Ellis Kinder (Trading Card DB)

September 21, 1949: Red Sox win 19th consecutive game at Fenway Park

There were 27 hits in this game, 10 bases on balls, and 10 pitchers…
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September 27, 1949: Ted Williams reaches base safely for a record 84th consecutive game

Joe DiMaggio – a 56-game hitting streak. It’s a statistic…

October 2, 1949: Yankees come out on top in winner-take-all contest

At the end of the 1948 season, the New York Yankees fired their…

October 2, 1949: Browns end season on high note with rookie Ed Albrecht’s 1-hitter

On October 2, 1949, it might have seemed hard to believe that…

October 6, 1949: Preacher Roe shuts out Yankees in Game 2 to even World Series

“One day when I was three years old my Uncle Bathis (my daddy’s…
Johnny Mize

October 7, 1949: Johnny Mize’s first World Series was all right

As pennant races go, the 1949 races in both the American and…
Bobby Brown (TRADING CARD DB)

October 8, 1949: One highly productive inning not enough for Dodgers in Game 4

They lined up. In the small hours after the New York Yankees…
Bobby Brown (TRADING CARD DB)

October 9, 1949: Yankees ‘dumbfounded that they won it so easily’

As Dodgers fans streamed through Ebbets Field’s turnstiles…

April 18, 1950: Robin Roberts wins first Opening Day start for Phillies

It was a “sticky, gray day and the sun never did break through…

April 19, 1950: Red Sox win Patriots Day game against the Yankees

The Patriots Day dual-admission doubleheader at Fenway Park constituted…
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April 22, 1950: Late-game heroics as Paul Lehner homers in 15th for A’s

The 1950 season was Connie Mack's 50th year as manager of the…

April 30, 1950: Red Sox post biggest shutout win in team history, beat A’s 19-0

The 1950 season still stands out in Red Sox history as the season…

April 30, 1950: Brecheen, Schmitz both go the distance in extra-inning duel

When fans of the St. Louis Cardinals woke up on the morning of…
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May 16, 1950: Ted Williams, Vern Stephens combine for 4 homers and all the runs

It was a Tuesday afternoon at Ted Williams’s favorite homer…