October 6, 1940: Bobo Newsom honors father with World Series win
The 1940 World Series featured the National League champion Cincinnati…
October 7, 1940: Reds’ Bucky Walters hurls World Series shutout to force deciding Game 7
Before the 1940 World Series began, it might have seemed as if…
October 8, 1940: Reds pitching prevails and Cincinnati celebrates first World Series title in two decades
After Bobo Newsom shut the Reds out 8-0 in the fifth game of…
April 14, 1941: FDR deals and Phil Rizzuto debuts for Yankees as the drumbeats of war grow louder
As winter turned to spring in 1941, war was spreading across…
May 7, 1941: ‘Loose-jointed fly chaser’ Ted Williams homers twice, wins game in 11th
It took two Ted Williams home runs for The Kid to win this game.…
May 13, 1941: Bobo Newsom asks for the loss
In 1940, the Detroit Tigers ended the New York Yankees’ run…
May 25, 1941: The Captain America Game: Dodgers’ Pete Reiser hits inside-the-park grand slam to beat Phillies
In the final scene of the Marvel movie Captain America:…
May 28, 1941: George Selkirk’s grand slam wins for Yankees in first night game at Griffith Stadium
On the heels of the British navy’s sinking of the German battleship…
June 1, 1941: Chuck Aleno’s rookie record hitting streak ends
When five Philadelphia Phillies pitchers stopped David Dahl without…
June 16, 1941: DiMaggio ties Yankee record with 29-game hitting streak
Joe DiMaggio was just getting started on “this streak business”1…
July 2, 1941: Hot Streaks: Joe DiMaggio, the Yankees, and the weather
Beginning with a base hit on May 15, 1941, Joe DiMaggio just…
July 8, 1941: Ted Williams hits ‘most thrilling’ home run to win All-Star Game in Detroit
Ted Williams bounded down the first-base line at Briggs Stadium…
July 10, 1941: Joe DiMaggio squeaks out a hit on a rainy night to keep streak alive at 49
To paraphrase a newspaper account of the July 10, 1941, game…
July 17, 1941: DiMaggio’s streak stopped at 56 by Cleveland’s stellar defense
On June 1, 1941, Joe DiMaggio hit a ball sharply toward third…
July 19, 1941: Browns’ George McQuinn hits for the cycle
George McQuinn led the offense as the Browns swept the Boston…
July 25, 1941: Lefty Grove records 300th and final career win
Lefty Grove was on the verge of reaching a major career milestone…
August 30, 1941: Sweet sound of the Arkansas Hummingbird: Lon Warneke fires a no-hitter
The Arkansas Hummingbird, Lon Warneke, had come oh-so-close before.…
September 1, 1941: Every Ted Williams hit is a home run in opener versus Senators
Ted Williams was becoming known as someone it might be better…
September 1, 1941: Ted Williams bumps his batting average to .410 with another home run
Shooting for .400, Ted Williams didn’t manage a single in the…
September 1, 1941: Olean’s John Moller collects pitching wins, key hits in last doubleheader before death in World War II
On September 5, 1943, about 500 fans attending a minor-league…
September 6, 1941: Camilli’s blast helps extend Dodgers’ lead over Cardinals
It had been over two decades since the Dodgers won the 1920…
September 7, 1941: Dodgers sweep Giants as 17-game road trip looms with pennant on line
Acquired in an offseason trade with the Philadelphia Phillies,…
September 7, 1941: Braves deliver ‘an absolute clubbing’ to Phillies in doubleheader
Doubleheaders were common in 1941, but not like this day. For…
September 13, 1941: Dodgers’ Whit Wyatt shuts out Cardinals 1-0 in pennant-race thriller
Historian Bill James has called the 1941 Brooklyn Dodgers “that…