Russ Meyer (TRADING CARD DB)

April 21, 1955: Dodgers flex their dominance in record-setting victory

Few Flatbushers made the effort to attend the game on a cloudy,…

April 23, 1955: Giants, Al Dark confront Jackie Robinson at Ebbets Field

The Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants began a three-game…

April 23, 1955: White Sox set scoring record, crush relocated Athletics 29-6

For the third consecutive season, major-league baseball had seen…

April 24, 1955: Roberto Clemente notches first career game-winning RBI

The weather at Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia was cold…
1955 Dallas Eagles program (Courtesy of Tim Castelli)

April 29, 1955: Fort Worth edges Dallas after 17 innings of drama

The Sporting News’s headline for the April 29, 1955, game between…
Sibby Sisti (THE TOPPS COMPANY)

April 30, 1955: Burlington, Vermont, welcomes pro ball with a bang

Vermont is one of the least-represented states on Baseball-Reference’s…

May 1, 1955: Feller and Score pitch brilliantly in doubleheader sweep

Like inbound and outbound trains, they were two pitchers headed…
Tommy Lasorda (Trading Card DB)

May 5, 1955: Dodgers overcome Lasorda’s wildness, injury to extend red-hot start

Tom Lasorda is lucky Dodgers fans were willing to give him…
Don Newcombe (Trading Card DB)

May 10, 1955: Don Newcombe faces the minimum and one-hits the Cubs

“He looms over the batter, brings his hands up over his head…
(Courtesy of National Baseball Hall of Fame Library)

May 13, 1955: Mantle slams 3 homers against Tigers, including first career switch-hitting pair

Only 22 years old at the start of his fifth major-league season…

May 27, 1955: Rookie Luis Arroyo hospitalized after Cardinals’ fifth straight win

Despite his status as a budding star for the St. Louis Cardinals,…

June 1, 1955: Duke Snider smashes three homers in anticipated pitchers’ duel

Duke Snider, the Duke of Flatbush, had a phenomenal stretch,…
George Shuba (Courtesy of Mike Shuba)

June 30, 1955: George Shuba’s walk-off single wins it for Dodgers

The injury-plagued Dodgers played the Giants at Ebbets Field…

July 6, 1955: A wild beginning: Sandy Koufax loses in his first start for Dodgers

A two-outcome (walk or strikeout) pitcher in his first major-league…
Stan Musial approaches home plate after hitting the game-winning home run in the 1955 Major League Baseball All-Star Game at County Stadium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (SABR-Rucker Archive)

July 12, 1955: Stan Musial seals Milwaukee’s first baseball All-Star celebration

Stan Musial approaches home plate after hitting the game-winning…