
December 9, 1925: Red Grange, Chicago Bears bring professional football to Boston
From the birth of the National Football League, in 1922, it took…

April 13, 1926: First Red Sox game is broadcast on Boston radio
Few baseball writers predicted big things for the 1926 Boston…

April 13, 1926: Big Train takes a long journey to defeat Connie Mack’s Athletics
Opening Day, at least as far as the Washington Senators were…

April 27, 1926: Washington’s Walter Johnson records his 400th win in major leagues
Throughout time superstars in baseball perform extraordinary…

May 12, 1926: Walter Johnson records 403rd career win
Twenty-four major-league pitchers have won 300 or more games…

June 21, 1926: Reds’ Wally Pipp ends the longest day of 1926 in 16th inning
It began just after 3:00 in the afternoon when Cincinnati’s…

July 10, 1926: Violent vicissitudes as A’s rally to beat White Sox, 17-14
Philadelphia is not known the to be coolest place to summer…

July 10, 1926: Senators explode for 12 runs in eighth inning
On Saturday, July 10, 1926, the temperature in Washington reached…

August 11, 1926: Mutinous Pirates ousted after loss to Brooklyn
The defending world champion Pittsburgh Pirates were in first…

September 16, 1926: Cardinals keep first pennant in sight with 23-3 rout of Phillies
The St. Louis Cardinals were in a fight for the National League…

September 17, 1926: Frankie Frisch, Giants derail Reds’ pennant drive
On the eve of the 1926 season, the venerated New York Giants…

September 26, 1926: Tigers’ Bob Fothergill hits for natural cycle on last day of season
With one day left in the American League schedule, Detroit’s…

October 3, 1926: Red Grier throws a no-hitter in Negro League World Series
Red Grier wouldn’t have had the chance to pitch one of the…

October 5, 1926: Cardinals’ Jesse Haines tosses shutout and homers in first World Series game in St. Louis
“Screams, shrieks, whoops, bawls, howls, hollers, roars swept…

October 6, 1926: Babe Ruth becomes first player to hit three homers in World Series game
The American League home-run leader with 47 in 1926, Babe…

October 7, 1926: Tony Lazzeri’s sacrifice fly wins Game 5 for Yankees in extra innings
A crowd of 39,552, the largest of the three games at Sportsman’s…

October 9, 1926: Red Grange returns to Boston with upstart pro football league
Less than a year after Red Grange and the Chicago Bears debuted…

October 10, 1926: Pete Alexander saves the day
The seventh game of the 1926 World Series between the St. Louis…
April 12, 1927: Cubs wallop defending champion Cardinals on Opening Day
In the early part of 1927, the Midwest was bursting with anticipation…

April 12, 1927: Murderers’ Row Yankees kick off new pennant chase amid overflowing crowds
For the first of its eventual 110 wins, the 1927 Yankees team…

May 10, 1927: Ty Cobb returns home to Detroit with Philadelphia A’s
Forty thousand fans turned out at Navin Field on a cloudy and…

May 30, 1927: Jimmy Cooney turns unassisted triple play as Cubs beat Pirates in 10 innings
Shortstop Jimmy Cooney’s rare defensive play highlighted the…

May 31, 1927: Johnny Neun’s unassisted triple play preserves victory for Detroit Tigers
Johnny Neun, the Detroit Tigers’ 26-year-old backup first baseman,…

June 4, 1927: Umpire Gerald Hayes halts tie game, infuriates Syracuse crowd
The Syracuse (New York) Stars, managed by Burt Shotton, were…