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As the Yankees prepared to play the Washington Senators on the evening of August 12, 1953, they were firmly in first place with a six-game lead over the Chicago White Sox. The Senators were having what for them was a decent season with a record of 55-57, 19½ games behind the New Yorkers. The game […]
Interleague play brought National League clubs to American League ballparks – and vice versa – during the 1997 regular season, an occurrence previously limited to the World Series and exhibitions. The first interleague game at Minneapolis’s Metrodome was played on June 16, when the Minnesota Twins hosted the Pittsburgh Pirates. Mark Smith, the first-ever designated […]
The 2007 and 2008 seasons had ended in disappointment when the New York Mets missed the playoffs on the final day of each season. In 2008 the team also bade goodbye to Shea Stadium, its home for 45 seasons. It was hoped the opening of the Mets’ new ballpark would bring better days in 2009. […]
For the second year in a row, Boston won the pennant in 1916, by just two games over the Chicago White Sox and four over the Detroit Tigers. As in 1915, the Red Sox’ World Series home games were played at Braves Field, but this time Boston faced the Brooklyn Robins (later, Dodgers). The Red […]
It is often said in sports that records are meant to be broken. Yet it is also true there are some achievements in baseball that may never be topped, such as Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak, Johnny Vander Meer’s back-to-back no-hitters, or Cy Young’s 511 victories. Joining this elite company is certainly Hack Wilson’s 191 […]
One day before the final game in the championship series between the Boston Red Stockings and the New York Mutuals, the two teams met on September 20, 1872, in a nonchampionship contest for a purse of $300 offered by the managers of the South Weymouth Park.1 The game was one of several events presented in […]
Detroit Tigers right-hander Lynwood Thomas “Schoolboy” Rowe “gave one of the most courageous exhibitions of pitching ever seen in World Series,” wrote H.G. Salsinger of the Detroit News.”1 After the Tigers’ demoralizing 8-3 loss to Dizzy Dean and the St. Louis Cardinals in Game One of the 1934 fall classic at Navin Field in the […]
Stan Musial’s arrival with the St. Louis Cardinals coincided with a resurgence for the franchise, which had not been to the World Series since 1934. In 1942, Musial’s first full season, the Cardinals won a team record 106 games,1 and they won 105 in 1943 and 1944. Musial had a good season in 1942, hitting […]
It is one of the gold standards of major-league baseball: the 3,000-hit club. More than 16,500 players have participated in at least one major-league game. Of those, only 19 players had exceeded more than 3,000 hits in their career. On June 30, 1995, Eddie Murray became the 20th member to become immortalized on that coveted […]
Ed Sadowski, one of three baseball-playing brothers, homered off lefty Luis Arroyo to win the second game of the 1959 Junior World Series for the Minneapolis Millers, 6-5, as the Millers came back from a 5-2 deficit with four runs on three homers in the last two innings. The starting pitchers were Ted Wills (9-10) […]
On a Sunday afternoon at Fenway Park, Boston Red Sox right-hander Pedro Martínez shut out the visiting Chicago White Sox, 1-0, his third shutout of the 2000 season. The White Sox (61-36) were leading the American League Central Division by 11½ games over the second-place Cleveland Indians. They had the best record in baseball and […]
Right-hander Bob Welch pitched 10 years for the Dodgers and struck out Reggie Jackson to end Game Two of the 1978 World Series. (SABR-Rucker Archive) The path to the 1978 World Series was not an easy one for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and there was speculation that an August 20 clubhouse brawl might hurt […]
The Yankees of the 1920s won six American League pennants and three World Series. After failing to win the pennant from 1929 through 1931, the Yankees won the World Series in 1932, and looked to repeat in 1933. As they took the field on Saturday afternoon, May 27, they were in first place by one […]
Of the thirteen World Series (1903-1917) covered by Philadelphia sportswriter Billy Weart, the most important was in 1908. Non-writers overcrowded the press box, causing the scribes to form the Base Ball Writers’ Association, with the goal of securing ballpark creature comforts in the press facilities, which were often congested with fans who were unwilling to […]
Eighteen-year-old Cincinnati Reds pitcher Gary Nolan, in his first major-league start, defeated the Houston Astros 7-3 at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field on April 15, 1967. In the first inning he faced four batters, and struck out Sonny Jackson, Jim Landis, and Jimmy Wynn en route to a 7-3 victory. Later in the season, on June 7, […]
The 1969 Miracle New York Mets will always have a special place in baseball lore. Not only are the Amazin’ Mets remembered for their stunning upset over the heavily favored Baltimore Orioles, but also in the way in which they won, with some of most remarkable defense and pitching ever displayed in World Series history. […]
He wasn’t flamboyant like his contemporary Dizzy Dean and didn’t have a signature pitch like Carl Hubbell’s screwball, but stout right-hander Bill Lee of the Chicago Cubs had a five-year run in the 1930s when he could lay a legitimate claim to be the best pitcher, or at least one of them, in baseball. From […]
“Honolulu Johnny” Williams was the first man from Hawaii to play in the majors – he was born in 1889, when the islands were still a kingdom. The righty pitched in four games with the Detroit Tigers in 1914. Williams was also one-quarter Hawaiian on his mother’s side, making him the first big-leaguer with Asian […]
Gowell Claset’s greatest historical significance may be as proof that a pitcher’s won-lost record is not an accurate measure of his effectiveness. In 11⅓ innings with the 1933 Philadelphia Athletics, the lefthander surrendered 23 hits and 11 walks. Opposing batters hit for a .426 clip against him, and his ERA was 9.53. And yet, Claset […]
“I don’t think there’s any play in baseball that excites more than someone really making a long home run. It’s one of the two best feelings a man can have.” – Sam Horn1 The beauty of his lefty swing had scouts swooning, epitomizing lethal power. At 6-feet-5, 215 pounds2, he seemed to tower over […]
Louis Sockalexis, a member of the Penobscot Indian tribe of Maine, played in only 94 major-league games, but is remembered today as the first Native American, and first recognized minority, to perform in the National League.1 He was signed by the Cleveland Spiders in 1897, 50 years before Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier with the Brooklyn […]
Andrés Mora was one of Mexico’s greatest sluggers. He could easily have been the all-time home run king south of the border, had he not spent time in the United States. By his own choice, he went back home – still aged just 24 – after four unfulfilling partial seasons in the majors. When he […]
Clyde Edward King spent more than sixty years in professional baseball as a player, scout, pitching coach, manager, and general manager with more than a dozen teams. Along the way, he played with Jackie Robinson, coached Bob Gibson, managed Willie Mays, and even fired Yogi Berra. King was born on May 23, 1924, in Goldsboro, […]