On July 10 in Baseball History...1911 - With just one punch, Sherry Magee KOs home plate umpire Bill Finneran after he is ejected for disputing a called third strike. The star Phillies flychaser, who is suspended for the rest of the season, will be reinstated after 36 games due to an appeal.
1911 - When umpire Bill Klem stops the Phillies-Cardinal game to have an unruly fan removed from the Baker Bowl, it is believed to be the first time a patron has been escorted from a ballpark. The common practice at the time was to use bodyguards after the contest to protect the arbitrators rather than risk the crowd's ire by ousting one of their own.
1917 - Thanks to Ray Caldwell's nine and two-thirds innings of no-hit relief, the Yankees beat the Browns in St. Louis, 7-5 in a 17 inning game. The hard-living right-hander, one of the 17 hurlers allowed to continue throwing the spitball after the pitch was outlawed in 1920, will no-hit hit his former team playing for Tris Speaker's Indians in 1919.
1919 - Cleveland manager Lee Fohl brings in little-used southpaw Fritz Coumbe to pitch to Babe Ruth with the bases loaded and a 7-4 lead in the ninth inning. Ruth's subsequent grand slam gives Boston an 8-7 win and gives the Indians a new manager. Center fielder Tris Speaker brings the Tribe home in second place and stays as skipper for seven years.
1920 - After banging out 11 straight hits, Tris Speaker is stopped by Tom Zachary of Washington. It's the record until Pinky Higgins of the Red Sox racks up 12 in a row in 1938.
1928 - Although the Indians bang out 14 hits, the Tribe fails to score a run in a 9-0 night cap loss to the Senators in a Griffith Stadium twin bill. It is only the second time a team has been shut out after collecting that many hits.
1929 - The Pirates rout the Phillies 15-9 at the Baker Bowl in a game which features one homer hit in each inning. Pittsburgh goes deep five time with Philadelphia adding four more.
1932 - To save train fare for the single-date appearance, Connie Mack takes along just two A's pitchers to Cleveland. Lew Krausse the A's starting pitcher, gives up four hits in the first inning and his replacement, Eddie Rommel pitches 17 innings in relief, giving up a record 29 hits, but wins 18-17. Cleveland's Johnny Burnett sets a major-league record by collecting nine hits in 11 at bats, while the A's Jimmie Foxx strokes six hits, including three home runs for a record-tying 16 total bases.
1934 - The second annual All-Star Game produces Carl Hubbell's amazing feat of striking out five future Hall of Famers in a row. After two batters reach in the first, he strikes out Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Jimmie Foxx. He adds Al Simmons and Joe Cronin to start the second. He leaves with the N.L. ahead 4-0, but the A.L. rallies for a 9-7 victory.
1935 - Beating the Tulsa Oilers, 1-0, Galveston Buccaneers hurler Ed Cole throws the first perfect game in Texas League history. The decisive hit is an inside-the-park home run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth.
1936 - At Forbes Field, Chuck Klein becomes the first National League player to hit four home runs in one game in this century. The Phillies' 36-year old outfielder's offensive outburst, which includes his final round-tripper on the first pitch in the tenth inning, powers Philadelphia's 9-6 victory over Pittsburgh.
1945 - The All-Star Game at Fenway Park is canceled because of travel restrictions enforced by World War II.
1947 - During the first game of a twin bill in front of a crowd 47‚871, Don Black retires the final ten A's batters he faces to record the first no-hitter in the history of Cleveland's Municipal Stadium. The largest crowd ever to watch a no-hitter endures the rain and six walks as the right-hander completes the 3-0 victory, the eighth no-no in franchise history.
1951 - Exploding for four home runs, the N.L. trounces the A.L. 8-3 at the annual All-Star Game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. Pittsburgh slugger Ralph Kiner hits a home run for the third year in a row.
1953 - With Roy Campanella's home run off Giants hurler Sal Maglie, the Dodgers establish a National League record homering in their 24th consecutive game. Campy's homer is the only run Brooklyn scores as the Giants extend their winning streak to seven with the 6-1 victory.
1956 - In the All-Star Game, Ken Boyer of the Cardinals makes three sparkling plays at third base and gets three hits as the N.L. defeats the A.L. 7-3. Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams, and Stan Musial all homer. Mays' pinch-hit two-run home run off Whitey Ford is his seventh straight hit against the Yankee lefty.
1962 - John F. Kennedy returns to D.C. Stadium and becomes the first president to throw the ceremonial first pitch at an All-Star Game. Earlier in the season, JFK had also thrown the ceremonial first pitch at the Senators' home opener in the first game played in Washington's new $23-million ballpark. Roberto Clemente has three hits as the N.L. wins 3-1 in the first of two All-Star Games of 1962 at Washington's D.C. Stadium.
1964 - Jesus Alou gets six hits against six different pitchers as the Giants beat the Cubs 10-3.
1968 - The N.L. announces plans to break into two divisions for 1969. The Eastern Division will feature New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Montreal, Chicago, and St. Louis. In the Western will be Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Cincinnati, San Diego, and Atlanta.
