrees to rent Seals Stadium to the Giants until Candlestick Park is ready. Fagan will pay $125,000 in annual taxes, in exchange for the parking concession, against five percent of the gross revenue.
• 1958 - The Red Sox drill a 9 - 5 win over Washington as Pete Runnels and Ted Williams each have three hits, but Ted has two less at bats to move ahead in the batting race. The two sluggers hit back-to-back home runs in the 4th, off John Romonosky.
• 1959 - In one of the National League's frequent tight races, the Braves and Dodgers finish in a tie (86-68), with the Giants a close 3rd (83-71). The Dodgers beat Chicago, 7 - 1, while the Braves beat the Phillies, 5 - 2. The Giants drop two to the Cardinals, to finish with seven losses in their final eight games. The Dodgers and Braves will play a three-game playoff to determine the pennant winner.
• 1960 - Pancho Herrera's 135th strikeout sets a National League record, even though the Phils beat the Braves, 5 - 3.
• 1961 - Sandy Koufax (18-13) fans seven Phils in the course of a 2 - 1 loss to set a National League record for strikeouts in a season: 269. This surpasses Christy Mathewson's 267 in 1963, which was accomplished in 367 innings pitched, as opposed to Koufax's remarkable 255. Both runs off Sandy are unearned.
• 1962:
  • The Cardinals sidetrack the Giants, 7 - 4, as Gene Oliver contributes a three-run home run and Stan Musial goes 5 for 5.
  • The Dodgers' hopes for move into a first-place a tie are dashed when Sandy Koufax, making his second start since returning to action, lasts just five innings against Houston. Reliever Ron Perranoski is the loser, 8 - 6.
• 1963:
  • Using a lineup of nine rookies the Colt .45s lose, 10 - 3, to the Mets. The lineup includes P Jay Dahl, 17 (making his debut); C Jerry Grote, 20; 1B Rusty Staub, 19; 2B Joe Morgan, 20; 3B Glenn Vaughan, 19; SS Sonny Jackson, 19 (also making his debut); and outfielders Brock Davis, 19, Aaron Pointer, 21, and Jim Wynn, 21. Dahl loses his only major league game at 17 and will die in an auto accident at 19. Houston 2B Joe Morgan will play 22 years, and 1B Rusty Staub, 23. Pointer singles for his only hit this year: his sisters will do better with a top-ten hit of "Fire," by Bruce Springsteen. Joe Hoerner and Danny Coombs follow Dahl to the mound in their major league debuts. 20-year-old P Larry Yellen debuted the day before and 18-year-old OF Ivan Murrell will make his debut the following day.
  • At St. Louis, the Reds' John Tsitouris pitches a two-hit, 3 - 0 shutout over the Cardinals. In his last three starts, Tsitouris has pitched three shutouts and allowed eight hits.
• 1964:
  • The Reds are winners of nine straight as they sweep a doubleheader, 4 - 1 and 3 - 1, over New York to take a one-game lead over the faltering Phillies. However, the Reds will then lose four of their final five games to finish the season tied for second with Philadelphia, one game behind the pennant-winning St. Louis Cardinals.
  • Despite three home runs by Johnny Callison, the Phils are 14 - 8 losers to the Braves, who complete a four-game sweep at Connie Mack Stadium. The Phils' seventh straight loss drops them out of first place, which they had held for 73 days. Milwaukee tallies 22 hits - ten against Jim Bunning in four innings and the others against four relievers. Joe Torre has two hits including his 20th homer.
  • The Houston Colt .45s play their final game in Colt Stadium. The future "Astros" beat the Dodgers in the 12th inning, 1 - 0.
• 1965 - Tom Haller clouts two home runs to give the Giants an 8 - 4 win over the Cards. The Dodgers keep pace by defeating the Reds, 6 - 1.
• 1966 - At St. Louis, the Dodgers win as Don Drysdale pitches his second shutout in a row, beating the Cardinals and Ray Washburn, 2 - 0.
• 1967:
  • Philadelphia's Jim Bunning loses a major league-record-tying fifth 1 - 0 decision, as Houston's Mike Cuellar outlasts the veteran in 11 innings.
  • In afternoon games, Cleveland tops Boston, 6 - 0, while the Twins drop a 5 - 1 decision to California. In their last games in Kansas City before moving to Oakland, the 10th-place A's sweep a doubleheader from Chicago, beating the American League's ERA leaders Gary Peters and Joe Horlen. Peters loses the opener 5 - 2, and Horlen the nitecap, 4 - 0, to rookie Catfish Hunter. Jim Gosger leads the way for KC by going 5 for 8 in the doubleheader. The two losses on this "Black Wednesday" drop Chicago to fourth place with only a hope of a tie for the pennant.
• 1968:
  • For the second time in two years, the Cards sign free agent P Barney Schultz to enable him to qualify for pension time. Schultz was released last October 8th.
  • A 1 - 0 win and 11 strikeouts against the Astros enables Cardinal Bob Gibson to lower his ERA to 1.12, a new National League season mark. His phenomenal campaign includes 28 complete games, 268 strikeouts, and 13 shutouts.
