On July 1 in Baseball History...1859 - In the first college baseball game ever played, Amherst defeats their archrival, Williams College, 73-32 (66-32 by some reports). The game is played near the corner of North Street and Maplewood Avenue in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
1902 - Playing his first game for Connie Mack's A's, Rube Waddell faces only 27 batters blanking the Orioles, 2–0. The 25-year old southpaw strikes out the side three times by whiffing Billy Gilbert, Harry Howell, and John Cronin in the 3rd (on just nine pitches) 6th, and 9th innings.
1903 - Cy Young drives in the contest's lone run when he blanks the Pale Hose at Chicago's South Side Park, 1-0. The shutout, his fourth consecutive complete game without allowing a run, is the Boston American right-hander's third 1-0 victory in a span of nine days.
1910 - White Sox Park opens with a 2-0 loss to the Browns. The stadium, which becomes known as Comiskey Park, cost $750,000 to build. The stadium will be the oldest in baseball when it is closed in 1990 and replaced by a new structure called Comiskey Park.1914 - Harry Kingman, son of the New York Congregationalist missionary and chaplain at Pomona College, becomes the first person born in China to play in a major league game. The 22-year old Yankees first baseman from Tientsini, goes hitless in his only three big league at-bats, but reaches first on a base-on-balls.
1916 - At age 42 years and four months, Honus Wagner is the oldest player to hit an inside-the-park home run. He connects for the Pirates in the fourth inning at Cincinnati.
1920 - Walter Johnson pitches his first no-hitter. An error by Bucky Harris costs him a perfect game, but Harris' hit drives in Washington's only run against the Red Sox at Fenway. The next day Johnson comes up with the first sore arm of his life and is useless for the rest of the year, finishing 8-10.
1920 - Leaving Robison Field in mid-season, the Cardinals make their debut as the home team at Sportman's Park, also the home of the American League's St. Louis Browns, bowing to the Pirates, 6-2. After signing a ten-year lease for $20,000 annually with Browns' president Phil Ball, the team moves six blocks to be able to play its home games in a modern ballpark.
1923 - In the opener of a Western League doubleheader‚ the first 4 batters for Wichita all hit homers. The sluggers include Lyman Smith‚ Jocko Conlon‚ Wes Griffin‚ and Jim Blakesley off Wichita's Karl Black. Only Jocko will make it to the majors.
1927 - The Browns outslug the White Sox‚ 18 hits to 16‚ and win‚ 14-12. St. Louis is led by George Sisler and Ken Williams‚ each with 4 hits‚ while Chicago gets 2 doubles and a homer from Bibb Falk. Bert Cole‚ battered for 6 hits in the Browns' 6-run 6th‚ takes the loss. Brownie starter Ernie Nevers last just 3 innings‚ but is awarded the win.1931 - At Philadelphia‚ Chuck Klein knocks in 5 runs as he hits for the cycle to lead the Phils to a 11-6 win over the Cubs. The Phils pull off a triple play‚ the first time that's happened in a game in which a player cycles.
1934 - At Crosley Field‚ the Cardinals outlast the Reds 8-6 in an 18-inning first game of a double bill in Cincinnati. Dizzy Dean and Tony Frietas duel for 17 innings. Joe Medwick homers in the 17th‚ the first scoring since the 9th‚ but the Reds tie it up in the bottom of the inning. The Cards plate 2 runs in the 18th off Paul Derringer to win‚ though it takes a running catch by Medwick with the bases full to finish the game.
1934 - Bill Terry leads all vote-getters in All-Star balloting with Babe Ruth of the Yankees getting the most votes in the American League. Giants' first baseman will also be the skipper of National League team.
1941 - Despite the 95 degree weather‚ 52‚832 are on hand at Yankee Stadium to watch Joe DiMaggio lead a sweep of the Red Sox‚ 7-2 and 9-2. The 2nd game is called after 5 innings. DiMaggio has 2 hits in the first game‚ off Mike Ryba‚ and one in the 2nd‚ off Jack Wilson‚ to tie Willie Keeler's ML batting streak of 44 games. The Yankees have 25 hits in the 2 games but fail to add a HR among their 15 hits in the first game. This ends their AL streak of 25 consecutive games with at least one HR. The previous record‚ set by the Tigers in 1940‚ was 17 games and the Tigers will take back the record in 1994. During the streak the Bombers have connected for 40 homers‚ 9 by DiMaggio.
