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Re: Pale Hose History
« Reply #5050 on: October 18, 2018, 12:20:16 am »

    On October 18 in Baseball History...


    1910 - The Philadelphia Athletics pounded the Chicago Cubs 9-3 for a 2-0 lead in the World Series. Eddie Collins had three hits, including two doubles, and two stolen bases.

    1913 - In Cincinnati, the Giants and White Sox begin a five-month world-wide barnstorming trip that will include stops in Australia, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. The teams recruit top players from both leagues, including Tris Speaker, Buck Weaver, Christy Mathewson as well as Sam Crawford, but former Olympian Jim Thorpe is the main attraction during the global tour.


    1925 - The Reds pitcher Marvin Goodwin dies in a plane crash in Houston. The 34-year old appeared in four games for Cincinnati, three as a starter, and posted an 0-2 record which included two complete games.

    1950 - Connie Mack, at age 87, retired as manager of the Philadelphia Athletics after 50 years, and Jimmy Dykes was named to replace him. Mack, together with Ben Shibe, founded the Athletics in 1901.

    1960 - Five days after losing to the Pirates in Game 7 of the World Series, the Yankees fire Casey Stengel believing he's too old to manage. A few days after his dismissal, the 'Old Professor' quips, "I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again".

    1967 - The AL approves the Athletics' shift to Oakland. Kansas City is promised a new team by 1971. When Senator Stuart Symington and Kansas City Mayor Ilus Davis threaten action against the move, AL President Joe Cronin reopens talks, and the expansion deadline is moved forward to 1969.

    1971 - Dick Williams is named the Associated Press American League Manager of the Year after guiding the A's to their first playoff appearance since the franchise faced St. Louis in the 1931 Fall Classic. The 42 year-old skipper also copped the honor for piloting the Red Sox during the team's Impossible Dream season in 1967.

    1972 - With runners on second and third base in Game 3 of the World Series, Johnny Bench strikes out looking with a full count when he is fooled by a trick play. The Cincinnati slugger believes he is going to be given an intentional walk after the A's manager visits the mound and catcher Gene Tenance returns to plate signaling for a wide ball 4, but the A's backstop quickly crouches behind home to catch a called strike three from Rollie Fingers. Blue Moon Odom fans 11, but Cincinnati's Jack Billingham is the 1-0 winner as the Reds win their first game of the World Series.


    1973 - The Mets' Jerry Koosman and Tug McGraw combined to three-hit the Oakland A's and take 3-2 lead in the World Series.

    1977 - Reggie Jackson hit three consecutive home runs to lead New York to an 8-4 victory over the Los Angles Dodgers and give the Yankees the World Series title in six games. Jackson drove in five runs, and all three shots came on the first pitch.


    1988 - At Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Mark McGwire goes deep off LA's Jay Howell with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning giving the A's a 2-1 victory, its only win in the Series. With Kirk Gibson's heroics in Game 1, 'Big Mac's' walk-off home run marks the first time that two game-winning round-trippers are hit in the same Fall Classic.

    1992 - The Canadian flag is inadvertently flown up-side down by a United States Marine Corps color guard at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium during the pregame ceremonies before Game 2 of the World Series between the Blue Jays and Braves. Although the international incident annoys the northern neighbors of the U.S., most Toronto fans resist the call to fly the American Stripes and Stars in a similar fashion during Game 3 at the SkyDome, but opt instead to wave Canada's L'Unifolié with the message, "This end up", affixed to the top.


    1992 - Ed Sprague's two-run home run in the ninth inning off Jeff Reardon in Game Two gives Toronto a 5-4 win over Atlanta and evens the World Series.

    1997 - The first World Series game ever played in Florida belongs to the Marlins. Moises Alou and Charles Johnson smack back-to-back home runs against Cleveland's Orel Hershiser to make a 7-4 winner of Livan Hernandez in Game One.

    2001 - Larry Dierker, who left the Astros' broadcast booth to take over the dugout duties as the team's skipper in 1997, resigns as Houston manager (448-362, .553, four divisional titles) despite tying the Cardinals for the best record in the National League (93-69) and winning the Central Division. The team failed to win a playoff series in his five-year tenure going 2-12 in postseason action.

    2004 - After 5 hours, 49 minutes and 471 pitches, the Red Sox outlast the Yankees, 5-4, in Game 5 of the league championship. Boston’s DH David Ortiz, who is the first player in baseball history to hit two walk-off home runs during the postseason, ends the longest game in ALCS history at 1:22 a.m. with a two-out single into center scoring Johnny Damon from second in the 14th inning at Fenway Park.


    2005 - The Montreal Canadiens pay tribute to the departed Expos team by raising a commemorative banner to the rafters of Montreal's Bell Centre. Displaced mascot Yoppi, working in his first game for the NHL team, and former players Gary Carter and Andre Dawson are on hand to assist in the hoisting the of blue and orange bannière that features their retired numbers, 8 and 10, respectively, as well as the numbers for Tim Raines (30) and Rusty Staub (10).

