
July 4, 1939: Boston’s Jim Tabor hits two grand slams at Shibe Park
On July 4, 1939, the Boston Red Sox engaged the Philadelphia…

July 4, 1939: Cubs’ Hank Leiber provides fireworks with three home runs
Sixteen games into the 1939 season, Cubs player-manager Gabby…

July 4, 1939: Lou Gehrig says farewell to baseball with ‘Luckiest Man’ speech at Yankee Stadium
Though both men were amazingly talented on the field, the Yankees’…

July 11, 1939: Yankees dominate, but an Indian saves the day in first Bronx All-Star Game
Yankee Stadium was the natural choice to hold the All-Star…

July 15, 1939: Red Sox blow their second straight 5-0 lead, but win again thanks to ‘Ted the Terror’
For 20-year-old Ted Williams, this was the third visit to Cleveland.…

July 19, 1939: Arky Vaughan hits for reverse natural cycle, leads Pirates past crippled Giants
The July 20, 1939, headline in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette read,…

August 6, 1939: Late home runs lift West to win in Negro League all-star game
As the Cheers resident know-it-all Cliff Clavin might have said,…

August 7, 1939: Ottawa Senators’ Wally Schang homers two weeks before his 50th birthday
After three seasons as a Cleveland Indians coach, former big-league…

August 10, 1939: Exhibition against minor-league namesake turns into rout for St. Louis Browns
Dating to the nineteenth century, the city of Youngstown, Ohio,…

August 13, 1939: A’s suffer worst home loss in Yankees beatdown
After streaking out of the gate early in the season, the New…

August 14, 1939: Chicago native Johnny Rigney pitches White Sox to historic win in first night game at Comiskey Park
On a warm August Monday night in Chicago, the sports news centered…

August 19, 1939: Ted Williams hits first grand slam for Red Sox
As the games were played through August 1939, the Boston Red…

August 26, 1939: Reds beat Dodgers in first televised game in ‘Comedy of Errors’
Seated at a table in a lower box seat among 33,535 fans at Ebbets…

August 28, 1939: Ted Williams’ 3-run homer stops 5-game Red Sox losing streak
Of the nine game-winning homers Ted Williams hit in his rookie…

August 29, 1939: Red Sox rookie Ted Williams hits another grand slam, second game-winner in a row
Ted Williams must have enjoyed his July and August 1939 visits…

September 3, 1939: Red Sox-Yankees game forfeited, rescheduled, then never played — ends in a 5-5 tie
The first time Boston’s American League team was involved in…

September 6, 1939: Gomez beats Grove in duel of Hall of Fame lefties
The Boston Red Sox arrived in New York for a three-game series,…

September 6-10, 1939: Baltimore Elite Giants top Newark Eagles in Negro National League playoffs
In 1939 both the Baltimore Elite Giants and the Newark Eagles…

September 9, 1939: Dodgers’ Chris Hartje delivers off the bench in major-league debut
Chris Hartje got his first taste of the major leagues as the…

September 10, 1939: Joe Cronin, Ted Williams put a damper on Philadelphia’s 100th anniversary baseball celebration
The 1939 Boston Red Sox fell from first place to second on their…

September 10, 1939: ‘Thumping’ Ted Williams goes on a batting binge
The Red Sox and Athletics squared off for the second game of…

September 12, 1939: White Sox victory voided on appeal
At first glance, the game played between the Chicago White Sox…

September 16-24, 1939: Baltimore Elite Giants defeat Homestead Grays in five-game championship series
Baltimore Elite Giants pitchers at Oriole/Terrapin Park, 1940.…

September 23, 1939: Dodgers flog Phillies, 22-4
To say neither the Dodgers nor the Phillies had much success…