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Re: Pale Hose History
« Reply #4325 on: August 02, 2017, 11:11:11 am »
I was at the Frank Thomas debut double header against Milwaukee.

big deal, I was there too.   ;D 

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    On August 3 in Baseball History...


    1888 - Kansas City Cowboys rookie Billy Hamilton, recently purchased from Worcester, steals his first base in the major leagues. Before returning to the minors in 1902, Sliding Billy will amass 912 stolen bases, a record broken by Lou Brock in 1979.

    1906 - Tom Hughes of the Washington Nationals becomes the first pitcher to win a 1-0 extra-inning game with his own home run when he homers in the tenth for a 1-0 win over the St. Louis Browns.

    1914 - In the seventh inning of the 4-1 loss to Detroit at the Polo Grounds, Yankees' catcher Les Nunamaker is credited with three assists to become the first catcher to accomplish the feat since 1887. The 25-year old backstop guns down Sam Crawford and Bobby Veach trying to steal‚ and also in the frame picks off Hugh High leading off second base.

    1933 - The Yankees are shut out by the A's and Lefty Grove 7-0. It is their first scoreless game since August 2, 1931. They had tallied in 308 games in a row, during which they scored 1,986 runs (6.5 per game) to 1,434 for the opposition.

    1940 - With Ernie Lombardi hurt, Reds catcher Willard Hershberger is hitting .309 after taking over. However, depressed in recent weeks, Hershberger commits suicide by slashing his throat in Boston's Copley Plaza Hotel. Hershberger blamed himself for calling wrong pitches in the 5-4 loss to New York July 31. Hershberger's father had also committed suicide, in 1928. Although the team is devastated by the mid-season tragedy, the Reds will go on to capture the National league pennant.

    1941 - The Browns Johnny Niggeling gets Joe DiMaggio in four at bats to stop DiMaggio's streak of 74 games in reaching base.

    1948 - Cleveland's Satchel Paige made his first major league start and went seven innings to lead the Indians to a 5-3 victory over the Washington Senators.

    1948 - Negro League legend Satchel Paige makes his first major league start hurling seven innings to lead the Indians over the Senators, 5-3. Prior to today's game, the future Hall of Famer made eight appearances in relief compiling a 1-1 record for the Tribe.

    1957 - Bobby Bragan hears on the radio he has been fired as the Pirates' manager and replaced by Philadelphia third base coach Danny Murtaugh. Pittsburgh general manager Joe L. Brown leaked news of the hiring before informing his disposed skipper.

    1959 - For the first time in major league history a second All-Star game is played in the same season. The American League goes on to post a 5-3 victory at the Los Angeles Coliseum when White Sox second baseman Nellie Fox singles in Tony Kubek with the decisive run in the top of the seventh inning.


    1959 - In second All-Star game played this summer, Yogi Berra's two-run home run off Dodgers right-hander Don Drysdale in the third inning at the LA Memorial Coliseum proves to be the difference in the American League's 5-3 victory over the Senior Circuit. The home run will be the last one hit by a Bronx Bomber in a Mid-Summer Classic game for 41 years until Derek Jeter goes deep in 2001.

    1961 - In the largest shutout score in a National League night game, the Pirates beat the Cardinals at Sportman's Park, 19-0. Harvey Haddix throws a four-hit complete game for the Bucs in a game that takes only two hours and thirty-six minutes to play.

    1962 - With his sixth home run in three consecutive games, Frank Thomas ties a National League record when he goes deep off Cincinnati's Joey Jay in the bottom of the seventh inning of a Mets 8-6 loss at the Polo Grounds. The right-handed slugger, who equaled the mark with a pair of round trippers in each game, will add another homer to his club leading total in tomorrow's contest.

    1967 - Manager Alvin Dark is fired and outfielder Ken Harrelson is released by A's owner Charlie Finley due to reports of rowdy behavior on a team flight.

    1967 - The Red Sox obtain catcher Elston Howard from the Yankees for cash and two players to be named later. Peter Magrini and Ron Klimkowski, both pitchers, will be sent to New York as part of the trade.

    1967 - At Wrigley Field, the Braves set a club record by hitting six home runs in a 10-3 victory over the Cubs. Tito Francona, Joe Torre, (2), Clete Boyer (2), Denis Menke, and Hank Aaron all contribute to the record.

    1969 - Pinch-hitter Rich Reese hit a grand slam to power the Minnesota Twins to a 5-2 victory over the visiting Baltimore Orioles and end Dave McNally's 15-game winning streak. McNally's two victories at the end of 1968 had given him 17 straight wins.

    1975 - Denny Doyle, acquired from California in June for a player to be named (Chuck Ross) later and cash, extends his hitting streak to 22-games with a first inning home run in the Red Sox's 6-4 victory over Detroit at Fenway Park. The usually light-hitting infielder will bat .310 for Boston and will play a pivotal role in Boston's successful pennant drive.

    1979 - At Yankee Stadium, over 51,000 mourners attend a memorial service for Thurman Munson. The Bronx Bombers' captain was killed yesterday piloting a plane that crashed 1,000 feet short of the runway at Canton-Akron Airport.


    1980 - Al Kaline, Duke Snider, Chuck Klein, and Tom Yawkey are inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

    1982 - Frank White hits for the cycle for the second time in his career. The second baseman completes the feat with a two-out triple in the ninth inning giving Kansas City a 6-5 walk-off victory over Detroit at Royals Stadium.

    1982 - The White Sox sweep a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium, 1-0, and 14-2, prompting Yankees owner George Steinbrenner to fire manager Gene Michael and replace him with pitching coach Clyde King. King is the Yankees' third manager this season.


    1986 - Willie McCovey, Bobby Doerr, and Ernie Lombardi are inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

    1987 - Twins pitcher Joe Niekro is caught with a file on the mound and is ejected during Minnesota's 11-3 win over the Angels. He will be suspended for ten games by American League president Bobby Brown, who doesn't buy Niekro's story that he had been filing his nails on the bench and stuck the file in his back pocket when the inning started.


    1989 - The Reds score fourteen runs in the first inning of an 18-2 demolition of the Astros. Major league records set during the onslaught include most hits in an inning (16), most players with two hits in an inning (7), and most singles in an inning (12).


    1995 - Making his first start for the Rockies since being acquired from the Mets, Brett Saberhagen gives up 13 hits and walks 3 batters, but gets the win in the team's 9-4 win over the Dodgers. The sellout crowd gives their new hurler a enthusiastic standing ovation when he departs the game with one out in the seventh inning.

    1997 - Knuckleball pitcher Phil Niekro, former Dodgers manager Tom Lasorda, second baseman Nellie Fox, and Negro League shortstop Willie Wells are inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

    1997 - Coming off the Brewers' bench, Jeromy Burnitz ties an American League record homering in consecutive pinch-hit at-bats August 2-3.

    1998 - In the eighth inning of Florida's 11-3 win, C.J. Nitkowski hits three consecutive batters. It is only the third time since 1900 in major league history -- Pirate Dock Ellis (1974) and White Sox Wilbur Wood (1977) -- the dubious deed has been accomplished.


    1998 - Mike Oquist gives up fourteen earned runs becoming the first pitcher in 22 years to give up that many runs in an appearance as the Yankees crush the A's, 14-1. Oquist sets a franchise record for runs allowed as he is sacrificed to save the bullpen for tomorrow's doubleheader against the Bronx Bombers.

    2000 - Kevin Mitchell of the Sonoma County Crushers is expelled for the rest of the season from the independent Western Baseball League for punching the owner of an opposing team. The former National League MVP allegedly hit Solano Steelheads owner Bruce Portner, who had come on the field after a brawl had ended which was caused by a pitch thrown behind Mitchell.

    2000 - After looking at the artists' renderings of the new proposed enlarged Fenway Park that includes a monstrous 3,000-car garage, Diane White suggests the Red Sox, New England's team, relocate to Hartford, Connecticut. The Boston Globe columnist believes the gigantic ballpark complex will dominate the quaint neighborhood, and she riles against the "bunch of rich and powerful guys" who will ask for taxpayer assistance to fund their "multi- multimillion-dollar playground".

    2002 - Darin Erstad agrees to a four-year contract extension worth $32 million to stay in Anaheim through 2006. The Angels' center fielder joins Troy Glaus, Garret Anderson and Tim Salmon as one of the key players the organization has signed at least through the 2004 season.

    2002 - In just the first four innings, Edgar Martinez ties the major league record for sacrifice flies in a game with three. The Mariners' designated hitter becomes the 11th player in history to accomplish the feat doing it in his first three at-bats in Seattle's 12-4 victory over the Indians.

    2004 - In a game in which Cardinal first baseman Albert Pujols becomes the first player in history to hit at least 30 homers in each of his first four big league seasons, Tony Batista goes deep twice, knotting the score in the ninth and winning the game in the 12th. The Expos third baseman’s 199th and 200th career blasts help Montreal beat St. Louis in extra innings, 10-6.

    2006 - The home run ball hit by Barry Barry Bonds to pass Babe Ruth for second place on the all-time career list fetches $220,100 during a ten-day eBay auction. The money, which will go to Andrew Morbitzer, the fan who caught #715, is much less than the $800,000 dished out in 2004 for the ball the Giants' left fielder hit for his 700th career homer.

    2008 - Francisco Liriano, sent down to the minors after an 0-3 start in April attempting to come back from Tommy John surgery, blanks the Indians for six innings in his return to the Twins' rotation. The right-hander's performance propels Minnesota into first place in the American League Central with the eventual 6-2 victory over the Tribe along with a White Sox loss.

    2011 - After driving in the winning run yesterday, Jacoby Ellsbury, who never had a walk-off hit, does it in consecutive contests when he blasts a two-out ninth inning homer giving the Red Sox another dramatic victory over Cleveland. The center fielder becomes the first Red Sox player with game-ending hits on consecutive days in the regular season since Butch Hobson accomplished the feat in 1978.

    2011 - The Jamestown (New York) Jammers wear special game jerseys during their NY-Penn League game against Tri-City to commemorate Lucy Ball's 100th birthday and in conjunction with the Festival of Comedy being held in her honor in Jamestown this week. The uniform tops, which feature Lucy and Desi on the front and Lucy's 100th birthday celebration logo on the back, will be auctioned off later to benefit the Lucy-Desi Center and winners can have the jersey autographed by the player who wore it, if so desired.


    2012 - In the span of about an hour, the Upton brothers go deep to both record their 100th career home run on the same night in different ball parks when Diamondback outfielder Justin goes yard off Kyle Kendrick at Philadelphia's Citizens Bank Park, and older sibling B.J., playing center field, hits a Tropicana Field round-tripper for the Rays off Baltimore's Tommy Hunter. On July 20th, the boys from Norfolk, Virginia also hit their 99th homers on same day.


    2013 - The Chicago White Sox released Dewayne Wise.


    2013 - Max Scherzer becomes only the third pitcher in the last 44 years to begin the season with a 16-1 record, when he gets the win in the Tigers’ 3-0 victory over Chicago at Comerica Park. The Detroit right-hander joins Roger Clemens (2001 Yankees) and Dave McNally (1966 Orioles) in getting off to a historically fast start.

    2013 - The first-place Dodgers set a franchise record, winning their 13th consecutive game on the road with their 3-0 victory over the Cubs in Chicago. The Giants established the National League mark in 1916 when the team won 17 straight games away from the Polo Grounds.

    2014 - The Chicago White Sox sold Blake Tekotte to the Arizona Diamondbacks.


    2015 - Adrian Beltre becomes only the fourth player in baseball history to hit for the cycle three times, and the first to accomplish the feat since 1933 when Babe Herman collected four different hits for the Cubs. The Rangers third baseman, who also joins Bob Meusel (1928) and John Reilly (1890), completed the task with a fifth-inning home run in the team's 12-9 victory over Houston.

    2015 - The Boston Red Sox released Ronald Belisario.

    2015 - The Chicago White Sox released George Kottaras.




    Baseball Birthdays on August 3...


    1849 - Snow, Charlie
    1855 - Flint, Silver
    1869 - Wheeler, George
    1870 - Brown, Stub
    1874 - McFarland, Ed

    1884 - Reilly, Tom
    1885 - Ralston, Doc
    1886 - Kaiser, Al
    1888 - Rogers, Jay
    1889 - Getz, Gus
    1894 - Heilmann, Harry
    1894 - Hale, George
    1902 - Taitt, Doug

    1902 - Sprinz, Joe
    1909 - Meyer, George
    1911 - Evans, Art

    1912 - Wilshere, Whitey
    1917 - Candini, Milo
    1920 - Johnson, Vic
    1920 - Hegan, Jim
    1921 - Lafata, Joe
    1925 - Hoskins, Dave
    1927 - Welteroth, Dick
    1928 - Ross, Cliff
    1928 - Hyde, Dick
    1940 - Repoz, Roger
    1952 - Meyer, Dan
    1959 - Gott, Jim
    1959 - Jeffcoat, Mike
    1960 - Bream, Sid
    1962 - Sasser, Mackey
    1964 - Elster, Kevin
    1968 - Beck, Rod
    1968 - Morton, Kevin
    1969 - Dixon, Steve
    1971 - Sexton, Chris
    1972 - Magee, Wendell
    1973 - Stein, Blake
    1975 - Brown, Roosevelt
    1976 - Glaus, Troy
    1977 - Lehr, Justin
    1981 - Bowyer, Travis
    1982 - Sanchez, Felix
    1983 - Reynolds, Mark
    1984 - Duran, German
    1984 - Escalona, Sergio
    1984 - Joyce, Matt
    1988 - McCoy, Patrick



    Baseball Deaths on August 3...


    1893 - Nusz, Emory
    1918 - Lawlor, Mike
    1934 - Hastings, Charlie
    1940 - Hershberger, Willard
    1942 - Hayden, Jack
    1942 - Sutthoff, Jack
    1947 - Willis, Vic
    1947 - Tesch, Al
    1954 - Hoelskoetter, Art
    1955 - Shirley, Mule
    1961 - Downey, Tom
    1962 - Sanders, War
    1966 - Blackburn, Earl
    1968 - Jenkins, John

    1976 - Ezzell, Homer
    1980 - Hubbell, Bill
    1981 - McLeod, Jim
    1984 - Smith, Elmer
    1985 - Mattox, Cloy
    1990 - Brown, Bob
    1995 - Craft, Harry
    2007 - Griffeth, Lee









                                       




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Re: Pale Hose History
« Reply #4328 on: August 03, 2017, 12:11:27 am »
This Date In White Sox History - August 3rd





August 3, 1956 - The White Sox set the franchise record by scoring 11 runs in the 1st inning of a game in Chicago against the Orioles. Billy Pierce gets the win as the White Sox cruise 13-3.

Boxscore & P-B-P:  http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1956/B08030CHA1956.htm


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Re: Pale Hose History
« Reply #4329 on: August 03, 2017, 12:12:08 am »
This Date In White Sox History - August 3rd




August 3, 1986 - White Sox rookie Russ Morman collects three hits in his first three at bats in the big leagues. Morman also ties the record set by Billy Martin by getting two of them in the same inning in his debut game. That happens in the 6th inning of a 10-1 win at Comiskey Park against Detroit.