    2008 - Scoring in each of the last three innings, the Red Sox erase a seven-run deficit in the seventh to beat the Rays, 8-7, in Game 5 of the ALCS. The Philadelphia A's, who rallied after trailing 8-0 to beat the Cubs, 10-8, in Game 4 of the 1929 World Series, is the only team to have made a bigger comeback in the postseason.

    2010 - The Mariners hire Eric Wedge to be the team's new manager, its seventh skipper since 2003. The former Cleveland field boss, out of baseball last season after spending seven seasons in the the Tribe's dugout, replaces Daren Brown who had filled in on an interim basis for Don Wakamatsu, who was fired in August.

    2010 - The Cardinals announce the signing of its long-time manager, keeping Tony La Russa in the Redbirds' dugout for at least one more season, the skipper's sixteenth with the club. The franchise has won eight division titles, two National League pennants and a World Championship under the 66-year old pilot, but this year's team, heavily favored to win its division, collapsed during the final two months of the season, finishing five games behind Cincinnati.

    2012 - The Tigers win their second American League pennant in seven years when they beat the Yankees, 8-1, at Comerica Park to complete a four-game sweep. The last time the Bronx Bombers failed to win a game in a postseason season was in 1980 after the Royals beat them three straight in the best 3-of-5 ALCS.

    2013 - The Cardinals advance to their second World Series in three seasons, routing the Dodgers, 9-0, in Game 6 of the NLCS. St. Louis, behind the timely hitting of Carlos Beltran and the strong pitching performance of rookie right-hander Michael Wasta, beats Clayton Kershaw (16-9, 1.83) for the fourth time this season, including a pair of victories in this round of the postseason. 



    Baseball Birthdays on October 18...


    1848 - Cummings, Candy
    1859 - Carroll, Cliff
    1863 - Wilmot, Walt
    1863 - Meinke, Frank
    1868 - Clarke, Boileryard
    1869 - Todd, Frank
    1875 - Delahanty, Joe
    1881 - Donovan, Mike
    1881 - Lobert, Hans
    1884 - Shotton, Burt
    1884 - Gilligan, Jack
    1886 - LeClaire, George
    1887 - Meixell, Moxie
    1890 - Reed, Ted
    1892 - Blank, Coonie
    1892 - Johnson, Bill
    1894 - Morrison, Phil
    1895 - Pinelli, Babe

    1895 - Sullivan, Tom
    1897 - Clarke, Sumpter
    1902 - Berry, Charlie

    1903 - Wuestling, Yats
    1906 - Millies, Wally
    1908 - Spognardi, Andy
    1909 - Arntzen, Orie
    1910 - Newsome, Skeeter
    1912 - Curtright, Guy

    1913 - Cullenbine, Roy
    1915 - Gick, George

    1917 - Hanning, Loy
    1918 - Vaughn, Fred
    1927 - Rotblatt, Marv
    1931 - Carey, Andy

    1935 - Nunn, Howie
    1938 - Knoop, Bobby

    1942 - Horton, Willie
    1942 - Holtgrave, Vern
    1945 - Young, Don
    1949 - Farmer, Ed

    1949 - Hendrick, George
    1951 - Hernandez, Rudy

    1951 - Hassler, Andy
    1952 - Royster, Jerry

    1952 - Ripley, Allen
    1957 - Walters, Mike
    1960 - Kiefer, Steve
    1960 - Clark, Terry
    1963 - Wetherby, Jeff
    1966 - Mills, Alan
    1966 - Maldonado, Carlos
    1969 - McNeely, Jeff
    1970 - Mirabelli, Doug
    1975 - Cora, Alex
    1976 - Tejera, Michael
    1980 - Komine, Shane
    1981 - Murphy, David
    1982 - Wolf, Ross
    1983 - Olson, Garrett
    1989 - Blair, Carson
    1989 - Miller, Brad
    1991 - McGowan, Kevin



    Baseball Deaths on October 18...


    1904 - Brennan, Jim
    1918 - Reilly, Tom
    1932 - MacArthur, Mac
    1934 - Morton, Guy
    1937 - Starr, Charlie
    1942 - Shreve, Lev
    1945 - Pfyl, Monte
    1955 - Murray, George
    1959 - Bell, Ralph

    1960 - McIlveen, Irish
    1963 - Flythe, Stu
    1963 - Emmer, Frank
    1981 - Ciola, Lou
    1982 - Vines, Bob
    1983 - Jones, Willie
    1990 - Etten, Nick
    1996 - Klumpp, Elmer
    2001 - Fain, Ferris

    2011 - Ranew, Merritt
    2014 - Lucier, Lou


     


     


     


       





     


     



 

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