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May 7, 1940: Cardinals tie NL record with seven home runs in rout of Dodgers
As the 1940 season began, the Cardinals were sputtering in the…
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May 13, 1940: Johnny Mize mashes three home runs as Cardinals, Reds tie in Ladies’ Day darkness
Going into the 1940 season, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Reds…
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May 18, 1940: Young Roy Campanella clouts two home runs for Baltimore Elite Giants
For decades, baseball had been played in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,…
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May 24, 1940: Cleveland spoils Browns’ first night game in St. Louis
For nearly 15 minutes 25,562 excitedly impatient fans had been…
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May 26, 1940: Derringer dazzles as Reds celebrate a pennant flag
Paul Derringer had struggled before. Two years after a brilliant…
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June 1, 1940: Pee Wee Reese gets beaned by Cubs, leading to bleacher changes at Wrigley
Babe Ruth joined the Brooklyn Dodgers as they traveled by train…
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June 8, 1940: Reds’ Harry Craft hits for cycle as ‘our lads annihilate Dodgers’
Baseball fans are usually divided into two camps: those who enjoy…
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June 15, 1940: Harry Danning’s cycle leads Giants rout after Pirates miss batting practice
On June 15, 1940, Mother Nature must have been a New York fan.…
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June 16, 1940: Ted Lyons pitches 12 innings; Ted Williams hits a game-winning homer
The Chicago White Sox hosted a Sunday afternoon doubleheader…
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July 4, 1940: Ab Wright’s bombastic Independence Day leads Millers over Saints
On the morning of July 4, 1940, the St. Paul Saints defeated…
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July 5, 1940: Another Brooklyn-Boston marathon ends in 20-inning Dodger win
For a while, Boston National League fans who saw Brooklyn play…
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July 5, 1940: Surging Reds score 3 in the ninth to sweep Pirates
June 1940 ended with the reigning National League champion Cincinnati…
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July 9, 1940: Five NL pitchers combine for first All-Star shutout at Sportsman’s Park
Under a broiling midsummer sun, five National League pitchers…
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July 13, 1940: Johnny Mize’s cycle boosts Cardinals in walk-off win over Giants
The New York Times described the outcome of a 1940 midseason…
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July 19, 1940: Yankees’ backup backstop Buddy Rosar hits for the cycle
The New York Yankees entered 1940 as baseball’s first-ever…
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July 28, 1940: Bobo Newsom finally loses after 13-game winning streak
The 1940 season was the finest of Bobo Newsom’s 20-year major-league…
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August 2, 1940: Joe Cronin hits for second career cycle in Red Sox-Tigers slugfest
A modest crowd of 8,693 passed the turnstiles at Briggs Stadium…
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August 5, 1940: John Whitehead tosses abbreviated no-hitter for last big-league victory
“For some time now large John has been in danger of being booted…
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August 5, 1940: Bound for majors, Fred Caligiuri, Phil McCullough square off in Class D gem
In 1940 baseball was truly America’s national game. But it…
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September 2, 1940: Rookie sensation Sid Hudson outduels Lefty Grove in marathon thriller
The fans had reason to question the wisdom of manager Bucky Harris…
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September 8, 1940: Joe Gordon’s cycle leads Yankees over Red Sox in packed Fenway Park
On September 8, 1940, there were still four teams in the American…
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September 24, 1940: Jimmie Foxx finally hits 500th home run
In mid-August of 1940, Jimmie Foxx went on a homer-hitting…
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September 27, 1940: Frustrated Red Sox, out of pennant race, crush Senators 24-4
The potent Red Sox lineup of 1940 hadn’t been enough to overcome…
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September 27, 1940: Tigers clinch American League pennant behind Floyd Giebell
The Cleveland Indians certainly started off the 1940 season in…