  • At Detroit, Frank Howard snaps a 1 - 1 tie with his 44th homer, and the Senators beat the Tigers, 3 - 1. Howard's run is his 89th, and he'll finish the year with that, compiling the most homers in history without scoring 90 runs.
• 1969 - Jim Maloney fires a one-hitter in beating Houston, 3 - 0, at Crosley Field. Joe Morgan's 3rd-inning single is the only safety.
• 1970:
  • The Pirates clinch the National League East title with a 2 - 1 win over the Mets. A record crowd of 50,469 cheer on the Bucs. It's New York who draws first blood, capitalizing on Pirate starter Dock Ellis' 1st-inning wildness. Pittsburgh right fielder Roberto Clemente, whose sprained back has limited him to seven games in September and four in the last 23 days, helps erase the early 1 - 0 deficit with a double in the 3rd. This will be the ailing Clemente's final regular season game this season; though he'll strap it up for the Championship Series against Cincinnati, he's clearly just a shell of his normal self. New York's Ken Boswell, who had played a record 85 games at 2B without an error, boots a grounder in the 5th for his first miscue in 389 chances.
  • The Red Sox smash four homers to reach a club-record 201 in handing the Senators their tenth straight loss, 10 - 1. Winning pitcher Gary Peters hits a three-run homer, Tony Conigliaro, and George Scott with two homers and five RBIs are the long-ball hitters. The previous Sox high for homers was 197 last season.
  • The Orioles rally for two runs in the 8th inning to beat the Indians' Sam McDowell, 4 - 3. Dick Hall wins his tenth game with three innings of hitless relief. He also walks no one and ends the year with more wins than walks - ten wins and only six walks in 61 innings. Not since Slim Sallee's 21 wins in 1919 when he walked 20 has a pitcher accomplished this. Bret Saberhagen in 1994 will be the next, winning 14 and walking 13. Before Sallee, Christy Mathewson had two seasons of more wins than walks.
• 1972:
  • A's relief star Darold Knowles breaks his thumb, costing him a chance to pitch in the World Series. Knowles finishes the season with a 5-1 record, 11 saves, and a 1.36 ERA. He'll make up for lost time by pitching in all seven games of the 1973 World Series.
  • The Dodgers' Don Sutton shuts out San Diego, 2 - 0, handing Steve Arlin his National League-high 21st loss of the year. Arlin also led the NL in losses last year with 19. It's Sutton's ninth shutout of the year to tie Nolan Ryan for the most in the majors.
  • Trailing 5 - 1, the Tigers score three in the 8th and two in the 9th to beat the Yankees and Sparky Lyle.
• 1973:
  • The Angels' Nolan Ryan fans 16 in 11 innings, beating the Twins, 5 - 4. The final strikeout victim, Rich Reese, is the 383rd of the season for Ryan, enabling him to surpass the major-league record set by Sandy Koufax in 1965. Ryan opts to skip his next start on the 30th, thus passing on a shot at 400 K's.
  • After a series of incidents, the Reds suspend OF Bobby Tolan for insubordination. Tolan was in several scuffles with club personnel, went AWOL for two days in August, and began growing a beard, a no-no with the Reds. Tolan, hitting .206, will be traded to the Padres in November.
• 1974 - Baltimore breaks a scoreless tie with the Brewers in the 17th inning to pull out a 1 - 0 win. Grant Jackson wins the decision over Tom Murphy. Jim Colborn and Jim Palmer combine to pitch 25 shutout innings in the contest, but neither pitcher factors in the decision.
• 1977 - The Philadelphia Phillies clinch their second consecutive National League East division title with a 15 - 9 win over the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. Winning pitcher Larry Christenson hits a grand slam in the 7th inning.
• 1978 - At Fenway Park, Carlton Fisk lines a two-run triple in the 1st inning and the Red Sox top the Tigers, 5 - 2. George Scott hits his first homer in a month and collects his 1,000th RBI to back Luis Tiant's win. New York maintains its lead by beating the Blue Jays, 5 - 1, at Yankee Stadium.
• 1981 - In the first game of a doubleheader with Chicago, Oakland ties an American League record with eight straight singles in the bottom of the 1st inning, but blows its 5 - 0 lead and loses, 9 - 5. The White Sox take the nightcap, 10 - 3.
• 1982:
  • Willie McGee's three-run inside-the-park home run in the 1st inning sparks the Cardinals to a 4 - 2 win over the Expos, clinching their first National League East title since divisional play began in 1969.
  • Atlanta's Phil Niekro shuts out the Giants on two hits, 7 - 0, to push the Braves back into a first-place tie with the Dodgers in the NL West. The Dodgers have lost six straight games.
• 1983:
  • Jim Beattie fires the first one-hitter in Mariners' history, beating Kansas City. U.L. Washington's single in the 3rd inning is the only baserunner allowed by Beattie.
