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Total Baseball:  The History


A Baseball Calendar

John Thorn


     What follows is a random walk through baseball history, organized on a
day-by-day basis. There is no point in your contending that one feat should
have been included and another not, for the events were chosen without system;
another compiler no doubt would present a quite different calendar.
     This humble offering makes no claim to being comprehensive. The full
banquet of A Baseball Book of Days awaits another day; this is merely a tray
of appetizers, with events majestic and picayune competing for your notice.
Bill Buckner rubs elbows with Fred Merkle, Tom Browning with Joe Borden, Babe
Ruth (while kneeling) with Eddie Gaedel. Enjoy.

JANUARY 1
1857     Tim Keefe born.
1935     Hank Greenberg born, 1911; the two-time MVP drove in 183 runs,
         then hit 58 homers the following year.

JANUARY 2
1836     Dickey Pearce born; with the pre-Civil War Brooklyn Atlantics, he
         invented modern shortstop play and the bunt hit.
1933     Kid Gleason dies.
1951     Bill Madlock born.

JANUARY 3
1912     Frenchy Bordagaray born; fined $500 for spitting at an umpire, he
         protested, "Maybe I did wrong, but the penalty was a little more than
         I expectorated."
1920     Babe Ruth is sold to the Yankees.

JANUARY 4
1890     Ossie Vitt born; "Hits are my bread and butter."
1931     Roger Connor dies; his 138 career homers stood as the record
         until Ruth topped it in 1921.

JANUARY 5
1864     Ban Johnson born.
1898     Riggs Stephenson born.
1920     The sale from the Red Sox to the Yankees of Babe Ruth, after a
         season in which he hit a record 29 homers, is announced to the press.
1934     Yanks release two Hall of Famers on the same day--Joe Sewell and
         Herb Pennock.
1943     Big league clubs decide to train in the North due to World War Two.
1993     Reggie Jackson elected to Hall of Fame.

JANUARY 6
1920     Early Wynn born; he pitched 23 seasons, more than any American
         Leaguer, and won the Cy Young Award at age 39, going 22-10 for the
         1959 White Sox.
1920     New York Yankees announce purchase of Babe Ruth from Boston Red Sox.
1976     Ted Turner buys Braves for $11 million.

JANUARY 7
1913     Johnny Mize born; the big first sacker led the NL in homers four
         times and on a record six occasions hit three homers in a game.
1924     NY buys Earle Combs from Louisville, where in 1923 he hit for an
         average of .380 with 241 hits.
1992     Tom Seaver and Rollie Fingers elected to Hall of Fame.
         Seaver, named on 98.8 percent of ballots, breaks Ty Cobb's record of
         98.2 percent.

JANUARY 8
1927     After 22 years with the Detroit Tigers, Ty Cobb signs with the
         Philadelphia A's.
1947     Hank Greenberg is sold by Tigers to Pittsburgh, where he hits 25
         homers and tutors Ralph Kiner.
1991     Ferguson Jenkins, Rod Carew, and Gaylord Perry elected to Hall of
         Fame.

JANUARY 9
1903     Frank Farrell and Bill Devery buy AL franchise for New York, picking
         up abandoned Baltimore; this team would be called the Highlanders,
         and later the Yankees.
1918     Brooklyn trades Casey Stengel to Pittsburgh in deal that brings
         them Burleigh Grimes; two decades later, Dodgers will dump Stengel
         as manager and hire Grimes.
1936     Ralph Terry born.
1989     Johnny Bench and Carl Yastrzemski elected to Hall of Fame.
1990     Joe Morgan and Jim Palmer elected to Hall of Fame.


JANUARY 10
1835     Harry Wright born.
1930     Art "The Great" Shires, first baseman for the White Sox, TKO's
         Boston Braves' catcher Al Spohrer in a boxing match at Boston Garden.
1938     Willie McCovey born.

JANUARY 11
1876     Elmer Flick was born; he batted .378 for the 1900 Phillies but lost
         the batting title to Wagner; five years later his .306 was good
         enough to lead the AL.
1890     Max Carey born.

JANUARY 12
1927     Zack Wheat, released on 1/1 by Dodgers, signs with Athletics--rest
         home for Eddie Collins, Ty Cobb, and in 1928, Tris Speaker.
1932     Cincinnati's Edd Roush, the premier center fielder of his day,
         retires from baseball.
1950     Randy Jones born.
1961     Cub owner William Wrigley announces team will be managed by eight
         coaches.

JANUARY 13
1901     Fred Schulte born.
1944     Larry Jaster born; as a Cardinal rookie in 1965, he tied for the
         NL in shutouts with five--all of them against the champion Dodgers.

JANUARY 14
1919     Charles Hempstead sells the New York Giants to Charles Stoneham,
         John McGraw, and Francis X. McQuade, 1919; the Stonehams controlled
         the Giants for the next 56 years.
1952     Terry Forster born.

JANUARY 15
1959     Joe Cronin is named AL president, the first player to reach such
         heights in the game's management.
1981     Johnny Mize elected to Hall of Fame.

JANUARY 16
1873     Jimmy Collins born.
1911     Dizzy Dean born.
1974     Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle, teammates through the Yankees' glory
         years of the 1950s and 1960s, are elected to the Hall of Fame.

JANUARY 17
1931     Don Zimmer born.
1933,
1952:    Two major league catchers, unrelated but with the same last name,
         were born on the same day, 19 years apart--Darrell Porter (1952)
         and J.W. Porter (1933).

JANUARY 18
1938     Curt Flood born; his 1970 suit against organized baseball, though
         defeated in the U.S. Supreme Court, ushered in the free-agency
         revolution.

JANUARY 19
1945     Stan Musial enlists in the U.S. Navy; coming back to the Cards in
         1946, he didn't skip a beat, hitting .365 to lead the league.

JANUARY 20
1871     The Boston Red Stockings are formed at the Parker House in the Hub;
         they were led by the Wright brothers, Harry and George, both former
         Cincinnati Red Stockings.

JANUARY 21
1947     Carl Hubbell, Lefty Grove, Frank Frisch, and Mickey Cochrane are
         elected to the Hall of Fame.

JANUARY 22
1949     Mike Caldwell born.
1959     Ken Williams dies; the St. Louis Browns' outfielder, who hit 39
         homers in 1922, was one of only two men to snatch the title from
         Babe Ruth in the period 1918-1931.

JANUARY 23
1962     Jackie Robinson is the first black elected to the Hall of Fame.
1979     Willie Mays is elected to the Hall of Fame; Hack Wilson and
         Warren Giles are named by the Veterans Committee.

JANUARY 24
1938     Jim Mutrie dies; proud manager of the New York Gothams, he called
         them his "Giants," and so they became; he led them and the
         rival-league Mets to pennants.
1941     Tommy Bond dies.
1960     Russ Ford dies.
1969     Tom Zachary dies; gave up Babe Ruth's sixtieth homer in 1927.

JANUARY 25
1928     Baseball immortal Tris Speaker given unconditional release by
         Washington.
1978     Gaylord Perry is traded from the Texas Rangers to San Diego for Dave
         Tomlin and $125,000; with the Padres he goes 21-6 and wins his
         second Cy Young Award.

JANUARY 26
1904     George Blaeholder born; ostensible inventor of slider in 1920s.
1950     Sluggers Jimmie Foxx (534 homers) and Mel Ott (511) are named to the
         Hall of Fame.

JANUARY 27
1882     Charlie "Bumpus" Jones born; on October 15, 1892, he made his major
         league debut by pitching a no-hitter, his only big league win as a
         starter.
1937     Flood waters of Ohio River inundate Crosley Field.

JANUARY 28
1847     George Wright born.
1891     Bill Doak born; he wrote the request on behalf of 17 other spitball
         pitchers that they be allowed to throw the pitch, banned in 1920, for
         the rest of their careers.

JANUARY 29
1961     Outfield greats and stolen-base kings Max Carey and Billy Hamilton
         elected to Hall of Fame; between them they had 1,650 thefts, and in
         1922 Carey stole 51 bases in 53 tries.

JANUARY 30
1923     The Red Sox trade Herb Pennock, future Hall of Famer, to the Yanks
         for three nondescript players and cash; over the next six years, he
         wins 115 games.
1943     Davey Johnson born.
1954     Braves trade Johnny Antonelli, Don Liddle, Ebba St. Claire to NY for
         Bobby Thomson and Sam Calderone.

JANUARY 31
1919     Jackie Robinson born.
1931     Ernie Banks born.
1947     Nolan Ryan born.
1977     Joe Sewell is named to the Hall of Fame; the toughest strikeout in
         baseball history, he fanned only 114 times in a 14-year career.

FEBRUARY 1
1875     Billy Sullivan born; catcher for the "hitless wonder" White Sox,
         1906 World Champions.
1898     Pop Anson is fired as White Stockings' manager.
1928     Hugh Jennings dies.
1944     Paul Blair born; acknowledged as top defensive center fielder of
         his day.

FEBRUARY 2
1876     NL founded at Grand Central Hotel in New York on Broadway and West
         3rd Street.
1908     Wes Ferrell born; hit a record 38 homers besides winning 193 games.
1936     Ty Cobb leads the balloting in the first election for the Hall of
         Fame; he is joined by Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and
         Walter Johnson.
1979     Twins trade six-time batting champ Rod Carew to Angels.
1989     Bill White, six-time All-Star and longtime Yankee broadcaster,
         is elected National League President.
FEBRUARY 3
1890     Larry MacPhail born; his Cincinnati Reds were the first major league
         team to play under the lights.

FEBRUARY 4
1878     Germany Schaefer born; the only man to steal first base, he prompted
         a rule change that forbade running the bases in backward order.
1909     John Clarkson dies; he won 53 games to lead Chicago to the 1885 NL
         flag, and won 208 in five-year span.
1969     Bowie Kuhn named baseball commissioner.

FEBRUARY 5
1891     Roger Peckinpaugh born.
1897     Hoss Radbourn dies.
1921     Yankees buy 20-acre plot of land in Bronx which will become site of
         new Yankee Stadium.
1934     Henry Aaron born; the home run king hit 755 in his 23 seasons.

FEBRUARY 6
1895     Babe Ruth born; the incomparable Bambino won 89 games as a Red Sox
         pitcher before joining the Yankees, for whom he would win five more
         from 1920 to 1933.

FEBRUARY 7
1942     The Reds trade Ernie Lombardi to the Braves; in his only year in
         Boston, he took the NL batting championship with a mark of .330.
1949     Joe DiMaggio signs $100,000 contract, first in baseball.
1959     Nap Lajoie dies.

FEBRUARY 8
1924     Joe Black born.
1956     At age 93 and after 50 years as field manager of the A's, Connie
         Mack dies.

FEBRUARY 9
1887     Heinie Zimmerman born.
1927     In trade of Hall of Famers, Giants send George Kelly to Cincy for
         Edd Roush.
1971     Satchel Paige becomes the first player to enter the Hall of Fame by
         virtue of his accomplishments in the Negro Baseball Leagues.

FEBRUARY 10
1884     Billy Evans born; he is one of only five umpires enshrined in
         Cooperstown.
1894     Herb Pennock born.
1917     Allie Reynolds born.

FEBRUARY 11
1862     Curt Welch born; his steal of home in the bottom of the tenth won the
         1886 World Series for St. Louis.
1946     John Paciorek born; made debut as 18-year-old with Astros by reaching
         base in all five at-bats, scoring four runs and driving in five--and
         never played in big leagues again.
1950     KiKi Cuyler dies; his bases-loaded double in the eighth inning of
         Game Seven won the 1925 World Series.

FEBRUARY 12
1870     Jesse Burkett born.
1903     Chick Hafey born; an outfielder for the Cards and Reds, he had a
         career bat mark of .317.

FEBRUARY 13
1883     "Prince Hal" Chase born; the fancy-fielding first baseman led NL
         batters with an average of .339 in 1916.

FEBRUARY 14
1887     Michael "King" Kelly is sold by Chicago to Boston for an
         unprecedented $10,000.
1915     Red Barrett born, once pitched a complete game while throwing only 58
         pitches.

FEBRUARY 15
1900     George Earnshaw born.
1916     After sitting out all of 1915, "Home Run" Baker is sold by the
         decimated Philadelphia A's to New York for $35,000.
1948     Ron Cey born.
1963     Bump Hadley dies.
1980     Gaylord Perry traded from Padres to Texas with Tucker Ashford and
         Joe Carroll for Willie Montanez.
1990     Spring training camps fail to open due to the lack of a Basic
         Agreement between major league owners and the Players Association.
         The opening of the season is delayed one week by the thirty-two-day
         lockout.

FEBRUARY 16
1866     Billy Hamilton born.
1961     Dazzy Vance dies; he didn't notch his first big league victory until
         age 31, then won 197 and led the league in strikeouts seven straight
         seasons.
1967     Red Ruffing elected to Hall of Fame.

FEBRUARY 17
1964     Luke Appling is elected to the Hall of Fame; "Old Aches and Pains"
         hit a homer in an Old Timers' Game at age 75.

FEBRUARY 18
1897     Zip Zabel born; pitched 18 1/3 innings of relief in one game,
         allowing no earned runs.
1927     Luis Arroyo born.
1938     Manny Mota born; he holds the record for most career pinch hits, 150.

FEBRUARY 19
1969     Doc White dies; the songwriting dentist was the lefthanded ace of the
         "hitless wonder" White Sox.

FEBRUARY 20
1859     Tony Mullane born; ambidextrous twirler won more post-1876 games than
         any pitcher eligible for the Hall of Fame yet still outside it.
1890     Sam Rice born; he ended his 20-year career only 13 hits shy of
         3,000--but that was in 1934, when folks didn't make such a fuss over
         records.

FEBRUARY 21
1903     Tom Yawkey born.
1958     Alan Trammell born.
1969     Ted Williams is named manager of the Senators; in his debut year,
         they went from 31 games under .500 to 10 over.
1972     Tom Seaver becomes highest paid pitcher in baseball history when he
         signed $172,500 a year contract with Mets.

FEBRUARY 22
1874     Bill Klem born; he said he never called one wrong ("in my heart") in
         35 years in the majors.
1923     Christy Mathewson is named president of Braves.

FEBRUARY 23
1929     Elston Howard born.
1941     Ron Hunt born; he set a modern record in 1971 by taking first base 50
         times after being drilled by a pitch.

FEBRUARY 24
1874     Honus Wagner born; he was generally regarded by those who saw him as
         the game's greatest all-around player.
1990     Former Boston outfielder Tony Conigliaro, the youngest player to
         reach career 100 home runs and who was tragically beaned in 1967,
         dies of pneumonia and kidney failure at the age of forty-five.

FEBRUARY 25
1919     Monte Irvin born.
1934     John McGraw dies.
1972     The Phillies obtain Steve Carlton from the Cardinals for Rick Wise,
         1972; all Carlton did that year was win 27 and the Cy Young Award.

FEBRUARY 26
1887     Grover "Old Pete" Alexander born; he won 373 games, of which 90 were
         shutouts--and an incredible 16 of these came in 1916 alone.
1935     Babe Ruth signs three-year contract with Braves.

FEBRUARY 27
1964     Mickey Mantle signs his first $100,000 contract with the Yankees.

FEBRUARY 28
1963     Eppa Rixey dies; pitched 21 years for poor clubs yet won 266 games.
1972     Dizzy Trout dies.
1989     Red Schoendienst elected to Hall of Fame by Veterans Committee.

MARCH 1
1969     Mickey Mantle announces his retirement; the three-time MVP hit 536
         homers plus a record 18 in the World Series.

MARCH 2
1909     Mel Ott born; only five-nine and 165 pounds, he used an unorthodox
         swing to launch 511 homers, then an NL record.

MARCH 3
1860     John Montgomery Ward born; only Ruth surpassed his dual success as
         pitcher and regular player.

MARCH 4
1891     Dazzy Vance born.
1897     Lefty O'Doul born.
1921     Boston's long-time right fielder Harry Hooper switches the color of
         his sox from red to white as he is traded for Shano Collins and Nemo
         Leibold.

MARCH 5
1860     Sam Thompson born; his ratio of RBIs to games-played is the highest
         of all time.

MARCH 6
1900     Lefty Grove born; the game's greatest southpaw, he was 31-4 in 1931
         and 300-141 lifetime.
1938     Phils trade Dolf Camilli to Dodgers for Eddie Morgan and $45,000.
1961     New York Metropolitan Baseball Club, Inc., receives certificate of
         membership in NL.

MARCH 7
1924     Pat Moran dies of Bright's disease in spring training.
1950     J.R. Richard born; the six-eight pitcher had been amassing Hall of
         Fame calibre stats when he suffered a stroke during the 1980 season.
1979     Semi-pro and sandlot umpires used when major league umpires strike.

MARCH 8
1930     Babe Ruth ends his holdout, signing for $80,000; asked why he should
         earn more than President Hoover, he replied, "Why not?  I had a
         better year."
1942     Dick Allen born.
1966     Stengel elected to Hall of Fame.

MARCH 9
1912     Arky Vaughan born; the Pirate shortstop hit .385 in 1935, an NL
         level since unequaled.