1942 - The 1st 7 batters in the first inning score for Cleveland and the Tribe wins 7-2 over the host White Sox. Five hits‚ a walk and an error send Orval Grove to a quick shower. His replacement Jake Wade gives up an RBI single but only allows 2 hits the rest of the way. Al Smith is the winner. Smith will win 10 games this year‚ as will Al Hollingsworth‚ the top number of victories for a lefty in 1942.1943 - The Sporting News begins using a tabloid format as a means of saving newsprint. "The Bible of Baseball", which was established in 1886, became the dominant voice and major source of information for serious fans of the national pastime.
1943 - Although the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League's will not have an official All-Star Game until 1946, two teams, one composed of South Bend Blue Sox and Rockford Peaches players and the other made up of players from the Kenosha Comets and Racine Belles, put on an exhibition game under the lights at Wrigley Field. The AAGPBL contest is the first night game ever played in the historic Chicago ballpark.
1945 - The first of the superstars returns from the war. Hank Greenberg, gone for four years, homers in his first game following his release from the Army. Charlie Gassaway of the Athletics gives up the blow before 47,700 in a 9-5 win at Briggs Stadium.
1948 - Brooklyn's Roy Campanella makes his debut, catching Ralph Branca. Campy doubles in his first at-bat and adds two singles, but the Giants win 6-4.
1950 - 'Eddye' Ford's Yankee debut is less than impressive as he gives up five runs on seven hits and walks six in 4 2/3 innings of relief against the Red Sox at Fenway Park. The lefty will go on to become the winningest pitcher in franchise history and will be better known as Whitey.
1951 - Bob Feller pitches the third no-hitter of his career, tying the record of Cy Young and Larry Corcoran, as he beats Detroit's Bob Cain 2-1.
1953 - Mel Parnell win his 100 career game as Boston blanks the Bronx Bombers at Yankee Stadium, 4-0. Joining Cy Young, Joe Wood, Lefty Grove and Joe Dobson, the southpaw from New Orleans becomes the fifth Red Sox hurler in franchise history to reach the milestone.
1954 - Joe Cunningham of the Cards hits two home runs in a game against Milwaukee, giving him a record three roundtrippers in his first two days in the major leagues. In his first seven at-bats, he has nine RBI
1956 - Before a PCL game at Lane Field in San Diego‚ Rocky Colavito takes aim at Don Grate's throwing record of 443+ feet. Rocky tops out on a throw over the CF fence at 435 feet‚ 10 inches. Grate will improve his mark to 445 feet 1 inch on Fan Appreciation Night in Minneapolis. He'll take 6 steps before each throw. (as noted by historian Bill O'Neal)
1957 - Orioles' pitcher George Zuverink and catcher Frank Zupo form the first 'Z' battery in major league history as the Yankees beat the Birds, 3-2.
1958 - The Cubs Tony Taylor hits a ball inside the 3B line that falls into the rain gutter in fair territory at Wrigley Field. San Francisco rookie OF Leon Wagner chases the ball‚ but is fooled by Cubs relief pitchers staring intently under the bench. Wagner neglects to look for the ball in the gutter 40 to 50 feet further down. Taylor reaches home with the inside-the-park drive to help the Cubs win 9-5.
1960 - H. Gabriel Murphy's option of first-refusal to buy the Senators from current owner Calvin Griffith expires. The chief minority stockholder, in an effort to stop the club from moving to the Minneapolis/St. Paul area to become the Twins, will lose two court decisions preventing him from keeping the team in Washington, D.C.
1961 - The Senators stake rookie Carl Mathias to a 3-0 lead over New York‚ but a Mickey Mantle solo shot‚ a few feet left of the 456-foot sign in left at Yankee Stadium‚ puts New York on the board. The Nats up the score to 5-1‚ but Mantle then bangs a 3-run homer to make it 5-4 and knock out Mathias [who in his 11 ML games will give up 3 homers to Mantle]. In the 9th‚ Roger Maris poles a 2-run homer‚ his 28th‚ to give New York a 7-6 victory.
