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Re: Pale Hose History
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This Date In White Sox History - June 14th







June 14, 1953 - Sox pitchers Billy Pierce and Sandy Consuegra both fire complete game shutouts in beating the Boston Red Sox in a double header at Comiskey Park. The Sox win 6 - 0 and 1 - 0. That same day the Sox acquire pitcher Virgil “Fire” Trucks in a five player deal with the Browns. Trucks would fire a pair of one- hitters and win 20 games during his time on the South Side.

Game 1 - Boxscore & P-B-P: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1953/B06141CHA1953.htm

Game 2 - Boxscore & P-B-P: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1953/B06142CHA1953.htm



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Re: Pale Hose History
« Reply #4751 on: June 15, 2018, 12:34:57 am »

On June 15 in Baseball History...


    1925 - Entering the bottom of the eighth inning trailing the Indians, 15-4, the A's cross the plate 13 times in the frame. Philadelphia will hold on to the lead in the top of the ninth to defeat Cleveland in an amazing 17-15 come-from-behind victory at Shibe Park.

    1928 - Ty Cobb, 41 years old, steals home for the 50th and final time in his 24-year career to extend his major league record. It comes in the eighth inning against the Indians. In a 12-5 Tiger win, Veach, Crawford and Cobb team up for a triple steal.

    1931 - Cut-down day for major league rosters brings the retirement of Eddie Collins and Harry Heilmann. Collins becomes a coach for the A's. Heilmann will return briefly to the Reds in 1932.

    1938 - Johnny Vander Meer stuns baseball by pitching his second successive no-hitter, defeating the Dodgers 6-0, as Brooklyn plays the first night game ever at Ebbets Field. In front of 38,748 fans, including spectator Babe Ruth, Vandy strikes out seven and walks eight, including three walks in the ninth. A force at home and a fly ball end the game.

    1940 - In the Giants' 12-1 rout of the Pirates at the Polo Grounds, Harry Danning hits for the cycle becoming the last player to have an inside-the-park as part of this rare feat. The Giant catcher is able to circle the bases when the 460-foot fly ball gets stuck behind the Eddie Grant Memorial and Pittsburgh center fielder Vince DiMaggio cannot free it in time.

    1948 - The Tigers play their first home game under the lights defeating the Philadelphia A's, 4-1. Actually, 52 years earlier the club played a night game, but the results never made it into the books as an official game.

    1951 - The Cubs trade Andy Pfako along with Johnny Schmitz, Wayne Terwilliger, and Rube Walker to the Dodgers for Bruce Edwards, Joe Hatten, Eddie Miksis, and Gene Hermanski. The deal, which prevents the coveted 'Handy Andy' from going to the rival Giants, is the first of many to be made by Buzzy Bavasi, Brooklyn’s new general manager.

    1952 - Trailing 11-0 after three innings, the Cardinals overcome the double-digit deficit to defeat the Giants at the Polo Grounds, 14-12. The Redbirds score seven runs in the top of the fifth and another seven in the last three frames of the game to accomplish the biggest rally in National League history.

    1953 - Duane Pillette of the St. Louis Browns ends the Yankees' win streak at 18 and the Browns' team record 14-game losing streak with a 3-1 victory in Yankee Stadium. Johnny Mize becomes the 93rd player in baseball history to get 2,000 hits when he singles in the Yankees' run in the fifth.

    1957 - Red Schoendienst, who was unexpectedly traded to the Giants last season by Cardinals GM Frank Lane is dealt a year and a day later by New York to Milwaukee for Ray Crone, Danny O'Connell and Bobby Thomson. The nine-time All-Star, who hit .301 during his two partial seasons in the Big Apple, will play a key role in the Braves World Championship, leading the league with 200 hits and finishing third in the NL MVP balloting.

    1958 - Identical twins are split up by the Pirates when Eddie O'Brien stays with Pittsburgh, but his brother Johnny, along with third baseman Gene Freese, is traded to the Cardinals for infielder Dick Schofield.

    1958 - In a move that is perceived to be a prelude to a second deal with the Yankees, the A's trade Woodie Held and Vic Power to the Indians for southpaw Dick Tomanek, utility player Preston Ward and right fielder Roger Maris. Owner Arnold Johnson, already under pressure for allowing Kansas City to become a farm club for the Bronx Bombers, is warned by American League president Will Harridge not to send the outfield slugger to New York for at least 18 months.

    1961 - The expansion Senators are 30-30 after winning today. It is the latest date an expansion team will be at .500. Washington will lose it next 10 games.

    1963 - At Candlestick Park, Juan Marichal no-hits Houston, 1-0, to become the first Giants hurler in 34 years, and the first since the franchise moved to San Francisco, to accomplish the feat. The 25-year old Dominican native outduels Colt .45's right-hander Dick Drott, who tosses a complete game three-hitter yielding the game's only run in the eighth inning giving up doubles to Chuck Hiller and Jimmy Davenport. (Our thanks to Richard J. Drake, who attended the game as a nine-year old with his grandfather, for reminding us about this outstanding achievement)

    1964 - In a six-player transaction that also includes Jack Spring, Paul Toth, Doug Clemens, and Bobby Shantz, Chicago trades a little-known 24 year-old outfielder named Lou Brock, who will become a fixture with the Redbirds for next fifteen years amassing 3,023 career hits, to St. Louis for right-hander Ernie Broglio. The deal, thought at the time to be a steal for the Cubs, will become infamous when the former 20-game winner pitches poorly for his new team, posting a 7-19 record during his brief his two and half seasons with team, and the 24-year old outfielder they gave up enjoys a Hall of Fame career.

    1965 - Tigers pitcher Denny McLain makes a first-inning relief appearance and fans the first seven batters he faces, setting a major league record. He has 14 strikeouts in 6 2/3 innings as Detroit rallies to beat Boston 6-5. Bill Freehan has a record-tying 19 putouts at catcher.

    1968 - The Phillies fire manager Gene Mauch and replace him with Bob Skinner, skipper of the team's farm club in San Diego. 'The Little General', who is best remembered for being at the helm during the club's infamous collapse in 1964, compiled a 646-684 (.486) record during his 8+year tenure with Philadelphia.

