Momentum in the 2020 World Series had swung back and forth through…
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The St. Louis Browns ran off to a fast start to the 1929 season,…
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“Sooner or later you have to say, it’s my ball and half the…
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The shivering crowd got the message from the public address announcer…
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The Philadelphia Athletics experienced another rough April in…
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Over the first four games of the 2020 National League Championship…
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The Cincinnati Reds were little more than a year from winning…
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Gary White, a catcher recently battling cancer, collected the…
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After a tense pitchers’ duel that saw Red Ruffing of the Yankees…
https://sabr.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Pearson-Monte.jpg441301admin/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/sabr_logo.pngadmin2021-04-20 23:25:062025-04-23 11:07:48October 5, 1939: Yankees’ Monte Pearson flirts with no-hitter in dominant Game Two performance
The death of pitcher Bob Miller in September 2020 left only one…
https://sabr.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Simmons-Curt.jpeg500314admin/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/sabr_logo.pngadmin2021-04-20 23:16:042021-04-22 17:46:45September 28, 1947: Curt Simmons has a blazing debut for Phillies at age 18
The August 11 game in Cleveland’s League Park between the sixth-place…
https://sabr.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Jackson-Shoeless-Joe-1912-CDN-154fp1j.jpg500400admin/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/sabr_logo.pngadmin2021-04-20 22:50:262021-04-22 17:31:58August 11, 1912: Shoeless Joe Jackson becomes first American Leaguer to steal home twice in one game
It was a brutally cold day for a ballgame at Philadelphia’s…
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In 1940 baseball was truly America’s national game. But it…
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In a four-year voyage to an all-too brief career in big league…
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October 24, 2020: Brett Phillips’s walk-off hit lifts Rays over Dodgers in Game 4
August 12, 1969: Elmira’s Mike Corkins throws no-hitter before call-up to Padres
May 23, 1929: Browns’ Ski Melillo, ‘weak sister with the stick,’ hits for the cycle
June 27, 1971: Roberto Clemente shines late in Pirates win over Phillies
September 9, 1956: Don Drysdale’s homer, three-hitter beat Giants for the fourth time
April 23, 1956: Don Drysdale beats Phillies in first major-league start
This Week in SABR: April 23, 2021
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May 8, 1921: Eddie Rommel goes the distance as Athletics outlast Yankees in 14 innings
October 16, 2020: Will Smith homers off Will Smith, sparking Dodgers’ turnaround in Game 5
August 4, 1960: Billy Martin ends Jim Brewer’s season in on-field brawl
November 14, 1999: Australia’s baseball dreams become reality by winning gold medal in Intercontinental Cup
October 5, 1939: Yankees’ Monte Pearson flirts with no-hitter in dominant Game Two performance
September 28, 1947: Curt Simmons has a blazing debut for Phillies at age 18
May 15, 1921: Austin McHenry and Cardinals mates shoot down Brooklyn Robins
August 11, 1912: Shoeless Joe Jackson becomes first American Leaguer to steal home twice in one game
May 11, 1921: Dave Robertson’s reinstatement highlighted by six RBIs in Cubs’ rout of Phillies
August 5, 1940: Bound for majors, Fred Caligiuri, Phil McCullough square off in Class D gem
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