1964 - Five thousand cabbies and their families are on hand at Yankee Stadium to celebrate 'Taxi Day' at the Bronx ballpark. Billy Bryan's 11th inning solo home run is the decisive blow in Kansas City's 5-4 Wednesday afternoon victory.
1967 - Baltimore's Jim Palmer gives up a grand slam-but it's in the minors. Sent to Rochester (International League) to rehabilitate from back problems‚ Rochester manager Earl Weaver starts the 21-year-old against Buffalo‚ in a game moved to Niagara Falls because of racial disturbances on Buffalo's east side. Palmer is given a 7-0 lead‚ but the Bisons score 5 runs in the 3rd‚ four coming home on a grand slam by Johnny Bench. Rochester hangs on to win‚ 10-8.
1968 - A first-inning wild pitch allows a run to break Bob Gibson's streak of 47 2/3 innings of scoreless pitching, but the Cards beat the Dodgers 8-1. Gibson will pitch 23 innings before giving up another run.
1973 - Luis Aparicio of the Red Sox steals the 500th base of his career in a 9-5 loss to Milwaukee. It is the highest total in the AL since Eddie Collins retired in 1930.
1973 - At California‚ the Twins' Jim Kaat fires a one-hitter to beat the Angels‚ 2-1. Frank Robinson's HR in the 2nd is the only hit. This is the 2nd time in his career that Robby hits a HR to break up a no hitter: he did it July 30‚ 1971 against KC's Dick Drago.
1976 - The Indians paste the Toledo Mud Hens 13-1 in an exhibition game in Toledo. Manager Frank Robinson‚ hitting as the DH‚ flies out to CF and‚ while returning to the dugout‚ exchanges angry words with Hens P Bob Reynolds. Suddenly‚ Robby flattens Reynolds with a right-left combination and is quickly ejected from the game.
1982 - Considered a questionable decision at the time because of his height, Cal Ripken is moved from third base to shortstop by Oriole manager Earl Weaver. The 6'4" future Hall of Famer takes over the job from veteran infielder Mark Belanger, an eight-time Gold Glover at the position.
1982 - At Pawtucket’s McCoy Stadium, Mark Fidrych, mounting one more attempt to return to the majors, and Dave Righetti, the AL Rookie of the Year who was sent down by the Yankees to Triple-A Columbus to get straightened out after a slow start in his sophomore season, match up in one of the most memorable games ever played in the minor leagues. The chanting and cheering overflow crowd of 9,389, packed into the ballpark designed to accommodate 5,800 fans, vocally displays their support for the ‘Bird’ throughout the game, and becomes delirious when he strikes out Butch Hobson for the final out in his improbable complete-game 7-5 victory.
1983 - Arbitrator Raymond Goetz rules that the 43 players who were on the Disabled List during the 1981 players' strike are not entitled to their salaries for that period. The decision saves the club owners about $2.5 million.
1984 - Royals pitcher Paul Splittorff, whose 166 victories in 13 seasons are the most in club history, retires.
1991 - During a 14-7 Orioles rout of the Angels, the teams tie a major league record slugging 11 home runs during the Camden Yards contest. O's starter Mike Mussina gives up all of the Halos round-trippers to tie Jim Palmer's club record of giving 5 in a game.
1994 - The Orioles and Angels combine to hit a major league record-tying 11 HRs in a contest won by Baltimore‚ 14-7. The Orioles smash 6 of the round-trippers and the Angels hit 5. It is the 8th 11-HR game in history. Surprisingly‚ none of the homers go as far as 400 feet.
1997 - After hitting a bouncer down the Astrodome's first base line, Tim Bogar comes all the way around to score when Manny Ramirez doesn't play the ball after it comes to a stop under the bullpen bench. The Indians outfielder, unaware of the park's ground rules, begins signaling to the umpire that the ball is out of play as the Astros infielder circles the bases for an easy inside-the-park home run.
1997 - Collecting his 26th save in 27 chances this season, Randy Myers records the 300th save of his career when he strikes out the side in the Orioles' 4-1 victory over Philadelphia at Camden Yards. The 34 year-old closer, who will finish with 347 saves during his 19 years in the major league leagues with six different teams, is the ninth reliever and second southpaw in the history of the game to reach the milestone.