MARCH 10
1959     Bill Veeck buys control of White Sox for $2.7 million.
1963     Pete Rose, a non-roster player appearing in his first exhibition
         game, goes 2 for 2, both doubles.

MARCH 11
1953     Fred Toney dies.
1972     Zack Wheat dies.
1976     Larry Gardner dies.

MARCH 12
1930     Vern "Deacon" Law born; he took Cy Young Award honors in 1960.

MARCH 13
1872     Willie Keeler born.
1886     Frank Baker born.
1954     Bobby Thomson, newly acquired by Braves, suffers triple fracture of
         right ankle in game against Yanks; door opened for 2B Aaron.
1975     Frank Robinson makes debut as majors' first black manager.

MARCH 14
1932     Dodgers trade Ernie Lombardi, Babe Herman, Wally Gilbert to Reds for
         Tony Cuccinello, Joe Stripp, Clyde Sukeforth.
1954     Aaron starts first exhibition game; got three hits, including homer,
         vs. Red Sox.
1980     Chuck Klein is elected to the Hall of Fame; the slugging Phils'
         outfielder recorded 44 assists in 1930.

MARCH 15
1946     Bobby Bonds born; he was the most frequent member of the "30-30" club
         (homers and steals) and came within one homer of going "40-40," a
         mark first reached by Oakland's Jose Canseco in 1988.

MARCH 16
1906     Lloyd Waner born; "Little Poison" starred in the Pittsburgh outfield
         alongside brother Paul ("Big Poison") from 1927 through 1940.

MARCH 17
1919     "Pistol Pete" Reiser born.
1969     St. Louis Cardinals trade Orlando Cepeda to Atlanta for Joe Torre.
1992     Hal Newhouser and umpire Bill McGowan elected to Hall of Fame by
         Veterans Committee.

MARCH 18
1953     In the first franchise shift in half a century, the Boston Braves
         announce they are moving to Milwaukee.

MARCH 19
1871     "Iron Man" Joe McGinnity born; five times he pitched both games of
         doubleheaders and he was still pitching in the minors at age 54.

MARCH 20
1821     William H. Cammeyer born; he created baseball's first enclosed
         park, the Union Grounds in Brooklyn.
1933     George Altman born; after middling career in U.S., went on to
         stardom in Japan.
1984     Stan Coveleski dies.

MARCH 21
1976     Toronto granted AL franchise for 1977.
1977     Mark "The Bird" Fidrych, coming off a Rookie of the Year
         performance, hurts his left knee and never fully recovers.

MARCH 22
1972     Yankees obtain reliever Sparky Lyle from Boston Red Sox for Danny
         Cater and Mario Guerrero.
1993     Cleveland pitchers Steve Olin and Tim Crews killed in a boating
         accident in Florida. Pitcher Bob Ojeda was severely injured but
         survived.

MARCH 23
1863     Joe Gunson born; invented catcher's mitt.
1886     Cy Slapnicka born; the peerless "ivory hunter" of his day, he
         scouted and signed the 16-year-old Bob Feller.

MARCH 24
1893     George Sisler born; twice he hit over .400, and in 1920 he stroked
         257 hits, a record.

MARCH 25
1887     Clyde Milan born; the fleet Washington outfielder set an AL record
         with 88 steals in 1912.
1909     Emil "Dutch" Leonard born.

MARCH 26
1973     George Sisler dies.

MARCH 27
1879     Miller Huggins born.
1902     Name "Cubs" is coined by Chicago Daily News.
1906     Toad Ramsey dies; erratic lefty fanned 499 in 1886.
1927     Joe Start dies; "Old Reliable" first baseman played first base at
         the top grade of competition from 1860 through 1886 spanning the
         amateur and professional eras.
1938     Luke Appling breaks his leg in an exhibition game with the Cubs; he
         went on to miss half the season.

MARCH 28
1907     Red Sox manager Chick Stahl commits suicide.
1909     Pitcher Lon Warneke born; the "Arkansas Hummingbird" of the Cubs and
         Cards was 193-121 lifetime.

MARCH 29
1867     Denton True "Cy" Young born; with 511 career wins, is it any wonder
         they named an award after him?

MARCH 30
1904     James "Ripper" Collins born; switch-hitting first sacker hit 35
         homers in 1934 and led Cardinal batters in World Series.

MARCH 31
1868     Happy Jack Stivetts born; won 20 games five times and hit 35 career
         homers.

APRIL 1
1914     At the age of 37, Rube Waddell dies; the eccentric lefthander
         fanned 349 batters in 1904, a record that stood for over 60 years.
1939     Phil Niekro born.
1963     Mets purchase outfielder Duke Snider from Los Angeles Dodgers.
1972     Seattle franchise transfers to Milwaukee.
1982     Walt Terrell and Ron Darling traded from Texas to Mets for Lee
         Mazilli.
1989     A. Bartlett "Bart" Giamatti becomes baseball's seventh Commissioner.

APRIL 2
1870     Hugh Jennings born.
1907     Luke Appling born.
1927     Billy Pierce born; a top AL pitcher in the 1950s who was traded to
         the Giants in 1962, he took to his new home by going 12-0 at
         Candlestick Park.

APRIL 3
1856     Guy Hecker born; as pitcher he won 52 games in 1884 and two years
         later won AA batting title with mark of .342.
1930     Wally Moon born.
1974     The Dodgers receive 17-year-old Pedro Guerrero from Cleveland for
         pitcher Bruce Ellingsen.
1989     The major league debut of Seattle's Ken Griffey, Jr. gives baseball
         its first father-son duo active simultaneously.

APRIL 4
1974     In the earliest opening in major league history, the Cincinnati Reds
         defeat the Atlanta Braves 7-6 in 11 innings. In his first time at
         bat, Henry Aaron hit a three-run homer off Jack Billingham. It was
         his 714th, tying Babe Ruth's career record.
1993     Pitcher Graeme Lloyd and Dave Nilsson of the Brewers become the first
         all-Australian battery in major league history.

APRIL 5
1951     Rennie Stennett born; in a nine-inning game on September 16, 1975, he
         got seven hits in seven trips to the plate.
1993     In their first game in franchise history, the Florida Marlins defeat
         the Dodgers 6-3.

APRIL 6
1871     Boston (NA) wins first game, 41-10
1903,
1908     Of only 10 catchers in the Hall of Fame, two were born on this
         day--Mickey Cochrane in 1903 and Ernie Lombardi in 1908.
1973     Ron Blomberg of the Yankees becomes the first major league designated
         hitter.
1982     Blizzard in New York cancels Opening Day and next three games.
1992     Baltimore Orioles win opening game 2-0 from the Indians at their new
         Camden Yards ballpark.

APRIL 7

1873     John McGraw born.
1918     Bobby Doerr born.
1979     Ken Forsch of Houston pitches a no-hit, no-run game against
         Atlanta to duplicate the no-hitter hurled by his brother Bob of the
         Cardinals on April 16, 1978.
1984     Jack Morris throws the first no-hitter by a Tiger in 26 years,
         winning 4-0 over Chicago.

APRIL 8
1969     Montreal Expos defeat Mets, 10-9, in major league baseball's first
         international game.
1974     At Atlanta, Henry Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's career record by
         slugging his 715th home run off southpaw Al Downing in the fourth
         inning.
1993     Cleveland switch-hitter Carlos Baerga becomes first player to hit
         two home runs in same inning, one from each side of the plate.

APRIL 9
1888     Jim "Hippo" Vaughn born.
1913     Ebbets Field opens with the Dodgers losing to the Phillies, 1-0.
1965     The Houston Astrodome opens with an exhibition game between the
         Astros and Yankees.
1981     Handed the Opening Day assignment when Jerry Reuss was injured,
         rookie Fernando Valenzuela shuts out the Astros; he went on to win
         the Rookie and Cy Young Awards.
1990     Delino Deshields of Montreal with four hits ties National League
         record for most hits in major league debut.
1993     After two road losses, the expansion Colorado Rockies, before a major
         league Opening Day and National League regular season crowd record of
         80,227, defeat the Expos for their first win in franchise history.
         Nolan Ryan pitches Texas to a 3-1 win over Boston to become first
         player to play in twenty-seven seasons.

APRIL 10
1897     Ross Youngs born.
1906     Mike Donlin marries Mabel Hite; they form a vaudeville team,
         providing a model for future Giant Rube Marquard and his wife,
         Blossom Seeley.
1913     The Washington Senators defeat the Yankees, 2-1, in their home
         opener. Walter Johnson allows a run in the first inning, but will
         not give up another run for 56 consecutive innings.
1950     Ken Griffey born.
1971     Veterans' Stadium in Philadelphia opens.
1976     At Milwaukee, Yanks lead 9-6 into bottom of ninth. Lyle gives up a
         grand slam to Don Money, but first base ump McKean says he had called
         timeout before pitch--Milwaukee loses, 9-7.

APRIL 11
1912     Rube Marquard begins 19-game win streak with 18-3 win vs. Brooklyn.
1955     Chuck Tanner hits a homer on first pitch he sees in major leagues.
1962     The New York Mets play their first game and lose, 11-4, to the
         Cardinals at St. Louis.
1969     Seattle Pilots play their first game--shutting out White Sox, 7-0.

APRIL 12
1880     Addie Joss born.
1909     First game played in what is now known as Connie Mack Stadium.
1916     Tris Speaker traded from Boston to Cleveland for Sam Jones, Fred
         Thomas, and $50,000.
1980     In the second inning of Milwaukee's 18-1 victory over the Red Sox,
         Cecil Cooper and Don Money each belt a grand-slam homer.
1992     In splitting two games, Cleveland collects only two hits to set a
         major league record for fewest hits in a doubleheader. The Indians
         won the first game 2-1 despite being no-hit by Matt Young. The Red
         Sox gave up only 2 hits in winning the second game 3-0.

APRIL 13
1875     Norman "Kid" Elberfeld born.
1914     Baltimore beats Buffalo, 3-2, in first Federal League game.
1916     Babe Adams, Pittsburgh veteran, pitches a one-hitter against the
         Cardinals.
1953     For the first time in half a century, a new city is represented in
         the American and National Leagues. The Braves move from Boston to
         Milwaukee and opened in Cincinnati where Max Surkont set down the
         Reds 2-0.
1964     Bret Saberhagen born.
1972     First full major league player strike in history ends after 10 days.
1984     Pete Rose gets hit number 4,000--exactly 21 years after his first
         hit.
1993     The Cardinals' Lee Smith passes Jeff Reardon to become baseball's
         all-time save leader with 358.

APRIL 14
1910     Two one-hit games pitched in American League, Walter Perry Johnson
         accomplishing the feat for Washington and Frank Smith for Chicago.
         Frank Baker of the Athletics and Ray Demmitt of the Browns,
         respectively, kept Johnson and Smith out of the glory circle. One
         year earlier George Mullin pitched a one-hit game for Tigers against
         White Sox.
1917     Eddie Cicotte pitches no-hit, no-run game for White Sox against
         St. Louis, passing three men and having one error behind him.
1917     Ray Bates, Athletics, batting twice in the seventh inning against
         Charley Jamieson and Yancey Ayers of Washington, drives three men in
         with a triple and two more with a double--five runs batted in one
         inning. The Mackmen then make 10 runs, winning 16-4.
1920     Babe Ruth plays his first game with the Yankees. He gets two
         singles off Scott Perry of the Athletics and muffs a line fly in the
         eighth that gave the Mackmen two runs and the decision, 3-1.
1941     Pete Rose born.
1969     In the first major league game played outside the United States, the
         Montreal Expos defeat St. Louis, 8-7, at Jarry Park.

APRIL 15
1909     Fans discover that the "K" in Leon Ames' name stands for Kalamity.
         The Giant pitcher retires the Superbas for nine innings without a
         hit, but New York cannot make a run for him and the game lasts four
         more innings. Brooklyn, with Kaiser Wilhelm pitching, wins 3-0. The
         New York outfielders did not have a putout. Six years later Rube
         Marquard blanked Brooklyn in hits and runs, winning over lefthander
         Nap Rucker, 2-0.
1947     Jackie Robinson plays his first major league game at first base for
         the Dodgers. He goes 0 for 3 at bat, but scores the deciding run in
         a 5-3 victory over the Boston Braves at Brooklyn. He becomes the
         first black to appear in the majors since 1884.
1958     Big league ball comes to California as the Giants defeat the
         Dodgers in their home opener at Seals Stadium in San Francisco.
1968     Astros and Mets play 23-1/2 innings of scoreless ball before bobble
         by Al Weis leads to Houston run in 24th frame.
1993     Detroit's Sparky Anderson becomes only seventh manager to win 2,000
         games.

APRIL 16
1887     No one had ever hit a homer in in his first major league at-bat;
         this day, two American Association rookies--Mike Griffin of Baltimore
         and George "White Wings" Tebeau of Cincinnati--accomplish the feat.
1895     Phillies, managed by Arthur Irwin, stop off at Hagerstown, Md. to
         play an exhibition game and make 46 hits for a total of 92 bases,
         including 14 home runs.
1898     Grandstand at Sportsman's Park, St. Louis, destroyed by fire while
         Cardinals were playing Cubs. About 40 persons are seriously hurt in
         stampede to get out of the grounds.
1903     Paul Waner born.
1906     John Lush, Phillies, pitches a freak game against New York,
         passing and fanning 10 men. He won 4-2.
1918     The Pittsburgh Pirates, in their first game of the year, are held to
         one hit--a double by Casey Stengel in the fourth inning. Pete
         Schneider pitched for the Reds.
1935     Babe Ruth makes his National League debut with a single and home run
         for the Boston Braves.
1940     Bob Feller of Indians pitches history's only Opening Day no-hitter.

APRIL 17
1820     Alexander Joy Cartwright, Jr., was born on this day; in 1845 he was a
         principal organizer of the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York.
1892     The first Sunday game in the National League is played between
         Cincinnati and St. Louis.
1898     Bobby Mathews dies.
1908     White Sox almost live up to their names of Hitless Wonders. Rube
         Waddell of the Browns gives them just one blow, this being the
         product of Jake Atz.
1915     Fritz Maisel, Yankees, steals his way from first to the plate in the
         ninth inning of game with Athletics.
1953     Mickey Mantle of Yankees blasts longest measured home run, clearing
         left field wall in Washington for flight of 565 feet.
1964     Pittsburgh's Willie Stargell hits the first home run at Shea Stadium.
1993     Detroit becomes first team since 1950 Red Sox to score 20 runs in
         game twice in same season in their 20-3 over Seattle.

APRIL 18
1880     Sam Crawford born.
1890     Brooklyn and Syracuse, of the American Association, play a nine
         inning game in which 43 runs were scored, a record for their league.
         Brooklyn won, 22-21, getting the deciding run in the ninth.
1901     Jimmy Sheckard of the Superbas, is hissed by Philadelphia fans every
         time he bats because he had jumped from American to National League.
         In spite of the hostile crowd, Sheckard whacks the Phillie pitchers
         for three triples. Sheckard's leap earned him the appellation of
         "Grasshopper Jim".
1905     George Winter, Red Sox, holds Washington to one hit, made by
         infielder Mullin, but is beaten, 1-0.
1923     Yankee Stadium opens, with Babe Ruth dedicating it by clouting
         three-run homer for 4-1 victory over Boston.
1946     Jim "Catfish" Hunter born; he won 20 or more games in five
         straight years, taking Cy Young honors in 1974.
1991     On Opening Day at New Comiskey, a sell-out crowd of 42,191 watch the
         Tigers crush White Sox 16-0.

APRIL 19
1890     Opening games of first and only season of Players League played.
         Buffalo, with Connie Mack catching, defeat Cleveland, 23-2, the
         Bisons getting 16 passes from pitcher Henry Gruber.
1890     Re-entering the National League, Cincinnati Reds are beaten in their
         first championship game by Chicago, 5-4, Cyclone Jim Duryea pitching
         against Bill Hutchison.
1897     Giants play exhibition game with Elizabeth, N.J., team and win, 40-1.
         George Van Haltren cracks out seven hits.
1900     Detroit Americans held hitless by Morris F. "Doc" Amole of Buffalo.
1909     Bucky Walters born.
1981     The International League game between Rochester and Pawtucket which
         started at 8:00 the previous evening is suspended at 4:07 on Easter
         morning after 32 innings, with the score tied at 2-2. When the game
         was resumed on June 23, Pawtucket scored one run in the 33rd to win.
         It was easily the longest game in organized baseball history.
1989     329-game winner Steve Carlton announces his retirement.

APRIL 20
1892     Dave Bancroft born.
1903     Yankees, playing first game in American League, are beaten by
         Washington 3-1, as Jack Chesbro lost to Al "The Curveless Wonder"
         Orth.
1910     Addie "The Human Slat" Joss of the Indians retires the White Sox
         without a hit, winning over Doc White, 1-0. He passed two men and
         one error, a fumble by Bradley, was made behind him. Joss had 10
         assists.
1912     Fenway Field, Boston, opens, Red Sox winning in 11 innings from
         Yankees, 7-6. Benny Kauff then played his first game in the major
         leagues.
1912     White Sox and Browns play 15 innings to a scoreless draw, Jim Scott
         pitching against George Baumgardner.
1920     Manager Gavvy Cravath of the Phils inserts himself as a pinch hitter
         and beat New York with a three-run homer, his last in the majors.
1961     Don Mattingly born.