  • Tim Raines becomes the first player since Ty Cobb to steal 70 bases and drive in 70 runs in the same season, going 3 for 4 with a home run, a stolen base, and four RBI in Montreal's 10 - 4 win over St. Louis.
• 1984:
  • Before a crowd of 2,803, the smallest crowd in Montreal history, the Expos trim the Cards, 6 - 3. Paced by back-to-back homers by Gary Carter and Dan Driessen, the Expos score six in the 4th. The Spos will draw 3,613 on September 4, 2001, their next smallest crowd. In Joe Hesketh's 7 - 0 shutout over the Mets tomorrow, the crowd will be 12,164.
  • The Indians top the Twins, 4 - 3, on a two-out pinch solo homer in the 9th by Jamie Quirk. Ron Davis serves up the game-winner to Quirk, whose contract was purchased three days earlier from the Chicago White Sox. For Quirk, it will be his only at bat in a Cleveland uniform during his one-week stint: the Tribe will release him on October 1st when the season ends.
• 1986 - Jack Morris shuts out the Yankees, 1 - 0, in ten innings, raising his record to 20-8 and snapping Don Mattingly's hitting streak at 24 games.
• 1987:
  • In his final plate appearance of the year at Wrigley Field, Andre Dawson crashes his 47th home run to lead the Cubs to a 7 - 3 win over the Cardinals. Dawson will finish with 49 round trippers on his way to the MVP award. He also draws just 32 walks.
  • Shea Stadium is packed with 48,588 fans to see the Mets clobber the Pirates, 12 - 3, making the Mets the second franchise in major league history to break the three million barrier in season attendance. St. Louis will also draw three million fans this season.
  • Phil Niekro makes his final major league appearance and is pounded for five runs in three innings in Atlanta's 15 - 6 loss to the Giants. Niekro, who had been released earlier in the season by Toronto, agreed to pitch one last game for the Braves, the team with which he spent his first 19 major league seasons.
• 1989 - The two San Francisco Bay teams clinch a division title. Oakland wins the American League West by beating Texas, 5 - 0, while San Francisco loses, 1 - 0, to the Dodgers but is assured of the National League West crown when the second-place Padres lose to the Reds, 2 - 1 in 13 innings. The two teams will meet in the World Series.
• 1991 - The Indians lose their 100th game as the Yankees beat Greg Swindell, 3 - 0. With eight innings of work, Pascual Perez (2-4) earns his last major league decision.
• 1992:
  • At Yankee Stadium, Jack Morris wins his 20th of the year, going six innings in a 12 - 2 blowout over the fourth-place Yanks. Toronto scores nine runs off Scott Sanderson, who leaves in the 2nd inning. Joe Carter paces the 19-hit attack with four hits. The Jays maintain a two-and-a-half-game lead in the AL East over Milwaukee.
  • Mariners P Randy Johnson ties an American League record for lefthanders by striking out 18 Texas Rangers in a 3 - 2 loss. Ron Guidry of the Yankees set the mark against California on June 17, 1978.
• 1993:
  • In a 7 - 3 victory over the Dodgers, Cubs reliever Randy Myers becomes the first National League pitcher to record 50 saves in a season.
  • Bo Jackson hits a three-run home run beating the Mariners, 4 - 2, helping the White Sox to clinch their first American League West title in ten years.
• 1996:
  • The Angels score two runs in the top half of the 15th inning, then hold on as Texas fights back for one in their half, to earn a 4 - 3 victory. LF Garret Anderson gets six hits for California and drives home three runs.
  • After being ejected for arguing a strike call in the 1st inning of Baltimore's game against the Blue Jays, Orioles' 2B Roberto Alomar spits in the face of umpire John Hirschbeck. Alomar claims he was provoked by Hirschbeck, but the incident will set off a national debate. After the game, Alomar remarks: "I used to respect him a lot. He had problems with his family when his son died - I know that's something real tough in life - but after that he just changed, personality-wise. He just got real bitter." When the ump hears about the remarks tomorrow he will charge into the Orioles' locker room and have to be restrained by fellow ump Jim Joyce.
  • Barry Bonds steals his 40th base to become the second player, after Jose Canseco, to reach 40 homers and 40 steals in a season. He has 42 homers. San Francisco tops Colorado, 9 - 3, with a seven-run 7th.
• 1997 - The Mariners hand Randy Johnson his 20th win when the Big Unit pitches the 5th and 6th innings in relief of Omar Olivares and Seattle beats Oakland, 9 - 3. Johnson is the first 20-game winner in M's history, The Mariners stake Olivares to a 7 - 2 lead, but Lou Piniella lifts the starter after four innings. Johnson was sidelined from August 20th to September 13th with a finger injury.
• 1998:
  • The Yankees win their seventh straight game to end the season with a .704 winning percentage. The Bronx Bombers (114-48) become the first team since the 1954 Indians (111-43) to play over .700 ball for an entire season.