Boxscore & P-B-P:  http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1986/B08030CHA1986.htm



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Re: Pale Hose History
« Reply #4330 on: August 03, 2017, 12:12:55 am »
This Date In White Sox History - August 3rd


 

August 3, 1989 - White Sox G.M. Larry Himes is best remembered for his drafting of future stars like Robin Ventura, Frank Thomas, Jack McDowell and Alex Fernandez but he’d pull off a good trade or two as well. Case in point, on this day. Himes shipped outfielder Mark Davis to the Angels for pitcher Roberto Hernandez. Hernandez would go on to save 134 games for the Sox with three seasons of 30 or more.


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This Date In Baseball History - August 3rd






August 3, 1997 - White Sox All Star second baseman, Nellie Fox finally enters the Baseball Hall of Fame. Fox, the 1959 American League M.V.P. was voted in by the veterans committee after missing regular election to the hall by the fewest votes in the history of the shrine. Technically he received the 75% per cent needed by rounding out his original vote total but the hall had no provisos for that, so his total of 74.6% per cent stood and was deemed 'short' of the 75% per cent needed. Fortunately he was finally admitted in. Nellie was an 11 time All Star who hit .368 in those games.



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Today In White Sox History - August 3rd


 

August 3, 2001 - White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle has thrown a lot of big games both in the regular season and in the playoffs. This was one of his best as he beat Tampa Bay 4-0 at U.S. Cellular Field. Buehrle allowed only one hit, to Damian Rolls leading off the 7th inning.

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    On August 4 in Baseball History...


    1901 - Cincinnati and Pittsburgh players are clocked while running from home plate to first base. The fastest time for the 90-foot sprint is three seconds flat, by Pirates outfielder Ginger Beaumont.

    1903 - Nap Lajoie is so furious that umpire Tommy Connolly has put an old black ball into play that he hurls the ball over the grandstand. His act results in Cleveland forfeiting the game to Detroit.

    1908 - In Brooklyn, the last-place Cardinals blank the Brooklyn Superbas (Dodgers), 3-0. The entire Washington Park contest is played with just one ball.

    1909 - Umpire Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting at Athletics second baseman Eddie Collins, who had questioned a call. This incident eventually leads to Hurst's banishment from baseball two weeks later.

    1910 - Jack Coombs of the Philadelphia A's and Ed Walsh of the Chicago White Sox hooked up in a 16-inning scoreless tie. Coombs struck out 18 and allowed three hits.


    1929 - The Cleveland Indians, down to their last out, scored nine runs in the ninth inning for a 14-6 comeback victory over the New York Yankees.

    1932 - After being fined $1,000 and suspended until Carl Reynolds, the player whose jaw he broke in two places a month ago was ready to play again for the Senators, Bill Dickey returns to the Yankees line-up. The future Hall of Fame catcher bangs out four hits, including a grand slam, despite missing 31 games.

    1935 - Walter Johnson (46-48) resigns as manager of the Indians and will be replaced by Steve O'Neill (36-23). The Tribe has dropped 23 of its last 32 decisions.

    1941 - In the third inning, catcher Mickey Owen catches three foul flies, the first time in the major leagues that feat has been recorded. His Dodgers whip the Giants 11-6.

    1942 - n a military relief game at the Polo Grounds which will be the last war-time twilight game played, Pee Wee Reese's grand slam in the top of the ninth, which puts the Dodgers up 5-1, doesn't count because of the 9:10 pm government curfew. The game ends up as a 1-1 tie with the Giants.

    1945 - Two remarkable debut pitching performances by Senators' rookies makes the 15-4 loss to Boston a most memorable contest. The game which features Tom McBride tying a major league record by driving in six runs with a bases-loaded double and triple during the Red Sox 12-run fourth inning, sees Joe Cleary, the last major leaguer to be born in Ireland, giving up seven runs on five hits and three walks in his only big league appearance to finish with a career ERA of 189.0, and in mop-up work, WW II veteran Bert Shepard, with an amputated leg as a result of being wounded in WW ll, hurls five 1/3 innings giving up just one run on just three hits in his only major league appearance.

    1948 - Ernie Harwell, filling in for Red Barber who is recovering from a bleeding ulcer, calls his first major league game as the Dodgers beat the Cubs at Ebbets Field, 5-4. To obtain the future Hall of Fame broadcaster, Brooklyn general manager Branch Rickey trades minor league catcher Cliff Daper to the Atlanta Crackers.

    1955 - At Chicago’s Wrigley Field, Ernie Banks hits three home runs as the Cubs out slug the Pirates, 11-10. The Windy City's first baseman goes deep off three different Buc hurlers.

    1963 - At County Stadium, Roger Craig suffers his 20th loss of the season when the Mets lose to Milwaukee, 2-1. The defeat is the right-hander's 18th consecutive setback, tying Cliff Curtis' National League mark set in 1910 with the Braves, and one loss shy of A's Jack Nabors' 1916 major league record.

    1963 - With Yankees trailing Baltimore, 10-9, in the night cap of twin bill, Mickey Mantle, after missing two months of the season with a broken foot, makes a dramatic return to the lineup as a pinch hitter when he homers to deep left field in the bottom of the seventh inning off George Brunet to tie score. The crowd of nearly 40,000 fans goes wild as the 'Mick' hobbles around the bases in the Bronx Bombers' eventual 11-10 walk-off win, a victory made possible by Yogi Berra's two-out walk-off round-tripper in the bottom of the 10th inning.

    1965 - Roy Hofheinz buys R.E. "Bob" Smith's remaining shares of the Houston Sports Association to take control of the Astros. Due to a rift between them, the former co-owner had made the offer thinking the 'Judge' couldn't put the funds together.

    1968 - The Yankees, once again, honor their aging superstar when the team hosts the second of three Mickey Mantle Days at the ballpark in the Bronx. Prior to the game, over 2000 young fans paid tribute to the future Hall of Fame outfielder by parading across the field with homemade banners expressing their admiration for the living legend.

    1971 - In a Texas League contest, Tommy Walker hurls a 15-inning no-hitter beating the Albuquerque Dukes, 1-0. The Dallas-Fort Worth Spur right-hander faces only 47 batters during the minor league game, two over the minimum.

    1980 - The Seattle Mariners fire manager Darrell Johnson and replace him with Maury Wills, who becomes the third black manager in Major League history. Seattle had lost nine games in a row and 20 of 24 since the All-Star break.

    1982 - Joel Youngblood became the first in Major League history to get a base hit for two different teams in two different cities in the same day. In the afternoon, his hit drove in the winning run for the New York Mets in a 7-4 victory in Chicago. After the game, he was traded to the Montreal Expos and played that night in Philadelphia. He entered the game in right field in the fourth inning and later got a single.

    1983 - While warming up before the fifth inning of the Yankees 3-1 win over the Blue Jays game at Toronto's Exhibition Stadium, New York outfielder Dave Winfield accidentally kills a seagull with a thrown ball. After the game, Winfield is brought to the Ontario Provincial Police station on charges of cruelty to animals and is forced to post a $500 bond before being released. The charges will be dropped the following day.

    1984 - In a 9-2 Giants rout of the Astros, Jeffrey Leonard collects five hits. The cleanup slugger gets all singles and, therefore, is unable to demonstrate his one-flap-down home run trot in front of the Houston fans at the Astrodome.

    1985 - The 40-year-old Tom Seaver became the 17th 300-game winner in major league history with a six-hitter — all singles — as the Chicago White Sox defeated the New York Yankees 4-1 on Phil Rizzuto Day. Seaver walked one and struck out seven, giving him 3,499 in his 19-year career.



    1985 - Rod Carew of the Angels singles off of Twin Frank Viola in the third inning to become the 16th major leaguer to amass 3000 hits.


    1985 - Prior to the loss that results in Tom Seaver's 300th career victory, the Yankees honor Phil Rizzuto by retiring their former player and current broadcaster's uniform #10. The 'Scooter', known for the expression 'Holy Cow', is knocked over in a pre-game ceremony by a fitting gift from the team, a cow wearing a halo.

    1987 - In the fourth match up of 300-game winners since 1900, Angels’ hurler Don Sutton (317) allows four hits in six innings to beat Steve Carlton (328) and the Twins, 12-3. The 645 combined victories is the largest number of wins ever accumulated by pitchers starting the same major league game.

    1989 - Dave Stieb of the Toronto Blue Jays, who lost consecutive no-hit bids with two outs in the ninth inning in September, came within one out of a perfect game before settling for a two-hit 2-1 victory over the New York Yankees.

    1990 - The Braves trade Dale Murphy to the Phillies for Jeff Parrett, Jim Vatcher and Victor Rosario. The move enables the youngster David Justice to return to right field and win the Rookie-of-the-Year Award.

    1992 - At an auction, actor Charlie Sheen pays $93,500 for the ‘Mookie Ball’ which went through Bill Buckner’s legs capping the miraculous Met comeback in the sixth game of the Fall Classic in 1986. Arthur Richman, the team’s traveling secretary, who was given the ball that night by right field umpire, Ed Montague, gives the all the proceeds to charity.


    1993 - Tony Gwynn has six hits against the Giants. It is the Padres outfielder's fourth game of 1993 with five or more hits. He becomes only the third person to get five hits or better that many times in a season.

    1993 - After being hit by a Ryan Express fastball, Robin Ventura charges the mound to get at the 46-year old pitcher. Nolan Ryan responds by putting the White Sox third baseman in a headlock and punches him six times, much to the pleasure of the Rangers fans at Arlington Stadium.


    1994 - Fan favorite Kent Hrbek announces his retirement effective at the end of the season. The Twins first baseman, who played his entire 14-year career in Minnesota, ranks near the top in virtually every team offensive category.

    1994 - In Anaheim, Goose Gossage, makes his 1000th major league appearance retiring Tim Salmon on a pop-up in the seventh inning of an eventual 4-2 Angels loss to the Mariners. The future Hall of Fame reliever will end his 22-year career playing in 1002 games with seven different teams.

    1996 - Baltimore managers Earl Weaver and Ned Hanlon, Kentucky congressman Jim Bunning and Negro League star Bill Foster are inducted into the Hall of Fame.

    1997 - Brad Radke of Minnesota got his 12th straight win, pitching seven strong innings in the Twins' 9-3 victory over Toronto. Radke became only the third pitcher since 1950 to win 12 consecutive starts.

    1998 - Darryl Strawberry hits a game-tying pinch-hit grand slam highlighting a nine-run ninth inning in the Yankees' 10-5 come-from-behind victory over Oakland. The 'Straw' is the first player in the American League to hit two pinch-hit grand slams in one season

    1999 - In an effort to break out of a team slump which has resulted 15 losses in 19 decisions, all nine Angel batters use Jim Edmonds' bat the first time through the order. The center fielder's lumber yields dramatic results when the Halos go 4-for-8 with one walk in the first inning, including Bengie Molina's first career hit, an RBI double, in LA's 4-3 win over Kansas City at Edison Field.

    2000 - Joining Dave Kingman, Frank Huelsman, Willis Hudlin, Paul Lehner, Wes Covington, Ted Gray and Mike Kilkenny, Dave Martinez ties a major league record as he appears for his fourth team in a season. In the past four months the veteran outfielder/first baseman has played for the Devil Rays, Cubs, Rangers and now the Blue Jays.

    2000 - With 32 home games remaining, the Astros, who moved from the pitcher-friendly Astrodome to homer-haven Enron Field this season, set a franchise-record by already hitting 83 homers at home this season.

    2003 - Major League Baseball announces a five-year deal, which will generate more than $500 million in revenue, for apparel and headwear global licensing rights. The seven companies involved in the deal include Majestic Athletic, New Era Cap, Twins Enterprises, Nike USA, Dynasty Apparel Industries, Drew Pearson International and VF Imagewear.

    2004 - Continuing a tradition over a half a century old, the Cardinals announce their new ballpark scheduled to open in 2006 will also be known as Busch Stadium. In 1953, a month after Anheuser-Busch purchased the Cardinals, the brewery bought Sportsman's Park renaming it Busch Stadium and then kept the name in its new downtown stadium which opened in 1966 calling the facility Busch Memorial Stadium.

    2004 - Mike Matheny's major league errorless streak behind the plate ends when his errant throw allows the runners to advance to second and third base on an infield single. The Cardinals' catcher hadn't committed an error since August 2, 2002, a span of 252 games.

    2005 - After the team goes into a free fall from first place, the Orioles fire manager Lee Mazzilli (129-140) and replaces him with bench coach Sam Perlozzo on an interim basis. Currently suffering an eight-game losing streak, the Birds have dropped 16 of their last 18 games.

    2006 - At age 95, Elden Auker, the last living pitcher to face Babe Ruth, dies of congestive heart failure. The author of Sleeper Cars and Flannel Uniforms, which he wrote when he was ninety, started his major league career in 1931 by striking out Babe Ruth and getting Lou Gehrig to pop out.

    2006 - In the Phillies' 5-3 victory over the Mets, Chase Utley' s hitting streak ends at 35 consecutive games. Philadelphia’s second baseman, who goes 0-for-5, has the fourth longest stretch in National League history.

    2007 - Needing only 14 seasons to accomplish the feat, Alex Rodriguez becomes the 22nd and youngest player (32 years and 8 days) to hit 500 career home runs. The historic three-run homer, off Royals’ starter Kyle Davies who was recently acquired from the Braves, is hit into the left-field seats at Yankee Stadium making A-Rod and Mickey Mantle the only two players to reach the milestone in the Bronx.

    2007 - In the second inning at Petco Park in of a front sellout crowd of 42,497 fans, Barry Bonds drives a Clay Hensley fastball over the left-field wall for his 755th home run tying Hank Aaron’s 33-year-old career home run record. The opposite-field drive, ironically off a pitcher who failed a steroid test as a minor leaguer in 2005, is met with mixed reactions as a few patrons hold up asterisk signs and the crowd responds to the feat with a mixture of cheers and jeers.

    2008 - At the start of the rain delay during the Astros and Cubs game at Wrigley Field, fans are advised to take cover in the concourse due to a tornado warning being issued by the National Weather Service for downtown Chicago. The game resumes in 2 hours, 45 minutes, but approximately an hour later more thunder and lightning and another 39-minute stoppage cause the contest to be called in the bottom of the eighth with Houston credited with a 2-0 rain-shortened victory.


    2008 - During a Brewers' 6-3 loss to the Reds at Great American Ball Park, first baseman Prince Fielder confronts starting pitcher Manny Parra in the dugout shoving the hurler twice in the dugout after an angry exchange of words. The Milwaukee hurler had taken a no-hitter into the fifth, but gave up six runs on four hits and four walks before leaving the game for a pinch hitter in the seventh inning.

    2008 - The Mariners stun the Twins with a 10-run seventh inning coming back from a 6-0 deficit in an eventual 11-6 victory at Safeco Field. With six runs driven in, Raul Ibanez, who hits a grand slam and a two-run single in the frame, establishes a club record for RBIs in one inning, one more than Ken Griffey Jr. mark set in 1999.

    2010 - Exactly three years to day he hit his 500th round-tripper, Alex Rodriguez eclipses Babe Ruth in becoming the youngest major leaguer to hit 600 career home runs when he blasts a two-run first-inning shot into Monument Park at Yankee Stadium. The 35-year old Bronx Bomber third baseman is the seventh player in baseball history to reach the milestone.


    2010 - The Phillies obtain Mike Sweeney from the Mariners for a player to be named later or cash considerations. The deal is necessitated for Philadelphia when their All-Star first baseman Ryan Howard is put on the disabled list with a severe sprained ankle.