    1969 - En route to setting the National League record of playing in 1,117 consecutive games, Billy Williams, after fouling a pitch off his foot in yesterday's contest, hobbles to the plate as a pinch hitter in the Cubs' 7-6 loss to Cincinnati at Crosley Field. It is the first time "Sweet Swingin' Billy" has not been in the starting lineup during the 878 games of the streak .

    1969 - The Mets help their power needs by adding first baseman Donn Clendenon. The 33-year-old had refused a January trade that would send him from Montreal to Houston, but he agrees to go to New York. The Expos receive Steve Renko, Kevin Collins, and two minor leaguers. The Expos also purchase pitcher Dick Radatz from the Tigers.

    1976 - Massive flooding in the Houston metropolitan area prevents the umpiring crew from reaching the Astrodome and causes the first 'rain out' in the history of the enclosed ballpark. After the game is called off, the Pirates and Astros players, who had arrived early for practice, shared their clubhouse meal on the field with the few die-hard fans who braved the elements hoping to see a game.

    1976 - In a ten-player trade between the Orioles and Yankees, both teams exchange four pitchers and a catcher. Baltimore sends moundsmen Ken Holtzman, Doyle Alexander, Jimmy Freeman, and Grant Jackson along with backstop Elrod Hendricks to New York for hurlers Tippy Martinez, Rudy May, Scott McGregor and Dave Pagan and catcher Rick Dempsey.

    1977 - New York fans are in shock as the Mets trade ace pitcher Tom Seaver to the Reds. In return they get pitcher Pat Zachry, infielder Doug Flynn, and minor leaguers Steve Henderson and Dan Norman. The Mets also trade slugger Dave Kingman to the Padres for utility player Bobby Valentine and a minor league pitcher.

    1982 - Pitching one scoreless inning to protect a 1-0 lead, Red Sox reliever Jeff Reardon breaks Rollie Fingers' career save mark of 341.

    1983 - The Cardinals trade former MVP Keith Hernandez to the Mets for a pair of right-handed hurlers, Neil Allen and Rick Ownbey. The righties will compile a 21-22 record for the Redbirds, and the Gold Glove first baseman will spend seven seasons in New York batting .297, playing an instrumental role in the club's World Championship in 1986.

    1992 - Jeff Reardon of the Red Sox breaks Rollie Fingers' all-time save record with No. 342 in a 1-0 win over the Yankees.

    1992 - The NY-Penn Minor League Erie Sailors beat the Jamestown Expos in 13 innings at College Stadium, 6-5, marking the first ever game played by a team representing the National League's new expansion team, the Florida Marlins. The first pitch of the franchise is thrown by John Lynch, who will leave baseball to eventually become a safety for the NFL Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Denver Broncos.

    1996 - In the first inning of their 6-2 victory over the Braves, the Dodgers turn their first triple play in forty-seven years. After making a running, back-to-the-plate grab of Chipper Jones's popup to short left with runners on first and second, Juan Castro throws to second baseman Delino Deshields to double up Marquis Grissom, then the ball is relayed to first baseman Eric Karosto to get Mark Lemke, who was also running on the pitch.

    1997 - In one of the more surprising developments of the first weekend of interleague baseball, the Orioles complete a sweep of the Braves at Turner Field on Lenny Webster's tenth inning home run off Mark Wohlers. One byproduct of interleague play that wasn't a surprise was the increase at the turnstiles. Attendance was up nearly 10,000 per game for the weekend, and the Mariners averaged 52,074 for their four interleague games in the Kingdome.

    1999 - Brewers' pitcher Jim Abbott, born without a right hand, gets his first hit in his 11-year career. The southpaw previously played for the Angels and the Yankees in the American League and didn't bat due to the designated hitter rule.

    1999 - Orioles' first baseman Will Clark gets his 2,000th career hit in the 10-inning victory over the Royals, 6-5. The 'Thrill' will end his 15-year big league career next season with 2,176 hits.

    2003 - Blue Jay rookie Reed Johnson becomes the fourth major leaguer to end a game with a walk off homer after having hit a round-tripper to start the contest for his team. The 26-year old right-fielder drilled Shawn Estes' 3-2 pitch over the left-centerfield fence leading off in the bottom of the first frame, and then ended the 4-4 stalemate with a tenth-inning solo shot off Cubs' reliever Mark Guthrie.


    2005 - Joining Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor George Pataki, and team officials, George Steinbrenner announces plans for a new ballpark in the Bronx. The Yankee-financed $800 million facility, which will be built north of the current stadium in Macombs Dam Park, will seat at least 51,800 and will mirror the ‘The House that Ruth Built’ including limestone walls and the familiar copper frieze.

    2006 - The Boston Red Sox traded David Riske to the Chicago White Sox in exchange for Javier Lopez.


    2009 - Matt Dermody, a Norwalk (IA) High School senior, strikes out every South Tama High batter who steps to the plate in a game shortened to six-innings when the state’s mercy rule is invoked because his team is ahead by ten or more runs after five frames. The 6-foot-5 southpaw, recently drafted in the 26th round by the Pirates, will attend the University of Iowa, playing for the Hawkeyes, before signing with the Blue Jays in 2013.

    2015 - The Cleveland Indians released Anthony Swarzak.

    2016 - The Chicago White Sox released Jimmy Rollins.


    2016 -  "I'm not trying to take anything away from Ichiro, he's had a Hall of Fame career, but the next thing you know, they'll be counting his high-school hits." - PETE ROSE, as quoted in USA Today.

Ichiro Suzuki's ninth-inning double in the Marlins' 6-3 loss to the Padres at Petco Park raises his professional hit total to 4,257, surpassing Pete Rose's all-time major league mark. The 42 year-old outfielder's total includes the 1,278 hits he collected for Orix in Japan's Pacific League.



    Baseball Birthdays on June 15...