APRIL 21
1887     Joe McCarthy born.
1898     Bill Duggleby, Phillies, batting for the first time in a major
         league game, hits ball over right field fence with bases full against
         Cy Seymour of Giants, a feat without precedent or antecedent.
1910     Emery ball introduced to American League by Russ Ford of Yankees.
         With it he wins over Athletics, 1-0 and fans nine men, striking out
         "Home Run" Harry Davis all four times he appears.

APRIL 22
1876     Boston beats Philadelphia, 6-5, in first NL game, with Jim (Orator)
         O'Rourke making first hit.
1898     Pair of no-hit games in National League, Jay Hughes of Baltimore
         accomplishing feat against Boston and Theo Breitenstein of Cincinnati
         against Pittsburgh. This is Hughes' second game in the majors. In
         the first he had blanked Washington.
1905     Free game for 30,000 Highlanders (Yankee) fans results from club's
         failure to issue rainchecks previous day, when storm broke early.
1915     Napoleon Lajoie, second basing for the Athletics, against Boston, has
         five errors, managing to make one putout and three assists cleanly.
1915     Pinstripes appear on Yankee uniform for the first time.
1918     Mickey Vernon born.
1970     Tom Seaver of the Mets fans the last 10 Padres he faces for a 2-1
         victory. He gave up only two hits while whiffing a total of 19 San
         Diego players.

APRIL 23
1900     Jim Bottomley born.
1916     Jack Graney, Indians, makes two home runs in game with Browns off
         Earl Hamilton and Jim Park.
1919     For the fifth time Walter Johnson starts the season by pitching a
         shutout. He wins over Scott Perry of Athletics in 13 innings, 1-0.
1921     Warren Spahn born.
1952     Hoyt Wilhelm of the Giants wins his first major league game, and in
         the process hits a home run in his first at bat, followed by a
         triple. Although he pitched in 1,069 games after this day, he never
         hit another homer or triple.
1983     Milt Wilcox's perfect game at Chicago is ruined on a two-out ninth
         inning single.

APRIL 24
1894     Baltimore Orioles, taking their last turn at bat against Boston, are
         behind, 3-1. Before they conclude their part of the ninth, McGraw,
         Jennings & Co. make 14 runs off Jack Stivetts and Kid Nichols, the
         last named making a fizzle of his rescue attempt.
1894     Howard Ehmke born; a questionable infield single in September 1923
         was all that kept him from pitching successive no-hitters.
1909     Walter Johnson, who the year before had pitched three shutouts in
         four days against the Highlanders, loses to them by a score of 17-0.
1915     Pitcher Babe Ruth is withdrawn from the game with Philadelphia by
         manager Bill Carrigan so that Hick Cady--lifetime, one home
         run--could pinch hit for him.
1964     Sandy Koufax strikes out 18 Chicago Cubs.

APRIL 25
1876     Chicago shuts out Louisville, 4-0 in Chicago's first National
         League game and the NL's first whitewash. Pitcher-manager A.G.
         Spalding blasts three hits.
1884     John "Pop" Lloyd born; the finest shortstop to come out of the
         Negro Leagues, he was referred to as the "black Wagner."
1901     George Stallings' Detroit Tigers make AL debut by scoring 10 runs in
         last inning to beat Milwaukee, 14-13.

APRIL 26
1900     Hack Wilson born.
1904     Tyrus Raymond Cobb, Tiger manager, plays his first game in organized
         baseball with Augusta, Ga., club of South Atlantic League against
         Columbia, S.C., at Augusta. Batting seventh he made a double and a
         home run in four at bats.
1905     Jack McCarthy, Cub center fielder, figures in three double plays in
         game with Pirates, nailing three men who tried to score. No other
         major league outfielder ever has started three double plays in the
         same game.

APRIL 27
1896     Rogers Hornsby born; between 1921 and 1925, he averaged better than
         .400 while topping that mark three times.
1912     Keen students of the calendar, the Pirates make 27 hits off three
         Cincinnati pitchers and win, 23-4.
1916     Enos Slaughter born.
1944     Jim Tobin of the Braves pitches a no-hitter over the Dodgers at
         Boston, winning 2-0. He also hits a homer.
1947     Babe Ruth Day is held at Yankee Stadium.

APRIL 28
1898     National League game scheduled for Philadelphia has to be called off
         on account of snow.
1901     White Sox unable to make anything except singles off Bock Baker of
         Cleveland--but they gathered 23 of them.
1901     Tigers, the original cardiac kids, for fourth time in succession
         since their debut, get runs necessary to defeat Hugh Duffy's
         Milwaukee team in the last inning.
1927     Charlie Maxwell born; Tiger outfielder specialized in hitting homers
         on Sunday.
1934     Goose Goslin of Tigers grounds into four double plays in one game.

APRIL 29
1876     First extra inning game played in National League, Hartford wins
         from Boston, 3-2 in 10 rounds.
1906     New York sees its first Sunday major league game as the Yanks and
         A's play a benefit for victims of the San Francisco earthquake.
1911     Yankee pitchers--Jim Vaughn and Jack Quinn--pitch seven balls to
         Stuffy McInnis, Athletics. Off these he made five singles, hitting
         the first pitch three times and the second twice.
1933     Luke Sewell of Washington Senators tags out two Yankees at home on
         the same play.
1934     Luis Aparicio born.
1981     Steve Carlton gets strikeout number 3,000.

APRIL 30
1887     James F. "Tip" O'Neill of the Browns, batting three times in the
         fifth and sixth innings against Morrison of Cleveland, makes two home
         runs and a triple. In other parts of the contest he obtained a
         single and a double. O'Neill ran up a batting average of .492 in the
         American Association that year, when players were allowed four
         strikes, and a base on balls was counted as a base hit. It was then
         that the term "safe hit" crept into the pastime--to distinguish real
         hits from those obtained on passes.
1922     Charlie Robertson of White Sox pitches last perfect game in majors
         until Don Larsen's masterpiece in the 1956 World Series.
1961     Willie Mays wallops four home runs against the Braves in Milwaukee.

MAY 1
1920     Brooklyn Superbas (today's Dodgers) and Boston Braves, playing in
         Boston, go 26 innings before quitting with score tied, 1-1. Leon
         Cadore and Joe Oeschger go full distance for contesting teams. Also
         on this day, Babe Ruth made his first home run as a Yankee, hitting
         it off Herb Pennock of Boston.
1926     Satchel Paige debuts for Chattanooga in the Negro Southern League.
1959     Thirty-nine-year-old Early Wynn of the White Sox is the whole show
         against the Red Sox as he pitches a one-hitter, strikes out 14, and
         hit a double and home run for a 1-0 victory.
1991     Texas' Nolan Ryan pitches seventh no-hitter in a 3-0 win
         over Toronto.  Oakland's Rickey Henderson steals his 939th base to
         surpass Lou Brock as baseball's stolen base king.
1992     A year to the day after breaking Brock's record, Henderson steals his
         1,000th base.

MAY 2
1887     Eddie Collins born.
1909     Honus Wagner steals his way from first to the plate in the first
         inning in game with Cubs.
1917     The unique double no-hit game, in which Fred Toney keeps the Cubs
         hitless for nine innings and Jim Vaughn does the same thing to the
         Reds. In the tenth, Vaughn, weakening, is reached for hits by Larry
         Kopf and Jim Thorpe and Cincinnati wins, 1-0.
1920     No rest for the weary Superbas. They play and lose a 13-inning, 4-3
         game with Phillies, after having figured in a 26-inning tie on
         previous afternoon with Braves.
1939     Lou Gehrig benches himself after playing 2,130 consecutive games.
1947     Davey Lopes born.
1954     Stan Musial sets major league mark with five homers in doubleheader
         against Giants (later tied by Nate Colbert).

MAY 3
1891     Eppa Rixey born.
1905     Red Ruffing born.
1920     Superbas become undisputed long distance champions of world by
         figuring in their third extra-inning game in three successive days.
         This time they lose to Boston in 19 innings, bringing their three-day
         total to 58. In each game Brooklyn used only one pitcher and so did
         the opposition, Leon Cadore and Joe Oeschger being paired in the
         first, Burleigh Grimes and George Smith in the second and Sherrod
         Smith and Dana Fillingim in the third.
1950     Baffled by new rule, Vic Raschi of Yanks commits record number of
         four balks in one game, two less than the league record at that time
         for a full season.

MAY 4
1871     In first game of first professional league, the National Association,
         Fort Wayne's Bobby Mathews tosses a 2-0 shutout at the Forest City
         nine of Cleveland.
1889     Jerry Denny, Indianapolis, makes six hits in six times at bat off
         Jim Galvin and Harry Staley of Pittsburgh. Hoosiers win game, 17-12.
1969     Astros turn seven double plays against San Francisco.
1991     Cleveland's Chris James drives in 9 runs in 20-6 win over Athletics.

MAY 5
1904     Cy Young, in the midst of a 24 inning hitless streak, hurls a perfect
         game against the A's.
1917     Ernie Koob, Browns, pitches hitless game against White Sox and wins,
         1-0 over Eddie Cicotte, who three weeks previously had prevented St.
         Louis from getting a hit.

MAY 6
1915     Babe Ruth starts on his home run career in the American League,
         hitting for the circuit in a game with the Yankees against Jack
         Warhop.
1917     Bob Groom of the St. Louis Browns imitates moundmate Ernie Koob and
         pitches a no-hit game against the Chicago White Sox--the second day
         in succession against this team and a major league record.
1931     Willie Mays born.
1953     Bobo Holloman of Browns pitches no-hitter in his first major league
         start, but proves flash in pan and is sold to Toronto 11 weeks later.
1982     Gaylord Perry gets win number 300.

MAY 7
1906     Bill Donovan, Detroit pitcher, steals his way around the bases in one
         inning on catcher Fritz Buelow of Cleveland.
1925     Pittsburgh shortstop Glenn Wright makes unassisted triple play.
1930     Dick Williams born.
1959     Roy Campanella Night at the Los Angeles Coliseum; record U.S. crowd
         of 93,103 witnesses exhibition game between Dodgers and Yankees.

MAY 8
1858     Dan Brouthers born.
1878     Outfielder Paul Hines of Providence pulls a triple play against
         Boston; for over a century, historians disputed whether it was
         unassisted or not.
1906     Athletics, crippled, have to play a pitcher in left against Red Sox.
         That pitcher--Chief Bender--hits two home runs.
1968     Jim "Catfish" Hunter of Oakland pitches a perfect game against the
         Twins. There was not even a tough fielding play behind Hunter, who
         fanned 11. He also got three hits and four RBIs.

MAY 9

1901     Earl Moore of Cleveland holds White Sox hitless for nine innings, but
         in tenth the Chicagoans get two hits and win the game, 4 to 2.
1961     Jim Gentile of the Orioles hits consecutive grand slam homers in the
         first and second innings.
1961     Tony Gwynn born.

MAY 10
1868     Ed Barrow born; he headed the Yankees for 24 years.
1910     Heinie Zimmerman of the Cubs, in a game with the Giants, has as many
         errors at short as hits--four.

MAY 11
1894     Hugh Jennings, Baltimore, is hit three times by pitched balls in a
         game with Philadelphia by Wilfred "Kid" Carsey. Amos Rusie hit him
         in the temple in 1897 and nearly killed him.
1897     Charles A. "Duke" Farrell, catching for Washington, throws out eight
         of 10 Orioles who tried to steal second--a major league record.
1903     Charlie Gehringer born.
1904     Cy Young leads Red Sox to 1-0 victory over Detroit in 15 innings, his
         pitching rival being Ed Killian.
1984     Tigers run away to best start in major league history at 26-4.

MAY 12
1871     Highest shutout score in game between professional teams--Mutuals of
         New York defeat Resolutes of Elizabeth, N.J., 39-0.
1910     Chief Bender almost pitches a perfect game for the Athletics against
         Cleveland. He slips up by passing Terry Turner in the sixth. Ira
         Thomas nailed Turner when he tried to steal, so only 27 men faced the
         Chippewa Chieftain.
1925     Yogi Berra born.
1955     Sam "Toothpick" Jones of the Cubs pitches a no-hit, no-run game. In
         the ninth against Pittsburgh, he walks the bases full and then fans
         the next three batters.
1957     Lou Whitaker born.
1970     Ernie Banks gets home run number 500.

MAY 13
1911     Grover Cleveland Alexander, relieving George Chalmers in the ninth
         inning of game against Cincinnati, pitches eight hitless rounds.
         Phillies win in 16th, 5-4.
1967     Mickey Mantle hits home run number 500.

MAY 14
1881     Ed Walsh born.
1899     Earle Combs born.
1913     Walter Johnson, after keeping his opponents away from the plate for
         56 innings, is scored on by the Browns, who had beaten him the year
         before, after he had won 16 straight.
1936     Dick Howser born.
1942     Tony Perez born.

MAY 15
1952     Having pitched four no-hitters in minors, Virgil Trucks of Tigers
         hurls his first in majors (against Senators) this day and adds
         another before season is out (August 25 against Yankees).
1953     George Brett born.
1991     In the company of President Bush, Queen Elizabeth II attends her
         first major league baseball game, in Baltimore.

MAY 16
1894     While Oriole third baseman John McGraw and Beantown first baseman
         Tommy Tucker engage in fist fight on baselines, fire breaks out in
         bleachers and burns down Boston ballpark along with 170 other
         buildings.
1905     Cubs sustain their third straight shutout at hands of Giants, Red
         Ames winning over them, 4-0. Dummy Taylor beat them on May 13, 1-0
         and Joe McGinnity conquered them the next day, 4-0.
1955     Jack Morris born.
1965     Nineteen-year-old Jim Palmer wins his first major league victory and
         hits his first homer as the Orioles beat the Yanks 7-5.
MAY 17
1888     After having struck out 11 Pirates on May 15, Tim Keefe, Giants, goes
         back at them with one day's rest and whiffs 11 more.

MAY 18
1897     William "Scrappy" Joyce of Giants makes four triples in game with
         Pittsburgh--only time this has been done in major league history.
1912     Rallying behind the suspended Ty Cobb, Detroit players refuse to
         play; a makeshift team, assembled to avoid forfeit of the franchise,
         loses to the A's, 24-2.
1937     Brooks Robinson born.
1946     Reggie Jackson born.
1990     In a 7-0 loss to the Astros, Chicago's Ryne Sandberg commits an error
         to end his major League record streak of errorless games at 123 and
         chances at 584.

MAY 19
1910     Cy Young wins number 500.
1968     After hitting 10 home runs in six games, Frank Howard of the Senators
         is stopped by Detroit's Earl Wilson.

MAY 20
1921     Hal Newhouser born; he led the AL in wins in 1944-46 with 29, 25, and
         26.
1931     Ken Boyer born.
1946     Bobby Murcer born.
1983     Wildfire Schulte dies.

MAY 21
1902     Earl Averill born.
1952     Nineteen successive Dodger batters reach base in the first inning
         against Cincinnati.

MAY 22

1901     Frank "Noodles" Hahn, Cincinnati lefthander, fans 16 Boston batters
         in nine innings, whiffing everybody in the lineup.
1902     Al Simmons born; for 11 years in a row he batted over .300 and drove
         in more than 100 runs, and for five years in a row topped 200 hits.

MAY 23
1883     Snorkey Base Ball Club of Philadelphia defeats Hoppers, 34-11.
         Snorkeys are one-armed, Hoppers one-legged. All but one man are
         Reading RR employees who lost a limb in work-related accidents.
1888     Zack Wheat born.
1890     Large day for New York teams. The Giants stole 17 bases on catcher
         Bill Wilson of Pittsburgh and the Players League team, with Hank
         O'Day pitching, won from Chicago, 23-9.
1895     Louisville has to forfeit a game to Brooklyn because the supply of
         balls is exhausted.

MAY 24
1918     Third 19 inning game played in American League, Cleveland winning
         from New York, 3-2 on Joe Wood's second home run of contest. Stanley
         Coveleski pitched for winners, Allen Russell and George Mogridge for
         losers.
1935     In first major league night game, Reds beat Phils by 2-1 at Crosley
         Field, Cincinnati.
1936     Tony Lazzeri, batting eighth for the Yanks, drives in 11 runs with
         one triple and three home runs--two of them grand slams--in a 25-2
         rout of the A's.

MAY 25
1935     Babe Ruth hits last major league homer, off Guy Bush in Pittsburgh,
         clearing right field roof after having hit two homers earlier in
         same game.

MAY 26
1913     Walter Johnson retires Athletics in sixth inning on three pitched
         balls.
1959     Harvey Haddix of Pittsburgh pitches 12 perfect innings before
         losing to Milwaukee 1-0 in the 13th on an error, a sacrifice, and Joe
         Adcock's double.