  • In the Reds' 4 - 1 victory over Pirates, two sets of brothers appear in the same lineup for the first time in major league history. Stephen Larkin plays first, Bret Boone is at second, Barry Larkin is at short and Aaron Boone plays third making up the all-brother infield. Aaron Boone's three-run homer gives Brett Tomko (13-12) the complete game victory. Stephen Larkin is a career minor leaguer with a pacemaker and had a new one installed in August after his old one had a hiccup. Stephen hit .228 with three home run and 31 RBI in 80 games with the AA Chattanooga Lookouts this year.
  • Padres reliever Trevor Hoffman ties the National League saves record as he gets three straight outs in a 3 - 2 victory over Arizona. His 53rd save (out of 54 chances) matches the standard set by current teammate Randy Myers, who did it for the Cubs in 1993.
  • In the season finale, Mark McGwire ends the historic season by hitting his 69th and 70th home runs in the Cardinals' 6 - 3 win over the Expos. Big Mac hits #70 in his last at-bat off Expos rookie Carl Pavano.
  • In the Blue Jays' 2 - 1 victory over the Tigers, Detroit pinch-hitter Bobby Higginson homers with two outs off Blue Jay Roy Halladay to spoil the rookie's bid for a no-hitter. Halladay comes within one out of allowing no hits in only his second major league start.
• 1999 - With each of the Tigers wearing the uniform numbers of all-time great Detroit players at their position (OF Gabe Kapler, standing in for Ty Cobb, wears no number) the Tigers defeat the Royals, 8 - 2, in the last game ever played at Tiger Stadium. Robert Fick's grand slam in the 8th brings the capacity crowd of 43,356 to its feet. Luis Polonia and Karim Garcia also homer as Brian Moehler beats Jeff Suppan.
• 2000:
  • The A's defeat the Angels, 9 - 7. Anaheim's Darin Erstad hits a home run in the 2nd inning for his 99th RBI of the year from the leadoff spot to set a new record. Nomar Garciaparra drove home 98 in 1997 for the previous mark.
  • The Mets beat the Braves, 6 - 2, to clinch the National League wild card berth for the second year in a row.
  • The United States Olympic team, managed by former Dodger skipper Tommy Lasorda, stuns the world, beating the much-favored Cuban team to win the country's first gold medal in its national pastime. Ben Sheets ends Cuba's 21-game Olympic winning streak with the 4 - 0 shutout.
• 2001 - While the division-leading Braves, behind Greg Maddux, are succumbing quietly to fourth-place Florida, the red hot Mets, led by super sub Desi Relaford and Mike Piazza, abuse Expo pitching for ten runs in the final four frames, erasing an early 6 - 0 deficit. The 12 - 6 triumph is New York's 18th in 21 tries and their 25th out of 31. Having started that stretch at 13 1/2 games out, New York has now pulled to within three games of first place. This leaves nine games just before NY's final face-off against Atlanta. In tonight's game, Piazza's pinch-hit, bases-clearing, 9th-inning exclamation point notwithstanding, it's Relaford who provides the game's biggest hit as, one inning earlier, with one out, one on and the Mets down by one, the diminutive Desi makes like Mike, turning around a 2-and-2 Scott Strickland fastball and depositing it in Olympic Stadium's right field seats, just beyond the Avis ad.
• 2002:
  • The Pirates beat the Cubs, 13 - 3. Brian Giles scores five runs for Pittsburgh and drives home six with a double and a pair of home runs. Giles will hit a pinch two-run home run tomorrow to finish the year with 103 RBIs.
  • Braves first-year closer John Smoltz establishes a new National League mark by recording his 54th save of the season. The previous record of 53 was shared by Randy Myers and Trevor Hoffman.
  • At Cleveland's Jacobs Field, first baseman Jim Thome establishes a new single-season Indian home run record by hitting his 51st of the year. Albert Belle hit 50 for the Tribe in 1995.
  • The Dodgers keep their slim postseason hopes alive with a 1 - 0, 10-inning win over the Padres. Paul LoDuca's homer off Jeremy Fikac is the winner.
• 2003:
  • Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa blasts his 40th home run to establish a National League record by reaching the plateau for the sixth consecutive season. The Chicago right fielder, who had previously been tied with Ralph Kiner and Duke Snider, needs another season of at least 40 homers to equal Babe Ruth's major league mark of seven seasons set from 1926 to 1932.
  • At Veterans Stadium, Javy Lopez hits his 42nd home to break the major league record for home runs hit by a catcher. In 1996, Mets' backstop Todd Hundley hit 41 to surpass Roy Campanella's 1953 mark.
  • With a startling rally, the Tigers avoid equaling the modern major league record of 120 losses set by the expansion 1962 Amazin' Mets. It takes one of the biggest comebacks in franchise history as Detroit beats the Twins, 9 - 8, on a wild pitch in the bottom of the 9th after trailing by eight runs earlier in the contest.
• 2005 - With a 7th-inning single off Mets reliever Juan Padilla, Jimmy Rollins extends his hitting streak to 32 games. The Philadelphia shortstop breaks the 106-year Phillies record surpassing Ed Delahanty, who hit in 31 games in a row in 1899.