    2012 - Mike Baxter sets a team record and ties a National League mark when he walks five times in a nine-inning game in the Mets' 6-4 victory over San Diego at Petco Park. Only five of the 25 pitches thrown to the New York right fielder were strikes, with thirteen of the final 14 being out of the strike zone.




    Baseball Birthdays on August 4...


    1845 - Martin, Phonney
    1867 - Beckley, Jake
    1869 - Gaule, Mike
    1875 - Nelson, Ray
    1876 - Jackson, Charlie
    1878 - Hinchman, Harry
    1879 - O'Connor, Paddy
    1883 - Moren, Lew
    1885 - Jones, Tex
    1890 - Luque, Dolf
    1891 - Haislip, Jim
    1894 - Grant, Jim
    1895 - Benton, Sid
    1896 - Lee, Cliff
    1896 - Galloway, Chick
    1899 - Melillo, Ski
    1902 - Moore, Al
    1902 - Blankenship, Homer

    1902 - Hallahan, Bill
    1907 - Caster, George
    1911 - Stainback, Tuck
    1912 - Schuster, Bill
    1912 - Coppola, Henry
    1915 - Easter, Luke
    1918 - McElyea, Frank
    1918 - Kolloway, Don
    1920 - Keegan, Bob

    1929 - Pignatano, Joe
    1930 - Gabler, Gabe
    1932 - Coates, Jim
    1934 - Green, Dallas
    1937 - Kostro, Frank
    1938 - Oyler, Ray
    1939 - Meyer, Bob
    1939 - Higgins, Dennis
    1942 - Bravo, Angel
    1942 - Jones, Cleon

    1944 - Nye, Rich
    1945 - Davison, Mike
    1946 - Collins, Kevin
    1947 - Poulsen, Ken
    1948 - Grubb, Johnny
    1949 - Humphrey, Terry
    1951 - McIntosh, Joe
    1957 - Hayes, Ben
    1960 - Davis, Steve
    1961 - Wasinger, Mark
    1962 - Farrell, John
    1962 - Clemens, Roger
    1964 - Surhoff, B.J.
    1964 - Rodriguez, Ruben
    1965 - Merullo, Matt

    1966 - Johnson, Jeff
    1967 - Bieser, Steve
    1967 - Martinez, Domingo
    1968 - Hook, Chris
    1969 - O'Leary, Troy
    1970 - Jones, Dax
    1972 - Bourgeois, Steve
    1973 - Howry, Bobby

    1973 - Weaver, Eric
    1975 - Milton, Eric
    1976 - Fukumori, Kazuo
    1976 - Linebrink, Scott

    1977 - Crawford, Paxton
    1978 - Allen, Luke
    1978 - Knott, Jon
    1982 - Roenicke, Josh
    1986 - Castellanos, Alex
    1987 - Burgos, Hiram
    1987 - Freeman, Mike
    1987 - Martinez, David
    1990 - Ellington, Brian
    1992 - German, Domingo
    1994 - Arcia, Orlando



    Baseball Deaths on August 4...


    1897 - Gilroy, John
    1920 - Fennelly, Frank
    1924 - Nicol, George
    1944 - Skinner, Camp
    1946 - Lind, Carl
    1950 - Coveleski, Harry
    1950 - Burke, John
    1951 - Tonneman, Tony
    1955 - Balenti, Mike
    1959 - Charles, Chappy
    1959 - Williams, Pop
    1961 - Rose, Chuck
    1963 - Fisher, Bob
    1964 - Standaert, Jerry
    1966 - Cavet, Pug
    1971 - Lamanske, Frank
    1972 - Batten, George
    1980 - Jamerson, Lefty
    1983 - Wheeler, Ed
    1989 - LaMaster, Wayne
    1991 - White, Sammy
    1993 - Maier, Bob
    1995 - Bartell, Dick
    1996 - Brown, Willard
    2002 - Payne, Mike
    2006 - Auker, Elden
    2007 - Mancuso, Frank
    2016 - Ramsay, Robert


   


     


     


     






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« Reply #4334 on: August 04, 2017, 12:24:58 am »
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August 4, 1985 - On the same day Rod Carew got his 3,000th hit in Anaheim, Chicago White Sox pitcher Tom Seaver wins his 300th career game. Seaver beats the Yankees 4 - 1 at Yankee Stadium. He gets late inning defensive help when Harold Baines climbs the right field wall to rob Dave Winfield of an extra base hit with men on base. Seaver retired Don Baylor, on a fly to left for the final out of the game. The ball was caught by Reid Nichols.

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August 4, 1993 - After years of getting brush back pitches thrown at White Sox hitters from Nolan Ryan, White Sox third baseman Robin Ventura snaps in the 3rd inning of a game in Texas and charges the mound. Ryan gets the better of the fight but Ventura and his teammates find strength from the brawl and use it during the stretch run which would lead to a divisional title.  In one of the worst examples of incompetent umpiring fearing a negative reaction from the hometown crowd, HP umpire Dale Ford ejects Ventura for charging the mound but refuses to also eject Ryan who threw and connected on ALL the punches. After a heated debate, third base umpire Rich Garcia ends up ejecting White Sox manager Gene Lamont for arguing for Ryan's ejection.

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« Reply #4336 on: August 04, 2017, 02:04:33 pm »
I was at the Frank Thomas debut double header against Milwaukee.

big deal, I was there too.   ;D

You should be glad to know I am reading these.   If I recall it was a 5 game series with the Brewers which we swept.

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    On August 5 in Baseball History...

    1879 - After Providence pitcher Bobby Mathews gives up six runs in the first two innings, he switches positions with third baseman John Ward, who pitches shutout ball the rest of the way to rally the Grays to a 7-6 win. Captain George Wright will successfully employ this pitching scheme several more times during the season.

    1901 - Burt Hart punches John Haskell and will be banned for life as a result of his assault on the umpire. The Orioles' first baseman will play only a total of 58 games in his major league career.

    1921 - Pittsburgh's radio station KDKA provides its listeners with the first-ever broadcast of a major league game. Harold Arlin, detailing the action in the Pirates 8-5 victory over the Phillies at Forbes Field, becomes baseball's first play-by-play announcer.

    1931 - On a bloop single by pinch-hitter Dave Harris, the 27th batter he faces, Tommy Bridges loses his bid for a perfect game in the Tigers' 13-0 rout over Washington. The 24 year-old right-handed Tennessean will toss two more one-hitters for Detroit next season.

    1935 - On a very rainy Monday afternoon at Fenway Park, the Yankees and Red Sox engage in stalling and hurry-up tactics trying to take advantage of the inclement weather. American League president John Heydler will fine both managers Joe Cronin (Boston) and Joe McCarthy (New York) $100 for their antics during the Bronx Bombers' eventual 10-2 victory.

    1940 - In a rain-shortened 4-0 victory over the Tigers, Silent John Whitehead of the St. Louis Browns pitches a six inning no-hitter. It will be the quiet Texan's only victory this season.

    1942 - In front of a crowd of less than three thousand patrons at Chicago’s Comiskey Park, the White Sox beat the Tigers, 1-0. The game’s only run scores when Don Kolloway steals home with two outs in the fifth inning.


    1953 - St. Louis Browns' pitcher Don Larsen goes 3-for-3 and establishes a record for consecutive hits by a pitcher with 7. The rookie hurler will hit .284 in 81 at bats this season.

    1954 - In a 13-4 rout of the Dodgers in Brooklyn, Stan Musial paces the Cardinals attack hitting two homers and driving in seven runs. It is Preacher Roe's first loss to St. Louis at Ebbets Field in four years.

    1955 - After playing 274 straight games at second base, Nellie Fox is given a day off by White Sox manager Marty Marion. Fox will come back the next day and start a streak of 798 consecutive games.


    1957 - The Brooklyn Sports Authority gets an engineering report on a 50,000-seat stadium in the downtown area. It will cost an estimated $20.7 million, including the land site. Indications are that there will be trouble finding a market for the bond issue.

    1960 - The Tigers and Indians become the first teams to swap skippers. The Tribe's new manger, Jimmy Dykes, will compile a 103-115 record for Cleveland, while Joe Gordon posts a 26-31 mark in his two-months stay in Detroit.

    1964 - After weeks of negotiating, Ford Frick tells the league presidents and club owners he will not run for another term as commissioner.

    1969 - Willie Stargell is the first to hit a home run out of Dodger Stadium. The shot off Alan Foster over the right field pavilion roof travels 506 feet.

    1972 - Tiger shortstop Ed Brinkman commits an error ending his major league record of 72 games and 331 total chances without making a misplay.

    1973 - Phil Niekro goes the distance holding the Padres hitless in a 9-0 rout at home. It's the first no-hitter thrown by a Braves hurler since the team shifted to Atlanta in 1966.

    1975 - At Veterans Stadium, Cubs starter Bill Bonham gives up a major league record of 7 hits to the first seven Phillies he faces. Without retiring a batter, the former UCLA hurler is replaced by Ken Crosby, who promptly gives up a single to Johnny Oates.

    1979 - In an 8-1 win over the Giants, Dodger right-hander Don Sutton becomes the team's all-time strikeout leader with his 2,487th career strikeout.

    1979 - Willie Mays, Warren Giles and Hack Wilson are inducted into the Hall of Fame.

    1980 - Expos manager Dick Williams wins his 1,000th career game, an 11-5 victory over the Mets at Olympic Stadium.

    1983 - Billy Martin is suspended for two games for calling umpire Dale Ford "a stone liar" after the July 31st extra-inning 12-6 victory against the White Sox in Chicago. It is second time this season the Yankee manager has been disciplined by the league due to his continued abuse of umpires.


    1984 - Toronto's Cliff Johnson hits his 19th career pinch home run, breaking the major league record of 18 he had shared with Jerry Lynch. Johnson's eighth-inning blast gives the Blue Jays a 4-3 win over the Orioles.

    1986 - The Reds pound the Giants' new pitcher Steve Carlton for seven runs in 3 1/3 innings to win 11-6. Carlton records his 4,000th strikeout to join Nolan Ryan as the only pitchers to reach that plateau. The Giants release Carlton after this start and he joins the White Sox.


    1990 - Hall of Fame induction ceremonies for Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan are rained out in Cooperstown, New York. The ceremony was conducted the following day at a local high school.

    1992 - Oakland A's flychaser Jose Canseco is walked for the seventh consecutive time in the span of two games to tie a major league record.

    1993 - In the Padres' 11-10 victory over the Giants, Tony Gwynn goes 6-for-7 in the 12-inning contest played at Qualcomm Stadium. It is the fourth time this season the San Diego right fielder has collected five or more hits which ties the major league record shared by Hall of Famers Ty Cobb and Stan Musial.

    1994 - At the Astrodome, Jeff Bagwell establishes a new club record for home runs. The Houston first baseman hits number 38, a fifth inning two-out, two-run homer, off reliever Pat Gomez as the Astros blast the Giants, 12-4.

    1999 - Mark McGwire hits his 500th career home run off Padres' hurler Andy Ashby becoming the 16th major leaguer and the fastest to reach this milestone. The St. Louis slugger is the first to accomplish the feat a year after reaching the 400 home run plateau.

    2000 - Sammy Sosa becomes the first Cubs' player to reach 100 RBIs six consecutive times. Hack Wilson did it for five straight seasons from 1926-30.

    2001 - Kirby Puckett and Dave Winfield, who were both elected to by the BBWAA in his first their year of eligibility, are enshrined in the Hall of Fame. The former Twin teammates are joined 1960 World Series hero Bill Mazeroski and the late Negro Leagues pitcher Hilton Smith, players selected by the Veterans Committee.


    2001 - At Jacobs Field, the Indians, who trailed in the game 14-2 after six innings, tally twelve runs to tie score and will beat the Mariners, 15-14, thanks to Jolbert Cabrera's 11th inning broken bat single scoring Kenny Lofton to complete the unbelievable comeback. The Tribe joins the 1911 Tigers and 1925 A's to become the third team to team in major league history to have won after being down by a dozen runs.


    2002 - In a make-up game against the Angels, the Tigers host 'Silent Night'. The fans hear no electronic, video and commercial enhancements during Detroit's 6-3 loss to Anaheim at Comerica Park.

    2005 - Albert Pujols becomes the first player to connect for 30 home runs in each of his first five big league seasons. The Cardinals first baseman has hit 190 homers during this five-year span from the start of his career in 2001, equaling Eddie Mathews' total (1952-56) and with 25 fewer than Ralph Kiner (1946-1950).

    2006 - It takes four bases on balls, three of which are intentional, for the Rangers to finally prevent Vladimir Guerrero from getting a hit. The Angel All-star outfielder, who started playing in the American League after leaving Montreal as an free agent in 2003, had hit safely in all of his previous 44 games played against Texas.

    2006 - Trevor Hoffman throws a scoreless ninth inning in San Diego’s 6-3 victory over the Nationals at Petco Park to becoms the first major league reliever to record 30 saves for eleven seasons. The Padres closer's milestone establishes a major league record surpassing the mark set by Lee Smith, baseball's all-time saves leader.

    2007 - At Wrigley Field, Tom Glavine, a two-time Cy Young Award winner, becomes the 23rd player in major league history to win his 300th victory. The crafty southpaw, the fifth lefty to reach the milestone, limits the Cubs to six hits and a walk in 6.1 innings as the Mets bang out 16 hits and beat Chicago in a nationally televised ESPN Sunday night game, 8-3.


    2007 - With his 246th career victory, an 8-5 win over Kansas City, Yankees right-hander Mike Mussina becomes the winningest pitcher in baseball history without a 20-win season. ‘Moose’ will reach the elusive milestone with a 20-9 record next season, his last in the majors.

    2010 - The bankrupt Rangers are sold at an auction for $385 million to a group led by Hall of Famer and club president Nolan Ryan. The new ownership group outbid the recently formed partnership of Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and Houston investor Jim Crane, who tried to buy the team in 2008.

    2010 - In the top of the ninth, the Twins recover from blowing a 6-0 lead, when Jason Kubel’s two-out pop up lands behind the pitcher's mound untouched by the Rays' middle infielders for the go-ahead single in the team's eventual 8-6 victory. The odd play, a result of the ball ricocheting off a catwalk and changing direction 190 feet above Tropicana Field, will prompt a change of the ground rules for postseason games played in Tampa Bay.

    2011 - Darla Harlow, a big fan of the Mississippi Braves, is given the honor of throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at Trustmark Park in Pearl. After tossing the ball to home plate, the military wife is totally surprised when the catcher takes off his mask revealing the 'player' is really her husband, Michael, an Army major serving in Afghanistan who has been away from home for the past nine months.


    2012 - Darwin Barney becomes the Cubs' all-time leader for second basemen when he plays in his 91st consecutive game in a single season without committing an error. The 26 year-old Chicago infielder, en route to setting the National League mark with a 127 straight errorless-game streak, surpasses Ryne Sandberg's team record that the Hall of Famer established in 1989.

    2013 - Major League Baseball releases the names of 13 players that have been suspended for their involvement with performance-enhancing substances supplied by the Biogenesis anti-aging clinic. Thirty-eight year-old Yankee third baseman Alex Rodriguez receives the harshest of the punishments when he is told that he will be sidelined without pay for 211 regular-season games, much more than the 50-game suspensions given to most players implicated in the announcement.