    1840 - Fulmer, Washington
    1862 - Veach, Peek-A-Boo
    1863 - Hurley, Jerry
    1866 - Wise, Nick
    1869 - Hart, Tom
    1876 - Dexter, Charlie
    1878 - Wheeler, Ed
    1884 - Beckendorf, Heinie
    1890 - Schirick, Dutch
    1890 - Wilson, John
    1891 - Crossin, Frank
    1891 - North, Lou
    1894 - Glockson, Norm
    1896 - Richmond, Ray
    1897 - Twombly, Cy

    1904 - Winston, Hank
    1904 - Pipgras, Ed
    1904 - Purdy, Pid

    1906 - Weaver, Monte
    1912 - Dahlgren, Babe
    1912 - Lovett, Mem
    1916 - Stewart, Bud

    1925 - Baker, Gene
    1927 - Flowers, Ben
    1938 - Williams, Billy
    1939 - Cline, Ty
    1942 - Dal Canton, Bruce

    1943 - Closter, Al
    1946 - Summers, Champ
    1946 - Henderson, Ken

    1949 - Baker, Dusty
    1956 - Parrish, Lance
    1957 - Butler, Brett
    1958 - Boggs, Wade
    1966 - Liddell, Dave
    1972 - Clark, Tony
    1972 - Pettitte, Andy
    1972 - Mendoza, Ramiro
    1975 - Wakeland, Chris
    1977 - Prinz, Bret

    1978 - Day, Zach
    1979 - Smith, Matt
    1980 - Kratz, Erik
    1981 - Reed, Jeremy

    1984 - Lincecum, Tim
    1984 - Pennington, Cliff
    1985 - Fiers, Mike
    1986 - Plouffe, Trevor
    1986 - West, Sean
    1987 - Elmore, Jake
    1987 - Lindblom, Josh
    1987 - Nunz, Eduardo
    1991 - Jankowski, Travis
    1995 - Smith, Dominic



    Baseball Deaths on June 15...


    1893 - O'Brien, Darby
    1906 - Nava, Sandy
    1919 - Tenney, Fred
    1921 - Foster, Robert
    1929 - Flood, Tim
    1931 - O'Hara, Bill
    1937 - Krumm, Al
    1947 - Stuart, Luke
    1949 - Buchanan, Jim
    1949 - Clarke, Nig
    1954 - Carr, Lew
    1956 - Ingerton, Scotty
    1959 - Eakle, Charlie
    1964 - Spotts, Jim
    1965 - Calvo, Jack
    1967 - Welf, Ollie
    1968 - Crawford, Sam
    1972 - Long, Tom
    1976 - Dykes, Jimmy

    1977 - Lee, Bill
    1987 - Smith, George
    1987 - White, Don
    1988 - Willingham, Hugh

    1990 - Jacobs, Bucky
    1992 - Lopat, Ed

    1997 - Lawrence, Bill
    1999 - Markland, Gene
    2001 - Solis, Marcelino
    2005 - Sembera, Carroll
    2008 - Buzhardt, John

    2008 - Muffett, Billy
    2011 - Gray, Ted

    2013 - Lopata, Stan


       


 





   


 








   


     



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Re: Pale Hose History
« Reply #4752 on: June 15, 2018, 12:35:38 am »
Today In White Sox History - June 15th


 

June 15, 1983 - White Sox General Manager Roland Hemond swaps second basemen with the Mariners getting Julio “The Juice” Cruz for Tony Bernazard. Cruz energizes the bottom half of the order, steals bases and provides stellar defense to help the White Sox go on a rampage and win the A.L. Western Division by a then record, twenty games over second place Kansas City.



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Re: Pale Hose History
« Reply #4753 on: June 15, 2018, 12:36:36 am »
This Date In White Sox History - June 15th


 

June 15, 1950 - On the biggest baseball stage, Sox pitcher Billy Pierce throws his first one hitter. Pierce shut down the Yankees in New York winning 5 - 0. It was the first of Pierce’s four one hitters.

Boxscore & P-B-P: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1950/B06150CHA1950.htm


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June 15, 1958 - Sox pitchers Jim Wilson and Dick Donovan both fire complete game shutouts in beating the Orioles in a double header at Baltimore. The Sox win 3 - 0 and 4 - 0. Later that day the White Sox acquire pitcher Bob Shaw as part of a four player deal with Detroit. Shaw would come up big for the White Sox during the 1959 pennant winning season going 18 - 6 with a 2.69 ERA. 

Game 1 - Boxscore & P-B-P: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1958/B06151BAL1958.htm

Game 2 - Boxscore & P-B-P: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1958/B06152BAL1958.htm


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June 15, 2004 - White Sox slugger Carlos Lee establishes the team record when he gets a hit in his 28th straight game. It broke the old mark held by Luke Appling and Albert Belle.

Boxscore & P-B-P:  http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2004/B06150FLO2004.htm



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Re: Pale Hose History
« Reply #4754 on: June 16, 2018, 12:05:16 am »

On June 16 in Baseball History...


    1884 - Due to an inflammation in his right index finger, Larry Corcoran of the White Stockings’ (Cubs) pitches both left-handed and right-handed in a game against the Bisons. The natural right-hander hurls four innings alternating throwing arms before moving to shortstop in Chicago’s 20-9 loss at Buffalo’s Olympic Park.

    1893 - At New York’s Polo Grounds - Southeast Diamond, the Gothams (who will eventually be known as the Giants) offer free admission to both escorted and unescorted women making it the first 'Ladies Day' in baseball history. The female fans see their home town favorites beat the Cleveland Spiders, 5-2.

    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.

    1916 - At Braves Field, right-hander Tom Hughes no-hits the Pirates, 2-0. 'Salida Tom' will finish the season with a 16-3 record, the best win-loss percentage in the National League, for the third-place Boston club.

    1928 - Bill Regan becomes the first player in Red Sox history to homer twice in an inning when he hits two round-trippers, including an inside-the-park homer, in Boston's eight-run fourth frame of the team's 10-5 victory over Chicago at Comiskey Park. The feat will not be accomplish again by a BoSox player until 1990 when Ellis Burks homers twice in the fourth frame of the team's 12-4 rout of the Tribe at Cleveland Stadium.


    1933 - Last year's National League batting champ, Lefty O'Doul, and pitcher Watty Clark, a 20-game winner last season, are traded by the Dodgers to the Giants for first baseman Sam Leslie.

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

    1941 - Johnny Vander Meer becomes the first hurler to start a game by throwing four consecutive bases on balls before retiring a single batter. The Giants will beat the Reds, 6-0.

