October 9, 1911: Ben Houser has a one-of-a-kind game, hitting grand slam and sealing triple play
During the 1910 season, the American League champion Philadelphia…
October 17, 1911: Home Run Baker, A’s get the best of Giants’ Christy Mathewson in Game 3
“Mighty Baker Pulls Another Home Run Hit,” squawked the headline…
October 24, 1911: ‘What’s the matter with Baker? He’s all right’ as A’s take Game 4
The Philadelphia Athletics were on Cloud Nine as they pulled…
October 26, 1911: Bender tosses 4-hitter as A’s crush Giants to capture second straight championship
“The old White Elephant stands above the great throbbing…
April 12, 1912: Cincinnati’s Redland Field hosts its first game
The Cincinnati Reds started the 1912 season in a new venue, one…
April 19, 1912: Toronto Maple Leafs play their first game in International League
The 1912 season was the first for the newly named International…
April 20, 1912: Red Sox open Fenway Park with extra-innings win over New York
Boston's Fenway Park is pictured in 1912, the year it opened…
April 20, 1912: Frank Navin’s field of dreams opens in Detroit
The first game to be played at Navin Field was scheduled for…
April 27, 1912: Pirates unleash new bats in 23-run outburst against Reds
Pittsburgh baseball fans were frustrated over their team’s…
May 18, 1912: Tigers stage baseball’s first player strike in support of Ty Cobb
The story of the Philadelphia Athletics’ 24-2 shellacking of…
June 5, 1912: Roy Mitchell pitches, hits Browns over A’s
Philadelphia was off to a sluggish 19-18 start in 1912. The Athletics…
June 9, 1912: Boston’s Tris Speaker hits for the cycle against Browns
Boston’s Tris Speaker, described in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch…
June 10, 1912: Chief Meyers hits for the cycle, but Heinie Zimmerman’s homers beat Giants
A respectable crowd1 passed through the turnstiles at the Polo…
July 4, 1912: George Mullin tosses first Tigers no-hitter
An aging veteran, who had battled weight problems all season…
July 5, 1912: ‘Magician-like’ Christy Mathewson sours Brooklyn’s grins while earning 300th career win
Despite watching Cy Young pitch effectively into his 40s in the…
July 8, 1912: Jimmy Lavender and Cubs halt Rube Marquard’s winning streak
Rube Marquard, a 25-year-old southpaw on the New York Giants,…
July 25, 1912: Bert Daniels becomes first Yankees player to hit for cycle in ‘extremely belligerent’ game
The Chicago White Sox “grabbed an extremely belligerent…
July 31, 1912: Honus Wagner hits game-winner for Pirates in 19-inning marathon
On July 23, 1912, Boston Braves pitcher Otto Hess elected to…
August 11, 1912: Shoeless Joe Jackson becomes first American Leaguer to steal home twice in one game
The August 11 game in Cleveland’s League Park between the sixth-place…
August 20, 1912: Umpires Brick and Brennan leave game bashed and bruised
Helen Owens thought her husband might be dead.
After all,…
August 20, 1912: Doubleheader Dandy: Walter Johnson wins AL-record 15th straight game; Carl Cashion hurls 6-inning no-hitter
Washington skipper Clark Griffith had reason to be confident.…
August 22, 1912: Honus Wagner hits for the cycle, but Pirates fall to Giants
Before a sold-out and boisterous Forbes Field crowdi , future…
August 30, 1912: Browns’ Earl Hamilton throws the first no-strikeout no-hitter
The Detroit Tigers played in Bennett Field in 1911. Immediately…
September 2, 1912: Reds and Cardinals can’t see in the dark, but umpire Mal Eason says, ‘Play on’
Before the arrival of stadium lights, an umpire decided when…