Jesse Tannehill (Trading Card Database)

August 17, 1904: Jesse Tannehill throws Boston’s second no-hitter of season

Jesse Tannehill led the National League in ERA in 1901 with the…
George Winter (Trading Card DB)

September 15, 1904: New York Highlanders, Boston Americans tie for second day in a row

Avoiding stalemate proved difficult for the Boston Americans…

October 4, 1904: Sam Mertes hits for cycle, then Giants forfeit to Cardinals

The New York Giants and St. Louis Cardinals had scheduled a doubleheader…
Jack Chesbro (TRADING CARD DB)

October 7, 1904: Jack Chesbro wins 41st game of season for New York Highlanders

The New York Highlanders had come quickly, rushing into the American…
Jack Chesbro (TRADING CARD DB)

October 8, 1904: Clark Griffith rolls the dice and Chesbro loses to Boston on no rest

One of the greatest days in Boston baseball history – October…

October 8, 1904: Boston’s Lou Criger guns down New York’s pennant hopes

Lou Criger batted .211 for the Boston Americans in 1904 —…

October 10, 1904: Jack Chesbro uncorks a wild one

The band played Tessie as the penultimate game of the 1904 season…
Fred Applegate (Baseball-Reference.com)

October 10, 1904: Rube Waddell salutes last-place Senators; Philadelphia’s Fred Applegate earns sole major-league win

Rube Waddell approached home plate as Patsy Donovan came to bat…

April 25, 1905: Wee Willie Keeler hits walk-off, inside-the-park home run

The Washington Senators were dead last in the American League…
Christy Mathewson (SABR-Rucker Archive)

June 13, 1905: Christy Mathewson throws second no-hitter, wins duel with Three Finger Brown

For the New York Giants and Christy Mathewson, things could not…

June 29, 1905: Moonlight Graham’s only major-league game

If not for W.P. Kinsella, it’s likely that Archibald "Moonlight"…

August 15, 1905: Rube Waddell tosses rain-shortened no-hitter – or does he?

“With Rube] Waddell hurling the game of his life, the Browns…
Bill Dineen (TRADING CARD DB)

September 27, 1905: Boston’s Big Bill Dinneen no-hits the White Sox

When the August 15 game between the Boston Americans and Chicago…
Christy Mathewson (SABR-Rucker Archive)

October 9, 1905: Mathewson, Giants dominate Athletics in World Series opener as interleague championship resumes

The fall classic, the world’s championship of baseball, was…

June 7, 1906: Cubs wallop Mathewson and Giants, 19-0, at Polo Grounds

The Chicago Cubs arrived in New York to take on the Giants in…

June 24, 1906: Tigers’ Germany Schaefer ‘wins by a nose’ after calling his shot

“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” So said…

August 3, 1906: Steinfeldt called out twice on same play

In 1906, the Chicago Cubs played the Philadelphia Phillies 22…