    2013 - Minnie Forbes, the 81 year-old former owner of the Negro League Detroit Stars from 1956 to 1958, and about a dozen former baseball players meet with Barack Obama at the White House. The country’s first black president honors the group for their contributions to athletics and civil rights.

    2014 - The Washington Nationals claimed Matt Thornton from the New York Yankees on waivers.

    2016 - The Cleveland Indians released Juan Uribe.



    Baseball Birthdays on August 5...


    1861 - Coughlin, Ed
    1865 - Langsford, Bob
    1872 - Adkins, Doc
    1889 - McConnaughey, Ralph
    1890 - Ostendorf, Fred
    1890 - Irelan, Hal
    1893 - Harper, Jack
    1899 - McGrew, Slim
    1899 - Gibson, Sam
    1904 - Frasier, Vic
    1905 - Pepper, Ray
    1913 - Gaffke, Fabian
    1914 - Daughters, Bob
    1915 - Suche, Charley
    1919 - Gremp, Buddy
    1920 - Lukon, Eddie
    1921 - St.Claire, Ebba
    1924 - Novotney, Rube
    1924 - Yuhas, Eddie
    1925 - Jacobs, Tony
    1927 - Krsnich, Rocky

    1937 - Siebler, Dwight
    1937 - Pleis, Bill
    1939 - Aaron, Tommie
    1940 - Chavarria, Ossie
    1943 - Briles, Nelson
    1947 - Carbo, Bernie
    1951 - Cornejo, Mardie
    1953 - Mahler, Rick
    1953 - Hale, John
    1953 - Bosetti, Rick
    1953 - de la Rosa, Jesus
    1956 - Edler, Dave
    1956 - Rozema, Dave
    1958 - Nichols, Reid

    1966 - Nielsen, Jerry
    1968 - Olerud, John
    1969 - Armas, Marcos
    1971 - Pulido, Carlos
    1972 - Wasdin, John
    1976 - Kielty, Bobby
    1977 - Hinske, Eric
    1977 - Mulder, Mark
    1978 - Strong, Jamal
    1981 - Crawford, Carl
    1984 - Kazmar, Sean
    1985 - Denker, Travis
    1987 - Federowicz, Tim
    1989 - Bradford, Chasen
    1989 - Knudson, Guido
    1990 - Martinez, Nick
    1991 - Bellatti, Andrew
    1991 - Heller, Ben
    1992 - Santana, Domingo



    Baseball Deaths on August 5...


    1896 - Stephens, Ben
    1911 - Caruthers, Bob
    1922 - McCarthy, Tommy
    1929 - Brottem, Tony
    1940 - Bruyette, Ed
    1942 - Bigbee, Lyle
    1955 - Glockson, Norm
    1956 - Siglin, Paddy
    1960 - Chalmers, George
    1963 - Crompton, Herb
    1964 - Coleman, Ed
    1969 - Caldwell, Ralph
    1969 - Elmore, Verdo
    1972 - McKee, Red
    1975 - Morrell, Bill
    1978 - Haines, Jesse
    1987 - Conlon, Jocko
    1988 - Michaels, Ralph
    1989 - Macon, Max
    1992 - Wilkie, Lefty
    1992 - Marquis, Jim
    2002 - Porter, Darrell
    2002 - Hudlin, Willis
    2005 - Hogue, Cal
    2006 - Dempsey, Con
    2007 - Salerno, Al



 



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August 5, 1942 - In front of a crowd of less than three thousand patrons at Chicago’s Comiskey Park, the White Sox beat the Tigers 1-0. The game’s only run scores when White Sox second baseman Don Kolloway steals home with two outs in the fifth inning.

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    On August 6 in Baseball History...

    1877 - The National League rule calls for the home team to submit three names of approved local men for each game, with the visiting team choosing one at random to be umpire. Today in Louisville, Chicago's Cal McVey reaches into the hat and picks out a slip bearing the name of Dan Devinney, who accused St. Louis of trying to bribe him five days earlier. Disgusted, McVey then grabs the hat and finds that all three slips have Devinney's name on them. The incensed White Stockings demand a new umpire and then snap the Grays' six-game winning streak 7-2.

    1890 - "Long John" Reilly becomes the first major leaguer to hit for the cycle in different leagues when the Reds, who moved to the National League this season, beat Pittsburgh at League Park, 16-3. The Cincinnati first baseman hit for two cycles last season, also a first, when the team played in the American Association and were known as the Red Stockings.

    1890 - Cy Young, making his major league debut, is credited with the win when the Cleveland Spiders beat the Colts in Chicago's West Side Park, 8-1. During his 22-year career, the 23 year-old right-hander will average more than 23 victories per season en route to a major league record of 511 victories, a mark believed by many to be unbreakable.

    1894 - Sparks from a plumber's torch start a blaze that destroys the grandstand at Philadelphia's Huntingdon Grounds, better known as Baker Bowl. The grandstand will be rebuilt with concrete and steel.

    1901 - The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues is formed to help the minor leagues protect their interests.

    1904 - Lefthander Nick Altrock of the White Sox (their new nickname) handles thirteen fielding chances, the modern major league record for pitchers. He will finish the year with 49 putouts, an American League record for pitchers.


    1906 - At Cleveland's League Park, the Boston Americans are shut out for the fourth consecutive time bowing to the Indians, 4-0. Combined with a scoreless three-game sweep by the White Sox, the team establishes a new American League record.

    1908 - Johnny Lush pitched a six-inning no-hitter as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Brooklyn Dodgers, 2-0. It was Lush's second no-hitter against the Dodgers.

    1930 - During the Waco Cubs’ 18-run eighth inning eruption at Katy Park, Gene Rye hits three home runs in one inning. The Texas League outfielder’s round trippers in the minor league game include a solo shot, a two-run homer and a grand slam.

    1936 - For the first time in the 20th century, the first two batters in a game — Roy Johnson and Rabbit Warstler of the Boston Bees — lead off with home runs. They do it off Cubs pitcher Tex Carleton.

    1937 - The Braves become the first National League team to lead off a game with back-to-back homers. At Wrigley Field, Roy Johnson and Rabbit Warstler both go deep to start the first inning off Tex Carleton, but Boston's quick start isn't enough when Chicago wins the contest 12-6.

    1941 - Al Benton becomes the first major leaguer to have two sacrifice bunts in one inning. The Tiger right-hander accomplishes the feat in the top of third inning, a frame that features 17 batters coming to bat, in an 11-2 rout of the Indians at Cleveland's League Park.

    1947 - Skeeter Webb is inserted into the game to run for Fred Hutchinson, and scores a run in the Tigers' nine-run eighth inning in Detroit's 13-6 victory over Cleveland. Later in the frame, he comes to the plate and delivers an RBI sac fly, an unusual accomplishment for a pinch-runner.

    1949 - Luke Appling appears as shortstop in his 2,154th game, surpassing Rabbit Maranville's major league mark. Appling will play in 2,218 games at shortstop.


    1952 - At the approximate age of 46, Satchel Paige becomes the oldest pitcher in major league history to hurl a complete-game shutout beating Virgil 'Fire' Trucks and the Tigers, 1-0, when Bobby Young scores the game’s only run in the 12th inning. The Browns' hurler will extend his own record at the age of 46 years and 75 days by throwing another scoreless complete game against the White Sox next month.

    1953 - Ted Williams is back in a Red Sox uniform after military duty in Korea. He will finish with 13 home runs and a .407 mark.

    1962 - For the fifth time, a team record, Willie Mays collects five hits in a game. In the 9-2 Giants victory over Philadelphia at Candlestick Park, the 'Say Hey Kid' hits two two-run homers in the first and second innings, and follows up with singles in the fourth, fifth, and eighth.

    1967 - Orioles third baseman Brooks Robinson hits into his fourth career triple play setting a major league record. The fifth inning around-the-horn triple killing (5-4-3) doesn't hurt the club as the Birds beat the White Sox at Memorial Stadium, 4-0, to complete a sweep of a twin bill.


    1969 - Twins' manager Billy Martin punches Dave Boswell sending his pitcher to the hospital to get twenty stitches. The incident happens after a scuffle between Boswell and teammate Bob Allison.

    1972 - Hitting his 660th and 661st career homers, Hank Aaron breaks Yankee legend Babe Ruth's record for most home runs with one team. "Hammerin' Hank's" second homer of the day is a 10th inning blast which enables the Braves to beat the Reds, 4-3.

    1973 - Roberto Clemente becomes the first Latin-born player to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. The late Pirates outfielder, who died tragically on New Year's Eve in a crash that was carrying relief supplies to the victims of the earthquake in Nicaragua, was elected posthumously when the mandatory five-year waiting period was waived.

    1979 - After delivering the eulogy at Thurman Munson's funeral in Ohio, Bobby Murcer, a teammate and close friend of the deceased Yankee catcher, drives in all the runs in the Yankee 5-4 comeback victory over the Orioles at Yankee Stadium. The New York outfielder, with a bat he will never use again, hits a three-run home run and wins the game with two-run single in 9th inning.


    1981 - After a seven-week strike, major league baseball players approved a split-season format. The New York Yankees, Oakland A's, Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers were declared the first-half champions and automatically qualified for the divisional series.

    1982 - Just five days after hitting three home runs in a 5-4 loss to the Twins, Doug DeCinces hits three more home runs in a 9-5 win at Seattle. DeCinces is the first player other than Ted Williams to hit three home runs in a game twice in the same season.

    1982 - The Yankees trade 1978 play-off hero Bucky Dent to the Rangers for outfielder/first baseman Lee Mazzilli. In spite of hitting just .169, the popular Yankee infielder nearly was elected to the All-Star game by the fans.

    1983 - Eric Rasmussen throws a 4-0 shutout against the Red Sox in his first American League outing. The Royals starter, who also blanked the Padres as a Cardinal in his first-ever major league game in 1975, becomes the first pitcher to toss a shutout in both his National League and American League debuts.

    1985 - For the second time in five years the Players' Association stages a midseason strike. But unlike the 50-day strike that interrupted the 1981 season, this one will be settled by the following day and all 25 canceled games will be made up.

    1986 - In the game that establishes a new record for bases-full homers in one game Texas beats Baltimore, 13-11. Rangers' infielder Toby Harrah hits a second inning grand slam and Larry Sheets and Jim Dwyer both go deep for grand slams in the Orioles' nine-run fourth.

    1988 - Jim Gott balks three times in the eighth inning, two of which allow a runner to score from third base. The Pirates relief pitcher's poor form on the mound proves to be the difference in the Mets' 5-3 victory over the Bucs at Three Rivers Stadium.

    1988 - Goose Gossage becomes the second player in major league history to record 300 career saves when he faces one batter and gets the final out in the Cubs' 7-4 victory over Philadelphia at Wrigley Field. The future Hall of Fame right-handed reliever joins Rollie Fingers, who reached the milestone in 1982.

    1988 - Jose Canseco became the 11th player in major league history to hit 30 homers and steal 30 bases in a season. The A's outfielder, with 31 homers, joins the 30-30 club stealing second base with one out in the ninth inning for his 30th as Oakland beat the Mariners, 5-4.

    1988 - In remembrance of the fond memories of its departed ball club and the many historical events which took place place in the ballpark they called home, a plaque is dedicated behind home plate of the former Braves Field. Done on behalf of the fans of New England by Boston University, the Society For American Baseball Research, and the New England Sports Museum, the tablet includes references to the three World Series and one All-Star game played there as well as the longest game ever to take place in major league history.

    1989 - In a pre-game ceremony at Fenway Park, the Red Sox retire Carl Yastrzemski's #8. 'Yaz', recently inducted into the Hall of Fame, becomes only the fourth player in franchise history, joining Joe Cronin (4), Bobby Doerr (1), and Ted Williams (9), to be honored by having his uniform number retired by the club.

    1992 - Following a brief shouting match with Willie Wilson in the previous frame after the Oakland outfielder had tripled off him, Rangers right-hander Nolan Ryan hits him the leg with a pitch with two outs in the eighth inning. The incident, that causes a ten-minute delay with both benches emptying and fans littering the field with paper, will result the future Hall of Famer being ejected from a game for the first and only time during his 27-year major league career.

    1993 - Raising his average to .348, Padre outfielder Tony Gwynn singles off Rockies' hurler Bruce Ruffin for his 2000th career base hit. (our thanks to Tom Lane for sharing this event for the web site)

    1998 - Kevin McClatchy's vision of a baseball-only stadium in Pittsburgh starts to become more of a reality when PNC Bank strikes a deal with the Pirates calling the Bucs' new home PNC Park. The new ballpark, which will be highly praised, will host its first game in 2001.

    1999 - After San Diego outfielder Tony Gwynn singles off of Expo rookie right-hander Dan Smith in the first inning to get his 3000th hit, first base ump Kerwin Danley, Gwynn's college teammate, Vendella Gwynn, his mother celebrating her 64th birthday, and 13,540 Olympic Stadium fans help to celebrate the right fielder's milestone. 'Mr. Padre' finishes the night 4-for-5 passing Roberto Clemente into 21st place on the all-time career hit list.

    2001 - The Hall of Fame Veterans Committee comprised of five former players, five media members and five former executives, which was established in 1953, is to be replaced by a 90-member group made up of the members of the Hall of Fame (61), the recipients of the J.G. Taylor Spink award for writers (13), the Ford C. Frick award for broadcasters (13) and current Veterans Committee members (3). The new committee will be able to elect players only once every two years and executives, umpires and managers only once every four years.

    2001 - Boston's backstop Scott Hatteberg hits into a triple play, but the catcher redeems himself in his next at-bat by hitting a grand slam putting the Red Sox ahead in a 10-7 win over the Rangers. The triple killing, the third in Texas history, occurs when Hatteberg lines to shortstop Alex Rodriguez who flips to second base doubling up the runner on second with second baseman Randy Velarde tagging the runner arriving from first.

    2002 - Protecting the Giants' 11-10 lead over the Cubs, 32-year old reliever Robb Nen becomes the 16th and youngest closer to record the 300th save of his career.

    2003 - Three weeks after trading for Armando Benitez with the crosstown Mets, the Yankees trade the much maligned reliever to the Mariners. In return, the Bronx Bombers get back 36-year-old Jeff Nelson for his second tour with the team.

    2006 - The Mets continue to make a commitment to their young players signing 23-year old David Wright to a $55 million, six-year contract extension. The third baseman joins shortstop Jose Reyes, also 23, who inked a long term deal with the club three days ago worth $23.25 million over the four years of the extension of the Dominican's contract.

    2006 - The Diamondbacks trade a pair of pitching prospects to the Nationals for veteran right-hander Livan Hernandez (9-8, 5.34). Washington had put the 31-year old Cuban on waivers with the hopes of making a deal with any team, but Arizona blocked that option as it tries to stay in the hunt in the NL West.

    2007 - Batting eighth in Tony La Russa's batting order, Cardinals’ starting pitcher Braden Looper collects two hits in the fifth inning when St. Louis ties a big league record with 10 straight hits. The Redbirds use the consecutive safeties to score all their runs when they beat the visiting Padres, 10-5.

    2010 - In a 15-minute pre-game ceremony delayed by rain at Turner Field, the Braves retire Tom Glavine's uniform number 47. The southpaw, who won 244 of his 305 career victories with the organization, including five seasons with 20 or more wins, was inducted into the team's Hall of Fame earlier in the day at a luncheon.