MAY 27
1885     Giants run up their highest shutout score and one of the largest on
         record as they defeat Buffalo, 24-0. Hall of Famer Jim Galvin
         pitched for the losers, Hall of Famer Mickey Welch for the winners.
1888     William H. "Adonis" Terry of Brooklyn Association team pitches
         hitless and runless game against Louisville, winning over Toad
         Ramsey, 4-0.
1937     Carl Hubbell wins his 24th straight game over two seasons, a record,
         as he comes out of the bullpen to vanquish the Reds, 3-2.

MAY 28
1896     Warren Giles born.
1914     Harry Hooper, Duffy Lewis and Tris Speaker of the Red Sox make triple
         steal on Rip Hageerman and Fred Carisch of the Indians. Triple steal
         led to triple squeal and Umpire Oliver Chill banished Birmingham,
         Carisch, and Ivy Olson from game.
1956     Dale Long of the Pirates connects for his eighth home run in eight
         consecutive games, a record later tied by Don Mattingly.

MAY 29
1909     Frank Baker smacks the first of his many home runs over the right
         field wall at Shibe Park.
1916     Giants set all-time record by winning 17th consecutive road game;
         also won 26 straight at home that year, but finished fourth!
1920     John Lavan, Cardinals, "pulls a John Anderson" in the game with
         Chicago, stealing third with Jacques Fournier there. Because of this
         mental lapse the Cubs win, 8-5.
1971     Joe Morgan, Denis Menke, Cesar Geronimo, Jack Billingham, and Ed
         Armbrister come to Reds from Astros for Lee May, Tommy Helms, and
         Jimmy Stewart, 1971.
1989     Philadelphia's Mike Schmidt retires from baseball with 548
         career home runs.
1990     In a 2-1 loss to Toronto, Oakland's Rickey Henderson passes
         Ty Cobb and becomes the American League's all-time stolen base
         leader as he swipes base number 893.

MAY 30
1887     Bill George, lefthanded pitcher of Giants, passes 17 of the Chicagos
         in a nine inning game.
1894     Robert Lowe, Boston, after being held hitless in morning game by
         Cincinnati pitchers, takes revenge on "Icebox" Chamberlain in the
         afternoon by making four home runs (two in one inning) and a single.
1895     Attendance at game in Philadelphia so large, crowd covered most of
         right field. Dusty Miller, covering that position for the Reds, thus
         was able to throw out four Phillies at first who drove the ball
         through the infield.
1922     Max Flack of Cubs and Cliff Heathcote of Cards trade uniforms between
         A.M. and P.M. games, with both outfielders seeing action in both
         games of doubleheader.

MAY 31
1899     Charles S. "Chick" Stahl, Boston, makes six hits in six times at bat
         against Cleveland.
1975     Spoiler Cesar Tovar registers the only hit off Catfish Hunter--the
         fifth time he has had his team's only hit in a game.

JUNE 1
1895     Roger Connor, St. Louis, batting six times in a game with New York,
         makes six hits.
1910     Miller Huggins of Cardinals does not have time at bat charged against
         him in six trips to plate in game with Philadelphia, walking four
         times and sacrificing twice.
1925     Lou Gehrig pinch hits for Pee Wee Wanninger and starts his 2,130-game
         playing streak.
1975     Nolan Ryan of the Angels pitches his fourth no-hitter, a 1-0 win over
         the Orioles. It was his 100th major league victory.

JUNE 2
1864     Wilbert Robinson born.
1890     Ed Delahanty, this day the shortstop of the Cleveland Brotherhood
         team, makes six hits in six times at bat.
1941     Lou Gehrig dies.

JUNE 3
1851     New York Knickerbockers wear first uniforms--straw hats, blue
         full-length trousers and white shirts.
1932     Lou Gehrig becomes the first modern player in the century to hit
         four homers in a game, but the headlines go to John McGraw's
         resignation as Giant manager.

JUNE 4
1968     Don Drysdale of the Dodgers blanks the Pirates, 5-0, for his sixth
         straight shutout en route to a record 58 scoreless innings; twenty
         years later, his mark would be topped by Orel Hershiser.
1989     The Dodgers-Astros 22-inning, 7 hour and 14 minute marathon is the
         longest night game in major league history. Astros won 5-4.
         Toronto rallies to defeat Red Sox 13-11 in 12 innings after trailing
         10-0 after six innings.

1990     Los Angeles' Ramon Martinez ties Sandy Koufax's club record with 18
         strikeouts.

JUNE 5
1874     Jack Chesbro born; the spitballing righthander set a modern record
         for wins in a season with 41 in 1904.
1911     In the Boston-Chicago game, reliever Smokey Joe Wood strikes out
         three pinch hitters in the ninth to secure the win, 5-4.
1989     In the first game at the Toronto's $375 million SkyDome, Milwaukee
         wins 5-3.

JUNE 6
1907     Bill Dickey born; the great Yankee receiver caught 100 or more games
         for 13 years in a row.
1990     Detroit's Cecil Fielder hits three home runs for the second time in
         the season, becoming only fourth American League player to accomplish
         the feat.

JUNE 7
1884     Charlie Sweeney, pitching for Providence, sets a game-strikeout
         record of 19 that will stand until Roger Clemens tops it in 1986.
1892     Jack Doyle of Cleveland, first pinch hitter in NL, singles.
1906     Cubs beat up Giants, scoring 11 runs in the first inning off Christy
         Mathewson, Joe McGinnity, and George Ferguson and winning, 19-0.

JUNE 8
1926     Babe Ruth launches what may be the longest home run ever--over 600
         feet--and homers again in 11th for 11-9 win at Navin Field.
1950     At Fenway Park, the Red Sox slaughter the Browns 29-4. Bobby Doerr
         has three homers, Ted Williams and Walt Dropo two each, and Al
         Zarilla has four doubles.
1961     Eddie Mathews, Henry Aaron, Joe Adcock, and Frank Thomas of
         Milwaukee hit successive homers in the seventh inning against
         Cincinnati.
1989     The Pirates score 10 runs in the top of first, but the Phillies rally
         to win 15-11.

JUNE 9
1903     Pirates, after having blanked their opponents in 57 successive
         innings, are scored on in the fourth by the Phillies. Kaiser
         Wilhelm was the pitcher yielding the run.
1914     Honus Wagner becomes first player in modern baseball to get 3,000
         hits.
1990     In a 5-4 extra-inning win over the Padres, Los Angeles' Eddie Murray
         homers from each side of the plate for the tenth time in his career
         to tie Mickey Mantle's major league record.

JUNE 10
1890     Pitcher Jack Stivetts, St. Louis Browns, makes two home runs and a
         pair of singles in an American Association game with Toledo.
1892     Wilbert Robinson of Orioles hits 7 for 7 in a nine inning game, a
         feat not to be matched for more than eighty years. He also batted in
         11 runs, a record topped only by Jim Bottomley's 12 in 1924.
1944     Fifteen-year-old southpaw Joe Nuxhall becomes the youngest to play in
         the majors in this century.
1959     Rocky Colavito of Cleveland hit four homers against the Orioles.
1981     Pete Rose ties Musial's NL record with his 3,630th hit.

JUNE 11
1879     Roger Bresnahan born; the Hall of Fame catcher came to the majors as
         a pitcher and threw a shutout in his debut.
1904     Bob Wicker leads Cubs to 1-0 victory over Giants in 12 innings, thus
         branding Joe McGinnity with his first defeat of the year, following
         12 victories in a row.
1990     Texas' Nolan Ryan throws his sixth career no-hitter in a 5-0 victory
         over Oakland.
1993     Hundreds of seagulls descend onto the playing field at Milwaukee's
         County Stadium. Despite the ongoing disruption of the birds, the game
         continues and the Yankees beat the Brewers 5-4.

JUNE 12
1880     J. Lee Richmond, Worcester, retires Cleveland without a hit or run
         and prevents anyone from reaching first, recording the first perfect
         game in the major leagues.
1939     National Baseball Museum and Hall of Fame is dedicated at
         Cooperstown, N.Y., on baseball's proclaimed centennial.
1990     Baltimore's Cal Ripken Jr. plays in his 1,308th consecutive game to
         move past Everett Scott into second place on the all-time list.

JUNE 13
1851     Jim Mutrie born.
1873     Bill Bergen born; he was so good a receiver that he lasted 11 years
         despite batting only .170.
1922     Mel Parnell born.

JUNE 14
1870,
1876     Longest winning streak in history snapped as Cincinnati's Red
         Stockings drop 8-7 decision in 11 innings to Brooklyn's Atlantics.
         Six years later, George Hall of the Philadelphia Athletics--who on
         this day in 1870 had been stationed in center field for those same
         Atlantics--would become the first big leaguer to hit for the cycle.
1912     Clyde "Deerfoot" Milan, Washington, steals five bases in game with
         Cleveland.
1969     Reggie Jackson of Oakland has his biggest batting day as he knocks in
         10 runs with two homers, a double, and two singles against the Red
         Sox in Boston. Oakland won 21-7.

JUNE 15
1902     Corsicana defeats Texarkana 51-3 in a Texas League game. Nig Clarke
         of Corsicana hits eight home runs.
1938     Johnny Vander Meer of Reds pitches his second consecutive no-hit,
         no-run game spoiling Dodgers' arc light opener at Ebbets Field.
1938     Billy Williams born.
1958     Wade Boggs born.

JUNE 16
1881     For the fifth time on record a National League player makes six hits
         in six times at bat. This player is left fielder Louis Pessano
         "Buttercup" Dickerson of Worcester, the first Italian-American to
         play in the majors.
1938     Slugger Jimmie Foxx does not get much chance to hit as the Browns
         walk him six times in succession. The Red Sox win anyway, 12-8.
1991     In a 7-6 loss to Expos, Atlanta's Otis Nixon steals six bases to
         tie the major league record.

JUNE 17
1880     John Montgomery Ward pitches a perfect game for Providence against
         Buffalo.
1890     Perhaps the first baseball strikes on record is engineered by Jack
         Clements, one of the few southpaw catchers ever in baseball.
         Clements, who had caught four games on the preceding Saturday and
         Monday, refused to play more than one game on this day and thus
         unilaterally canceled a doubleheader.
1960     Ted Williams hits home run number 500.

JUNE 18
1894     Boston's first inning welcome to Tony Mullane of Baltimore consists
         of 16 runs, as 21 men come to bat. Mullane takes his lumps until the
         seventh inning, when he is finally relieved in a 24-7 thrashing.
1907     Andy Coakley, Cincinnati pitcher, cripples two Giants with successive
         pitches, beaning Roger Bresnahan (who was given last rites as he lay
         unconscious) and then breaking Dan McGann's right wrist.
1939     Lou Brock born; he broke Ty Cobb's season record for stolen bases
         with 118 in 1974, and passed him for the lifetime title three years
         later.
1953     Red Sox rookie Gene Stephens becomes only player in modern history to
         blast three hits in same inning as Boston raps Tigers for 17 runs in
         seventh inning.
1975     Another Red Sox rookie, Fred Lynn, drives in 10 runs against Detroit
         with three homers, a double, and a single; he won both Rookie of the
         Year and MVP awards.

JUNE 19
1846     The first match game of baseball under Alexander Cartwright's rules
         is played at the Knickerbockers' grounds in Hoboken, New Jersey.
1903     Lou Gehrig born.
1909     Walter Johnson, in a game against Yankees, turns loose four wild
         pitches, passes seven men and hit a man, yet wins nevertheless, 7-4.

JUNE 20
1912     Josh Devore, Giants, in ninth inning of game with Braves, steals
         four bases. New York wins, 21-12, but Boston gets 10 runs in the
         last inning off Ernie Shore, then making his big-time debut.
1915     St. Louis Browns show up in Detroit without any uniforms. The Tigers
         lend them their spare uniforms, then whip them, 1-0.
1980     Freddie Patek, one of baseball's smallest players, hits three home
         runs and a double to lead California in a 20-2 trouncing of the Red
         Sox in Fenway Park.

JUNE 21
1887     Toad Ramsey fans 17 Cleveland batters in an American Association
         game at Louisville.
1938     In two successive doubleheaders (four games), Pinky Higgins of the
         Red Sox bangs out 12 consecutive hits (with two walks interspersed).
1949     Cleveland catcher Jim Hegan pulls unassisted double play.
1964     Jim Bunning pitches a perfect game for the Phillies over the Mets.
1970     Detroit's Cesar Gutierrez goes 7 for 7 in a 12-inning game with
         Cleveland; the last to go 7-for-7 was Wilbert Robinson of the
         Baltimore Orioles in 1892.
1989     The Yankees trade Rickey Henderson to Oakland for pitchers Eric
         Plunk and Greg Cadaret and outfielder Luis Polonia.

JUNE 22
1889     Louisville of the American Association drops its 26th straight game,
         setting up a major league record that has never been equaled.
1900     Phillies and Superbas play weird game, Quakers forfeiting it in the
         11th when they trailed 20-13.
1903     Carl Hubbell born.
1947     Ewell Blackwell almost duplicates the Vander Meer double no-hit
         record by following his June 18 gem over Boston with 8-1/3 hitless
         innings against the Dodgers before the bubble bursts.
1993     White Sox catcher Carlton Fisk catches his 2,226th game to eclipse
         Bob Boone's major league record for games caught.

JUNE 23
1895     George Weiss born.
1915     Bruno Phillip Haas, pitching his first major league game for the
         Athletics, passes 16 Yankees, makes three wild pitches, and is
         beaten, 15-7.
1917     Babe Ruth, peeved because Umpire Brick Owens called a ball that gave
         Ray Morgan, first Washington batter, his base, tries to slug Brick
         and is put out of the game. Ernie Shore then becomes Boston's
         pitcher and retires in order the 26 men who face him, plus getting
         credit for the 27th out when catcher Sam Agnew threw out Morgan
         trying to steal.
1971     Rick Wise of the Phils hits a home run in the fourth consecutive
         game that he pitched in June.

JUNE 24
1955     Harmon Killebrew, 18, hits his first major league roundtripper off
         Billy Hoeft at Griffith Stadium.

JUNE 25
1881     George Gore of Chicago steals seven bases against Providence.
1989     In a 5-1 victory over Philadelphia, the Mets' defense does
         not record a single assist.

JUNE 26
1901     Red Sox show up unexpectedly in Philadelphia to play a game when
         they were scheduled to play in Baltimore.
1970     Frank Robinson hits two grand slam homers for the Orioles as they
         clobber Washington 12-2.
1993     Hall of Fame catcher and three time National League Most Valuable
         Player Roy Campanella of the Dodgers dies of a heart attack at age
         seventy-one.

JUNE 27
1876     Diminutive Davy Force (nicknamed "Tom Thumb"), shortstop of the
         Philadelphia Athletics, becomes the first National Leaguer to garner
         six hits in a game.
1948     Don Baylor born.
1958     Billy Pierce of the White Sox retires 26 Washington batters in a row
         before pinch hitter Ed Fitzgerald doubles for the only hit. Pierce
         wins, 1-0.
1971     Rick Wise of the Phils pitches a no-hitter against the Reds and hits
         two homers in 4-0 win.
1984     Dwight Evans hits for the cycle.

JUNE 28
1907     Branch Rickey, behind the bat for the Yankees, lets the Senators
         steal 13 bases.
1917     Lee Magee of the Yankees has four assists from center field in a game
         with the Athletics.

JUNE 29
1897     Chicago White Stockings set a scoring record for all time by winning
         over Louisville, 36-7. Anson's team scores in every inning and
         knocks out 32 hits.
1936     Harmon Killebrew born.
1956     Pedro Guerrero born.
1968     Jim Northrup of Detroit hits a grand slam, third in five days; he had
         hit two on June 24.

JUNE 30
1894     Reporting with $500 bonus money pinned to his back pocket, Louisville
         NL rookie Fred Clarke breaks in with 5 for 5 against Cannonball Gus
         Weyhing of Phils.
1909     Pittsburgh's Forbes Field opens, with Cubs winning over Pirates, 3-2,
         as Ed Reulbach nipped Vic Willis.

JULY 1
1857     Roger Connor born.
1861     John Clarkson born.
1902     Rube Waddell, pitching his first game in Philadelphia for Connie
         Mack, manages a peculiar feat. In three innings--the third, sixth,
         and ninth--he retires the same three batsmen on strikes, these being
         Billy Gilbert, Harry Howell, and Jack Cronin. The Rube whiffed 13
         Orioles and faced only 27 batters.
1905     Frank Owen, White Sox, pulls Iron Man stunt on Browns, beating them
         twice, 32-2 and 2-0.
1920     Walter Johnson pitches no-hit game against Boston, Bucky Harris'
         fumble on Harry Hooper in seventh being only thing that stood between
         Johnson and a perfect game.
1951     Bob Feller pitches the third no-hitter of his career to tie the
         record (since broken by Nolan Ryan) of Cy Young and Larry Corcoran,
         1951.
1990     Yankee pitcher Andy Hawkins loses to White Sox 4-0 to become only the
         second pitcher to lose a complete game in which he allowed no hits.

