
July 31, 1921: Atlantic City Bacharach Giants pound the Indianapolis ABCs at Ebbets Field
Sunday games were the big games for Negro League teams, when…

August 3, 1921: Cubs split doubleheader as manager Johnny Evers faces health questions
Chicago was saturated with rain. Newspaper boys peddled local…

August 5, 1921: KDKA’s Harold Arlin broadcasts first baseball game over commercial radio as Pirates rally to beat Phillies
Jimmy Zinn spent 1921 as a swingman on the Pittsburgh Pirates’…

August 5, 1921: George Mogridge, Senators win 11th game in a row
When the Washington Senators obtained left-handed pitcher George…

August 8, 1921: Browns rookie Luke Stuart hits inside-the-park home run in first major-league at-bat
In a game characterized by lots of hits (27) and lots of errors…

August 9, 1921: Three homers plus three errors equal one Giant defeat
The New York Giants were at the end of a grueling Western road…

August 9, 1921: Harvey Freeman earns only career win against defending champion Cleveland
Some players are fortunate enough to play major-league baseball…

August 9, 1921: Whistling Dixie in the nation’s capital: Browns’ Davis goes all 19 innings for ironman victory
It was a “marvelous exhibition of skill and stamina,” gushed…

August 11, 1921: Giants win a ‘humdinger’ over Brooklyn with two late comebacks and 13th-inning rally
On the morning of August 11, 1921, the New York Giants were in…

August 12, 1921: George Smith scatters 12 hits in record shutout victory as Phillies sweep doubleheader
Going into the 1921 season, the Philadelphia Phillies knew their…

August 13, 1921: George Sisler becomes first American League player to hit for the cycle twice
Just four days after banging six hits against the Washington…

August 15, 1921: Browns move above .500 as George Sisler, Dixie Davis flirt with history
A mid-August matchup between two middle-of-the-pack teams is…

August 16, 1921: Walt Cruise’s Jury Box clout gets Braves started in see-saw affair with Cubs
Following their “Miracle” National League pennant and World…

August 19, 1921: Ty Cobb joins the 3,000-hit club
Hall of Famer Ty Cobb said, “Baseball is a red-blooded sport…

August 20, 1921: Cleveland’s Stan Coveleski wins 20th game for fourth consecutive season
Winning 20 games in a season was once a hallmark of excellence…

August 21, 1921: George Mogridge, Senators get the best of depleted White Sox
The teams that met at Chicago’s Comiskey Park on August 21,…

August 22, 1921: Cy Williams’s Baker Bowl blast breaks up pitchers’ duel in 12th inning
The Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies, two teams firmly…

August 22, 1921: Pittsburgh Pirates win 10-8 slugfest over Boston Braves, increase NL lead
August of 1921 had been a good month for the Pittsburgh Pirates,…

August 24, 1921: Giants close gap on Pirates with 10-2 win in doubleheader opener
The New York Giants and manager John J. McGraw entered the 1921…

August 27, 1921: Giants beat Pirates 3-1 to complete 5-game sweep
On Wednesday, August 24, 1921, the Pittsburgh Pirates and New…

August 30, 1921: Pirates’ Dave Robertson ‘runs gamut of hits’ as first player to hit for the cycle at Ebbets Field
With a little more than a month left in the 1921 regular season,…

August 30, 1921: George Sisler’s five hits lift St. Louis Browns into third place
“Playing like real pennant chasers, the St. Louis Browns swamped…

September 4, 1921: Braves’ Oeschger, Southworth derail Giants’ road to the pennant
Built in 1913, the John T. Brush Stairway, a cast-iron staircase…

September 5, 1921: Reds’ Eppa Rixey tosses 13-inning, complete-game victory over faltering Pirates
The Pittsburgh Pirates seemed poised to win their first National…