    2010 - Twenty-one year old LHP Chris Sale makes his MLB debut for the White Sox in a ten inning 2-1 loss at Baltimore.  Sale, who was the 13th overall pick in the draft two months, faces two batters in the eighth inning in relief of starter John Danks.  Sale walked Bip Roberts then Nick Markakis singled to center.  Sale then was replaced on the mound by Tony Pena who retired the side without a run scoring.


    2016 - The San Diego Padres signed Clayton Richard as a free agent.



    Baseball Birthdays on August 6...


    1860 - McDonald, Jim
    1864 - Wheelock, Bobby
    1872 - Mertes, Sam
    1875 - Foreman, Brownie
    1881 - Sharpe, Bud
    1884 - Birmingham, Joe
    1884 - Boultes, Jake
    1884 - Magee, Sherry
    1888 - Gunning, Hy
    1889 - Thrasher, Buck
    1890 - Wallace, Jack
    1890 - Barron, Frank
    1896 - Blades, Ray
    1903 - Turner, Jim
    1903 - Wiltse, Hal
    1904 - Cobb, Herb
    1905 - Roetz, Ed
    1906 - Kimsey, Chad

    1907 - Hughes, Tom
    1909 - Veach, Al
    1912 - Hafey, Bud

    1914 - Reis, Tommy
    1914 - Loane, Bob
    1917 - McGillen, John
    1919 - Sturgeon, Bobby
    1919 - Culberson, Leon
    1924 - Fletcher, Van
    1926 - Labine, Clem
    1926 - Schwamb, Blackie
    1928 - Moford, Herb
    1936 - Gerard, Dave
    1937 - Carreon, Camilo

    1937 - Schaffernoth, Joe
    1937 - Schurr, Wayne
    1941 - Culp, Ray
    1943 - Hardin, Jim
    1945 - Messersmith, Andy
    1947 - Dunegan, Jim
    1949 - Reinbach, Mike
    1954 - Phelps, Ken
    1955 - Davis, Ron
    1955 - Pankovits, Jim
    1955 - Nicosia, Steve
    1957 - Horner, Bob
    1965 - Ramos, John
    1966 - Belinda, Stan
    1968 - Scott, Darryl
    1969 - Mitchell, Keith
    1972 - Singleton, Duane
    1975 - Zambrano, Victor
    1976 - Wilson, Kris
    1980 - Gomez, Alexis
    1982 - Germano, Justin
    1986 - McGee, Jake
    1991 - Flores, Wilmer
    1992 - Gant, John



    Baseball Deaths on August 6...


    1912 - Van Zant, Dick
    1927 - Pedro, Chick
    1929 - Cusick, Tony
    1932 - Holmes, Ducky

    1936 - Girard, Charlie
    1937 - Block, Bruno

    1942 - McNaughton, Gordon
    1946 - Quinn, Tad
    1946 - Lazzeri, Tony
    1947 - Good, Gene
    1953 - Phyle, Bill
    1955 - Cotter, Hooks
    1962 - Williams, Bob
    1964 - Ogden, Curly
    1983 - Tobin, Johnny
    1983 - Wasdell, Jimmy
    1993 - Miller, Bob

    1993 - Hughson, Tex
    2000 - Felderman, Marv
    2001 - Mallory, Jim
    2008 - Kuehl, Karl
    2017 - Daulton, Darren


   











     




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    On August 7 in Baseball History...


    1888 - At a stormy meeting in Philadelphia, American Association owners finally vote to allow 25 cent admission again. They drop the percentage system of paying visitors and replace it with a $130-per-game guarantee.

    1893 - Facing a left-handed Brooklyn pitcher, New York first baseman Roger Connor bats right-handed for the first time in his career and slugs out two homers and a single in a 10-3 win.

    1907 - Senators' hurler Walter Johnson wins his first major league game beating the Indians, 7-2. The 'Big Train' will tally 417 victories during his 21-year career.

    1915 - As Brooklyn's rookie pitcher Ed Appleton steps to the mound, St. Louis manager Miller Huggins, coaching at third base, calls for the ball. The rookie tosses the ball to him, Huggins steps aside, and the Cardinal runner scores. A change in the rules will prevent such trickery in the future.

    1922 - Ken Williams of the St. Louis Browns hit two home runs in the sixth inning of 16-1 victory over the Washington Senators.

    1923 - Hitting a double and five singles, Indian first baseman Frank Brower goes 6-for-6. The 30-year old infielder's offensive output helps Cleveland to rout the Senators at Griffith Stadium, 22-2.

    1943 - The Giants tie a National League record when they leave eighteen runners on base. The team strands two base runners in each inning in their 9-6 loss to the Phillies at the Polo Grounds.

    1950 - White players Lou Chirban, Stan Mierko, and Frank Dyle of the Chicago American Giants are barred by police from playing in the Negro American League against the Birmingham Black Barons.

    1956 - The largest crowd in minor league history, 57,000, saw 51-year-old Satchel Paige of Miami beat Columbus in an International League game played in the Orange Bowl.

    1962 - The 29-81 Mets are mathematically eliminated from in finishing first place with their 7-5 loss to Los Angeles in Chavez Ravine. After the game, New York manager Casey Stengel calls a meeting and jokes with his players that they can loosen up and relax now that they are out of the pennant race, which they promptly do, winning just eleven more games during the last two months of the season.

    1963 - At the Polo Grounds, Jim Hickman becomes the first Met in franchise history to hit for the cycle, accomplishing the feat in the very rare natural order. The New York leadoff batter's single in the first inning, double in the second, fourth-frame triple, and a sixth-inning solo shot all contribute to the Amazins' 7-3 victory over St. Louis.

    1968 - In his major league debut, A's Joe Keough hits a home run in his first at-bat. The rookie goes deep off Lindy McDaniel as a pinch-hitter in the eighth tying the score at 3-to-3 in Oakland's eventual 4-3 extra inning victory at Yankee Stadium.

    1969 - At a hastily called news conference, Phillies' manager Bob Skinner resigns citing a lack of support from the front office in his efforts to discipline Dick Allen, the team's temperamental superstar. The 37 year-old skipper will be replaced by his third-base coach, George Myatt, who inherits the fifth-place club with a 44-64 record.

    1971 - The New York Mets bombarded the Braves at Atlanta Stadium, 20-6. Ken Boswell led the Mets with four hits and five RBIs including a grand slam off Mike McQueen.

    1971 - A’s southpaw Vida Blue, en route to a 24-8 record in his first full year in the major leagues, becomes a 20-game winner when he goes the distance blanking the White Sox, 1-0. The only run of the game scores on a balk committed by Joe Horlen in the sixth inning of the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum contest.


    1976 - One strike away from throwing a no-hitter, Steve Luebber gives up a single to Roy Howell, who advances to third base on an error in center field by Lyman Bostock. The 27 year-old right-hander will yield another hit and a run before being replaced on the mound by reliever Bill Campbell in the Twins' 3-1 victory over Texas at Arlington Stadium.

    1978 - Eddie Mathews, Addie Joss, and Larry MacPhail are inducted at Cooperstown.

    1978 - Mel Allen and Red Barber become the first recipients of the Ford C. Frick Broadcasting Award. Unable to choose between the two legendary voices, both Yankee announcers are selected by the Hall of Fame voters to receive the honor which recognizes excellence among baseball broadcasters.

    1982 - Jim Rice climbs into the Fenway Park stands from the dugout to assist a young boy who had just been hit in the head by a savage line drive foul off the bat of Dave Stapleton. The Red Sox slugger's quick response of picking up the four-year old boy and running through the dugout to a waiting ambulance is credited with possibly saving the child's life.

    1983 - The team honors Bobby Murcer by giving him a day at Yankee Stadium. The popular Oklahoman, who will become a long-time broadcaster for the team, played 13 seasons for the Bronx Bombers compiling a .278 batting average while in pinstripes.

    1985 - Commissioner Peter Ueberroth announced a tentative agreement ending a two-day strike. The season resumed Aug. 8.

    1987 - Bill Mazeroski's uniform jersey #9 is officially retired from active service by the Pirates. The 1960 World Series hero joins Billy Meyer [1], Willie Stargell [8], Pie Traynor [20], Roberto Clemente [21], Honus Wagner [33], and Danny Murtaugh [40] to be honored by Pittsburgh in this manner.

    1988 - The Mariners establish a major league record with five sacrifice flies in their 12-7 victory over Oakland. Alvin Davis, Rey Quinones, Jay Buhner, Darnell Coles, and Jim Presley all drive in a run with a long fly ball out in the Oakland Coliseum contest.

    1992 - The Giants announce that the team has been sold to Tampa Bay investors for a reported $110 million and will move to St. Petersburg for the 1993 season. Other owners will block the move in November, but one benefit is that the 1992 season finale becomes the first sellout at Candlestick since the 1989 World Series.

    1993 - In his first major league appearance since being involved in a tragic accident during spring training, Indian pitcher Bobby Ojeda receives a very warm reception from the Orioles fans attending the Camden Yards contest. In March, the veteran southpaw was severely injured at Little Lake Nellie in Clermont, Florida in a motor boat accident that claimed the lives of two teammates, relievers Tim Crews and Steve Olin.

    1999 - For the second consecutive day, a major leaguer gets his 3000th hit as Wade Boggs homers in the sixth off Indian Chris Haney. The Devil Rays' third baseman, who is the first player to reach the milestone with a home run, rounds the bases pointing skyward blowing a kiss in memory of his mom and gets down on his knees to kiss home plate.


    1999 - The Royals honor George Brett's induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame with an on-field ceremony prior to the game against Minnesota. The former third baseman played his entire 21-year career in Kansas City compiling a .305 lifetime batting average.

    2000 - The Yankees claim Jose Canseco off waivers from the Devil Rays. The 35-year old slugger will appear in just 37 games for the Bronx Bombers, primarily as a designated hitter, hitting .247 in 111 at bats.

    2001 - Home plate umpire Angel Hernandez ejects Steve 'Mongo' McMichael from Wrigley Field as the former Chicago Bear football player is about to sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the seventh inning stretch. McMichael, presently a pro wrestler, tells the crowd over the P.A. system "he'll have a talk with the ump" concerning a close call made by Hernandez earlier in the game and then boos and blows a kiss toward the ump.

    2001 - Black Betsy, Shoeless Joe Jackson's 40-ounce warped hickory bat, is won by 30-year-old businessman Rob Mitchell in a 10-day eBay auction. The $577,610 price tag is believed to be the largest amount ever paid for a baseball bat.

    2001 - Passing the mark of 68 established Christy Mathewson (Giants - 1913) and Randy Jones (Padres -1976), Braves right-hander Greg Maddux sets the National League record for consecutive innings without allowing a walk as he pitches six innings without a giving up a base on balls to extend the new record to 70 1-3 innings. The major league record is 84 1-3 innings without a free pass was established in 1962 by A's sinker-slider hurler Bill Fischer.

    2002 - Major leaguers agree to be checked randomly for illegal steroids starting next year. The proposal, which addresses a major issue in the current contract talks, ends the players' decades-old opposition to mandatory drug testing.

    2002 - After piloting the club to a 45-45 record as the interim skipper, Clint Hurdle is given a two-year contract extension by the Rockies. The club's former hitting coach replaced Buddy Bell, who was fired April 26.

    2003 - Albert Pujols joins Jose Canseco as the only other player in major league history to hit 30 home runs and drive in 100 runs during his first three seasons.

    2003 - Fireballer Eric Gagne ties the single-season record for consecutive saves to start a season established in 1995 by Jose Mesa of the Indians. The Dodger closer strikes out the Reds' side in the ninth inning for his 38th save this season and 46th consecutive regular-season save overall.

    2004 - In less than a masterful performance, Greg Maddux pitches five innings to register his 300th victory when the Cubs beat the Giants, 8-4. The 38-year-old is the 22nd pitcher to reach the plateau and many believe may the last to reach this coveted milestone.

    2005 - In the battle of the Zambranos, the Mets' Victor is victorious when he defeats Carlos and the Cubs at Shea Stadium, 6-1. In addition to sharing the same last name, the two Venezuelan pitchers, who are not related, also wear the same number (38), enter the game with same number of career wins (41), play for teams which started the series with the same record (54-54), as well being both switch hitters and throwing right-handed.

    2005 - On the main concourse in left field at U.S. Cellular Field, the White Sox unveiled a life-sized bronze statue of Carlton Fisk. The Hall of Fame catcher, who played for the ChiSox from 1981 to the end of his career in 1993, joins team founder Charles A. Comiskey and Cuban legend Minnie Minoso, who have also been honored with statues in the Chicago ballpark.

    2007 - In front of a very supportive home crowd at AT&T Park, Barry Bonds surpasses Hank Aaron as the all-time home run leader when he connects on a 3-2 pitch for #756 off southpaw Mike Bacsik of the Nationals. During the 10-minute celebration following the historic homer, a surprise video message is played on the scoreboard in which Hammerin’ Hank congratulates the Giants' left fielder for breaking the 33-year old record.

    2007 - The Toronto Blue Jays released Royce Clayton.

    2008 - The Baltimore Orioles sold Chad Bradford to the Tampa Bay Rays.

    2009 - The first Yankees-Red Sox game to go beyond 14 innings without a run being scored in the fabled rivalry between the American League clubs ends dramatically when Alex Rodriguez blasts a two-run walk-off homer in the 15th. A-Rod's home run, the first the third baseman has hit since July 19th, ends the five-hour and 33 minute marathon.

    2010 - James Shields ties a major league record for home runs allowed in one game when he gives up six round-trippers in the Rays' 17-11 loss to Toronto at the Rogers Centre. 'Big Fly James', in his four innings of work, yields homers to Aaron Hill (2), Edwin Encarnacion, Adam Lind, Jose Bautista, and J.P. Arencibia.

    2010 - In a 17-11 slugfest against Tampa Bay at the Rogers Centre, J.P. Arencibia becomes the 28th player to hit a home run on the first pitch he sees as a major leaguer. The Blue Jays' rookie catcher will also hit a double, a single and another home run finishing the contest just a triple shy of completing the cycle.

    2013 - The Detroit Tigers released Jose Valverde.

    2014 - The Mets freshman Jacob deGrom establishes a franchise mark for rookies when he throws 67.1 innings, a span of 10 games, without allowing a home run. The 26 year-old right-hander's streak ends when Ian Desmond takes him deep in the second inning of the team's 5-3 loss to Washington at Nationals Park.

    2015 - The Cleveland Indians traded Nick Swisher, Michael Bourn and cash to the Atlanta Braves in exchange for Chris Johnson.

    2016 - Marlins outfielder Ichiro Suzuki became the 30th player in Major League history to reach 3,000 hits when he triples off of Rockies left-handed reliever Chris Rusin in the seventh inning of Sunday's 10-7 Miami win at Coors Field.


    2016 - In the Orioles 10-2 win over the White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field, Manny Machado becomes just the second player in Major League history to hit a home run in the first, second and third inning of the game. The other was Carl Reynolds of the White Sox who accomplished the feat on July 2, 1930, at the Yankees.


    2016 - Ichrio Suzuki becomes the 30th major leaguer to collect 3,000 hits when he legs out a seventh inning triple in the Marlins' 10-7 victory over the Rockies at Coors Field. The 42 year-old center fielder joins Paul Molitor as the only other player to reach the milestone with a three-bagger.




