April 30, 1921: Chicago Giants defeat Columbus Buckeyes in Negro National League debut
Relocated, renamed, and piloted by two generations of Black baseball…
May 1, 1921: Jesse Haines Outduels Rube Marquard in Cardinals’ First Back-to-Back Win of Season
The St. Louis Cardinals’ dismal start to the 1921 season –…
May 1, 1921: Darkness halts Chicago Giants, Columbus Buckeyes after 11 innings
When the Negro National League opened play in 1920, its membership…
May 2, 1921: Red Sox walk off to win in Yankees’ first visit of season to Fenway Park
The Red Sox had played a pair of games against the Yankees at…
May 7, 1921: Bob Meusel hits for the cycle as Ruth wallops longest home run ever at Griffith Stadium
In the second of a two-game series at Griffith Stadium, Bob Meusel…
May 7, 1921: Whitey Glazner pitches, bats Pirates to ninth consecutive win
An unheralded addition to the Pittsburgh Pirates’ 1921 Opening…
May 7, 1921: Chicago’s Dave Brown outduels Monarchs’ Rube Curry on Opening Day
Opening Day in 1921 for the Negro National League was a momentous…
May 7, 1921: Detroit Stars and Bacharach Giants hit the long ball
It was Saturday, May 7, 1921, the opening day of the Negro National…
May 8, 1921: Eddie Rommel goes the distance as Athletics outlast Yankees in 14 innings
The Philadelphia Athletics experienced another rough April in…
May 9, 1921: Collegians versus the Pros: BC’s Jimmy Fitzpatrick stymies Boston Braves
Jimmy “Fitz” Fitzpatrick was already known as one of the…
May 9, 1921: Indianapolis ABCs pitcher Jim Jeffries fires 3-hit shutout to beat Columbus
The Negro National League (NNL) was early in its second season…
May 11, 1921: Donie Bush’s daring baserunning gives Tigers a late win over Yankees
On an overcast Wednesday afternoon, 12,000 fans filed into Detroit’s…
May 11, 1921: Dave Robertson’s reinstatement highlighted by six RBIs in Cubs’ rout of Phillies
It was a brutally cold day for a ballgame at Philadelphia’s…
May 15, 1921: Austin McHenry and Cardinals mates shoot down Brooklyn Robins
Heading into the 1921 season, St. Louis Cardinals outfielder…
May 22, 1921: Chicago Giants’ John Beckwith hits first home run over fence at Redland Field in Cincinnati
“Broad shouldered, round faced, moody, Beckwith was one of…
May 29, 1921: Jack Graney’s grand slam, two home runs help Cleveland beat Browns in St. Louis
Runs were plentiful in the first three games of a Memorial Day…
May 30, 1921: Tigers pounce in nightcap to halt Cleveland’s 8-game win streak
The end of World War I was less than three years in the past…
June 1, 1921: Giants’ Dave Bancroft homers, faints, and hits for cycle
After three consecutive seasons of finishing in second place…
June 2, 1921: Pat Duncan becomes first National Leaguer to clear fences at Cincinnati’s Redland Field
Jack Ryder was the beat writer who covered the Cincinnati Reds…
June 6, 1921: Bill Gatewood of Detroit Stars throws Negro National League’s first no-hitter
On June 6, 1921, Bill Gatewood of the Detroit Stars pitched the…
June 8, 1921: Yankees’ Babe Ruth goes from jail to the ballpark
When the New York Yankees took the field against the Cleveland…
June 10, 1921: Tigers beat Senators in game of ‘glaring errors of omission and commission’
The aim in baseball is to win by scoring more than your opponent.…
June 12, 1921: Monarchs’ Bullet Rogan bests Cincinnati’s José Leblanc in battle of Negro League aces
It was the middle of June, and the Kansas City Monarchs were…
June 13, 1921: Heinie Groh returns from holdout with two hits; Reds lose to Brooklyn
bottle bat 1. A baseball bat with an especially thick barrel,…