1910s – Page 12 – Society for American Baseball Research

May 5, 1918: Breaking the Sabbath: Navy Yard stars win exhibition at Braves Field

May 6, 1918: Brooklyn’s Dan Griner loses no-hitter with two outs in the ninth

May 6, 1918: Boston’s Babe Ruth makes his first start as a position player

May 7, 1918: Boston Braves blow out Brooklyn, 16-0

May 8, 1918: The wildest, wobbliest, weirdest windup as Reds score nine in 9th

May 15, 1918: Walter Johnson and Lefty Williams spar for 18 innings

May 19, 1918: Senators’ first Sunday game draws record crowd in Washington

May 20, 1918: Four late-game comebacks result in dizzying victory for A’s

June 13, 1918: Cardinals rookie Cliff Heathcote hits for cycle in 19-inning tie game

July 2, 1918: Burleigh Grimes blanks Braves amid pressure to ‘work or fight’

July 17, 1918: Cubs’ Lefty Tyler outduels Phillies’ Watson in 21-inning marathon

Bullet Joe Bush (Trading Card DB)

July 22, 1918: Bullet Joe Bush throws his fifth 1-0 shutout of season for surging Red Sox

July 25, 1918: Senators’ Walter Johnson and Browns’ Allen Sothoron battle for 15 innings

August 1, 1918: Boston Braves’ Art Nehf blanks Pirates for 20 innings, loses shutout and game in 21st

August 4, 1918: Ty Cobb’s single in 18th inning defeats Walter Johnson

Donnie Bush (Library of Congress)

August 16, 1918: Tigers rally for six in 9th, beat Walter Johnson and Senators in 16 innings

August 24, 1918: Cubs clinch fifth National League pennant in 13 years with doubleheader sweep

September 2, 1918: Braves, Giants finish a season cut short by war

September 5, 1918: Babe Ruth tosses shutout in Game 1 as patriotism prevails in World Series opener

September 6, 1918: Lefty Tyler’s pitching, batting tie World Series at 1-1

Carl Mays (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY)

September 7, 1918: Boston’s Carl Mays outduels Cubs’ Hippo Vaughn in Game 3

Babe Ruth with the Boston Red sox, circa 1917 (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS)

September 9, 1918: Babe Ruth finally gets his first base hit in a World Series game

Hippo Vaughn (TRADING CARD DB)

September 10, 1918: Players decide not to strike during World Series as Cubs shut out Red Sox in Game 5

Carl Mays (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY)

September 11, 1918: Red Sox win their fifth World Series as Carl Mays stops Cubs