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

    1952 - At the Polo Grounds, Bobby Thomson erases a three-run ninth-inning deficit with a walk-off grand slam giving the Giants a come-from-behind 8-7 victory over the Cardinals. The third baseman's decisive blow comes with one out off Willard Schmidt.

    1953 - With a 3-1 victory in the Bronx, the Browns halt the Yankees' winning streak at 18. The St. Louis win snaps their own 14-game losing streak and hands Whitey Ford his first loss in eight decisions.

    1962 - Trailing the Bronx Bombers, 9-8, Jerry Kindall hits a walk-off two-run homer giving the Indians a dramatic come-from behind victory. Left-fielder Yogi Berra, watching the second baseman's homer go over his head to beat his Yankees 10-9 in the bottom of the ninth probably experiences a "deja vu all over again" memory of Bill Mazeroski's Game 7 home run in 1960.

    1963 - Jim Campbell becomes only the second catcher in National League history, the first since 1946, to be credited with three assists in one inning. In the bottom of the third inning in a 4-3 loss to San Francisco at Candlestick Park, the 25-year old Colt .45's backstop nails Gaylord Perry trying to advance to third on fielder's choice, guns down Chuck Haller in an attempt to steal second base, and ends the frame by throwing out Willie McCovey, who doubled and then tried to take an extra base on a relay to home plate.


    1964 - In a 7-1 victory over the Astros, Cardinal third baseman Ken Boyer hits for the cycle. In the same game, Lou Brock, recently obtained from the Cubs for Ernie Broglio, makes his debut in a St. Louis uniform with two hits, including a triple, and the fleet outfielder also steals a base.

    1969 - In an effort to return major league baseball to Milwaukee, the Chicago White Sox play a home game at County Stadium where only 13,133 fans show up to see the 'home' team beat the Pilots, 8-3. Ironically, the visitors will leave Seattle next season to move to the 'Cream City' with the one-year old American League franchise becoming known as the Brewers.

    1969 - In the bottom of the first inning at Metropolitan Stadium, Tony Oliva and Rod Carew complete a double steal swiping second and third base repectively. On the next pitch thrown by Angels’ starter Tom Murphy, the pair repeat the feat, as Carew steals home for the sixth time this season tying the American League record.

    1971 - Recently traded from the Senators, Mike Epstein homers in his first two at-bats, giving him four consecutive homers over two games, to help the A's defeat his former team, 5-0. All of Oakland's runs are scored on solo homers.

    1976 - Mark Fidrych tosses his sixth consecutive complete game beating Kansas City, 4-3. The 21-year old Detroit rookie has finished every game he has started since making his May 15 debut in the Tigers rotation.

    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.


    1984 - Mario Soto's second suspension of the season is the result of the Cincinnati starter firing a baseball at group of opposing players, striking Braves coach Joe Pignatano after he punched Claudell Washington, who was being restrained by umpire Lanny Harris as he charged the mound. The Reds' fiery right-hander will be suspended for three games due to this incident with Washington, who had been the target of his brushback pitches, getting a five-game games off for pushing the home plate ump.

    1987 - In the sixth inning of a 6-5 Baltimore loss to New York at Yankee Stadium, Cal Ripken collects his 1,000th career hit when he singles to center field off Rich Bordi. The shortstop is the youngest player in Orioles history to reach the milestone.

    1989 - Sammy Sosa becomes the youngest Dominican to play in the majors. The Rangers' leader off batter, a twenty-year, seven months old rookie, goes 2-for-4 with a double in Texas's 8-3 loss to the Yankees.

    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.


    1991 - Otis Nixon establishes a National League record and ties the 1912 major league mark set by the A's Eddie Collins by swiping six bases in one game. Crime doesn't pay when the Braves' outfielder thievery cannot overcome a 7-6 loss to Montreal at Olympic Stadium.

    1991 - Against the Reds, Phillies' right-hander Andy Ashby strikes out the side on only nine pitches to become the 12th pitcher in National League history to use the minimum amount of pitches needed to record three strikeouts in one inning. The Philadelphia rookie becomes first in franchise history to accomplish the feat.

    1992 - During a pregame ceremony at Anaheim Stadium, the Angels become the first of three teams to retire Nolan Ryan's number. The hard throwing right-hander, who compiled 138-121 record along with a 3.06 ERA in 291 games with Califonia, will also have his number retired by the Astros and Rangers in 1996.

    1993 - In his first major league at-bat, Marlins catcher Mitch Lyden hits a home run of Jose Bautista in the teams' 6-4 loss to Chicago at Wrigley Field. The second-inning homer will be the only round-tripper in the brief career of the rookie backstop, who will play in just six games collecting three hits in ten plate appearances.

    1993 - The 100th anniversary of Cracker Jack is celebrated with a party at Wrigley Field that includes distributing the candy-coated popcorn and peanut treat, that was introduced at the Chicago World Fair in 1893, free of charge to all of the fans attending the Cubs' game against Florida. Sailor Jack, the company's mascot, throws out the ceremonial first pitch.

    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.

    1996 - At the age of 83, Hall of Fame broadcaster Mel Allen, best known for his years doing play-by-play for the Yankees, dies of heart failure. His "How about that" signature line will become familiar to another generation of fans through the syndicated This Week in Baseball show, which he hosted from the show's inception in 1977.

    1997 - At Yankee Stadium, the Mets beat their cross-town rivals, 6-0, in the first-ever regular season game between the two teams. Dave Mlicki throws a complete game shut out blanking the Bronx Bombers on nine hits.

    1997 - In the first regular-season meeting between the two major league teams in Ohio‚ Reds' rookie right-hander Brett Tomko tosses 7.1 shutout innings in Cincinnati's 4-1 win over the Indians at Cleveland's Jacobs Field. The victory will prove to be costly for Cincy when Barry Larkin ruptures his heel running out a double, putting their all-star shortstop on the shelf for six weeks.

    1998 - The Phillies score seven runs in the the bottom of the ninth in an amazing 8-7 come-from-behind win over the stunned Pirates. Mike Lieberthal's two-out, three-run blast off Rich Loiselle is the final blow that sinks the Bucs.

