
April 4, 1974: Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth’s home run record as Braves lose to Reds
The 1974 baseball season had arrived and all eyes were focused…

April 5, 1974: Streaking, brawling Chicago fans overshadow Angels’ Opening Day win
Opening Day is usually a day of optimism, celebration, and a…

April 5, 1974: Yaz, Yount, sloppiness, and streaker make Opening Day memorable in Milwaukee
The Boston Red Sox-Milwaukee Brewers Opening Day game of April…

April 6, 1974: Royals crush Twins, 23-6
The Kansas City Royals and Minnesota Twins were teams going in…

April 6, 1974: Mike Schmidt’s Opening Day homer lifts Carlton, Phillies over Seaver, Mets
On a chilly Saturday afternoon at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia,1 a…

April 7, 1974: Angels, White Sox tie amid snow flurries
Entering the 2024 season, the Los Angeles/California/Anaheim…

April 8, 1974: Hank Aaron hammers historic 715th home run to break Babe Ruth’s record
Baseball is a game of inches, but it is also a game of numbers.…

April 9, 1974: Padres owner Ray Kroc throws a tirade
The San Diego Padres had not had a good beginning to 1974. They…

April 16, 1974: Steve Carlton’s pitching and hitting vanquish Bob Gibson, Cardinals
During the first six seasons of his stellar 17-year career with…

April 17, 1974: Gaylord Perry goes 15 innings; ‘Macaroni Pony’ hits walk-off homer for Brewers
Before the era when “walk-off home run” became part of baseball’s…

April 17, 1974: ‘Phantom’ Juan Veintidos throws real shutout for Orlando Twins
The four up-and-coming hurlers pictured on card #621 of the 1975…

April 17, 1974: George Mitterwald’s monster game leads Cubs to victory
In the 1950s announcer Jack Brickhouse dubbed Wrigley Field the…

April 29, 1974: Astros’ win over Cubs marred by Roger Metzger’s near-fatal collision
Baseball players can suffer serious injuries in numerous ways,…

April 30, 1974: Fenway falls silent again after Doug Griffin is beaned by Nolan Ryan
For the third time in seven years, the gut-wrenching thud of…

May 1, 1974: Tom Seaver strikes out 16 in 12 innings, but Mets fall to Dodgers
Tom Seaver pitched with the precision of a NASA engineer using…

May 5, 1974: Zut, alors! Bad ballpark, worse weather lead to crowd of 69 in Quebec City
When Willie Randolph hoisted back-to-back World Series trophies…

May 6, 1974: Career-ending injury, chilly weather mar Boston-Pawtucket exhibition
Frigid cold, a small crowd, and a career-ending injury are three…

May 7, 1974: LaGrow knuckles under to Wilbur Wood in classic pitchers duel
On an unseasonably chilly Tuesday night in early May, a small…

May 13, 1974: A’s win thanks to Royals’ team-record 8 errors
Any time a baseball team ends a game with more errors than hits,…

May 15, 1974: First-place Expos squeak out win in ninth
The phrase “first-place Montreal Expos” still had a novel…

June 4, 1974: 10-cent beer riot at Cleveland Stadium leads to forfeit
Fans of baseball in the 1970s surely recall the jingle that touted,…

June 9, 1974: Richie Zisk hits for cycle, Willie Stargell homers twice as Pirates slam Giants
The 1974 season was only about two months old. Yet on June 9,…

June 10, 1974: Mike Schmidt hits the Astrodome speaker and Phillies trounce Houston, 12-0
From the moment they selected Mike Schmidt in the June 1971 amateur…

June 10, 1974: Padres overcome 8-0 deficit in eighth inning to win
The year 1974 started as a season of optimism for San Diego as…