The Cleveland Buckeyes swept the venerated Homestead Grays in…
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Jacob DeGrom was on his way to becoming the ace of the New York…
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Unlike Chicago, New York, or St. Louis, Boston never got to celebrate…
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The 2006 version of the Los Angeles Dodgers was one of the franchise’s…
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Derek Jeter entered the 2011 season 74 hits shy of becoming…
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As part of SABR’s 50th anniversary in 2021, all baseball…
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Through the first three games of the 1918 World Series, the Boston…
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Throughout his career, Curt Schilling was known as a big-game…
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The 48,641 fans who attended this Monday twilight-night doubleheader…
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Winning 20 games in a season was once a hallmark of excellence…
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With a little more than a month left in the 1921 regular season,…
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The Boston Red Sox hosted a Friday afternoon game against the…
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By 1917 the New York American League franchise, first called…
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In the summer of 1936, the Lake Erie Shore was the place to be.
Cleveland…
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The White Sox players were fighting mad. They had just gotten…
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Dennis Biddle
Lew Drill
John Trautwein
Russ Wrightstone
Harry Williams
September 23, 1945: At 49, Jud Wilson becomes oldest player to hit a home run in the Negro Leagues
May 11, 1955: Ernie Banks homer sets the stage to stop Dodgers’ road winning streak
July 17, 2016: Mets’ Jacob deGrom notches his first career complete-game victory with 1-hitter
September 13, 1984: Maine Guides’ Cinderella story ends one game short of International League title
September 18, 2006: Dodgers hit four consecutive home runs in 9th inning, rally to beat Padres
July 9, 2011: Derek Jeter homers at Yankee Stadium for 3,000th career hit
This Week in SABR: August 20, 2021
Watch video highlights from the Summer of SABR: Golden Celebration Series
September 24, 1921: White Sox break 11-game losing streak with 18-1 drubbing of Athletics
September 9, 1918: Babe Ruth finally gets his first base hit in a World Series game
August 15, 2005: Tigers rally in bottom of ninth, beat closer Curt Schilling and Red Sox
July 17, 1989: David Wells earns his second win of the day for Blue Jays
August 26, 1966: Scipio Spinks, Gary Nolan combine for 37 whiffs in minor-league duel
August 20, 1921: Cleveland’s Stan Coveleski wins 20th game for fourth consecutive season
August 30, 1921: Pirates’ Dave Robertson ‘runs gamut of hits’ as first player to hit for the cycle at Ebbets Field
September 14, 1951: Browns’ Bob Nieman homers in first two at-bats; Ted Williams vents anger after strikeout by Satchel Paige
April 24, 1917: Lefty George Mogridge hurls the Yankees’ first no-hitter
August 2, 1936: Spectacle-filled afternoon on lakefront ends in 16-inning tie between Yankees, Indians
August 29, 1906: Athletics settle for no-hitter and win in rain-shortened game