
July 12, 1943: Babe Ruth and Ted Williams bat in same lineup for charity game in Boston
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Babe Ruth made a public appearance at Fenway Park on July…

July 13, 1943: Depleted AL stars win first night All-Star Game in Philadelphia
The 1943 All-Star Game was the first one significantly affected…

August 1, 1943: Thrills and Surprises: 51,723 see Satchel Paige and other Negro League greats in All-Star Game
“If you were anybody, you were at the East-West Game.” —…

August 11, 1943: Mickey, Rube, Harry the Hat, and Volo Song
New York City sports fans with a few dollars in their pockets…

August 15, 1943: Canada’s Olive Little tosses first no-hit, no-run game in AAGPBL history
Olive Little wasn't particularly interested in joining the…

August 22, 1943: Pitching pharmacist Sam Hyman helps Hartford Senators out of jam
When The Sporting News, a.k.a. “the bible of baseball,”…

September 7, 1943: Last-place Allentown beats Connie Mack’s A’s in exhibition
What happens when the worst team in the American League meets…

September 12, 1943: Reds’ Elmer Riddle mows ’em down with one-hitter
History may assign this mid-September match-up between the Cincinnati…

September 21, 1943: Powerful Grays, upstart Black Barons take center stage at Griffith Stadium
Griffith Stadium hosted Game One of the 1943 Negro League World…

September 24, 1943: Cool Papa Bell wins Game 3 for Grays in 10th inning
Johnny Markham must have looked long and hard at Ted “Double…

September 26, 1943: Josh Gibson, Cool Papa Bell, and Buck Leonard lead Homestead Grays in Game 4
A crowd of 6,000 turned out to Comiskey Park on September 26,…

September 28, 1943: George Kell debuts in Connie Mack’s all-rookie lineup
The Philadelphia Athletics were in the cellar of the eight-team…

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…