October 3, 1943: John Dagenhard records only major-league win; Casey Stengel manages final game for Boston Braves
The 1943 baseball season was winding down and the long ride was…
October 10, 1943: Marius Russo’s one-man show leads to Yankees’ win in Game 4
The 1943 World Series was a rematch of 1942’s fall classic,…
October 11, 1943: Spud Chandler, Yankees bring World Series championship back to New York
If you were listening carefully, you might have picked up on…
April 26, 1944: Reds outlast Cardinals in 13 innings on Frank McCormick’s homer
As 1944 approached, with war being waged across the world, baseball…
April 27, 1944: ‘Old Ironsides’ Jim Tobin tosses no-hitter and wallops home run for Boston Braves
During the war years (1942-1945), the fans of the Boston Braves…
April 30, 1944: New York Giants score 26 runs; Weintraub has 11 RBIs
With D-Day still five weeks in the future, baseball was starting…
May 15, 1944: Reds’ Clyde Shoun showin’ his stuff in 79-minute no-hitter
Clyde “Hardrock” Shoun didn’t plan on playing in the big…
May 17, 1944: Boston’s Bobby Doerr hits for the cycle in Browns’ ‘good, sloppy, indifferent’ romp
The second-place St. Louis Browns traveled to Beantown for a…
June 10, 1944: At age 15, Reds’ Joe Nuxhall becomes youngest player to appear in MLB game
On the afternoon of June 10, 1944, just 3,510 individuals came…
June 13, 1944: Ray Dandridge, Newark Eagles soar over Memphis Red Sox
“Ray Dandridge was fantastic. ... Once you saw him, you never…
June 22, 1944: Abba Dabba does it again: Jim Tobin’s 5-inning no-hitter
“The record books recognize only those no-hitters that go nine…
June 26, 1944: The Tri-Cornered War Bond Baseball Game
Twenty days after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, a special baseball…
July 2, 1944: Max Lanier pitches marathon gem for Cardinals as Hopp delivers winner in 14th
The St. Louis Cardinals entered July 1944 with an eight-game…
July 6, 1944: All-Star Bob Johnson hits for the cycle in Red Sox rout of Tigers
Less than a week before the 1944 midsummer classic, Boston’s…
July 11, 1944: Rip Sewell’s pitching, Bill Nicholson’s pinch-hit double lead NL to All-Star win
In 1943 Joe McCarthy had kept all his Yankees players on the…
July 11, 1944: NL’s Cavarretta shines in wartime All-Star Game
The twelfth All-Star Game saw the National League prevail for…
July 18, 1944: AAGPBL plays in second night game ever at Wrigley Field
The second night game ever played at Wrigley Field was a Red…
July 29, 1944: Annabelle ‘Lefty’ Lee tosses AAGPBL’s first perfect game for Minneapolis Millerettes
After a successful inaugural season in 1943, the All-American…
August 3, 1944: Tommy Brown debuts for Dodgers as a 16-year-old shortstop
Leo Durocher, manager of the eighth-place Brooklyn Dodgers,…
August 10, 1944: Braves’ Red Barrett shuts out Reds with record-low 58 pitches
In the summer of 1944, the third season of wartime baseball,…
September 2, 1944: Dixie Walker hits for the cycle as Dodgers climb out of last place
The 1944 Brooklyn Dodgers were struggling. They played .167…
September 9, 1944: White Sox rookie Eddie Lopat slings extra-inning gem
Hopes were running high on this warm September night in 1944.…
September 24, 1944: Homestead Grays repeat as Negro League World Series champions
“But coming down through that would heighten my sense because…
September 24, 1944: Cooper and Raffensberger duel for 16 innings
The late-season doubleheader between the St. Louis Cardinals…