1998 - During Houston's 10-4 win over the White Sox‚ a wild pitch bounces into the pocket of home plate umpire Gerry Davis‚ allowing Chicago's Ray Durham to score while Astros catcher Brad Ausmus scurries around the plate trying to find the ball. Says Ausmus: ``I asked (Davis) if I was supposed to pick him up and throw him in front of the runner."(San Angelo Standard). Shaun Berry is 4-for-4 including a homer‚ while teammate Jeff Bagwell has a HR and scores 3 times.1999 - The Brewers defeat the Cubs‚ 19-12‚ as SS Jose Valentin hits 2-run HRs from each side of the plate. 2B Ron Belliard and C Dave Nilsson each get 4 hits for Milwaukee‚ while Belliard drives home 5 runs. The Brewer light up Steve Trachsel for 10 runs in 3.2 innings pitched‚ hanging his NL high 11th loss on him. The Brew Crew collects 21 hits for the 2nd times in 3 nights. There are 8 homers in the game‚ including a pair by Cubs Mickey Morandini. Not homering after 4 straight games in which he went deep is Sammy Sosa‚ who singles twice.
2000 - On the country's 133rd birthday, a Canada Day pitching match up features a pair of Canadian starters in Montreal as Marlin Ryan Dempster, a native of British Columbia defeats Mike Johnson of Edmonton and the Expos, 6-5.
2000 - Whitey Herzog, the winningest manager in franchise's history, and Willie Wilson, an speedy outfielder who was an offensive spark plug, become members of the Kansas City Royals' Hall of Fame.
2000 - BARK, Baseball Aquatic Retrieval Korps debut at Pac Bell. Six Portuguese water dogs will be used to retrieve Splashdown home runs hit by the Giants and their opponents which land in McCovey's Cove.
2003 - The Marlins set a franchise mark for runs scored and tie a team record with 25 hits, with Miguel Cabrera, Ivan Rodriguez and Luis Castillo collecting four each. The celebration of the 20-1 victory over the Braves is tempered when a photographer is injured and is airlifted to a hospital as a result of being hit by Darren Bragg's bat which slips from the outfielder's hand and flies into the stands.
2003 - After spending a disappointing season and a half in New York, Roberto Alomar is traded by the Mets with cash to the White Sox for prospect Andrew Salvo, right-hander Edwin Almonte and southpaw Royce Ring. The 12-time Gold Glove second baseman's funk continues in the American League when the former All-Star infielder hits just .253 with Chicago.
2003 - Just a few hours after obtaining Roberto Alomar from the Mets, the White Sox acquire outfielder Carl Everett (.274, 18, 51) from the Rangers. Texas will pick two or three players from a Chicago minor league pool, and the team will also give money to help pay part of the former outfielder's $9.15 million deal.
2005 - After walking 2,100 miles from Camp Verde, Arizona to reach Wrigley Field, Bill Holden throws the ceremonial first pitch and leads the crowd singing Take Me Out to the Ballgame during the seventh- inning stretch at the Nationals-Cubs game. Inspired by the DVD, This Old Cub, a documentary about former Chicago All-Star third baseman Ron Santo, who lost both his legs to diabetes, the 56-year old school teacher, with two bad knees, pounded the pavement for 172 days and raised $250,000 with his ‘Walk the Walk’ campaign for juvenile diabetes research.
2006 - The Orioles down the Braves, 7-4. Baltimore’s Miguel Tejada plays in his 1,000th consecutive game, the longest active streak in the ML.
2006 - The Red Sox hook the Marlins, 11–5, as David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez each hit two homers and drive in nine of the 11 runs. Mike Lowell has three doubles. The Sox make two errors, however, ending their ML record streak of 17 straight games without an error. They will have 108 games without errors for the season, a ML mark, and field .9891, also a record.
2008 - In the shortest nine-inning game in the history of Coors Field, Aaron Cook throws only 79 pitches in the one hour, 58 minute contest. The right-hander’s five-hitter snaps the Rockies eight- game losing streak with the 4-0 victory over the visiting Padres.
2009 - In the Red Sox 6-5 victory at Camden Yards, Jonathan Papelbon retires the Baltimore batters in order in the 11th inning to become the franchise's all-time leader in in saves. The 28-year-old closer, who surpasses Bob Stanley for the club record, has compiled 133 saves during his four years with the club.