1979 - Trailing the Padres 5-3 in the bottom of the ninth with two outs at Veterans Stadium, pinch hitter Del Unser hits a three-run walk off home run giving the Phillies a 6-5 comeback victory. The dramatic dinger makes Del Unser only the second player in major league history to hit a homer in three consecutive at bats as a pinch hitter, a feat also accomplished by Lee Lacy of the Dodgers last season.
1982 - Rangers slugger Larry Parrish hits his third grand slam of the week in a 6-5 win over the Tigers, tying the major-league record set by Detroit's Jim Northrup in 1968. Parrish also hit grand slams July 4 against Oakland and July 7 against Boston.
1984 - On the 50th anniversary of Carl Hubbell's legendary five consecutive strikeouts in the 1934 All-Star Game, N.L. pitchers Fernando Valenzuela and Dwight Gooden combine to fan six batters in a row for a new All-Star Game record in the N.L.'s 3-1 triumph. After Valenzuela whiffs Dave Winfield, Reggie Jackson, and George Brett in the fourth inning, Gooden, the youngest All-Star ever at age 19, fans Lance Parrish, Chet Lemon, and Alvin Davis in the fifth.
1997 - Hideki Irabu wins his much-anticipated major league debut, striking out nine in 6 2/3 innings as the Yankees defeat Detroit 10-3. The Japanese-born pitcher receives a standing ovation from the sellout crowd of 51,901 at Yankee Stadium.
1999 - At Leland's ‘Hero's Auction’ of sports memorabilia held in New York, the ball batted by Carlton Fisk in the 12th inning, which hit the Fenway foul pole ending one of the most dramatic games in World Series history, is sold for $113,273. George Foster, the Reds’ left fielder who retrieved and kept the 1975 historic home run ball, decided to sell the souvenir after realizing its potential value after Mark McGwire's 70th home run ball sold for almost $3 million.
2001 - In his final All-Star appearance, Cal Ripken is named the MVP of the game. His home run along with consecutive dingers from Derek Jeter and Magglio Ordonez power the AL to its fifth victory in a row beating the National League at Seattle’s Safeco Field, 4-1.
2001 - Derek Jeter becomes the first Yankee to homer in an All-Star game in 42 years when he goes deep leading off the sixth inning off Jon Lieber at Safeco Field. Yogi Berra was the last Bronx Bomber to accomplish the feat, homering off Don Drysdale in 1959.
2009 - Beating the Padres 8-0 at A&T Park, Giants' southpaw Jonathan Sanchez throws the first no-hitter in franchise history since John "The Count" Montefusco accomplished the feat in 1976. The 22-year old, a replacement for an injured Randy Johnson, sees his bid for a perfect game end when third baseman Juan Uribe makes an error in the eighth inning.
Baseball Birthdays on July 10...
1855 - Weaver, Sam
1859 - Dundon, Ed
1864 - Conley, Ed
1864 - McAleer, Jimmy
1867 - Allen, Bob
1868 - Lowe, Bobby
1874 - Dundon, Gus
1877 - Cushman, Harvey
1882 - Rudolph, Dutch
1887 - Spratt, Harry
1894 - Walsh, Jim
1896 - Schindler, Bill
1899 - Kopf, Wally
1903 - Niggeling, Johnny
1906 - McKain, Hal
1906 - Liska, Ad
1907 - Michaels, John
1915 - Dickey, George
1917 - Alexander, Hugh
1918 - Stevens, Chuck
1919 - Clay, Dain
1926 - Macpherson, Harry
1928 - Glenn, John
1937 - Burright, Larry
1938 - Brumley, Mike
1940 - Alley, Gene
1940 - Craig, Pete
1945 - McRae, Hal
1948 - Hand, Rich
1951 - Bailor, Bob
1954 - Dawson, Andre
1956 - McHenry, Vance
1965 - Groom, Buddy
1967 - Stevens, Lee
1969 - Cordova, Marty
1978 - Marsonek, Sam
1979 - Godwin, Tyrell
1980 - Froppert, Jesse
1987 - Curtis, Jermaine
1987 - Giavotrlla, Johnny
1987 - Infante, Gregory1988 - Wheeler, Ryan
1989 - Smith, Will
Baseball Deaths on July 10...1897 - Baldwin, Kid
1922 - Bailey, Harvey
1923 - Stabell, Joe
1935 - Hines, Paul
1944 - Walker, Tom
1945 - Butler, Frank
1949 - Downey, Red
1951 - Messenger, Bobby
1956 - Giard, Joe
1960 - Redmond, Harry
1967 - Graham, Skinny
1968 - Moulton, Allie
1986 - Maggert, Harl
1988 - Nevel, Ernie
1990 - Coppola, Henry
1992 - Masters, Walt
1997 - Lowry, Dwight
2001 - Criscola, Tony
2001 - Lary, Al
2004 - Rebel, Art
2006 - Fleitas, Angel
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