JULY 2
1903     Ed Delahanty falls off railway bridge; his body is recovered a week
         later after being washed over Niagara Falls.
1933     Carl Hubbell of the Giants hurls an 18 inning shutout, allowing
         Cardinals six hits and no walks.
1993     Hall of Fame pitcher and 1962 Cy Young Award winner Don Drysdale
         dies of a heart attack at age fifty-six.

JULY 3
1941     The Yankees' Joe DiMaggio hits in his 45th straight game, breaking
         the record set by Willie Keeler in 1897.
1947     Cleveland purchases Larry Doby--first black player in the American
         League.
1966     Tony Cloninger of Atlanta hits two grand slams, single, drives in
         nine.

JULY 4
1859     Mickey Welch born.
1905     Athletics win from Reds Sox, 4-2, in 20 innings, Rube Waddell besting
         Cy Young.
1908     George "Hooks" Wiltse pitches 10 inning no-hit game for Giants
         against Phillies, winning over George McQuillan, 1-0. Hooks blew his
         perfect game when, on an 0-2 count, he hit the Phillie pitcher, 27th
         man to face him, on the arm.
1906     Tightest game to that time (since topped by Sandy Koufax and Bob
         Hendley in 1965) played by Pirates and Cubs, each team making only
         one hit. Lefty Leifeld of Bucs loses to Mordecai Brown, 1-0.
1912     Ty Cobb steals second, third, and home in the fifth inning of the
         opener of a twin bill with St. Louis Browns; Tiger teammate George
         Mullin throws a no-hitter in nightcap to celebrate his birthday.
1930     George Steinbrenner born.
1939     Jim Tabor of the Red Sox hits two grand slams.

JULY 5
1897     For the seventh time in eight games, Boston plates the winning run in
         the ninth inning. Philadelphia is their victim this time, as the
         Beaneaters score five in the final frame to win, 8-5.
1947     Larry Doby breaks color line in American League, pinch hitting for
         Cleveland Indians against White Sox, 1947.

JULY 6
1891     Steve O'Neill born.
1933     The first All Star Game is played at Comiskey Park, with the AL
         defeating the NL, 4-2, on Babe Ruth's two-run homer.
1954     Willie Randolph born.
1956     Jim Busby hits second grand slam in two days; these are only two of
         his 13-year career.
1982     Indian Bob Johnson dies.

JULY 7
1904     Jack Chesbro, Yankees, after winning 14 games in a row, is beaten by
         Norwood Gibson of Red Sox, 4-1.
1906     Satchel Paige born; 42 years later to the day, he would sign a
         major league contract with Cleveland.
1911     Joe Wood, pitching for Red Sox, holds Browns to one hit and fans 15
         men, losing no-hitter when Burt Shotton cracks a hit in the ninth.

JULY 8
1902     How's this for a debut?  Danny Murphy, due to play his first game
         with Athletics, does not reach park in Boston until after game has
         started and so only received opportunity to bat six times. He made
         six hits, including a home run off Cy Young with the bases full.
1912     Rube Marquard, after winning 19 games in a row for the Giants, is
         stopped by Jimmy Lavender of the Cubs, 7-3.
1941     In most dramatic finish to an All-Star Game, Ted Williams connects
         off Claude Passeau for a three-run homer with two outs in the ninth
         to give AL 7-5 win.

JULY 9
1859     Fred Tenney born; first baseman pioneered the 3-6-3 double play.
1951     Harry Heilmann dies.
1955     Willie Wilson born.
1969     The Cubs' Jimmy Qualls singled off the Mets' Tom Seaver with one out
         in the ninth, breaking up a perfect game.
1986     Red Lucas dies.
1991     In the American League's 4-2 victory, Tony LaRussa becomes first
         manager to win three consecutive All-Star games. The Athletics'
         Dennis Eckersley becomes first reliever to save three consecutive
         All-Star games.

JULY 10
1868     Bobby Lowe born; Boston second baseman was first to hit four homers
         in a game (1894).
1932     Philadelphia's Athletics defeat the Indians, 18-17, in 18 frames;
         winning pitcher Ed Rommel allows 29 hits and 14 runs in relief,
         Cleveland's Johnny Burnett gets nine hits.
1935     Paul Hines dies.
1954     Andre Dawson born.

JULY 11
1914     George Herman Ruth plays his first game in the American League. He
         pitches seven innings for the Red Sox and gets the win over
         Cleveland.

JULY 12
1911     Ty Cobb scores hitless run in first inning of game with Athletics.
         After getting pass from Harry Krause, he steals second, third and
         the plate,
1951     Allie Reynolds, the Super Chief of the Bronx Bombers, no-hits
         Cleveland, 1-0, the first of two such classics he will throw this
         year.

JULY 13
1890     Stan Coveleski born.
1900     Frank (Noodles) Hahn, Cincinnati southpaw, no-hits Phillies, 4-0.
1934     Babe Ruth hits home run number 700.
1963     Early Wynn, after struggling through six unsuccessful starts, attains
         his 300th and final win.

JULY 14
1897     After having made nine hits in nine times at bat the day before in a
         doubleheader with Louisville, Ed Delahanty of the Phils cracks four
         more hits in five trips to the plate.
1898     Happy Chandler born.
1969     Joe Niekro of the Padres defeats Atlanta, 1-0; the losing pitcher is
         his brother Phil, 1969.
1992     The Americans unleash an All-Star game record 19-hit attack to
         overwhelm the Nationals 13-6.

JULY 15
1876     St. Louis' George Bradley pitches first NL no-hitter, whipping the
         Hartford Blues, 2-0.
1901     Christy Mathewson pitches no-hit game against St. Louis.
1969     Rod Carew ties Pete Reiser's single-season record with his seventh
         steal of home.

JULY 16
1866     Lipman Pike of the Athletics, first Jew in professional baseball,
         hits six homers (five consecutive) against the Alerts, also of
         Philadelphia.

1902     After pitching 41 consecutive runless innings, Jack Chesbro of the
         Pirates is scored on by Boston in the seventh inning--a new record
         for the National League.
1909     Tigers and Senators, in Detroit, play 18 innings to a runless draw.
         Ed "Kickapoo" Summers goes entire route for Detroit.
1920     Rube Benton of the Giants tires out Earl Hamilton of the Pirates in a
         17 inning pitching battle won by New York by the odd score of 7-0.
1948     Dodger manager Leo Durocher switches to become Giant manager.

JULY 17
1908     Every National League game a shutout. Boston beat Pittsburgh, 4-0;
         Philadelphia beat St. Louis, 3-0; Cincinnati beat Brooklyn, 2-0; and
         Chicago beat New York, 1-0.
1917     Lou Boudreau born.
1941     Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak stopped by Al Smith and Jim
         Bagby in Cleveland night game, with third baseman Ken Keltner making
         two great plays against the Yankee Clipper.
1961     Ty Cobb dies.
1990     Minnesota accomplishes a major league first as they pull off two
         5-4-3 triple plays in a 1-0 loss to Boston.

JULY 18
1882     Ambidextrous hurler Tony Mullane of Louisville pitches with both
         hands in a major league game at Baltimore. Normally a righthander,
         Mullane switches to the left hand in the fourth inning. He does
         quite well for several innings but eventually loses to Baltimore,
         9-8.

JULY 19
1902     John McGraw assumes management of Giants and is beaten by
         Philadelphia, 4-3.
1909     Neal Ball, Indian shortstop, makes first unassisted triple play in
         game against Boston. With Charley Wagner running from second and
         Jake Stahl from first, he takes liner hit by Amby McConnell, touches
         second, and then tags Stahl.
1910     Cy Young registers his 500th victory in the major leagues when he
         leads Cleveland to 5-2 win over Washington in 11 innings. No pitcher
         before Young had won 500 games and no pitcher after him is likely to.
1920     For the fifth time during the year, Babe Ruth hits two home runs in
         game. Dickie Kerr of the White Sox yields both, one in the fourth
         and one in the ninth. The first homer is Ruth's 28th and creates a
         new home run record for the major leagues.
1955     Reliever Babe Birrer of Detroit pitches four innings and connects for
         two three-run homers.
1960     Juan Marichal breaks in with the Giants by pitching a one-hit
         shutout, defeating Robin Roberts and the Phillies.

JULY 20
1858     First admission charge to a baseball game (50) charged for Brooklyn
         vs. New York All-Star Game at Fashion Race Course in Long Island.
1901     Heinie Manush born.

JULY 21
1881     Johnny Evers born; the grouchy second sacker was named MVP for his
         role on the Miracle Braves of 1914.
1886     For the first time on record, a major league team makes 10 runs in an
         extra inning. The Kansas City Cowboys win over Detroit, 12-2 in 11
         rounds, with Charlie Getzien absorbing the late pounding. He was
         fined $100 for the outcome of the game.
1975     Felix Millan of Mets hits four singles, but each time is wiped out as
         Joe Torre grounds into a double play.

JULY 22
1893     Jesse "Pop" Haines born; he defeated the Yanks twice in the 1926
         World Series, including Game Seven.

JULY 23
1896     Cy Young almost pitches no-hit game against Phillies. With two out
         in ninth, Ed Delahanty gets his team's first and only blow, a single.
1918     Pee Wee Reese born.
1922     Ray Grimes drives in a run in 17th straight game (27 total).
1936     Don Drysdale born.
1944     Bill Nicholson of Chicago Cubs is ordered intentionally passed with
         bases filled by New York Giants manager Mel Ott in eighth inning,
         after he had rocked them with four consecutive homers in two days;
         though Cubs rally to tie game at 10-all, Giants win, 12-10.

JULY 24
1911     A group of American League All-Stars play the Indians in a benefit
         game for the late Addie Joss.
1911     Owen Wilson of the Pirates, who next year would hit a record 36
         triples, hits three in one game against Brooklyn.
1983     George Brett hits his "pine tar" home run vs. Yankees.

JULY 25
1883     Charles Radbourn, Providence Grays, sends the Clevelands down to a
         hitless and runless defeat, winning over One-Armed Daily, 8-0. One
         error was made behind him, he struck out six men and passed no one.
1913     Relieving Tom Hughes in the fourth inning, Walter Johnson keeps the
         Browns to one run and seven hits in 11 1/3 rounds and fans 16 of
         them.
1918     Walter Johnson wins over St. Louis, 1-0, in 15 innings, Allan
         Sothoron pitching against him.
1930     The A's come up with a triple steal in the first inning and again in
         the fourth against Cleveland. This is the only time two triple
         steals were achieved in one game.

JULY 26
1876     Cal McVey goes 6 for 7, as he did day before; this gives him 15 hits
         over three games.
1923     Hoyt Wilhelm born.
1928     Bob Meusel hits for cycle for third time in career, a record tied
         only by Babe Herman, who did it all three times in 1931.
1933     Fired as Card manager the previous day, Rogers Hornsby signs to
         manage Browns, so he doesn't even have to move out of his apartment
         in St. Louis.

JULY 27
1880     Joe Tinker born.
1885     John Clarkson pitches no-hit game for Chicago against Providence.
1918     Harry Heitman debuts with the Dodgers by yielding hits to the first
         four men to face him; he leaves the park, enlists in the Navy, and
         never pitches in the majors again.
1946     Rudy York hits two grand slams.

JULY 28
1875     Joe Borden of the Boston Red Stockings throws baseball's first
         no-hitter, defeating the Chicago White Stockings, 4-0 at Boston.
1949     Vida Blue born.
1954     Jim Bagby, Sr. dies; he won 31 games for the champion Indians of
         1920.
1986     Joe Oeschger dies.
1989     St. Louis outfielder Vince Coleman's major league record of 50
         consecutive stolen bases is ended by Montreal catcher Nelson
         Santovenia.
1990     Cal Ripken's fifth-inning error in the first game of a doubleheader
         ends his major league record 95 consecutive errorless games streak.
1991     Dennis Martinez of Montreal pitches the fifteenth perfect game in
         history in a 2-0 win over the Dodgers.
1993     The Mets' Anthony Young defeats the Marlins 5-4 to end his major
         league record 27-game losing streak. His last victory had come on
         April 19, 1992.

JULY 29
1886     Toad Ramsey, Louisville lefty, one-hits Baltimore while fanning 16 of
         his 499 victims that year.
1990     The Red Sox slam a American League record 12 doubles in a 13-3
         drubbing of Detroit.

JULY 30
1889     Casey Stengel born.
1959     Willie McCovey, just up from Phoenix, collects four hits in four
         trips in his debut with the San Francisco Giants. His hits included
         two triples in a 7-2 triumph over the Phillies, and they came off no
         patsy--future Hall of Famer Robin Roberts.

JULY 31
1891     Amos Rusie, Giants, no-hits Brooklyn.
1910     The Cubs have to stop play in their game with the Cardinals at the
         end of the seventh to catch a train, possibly costing King Cole a
         no-hit contest. He didn't give any blows in the seven innings that
         were played and no men were left on bases, four who walked being
         erased either on double plays or trying to steal.
1922     Hank Bauer born.
1954     Joe Adcock of Milwaukee unloads on the Dodgers for a record 18 total
         bases--four homers and a two-bagger.
1975     Max Flack dies.
1990     Nolan Ryan of Texas becomes twentieth pitcher to win 300 games with
         an 11-3 victory over Milwaukee.
1993     Oakland trades Rickey Henderson to Toronto for two minor
         leaguers--pitcher Steve Karsay and outfielder Jose Herrera.

AUGUST 1
1903     Only one New York Highlander--Kid Elberfeld--is able to get hits off
         Rube Waddell of Athletics. He raps four hits while the rest of his
         teammates are fanning 13 times. New York wins, 3-2.
1954     Joe Adcock's slugging rampage of previous day is followed by his
         beaning by Clem Labine at Ebbets Field.
1972     Nate Colbert of San Diego drives in 13 runs in a doubleheader
         victory on five homers and two singles.
1978     Pete Rose's hitting streak is halted at 44 games, tying Willie
         Keeler's NL mark.

AUGUST 2
1979     Yankee catcher Thurman Munson dies in the crash of a plane he was
         piloting at the Canton, Ohio, airport. He was only 32.
1990     In a 6-5 loss to Detroit, Yankee rookie Kevin Maas belts his 10th
         home run in only his 77th at-bat to become the fastest player to
         reach that mark.

AUGUST 3
1894     Harry Heilmann born.
1930     Smokey Joe Williams of the Homestead Grays beat Chet Brewer of the
         Kansas City Monarchs, 1-0 in 12 innings. Williams gave up only one
         hit and fanned 27.
1948     Satchel Paige makes first major league start.
1960     Detroit trades manager Jimmy Dykes to Cleveland for manager Joe
         Gordon.
1989     Cincinnati bangs out a major league record 16 hits and scores 14 runs
         in the bottom of the first en route to an 18-2 stomping of the
         Astros.

AUGUST 4
1867     Jake Beckley born.
1884     Jim Galvin pitches no-hit game for Buffalo against Detroit.
1910     Jack Coombs, Athletics, and Ed Walsh, White Sox, have 16 inning
         battle in which no runs are scored. Philadelphia's star allowed
         three hits and fanned 18 men; Chicagoan permitted six blows and
         whiffed 10.
1962     Roger Clemens born.
1982     Outfielder Joel Youngblood knocks in the winning run in the New York
         Mets' 7-4 victory over the Cubs in Chicago. In the course of the
         day-game he is traded to the Montreal Expos, who are playing that
         night in Philadelphia. Youngblood caught a plane for Philly and
         appeared in right field for the Expos in the fourth inning. He later
         contributes a single. He becomes the only person to play (and also
         collect hits) for two teams in two different cities in the same day.

AUGUST 5
1890     Cy Young pitches his first game in National League, turning in 8-1
         victory for Cleveland over Chicago.
1931     Tommy Bridges of the Tigers retires the first 26 Senators before
         pinch hitter Dave Harris gets a bloop single. Bridges wins, 13-0.
1992     After receiving five walks the previous day, Oakland's Jose Canseco
         is issued two free passes to start the game. His seven consecutive
         walks ties the American League record.

AUGUST 6
1884     After having made two home runs the previous day off Jim McCormick of
         Cleveland, Adrian Anson of Chicago hits three circuit drives in
         succession off Sam Moffett--a total of five homers in two successive
         days.

AUGUST 7
1887     Bill McKechnie born; he was the only NL skipper to win pennants with
         three different clubs.
1906     Umpire James E. Johnstone barred from Polo Grounds by New York
         management; game forfeited to Cubs.

AUGUST 8
1903     For the second time in eight days, Joe McGinnity pitches two
         games for Giants. He defeats Brooklyn twice, scores being 6-1 and
         4-3, and allows 13 hits.
1936     Frank Howard born.

AUGUST 9
1887     Charley Buffinton pitches one-hit game against Chicago. Two days
         before, he had limited Indianapolis to one safety.
1889     Pittsburgh defeats Washington, 15-3, Billy Sunday, famous evangelist,
         making four of the winners' runs and stealing four bases on the
         Senators' catcher--Connie Mack.
1906     Jack Taylor of Cardinals extends his incredible pitching streak of
         complete games to 187 (plus 15 relief appearances in which he needed
         no help). Incredibly, his streak began on June 13, 1901--more than
         five years distant.
1975     Davey Lopes of the Dodgers steals his 32nd consecutive base
         without being caught in a win over the Mets. This broke Max Carey's
         1922 record. Lopes tacked on six more steals before being nipped on
         August 24.

