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…
October 1, 1920: Cubs’ Pete Alexander outduels Cardinals rookie Jesse Haines in 17 innings
The biggest story in baseball history was breaking in Chicago…
October 2, 1920: Reds, Pirates split three games in the last major-league tripleheader
“It’s a great day for a ball game; let’s play two!”…
October 2, 1920: Jim Bagby wins his 31st game as Cleveland clinches its first pennant
By the time the 1920 baseball season wound down to the last couple…
October 3, 1920: The long and short of Monty Swartz’s big-league career
Thousands of players have had short major-league careers. Comparatively…
October 5, 1920: Coveleski goes the distance to give Indians 1-0 lead in World Series
The 1920 best-of-nine World Series opened on October 5 at…
October 6, 1920: Burleigh Grimes throws World Series shutout for Brooklyn
Fans in Brooklyn lined up outside Ebbets Field for tickets…
October 7, 1920: Sherry Smith stymies Cleveland bats in Game 3
Acrowd of just over 25,000 filed into Ebbets Field in Brooklyn…
October 9, 1920: Coveleski stops Brooklyn to tie World Series at 2-2
Fortunes turn fast in baseball. After Cleveland won Game One…
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…
October 11, 1920: Duster Mails shuts out Brooklyn to bring Cleveland to verge of championship
“Brooklyn will be lucky to get a foul off me today. If Spoke…
October 12, 1920: Cleveland Indians win their first World Series
The Brooklyn Robins were on the brink of elimination in the 1920…
October 17, 1920: American Giants barely avoid no-hitter and win ‘Little World Series’
One of the doubleheader’s several previews in the New York…
October 31, 1920: Chicago American Giants end historic season with loss to Jack Quinn-led Normals
It was almost November, but Rube Foster‘s 1920 Chicago American…
December 4, 1920: Big-time college football comes to Braves Field
The 1920 Boston College-Holy Cross football game was an important…
April 13, 1921: Boston’s Sad Sam Jones beats a struggling Walter Johnson on Opening Day in Washington
President Warren G. Harding, center, throws out the ceremonial…
April 13, 1921: Ivy Olson’s 9th-inning single wins it for Brooklyn over Braves on Opening Day
No matter how bright or bleak the prospects for the coming season,…
April 13, 1921: Giants top Phillies in 11 innings to start their 1921 championship season
The New York Giants fell short of the National League pennant…
April 13, 1921: Babe Ruth opens Yankees’ season with 5-for-5 ‘one-handed’ performance
Babe Ruth opened the New York Yankees’ 1921 season by hitting…
April 13, 1921: Reds surge in eighth inning, beat Pirates on Opening Day
The Cincinnati Reds had endured a rough winter. Confessions of…
April 14, 1921: Harry Heilmann’s walk-off hit wins Ty Cobb’s managerial debut for Tigers
Following the highs of a 1917 world championship and a 1919 American…
April 20, 1921: Eppa Rixey wins his first game for Cincinnati Reds
After winning the 1919 World Series, the Cincinnati Reds had…
April 21, 1921: Sam Jones shuts out Senators in Red Sox home opener
Sad Sam Jones had won the season opener for the Red Sox with…
April 21, 1921: A cloud over Chicago as White Sox return for home opener after World Series scandal
There was a dark cloud over Comiskey Park in Chicago as the Chicago…