1910s – Page 12 – Society for American Baseball Research

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

John “Beans” Reardon, left, wearing a flu mask underneath his umpire’s mask, prepares to call a pitch in a California Winter League game on January 26, 1919, in Pasadena, California. During a global influenza pandemic, all players and fans were required by city ordinance to wear facial coverings at all times while outdoors. The catcher and batter’s identities are unconfirmed, but the best available evidence suggests it might be Truck Hannah behind the plate and Rube Ellis at bat.

January 26, 1919: The Flu Mask Baseball Game

April 18, 1919: Babe Ruth thrills hometown Baltimore fans with 6 home runs in 6 at-bats