    Baseball Birthdays on August 7...


    1862 - Gray, Jim
    1862 - Gray, Reddy
    1864 - Terry, Adonis
    1871 - Stocksdale, Otis
    1876 - Carney, Pat
    1876 - Nordyke, Lou
    1883 - Richardson, Tom
    1886 - McKechnie, Bill
    1887 - Nourse, Chet
    1895 - Gill, Ed
    1899 - Sturdy, Guy
    1899 - Wingfield, Ted
    1905 - Cronin, Jim
    1907 - Heise, Clarence
    1908 - Hatter, Clyde
    1912 - Drake, Tom
    1915 - Fleming, Les
    1922 - Alexander, Bob
    1927 - Bridges, Rocky
    1927 - Houtteman, Art
    1929 - Larsen, Don
    1931 - Crone, Ray
    1936 - Henry, Ron
    1936 - Nelson, Tex
    1936 - McNertney, Jerry

    1942 - Dotter, Gary
    1950 - Poepping, Mike
    1951 - Chant, Charlie
    1951 - Sadowski, Jim
    1954 - Kemp, Steve

    1955 - Senteney, Steve
    1962 - Trautwein, John
    1967 - Grimsley, Jason
    1968 - Spencer, Stan
    1969 - Kowitz, Brian
    1970 - Pisciotta, Marc
    1970 - Croushore, Rich
    1970 - Pirkl, Greg
    1972 - Lacy, Kerry
    1973 - Graves, Danny
    1975 - Gil, Geronimo
    1975 - Renteria, Edgar
    1977 - Yates, Tyler
    1984 - LeBlanc, Wade
    1986 - Danks, Jordan

    1987 - Lavarnway, Ryan
    1987 - Niewenhuis, Kirk
    1987 - Smith, Josh
    1987 - Ynoa, Rafael
    1989 - Kahnle, Tom

    1989 - Strassi, Brock
    1990 - Burns, Andy
    1990 - Capps, Carter
    1990 - Dominguez. Jose
    1990 - Zych, Tony
    1991 - Trout, Mike
    1992 - De Leon, Jose



    Baseball Deaths on August 7...


    1917 - Loughran, Bill
    1926 - Baxter, Moose
    1930 - Seery, Emmett
    1933 - Irwin, Bill
    1945 - Veach, Bobby
    1948 - Wacker, Charlie
    1951 - Wysong, Biff
    1951 - Wynne, Bill
    1953 - Powell, Abner
    1956 - Tate, Hughie
    1959 - McGill, Bill
    1959 - Dyer, Ben
    1965 - Whittaker, Walt
    1972 - Anderson, Red
    1973 - Cooper, Wilbur
    1979 - Wagner, Hal
    1985 - Rucker, Johnny
    1991 - Cooney, Jimmy
    2003 - McDermott, Mickey
    2007 - Morgenweck, Hank
    2010 - Drumright, Keith
    2017 - Baylor, Don



     


     




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August 7, 2005 - On the main concourse in left field at U.S. Cellular Field, the White Sox unveiled a life-sized bronze statue of Carlton Fisk. The Hall of Fame catcher, who played for the ChiSox from 1981 to the end of his career in 1993, joins team founder Charles A. Comiskey and Cuban legend Minnie Minoso, who also been honored with statues in the Chicago ballpark. Since then the White Sox have also added statues of Nellie Fox, Luis Aparicio, Harold Baines and Frank Thomas to the outfield concourse.



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    On August 8 in Baseball History...


    1877 - After St. Louis catcher John Clapp has his cheek smashed by a foul tip, replacement Mike Dorgan goes behind the plate wearing a mask. This is perhaps the first use of a catcher's mask in an official National League game.

    1903 - A week after pitching his first doubleheader victory, Joe McGinnity of the New York Giants did it again, beating the Brooklyn Dodgers 6-1 and 4-3. In the second game, he stole home.

    1903 - In the third inning of the 4-3 nightcap loss to New York at the Polo Grounds, Dodger starter Henry Schmidt is thrown out of the game after he throws the baseball out of the park. The Brookyn starter became very angry when opposing pitcher Joe McGinnity dashed home from the third base while his infielders were arguing the close call at the bag.

    1905 - Pittsburgh second baseman Dave Brain, who hit three triples in a game for St. Louis against Pittsburgh on May 29, repeats the performance for Pittsburgh against Boston. He is the only player to perform the feat twice in one season.

    1913 - On April 25, the American Association minor league contest was stopped with the score tied 1-1 due to rain, and replayed on June 15, resulting in a 6-6 tie after nine innings when the game is stopped because of darkness. The game is started again on August 7 and after 13th the 2-2 contest is halted once more due to darkness, but after four attempts, Minneapolis finally beats Indianapolis today, 11-2.

    1915 - Gavvy Cravath ties a major league mark when he hits four doubles in the Phillies' 14-7 victory over Cincinnati. The Philadelphia outfielder also establishes a franchise record when he drives in eight runs in the Redland Field's contest.

    1916 - The Athletics set an AL record with their 19th loss in a row on the road. The streak began on July 25, making it a record for losses in two weeks.

    1920 - Howard Ehmke of the Detroit Tigers pitched the fastest game in American League history, one hour and 13 minutes, for a 1-0 victory against the New York Yankees.

    1921 - Appearing as a pinch-hitter in the top of the ninth inning, Browns' second baseman Luke Stuart hits a home run in his first major league at-bat. The 29-year old rookie infielder, who is the first American Leaguer to accomplish the feat, strokes his only career round-tripper in a 16-5 loss to Washington at Griffith Stadium off future Hall of Famer Walter Johnson.

    1922 - The Pirates establish a major league record by collecting 46 hits in a doubleheader sweep of the Phillies at Shibe Park. In their 7-3 win in the opener, Pittsburgh bangs out 19 hits, and the team adds another 29 safeties in their 19-8 rout in the nightcap.

    1931 - Bobby Burke of the Washington Senators pitched a 5-0 no-hitter against the Boston Red Sox.

    1933 - A series of Midsummer Classic games is proposed by William Veeck, president of the Cubs. Although the idea receives some support, it will be 64 years before a team from the American League plays a club from the National League during the regular season.

    1941 - In New York, Les Brown and his Orchestra record “Joltin’ Joe” for Columbia Records. The song about Yankee outfielder Joe DiMaggio's hitting streak will be played incessantly on radio stations across the country eventually reaching number 12 on the charts.

    1947 - Schoolboy Rowe of the Phillies pinch hits for Johnny Sain to become the first major leaguer to appear in different All-Star games representing teams from the National League and American League. In the 1936 Mid-summer classic, the former Philadelphia A's ace threw three innings of relief against the NL stars.

    1953 - Southpaws Whitey Ford and Bob Kuzava both blank the White Sox, 1-0 and 3-0 respectively, for a Yankee doubleheader sweep. Kuzava gives up his only hit in the ninth inning, a one-out double to Bob Boyd.


    1954 - Gil Hodges comes to bat three times in the eighth inning when the Dodgers score 13 runs en route to a 20-7 rout of the Reds at Ebbets Field. The first baseman will go 1-for 3 in the frame with a leadoff triple, but will be responsible for all three outs when he hits into a double play and flies out to centerfield to end the Brooklyn barrage.

    1956 - Robin Roberts gets his fourth victory in the past ten days when the Phillies beat New York at the Polo Grounds, 8-3. Philadelphia's shortstop Ted Kazanski becomes just the fourth player in franchise history to hit an inside-the-park grand slam.

    1957 - Club President Walter O'Malley makes it official announcing the Dodgers will play in Los Angeles next season. The club’s departure from Brooklyn corresponds with the massive social shift taking place in the borough that finds many of its former residents leaving for the suburbs of Long Island.

    1970 - On Old Timers Day at the Stadium, the Yankees retire Casey Stengel’s uniform #37. The ‘Old Perfessor’s’ Bronx Bombers won seven World Series during his 12-year tenure with the team from 1949 to 1960.


    1972 - After much speculation about the future of the team, the Yankees sign a thirty-year lease to play in the 'new' Yankee Stadium beginning in 1976. After completing the Stadium's 50th-Anniversary next season, the Bronx Bombers will play their home games for the next two years at Shea Stadium while the 'House that Ruth Built' is completely remodeled.

    1973 - At Kauffman Stadium, Red Sox DH Orlando Cepeda collects four doubles in the team’s 9-4 win over the Royals. 'Cha Cha', who signed with Boston in January, was the first player since the inception of the new position to be added to a roster specifically as its designated hitter.

    1976 - In the first game of a doubleheader against Kansas City at Comiskey Park, the White Sox take the field wearing shorts. Chicago, after a 5-2 comfortable win in the opener, don long pants for the nightcap and come out on the short end to the Royals, 7-1.


    1982 - California's Doug DeCinces hit three home runs in a game for the second time in less than a week. DeCinces hit solo homers in the first and third innings and connected for a two-run shot in the eighth of a 9-5 victory over the Seattle Mariners. DeCinces hit three against Minnesota on Aug. 3.

    1985 - Baseball, after a two-day strike, resumed with an 18-game schedule, including five doubleheaders.

    1988 - The first night game in Wrigley Field's 74-year history was postponed with the Chicago Cubs leading the Philadelphia Phillies 3-1 after heavy rains started in the bottom of the fourth inning. Philadelphia's Phil Bradley led off the game with a home run, but all numbers were wiped out by the rain.

    1989 - In his major league debut, former Met farmhand Mauro Gozzo blanks the Rangers for eight innings helping the Blue Jays go over .500 for the first time since Opening Day. Toronto will eventually win the American League East.

    1992 - Oakland's Dennis Eckersley had his consecutive saves record snapped at 40. His two records - 36 straight to start a season, and 40 straight over two seasons - ended trying to protect a 2-1 lead in the ninth inning against the Kansas City Royals. Eckersley gave up a two-out, two-run single to Gregg Jefferies which gave the Royals a 3-2 lead. But the Athletics came back to win the game in the ninth, 5-3.

    1997 - Randy Johnson struck out 19, matching the major league record for left-handers he had tied earlier this season, as the Seattle Mariners defeated the Chicago White Sox 5-0.


    1997 - At Busch Stadium, recently acquired Mark McGwire hits his 364th career home run on a pitch thrown by Phillies' right-hander Mark Leiter for his first National League round-tripper. The Cardinals slugging first baseman will hit a total of 220 homers in the Senior Circuit, all for the Redbirds.

    1998 - At the age of 41, Twins' Paul Molitor becomes the fifth player in major league history to have at least 3,000 hits and 500 steals. His 5-for-5 performance and the theft of his 500th base allows him to join Ty Cobb (4,191 hits, 892 steals), Honus Wagner (3,415, 722), Eddie Collins (3,315, 744) and Lou Brock (3,023, 938) as the only players to accomplish this milestone.

    2000 - In the bottom of the ninth, A's closer Jason Isringhausen throws just two pitches, and the Yankees go from losing 3-2 to winning 4-3. Bernie Williams and David Justice both hit home runs on the first pitch they see from the Oakland reliever.

    2000 - Cubs' hurler Phil Norton becomes the 18th pitcher in major league history to give up four homers in one inning in the Dodgers' 7-5 victory at Chavez Ravine. Kevin Elster, Darren Dreifort, Gary Sheffield and Shawn Green all take the 24 year-old southpaw deep in the bottom of the fourth inning.

    2000 - Darren Dreifort hits two home runs and gets the win in the Dodgers’ 7-5 victory over the Cubs. The starting pitcher, who hurls 6.2 innings, goes deep in the bottom of the fourth anf fifth frames.

    2000 - After kissing one another in the seventh inning, a female couple is abruptly asked to leave Dodger Stadium immediately and are told never to "set foot back on the premises" for "lewd behavior". The pair had planned to sue the organization, but ended up not doing so after the team apologized promising to contribute 5,000 tickets to GLBT organizations and continue sensitivity training for all its employees.

    2002 - Closer John Smoltz records his 40th save in the 114th game of the Braves' schedule making it the earliest point in a season a relief pitcher has reached that mark. Lee Smith of the Cardinals accomplished the feat in his 117th game in 1993, and White Sox Bobby Thigpen turned the trick in 118 games en route to setting the major league record with 57 saves in 1990.

    2004 - At Yankee Stadium, less than an hour after the Blue Jays lose to New York for their fifth consecutive defeat, Toronto fires their manager Carlos Tosca. First base coach John Gibbons will be the interim skipper for the remainder of the season.

    2006 - Mark DeRosa makes two outs in one at-bat ending the McAfee Coliseum contest in a most unlikely manner. On a 3-2 pitch, the Texas right fielder swings and misses making the second out of the inning, but when his momentum causes him to make contact with Oakland catcher Jason Kendall, who is throwing to second trying to prevent pinch-runner Jerry Hairston Jr. from stealing a base, plate umpire Jim Joyce calls interference on the batter for the third and final out of the Rangers' 7-6 loss to the A's.

    2009 - Albert Pujols, in the Cardinals' 5-3 victory over Pittsburgh at PNC Park, drives in three runs, surpassing the 100 RBI mark for the ninth straight season to start his career. The only major league with a longer streak was Hall of Fame outfielder Al Simmons, who accomplish the feat for 11 consecutive seasons starting with his rookie year with the A's in 1924.

    2009 - The Philadelphia Phillies released Pablo Ozuna.

    2013 - The Philadelphia Phillies claimed Casper Wells from the Chicago White Sox on waivers.


    2014 - Bartolo Colon joins Juan Marichal and Pedro Martinez in becoming the third hurler from the Dominican Republic to win 200 major league games. The 40 year-old portly right-hander accomplishes the feat when he goes eight innings, giving up six hits and one run, in the Mets’ 5-4 victory over Philadelphia at Citizens Bank Park, 5-4.

    2014 - In the Braves' 7-6 victory over Washington at Turner Field, Justin and B.J. Upton both homer in the same game for the fifth time, setting the major-league record for brothers. The Atlanta teammates, who each go deep off Stephen Strasburg, surpass the mark they previously shared with Jeremy and Jason Giambi and Vladimir and Wilton Guerrero.




    Baseball Birthdays on August 8...


    1859 - McClure, Hal
    1861 - Milligan, Jocko
    1864 - Ramsey, Toad
    1865 - Fournier, Henry
    1865 - Gumbert, Billy
    1870 - Leahy, Dan
    1875 - Baker, Ernie
    1884 - West, Hi
    1889 - Cypert, Al
    1891 - Keating, Chick
    1893 - Smith, Jack
    1897 - Eckert, Charlie
    1897 - Holloway, Ken
    1898 - Slappey, John
    1903 - Dudley, Clise
    1906 - Pressnell, Tot
    1913 - Travis, Cecil
    1917 - Raffensberger, Ken
    1918 - Roberts, Red
    1918 - Stuart, Marlin
    1927 - Temple, Johnny
    1928 - Morgan, Vern
    1932 - Amor, Vicente
    1936 - Howard, Frank
    1943 - Miles, Jim
    1947 - Cruz, Jose
    1948 - Timberlake, Gary
    1952 - Mahlberg, Greg
    1952 - Ivie, Mike
    1953 - Woods, Al
    1956 - Speck, Cliff
    1957 - Fontenot, Ray
    1957 - Ross, Mark
    1958 - Fowlkes, Alan
    1959 - Meier, Dave
    1963 - Karkovice, Ron

    1963 - Gideon, Brett
    1966 - Hudek, John
    1967 - Belcher, Kevin
    1967 - Whiteside, Matt
    1969 - Montgomery, Ray
    1975 - Meyers, Chad
    1975 - Thompson, Andy
    1977 - Hill, Jeremy
    1978 - Sanches, Brian
    1978 - Gomez, Alexis
    1980 - Breslow, Craig
    1980 - Cassel, Jack
    1981 - Rodriguez, Eddy
    1982 - Brown, Matt
    1982 - Lucy, Donny

    1982 - Ohlendorf, Ross
    1985 - Rzepczynski , Marc
    1985 - Wood, Blake
    1989 - Garcia, Greg
    1989 - Rizzo, Anthony
    1991 - Diaz, Yandy



    Baseball Deaths on August 8...


