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