1920s – Page 5 – Society for American Baseball Research

Jack Tobin (TRADING CARD DB)

July 23, 1921: As hot as summer in St. Louis, Browns take eighth straight game

Bullet Rogan (TRADING CARD DB)

July 25, 1921: Monarchs’ Bullet Rogan hits 2-run homer in 9th-inning comeback over Detroit Stars

July 26, 1921: Brooklyn’s Burleigh Grimes wins an ‘Old Time Pitchers’ Duel’ against Cubs’ Alexander

Ross Youngs, circa 1921 (SABR-RUCKER ARCHIVE)

July 26, 1921: Ross Youngs rallies Giants past Pirates in showdown of league leaders

Irish Meusel (TRADING CARD DB)

July 28, 1921: Irish Meusel, Phil Douglas, Frankie Frisch lead Giants to comeback win over Pirates in series finale

Dick Redding (TRADING CARD DB)

July 31, 1921: Atlantic City Bacharach Giants pound the Indianapolis ABCs at Ebbets Field

Johnny Evers (TRADING CARD DB)

August 3, 1921: Cubs split doubleheader as manager Johnny Evers faces health questions

Broadcaster Harold Arlin of KDKA in 1925 (George Westinghouse Museum Collection, Detre Library & Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center Pittsburgh, PA)

August 5, 1921: KDKA’s Harold Arlin broadcasts first baseball game over commercial radio as Pirates rally to beat Phillies

George Mogridge (TRADING CARD DB)

August 5, 1921: George Mogridge, Senators win 11th game in a row

August 8, 1921: Browns rookie Luke Stuart hits inside-the-park home run in first major-league at-bat

Max Flack (TRADING CARD DB)

August 9, 1921: Three homers plus three errors equal one Giant defeat

Harvey Freeman (BASEBALL-REFERENCE.COM)

August 9, 1921: Harvey Freeman earns only career win against defending champion Cleveland

August 9, 1921: Whistling Dixie in the nation’s capital: Browns’ Davis goes all 19 innings for ironman victory

Frankie Frisch (TRADING CARD DB)

August 11, 1921: Giants win a ‘humdinger’ over Brooklyn with two late comebacks and 13th-inning rally

August 12, 1921: George Smith scatters 12 hits in record shutout victory as Phillies sweep doubleheader

August 13, 1921: Mule Watson wins both games of doubleheader as Braves sweep Phillies

August 13, 1921: George Sisler becomes first American League player to hit for the cycle twice

George Sisler (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY)

August 15, 1921: Browns move above .500 as George Sisler, Dixie Davis flirt with history

Walt Cruise (TRADING CARD DB)

August 16, 1921: Walt Cruise’s Jury Box clout gets Braves started in see-saw affair with Cubs

August 19, 1921: Ty Cobb joins the 3,000-hit club

Stan Coveleskie (TRADING CARD DB)

August 20, 1921: Cleveland’s Stan Coveleski wins 20th game for fourth consecutive season

August 21, 1921: George Mogridge, Senators get the best of depleted White Sox

August 22, 1921: Cy Williams’s Baker Bowl blast breaks up pitchers’ duel in 12th inning

Carson Bigbee (Trading Card DB)

August 22, 1921: Pittsburgh Pirates win 10-8 slugfest over Boston Braves, increase NL lead