2011 - In the seventh inning of a 5-0 inter-league victory of the Angels in Anaheim, Dee Gordon steals second and third base and then completes the stolen base cycle by swiping home. The Dodger shortstop becomes the 40th major leaguer to accomplish the trifecta in the same frame.
2013 - Prior to the game at Citi Field, the Mets and Diamondbacks honor the 19 firefighters killed while battling a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona with a moment of silence. Additionally, each team hangs a jersey with the word Yarnell stitched on the back above the number 19 in their respective dugouts.
2014 - Rick Porcello becomes the fourth pitcher in Tiger history, and the first since Dizzy Trout in 1944, to throw a shutout without issuing a walk or recording a strikeout when he blanks Oakland, 3-0. The Detroit right-hander, who records 17 groundball outs and 10 in the air in his 95-pitch outing, is the first major league hurler to accomplish the rare feat since Jeff Ballard's performance for Baltimore on August 21, 1989.
2014 - The Chicago White Sox released Maikel Cleto.
2014 - The Chicago White Sox released Mitchell Boggs.2015 - The Miami Marlins released Jon Link.
2016 - The Indians win their 14th consecutive game, establishing the team's longest winning streak in franchise history when they beat the Blue Jays, 2-1, in a 19-inning marathon played at Toronto’s Rogers Centre. Next season, the Tribe will not only shattered their club mark but will set an American League record with 22 consecutive victories.
2016 - The first co-ed pro team in nearly 20 years takes the field when 17-year-old outfielder Kelsie Whitmore and 25-year-old pitcher Stacy Piagno play for the Sonoma Stompers against the San Rafael Pacifics in front of enthusiastic and supportive sell-out crowd at Arnold Field. The two former members of the USA women's baseball squad are first females to play in a professional game since Ila Borders pitched for the St. Paul Saints in the independent Northern League in 1997.
Baseball Birthdays on July 1...1855 - Bradley, Foghorn
1857 - Connor, Roger
1859 - Kiley, John
1861 - Daniels, Charlie
1861 - Clarkson, John
1863 - McTamany, Jim
1870 - Nyce, Charlie
1871 - Duncan, Jim
1876 - Buchanan, Jim
1878 - Holmes, Fred
1879 - Atz, Jake1885 - Larkin, Ed
1889 - James, Lefty
1893 - Camp, Howie
1896 - Cole, Bert
1900 - Simons, Mel1900 - Brower, Louis
1902 - Greenfield, Kent
1913 - Barrett, Frank
1913 - Martini, Wedo
1915 - Young, Babe
1915 - Poffenberger, Boots
1918 - Tate, Al
1920 - Lehner, Paul
1924 - Bruner, Jack1924 - Wood, Ken
1928 - Freeman, Hersh
1933 - Baumann, Frank1936 - Drott, Dick
1937 - Nischwitz, Ron
1938 - Anderson, Craig
1945 - Rohr, Billy
1951 - Otten, Jim1952 - Dineen, Kerry
1959 - Walker, Tony
1971 - Walker, Jamie
1980 - Cruz, Nelson
1981 - Carson, Matt
1982 - Huber, Justin
1984 - Thompson, Richard
1985 - Perez, Chris
1986 - Blackmon, Charles
1989 - Montgomery, Mike
1989 - Oberholtzer, Brett
1990 - Rea, Colin
1991 - Smith, Tyler
1991 - Wacha, Michael
1992 - Sanchez, Aaron
1994 - Flexen, Chris
Baseball Deaths on July 1...1903 - Cooney, Jimmy
1915 - Corridan, Phil
1917 - Mathewson, Henry
1921 - Booth, Amos
1937 - Hall, Russ
1946 - Knolls, Hub
1948 - Knisely, Pete
1962 - Mayer, Sam
1963 - Moseley, Earl
1964 - Rogers, Jay
1966 - Rapp, Goldie
1968 - Barbee, Dave
1970 - Hall, Herb
1971 - Kinney, Walt
1972 - Koenigsmark, Will
1980 - Coleman, Curt
1982 - Blair, Footsie
1982 - Scarborough, Ray1988 - Sauer, Ed
1998 - Connolly, Ed
2003 - Miller, Bill
2012 - Hershberger, Mike