September 30, 1951: Ned Garver wins 20th for sad-sack St. Louis Browns
The NL dominated the headlines on the last day of the 1951 regular…

September 30, 1951: Giants defeat Braves to set up playoff for NL pennant
As the 1951 National League season entered its final weekend,…

October 1, 1951: Thomson, Giants get best of Branca, Dodgers in NL playoff opener
At 9:30 on the evening of September 30, 1951, the New York…

October 2, 1951: Clem Labine shuts out Giants, Jackie Robinson homers to knot NL playoff at one game apiece
“Dressen first saw this boy in Boston in 1944 when a group…

October 3, 1951: The Giants Win The Pennant!
On August 11, 1951, the second-place New York Giants trailed…

October 4, 1951: Monte Irvin steals home as Giants take Game 1 over Yankees
As Monte Irvin stepped into the batter’s box in the eighth…

October 5, 1951: Eddie Lopat’s hurling, hitting lead Yankees to Game 2 win over Giants
In Game Two of the 1951 World Series, Eddie Lopat of the New…

October 6, 1951: Eddie Stanky leads Giants past Yankees in Game 3
After his brain cramp in Game Two of the 1951 World Series, Eddie…

October 8, 1951: A day of rain, and Reynolds rather than Sain, lifts Yankees in Game 4
After outscoring the New York Yankees 12-6 to take two of the…

October 9, 1951: Gil McDougald’s grand slam leads Yankees to Game 5 rout of Giants
The pendulum kept swinging the same way after the New York Yankees…

October 10, 1951: Yankees edge Giants in Game 6 to win third straight World Series
The clock finally struck midnight on the Cinderella New York…

April 15, 1952: Eddie Mathews debuts in final Boston Braves home opener
Boston Braves fans had few reasons to be hopeful as the 1952…

April 18, 1952: Willie Mays makes his greatest catch — no, not that one
New York Giants fans loved Willie Mays, the exciting young…

April 18, 1952: ‘Dutch the Clutch’ Vollmer sparks first Red Sox home opener win in 5 years
Things weren’t looking that good for the Red Sox heading into…

April 19, 1952: Boston College wins hard-fought ‘Battle of Commonwealth Avenue’
The rivalry between Boston College and Boston University is a…

April 23, 1952: Giants’ Hoyt Wilhelm hits home run in first career at-bat, then earns first career victory
A small crowd of 4,611 braved the “steel gray day”1 at New…

April 23, 1952: Browns’ Bob Cain beats Bob Feller in a battle of one-hitters
The Cleveland Indians may have been reaching for some strong…

April 30, 1952: Before leaving for the Marine Corps, Ted Williams homers to win a game for Red Sox
Over the course of his career, Ted Williams homered six times…

April 30, 1952: Negro League star Buster Clarkson makes his National League debut for Boston Braves
It was a warm spring day in Pittsburgh as 2,861 fans filed into…

May 1, 1952: Cubs defeat Dodgers, flirt with first place for three days
The 1952 baseball season had turned the page to May, and the…

May 15, 1952: Virgil Trucks’s first no-hitter ends with Tigers walk-off
“If manager Red Rolfe had written the script, the Tigers could…

May 21, 1952: Dodgers rout Reds with 15-run first inning
In the 1950s, a kid’s trip to a Dodgers game at Ebbets Field…

May 27, 1952: Willie Mays leads Giants over Dodgers as Army induction approaches
Willie Mays missed nearly two full seasons due to military…

June 4, 1952: Cleveland’s Larry Doby hits for the cycle, drives in six runs in loss to Red Sox
In the early months of the 1952 season, the Cleveland Indians…