    2001 - In a game that features thousands of swarming moths, the Red Sox beat the Braves and the bugs in extra innings at Turner Field, 9-5. Although the swarm has little bearing on the outcome of the game, the insects clearly bothered some players, including Dave Martinez who claimed to having sucked one into his mouth.

    2001 - John Olerud becomes the twenty-first player to hit for the cycle more than once his career. Among all of the players who have accomplished hitting a single, double, triple and home run in the same game, the Mariners' first baseman has the fewest career triples with just 12 in his 13-year major league stint.

    2005 - After a pitch goes between his legs, Richmond Braves flycatcher Esix Snead charges the mound and pummels the Syracuse SkyChiefs hurler, David Bush. The action incites an International League brawl which will result in 40 players, a coach and a manager being fined and/or suspended, including a ten-day hiatus for Snead.

    2006 - For first time 35 years, the Yankees play a regular season game in the nation's capital beating the Nationals in an inter-league contest at RFK Stadium, 7-5. The Bronx Bombers' previous game in Washington, played in the same ball park on Sept. 30, 1971, ended with New York being awarded a 9-0 victory when Senators fans, as a protest to losing another franchise for the second time since 1961, refuse to leave the field with their team ahead by two runs in the season finale.

    2006 - In the sixth inning of 9-8 loss to Lynx in Ottawa, Brandon Watson of the Columbus Clippers breaks the 95-year old International League record by extending his hitting streak to 43 consecutive games. The Nationals farmhand, who is batting .360 during this stretch, eclipses the mark set by Jack Lelivelt of the Rochester Hustlers set in 1912.

    2007 - The Chicago White Sox traded Aaron Cunningham to the Arizona Diamondbacks in exchange for Danny Richar.


    2008 - In his fifth season with Seattle, Bill Bavasi is fired as the general manager of the team with the worst record in the major leagues (24-45). Two weeks ago, in a move he comes to regret, the embattled GM locked the clubhouse doors and mandates the Mariners players to sit together and be publicly held accountable for their slow sart.

    2010 - Jamie Moyer's first outing at the new Yankee Stadium is a successful one when he limits New York to only three hits in eight innings of work in the 6-3 Phillies' victory. The Bronx Bombers' new ball yard is the 48th venue the 47 year-old southpaw has pitched in during his career, surpassing Rudy Seanez's record for the most appearances in different major league ball parks.

    2010 - Michael Young’s two-run single in the eighth inning not only contributes to the Rangers’ 6-3 victory over Florida, but also establishes a club record for hits. The 33-year old third baseman surpasses Ivan Rodriguez’s club record with his 1,748th hit, reaching the mark in 91 less games than Pudge.

    2014 - "Major League Baseball today mourns the tragic loss of Tony Gwynn, the greatest Padre ever and one of the most accomplished hitters that our game has ever known, whose all-around excellence on the field was surpassed by his exuberant personality and genial disposition in life." - Commissioner Bud Selig, on the passing of Tony Gwynn.

Tony Gwynn, surrounded by his family at Pomerado Hospital in Poway, CA, loses his battle to salivary gland cancer at the age of 54. The Hall of Fame outfielder, who became the head baseball coach for San Diego State University after spending his entire major league career with the Padres, compiled a.338 career batting average over 20 seasons, collecting 3,141 hits, en route to tying Honus Wagner’s mark of eight National League batting titles.

    2017 - The Washington Nationals signed Edwin Jackson as a free agent.



    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
    1977 - Wood, Kerry
    1980 - Brazelton, Dewon
    1981 - Saunders, Joe
    1984 - Broxton, Jonathan
    1987 - Caminero, Arquimedes
    1990 - Tomlinson, Kelby
    1991 - Haley, Justin
    1992 - Weiss, Zack



    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 - Bowc0ck, 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
    2008 - Shepard, Bret
    2010 - Hartman, Bob
    2014 - Gwynn, Tony


 






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This Date In White Sox History - June 16th






June 16, 1957 - In the second game of a White Sox doubleheader sweep, Dixie Howell, in a three and two-third scoreless innings in relief, limits Washington to four hits earning his second victory of the season. The 37-year old's hitting proves to be the difference when his home runs in the fifth and sixth innings propel the White Sox to 8-6 victory at Comiskey Park.

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Today In White Sox History - June 16th


               

June 16, 1969 - In an effort to return major league baseball to Milwaukee, the Chicago White Sox play a home game at County Stadium where only 13,133 fans show up to see the 'home' team beat the Pilots, 8-3. White Sox first baseman Gail Hopkins drove in two runs with doubles in the first and third innings as White Sox Billy Wynne pitched a complete game and picked up his first win of the season. Ironically, the visitors will leave Seattle next season to move to the 'Cream City' with the one-year old American League franchise becoming known as the Brewers.

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On June 17 in Baseball History...


    1915 - In relief, Cubs right-hander George Washington Zabel throws 18 and 1/3 innings of the Cubs' 4-3 victory over the Robins at West Side Park. 'Zip', establishing the major league record for the longest relief stint in one game, beats Brooklyn starter Jeff Pfeffer, who tosses a 19-inning complete-game.

    1941 - Joe DiMaggio is credited with a hit in his 30th consecutive game when an easy grounder to short bounces up and hits Luke Appling on the shoulder. Chicago beats the Yankees 8-7.


    1942 - During the second game of a twin bill in Boston, Paul Waner, standing on first base, gestures to the official scorer, Jerry Moore of the Boston Globe, not to credit him with a hit on the ground ball in the hole that was knocked down by Reds shortstop Eddie Joost. 'Big Poison' doesn't want a questionable roller to be his historic 3000th hit, which the Braves right-fielder will collect with a clean single after tomorrow's off day.

    1943 - Player-manager Joe Cronin of the Red Sox hits two three-run pinch home runs, one in each game of a doubleheader, as Boston beats the St. Louis Browns 5-4 and loses 8-7. He had hit a three-run pinch homer two nights before against the A's, giving him three home runs in four at-bats. He will pinch-hit 42 times this year with 18 hits, including an A.L. record five pinch-hit homers.

