1900s – Page 4 – Society for American Baseball Research

Garry Herrmann (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS)

June 21, 1904: White Sox rally in the 9th to beat Cleveland, but Cincinnati is main focus as baseball, politics collide

August 1, 1904: Pirates’ Charlie Case hurls a one-of-a-kind shutout with 11 hits allowed, no strikeouts

Jesse Tannehill (Trading Card Database)

August 17, 1904: Jesse Tannehill throws Boston’s second no-hitter of season

September 1-3, 1904: Philadelphia Giants defeat Cuban X-Giants in championship series

George Winter (Trading Card DB)

September 15, 1904: New York Highlanders, Boston Americans tie for second day in a row

October 4, 1904: Sam Mertes hits for cycle, then Giants forfeit to Cardinals

Jack Chesbro (TRADING CARD DB)

October 7, 1904: Jack Chesbro wins 41st game of season for New York Highlanders

Jack Chesbro (TRADING CARD DB)

October 8, 1904: Clark Griffith rolls the dice and Chesbro loses to Boston on no rest

October 8, 1904: Boston’s Lou Criger guns down New York’s pennant hopes

October 10, 1904: Jack Chesbro uncorks a wild one

Fred Applegate (Baseball-Reference.com)

October 10, 1904: Rube Waddell salutes last-place Senators; Philadelphia’s Fred Applegate earns sole major-league win

April 25, 1905: Wee Willie Keeler hits walk-off, inside-the-park home run

April 28, 1905: Youngsters Ty Cobb, Eddie Cicotte, and Clyde Engle excel in Augusta’s South Atlantic League win over Macon

Christy Mathewson (SABR-Rucker Archive)

June 13, 1905: Christy Mathewson throws second no-hitter, wins duel with Three Finger Brown

June 29, 1905: Moonlight Graham’s only major-league game

Rube Waddell (Trading Card DB)

July 4, 1905: Rube Waddell pitches 20 innings, wins both games of doubleheader for Philadelphia A’s

August 15, 1905: Rube Waddell tosses rain-shortened no-hitter – or does he?

Ed Reulbach (TRADING CARD DB)

August 24, 1905: Rookie Ed Reulbach outlasts Tully Sparks as Cubs beat Phillies in 20 innings

Bill Dineen (TRADING CARD DB)

September 27, 1905: Boston’s Big Bill Dinneen no-hits the White Sox

Johnny Bates (Trading Card Database)

April 12, 1906: Boston’s Johnny Bates becomes first twentieth-century player to homer in first career at-bat

May 14, 1906: ‘Humpy’ Badel leads Buffalo Bisons to victory in home opener

June 7, 1906: Cubs wallop Mathewson and Giants, 19-0, at Polo Grounds

June 24, 1906: Tigers’ Germany Schaefer ‘wins by a nose’ after calling his shot

Frank Shaughnessy (COURTESY OF THE CANADIAN BASEBALL HALL OF FAME)

July 12, 1906: Frank Shaughnessy leads Ottawa to victory in outlaw Northern Independent League