On June 16 in Baseball History...

    1909 - Jim Thorpe makes his baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount (Eastern Carolina League) with a 4-2 win over Raleigh. It is the professional play in this year that will cause him to lose his medals won in the 1912 Olympics.

    1938 - Jimmie Foxx is walked a record six consecutive times by Browns pitchers as the Red Sox win 12-8.

    1945 - Dave Ferriss loses to the Yankees 3-2 after starting his career with eight victories — four of them shutouts — for the Red Sox.

    1978 - In the twelfth major-league season of a career speckled with near-misses, Cincinnati's Tom Seaver finally hurls a no-hitter. The Cardinals are the 4-0 victims as Seaver strikes out three.

    1989 - Rick Wolff, 37, writing an article on minor-league baseball for Sports Illustrated, finishes a three-day stint playing second base for the South Bend White Sox (Midwest League). He replaces Cesar Bernhardt and goes 4-for-7 against the Burlington Braves. Wolff will finish the year with the highest average of any Chicago White Sox farmhand.

    1993 - Ken Griffey, Jr., slugs his 100th career home run in Seattle's 6-1 victory over Kansas City to become the fourth-youngest to hit the century mark. Only Mel Ott, Eddie Mathews and Tony Conigliaro did it faster than the 23-year-old Griffey.

    1995 - Marlins outfielder Andre Dawson hits his 400th N.L. home run and 429th of his career in a 2-1 win over the Phillies.

    Baseball Birthdays on June 16...

    1853 - Knight, Lon
    1857 - Phillips, Marr
    1867 - O'Brien, Pete
    1874 - Blake, Harry
    1874 - Washburn, Libe
    1881 - Egan, Wish
    1882 - Keefe, Bobby
    1883 - Waller, Red
    1883 - Mattern, Al
    1886 - Speer, Kid
    1887 - Rowan, Jack
    1888 - Kirke, Jay
    1889 - Capron, Ralph
    1889 - Noyes, Win
    1889 - Dale, Gene
    1890 - Mollwitz, Fritz
    1892 - Farrell, Jack
    1894 - Glenn, Bob
    1913 - Scalzi, Skeeter
    1913 - Coscarart, Pete
    1914 - Wittig, Johnnie
    1916 - Rullo, Joe
    1920 - Malone, Eddie
    1922 - Surkont, Max
    1923 - Clark, Allie
    1924 - Johnson, Ernie
    1926 - Miller, Bob
    1933 - Johnson, Ken
    1934 - Herrera, Pancho
    1946 - Ragland, Tom
    1947 - Decker, Joe
    1948 - LeFlore, Ron
    1949 - Rauch, Bob
    1951 - Wall, Stan
    1957 - Barojas, Salome
    1962 - Schiraldi, Calvin
    1962 - Joyner, Wally
    1967 - Ericks, John
    1969 - Young, Kevin
    1971 - Hernandez, Fernando
    1971 - Gomez, Chris
    1975 - Nieves, Jose

    Baseball Deaths on June 16...

    1908 - Garvin, Ned
    1914 - Dorr, Bert
    1929 - Carman, George
    1929 - Sullivan, Mike
    1931 - Sommerville, Andy
    1940 - Hawes, Bill
    1941 - Flynn, Mike
    1949 - Kane, Jerry
    1955 - Morrison, Mike
    1958 - Phillips, Jack
    1961 - Bowc*ck, Benny
    1961 - Miller, Chuck
    1961 - Hillis, Mack
    1964 - Culler, Dick
    1967 - Holland, Dutch
    1971 - Partenheimer, Steve
    1975 - Courtney, Clint
    1976 - Dickey, George
    1977 - Rettig, Otto
    1978 - Shelley, Hugh
    1994 - Stuart, Marlin
    1999 - Stanky, Eddie
    2001 - Hood, Jr., Wally
    2001 - Jethroe, Sam
    2004 - Hausmann, George