• 2007 - Ryan Howard strikes out against John Smoltz in the 3rd inning of the Phillies-Braves contest. It is his 196th strikeout of the season, breaking Adam Dunn's three-year-old major league record.
• 2008:
  • With the Mets' backs to the wall, Johan Santana pitches a three-hit 2 - 0 shutout against the Marlins. When the Brewers lose, 7 - 3, to Ted Lilly and the Cubs later today, the two teams are tied in the National League Wild Card race with only one game to play.
  • The Phillies win the NL East title, beating the Nationals, 4 - 3, to overcome the Mets. Jimmy Rollins makes a sliding snare on a grounder by Ryan Zimmerman to start a game-ending double play. Brad Lidge improves to 41-for-41 in save opportunities for Philadelphia.
  • In Germany, the Regensburg Legionäre win their first Bundesliga title after falling in the finals in 2006 and 2007. Aided by US minor leaguers Ludwig Glaser, Mike Bolsenbroek and Donald Lutz and former US minor leaguer Rodney Gessmann, Regensburg tops the Mannheim Tornadoes, 3 - 2, in the finals. Philipp Hoffschild shuts out Mannheim in Game 5, a 10 - 0 rout. Alexander Lauterbach scores three. Craig Pycock takes the loss for the Tornadoes. Markus Gienger is named MVP of the finals.
  • The Yomiuri Giants once again tie the Hanshin Tigers atop the Central League standings in a tight race. Marc Kroon saves his 37th, giving him 121 saves in Nippon Pro Baseball and breaking Eddie Gaillard's record for foreign pitchers. Seung-yeop Lee drives in four in the 6 - 2 win.
• 2009:
  • Team USA wins the 2009 Baseball World Cup with a 10 - 5 win over Cuba in the finale. With a 4 - 4 tie in the 7th, Cuban first baseman Ariel Borrero drops a two-out throw to give the US a chance; they erupt for six runs to take the game. Justin Smoak is named Baseball World Cup MVP while Brad Lincoln gets the win. It is the second straight Cup in which the US has topped Cuba in the finale.
  • The Yankees are assured of the best record in the American League after a 4 - 2 win over Boston. Andy Pettitte picks up the win and, as usual, Mariano Rivera gets the save in New York's 100th win of the year. New York finishes 9-9 against their bitter rivals, after dropping the first eight contests between the two teams.
  • Atlanta beats Washington, 6 - 3, thanks to three runs in the top of the 10th, completing a three-game sweep. The Braves have won six straight, ten in a row on the road, and 14 of 16 to displace San Francisco as Colorado's main rivals for the National League wild card; they are now two and a half games back of the Rockies.
• 2011:
  • Both wild card races are tied at the end of today's games, with one day left in the season. Atlanta loses, 7 - 1, to Philadelphia after a poor performance by starting pitcher Derek Lowe, while St. Louis overcomes an early 5 - 0 deficit to beat Houston, 13 - 6. Ryan Theriot delivers a tie-breaking two-run triple as a pinch-hitter in the 7th to open the floodgates for the Cardinals, who use seven relievers in the game after Jake Westbrook leaves early; Eduardo Sanchez is the winner in his first appearance since June 12th. For its part, Atlanta had led the National League wild card race since June 20th.
  • Meanwhile, in the American League, the Red Sox have to thank third-string catcher Ryan Lavarnway, making his first career start behind the plate because of injuries to Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Jason Varitek, for their 8 - 7 win over Baltimore­. Lavarnway hits his first two major league homers then makes a great defensive play on a squibbler by Matt Wieters as the Orioles are rallying in the 9th. The Rays stay tied with Boston by beating the Yankees, 5 - 3, thanks to home runs by Matt Joyce and Ben Zobrist which account for all of their scoring. The Rays also pull off a triple play in the 6th inning in the game.
• 2012:
  • Doug Fister of the Tigers strikes out nine consecutive batters in defeating the Royals, 5 - 4, setting a new American League record. With the White Sox's 3 - 2 loss to the Rays, Detroit now leads the AL Central by two games.
  • The Indians fire manager Manny Acta with a week left to go and replace him with coach Sandy Alomar Jr.. Acta was done in by a 5-24 record in August, the worst month in the 112-year history of the franchise.
  • The Astros name Washington third base coach Bo Porter as their new manager, although he will remain with his current team for the remainder of this season and the postseason before assuming his new duties next year.
• 2013:
  • The Cardinals clinch the NL Central title with a 7 - 0 win over the Cubs, but they also announce that cleanup hitter Allen Craig will not be available for at least the first round of the postseason because of a foot injury.
  • The Indians beat up the Twins, 12 - 6, for their eighth straight win to pull into a tie with Tampa Bay for the top wild card spot in the American League. The Rays blow a 3 - 0 lead to lose, 6 - 3, to the Blue Jays, while the Rangers stay one game back of the pair with a 5 - 3 win over the Angels.
