
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…

September 6, 1912: Smoky Joe Wood outduels Walter Johnson in epic clash of ‘smokeball kids’
“You might say I’ve seen some pretty good pitching. But I’ve…

September 6, 1912: Official scorer reverses decision, giving Giants rookie Jeff Tesreau a no-hitter
With multiple hits in four of his past five games, Philadelphia…

September 14, 1912: Bill Rapps turns unassisted triple play; Gus Hetling steals home for game-winner in Pacific Coast League thriller
In more than 200,000 games in major-league history through…

September 20, 1912: Smoky Joe Wood foiled by Tigers after 16 straight wins
For both major leagues, 1912 “was a banner year for streaks…

September 26, 1912: Reds rally for 10 runs in 9th, but Cubs pull out a late victory
The Cincinnati Reds, trailing the Chicago Cubs 9-0 after eight…

September 26, 1912: Heinie Zimmerman won’t go home; Reds’ stalling efforts fail to catch Cubs
Mention the name Heinie Zimmerman to followers of baseball lore…