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April 20, 1945: Sandlock’s first homer not enough in Dodgers’ loss to Giants

An all services honor guard with President Franklin D. Roosevelt's casket in the East Room of the White House, April 14, 1945. (FDR LIBRARY)

April 20, 1945: Baseball and a nation mourn its beloved leader after President Roosevelt’s death

Dave Ferriss (Trading Card DB)

April 29, 1945: Boo Ferriss wins major-league debut and launches historic run

Dave Ferriss (Trading Card DB)

May 6, 1945: Rookie Boo Ferriss wins second of eight consecutive decisions to start career

Dave Ferriss (Trading Card DB)

May 13, 1945: Boo Ferriss’s scoreless inning streak ends, but he still wins third straight

May 16, 1945: Rookie Jack Creel’s extended one-hit relief not enough for Cardinals to top Braves

Dave Ferriss (Trading Card DB)

May 18, 1945: Boo Ferriss shuts out White Sox for fourth straight win

Dave Ferriss (Trading Card DB)

May 23, 1945: Boo Ferriss beats Browns for fifth straight win

May 26, 1945: Dodgers end losing streak behind Sandlock’s three hits

Dave Ferriss (Trading Card DB)

May 27, 1945: Boo Ferriss one-hits White Sox for sixth consecutive win

Dave Ferriss (Trading Card DB)

May 31, 1945: Boo Ferriss wins seventh consecutive game to start career

Dave Ferriss (Trading Card DB)

June 6, 1945: Boo Ferriss wins record 8th straight game to start career

June 19, 1945: Reds’ Joe Bowman bests Red Barrett in ‘Titanic Hill Duel’

July 1, 1945: Tigers’ Hank Greenberg returns to baseball

July 3, 1945: Cruel Cubs brutalize Braves, 24-2

Tommy Holmes (Trading Card DB)

July 6, 1945: Tommy Holmes’s greatest day and greatest season

NL President Ford Frick in his office, no date (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY)

July 10, 1945: MLB All-Star Game canceled during World War II

Dave Ferriss (Trading Card DB)

July 10, 1945: Red Sox beat Braves in Boston’s ‘All-Star Replacement Game’ in 1945

Bob Elliott (Trading Card DB)

July 15, 1945: Bob Elliott hits for the cycle, drives in 6 runs to lead Pirates’ rout over Dodgers

Joe Berry (Trading Card DB)

July 21, 1945: Athletics, Tigers play to record setting 24-inning tie

July 29, 1945: West offense lights up Comiskey Park to break deadlock in Negro League all-star series

August 1, 1945: Mel Ott swats 500th career home run for Giants

August 4, 1945: Pirates rookie Salkeld hits for cycle, sets two records

August 10, 1945: Browns win slugfest at the bottom of the American League

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