AUGUST 10
1933     Rocky Colavito born.
1944     Red Barrett of the Boston Braves throws only 58 pitches in a
         complete-game shutout of the Reds.

AUGUST 11
1907     In the second game of a twin bill, shortened by agreement, Ed
         Karger of the Cardinals pitches a seven inning perfect game against
         Boston.

AUGUST 12
1880     Christy Mathewson born.
1892     Ray Schalk born.
1966     Art Shamsky of the Reds comes off the bench to pinch hit in the
         eighth and hits a home run. He stays in the game and connects again
         in the 10th and 11th innings, but Cincinnati still loses to
         Pittsburgh.

AUGUST 13
1906     Jack Taylor is knocked out of the box by Brooklyn in the third
         frame, ringing a close to his streak of of 1,727 consecutive innings
         without requiring relief.
1917     Sid Gordon born.
1930     Wilmer "Vinegar Bend" Mizell born.
1940     Pitcher Tony Cloninger born.

AUGUST 14
1888     Tim Keefe is beaten by Cubs, 4-2, after winning 19 straight.
1930     Earl Weaver born.
1958     Vic Power, Cleveland first baseman, steals home twice; he stole only
         one other base all year.

AUGUST 15
1859     Charles Comiskey born.
1886     Guy Hecker, Louisville, scores seven runs in game with Baltimore
         that Colonels win, 22-5. He bats seven times and registers three
         home runs, two doubles and one single. Guy pitched this game,
         allowing four hits.
1916     Babe Ruth wins a 13 inning pitching battle with Walter Johnson, 1-0,
         Jack Barry's third hit of the day sending in the only run.
1926     Babe Herman doubles into a double play, and though three Dodgers
         wind up at third on the play, Herman gets credit for driving in
         game's winning run against Braves.

AUGUST 16
1948     Babe Ruth dies of cancer at age of 53.

AUGUST 17
1882     Behind pitcher John Ward and right fielder Hoss Radbourn, who hit
         the game-winning homer, Providence beats Detroit, 1-0, in 18 innings.
1920     Ray Chapman, Cleveland shortstop, becomes lone casualty in major
         league history, dying from accidental beaning by Carl Mays the
         previous day.
1990     Chicago White Sox's Carlton Fisk belts his 328th home run to surpass
         Johnny Bench's record for home runs by a catcher.
1993     Todd Zeile of St. Louis commits an error to end the Cardinals' major
         league record of 16 consecutive errorless games.

AUGUST 18
1893     Burleigh Grimes born.
1934     Roberto Clemente born.
1960     Ron Darling born.
1965     Henry Aaron of the Braves hits a Curt Simmons pitch on top of the
         pavilion roof at Sportsman's Park, St. Louis, for an apparent home
         run. However, umpire Chris Pelekoudas calls him out for being out of
         the batter's box when he connected.
1992     Bret Boone's major league debut with the Mariners gives baseball
         its first three generational family of major leaguers.

AUGUST 19
1880     Larry Corcoran pitches no-hit game for Chicago against Boston.
1911     After having won 22 straight games from Cincinnati, Christy
         Mathewson is beaten by them, 7-4. His conqueror is Art Fromme.
1951     Eddie Gaedel, 43-inch midget, draws walk as pinch hitter for Browns.

AUGUST 20
1886     Double one-hit game in American Association, Kilroy pitching for
         Baltimore and Miller for Athletics.
1908     Al Lopez born; in 17 years at the helm of the Indians and White Sox,
         he finished first or second 12 times.
1944     Graig Nettles born.
1945     Tommy Brown, 17-year-old shortstop of the Dodgers, becomes the
         youngest major league player to hit a home run, smacking one off
         Preacher Roe of the Pirates.

AUGUST 21
1926     Ted Lyons of the White Sox pitches a 6-0 no-hitter over the Red Sox
         in one hour and seven minutes.

AUGUST 22
1911     Josh Devore of Giants raps five hits--each on the first pitch.
1961     Roger Maris, en route to a new home run record, becomes the first
         player to hit his 50th home run in August. He connected against the
         Angels, who beat the Yankees, 4-3.
1989     The Rangers' Nolan Ryan fans Rickey Henderson for his 5,000th career
         strikeout.

AUGUST 23
1922     George Kell born.
1982     With a reputation for doctoring the ball which dated back many
         years, 43-year-old Seattle pitcher Gaylord Perry is ejected in the
         seventh inning for throwing a spitball against the Red Sox.
1992     With a 3-1 win over the Phillies, the Astros conclude a 28-day,
         26-game road trip, caused by the Republican National Convention at
         the Astrodome. The trip, which spanned 9,186 miles and eight cities,
         saw Houston finish with a respectable 12-14 record.

AUGUST 24
1852     Jim "Orator" O'Rourke born; he caught a complete big-league game
         (the Giants' 1904 pennant clincher) at the age of 52.
1887     Harry Hooper born.
1923     Carl Mays of Yanks beats A's for 23rd consecutive time, a streak
         that began on August 30, 1918, when he was with the Red Sox.

AUGUST 25
1889     Brooklyn and Cincinnati go to Hamilton, Ohio, to play a Sunday game,
         where they manage to play 3-1/3 innings before the cops hauled them
         in. Each Sabbath violator was fined $8.85.
1894     Chicago catcher Pop Schriver catches ball thrown by Clark Griffith
         from top of Washington Monument, 555 feet high.
1906     White Sox, after winning 19 in a row, are stopped by Washington.
1946     Rollie Fingers born.

AUGUST 26
1916     Joe Bush, Athletics, pitches hitless and runless ball against
         Cleveland, Jack Graney, first batter, who walked, being only man to
         reach base.
1935     Zeke Bonura, of all people, steals home in the 15th frame to give
         White Sox win over Yanks, 9-8.

AUGUST 27
1897     Roger Bresnahan, later a Hall of Fame catcher, makes his debut as an
         18-year-old pitcher for Washington. He shut out St. Louis 3-0 on six
         hits.

1911     Ed Walsh pitches no-hit game for White Sox against Red Sox; Clyde
         Engle, who walked, is the one man to reach first.
1943     Lou Pinella born.
1982     Rickey Henderson not only breaks Lou Brock's season stolen base
         record of 118, but swipes three more bases in the A's 5-4 loss at
         Milwaukee. This gives Henderson 122 thefts in 127 games.

AUGUST 28
1909     Queerest one-hit game on record in majors: William Denton "Dolly"
         Gray, Washington, pitches it against White Sox and is beaten, 6-4.
         He gives eight bases on balls in the second, of which seven come in
         succession, and forces in five runs. Pat Dougherty's scratch hit
         over Bob Unglaub's head, opening third inning, was Chicago's lone
         blow.
1926     Emil Levsen of the Indians pitches two complete game wins over the
         Red Sox, 6-1 and 5-1. He did not fan a batter in either game.
1990     In a 5-2 victory over Houston, Ryne Sandberg of the Cubs becomes the
         first second baseman to record back-to-back 30 HR seasons.
1992     Milwaukee collects an American League record 31 hits in a 22-2 rout
         of the Blue Jays.

AUGUST 29
1896     Curt Welch dies; 10 years earlier, he stole home in the bottom of
         the tenth to win the World Series for the St. Louis Browns.
1973     Nolan Ryan of the Angels gives up one tainted hit in a 5-0 win over
         the Yankees. Two Angel infielders play Alphonse and Gaston with
         Thurman Munson's pop fly, and it drops between them.

AUGUST 30
1899     Kiki Cuyler born.
1905     Ty Cobb plays his first game with Detroit, hitting a double off Jack
         Chesbro of the Yankees.
1918     Ted Williams born.

AUGUST 31
1875     Eddie Plank born.
1894     Sliding Billy Hamilton, Phillies, steals seven bases in eight
         inning game with Washington, tying George Gore's National League
         record.
1903     For the third time inside of a month, Joe McGinnity pitches and wins
         two games for New York. Philadelphia is beaten by scores of 4-1 and
         9-2.
1935     Frank Robinson born.
1937     Rudy York of the Tigers hits his 17th and 18th home runs of the
         month to set a new record; Detroit beats the Washington Senators,
         12-3.
1950     Gil Hodges of the Dodgers hits four homers and a single and bats in
         nine runs in a 19-3 rout of the Braves at Brooklyn.
1990     Seattle's Ken Griffey, Jr. and his father become the first father-son
         combination to play as teammates in a 5-2 victory over Kansas City.

SEPTEMBER 1
1890     Pirates beaten three times in one day by Brooklyn--in morning, 10-9,
         though they score nine runs in the ninth, and in afternoon, 3-2 and
         8-4. All three games go nine innings.
1900     Hub Pruett born; the mediocre rookie southpaw gained fame with the
         Browns in 1922 by fanning Ruth in 10 of the Babe's first 11 at-bats
         against him.
1912     Smokey Joe Wood of the Red Sox beats Walter Johnson of the Senators,
         1-0, in a specially arranged pitching duel at Boston. This was the
         14th straight win for Wood; Johnson had won 16 straight earlier in
         the season. When the season ended, Wood had 34 wins, Johnson 32.
1931     Lou Gehrig hits third grand slam in four days.
1989     Commissioner Bart Giamatti dies of a heart attack while vacationing
         on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

SEPTEMBER 2
1850     Al Spalding born.
1933     Marv Throneberry born.
1970     Billy Williams of the Cubs plays his 1,117th consecutive game, a
         National League record.

SEPTEMBER 3
1897     Willie Keeler and Jack Doyle, Baltimore, each make six hits in six
         times at bat off Red Donahue and Percy Coleman of St. Louis, this
         being the only major league game on record in which two players
         accomplished feat. Baltimore naturally won, 22-1.
1990     In preserving a 4-2 win over Kansas City, White Sox reliever Bobby
         Thigpen breaks Dave Righetti's major league record with his 47th
         save.
1992     Major League owners announce their request for Commissioner Fay
         Vincent's immediate resignation.

SEPTEMBER 4
1916     In sentimental hurling duel that marks final appearance for both,
         Christy Mathewson of Reds outlasts Three-Finger Brown of Cubs, 10-8.
1992     In a 16-5 demolition of the Twins, Toronto ties an American League
         record with 10 consecutive hits in the second inning.
1993     The Yankees' Jim Abbott, born without a right hand, pitches a
         no-hitter in a 4-0 victory over Cleveland.
         The Phillies, in a 6-5 loss to the Reds, establish a National League
         record with their 151st consecutive game without being shut out.

SEPTEMBER 5
1874     Nap Lajoie born.
1908     Nap Rucker, Brooklyn lefthander, pitches no-hit game against Boston,
         striking out 14 men.
1918     Because of war-curtailed season, World Series starts a month early
         and Babe Ruth of Red Sox outpitches Jim Vaughn of Cubs, 1-0, in
         opener.

SEPTEMBER 6
1883     Largest inning in major league history, as the Chicago White
         Stockings score 18 runs in the seventh off Stump Weidman and Dick
         Burns of Detroit. Game winds up with Ansonites on top, 26-6. Tommy
         Burns of Chicago bats three times in the seventh and makes three
         hits.
1888     Red Faber born; he pitched in 20 seasons, and was the AL's last
         legal spitballer when he retired in 1933.
1897     Willie Keeler gets 15th hit over three consecutive games.
1912     Jeff Tesreau of the Giants, slightly assisted by some New York
         correspondents who use their persuasive powers on an official scorer,
         pitches no hit game against Phillies, winning over Eppa Rixey, 3
         to 0. A ball hit to Merkle was first put down as a hit and later
         changed into an error.

SEPTEMBER 7
1911     Rookie Grover Alexander of the Phils takes a 1-0 thriller from
         44-year-old Cy Young, who was closing out his career with the Boston
         Braves.
1992     Fay Vincent resigns as baseball's Commissioner. Two days later, Bud
         Selig, owner of the Brewers, is appointed Chairman of Major League
         Baseball's Executive Committee.

SEPTEMBER 8
1896     Baltimore, after having won three games from Louisville the previous
         day, takes two more falls out of the Colonels, the scores being 10-9
         and 3-1. Five victories and five defeats in two days are major
         league records.
1907     Buck Leonard born.
1965     Bert Campaneris of the A's plays all 9 positions. Only Cesar Tovar
         of the Twins has matched this feat.

SEPTEMBER 9
1877     Frank Chance born.
1894     Joe Kelley of Orioles, makes nine hits in nine times at bat in
         doubleheader with Cleveland, off Sullivan and Young. Five of these
         drives were for extra bases, four being doubles and one being a
         triple.
1898     Frankie Frisch born.
1899     Waite Hoyt born.
1965     Sandy Koufax of the Dodgers pitches a perfect game against the Cubs,
         fanning 14 and winning 1-0. His opponent, Bob Hendley, allows the
         Dodgers only one hit, a double by Lou Johnson.
1990     Oakland's 7-3 victory over the Yankees completes a 12-0 season sweep.
         It marks the first time in club history that New York has failed to
         defeat an opponent at least once during a season.
1992     In a 5-4 loss to the Indians, Milwaukee's Robin Yount, with a seventh
         inning single, becomes seventeenth player in history to attain 3,000
         hits.
1993     By a margin of 27-1, Major League owners vote to realign each league
         into a three-division format and add a third round of playoffs
         beginning in 1994.

SEPTEMBER 10
1896     George Kelly born; "Highpockets" of the Giants hit seven homers over
         six consecutive games in 1924.

SEPTEMBER 11
1882     Tony Mullane, Louisville, pitches no-hit game against Cincinnati.

1912     The Athletics' Eddie Collins steals six bases in a game with
         Detroit, an AL record; eleven days later, he would do it again.

SEPTEMBER 12
1947     Ralph Kiner smacks two homers to conclude four game stretch in which
         he hit eight.
1962     Tom Cheney of the Senators sets a record by fanning 21 Orioles in a
         16-inning game which he wins, 2-1.
1969     Jerry Koosman and Don Cardwell of Mets each throw 1-0 shutouts over
         Pirates; each gets game-winning RBI.
1976     Minnie Minoso becomes oldest player to get a hit in a regulation
         game. He was almost 54 at the time.

SEPTEMBER 13
1883     Hugh Daily, Cleveland's one-armed pitcher, no-hits the Phillies.
1989     Francis T. "Fay" Vincent succeeds Bart Giamatti as baseball's
         eighth Commissioner.

SEPTEMBER 14
1903     John McGraw tries young pitcher named Leon Ames against Cardinals
         and in his debut he gives them neither hit nor run--the game,
         however, lasts only five innings.
1915     Giants, despite making 14 hits off Larry Cheney of Cubs, can't
         score a run and are beaten, 7-0.
1951     In his first big league game, Bob Nieman of the Browns homers in his
         first two at-bats.

SEPTEMBER 15
1902     First double play by historic combination of
         Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance.
1938     Gaylord Perry born.
1963     The three Alou brothers--Felipe, Matty, and Jesus--play briefly in
         the Giant outfield at the same time in a regular game. This
         necessitated benching Willie Mays.
1969     Steve Carlton of the Cardinals fans 19 Mets but loses, 4-3, as Ron
         Swoboda drives in all four runs with two homers.

SEPTEMBER 16
1924     Sunny Jim Bottomley blasts five Dodger pitchers to go 6 for 6, plus
         all-time record of 12 runs batted in, shading old mark of 11 set by
         Wilbert Robinson, who had to watch this performance painfully as
         Dodger manager.
1975     The Pirates annihilated the Cubs in Wrigley Field 22-0. It was the
         most one-sided shutout since 1900. Rennie Stennett got 7 hits in 7
         at-bats.
1988     Tom Browning of the Reds becomes the 14th pitcher to throw a
         perfect game, defeating L.A. at Cincinnati, 1-0.
1993     Minnesota's Dave Winfield becomes the nineteenth player to
         attain 3,000 career hits.

SEPTEMBER 17
1879     Andrew "Rube" Foster born; the top pitcher in black baseball for a
         decade, in 1920 he formed the Negro National League.
1912     Casey Stengel, purchased conditionally from Montgomery, breaks in
         with Brooklyn by blasting Pittsburgh pitching for four hits and a
         walk in five tries, also stealing a base in 7-3 victory, whereupon
         Dodgers complete terms of purchase before Stengel is showered and
         dressed.
1984     Reggie Jackson, now with the California Angels, becomes the 13th
         player to hit 500 big league homers. His wallop against Kansas
         City's Bud Black came 17 years to the day after his first big league
         hit.
1984     Dwight Gooden fans 16 Phils in a 2-1 victory, equaling the number of
         Pirates fanned in his last outing--tying the record for strikeouts in
         consecutive starts.

SEPTEMBER 18
1897     Denton T. Young, Cleveland, retires Cincinnati without a hit or run.
1911     Larry Doyle of Giants steals home twice in same game.
1968     After Gaylord Perry had pitched a no-hitter over the Cardinals the
         day before, Ray Washburn retaliates with a no-hitter over the Giants
         in the same San Francisco park.