    1944 - Although he will continue to play in the minor leagues until 1955, Ed Levy appears in his 40th and final game of his three-year tenure in the major leagues. The Irish Catholic first baseman, born as Edward Clarence Whitner in 1911, is asked to start using his stepfather's surname by Yankee team president Ed Barrow to help the club attract more Jewish fans to the Bronx ballpark.

    1954 - Joe Adc0ck's ninth-inning home run off Brooklyn right-hander Ed Roebuck, his second round-tripper of the game, proves to be the game winner in the Braves' 5-4 victory over the Dodgers. The blast to left field, which clears an 83-foot wall at the 350-foot mark, is the only homer ever to land on the roof at Ebbets Field.

    1958 - Ossie Virgil, who became the first black to play for the Tigers 11 days ago, goes 5-for-5 in his first home game at Briggs Stadium. The Dominican's performance helps Detroit to beat the Senators, 9-2.

    1960 - Ted Williams becomes the fourth major leaguer to hit 500 career home runs when he goes deep off Tribe's moundsman Wayne Hawkins. 'Teddy Ballgame's' two-run blast proves to be difference when the Red Sox beat the Indians at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, 3-1.

    1962 - Lou Brock of the Cubs hits a home run into the right-center field bleachers at the Polo Grounds, 460 feet from home plate, in the first game of a Chicago doubleheader sweep, 8-7 and 4-3. He is the second player to reach those bleacher seats, Joe Adc0ck being the first.

    1962 - Gene Woodling becomes the first major leaguer to play for both the Yankees and the Mets. In his National League debut, the 38-year old outfielder goes 2-for-4 scoring two runs for the new expansion team in an 8-7 loss to the Cubs at the Polo Grounds.

    1962 - In the second inning of Game 1 of a twin bill against the Yankees, the bottom of the Indians' lineup, Jerry Kindall, Bubba Phillips, and Jim Mahoney, hit consecutive home runs helping Dick Donovan improve his record to 10-2. The Tribe also takes the nightcap to complete a four-game sweep of the World Champs, much to the delight of the largest home crowd in eight seasons.

    1967 - A nine-hour and five-minute doubleheader between the Tigers and Athletics is the longest by game time in the American League ever. The first game includes a rain delay, and the second goes 19 innings before a Dave Duncan home run wins it 6-5 for the A's. Detroit takes the opener 7-6.

    1970 - At Candlestick Park, Willie Mays (615) and Ernie Banks (504) both homer in the Cubs’ 6-1 victory over the Giants. It is the first time in baseball history two players with 500 career home runs have gone deep in the same game.

    1971 - Don Kessinger goes 6-for-6, stroking five singles and a double. The Cubs leadoff hitter's perfect performance at the plate contributes to the team's 7-6 ten-inning victory over the Cardinals at Wrigley Field.

    1976 - At Shea Stadium‚ Dave Kingman hits a walk-off homer to give the Mets a 1-0 victory over the Dodgers. Sky King's game-ending blast comes off Charlie Hough in the 14th inning.

    1978 - Inspired by Ron Guidry's performance of striking out 15 Angels in six innings and finishing the game with 18 Ks to establishing a new American League mark for southpaws, the crowd at Yankee Stadium initiates a new baseball tradition when they begin to rhythmically clap each time there is two strikes on the batter. The left-hander's performance in the 4-0 victory over California will lead the team's television announcer, Phil Rizzuto, to coin a new nickname referring to the Lafayette native as 'Louisiana Lightning'.

    1987 - Dick Howser dies at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City. He led the Royals to their first World Championship in 1985, but was forced to give up managing during the 1986 season because of a brain tumor. His uniform number, 10, will be retired by the club on July 3.

    1993 - Baseball owners vote overwhelming, 26-2, in favor of expanding the playoffs for the first time since 1969. The new system, beginning in 1994, will double the number of teams that qualify for post-season play to eight by realigning each league to three divisions and adding two wild card teams.

    1997 - 'The Freeway Series' hits the street in LA, and the Dodgers drive home with the first win in this interleague series on Todd Zeile's second home run of the game. The Dodgers trailed the Angels by one run in the ninth, but tied it on a wild pitch and won it 4-3 on Zeile's homer.

    2001 - Blake Stein ties an American League record when he records eight consecutive strikeouts in the Royals' 5-2 loss to the Brewers at Miller Park. The right-hander's streak started with striking out Richie Sexson for the last out the first inning and ended after he fanned Mark Loretta to start the fourth frame.

    2003 - The Phillies enter into a 25-year naming rights agreement to call their new home Citizens Bank Park, promoting one of the nation's largest commercial holding companies. At Philadelphia's newest ball park, a gigantic Liberty Bell, towering 100 feet above street level, will come to life after every Phillies homer.

    2003 - Mets starter Jae Seo and two relief pitchers, David Weathers and Armando Benitez, combine to one-hit Florida, 5-0. The contest is the third consecutive one-hitter the team has been involved in‚ Steve Trachsel limited the Angles to one single two days ago, and last night, Dontrelle Willis beat New York, 1-0, yielding just one safety.

    2004 - At New Hampshire’s Holman Stadium, the Nashua Pride of the independent Atlantic League celebrate the 32nd anniversary of the Watergate break-in by giving away Richard Nixon bobbleheads to the first 1,000 fans in attendance. The minor league promotion, which included free entrance to anyone named Woodward or Bernstein and 18 1/2 minutes of silence to match the time of the gap in the infamous Watergate tape, had no reports of stolen signs during the game.


    2004 - The Florida Marlins traded Wilson Valdez and cash to the Chicago White Sox in exchange for Billy Koch.


    2008 - Cecil Cooper of the Astros and Ron Gardenhire of the Twins become the first two managers to be fined by Major League Baseball for failing to comply with pace of game regulations. Last month, all the teams were asked to help enforce existing rules in an effort to decrease the amount of time it takes to complete a big league contest.

    2008 - After a 9-6 victory against the Angels in the first game of a West Coast road trip, the Mets fire manager Willie Randolph, pitching coach Rick Peterson, and first base coach Tom Nieto, shortly after 3 a.m. Eastern time. The team's 18th manager, who compiled a 302-253 record in 3+ seasons with New York, will be replaced by bench coach Jerry Manuel on an interim basis until the end of the season.