• 2014:
  • Jonathan Lucroy hits a 5th-inning double off Tsuyoshi Wada of the Cubs in a 2 - 1 win to set a new record for a catcher. It is his 46th of the season at the position, besting the 45 hit by Ivan Rodriguez in 1996; it is also his 53rd overall, the others having been hit as a first baseman, tying the Brewers franchise record, set by Lyle Overbay in 2004.
• 2015 - The Rouen Huskies win their eighth French Division I title in nine years. They beat the Montpellier Barracudas, three games to one, to return to the top spot after missing the finals last year. Finals MVP Owen Ozanich gets the decision in a 6 - 4 win over Thomas Langloys, while Bastien Dagneau drives in three for the second straight game and Maxime Lefevre raps three hits.
• 2017:
  • In a conference call meeting, Major League Baseball owners approve the sale of the Miami Marlins by Jeffrey Loria to a group headed by Bruce Sherman and former player Derek Jeter.
  • For the tenth straight year, Major League Baseball sets a new record for most strikeouts in a season, ending the day with 39,168, almost 200 more than the previous record of 38,982 set in 2016, with four days of games left. This goes hand-in-hand with the home run record set earlier this month.
• 2018:
  • The Yankees' CC Sabathia is ejected in the 6th inning of his team's 12 - 1 win over Tampa Bay, for throwing at Jesus Sucre in apparent retaliation for Andrew Kittredge throwing a pitch near C Austin Romine's head in the top of the inning. The ejection is literally costly, as it leaves CC two innings short of 155 on the year, a total which would have netted him a bonus of $500,000 had he reached it. The gesture will also result in a five-game suspension for Sabathia, to be served at the start of the 2019 season. The Yankees will decide in December to pay him the bonus anyway.
  • The 2018 Holland Series begins. The Amsterdam Pirates crush defending champion Neptunus, 8 - 2. 43-year-old Rob Cordemans wins his 14th Holland Series game, but first in seven years, while Gilmer Lampe draws four walks and Kalian Sams (just returned from a summer in Canada) drives in four. Diegomar Markwell is knocked out after 4 2/3 innings for the shortest of his 21 career Holland Series outings to this point.
• 2019 - The postseason picture is now complete as the Rays and Athletics clinch the two wild card berths in the American League, eliminating the Indians. For the Rays, it will be a first postseason appearance since 2013. The last two days of games will now serve to determine match-ups and home field advantage.
• 2020 - Major League Baseball concludes its abbreviated 2020 season, with the postseason field set as the Phillies and Giants are eliminated with losses today. For the first time, two postseason teams have sub-.500 records: the Astros who finish second in the AL West, and the Brewers, who limp into the final wild card slot in the NL, both with records of 29-31. Happiest are the Cardinals whose 5 - 2 win over the Brewers means they won't need to play a make-up doubleheader against the Tigers today, their place in the postseason having been secured by finishing second in the NL Central.
• 2021 - In an otherwise meaningless game, Bradley Zimmer of the Royals homers off his brother, Kyle, in an 8 - 3 win over the Indians. It is the fourth time in history that a brother has homered off his sibling and the first time since May 29, 1975, when Joe Niekro hit the only long ball of his career against his brother, Hall of Famer Phil Niekro.
• 2022 - Weirdness shows up during a game between the Marlins and Mets with significant postseason implications. With the Marlins holding a 6 - 3 lead in the 8th, New York's Jeff McNeil hits a two-out single, and then first base umpire John Tumpane steals the show, calling three successive balks on pitcher Richard Bleier while Pete Alonso is at bat, claiming Bleier has failed to come to a full stop, allowing McNeil to score. Marlins manager Don Mattingly is ejected after the third call, and Bleier, who had never committed a balk in seven prior major league seasons and claims he has done nothing different in this game, is also tossed after getting Alonso to ground out and then letting Tumpane know he is not impressed. The Marlins hold on for a 6 - 4 win, and combined with an 8 - 2 win by the Braves over the Nationals, New York and Atlanta are now tied atop the NL East.
• 2023:
  • The Singapore national team makes its Asian Games debut and gives Laos a challenge before falling, 8 - 7. Naeem Bin Zahrin has two hits, a run and two RBI for Singapore while Eleazar Jie Xian Ng gets the loss. Hue Thor steals four bases, reaches four times, produces four runs and strikes out eight in seven innings while getting the win for Laos.
  • Gerrit Cole completes a stellar season by throwing a complete game shutout in defeating the Blue Jays, 6 - 0, at the Rogers Centre, finishing the year at 15-4, 2.63. Aaron Judge provides all the offense he needs by banging a pair of homers. For Toronto, a second straight shutout loss at the hands of the Yankees comes at a bad time as they are fighting for a spot in the Postseason.
• 2024 - The postseason picture is now complete in the American League as the Royals and Tigers clinch the two remaining wild card spots. The Royals, losers of 106 games last year, do so in spite of a 3-0 loss to the Braves, thanks to a 7 - 2 defeat by the Twins at the hands of the Orioles. For their part, the Tigers, who were seemingly out of contention at the end of July, cap a remarkable two-month stretch by inflicting a 4 - 1 defeat on the White Sox, who go down for the 121st time this year, setting a new modern major league record.

