Template:Today in Baseball/July 21
November 28: Today's featured birthday is that of Corky Withrow, who turns 87.
- 1892 - Tim Keefe (pictured) beats Pud Galvin 2-0. The next match-up of 300-game winners in the National League will come in 113 years.
- 1946 - Lew Flick hits successfully in nine straight at-bats in a 19-inning Southern Association contest.
- 1956 - Junior Gilliam sets a modern major league record with 12 assists at second base while double play mate Pee Wee Reese raps his 2,000th hit in The Show.
- 1959 - Pumpsie Green enters as a pinch-runner for the Boston Red Sox, making them the last major league team to integrate.
- 1975 - Felix Millan hits four singles but Joe Torre follows by grounding into a double play four times, tying the major league record.
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