July 20, 1925: Dodgers’ Dazzy Vance ties NL record with 17 strikeouts
Hard-throwing Dazzy Vance was in agony. Brooklyn sportswriter…
May 7, 1925: Glenn Wright turns unassisted triple play as Cardinals rally past Pirates
“Nice work, kid,” St. Louis Cardinals second baseman Rogers…
July 23, 1933: Seals’ Joe DiMaggio extends hitting streak to 60 games
When Joe DiMaggio laced a single in the San Francisco Seals’…
September 5, 1921: Cleveland’s Elmer Smith sets record with seven consecutive extra-base hits over three games
For two days in September 1921, four pitchers on two teams had…
September 16, 1924: Cardinals’ Jim Bottomley sets single-game record with 12 RBIs
Hall of Famer Jim Bottomley was nicknamed Sunny Jim for his happy…
September 24, 1920: Babe Ruth becomes first player to hit 50 home runs in a season
When Babe Ruth was traded to the New York Yankees by Boston Red…
September 24, 1920: Babe Ruth hits 51st homer just hours after reaching milestone
With Babe Ruth’s 50th home run of the year in the record books,…
September 29, 1920: Babe Ruth hits 54th home run to cap off first season with Yankees
Babe Ruth was hammering the final stamp onto one of baseball’s…
July 15, 1921: Babe Ruth’s 138th career home run ties Roger Connor’s big-league record
It was a “mastodonic thrust,” according to the New York Times.1…
September 15, 1921: Babe Ruth again breaks his own home run record with #55 at Polo Grounds
It came on a full count. A fastball a little bit up in the zone,…
September 20, 1919: Babe Ruth ties single-season home run record with No. 27 in a walk-off
For 35 seasons, Ed Williamson of the Chicago Cubs held the major-league…
September 24, 1919: Babe Ruth passes Ed Williamson’s mark with record 28th home run of season
Babe Ruth wanted more money. The star pitcher and home-run hitter…
July 19, 1920: Babe Ruth breaks his own record with 30th home run
With two months left in the 1920 season, the New York Yankees…
September 28, 1930: Comeback Cubs prevail as Hack Wilson sets RBI mark
It is often said in sports that records are meant to be broken.…
October 8, 1929: Howard Ehmke sets down Cubs in surprise start with a World Series record 13 strikeouts
Poor Charlie Root. Here’s a guy who had a very respectable…
July 30, 1933: Dizzy Dean fans 17 Cubs for new modern strikeout record
“[He] pitched with devastating speed, his curves breaking fast…
October 6, 1923: Ernie Padgett’s unassisted triple play
In 1923, the National League Braves and the American League Red…
July 13, 1934: The Babe bashes 700th career home run
Babe Ruth spent 15 years of his 22-year major-league career with…
July 18, 1921: Babe Ruth’s 560-foot blast against Tigers sets career home run record
It was the bottom of the eighth inning in a summer contest at…
September 30, 1927: Babe Ruth hits record 60th home run
Baseball history is filled with accounts of memorable home runs.…
August 14, 1933: Foxx hits for the cycle, drives in record 9 runs
Four months into another season of mashing American League pitching,…
October 10, 1920: A game of World Series firsts: unassisted triple play and grand slam
A pivotal Game Five in the 1920 World Series was on the horizon…
June 3, 1932: Lou Gehrig hits four home runs, Tony Lazzeri hits for cycle in Yankees romp
It was a game of excess, played on a Friday afternoon in Philadelphia’s…
July 10, 1932: Athletics outlast Indians in 18-inning slugfest
On July 10, 1932, the Philadelphia Athletics played the Cleveland…