    1889 - McCormick, Harry
    1895 - Colgan, Ed
    1911 - Walsh, Joe
    1927 - Gilbert, Billy
    1929 - Minnehan, Dan
    1934 - Robinson, Wilbert
    1941 - Works, Ralph
    1952 - Neighbors, Bob
    1958 - Winchell, Fred
    1959 - Lewis, Phil
    1974 - Pollet, Howie

    1977 - Dennehey, Tod
    1980 - Collamore, Allan
    1982 - Gould, Al
    1984 - Hamric, Bert
    1989 - Harris, Bob
    1997 - Swigart, Oad
    1999 - Walker, Harry
    2004 - Center, Pete
    2005 - Mauch, Gene
    2006 - Restelli, Dino
    2009 - Ermer, Cal
    2014 - Wilson, Bob "Red"



           



   



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This Date In White Sox History - August 8th





August 8, 1976 - The Chicago White Sox become the first team in major league history to wear short pants in a game. The White Sox debut their Bermuda shorts - the brainchild of owner Bill Veeck - in the first game of a doubleheader against the Kansas City Royals. It will be the only regular season game in which the White Sox wear shorts. In the first game of a doubleheader against Kansas City at Comiskey Park, the White Sox take the field wearing shorts. Chicago, after a 5-2 comfortable win in the opener, don long pants for the nightcap and come out on the short end to the Royals, 7-1.

Boxscore & P-B-P (game one):  http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1976/B08081CHA1976.htm

Boxscore & P-B-P (game two):  http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1976/B08082CHA1976.htm


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1947 1947 - Schoolboy Rowe of the Phillies pinch hits for Johnny Sain to become the first major leaguer to appear in different All-Star games representing teams from the National League and American League.

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    On August 9 in Baseball History...


    1905 - "COME AT ONCE STOP VERY SORRY STOP YOUR FATHER DEAD IN SHOOTING ACCIDENT STOP HURRY." - telegram sent to Ty Cobb by Joe Cunningham, a long-time hometown Royston friend.
Ty Cobb, playing for the Augusta Tourists of the South Atlantic League, receives a telegram sent by his long-time hometown Royston friend Joe Cunningham informing him that his father Professor W. H. Cobb has been killed in a shooting accident the previous night. The incident, which will have profound effect on the life of the 18 year-old minor leaguer, will become a sordid affair when it is revealed that his mother pulled the trigger.

    1906 - Cubs right-hander Jack Taylor, who will amass a lifetime record of 152-139 along with an ERA of 2.66, goes the distance, beating Brooklyn at Washington Park, 5-3. The victory will be the last of his 187 consecutive complete games, an amazing streak which began on June 20, 1901 with a 2-0 loss in Boston.

    1916 - The Philadelphia A's 20-game losing streak ends when Joe Bush beats the Tigers, 7-1. The 20-80 club has won only three of their prior 43 contests with lone victories during the stretch snapping skids of twelve and nine consecutive defeats.

    1918 - Reds manager Christy Mathewson suspects Hal Chase of taking bribes to fix games, and suspends him for indifferent play. Chase will be reinstated and play for the Giants in 1919.

    1939 - Red Rolfe of the New York Yankees started a streak of 18 consecutive games in which he scored at least one run. During those games, he scored a total of 30 runs.

    1946 - In MLB's version of Friday Night Lights, all eight games, scheduled in eight different cities, will be played under the lights. It will be the first time in the major league history that every team will participate in an evening tilt on the same night.

    1949 - Hitless in his first four at bats against Yankee hurler Vic Raschi, Red Sox outfielder Dom DiMaggio's 34-game hitting streak comes to an end when his brother Joe makes a shoestring catch in the eighth inning taking away a hit from his sibling.

    1960 - Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox hit home run No. 511 to tie Mel Ott for fourth place on the all-time list.

    1961 - The Reds continue their domination of the hapless Phillies by winning their 16th straight game against the hapless squad, who have won just one contest in their last 19 tries. Joey Jay's 5-0 whitewash is the 13th loss in a row for Philadelphia, the club's longest losing streak in 25 years.

    1963 - One loss shy of tying the major league record of 19 consecutive defeats, Roger Craig, switches his uniform number to 13 in an attempt to change his luck. The move appears to work when Jim Hickman lofts a short fly ball in the ninth inning with two outs and the bases-full in a tie game, that just ticks the upper-deck overhang in left field at the Polo Grounds for a walk-off grand slam, giving the Mets an improbable 7-3 victory over the Cubs.

    1963 - Lindy McDaniel becomes the second pitcher in major league history to give up a pair of game-ending grand slams in the same season when Mets pinch-hitter Jim Hickman goes deep giving the Mets a dramatic 7-3 victory over the Cubs at the Polo Grounds. The Chicago right-hander, who also allowed Houston's Bob Aspromonte to end a game with a bases full walk-off round-tripper in June, joins Satchel Paige (1952) in accomplishing the infamous deed.

    1964 - After throwing a perfect game on Father's Day against the Mets, Phillies right-hander Jim Bunning continues his mastery over New York, retiring a total of 44 New York batters in a row. Joe Christopher beats out a two-out bunt in the fifth inning to finally end the right-hander's perfection over the Amazins'.

    1975 - Davey Lopes of the Los Angeles Dodgers stole his 32nd consecutive base without being caught in a 2-0 victory over the New York Mets, breaking Max Carey's 1922 record. Lopes tacked on six more steals before being caught on Aug. 24.

    1976 - Cal Hubbard, with his induction to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown as an umpire, becomes the first professional athlete to be elected into two Halls of Fame. In 1963, the Missouri native was enshrined into the pro football Hall of Fame as a result of his outstanding performance on the gridiron with the New York Giants and Green Bay Packers.

    1976 - John Candelaria becomes the first Pirate since 1907 to throw a no-hitter in Pittsburgh. Nick Maddox threw the first and only Buc home no-hitter until the 'Candyman' beat the Dodgers at Three Rivers Stadium. (There was never a no-hitter pitched in the 61-year history of spacious Forbes Field.)

    1979 - Longtime Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley dies at age 75.

    1981 - Baseball returned following the strike with the All-Star game in Cleveland before a crowd of 72,086. Gary Carter of the Montreal Expos hit two home runs to give the National League a 5-4 triumph over the American League. Vida Blue became the first pitcher to win an All-Star game in both leagues. His American League victory came in 1971 at Detroit.

    1988 - After 5,687 consecutive contests take place during the day at the Chicago Northside ballpark dating back to 1914, the first official major league night game is played at Wrigley Field with the hometown Cubs taking a 6-4 decision from the Mets. The historic event was scheduled for last night, but the contest against the Phillies was rained out after the third inning.

    1996 - Cal Ripken records his 2,500th career hit with a a single off White Sox Bill Simas in the Orioles 4-3 loss to Chicago in 10-innings. The Baltimore infielder will end his 21-year career with a total of 3184 hits.


    1997 - Twins pitcher Brad Radke's winning streak ends at 12 consecutive starts when Luis Sojo doubles home the go-ahead run in the eighth inning to send the Yankees to a 4-1 win before a crowd of 42,151, the second-largest gathering of the season at the Metrodome. Radke (16-6) remains tied with Scott Erickson (1991) for most consecutive wins by a Twin.

    1998 - The Expos draw a total of 757 dogs during the team's Dog Day promotion. Montreal's 8-2 victory over Arizona featured a pre-game parade of the dogs and their owners on the field.

    1998 - In Boston's 14-8 victory over the Rangers, Dennis Eckersley ties Kent Tekulve for second on the all-time list with 1,050 appearances by a pitcher. Hoyt Wilhelm is the over-all leader with 1,070.

    1998 - With his 244th victory, the Braves' Dennis Martinez passes Juan Marichal to become the winningest Latin American pitcher in major league baseball history. Martinez pitches a perfect eighth inning as the Braves beat the Giants, 7-5.

    1999 - For the first time in major league history, five grand slams are hit in a single day. Cardinal Fernando Tatis, Expo Jose Vidro, Marlin Mike Lowell, Yankee Bernie Williams and Mariner Jay Buhner all connect to set the record. (Lowell, Williams, and Buhner all played for the Columbus Clippers - thanks to Steve Basford for this interesting aside)

    1999 - The Blue Jays bang out 25 hits in a 19-4 rout of the Rangers at The Ballpark in Arlington. The total, which includes six doubles and four home runs, establishes a new franchise mark for hits.

    2002 - Barry Bonds joins Babe Ruth, Willie Mays and Hank Aaron as the only players ever to hit 600 career home runs. The 38-year-old Giant left fielder hit the milestone homer in the sixth inning by lining a 2-1 pitch thrown by Pirates starter Kip Wells over the center field wall at Pacific Bell Park.


    2002 - At the age of 26 years and 182 days, Vladimir Guerrero hits his 200th career home run tying the Expos right fielder with Ken Griffey, Jr. as the second-youngest player to reach the 200 homer plateau. Alex Rodriguez is the youngest major leaguer to reach the 200 homer mark reaching the milestone in 25 years 290 days.

    2005 - An arbitrator rules Kenny Rogers, who has missed 13 games, should be reinstated. The decision states the punishment for shoving two cameramen handed down by Bud Selig went too far in suspending the Ranger pitcher for 20 games and in levying an excessive $50,000 fine.

    2006 - Former hometown hero Mike Piazza belts two home runs off Mets ace Pedro Martinez and nearly hits a third one in the eighth inning during a 4-3 Padres loss in New York. The Big Apple fans give their ex-catcher an uncommon road curtain call after the round tripper, but aren't so kind the second time the backstop goes deep as he is greeted with boos and catcalls.

    2008 - As part of the 50th anniversary celebration commemorating the Giants' move to San Francisco, the team honors its greatest outfielders. Barry Bonds, speculated by most not to be in attendance for the event, receives a standing ovation accompanied by loud approval from the surprised fans when the slugger's name is announced and takes part of the ceremony telling the crowd, “It feels awful to me not to be in uniform and the Dodgers are right here”.


    2008 - Micah Hoffpauir ties a modern Pacific Coast League record by homering in his first four at-bats in the Iowa Cubs' 15-3 rout over the Round Rock Express. The 28-year-old slugging first baseman becomes the third player in the history of the storied PCL to go deep in four consecutive at-bats and the fifth to accomplish the feat in one game.

    2010 - Citing he has lost confidence in his manager, Mariner GM Jack Zduriencik fires Don Wakamatsu and three coaches. Triple-A Tacoma manager Daren Brown is named as the interim pilot of the last-place club (42-70), becoming the team's fifth skipper in a little more than three years.

    2010 - The front-running Reds obtain 40-year veteran Jim Edmonds from the Brewers in exchange for Chris Dickerson, a light-hitting defensively talented outfielder. Dusty Baker will use his newest player, who hit .286 and eight homers in 73 games for Milwaukee, in a part-time role during the playoff chase.

    2011 - With the tying runs at the corners and two outs in the bottom of the ninth, Curtis Granderson is picked off at first ending the game as Mark Teixeira, the Yankees’ leading home run hitter, stands at the plate. The last out of New York's 6-4 loss to the Angels is the result of the seldom effective fake to third, throw to first move perpetrated by closer Jordan Walden, which easily catches the Bronx Bomber outfielder off the base when he attempts to steal second base on a 1-6-3 play.

    2012 - The Boston Red Sox signed Scott Podsednik as a free agent.

    2013 - Dan Haren becomes the thirteenth pitcher in history to record a victory over all 30 major league franchises when he hurls seven solid innings in the Nationals' 9-2 win over Philadelphia. The 32 year-old right-hander joins Al Leiter, Randy Johnson, Barry Zito, A.J. Burnett, Kevin Brown, Terry Mulholland, Curt Schilling, Woody Williams, Jamie Moyer, Javier Vazquez, Vicente Padilla, and Derek Lowe in accomplishing the feat.

    2013 - The Dodgers rally for four runs in the bottom of the ninth inning, overcoming a six-run, seventh-inning deficit, for their fifth walk-off victory of the season. The team’s 7-6 victory over Tampa Bay is their 11th consecutive win in a one-run games, a span in which they have defeated ten different clubs.

    2013 - The Chicago White Sox traded Alex Rios to the Texas Rangers in exchange for a player to be named later; the Chicago White Sox received Leury Garcia (August 11, 2013).




    Baseball Birthdays on August 9...


    1863 - Wells, Jake
    1867 - Grim, John
    1872 - Dammann, Bill
    1878 - Wilson, Highball
    1880 - Varney, Dike
    1886 - Clemens, Bob
    1887 - Butler, Kid
    1890 - Callahan, Leo
    1894 - Kavanagh, Leo
    1894 - Mitchell, Johnny
    1901 - Todt, Phil
    1911 - Stein, Justin
    1912 - Sunkel, Tom
    1915 - Moser, Arnie
    1919 - Houk, Ralph
    1919 - Sanford, Fred
    1923 - Vico, George
    1930 - Mejias, Roman
    1930 - Bolling, Milt
    1931 - Essegian, Chuck
    1934 - Grba, Eli
    1936 - Javier, Julian
    1937 - Blemker, Ray
    1939 - Osteen, Claude
    1941 - Lindblad, Paul
    1942 - Agee, Tommie
    1946 - Moses, Jerry

    1947 - Hunter, Buddy
    1948 - Campbell, Bill
    1949 - Simmons, Ted
    1950 - Kennedy, Junior
    1951 - Swisher, Steve
    1956 - Saucier, Kevin
    1957 - Moses, John
    1958 - Young, Matt
    1959 - Adduci, Jim
    1960 - Clarke, Stan
    1963 - Lovelace, Vance
    1965 - Polley, Dale
    1966 - Scanlan, Bob
    1967 - Sanders, Deion
    1969 - Percival, Troy
    1970 - Mahomes, Pat
    1971 - Karl, Scott
    1971 - Van Ryn, Ben
    1971 - Radmanovich, Ryan
    1972 - Zimmerman, Jeff
    1972 - Allen, Dusty
    1973 - Alvarez, Juan
    1974 - Morris, Matt
    1975 - Lamb, Mike
    1975 - Fuentes, Brian
    1977 - Frasor, Jason

    1979 - Flores, Ron
    1983 - Butera, Drew
    1984 - Godfrey, Graham
    1989 - Antolin, Dustin
    1989 - Heyward, Jason



    Baseball Deaths on August 9...


