
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…

September 5, 1921: Cleveland’s Elmer Smith sets record with seven consecutive extra-base hits over three games
For two days in September 1921, four pitchers on two teams had…

September 5, 1921: Hilldale’s Phil Cockrell tosses no-hitter against Detroit Stars
Phil Cockrell, raved the Philadelphia Inquirer, “drew transportation…

September 7, 1921: Teams split four hits in Dakota League action
For a certain type of twenty-first-century baseball fan – one…

September 8, 1921: Phillies rally for eight runs in ninth inning for comeback victory
Joe Oeschger, the ace of the Boston Braves pitching staff,…

September 9, 1921: Batting explosion ties American League record for total runs as White Sox top Tigers, 20-15
On September 9, 1921, the Chicago White Sox opened a three-game…

September 9, 1921: Giants move into first place with win over Brooklyn Robins
In late August 1921, John McGraw’s New York Giants were 7½…

September 12, 1921: Al Nixon’s ‘Rule of Three’ Game
The “Rule of Three” is based upon a perception that things…

September 14, 1921: Washington’s Walter Johnson, backed by a triple play, faces only 27 Browns batters
So great a pitcher was Walter Johnson that his September 14,…

September 15, 1921: Babe Ruth again breaks his own home run record with #55 at Polo Grounds
It came on a full count. A fastball a little bit up in the zone,…

September 16, 1921: Goose Goslin makes his major-league debut; Cleveland returns to first place
He was known for his ability to hit, and he could hit for power.…

September 19, 1921: Late-season, late-game collapse pushes Yankees to the brink
The defending world champion Cleveland Indians and the New York…

September 23, 1921: Athletics’ Fred Heimach shuts out White Sox for his first career win
Another eighth-place finish was almost a certainty for the homestanding…

September 24, 1921: White Sox break 11-game losing streak with 18-1 drubbing of Athletics
In a battle of the seventh- and eighth-place teams in the American…