
June 16, 1916: Salida Tom Hughes no-hits Pirates at Braves Field
On paper the game between the Boston Braves and Pittsburgh Pirates…

June 18, 1916: The death of Johnny Dodge
There are records from baseball’s early years of deaths that…

June 21, 1916: Rube Foster throws first Red Sox no-hitter at Fenway Park
The first Boston Red Sox no-hitter at Fenway Park was by right-hander…

August 13, 1916: Braggo Roth walks off with inside-the-park home run
On July 23, 1916, the St. Louis Browns defeated the Cleveland…

August 15, 1916: Boston’s Babe Ruth outlasts Walter Johnson in 13 innings
Clark Griffith was prescient. At the end of the 1914 season,…

August 26, 1916: Bullet Joe Bush fires no-hitter for A’s
“Such a brand of revenge was never seen before,” gushed…

August 27, 1916: Chicago American Giants defeat Indianapolis ABCs on close play at the plate
Rube Foster of the Chicago American Giants, J.D. Howard, and…

August 30, 1916: Boston’s Dutch Leonard no-hits the Browns at Fenway Park
Oh, what a difference a day makes. In the first game of an August…

September 4, 1916: Pitching legends Mordecai Brown, Christy Mathewson duel for the final time
A promotional poster advertising the September 4, 1916 matchup…

September 9, 1916: The Babe and the Big Train, Round Five
The fans at Griffith Stadium were in for a treat in the first…

September 10, 1916: Giants, Yankees play exhibition for Hollywood, charity
Exhibition games involving major-league teams were once commonplace.…

September 10, 1916: Pirates’ 6-run ninth completes comeback and makes Burleigh Grimes a winner in debut
“The Buccaneers turned impending defeat into a glorious victory…

September 28, 1916: Jack Nabors finishes season with a 1-20 record
The 1916 Philadelphia Athletics were the worst major-league…

September 30, 1916: Cleveland’s Jack Graney keeps league lead in doubles; White Sox win to remain in race
With only two days left on the Cleveland Indians’ 1916 schedule,…

October 3, 1916: Brooklyn clinches NL pennant as John McGraw throws himself out of the game
Proximate geographies, shared histories, and personal relations…

October 7, 1916: Red Sox win a World Series home game — a mile away from home
The 1916 season began with the reigning world champion Boston…

October 9, 1916: Red Sox win Game 2 on a loaned diamond; Babe Ruth goes the distance in 14
For the second year in a row, Boston won the pennant in 1916,…

October 10, 1916: Robins stave off Red Sox comeback, climb back into Series
Hall of Famer Zack Wheat played for Brooklyn for 18 years…

October 11, 1916: Larry Gardner’s 3-run homer deflates Robins in Boston’s Game 4 win
With a Game Three win under their belts, the Brooklyn Robins…

October 12, 1916: Red Sox claim championship on adopted turf
It was Columbus Day and the biggest crowd of the 1916 World Series.…

April 14, 1917: White Sox ace Eddie Cicotte hurls no-hitter at Sportsman’s Park
Chicago Tribune sportswriter I.E. Sanborn confidently predicted…

April 24, 1917: Lefty George Mogridge hurls the Yankees’ first no-hitter
By 1917 the New York American League franchise, first called…

May 2, 1917: Fred Toney and Reds prevail 1-0 in double no-hitter against Cubs’ Hippo Vaughn
On May 2, 1917 the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs squared off…

May 3, 1917: Cubs get revenge after double no-hitter on Cueto misplay
Would May 3, 1917, be another extraordinary day at Chicago’s…