    1886 - Smith, Bill
    1892 - Williams, Wash
    1897 - Scheible, Jack
    1936 - Halbriter, Ed
    1936 - Mahady, Jim
    1937 - Keefe, John
    1937 - Cooley, Duff
    1945 - Nichols, Art
    1948 - Bowen, Chick
    1948 - Lord, Harry
    1950 - Klepfer, Ed
    1953 - Evans, Joe
    1964 - Johns, Pete
    1969 - Myatt, Glenn
    1977 - Milstead, George
    1980 - Kerr, Mel
    1986 - Maddern, Clarence
    1991 - Majeski, Hank
    1998 - Moss, Ray
    2003 - Rogell, Billy
    2010 - Hermanski, Gene
    2013 - Elliott, Harry
    2013 - Hobbie, Glen
    2013 - Logan, Johnny
    2017 - Walton, Danny



       








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Today In White Sox History - August 9th


 



August 9, 1996 - In a 4-3, extra inning loss to the White Sox in Chicago, Orioles' shortstop Cal Ripken records his 2,500th career hit, a single off White Sox reliever Bill Simas. The White Sox win via a lead off walk off 10th inning home run by third baseman Robin Ventura.

Boxscore & P-B-P:  http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1996/B08090CHA1996.htm



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    On August 10 in Baseball History...


    1889 - At the Seventh Street Park in Indianapolis, future 300 game winner Mickey Welch becomes the first pinch hitter in major league history. Although the Giants right-handed pitcher strikes out in his historic plate appearance, New York prevails beating the Hoosiers, 9-6.

    1901 - At Cleveland's League Park, the Blues (Indians) beat Chicago, 11-7. White Sox right-hander Frank Isbell strands eleven runners on the base paths to set an American League record.

    1904 - Jack Chesbro is knocked out by the White Sox after pitching 30 complete games in a row. For the year he will win 41 games, pitching 48 complete games out of 51 starts for the New York Highlanders. All are post-1900 records.

    1929 - Grover Alexander beats the Phils 7-1 for his 373rd and last National League victory. He pitches four scoreless relief innings for the Cardinals to win 11-9 in the 11th inning.

    1934 - Babe Ruth announces 1934 is definitely his final season as a regular player. He says he will seek a managerial role and will pinch-hit.

    1944 - Red Barrett of the Boston Braves threw only 58 pitches to beat the Cincinnati Reds, 2-0, in a nine-inning game.

    1946 - In the top of the first inning, Yankee starter Ernie 'Tiny' Bonham gives up two hits, but retires the side with only four pitches. After leadoff hitter Wally Moses singles on the first pitch of the contest he is thrown out stealing after Tiny's second toss, then Johnny Pesky singles on the third pitch with Dom DiMaggio grounding into a double play on the next pitch to finish the fast frame.

    1957 - Mickey Mantle becomes the first player to clear the center field-hedge at Memorial Stadium with his 460-foot homer in the Yankees' 6-3 victory over the Orioles. Baltimore's Boog Powell (1962) and Twins' slugger Harmon Killebrew (1964) will also accomplish the feat.

    1961 - With his 21st pinch hit of the season, Dave Philley breaks an American League record, set by Ed Coleman of the Browns in 1936. The 41-year old, pinch hitting for Dick Williams in the eighth inning, sets the new pinch hitting mark with a double to right field in the Orioles' 8-0 win over the A's at Memorial Stadium.

    1963 - Boog Powell becomes the first Oriole to hit three home runs in the same game. The Baltimore first baseman's offensive output accounts for half of the runs in the Birds' 6-5 victory over Washington at D.C. Stadium.

    1969 - Cesar Tovar of Minnesota broke up the second no-hit bid against the Twins by a Baltimore pitcher. Tovar singled with none out in the ninth off Mike Cuellar. Earlier in the year, Tovar singled with one out in the ninth to spoil Dave McNally's bid.

    1971 - Harmon Killebrew of the Minnesota Twins hit his 500th home run in the first inning off Baltimore's Mike Cuellar to become the 10th player to hit 500 or more in a career. Killebrew also hit No. 501 off Cuellar, but the Orioles won, 4-3.

    1971 - Sixteen baseball researchers at Cooperstown form the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).

    1971 - At San Francisco’s Candlestick Park, Juan Marichal records his 50th career shutout as the Giants blank the Expos, 1-0. The Dominican hurler’s ninth inning double helps to build the winning run.

    1974 - Jorge Lebron, the youngest professional player ever, makes his debut for the Phillies farm club Auburn. The fourteen-year old shortstop plays three games before returning to Puerto Rico to finish junior high school.

    1980 - Steve McCatty goes the the distance in the A's extra-inning loss to Seattle. Joining Matt Keough, Mike Norris, and Rick Langford, the Oakland right-hander becomes the fourth hurler on the team this season to throw a 14-inning complete game fueling the criticism that manager Billy Martin overworks his pitching staff.

    1981 - After tying the mark in June in the last game played before the two-month baseball strike, Pete Rose finally becomes the all-time National League hit leader when he singles to the opposite field off Cardinal hurler Mark Littell for his 3,631st hit. The Phillies first baseman is congratulated on the field by Stan Musial, who previously held the mark, in front of 60,561 enthusiastic fans at Veterans Stadium.

    1986 - During Billy Martin Day at Yankee Stadium, the Bronx Bombers retire uniform #1 and dedicate a plaque in Monument Park which reads, 'There has never been a greater competitor than Billy'. The team's former scrappy second baseman and four-time manager tells the sold-out crowd, "I may not have been the greatest Yankee to put on the uniform, but I am the proudest."


    1987 - Phillies pitcher Kevin Gross becomes the second pitcher in eight days to be ejected for scuffing the baseball when umpires discover sandpaper in his glove during the fifth inning of a 4-2 win over the Cubs. Like Joe Niekro, Gross will be suspended for 10 games.

    1989 - After fifteen months of recovery from cancer surgery to his arm, Dave Dravecky pitches one-hit baseball for seven innings blanking the Reds to get the victory. The Giant bullpen holds on for a 4-3 win at Candlestick Park.

    1994 - The Expos win for the 20th time in their last 22 games when they blank Pittsburgh at Three Rivers Stadium, 4-0. The victory puts the team 35 games over .500, a franchise record, but sadly it will be the last game Montreal will win due to the impending players' strike that will eventually end season.

    1995 - The first forfeit in the majors in sixteen years occurs when the fans for the third time during the night throw promotional souvenir baseballs onto the Dodger Stadium field. At the time of the decision to halt the game, Los Angeles is trailing the Cardinals, 2-1 with one out in the bottom of the ninth.


    1998 - Joining Jimmie Foxx, Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, Albert Belle becomes only the fourth player to drive in 100 runs and hit 30 homers for seven consecutive seasons. The White Sox left fielder, who played in all 163 games for the White Sox this season, will continue the streak next year with the Orioles.


    1998 - At Qualcomm Stadium, Harry Wendelstedt and his son, Hunter, become the first father-son combination to umpire a major league baseball game together. Dad is behind the plate calling balls and strikes, and his son, who will remain on the same crew for the remainder of the season, makes the calls at third base when the last-place Marlins beat the first place Padres, 3-2.

    2000 - Winning for the first time in 16 starts, David Cone ends the worst slump of his career as the Yankees beat the A's, 12-6. Newly acquired Jose Canseco hits a three-run homer into the upper deck to help Cone stop the skid.

    2001 - In Kotna, Poland, Khovrio of Moscow becomes the first Russian team to qualify for the Little League World Series. The team, which is also the first to be made of all native Europeans, defeats the Tbilisi YMCA of Georgia, 12-2.

    2002 - Sammy Sosa hits three home runs in consecutive at bats in the third, fourth and fifth innings tying a Cubs' record with nine RBIs established by Heinie Zimmerman in 1911. With his sixth career three-homer game performance, the Chicago right fielder also ties the major league record set by Johnny Mize and becomes only the fifth player in big league history to homer in three straight innings.

    2002 - Barry Bonds breaks another Giant slugger's major league record when he receives his 46th intentional walk of the season, surpassing the mark established in 1969 by Willie McCovey. The third of the three free passes issued by the Pirates to the San Francisco left fielder proves to be costly when Benito Santiago follows with a grand slam to put the home team ahead, 8-3.

    2003 - Rafael Furcal becomes the 12th player to turn an unassisted triple play in big league history. With runners on Cardinals on first (Orlando Palmeiro) and second (Mike Matheny) in the fifth inning, the Braves shortstop makes a leaping catch of pitcher Woody Williams' liner and steps on second base to double up Matheny before tagging out Palmeiro who is attempting to get back to first base.


    2004 - Taking a cab to Shea Stadium from nearby LaGuardia Airport , Mets starting pitcher Tom Glavine is injured as the taxi collides with an SUV. The 38-year old two-time Cy Young Award winner loses his front two teeth and needs over 40 stitches to close facial lacerations.

    2004 - After signing the American League Rookie of the Year to a five-year, possible $16 million deal on May 6, the Royals send Angel Berroa to the Wichita Wranglers, their Double-A affiliate in the Texas League. The struggling shortstop is hitting only .249 with five homers and 30 ribbies compared to last season’s award-winning performance when the 26-year old Dominican batted .287 with 17 homers and 73 RBIs in his first full season in the major leagues.

    2004 - At Great American Ball Park, Adam Dunn crushes a ball to dead center field that clears the wall by over 100 feet before bouncing into the Ohio River. The Reds first baseman's Ruthian blast off LA's Jose Lima, believed to have traveled 535 feet, is the longest home run ever hit in the Cincinnati ball yard.


    2005 - Jackie Robinson’s former Negro League roommate 103-year old Ted Radcliffe, probably the oldest professional baseball player, dies after a long battle with cancer. The 1943 Negro American League Most Valuable player was dubbed ‘Double Duty’ by Damon Runyon after catching a shutout in the opener of a 1931 Negro League World Series Yankee Stadium doubleheader and then hurling one of his own in the night cap.

    2005 - After being released from the hospital, an 18-year old fan appears in court to face criminal charges of trespassing, reckless endangerment, and criminal mischief stemming from his 40-foot plunge last night from the upper deck of Yankee Stadium into the netting behind home plate. Team owner George Steinbrenner called the incident ``... the only exciting thing that happened today,'' after his struggling club loses to the first-place White Sox. 2-1.


    2005 - Radio talk-show host Larry Krueger, who caused an uproar in the team’s clubhouse, is fired by KNBR, the flagship station of the Giants for making inappropriate racial remarks. During a postgame rant the controversial the on-air personality said the team had too many ``brain-dead Caribbean hitters” and tells his listeners that manager Felipe Alou's mind "has turned to Cream of Wheat".

    2005 - For the second consecutive season, Mike Lowell employs the hidden ball trick on an unsuspecting base runner. Representing the tying run in the eighth inning, Diamondbacks outfielder Luis Terrero is the Marlins third baseman's latest victim.

    2006 - In the finale of the three-game sweep by the Royals, Red Sox ace Curt Schilling surrenders 10 extra-base hits tying an American League record. The nine doubles and homer equals the dubious mark set by Dale Gear (1901 Senators) and Luis Tiant (1969 Indians).

    2006 - The New York Mets signed Maikel Cleto as a non-drafted free agent.

    2007 - The Indians pay tribute to Larry Doby on his day at Jacobs Field by collectively wearing his number 14 on their uniforms. In 1947, the future Hall of Fame outfielder became the first black to play in the American League making his debut in Detroit with Cleveland as a pinch-hitter.

    2008 - With their 11-3 rout over the Mariners at Safeco Field, the first-place Rays improve their record to 71-46. The 71st victory establishes a record for wins in the 11-year history of the franchise.

    2009 - The Chicago White Sox claimed Alex Rios from Toronto Blue Jays on waivers.


    2010 - In an ugly first-inning brawl at Great American Ball Park, Cardinals' backstop Jason LaRue suffers a mild concussion and bruised ribs with his battery-mate Chris Carpenter also receiving bruises on his back during the seven-minute scrum. Reds' starting pitcher Johnny Cueto, who will be suspended for seven games for kicking the Redbirds' catcher and pitcher, draws the wrath of his opponents for lashing out with his spikes during the altercation.


    2014 - After rallying from a 5-0 deficit, the Blue Jays win the longest game in franchise history when Jose Bautista’s single in the bottom of the 19th inning drives in Munenori Kawasaki, giving Toronto a 6-5 walk-off victory over Detroit. Jose Reyes’s ninth-inning single with two outs off Joba Chamberlain sent the Rogers Centre contest into overtime.



    Baseball Birthdays on August 10...


    1847 - Hastings, Scott
    1848 - Ressler, Larry
    1850 - Clinton, Jim
    1859 - Corcoran, Larry
    1859 - Farrar, Sid
    1863 - Henry, George
    1866 - Beatin, Ed
    1872 - Heileman, Chink
    1877 - Eagan, Truck
    1888 - Hartman, Charlie
    1890 - Kilhullen, Pat
    1892 - Jacobs, Elmer
    1895 - Schepner, Joe
    1897 - Welch, Frank
    1905 - Wineapple, Ed
    1905 - Oglesby, Jim
    1908 - Hale, Odell
    1908 - Trotter, Bill
    1911 - Wright, Taffy
    1916 - Mertz, Jim
    1916 - Lewis, Buddy
    1922 - Hartung, Clint
    1923 - Porterfield, Bob
    1923 - Gebrian, Pete
    1923 - Gearhart, Gary
    1927 - Chakales, Bob
    1933 - Colavito, Rocky

    1939 - Lewis, Johnny
    1939 - Shoemaker, Charlie
    1949 - McMath, Jimmy
    1949 - Brown, Tom
    1953 - Brookens, Tom
    1962 - Schooler, Mike
    1963 - Clark, Jerald
    1964 - Stankiewicz, Andy
    1964 - Wilkinson, Bill
    1965 - Osuna, Al
    1966 - Williams, Gerald
    1967 - Carr, Chuck
    1971 - Fasano, Sal
    1977 - Barcelo, Lorenzo
    1977 - Ramirez, Julio

    1978 - Campillo, Jorge
    1979 - Johnson, Dan

    1979 - Lyon, Brandon
    1981 - Cortez, Fernando
    1982 - Anderson, Josh
    1982 - Frazer, Jeff
    1984 - Marquez, Jeff

    1987 - Den Decker, Matt
    1987 - Ramos, Wilson
    1988 - Solis, Sammy
    1990 - Gose, Anthony
    1992 - Bradley, Archie
    1993 - Banda, Anthony



    Baseball Deaths on August 10...


    1899 - Buker, Harry
    1912 - Sales, Ed
    1933 - Mangus, George
    1950 - Kavanagh, Leo
    1951 - Kellum, Win
    1962 - Murphy, Dummy
    1963 - Kinsler, Bill
    1966 - Dressen, Chuck
    1968 - Boardman, Charlie
    1989 - Hughes, Tom
    1990 - Lavagetto, Cookie
    1993 - Ferrazzi, Bill
    2001 - Boudreau, Lou
    2001 - Monzant, Ramon
    2014 - Command, Jim
    2014 - Wiesler, Bob
    2017 - Gross, Don



           


   





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Today In White Sox History - August 10th




 

August 10, 1998 - Joining Jimmie Foxx, Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, Albert Belle becomes only the fourth player to drive in 100 runs and hit 30 homers for seven consecutive seasons. The White Sox left fielder, who played in all 163 games for the White Sox this season, will continue the streak next year with the Orioles.



 

George Carlin's "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television": "shit", "piss", "fuck", "cunt", "cocksucker", "motherfucker", and "tits".