    2008 - In the Mariners' 5-4 win over Florida at Safeco Field, Felix Hernandez strikes out the side on nine pitches to become the 13th pitcher in American League history to throw an immaculate inning. King Felix's fourth frame victims include Jeremy Hermida (swinging), Jorge Cantu (swinging), and Mike Jacobs (looking).

    2009 - Calling his 2,227th game behind the plate, backstop Ivan Rodriguez breaks Carlton 'Pudge' Fisk's record for the number of games caught in the major leagues. The Astros catcher, also known as Pudge, establishes the mark against the Rangers, the team he broke in with as a 19-year old in 1991.

    2009 - Fans attending tonight's game at Fenway Park will have an opportunity to win food and prizes along with one lucky patron, sitting 500 feet from plate, receiving a pair of tickets for a future contest. The Red Sox are treating their fans to celebrate the 500th straight sellout at home, a streak begun on May 15, 2003, in which almost 18 million have seen the club compile a 326-173 record over the first 499 games of the record span.

    2013 - Max Scherzer becomes the second Tiger starter in the 104-year history of the franchise to begin the season at 10-0 when Detroit beats Baltimore at Comerica Park, 5-1. George Mullin, known as Wabash to his teammates, began the 1909 season 11-0 en route to a 29-8 record for the eventual American League champs.

    2013 - The Pittsburgh Pirates signed Jose Contreras as a free agent.

    2014 - With their ninth straight victory, the Royals take over the lead in the American League Central, beating last year's Cy Young Award winner, Max Scherzer, and the Tigers at Comerica Park, 11-4. The last time Kansas City had sole possession of first place after playing 70 games was on June 25, 1980, when they led Chicago by 8.5 in the AL West, en route to winning the American League pennant.

    2016 - The Chicago White Sox released Mat Latos.





    Baseball Birthdays on June 17...


    1855 - Connell, Terry
    1861 - Browning, Pete
    1877 - O'Brien, Pete
    1879 - Hilley, Ed
    1881 - Rossman, Claude
    1887 - Coulson, Bob
    1890 - Douglas, Phil
    1891 - Terry, Zeb

    1897 - Hubbell, Bill
    1903 - Shields, Ben
    1905 - Outen, Chink
    1910 - Bowman, Joe
    1911 - Humphrey, Bill
    1916 - Burns, Joe
    1918 - Elko, Pete
    1921 - Pope, Dave
    1928 - Nixon, Willard
    1932 - Daniels, Bennie
    1942 - Peraza, Luis
    1948 - Concepcion, Dave
    1949 - Ostrosser, Brian
    1955 - Charboneau, Joe
    1961 - Brantley, Mickey
    1961 - Mata, Victor
    1962 - Tate, Stu
    1963 - Kinzer, Matt
    1963 - Drees, Tom

    1965 - Lee, Manuel
    1965 - Magnante, Mike
    1966 - Abner, Shawn

    1975 - Brownson, Mark
    1975 - Sadler, Donnie
    1978 - Stenson, Dernell
    1983 - Pauley, David
    1990 - Barnes, Matt
    1990 - Chafin, Andrew



    Baseball Deaths on June 17...


    1895 - Galvin, Lou
    1901 - Craver, Bill
    1935 - Andrus, Wiman
    1939 - Sothoron, Allen
    1945 - Visner, Joe
    1949 - Cook, Jim
    1951 - Harper, Bill
    1952 - Bonetti, Julio
    1952 - Atkinson, Al
    1959 - McHale, Jim
    1961 - Johns, Ollie
    1962 - Brooks, Mandy
    1969 - Houck, Byron
    1973 - Scheeren, Fritz
    1974 - Salmon, Roger
    1974 - Slagle, Walt
    1975 - Gordon, Sid
    1979 - Lewis, Duffy
    1984 - Hegan, Jim
    1987 - Howser, Dick
    1988 - Montague, Ed
    1995 - Campbell, Bruce

    2000 - Albanese, Joe
    2002 - Adair, Bill

    2009 - Rhodes, Dusty
    2016 - Hennigan, Phil
    2018 - Rennert, Dutch


 





     


     









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Today In White Sox History - June 17th





June 17th, 1961 - The pitching of Juan Pizarro and the hitting of third baseman Andy Carey led the White Sox to a 5- 1 win over the Minnesota Twins at Comiskey Park.  Pizarro struck out 7 and allowed one run in 6 2/3 innings.  Carey had three hits (2 doubles) and drove in three for the Sox. Reliever Warren Hacker's  scoreless 2 1/3 innings earned him his third save of the season.

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June 17, 2007 - Frank Thomas hit his record-breaking 244th home run as a designated hitter in Toronto's 4-2 loss to Washington. The solo shot in the third inning moved Thomas past Edgar Martinez for the most homers by a DH in major league history.

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On June 18 in Baseball History...


    1911 - In the sixth inning in Detroit, the White Sox lead the Tigers, 13-1, and after eight innings, the Pale Hose lead, 15-7. The Tigers, however, score eight unanswered runs in the final two frames and win the Navin Field contest, 16-15, despite being down by as much as 12 runs.


    1919 - At Fenway Park with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, Red Sox catcher Wally Schang is the victim of third baseman Jimmy Austin’s hidden ball trick. The play ends the game with the Browns beating Boston, 3-2 .

    1938 - After accepting GM Larry MacPhail's offer to coach first base, Babe Ruth wears a Dodger uniform for the first time as a coach and takes batting practice with the team. The 'Bambino' will quit at the end of the season ending his ties with major league baseball.

    1940 - Dodger Ducky Medwick, acquire in a trade less than a week ago, is beaned by former Cardinal teammate Bob Bowman and needs to be carried off the field on a stretcher. Brooklyn president Lee MacPhail accuses the St. Louis pitcher of deliberately hitting Medwick in the head because the two had quarreled in a hotel elevator prior to the game.

    1947 - Reds' hurler Ewell Blackwell no-hits the Braves, 6-0. First baseman Babe Young hits two three-run homers to account for all of Cincinnati's runs.

    1953 - Sending twenty-three batters to the plate at Fenway, the Red Sox enjoy a 17-run and 14-hit seventh inning when they pound the Tigers, 23-3. Sammy White sets a modern major league record scoring three times in the frame, and outfielder Gene Stephens collects three hits in the inning to establish an American League record.

