
August 27, 1949: Tiny Bonham’s last game
The Pittsburgh Pirates were firmly entrenched in sixth place…

September 2, 1949: Dodgers rookie Don Newcombe tosses third straight shutout on Bill Klem Night
On July 8, 1949, the New York Giants − in their 67th season…

September 4, 1949: Phillies score a miraculous doubleheader sweep over Braves
On September 4, 1949, the fourth-place Philadelphia Phillies…

September 11, 1949: Four Senators pitchers set major-league record with 11 walks in one inning
In 2020 the average nine-inning major-league baseball game lasted…

September 13, 1949: Red Munger’s $50 night leads Cardinals to 1-0 win over Giants
In 1949, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch distributed $50 savings…

September 14, 1949: Red Sox get 1-0 win over Tigers on a sixth-inning home run by Ted Williams
The race for the American League pennant had tightened considerably.…

September 14, 1949: Ed Sanicki rips home run off Rip Sewell in his first big-league at-bat for Phillies
Ed Sanicki didn’t believe in saving his best for last.
In his…

September 21, 1949: Red Sox win 19th consecutive game at Fenway Park
There were 27 hits in this game, 10 bases on balls, and 10 pitchers…

September 27, 1949: Ted Williams reaches base safely for a record 84th consecutive game
Joe DiMaggio – a 56-game hitting streak. It’s a statistic…

September 29, 1949: Former Cardinal Murry Dickson knocks St. Louis out of first place
In January 1949, the St. Louis Cardinals sold right-hander Murry…

October 2, 1949: Yankees come out on top in winner-take-all contest
At the end of the 1948 season, the New York Yankees fired their…

October 2, 1949: Browns end season on high note with rookie Ed Albrecht’s 1-hitter
On October 2, 1949, it might have seemed hard to believe that…

October 5, 1949: Allie Reynolds two-hitter, Tommy Henrich home run give Yankees a 1-0 win in World Series opener
“A baseball season’s never ended. You play ’em all over…

October 6, 1949: Preacher Roe shuts out Yankees in Game 2 to even World Series
“One day when I was three years old my Uncle Bathis (my daddy’s…

October 7, 1949: Johnny Mize’s first World Series was all right
As pennant races go, the 1949 races in both the American and…

October 8, 1949: One highly productive inning not enough for Dodgers in Game 4
They lined up. In the small hours after the New York Yankees…

October 9, 1949: Yankees ‘dumbfounded that they won it so easily’
As Dodgers fans streamed through Ebbets Field’s turnstiles…

April 18, 1950: Sal Maglie returns to Giants after four-season suspension hiatus
When Sal Maglie reached the major leagues on August 9, 1945,…

April 18, 1950: Exit Ken Keltner, enter Al Rosen as Detroit defeats Cleveland on Opening Day
Every player goes through it. The speed slows just a bit, the…

April 18, 1950: Yankees storm back from 9-run deficit to beat Red Sox on Opening Day
The 1950 season began with a dramatic rematch between two rivals…

April 18, 1950: Robin Roberts wins first Opening Day start for Phillies
It was a “sticky, gray day and the sun never did break through…

April 18, 1950: From deathbed to first base: Eddie Waitkus returns after near-fatal shooting
“I didn’t know if I’d ever play ball again,” Eddie Waitkus…

April 19, 1950: Red Sox win Patriots Day game against the Yankees
The Patriots Day dual-admission doubleheader at Fenway Park constituted…

April 21, 1950: A barrier partially falls: Sam Jethroe’s first game in Boston
More than nine years before Pumpsie Green first played for the…