Stan Musial (SABR-Rucker Archive)

August 15, 1943: Stan Musial hits 2 home runs, drives in 5 runs against Dodgers

On August 15, 1943, Stan Musial was not yet The Man. That would…

August 22, 1943: Pitching pharmacist Sam Hyman helps Hartford Senators out of jam

When The Sporting News, a.k.a. “the bible of baseball,”…
William "Slim" Emmerich (Baseball-Reference.com)

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 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 28, 1943: George Kell debuts in Connie Mack’s all-rookie lineup

The Philadelphia Athletics were in the cellar of the eight-team…

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 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…

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…
Bob Johnson (Trading Card DB)

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…