Births

• 1853 - Dan Collins, outfielder (d. 1883)
• 1859 - Joe Visner, outfielder (d. 1945)
• 1863 - Jack Heinzman, infielder (d. 1914)
• 1876 - Steve Cusack, umpire (d. 1952)
• 1878 - Slats Jordan, infielder/outfielder (d. 1953)
• 1881 - Arista DeHaven, minor league outfielder (d. 1963)
• 1884 - Alan Storke, infielder (d. 1910)
• 1887 - Charlie Eakle, infielder (d. 1959)
• 1889 - Al Bergman, infielder (d. 1961)
• 1890 - Willie Adams, pitcher (d. 1937)
• 1890 - Frank Gibson, catcher (d. 1961)
• 1891 - Doug Baird, infielder (d. 1967)
• 1894 - Mike Loan, catcher (d. 1966)
• 1895 - Jelly Gardner, outfielder (d. 1977)
• 1897 - Chick Gagnon, infielder (d. 1970)
• 1897 - Frank Stephens, pitcher (d. 1991)
• 1898 - Bill Clarkson, pitcher (d. 1971)
• 1905 - Marty Lang, pitcher (d. 1968)
• 1906 - John Smith, infielder (d. 1982)
• 1907 - Josh Billings, pitcher (d. 1983)
• 1907 - Walter Murphy, pitcher (d. 1976)
• 1907 - Whit Wyatt, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1999)
• 1911 - Alphonse Dunn, infielder (d. 2004)
• 1911 - Dick Lanahan, pitcher (d. 1975)
• 1913 - Sonny Dunlap, minor league player (d. 1990)
• 1914 - Bill Jackowski, umpire (d. 1996)
• 1915 - Harry Chozen, catcher (d. 1994)
• 1916 - Charley Davidson, pitcher (d. ????)
• 1919 - Bill Ayers, pitcher (d. 1980)
• 1924 - Jerry Scala, outfielder (d. 1993)
• 1927 - Tom Kirk, pinch hitter (d. 1974)
• 1927 - Carlos Quezada, minor league infielder
• 1928 - Perry Currin, infielder (d. 2011)
• 1928 - Thornton Kipper, pitcher
• 1930 - Dick Hall, pitcher (d. 2023)
• 1933 - Jerry Casale, pitcher (d. 2019)
• 1933 - Don Saner, minor league infielder (d. 2012)
• 1934 - Bill Lajoie, general manager (d. 2010)
• 1935 - Mamie Johnson, Negro Leagues pitcher (d. 2017)
• 1935 - John Stanford, college coach (d. 2013)
• 1935 - Dave Wickersham, pitcher (d. 2022)
• 1938 - Alex George, infielder
• 1941 - Yoshio Inoue, NPB pitcher (d. 2019)
• 1944 - Gene Rounsaville, pitcher
• 1944 - Gary Sutherland, infielder
• 1948 - Carlos Lopez, outfielder
• 1949 - Richard Sandate, minor league pitcher
• 1949 - Mike Schmidt, infielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer
• 1951 - Shuzo Arita, NPB catcher
• 1951 - Doug Konieczny, pitcher
• 1952 - Pat Cristelli, minor league pitcher
• 1954 - Len Matuszek, infielder
• 1955 - Bob Veselic, pitcher (d. 1995)
• 1959 - Jorge Lebrón, minor league infielder
• 1960 - Hiromi Matsunaga, NPB infielder
• 1961 - Mark Talarico, Serie A1 pitcher-outfielder
• 1962 - Don Schulze, pitcher
• 1965 - Dan Rohrmeier, designated hitter
• 1966 - Juan Rodriguez, Puerto Rican national team outfielder
• 1967 - German Leyva, minor league infielder
• 1967 - Richard Vagg, Australian national team infielder
• 1968 - Gary Jacobs, South African national team catcher (d. 2023)
• 1968 - Alejandro Vidaña, minor league pitcher
• 1969 - Hiroshi Nishioka, NPB pitcher
• 1970 - Miguel Caldés, Cuban league outfielder (d. 2000)
• 1970 - Gordon Powell, minor league infielder
• 1972 - Todd Blyleven, scout
• 1973 - Daisuke Masuda, NPB outfielder
• 1974 - Radhames Dykhoff, pitcher
• 1976 - Dionys Cesar, NPB infielder
• 1976 - Bo Hart, infielder
• 1976 - Jason Phillips, catcher
• 1977 - Roy Baclay, Philippines national team pitcher
• 1977 - Vicente Padilla, pitcher; All-Star
• 1977 - Marcus Pattillo, umpire
• 1977 - Andy Prater, minor league pitcher
• 1978 - Kanehisa Arime, NPB pitcher
• 1978 - Jon Rauch, pitcher
• 1979 - Jon Garland, pitcher; All-Star