SEPTEMBER 19
1926     Edwin "Duke" Snider born; the Dodger center fielder hit 40 or more
         home runs in five straight years.
1943     Joe Morgan born.

SEPTEMBER 20
1882     On closing day of the season Larry Corcoran, Chicago White
         Stockings, pitches no-hit, no-run game against Worcester, winning
         over Frank Mountain, 5-0.
1900     Honus Wagner steals five bases in game with St. Louis, Cardinals'
         catcher being Wilbert Robinson.
1958     Baltimore's Hoyt Wilhelm, still winless (0-6) as a starter after his
         relief career foundered, revives his fortunes by no-hitting New York.

SEPTEMBER 21
1865     Bill Joyce born.
1934     Dizzy Dean and brother Paul shut out Dodgers in twin bill. Diz
         throws three-hitter in opener, then Paul outdoes him by hurling
         no-hitter in nightcap.
1942     Sam McDowell born.

SEPTEMBER 22
1904     Jim O'Rourke, although 52 years old, catches a full game for the
         Giants and goes 1 for 4 at bat.
1920     Bob Lemon born; after coming to the Indians as a third baseman in
         1941, he found his true vocation on the mound, winning 20 games seven
         times.
1993     Texas' Nolan Ryan makes his 773rd and final career start, but fails
         to retire a batter. He walks four and allows two hits.

SEPTEMBER 23
1886     Pud Galvin of Pittsburgh walks three Brooklyn batters to load the
         bases, but then picks George Smith off first base, Bill McClellan off
         third, and Jim McTamany off second.
1908     Fred Merkle did not touch second in ninth inning of game with Cubs
         and game ended in a tie, 1-1, instead of a New York victory, 2-1.
         This oversight cost the Giants the pennant, for the season ended in a
         tie and the Cubs won the one-game playoff.
1992     Against the Pirates, Phillies second baseman Mickey Morandini turns
         only the tenth unassisted triple play in history, and the first in
         the National League since May 30, 1927.

SEPTEMBER 24
1939     Eighteen years after his major league debut, Johnny Cooney of Braves
         hits first major league homer, a wrong-field slice in Polo Grounds;
         next day, he adds another.
1957     Ted Williams is retired by Hal Griggs, snapping a streak of 16
         straight times on base, a record.
1992     In Seattle's 4-3 16-inning victory over Texas, the two teams use a
         combined 54 players. Seattle uses 29 players including a major league
         record 11 pitchers.
         In an 8-2 Blue Jays' win, Dave Winfield becomes first forty-year old
         to drive in 100 runs for a season.

SEPTEMBER 25
1929     Yank manager Miller Huggins dies.
1946     Bill Veeck, owner of Cleveland, offers free admission to game with
         Chisox; 12,800 show up to see Chi win, 4-1.
1965     Satchel Paige becomes at 59 the oldest to play in the majors as the
         Red Sox. He gave out only one hit--that to Carl Yastrzemski.
1989     With a 4-for-5 day, Boston's Wade Boggs becomes the only player ever
         to record four consecutive 200-hit, 100-walk seasons. He also extends
         his modern major league record with his seventh straight 200-hit
         season.

SEPTEMBER 26
1908     Ed Reulbach, Cubs, performs the greatest iron man stunt on record in
         majors by twice blanking Brooklyn. Scores were 5-0 and 3-0.
         Superbas got five singles in first game, three in second, and never
         got nearer the plate than second base.
1912     Cubs have Reds shut out 9-0 up to the ninth. Cincinnati then makes
         10 runs off Jimmy Lavender, Fred Toney and Larry Cheney, but in their
         part the Cubs rebounded for two runs against Ralph Works and Rube
         Benton and won, 11-10.
1954     Karl Spooner hurls second shutout in second major league start,
         equaling record of Al Spalding, John M. Ward, Jim Hughes, and Al
         Worthington.
1981     Houston's Nolan Ryan pitches his fifth career no-hit, no-run game, a
         5-0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers at the Astrodome.
1993     Colorado draws 70,069 in their final home game, which ups their
         season total to a major League record 4,483,350.
         Seattle's Randy Johnson becomes the twelfth pitcher to record 300
         strikeouts in a season.

SEPTEMBER 27
1881     Troy defeats Cleveland at Troy, 10-8, in rainstorm; the last game of
         the season, it draws a whopping crowd of 12.
1919     Babe Ruth ceases hitting home runs for the season, four bagger
         number 29 being manufactured at Washington in the third inning off
         Jordan and giving him a record of one or more circuit clouts at every
         American League Park.
1928     Lefty Grove of A's fans White Sox in seventh inning with nine
         pitched balls, second time he turned trick this season (also August
         23 vs. Cleveland).
1930     The Cubs' Hack Wilson hits his final two homers of the season,
         giving him 56 for a NL record.
1935     The Cubs win their 21st consecutive game without a loss or tie (the
         1916 New York Giants won 26 with one tie) and clinch the pennant.
1992     In a 3-2 loss to Texas, Randy Johnson ties Ron Guidry's American
         League record of 18 strikeouts in a game by a lefthander.

SEPTEMBER 28
1920     George Sisler equals and breaks American League record of hits for
         season (made by Ty Cobb in 1911) in game with Indians, getting 248th
         safety, a homer, in sixth and 249th safety, a triple, in eighth.
1938     Gabby Hartnett's homer in gathering darkness breaks 5-5 tie with
         Pirates and puts Cubs into first place to stay.
1941,
1960     A big date for Ted Williams: he closes the 1941 season by going 6
         for 8 to hit .406, and 19 years later he closes his career by hitting
         a homer in his last time at bat.
1993     The Phillies clinch the National League East Pennant with a 10-7 win
         over Pittsburgh, and become only the third team overall and second
         National League team to go from last to first in one year.

SEPTEMBER 29
1913     Walter Johnson wins his 36th game of the season as the Senators beat
         the A's, 1-0.
1963     In what is both his debut and his finale, John Paciorek of Houston
         goes 3 for 3 with two walks, three RBIs, and four runs scored.
1988     Orel Hershiser of the Dodgers throws ten shutout innings against
         the Padres before departing the tie game, thus running his streak of
         scoreless frames to 59 and surpassing by one the record set in 1968
         by Don Drysdale.
1991     With a victory over the White Sox, Minnesota becomes first American
         League team to go from last to first in one year.

SEPTEMBER 30
1916     Giants, after winning 26 straight games and creating new major
         league record, beaten by Braves, 8-3. George Tyler stops the
         McGrawites and makes Brooklyn champion of National League.
1926     Robin Roberts born; the 28 games he won for the Phils in 1952 are
         the NL's high-water mark of the last half-century.
1927     Babe Ruth hits 60th homer, surpassing his own record by one. The
         victim is Tom Zachary of the Senators.
1931     Babe Herman sets record by hitting for cycle third time in this
         season; only Bob Meusel has ever hit for cycle thrice in career.
1951     Jackie Robinson hits a home run in the 14th inning to give the
         Dodgers a 9-8 win over the Phils and a tie in the National League
         race with the Giants.
1972     Roberto Clemente hits a double in the fourth inning against the
         Mets for his 3,000th hit in the majors. It proves to be his last hit
         as he died in an airplane crash in December.
1984     Mike Witt throws a perfect game.
1988     For the second consecutive time, Dave Stieb of Toronto is only one
         strike away from a no-hitter, then allows a dink hit and settles for
         a one-hitter.
1992     With a four-hit game, George Brett of the Royals becomes the
         eighteenth player to attain 3,000 hits. After receiving
         congratulations, Brett is picked off first base.

OCTOBER 1
1933     Nick Altrock pinch hits for Washington at age of 57.
1961     Roger Maris sets a new season record for home runs when he hit his
         61st off Tracy Stallard of the Red Sox to give the Yankees a 1-0
         victory.

OCTOBER 2
1908     Addie Joss of Cleveland pitches a perfect game, winning 1-0 over the
         White Sox. Ed Walsh gives up only four hits and fans 15 in a
         dazzling encounter.
1949     Browns use a different pitcher in each of nine innings against White
         Sox.
1968     Bob Gibson breaks Sandy Koufax's Series record by whiffing 17 Tigers
         while winning the first game.
1978     In a one-game season playoff, Bucky Dent of the Yankees hits a 3-run
         homer in the seventh inning to help defeat the Red Sox 5-4 and give
         winning hurler Ron Guidry a remarkable 25-3 season won-lost record.

OCTOBER 3
1872     Fred Clarke born.
1895     Harry Wright dies in Atlantic City.
1897     Cap Anson closes out a memorable 27-year career which started in the
         National Association 1871. He hits two home runs against St. Louis.
         At age 46, he is the oldest player to homer in the majors.
1947     Cookie Lavagetto's pinch double with two out and two aboard in the
         ninth inning of World Series game at Ebbets Field ruins Bill Bevens'
         no-hitter and beats Yanks, 3 to 2.
1951     Bobby Thomson's dramatic homer off Ralph Branca in ninth with two
         aboard gives Giants 5-4 victory over Dodgers in third and final
         playoff game for pennant.
1990     Kansas City's George Brett, by winning the American League batting
         crown with a .329 average, becomes the first player in major league
         history to win batting titles in three different decades.
         Detroit's Cecil Fielder slams two homers in a 10-3 final game victory
         over New York. His 51 home runs make him the eleventh player in
         history to reach 50 and the first American Leaguer since 1961.
1993     Colorado's Andres Galarraga finishes with a .370 average and becomes
         first player from an inaugural-year expansion team to win a batting
         title.
         Phillies' Lenny Dykstra becomes only player in twentieth century to
         lead his league in at-bats, hits, runs, and base on balls.
         Toronto's trio of John Olerud, Paul Molitor, and Roberto Alomar
         finish 1-2-3 in American League batting and become first teammates to
         accomplish this feat since 1893.

OCTOBER 4
1948     Cleveland shortstop, manager, and MVP Lou Boudreau goes 4 for 4 off
         Red Sox pitching to win the AL's first one-game playoff for a
         pennant.
1955     The Brooklyn Dodgers win their first World Series with Johnny
         Podres blanking the Yankees 2-0 in the final game, aided by Sandy
         Amoros' great catch.
1992     National League umpire Doug Harvey retires after 31 years.

OCTOBER 5
1941     Brooklyn catcher Mickey Owen drops a third strike of what would
         have been the last out of a Dodger victory over the Yankees. Given
         a second chance, the Yankees score four runs to win the game, and
         eventually the Series.

OCTOBER 6
1824     Henry Chadwick born in England; the prolific writer may have done
         more than anyone to make baseball America's national pastime.
1908     On final game of AL season, with pennant at stake for winner and
         third place awaiting loser, Bill Donovan's two-hitter gives Detroit
         the decision over Chicago.
1966     Jim Palmer, 20, becomes the youngest hurler to hurl a World Series
         shutout as the Orioles beat the Dodgers, 6-0. Sandy Koufax is the
         loser, and it marks his last appearance in a game.
1991     New York Mets pitcher David Cone fans 19 Phillies to tie the
         National League record for strikeouts in a game.

OCTOBER 7
1862     Pitcher Jim Creighton, at age 21 baseball's first star, injures
         himself against the Unions of Morrisania and, "after suffering for a
         few days, expired."
1905     Chuck Klein born.
1913     Living up to his nickname, John Franklin "Home Run" Baker
         connects with homer that enables A's to beat Giants in World Series
         opener, 6-4.

OCTOBER 8
1926     Grover Alexander leaves bullpen in seventh inning of seventh
         World Series game to strike out Tony Lazzeri with bases loaded and
         two out, then holds Yanks scoreless the next two innings to win.
1956     In what is still the only no-hitter in Series history, Don Larsen of
         the Yankees pitches a perfect game against Brooklyn.

OCTOBER 9
1889     Rube Marquard born.
1898     Joe Sewell born.
1924     Jake Daubert dies after routine operation, age 39.
1934     Dizzy Dean blanks the Tigers, 11-0, in the Seventh Game, and the
         Cardinals take the Series, 4-3.
1972     Oakland's Gene Tenace homers in his first two World Series at-bats.
1989     With a game winning two-run single in the bottom of the 8th, Will
         Clark propels the Giant's to their first National League pennant
         since 1962. Clark, the LCS Most Valuable Player, sets a record by
         hitting .650 (13-20).

OCTOBER 10
1904     After winning 41 games all season, spitballer Jack Chesbro
         unleashes ninth inning wild pitch on last day to cost New York the AL
         pennant.
1906     Cubs' Ed Reulbach pitches first World Series one-hitter vs. White
         Sox.
1980     With the Kansas City Royals down 2-1 in the seventh inning of the
         third AL championship playoff game, George Brett hits a three-run
         homer off relief ace Goose Gossage of the Yankees to give the Royals
         a 4-2 win and a three-game sweep of the Series.

OCTOBER 11
1854     Pitcher Will White born; the brother of Deacon White, he won more
         than 40 games three times and was the first player to wear glasses.

OCTOBER 12
1906     Joe Cronin born.
1929     A's rally for 10 runs in eighth inning to win over Cubs, 10-8, on
         Mule Haas' lost-in-the-sun three-run homer that eluded Hack Wilson.
1982     Paul Molitor of Milwaukee collects five hits, a Series record, in the
         10-0 opener over the Cardinals in St. Louis. Mike Caldwell tosses
         the shutout for the Brewers.

OCTOBER 13
1876     Rube Waddell born.
1931     Eddie Mathews born.
1960     Bill Mazeroski opens the bottom of the ninth with a home run off
         Ralph Terry of the Yankees to give the Pirates a 10-9 victory and
         the championship.

OCTOBER 14
1896     Oscar Charleston born; the top black player of the 1920s.
1905     Christy Mathewson blanks the Athletics 2-0 to give the Giants the
         championship four games to one. All games ended in shutouts, with
         Matty getting three, Joe McGinnity one, and Chief Bender one.
1976     Yankees win pennant on Chris Chambliss' ninth inning homer off
         Kansas City's Mark Littell in Game Five of AL Playoffs.
OCTOBER 15
1892     Jack Stivetts throws five perfect innings at Washington, 6-0,
         before game is called because of darkness (second of twin bill).
1894     Bumpus Jones, who had shown up unannounced in Cincy clubhouse day
         before, starts and pitches no-hitter, only major league victory.
1945     Jim Palmer born; a three-time Cy Young Award winner, he won 20 or
         more in eight of nine years in the 1970s.
1986     The Mets defeat Houston in the NL LCS, winning Game Six by a score of
         7-6 in 16 innings. In a game that lasted four hours, forty-two
         minutes, the Mets scored three in the ninth to tie the game at 3-3;
         and the Astros scored one in the 14th to stay alive at 4-4 and two in
         the bottom of the 16th to give the Mets a mighty scare.

OCTOBER 16
1883     Will Harridge born.
1900     Goose Goslin born.
1912     Fred Snodgrass drops an easy fly ball in the 10th inning that permits
         the Red Sox to score two runs and win the Series from the Giants.
1969     Behind Jerry Koosman and homers by Al Weis and Donn Clendenon, the
         Mets beat the Orioles to take the Series in five games.

OCTOBER 17
1848     Candy Cummings born; the diminutive hurler (five-nine, 120 pounds)
         was the first to make a baseball curve.
1960     At Blackstone Hotel in Chicago, NL awards franchises to NY and
         Houston for 1962.
1989     At 5:04 PM Pacific time, just prior to the start of World Series Game
         Three between the Athletics and the Giants, a deadly earthquake
         measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale strikes the Bay Area. The Series
         does not resume until October 27th.

OCTOBER 18
1950     Connie Mack retires after 50 years as Philadelphia A's manager.
1977     Reggie Jackson hits three home runs on three pitches as the Yanks
         clinch the World Series with a sixth-game victory over Los Angeles.

OCTOBER 19
1876     Mordecai Peter Centennial Brown, known as Three-Finger, born; he
         overcame his handicap to develop the nastiest curve of the dead-ball
         era.
1946     Allie Reynolds traded to NY by Cleveland for Joe Gordon and Eddie
         Bockman: as an Indian, his won-lost record was 51-47; as a Yank, it
         was 131-60.
1949     A's trade Nellie Fox to Chicago for catcher Joe Tipton.

OCTOBER 20
1931     Mickey Mantle born.
1938     Juan Marichal born; the Dominican dandy had a dazzling array of
         pitches and deliveries that produced six 20-game seasons.
1990     Billy Hatcher's Series record seven consecutive hits and .750 average
         (9-12) powers the Reds to a stunning four-game sweep over the heavily
         favored Athletics.

OCTOBER 21
1910     Giants defeat Yanks, four games to two, in first NY City Series;
         Matty wins all four Giant victories.
1928     Whitey Ford born; the Yankees' "Chairman of the Board" won 236
         games plus an all-time high of 10 more in World Series competition.
1975     The Reds use eight pitchers in the sixth game of the Series, but
         Carlton Fisk breaks up the thrilling contest with a homer in the 12th
         inning to give the Red Sox a 7-6 win.
1981     Cards get Willie McGee from Yanks for Bob Sykes.

