Notable Debut – Page 3 – Society for American Baseball Research

April 20, 1916: Chicago Cubs play their first game at Wrigley Field

Burleigh Grimes (Trading Card DB)

September 10, 1916: Pirates’ 6-run ninth completes comeback and makes Burleigh Grimes a winner in debut

Tinti Molina (Trading Card DB)

May 9, 1920: The first all-Latino lineup in major-league baseball

July 2, 1920: Cardinals get first win at Sportsman’s Park as Doak swashbuckles Pirates

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

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

September 16, 1921: Goose Goslin makes his major-league debut; Cleveland returns to first place

October 3, 1921: A Negro League team plays in Sportsman’s Park for the first time

September 21, 1922: Doc Hamann makes inglorious debut for Indians

April 18, 1923: Babe Ruth homers in Yankee Stadium’s grand opening, hinting at franchise’s dynastic future

June 15, 1923: Lou Gehrig plays first game in Yankee pinstripes

June 2, 1925: Gehrig replaces Pipp as Miller Huggins shakes up Yankees lineup

April 16, 1929: Earl Averill homers in first plate appearance during Indians’ debut

July 5, 1930: Black baseball comes to Yankee Stadium on behalf of the Pullman Porters

September 28, 1930: Dizzy Dean makes debut and dazzles in season finale for World Series-bound Cardinals

July 31, 1932: Lefty Grove shuts out Indians in first game at Cleveland Stadium

September 8, 1933: Mel Almada becomes the first Mexican native to play in a major-league baseball game

April 29, 1934: Sunday professional baseball comes to Pittsburgh

May 24, 1935: Reds fans see the lights in first night game in MLB history

May 3, 1936: Next in line: Joe DiMaggio makes Yankees debut

August 23, 1936: Bob Feller wins first career start for Cleveland Indians

April 20, 1937: Bobby Doerr records 3 hits in his Red Sox debut

June 11, 1937: Poffenberger gets best of Grove in debut

Red Barber

April 18, 1939: Red Barber graces the airwaves in first Brooklyn Dodgers radio broadcast