• 1979 - Josh Reynolds, minor league pitcher
• 1980 - Chien-Hung Lin, CPBL infielder
• 1981 - Luis Arévalo, Peruvian national team player
• 1981 - Mike Esposito, pitcher
• 1981 - Aleš Keprta, Bundesliga pitcher
• 1983 - Greg Burrows, minor league outfielder
• 1983 - Orr Gottlieb, Israeli national team pitcher
• 1983 - Che-Wei Kang, CPBL infielder
• 1984 - Satoshi Nagai, NPB pitcher
• 1985 - Pedro Ciriaco, infielder
• 1985 - Phea Miech, Cambodian national team player
• 1985 - Yosuke Okamoto, NPB pitcher
• 1985 - Joel Polanco, minor league catcher
• 1985 - Gabriel Sosa, minor league pitcher
• 1986 - Vin Mazzaro, pitcher
• 1986 - Matt Shoemaker, pitcher
• 1987 - Grant Green, infielder
• 1987 - David Hale, pitcher
• 1988 - Kyle Blair, minor league pitcher
• 1989 - Mike Miller, infielder
• 1990 - Cameron Perkins, outfielder
• 1990 - Donavan Tate, minor league outfielder
• 1992 - Jamaine Cotton, minor league pitcher
• 1993 - Jiandido Tromp, minor league outfielder
• 1994 - Samuel Adames, NPB pitcher
• 1994 - Alex Call, outfielder
• 1994 - Luis Guillorme, infielder
• 1994 - Pedro Payano, pitcher
• 1999 - Adrian Del Castillo, catcher
• 1999 - Mitchell Parker, pitcher
• 1999 - Angel Zerpa, pitcher
• 2000 - Drew Gilbert, minor league outfielder
• 2000 - Simeon Woods-Richardson, pitcher
• 2003 - Kenny Esposito, French Division I pitcher

Deaths

• 1911 - William Sullivan, pitcher (b. 1864)
• 1922 - Pete Booker, Negro league catcher (b. 1886)
• 1927 - Ben Hunt, pitcher (b. 1888)
• 1929 - John Gochnauer, infielder (b. 1875)
• 1938 - Cy Ferry, pitcher (b. 1877)
• 1939 - Sweetbreads Bailey, pitcher (b. 1895)
• 1941 - Monte Peffer, infielder (b. 1891)
• 1942 - Charlie Jaeger, pitcher (b. 1875)
• 1943 - Willie Hudson, pitcher/infielder (b. 1918)
• 1945 - Lou Nordyke, infielder (b. 1876)
• 1946 - Grady Orange, infielder (b. 1900)
• 1946 - Eddie Tiemeyer, infielder (b. 1885)
• 1950 - Ed Bolden, Negro leagues owner (b. 1881)
• 1954 - Buck Pressley, college coach (b. ????)
• 1955 - Fred Walden, catcher (b. 1890)
• 1956 - Babe Zaharias, multi-sport star (b. 1911)
• 1958 - Joe Berry, pitcher (b. 1904)
• 1959 - Lefty Hopper, pitcher (b. 1874)
• 1960 - Jim Eschen, outfielder (b. 1891)
• 1961 - Bick Campbell, umpire (b. 1898)
• 1962 - Johnny Scalzi, pinch hitter (b. 1907)
• 1962 - Stan Sperry, infielder (b. 1914)
• 1963 - Andy Coakley, pitcher (b. 1882)
• 1964 - Jud McLaughlin, pitcher (b. 1912)
• 1965 - Tink Riviere, pitcher (b. 1899)
• 1967 - Frank Barnes, pitcher (b. 1900)
• 1981 - Al Bool, catcher (b. 1897)
• 1986 - Hiroshi Nakahara, NPB pitcher and manager (b. 1923)
• 1986 - Chuck Sheerin, infielder (b. 1909)
• 1992 - Hal Smith, pitcher (b. 1902)
• 1996 - Bruce Konopka, infielder (b. 1919)
• 1996 - Garland Lawing, outfielder (b. 1919)
• 1997 - Alex Konikowski, pitcher (b. 1928)
• 2001 - Dick Rozek, pitcher (b. 1927)
• 2003 - Red Barbary, pinch hitter (b. 1920)
• 2005 - Milton Ralat, minor league pitcher (b. 1924)
• 2006 - Joe Koppe, infielder (b. 1930)
• 2006 - Craig Kusick, infielder (b. 1948)
• 2013 - Gates Brown, outfielder (b. 1939)
• 2014 - Bienvenido Rodríguez, outfielder (b. 1927)
• 2014 - Earl Smith, outfielder (b. 1928)
• 2014 - Bob Williams, minor league player (b. 1925)
• 2015 - Ross Mersinger, minor league pitcher (b. 1943)
• 2015 - Doris O'Donnell, writer (b. 1921)
• 2015 - Richard Rainwater, owner (b. 1944)
• 2024 - Joey Jay, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1935)