Games Project – Page 17 – Society for American Baseball Research

September 20, 1902: Ike Butler earns only major-league win for Orioles

July 3, 2023

Baltimore had been a respectable team for the first half of the…

September 20, 1902: Nixey Callahan throws first no-hitter in White Sox history

October 16, 2018

When seventh-place teams visit fourth-place teams in the third…

September 29, 1902: Boston beats Baltimore in season finale as two teams go in very different directions

July 11, 2022

Monday, September 29, was the last day of the American League’s…

October 4, 1902: Pittsburgh Pirates finish exceptional season by winning record 103rd game

February 13, 2019

The 1902 Pittsburgh Pirates were one of the greatest teams…

April 20, 1903: Boston Americans open season at 10:30 in the morning

April 18, 2024

One constant in the Boston Red Sox schedule each year is the…

April 20, 1903: Cy Young’s no-hitter collapses as A’s take second game of season-opening doubleheader

April 18, 2024

The first game of the 1903 season went nicely for the home-team…

April 22, 1903: New York makes its American League debut as Highlanders fall to Washington on Opening Day

March 16, 2022

A new, glorious chapter in baseball’s chronicles began on April…

April 23, 1903: New York records its first victory in American League play

July 26, 2022

Enthusiasm reigned among Washington’s baseball fans after…

May 1, 1903: Cleveland’s lengthy battle to acquire Hugh Hill ends with one at-bat in a game that slipped away

March 31, 2022

Considering the transportation methods available in 1903, a trip…

May 18, 1903: Cubs sit alone in first place thanks to Tinker to Evers to … Lowe

July 12, 2018

If there was one man upon whom manager Frank Selee could depend,…

May 7, 1903: Pirates’ Fred Clarke hits for second career cycle in game full of ejections and errors

May 10, 2022

The Pittsburgh Pirates, two-time defending National League champions,…

June 9, 1903: Pirates’ streak of 56 scoreless innings pitched snapped by Phillies

November 26, 2024

After they were thumped 10-2 by the New York Giants on June 1,…

June 21, 1903: ‘Biff, bang, smash’: Buck Freeman hits for first cycle in Red Sox franchise history

June 21, 2023

Part of the 1903 schedule had the Boston Americans and Cleveland…

July 29, 1903: New York, Boston combine for 29 runs as Patsy Dougherty hits for the cycle

October 29, 2020

A crowd of 4,135 fans turned out to watch the New York Highlanders…

August 8, 1903: Lajoie fumes over old ball; Cleveland’s season reaches crossroad after forfeit to Detroit

June 20, 2022

Less than a week before he boiled over on an umpire and caused…

September 24, 1903: Bill Bradley hits for reverse natural cycle; teammate Nap Lajoie just misses

July 18, 2022

The Boston Americans ran away with the American League pennant…

October 2, 1903: Patsy Dougherty hits a pair of home runs as Bill Dinneen shuts out Pirates in Game 2

December 21, 2021

Boston right-hander Bill Dinneen shut out the Pirates, 3-0, allowing…

October 1, 1903: Deacon Phillippe, Pirates beat Boston’s Cy Young in first ‘World’s Series’ game

September 28, 2021

In what is widely considered the first World Series, Barney Dreyfuss,…

October 3, 1903: ‘Police unable to control crowd,’ but Pirates prevail in Game 3

March 3, 2022

The headline ran in the Boston Globe: “Swarm on the Field;…

October 6, 1903: Deacon Phillippe wins third World Series game for Pirates … and it’s only Game 4

September 19, 2021

The Pirates, back home at Exposition Park, took a three-games-to-one…

October 7, 1903: Boston breaks open Game 5 with back-to-back big innings

September 20, 2021

Roaring Bill Kennedy took the mound for the Pirates in Game…

October 8, 1903: Boston’s Bill Dinneen wins Game 6 to even World Series at three apiece

September 16, 2021

Both teams managed 10 base hits, but the Bostons scored twice…

October 10, 1903: Pirates’ Deacon Phillippe finally proves mortal as Boston wins Game 7