OCTOBER 22
1907     Jimmie Foxx born.
1975     Following a thrilling 12-inning loss in Boston the night before, the
         Reds get a ninth inning single from Joe Morgan and win Game Seven and
         the Series.
1991     Gene Larkin's tenth inning sacrifice fly gives Minnesota the World
         Championship, and ends the only scoreless extra-inning Game 7 in
         Series history. The Twins become the only team to go from last to
         World Champions in one year.
1992     Longtime Brooklyn Dodger and New York Yankee announcer Red Barber,
         who along with Mel Allen was the first announcer inducted into the
         Hall of Fame, dies at the age of eighty-four.

OCTOBER 23
1884     The New York Metropolitans host the Providence Grays in the first
         World Series game, losing 6-0 to Hoss Radbourn.
1979     Billy Martin fights marshmallow salesman in bar in Bloomington,
         Minnesota; he is fired five days later.

OCTOBER 24
1929     Jim Brosnan born; taking up where Henry Wiggen left off, the
         pitcher-author wrote The Long Season in 1960.
1992     In Game 6 of the World Series, Toronto defeats Atlanta 4-3 to become
         first non-U.S. based team to win the World Series.

OCTOBER 25
1884     Old Hoss Radbourn of Providence wins his third straight Series
         victory over the New York Mets of the American Association, 12-2.
         This concluded the three-game Series.
1889     Smokey Joe Wood born; his 1912 performance with the Red Sox was the
         equal of any as he went 34-5 while adding three more wins in the
         Series--including the final game.
1937     Boston Bees sign Casey Stengel as manager.
1965     Leo Durocher named to manage Cubs, ending college of coaches scheme.
1986     Only one strike away from losing the World Series to the Boston Red
         Sox, the Mets stage a miraculous rally in the tenth inning of Game
         Six. Down 5-3 in the bottom of the tenth with two out, no one on,
         and two strikes on Gary Carter, the Mets go on to score the winning
         run on Bill Buckner's misplay of a Mookie Wilson grounder. New York
         will win Game Seven two days later.

OCTOBER 26
1899     Judy Johnson born; he starred at third base for the Hilldale Club,
         the Homestead Grays, and the Pittsburgh Crawfords.
1917     Miller Huggins signs two-year contract to manage Yanks.
1934     Bosox get Joe Cronin from Washington for $250,000 and Lyn Lary; in
         deal Senators' owner Clark Griffith dealt his own son-in-law.
1960     The American League approves the transfer of the Senators to
         Minnesota and announces new franchises will be awarded to Washington
         and Los Angeles, This is the first expansion of the major leagues in
         this century.

OCTOBER 27
1859     Buck Ewing born; his contemporaries called him not only the greatest
         catcher of his time but also the top all-around player.
1890     Chicken Wolf has three hits and three RBIs to lead Louisville over
         the American Association champion Brooklyn team 9-8. The weather at
         the Brooklyn grounds was so cold and blustery, only 300 people came
         out to see the contest. After one more game, the Series, all tied up
         at three games apiece, was called off because of cold weather.
1922     Ralph Kiner born.

OCTOBER 28
1935     Bob Veale born, 45 years and a day after the above-mentioned
         exploits of Chicken Wolf. Veale will one day pitch for a Pirate
         staff that includes Ray Lamb and Bob Moose.
1981     After losing the first two Series games to the Yankees, the Los
         Angeles Dodgers come back to sweep the final four and take the
         Series. The Yankees fall apart in the final game, 9-2. It was at
         the time the latest played Series game in this century.
1989     After resuming the Series, Oakland completes a sweep of the
         overmatched Giants with a 9-6 victory.

OCTOBER 29
1929     Stock Market Crash; Harry Heilmann, .344 hitter in 1929, released on
         waivers to Cincy.
1939     Pete Richert born; debuted with Dodgers by fanning first six men he
         faced (April 12, 1962).
1953     The sale of the St. Louis AL franchise is completed, and the
         venerable Browns become the Baltimore Orioles.
1969     Tom Seaver gets first of three Cy Young Awards.

OCTOBER 30
1898     Bill Terry born.
1973     Tom Seaver wins second Cy Young Award, becoming first non-20 game
         winner to take the honor.

OCTOBER 31
1867     Ed Delahanty born.
1900     Cal Hubbard was born; the massive umpire (six-three, 250) is the
         only man enshrined in both Cooperstown and Canton, home of the Pro
         Football Hall of Fame.

NOVEMBER 1
1859     Bid McPhee born; greatest second baseman of the years before 1900.
1951     Catcher Roy Campanella of Brooklyn is voted the NL's MVP for the
         first of what will prove to be three times.
1960     Fernando Valenzuela born.

NOVEMBER 2

1927     Ban Johnson, founder of AL, resigns as league president.
1974     Henry Aaron traded to Brewers for Dave May; in Japan, he defeats
         Sadaharu Oh in homer contest 10-9, at Korakuen Stadium in Tokyo.

NOVEMBER 3
1918     Bob Feller born; he pitched three no-hitters, 12 one-hitters, and
         would have topped 300 wins but for World War Two.

NOVEMBER 4
1874     Bobby Wallace born.
1911     Joe Medwick born.
1950     Grover Cleveland Alexander dies.
1959     Ernie Banks wins his second straight MVP Award; he led NL
         shortstops in fielding while poling out 45 homers and driving in 143
         runs.
1976     First free-agent draft is held, Montreal selects Reggie Jackson
         with first choice.

NOVEMBER 5
1869     Cincinnati Reds play last game of year, beating Mutuals of New York,
         17-8; Reds' record for year is 57-0-1.
1968     Denny McLain takes MVP and Cy Young honors for his 31-6 record;
         no one had won more since Grover Alexander in 1916.

NOVEMBER 6
1887     Walter Johnson born; relying purely on speed and control, The Big
         Train won more games than anyone but Cy Young, and threw more
         shutouts than anybody.

NOVEMBER 7
1928     Manager--and less replaceably, .387 hitter--Rogers Hornsby was
         traded from Boston to the Cubs for $200,000 and five players.
1938     Jim Kaat born.

NOVEMBER 8
1894     King Kelly dies at Boston.
1896     Bucky Harris born.
1951     Yankee catcher Yogi Berra wins the first of his eventually three
         MVP Awards.

NOVEMBER 9
1931     Whitey Herzog born.
1935     Bob Gibson born.
1960     Casey Stengel, fired as the Yankees' manager after his 10th pennant
         in 12 years, says, "I'll never make the mistake of being 70 years old
         again."

NOVEMBER 10
1934     Norm Cash born; his on-base average of .488 in 1961 has not been
         topped since.
1955     Jack Clark born.
1965     Willie Mays, Giants, named NL's MVP.

NOVEMBER 11
1891     Rabbit Maranville born; inventor of the basket catch, the
         five-five shortstop played from 1912-1935.
1917     Grover Alexander traded to Cubs with Bill Killefer for Mike
         Prendergast, Pickles Dillhoefer, and $60,000.

NOVEMBER 12
1920     Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is named to the newly created
         position of Commissioner of Baseball.
1975     Tom Seaver gets third Cy Young Award.

NOVEMBER 13
1939     Wes Parker born.
1973     Reggie Jackson of Oakland is voted MVP as he leads the AL in homers,
         RBIs, and slugging.

NOVEMBER 14
1900     Ban Johnson, president of the Western League, announces his
         intention to upgrade his circuit to major rank.
1929     Joe McGinnity dies.
1954     Willie Hernandez born.
1956     Mantle is unanimous MVP.

NOVEMBER 15
1920     Waite Hoyt and Wally Schang are traded to the New York Yankees by
         Boston's Harry Frazee, the man who gave the Yanks Babe Ruth.
1942     Joe Gunson dies.
1969     Billy Southworth dies.
1985     Riggs Stephenson dies; for his 14-year career, he batted .336.

NOVEMBER 16
1951     Herb Washington born.
1980     George Brett of the Royals, coming off a .390 season, is named his
         league's MVP.

NOVEMBER 17
1923     Mike Garcia born.
1959     Willie McCovey, Giants, named NL Rookie of the Year.
1965     Among 156 nominees, retired Air Force general William D. "Spike"
         Eckert is selected as the game's new commissioner, replacing Ford
         Frick.
1992     In the Expansion Draft, Colorado selects pitcher David Nied from the
         Atlanta Braves with the first choice. Florida, drafting second,
         selects outfielder Nigel Wilson from the Blue Jays.

NOVEMBER 18
1888     Led by Al Spalding, the Chicago White Sox and "All Americans" sail
         from San Francisco for Honolulu, first stop on their world tour.
1888     "Colby Jack" Coombs born.

NOVEMBER 19
1921     Roy Campanella born; a superb receiver and power hitter, he was MVP
         in 1951, 1953, and 1955.
1979     Nolan Ryan is the first free agent to sign a million a year contract
         (Houston Astros).

NOVEMBER 20
1866     Kenesaw Mountain Landis born.
1869     Clark Griffith born.
1962     Chisox release Early Wynn, who has 299 wins; signs with Cleveland in
         June 1963, wins one game.
1980     Mike Schmidt of the Phillies wins the first of his three MVP Awards.

NOVEMBER 21
1905     Fred Lindstrom born.
1920     Stan Musial born; along with only Schmidt and Campanella, he was a
         three-time MVP in the NL.
1934     Yanks buy Joe DiMaggio from SF Seals for $25,000 and four
         players--he had hit in 61 straight in 1933.
1956     Brooklyn's Don Newcombe becomes first to win NL's MVP and Cy Young
         Award.
1962     Dick Stuart goes from Pittsburgh to Red Sox with Jack Lamabe, for
         Don Schwall and Jim Pagliaroni; hits 42 homers with 118 RBIs in first
         year in AL.

NOVEMBER 22
1892     Urban Shocker born.
1907     Dick Bartell born.
1950     Lyman Bostock born.
1957     Mantle wins MVP, 233 points to 232 by Williams, who hit .388 at age
         39; this is second time Williams lost MVP honors by one vote--see
         entry for November 27.
1977     Goose Gossage leaves the Pirates as a free agent to sign a six-year
         contract for $2.75 million with the Yankees.

NOVEMBER 23
1940     Luis Tiant born.
1965     The Mets acquire 44-year-old pitcher Warren Spahn from the Braves,
         for whom he had won 20 or more 13 times.

NOVEMBER 24
1944     Active as baseball's commissioner until the last, Judge Landis dies.
1953     Walter Alston named Dodger manager.

NOVEMBER 25
1906     Arthur Soden, owner of the Boston team in the NL since 1877, sells
         out to the Dovey brothers; the team's nickname became the Doves.
1914     Joe DiMaggio born.

NOVEMBER 26
1866     Hugh Duffy born.
1908     Lefty Gomez born.
1975     Fred Lynn of the Red Sox is voted the AL's MVP, the first rookie so
         named.

NOVEMBER 27
1947     Joe DiMaggio is elected MVP over triple-crown winner Williams, 202
         votes to 201. One writer fails to give Williams even a 10th-place
         vote, worth two points.
1954     Orioles and Yankees swap 18 players.
1967     Senators get Bill Denehy and $100,000 from Mets for manager Gil
         Hodges.

NOVEMBER 28
1972     Frank Robinson is traded from the Dodgers to the Angels, for whom he
         becomes that new phenomenon, the designated hitter.
1975     Steve Stone signs as free agent with Baltimore.

NOVEMBER 29
1922     Minnie Minoso born; he played in five decades by virtue of two pinch
         hit appearances at age 57.
1971     Gaylord Perry and Frank Duffy are traded from San Francisco to
         Cleveland for Sam McDowell.
1976     Yankees sign free agent outfielder Reggie Jackson for $3.5 million
         dollars.

NOVEMBER 30

1898     Fred "Firpo" Marberry born.
1920,
1948     Former pitching great Rube Foster organizes the Negro National
         League, and on this date 28 years later it disbands.

DECEMBER 1
1911     Walter Alston born; in 1955 he led the Brooklyn Dodgers to their
         only championship and won three more with the Dodgers of Los Angeles.

DECEMBER 2
1847     Deacon White born; he played every position over a long career while
         batting .303.

DECEMBER 3
1925     Harry Simpson born; traded in midseason five times in five years, he
         was given one of the game's great nicknames, "Suitcase."

DECEMBER 4
1868     Jesse Burkett born; with Hornsby and Cobb, he forms a trio of those
         who have hit .400 three times.

DECEMBER 5
1973     Montreal trades reliever Mike Marshall to the Dodgers--for whom in
         the next season he would pitch in 106 games and win the Cy Young
         Award--for Willie Davis.

DECEMBER 6
1899     Jocko Conlan born; the one-time White Sox outfielder was an NL
         umpire from 1941 through 1964.

DECEMBER 7
1947     Johnny Bench born; he was the top catcher of the 1970s, twice the NL
         homer champ and MVP.

DECEMBER 8
1939     Mindful of Lou Gehrig's illness, the writers waive the five-year
         rule and vote him into the Hall of Fame by acclamation.
1992     San Francisco signs free agent outfielder Barry Bonds to a six-year
         $43.7 million contract.

DECEMBER 9
1965     Branch Rickey dies; he was one of the game's great innovators and one
         of the nation's great men.

DECEMBER 10
1981     In a six-player deal, St. Louis and San Diego trade shortstops, with
         Ozzie Smith going to the Cards and Garry Templeton to the Padres.

DECEMBER 11
1959     The Yanks acquire Roger Maris in a seven-player deal that also moves
         Don Larsen to Kansas City.

DECEMBER 12
1903     In a deal with the Cards, the Cubs get Three-Finger Brown and Jack
         O'Neill for Jack Taylor and Larry McLean.

DECEMBER 13
1927     Detroit trades outfielder Heinie Manush to the Browns, for whom he
         would hit .378.

DECEMBER 14
1932     The Browns trade Goose Goslin to Senators, whom he will lead to the
         1933 pennant.

DECEMBER 15
1900     In the most lopsided deal ever, the Reds trade Christy Mathewson,
         with 373 wins ahead of him, for Amos Rusie, whose 243 career wins
         were all behind him.

DECEMBER 16
1982     The Mets reacquire Tom Seaver from the Reds for three players.

DECEMBER 17
1849     O.P. Caylor born; the sportswriter was so celebrated for his
         baseball knowledge that in 1885-1887 he was hired to manage first the
         Reds and then the Mets.

DECEMBER 18
1886     Ty Cobb born; beginning in 1907, he won 12 AL batting titles in the
         next 13 years.

DECEMBER 19
1934     Al Kaline born; in 1955, he became the youngest ever to win a batting
         crown.
DECEMBER 20
1926     In a shocking trade of baseball's best second sackers, the Cards send
         Rogers Hornsby to New York and receive Frankie Frisch.

DECEMBER 21
1911     Josh Gibson born; from his debut with the Homestead Grays in 1930 to
         his death in 1947, he was the home run king of black baseball.

DECEMBER 22
1915     For two years a rival to the American and National Leagues, the
         Federal League disbands.

DECEMBER 23
1942     Southpaw Jerry Koosman born; as a rookie with the Mets in 1968, he
         tied an NL record with seven shutouts.

DECEMBER 24
1913     Louis Sockalexis dies; the Penobscot Indian who hit .338 as a
         Cleveland rookie gave that team its nickname.

DECEMBER 25
1855     James "Pud" Galvin born; the "Little Steam Engine" hurled more
         innings and more complete games than anyone but Cy Young.
1989     Billy Martin, former Yankees player and manager, dies in a motor
         vehicle accident in Johnson City, N.Y.

DECEMBER 26
1837     Morgan Bulkeley born; the president of the Hartford team known as
         the Dark Blues, he served as the NL's president in its inaugural year
         of 1876.
1927     Stu Miller born; the changeup artist was said to throw pitches at
         three speeds--slow, slower, and slowest.

DECEMBER 27
1912     Jim Tobin born; the Boston Braves' pitcher hit three homers in a
         game in 1942 and two years later threw a no-hitter.
1914     Postseason All-Star tour--AL led by Connie Mack, NL by Frank
         Bancroft--disbands at San Diego after 44 games across U.S. and
         Hawaii.

DECEMBER 28
1856     Harry Stovey born; an early slugger, he led his league in homers
         five times and in triples four times.
1900     Ted Lyons born; pitched entire 21-year career for tail-end Chicago
         White Sox, completing nearly 75 percent of his starts.

DECEMBER 29
1888     Asa Brainard dies; pitched for unbeaten Cincinnati Red Stocking nine
         of 1869 and married the girl who sewed the team's red stockings.
1947     George Blaeholder dies.

DECEMBER 30
1944     The White Sox buy Browns' infielder Floyd Baker, who would set a
         record of sorts by hitting only one home run in 13 years' play.
1955     Sandy Koufax born; the Dodger lefty dominated the game in
         1961-1966, when he went 129-47 with four no-hitters, five ERA
         crowns, and three Cy Young Awards.

DECEMBER 31
1857     King Kelly born; his daring baserunning prompted the cry of
         "Slide, Kelly, Slide!"
1973     Pittsburgh Pirate star Roberto Clemente is killed in the crash of a
         plane flying in relief supplies to Nicaraguan earthquake victims.