Lou Piniella was coming home. The Tampa native signed a four-year…
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Few baseball writers predicted big things for the 1926 Boston…
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St. Louis Cardinals fans had little reason to cheer during the…
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Who is the most valuable to a ball club – a star pitcher of…
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Boston's Fenway Park is pictured in 1912, the year it opened…
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Perhaps the St. Louis Cardinals were taking out their frustration…
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Whether because of a “gloomy day” in Detroit that stalled…
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“Figure to repeat on youth and depth of pitching and long ball…
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As winter turned to spring in 1941, war was spreading across…
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On December 23, 1958, the Philadelphia Phillies, after finishing…
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Springfield Sallies hurler Erma “Bergie” Bergmann looked…
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There have been many baseball games in which the fans have been…
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September 21, 1933, the last day of summer, was ladies day at…
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By the end of the 1994 season, major-league baseball was a multinational…
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The ticker tape had barely settled from their World Series celebration…
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It was the top of the ninth inning with a runner on first and…
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The New York Mets were 4-4 nine days into the 1977 season. All…
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Considering the transportation methods available in 1903, a trip…
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The seventh-place Washington Senators concluded their 1942 Griffith…
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On the heels of the British navy’s sinking of the German battleship…
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March 31, 2003: Tampa Bay scores 5 runs in ninth inning to beat Red Sox on Opening Day
April 13, 1926: First Red Sox game is broadcast on Boston radio
April 12, 1922: Del Gainer and Rogers Hornsby power Cardinals to Opening Day romp over Pirates
April 13, 1911: Cobb and Crawford lead Tigers to Opening Day victory
April 20, 1912: Red Sox open Fenway Park with extra-innings win over New York
April 6, 1982: Jim Kaat becomes first major leaguer to pitch in 24 seasons as Cardinals blast Astros, 14-3, on Opening Day
April 24, 1901: White Stockings thump Cleveland as American League turns from minor to major
April 27, 1893: Cy Young, Cleveland Spiders beat Pittsburgh in opener after pitching distance change
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April 17, 1956: Phillies, Robin Roberts beat World Series champion Dodgers on Opening Day
April 14, 1941: FDR deals and Phil Rizzuto debuts for Yankees as the drumbeats of war grow louder
April 10, 1959: Sparky Anderson debuts, delivers key hit as Robin Roberts outduels Don Newcombe
May 9, 1948: Springfield Sallies drop inaugural game as AAGPBL’s overhand pitching era begins
This Week in SABR: April 1, 2022
June 10, 2021: Red Sox win a wild one at Fenway Park
May 16, 1933: Senators collect 27 hits to win extra-inning thriller over Cleveland
September 21, 1933: A pennant for Ladies’ Day: Washington Senators clinch first place in American League
May 2, 1995: Hideo Nomo becomes second Japanese major-leaguer as Giants beat Dodgers in 15 innings
April 7, 1987: Mets hold off Pirates to begin championship defense
September 15, 1979: A rare feat that almost wasn’t: Bob Watson’s natural cycle leads Boston over Baltimore
April 17, 1977: Tom Seaver throws his fifth one-hitter to lead Mets past Cubs
May 1, 1903: Cleveland’s lengthy battle to acquire Hugh Hill ends with one at-bat in a game that slipped away
September 8, 1942: ‘A violent batting war’: Senators rally to beat Red Sox behind Jake Early, John Sullivan
May 28, 1941: George Selkirk’s grand slam wins for Yankees in first night game at Griffith Stadium