    1958 - White Sox pitcher Billy Pierce retired 26 consecutive batters before pinch-hitter Ed Fitzgerald doubles weakly inside the right field line for the Senators' only hit. The 31-year old southpaw then strikes out Albie Pearson on three pitches to one-hit Washington, 3-0.


    1960 - The Giants, a big favorite to win the pennant in a preseason poll of writers taken by The Sporting News, change managers, replacing Bill Rigney with Tom Sheehan. Horace Stoneham's team is 33-25 and trails only Pittsburgh. At 66 years, two months, and 18 days, Sheehan is the oldest rookie manager in major-league history.

    1961 - In Game 1 of a doubleheader at Fenway Park, the Red Sox, trailing by seven runs entering the bottom of the ninth, beat the Senators, 13-12, with the decisive blow being a Jim Pagliaroni two-out walk-off grand slam. The Boston backstop, in addition to catching all 22 innings of the twin bill, hits another walk-off home run in the 13th inning of the nightcap giving the BoSox a 6-5 victory.

    1962 - Hank Aaron of the Braves reaches the left-center field bleachers at the Polo Grounds, the second player to find the center field bleachers in two days and only the third ever. The Braves win 7-1.

    1967 - Astros' hurler Don Wilson no-hits the Braves, 2-0, striking out 15 of the 30 batters he faces. The right-handed fireballer, who will pitch another no-no for Houston next season, becomes the tenth rookie to throw a no-hitter .

    1967 - Red Sox third baseman Joe Foy, who is spending the night with his parents prior to a series against the Yankees, is able get his parents safely out of the building when a fire breaks out in their home in the Bronx. The house blaze will result in the loss of the many souvenirs and keepsakes the 24 year-old infielder has accumulated as a baseball player.

    1972 - By a 5-3 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court confirms lower court rulings in the Curt Flood case, upholding baseball's exemption from antitrust laws and the legitimacy of its reserve clause. Its decision is narrowly construed, however, and leaves the way open for legislation or collective bargaining to undercut the reserve system.

    1973 - On Fathers’ Day, the A’s stage a Mustache Day promotion giving fans with hair above their upper lip free admission into the ballpark. Charlie O. Finley offers his players a $300 bonus for growing facial hair for the event, and all do except Vida Blue, who is still bitter about his recent contract negotiations with the team owner.

    1975 - Boston rookie Fred Lynn drives in ten runs with three home runs, a triple, and a single during a 15-1 drubbing of Detroit. Lynn's 16 total bases tie an A.L. record.

    1976 - Commissioner Bowie Kuhn voids the A's sales, totaling $3.5 million, of Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers to the Red Sox and Vida Blue to the Yankees, saying they are 'not in the best interest of baseball.' A's owner Charlie Finley files a $10 million damage suit against Kuhn, and will refuse to use any of the three players until June 27.

    1977 - New York's Reggie Jackson loafs after a fly ball during a 10-4 loss to Boston and is taken out by manager Billy Martin. Jackson and Martin nearly come to blows in the dugout as national television cameras watch.

    1979 - Billy Martin returns to the dugout to manage the Yankees for the second time replacing Bob Lemon, the skipper who replaced him last season and led the team to a World Championship. Martin will be at the helm this season for 95 games, and the fourth place team will win 55 of those games.

    1986 - Angels' hurler Don Sutton becomes the 19th major league pitcher to earn his 300th victory when the Alabama native three-hits the Rangers, 4-1. The 43-year old right-hander will finish with a total of 324 victories during his 23-year playing career.

    1989 - The Phillies trade second baseman Juan Samuel to the Mets for outfielder Lenny Dykstra, relief pitcher Roger McDowell and a player to be named later, that will be minor league pitcher Tom Edens. New York's experiment to turn their new infielder, who will play only 86 games with New York, into a center fielder will fail miserably, while 'Nails' will go on to be a three-time all-star and a cog in Philadelphia's National League championship in 1993, being selected as the runner-up for the Most Valuable Player Award.

    1995 - Tigers manager Sparky Anderson moves into third place on the all-time list with his 2,158th win. He passes Bucky Harris with the 10-8 victory over Baltimore.

    1996 - Chris Anderson becomes the first player representing the Tampa Bay Devil Rays to get a base hit. The Hudson Valley catcher, the team's 66th-round draft choice, delivers a run-producing single in the second inning of the Renegades' 7-6 loss to New Jersey in the New York-Penn League contest.

    1996 - Brant Brown hits the first three home runs of his career on the same day. The 25-year old rookie goes deep as a pinch-hitter in the ninth inning off Chan Ho Park in a 9-6 loss to the Dodgers in the opener of a Wrigley Field twin bill, but his two additional round-trippers contribute to Chicago's 7-4 victory in the nightcap.

    2000 - The A's slam the Royals, 21-3, as every player in the Oakland starting lineup has at least one hit, one RBI and scores a minimum of one run. The 18-run difference is largest margin of victory for the A's and the largest margin of defeat for the Royals in the team's respective histories.

    2000 - In a 19-2 rout of the Diamondbacks, it takes only the first four innings for Mike Lansing to hit for the cycle. The Rockies second baseman gets a triple in the first, a two-run homer in the second, a double in the third, and completes the rare event with a single in the fourth inning.

    2001 - Citing he wants to spend more time with his family, Orioles legend Cal Ripken Jr. announces he will retire at the end of the season. The two-time MVP will be best remembered for his streak of playing in 2,632 consecutive games.

    2001 - A mandate issued by the the commissioner's office imposes a two-minute limit for warm-up tosses thrown by relievers who come in during an inning, with the time starting when the pitcher enters fair territory. At the beginning of a frame the allotted warm-up time for a hurler will be one-minute and forty-seconds unless the game is on national television, in that event the time limit will be increased by 20 seconds.

    2002 - In the first major league game to feature four players with 400 career homers, the Cubs beat the Rangers, 4-3, when Alex Gonzalez hits a walk-off homer in the bottom of the ninth inning. Sammy Sosa (475), Fred McGriff (459) and Juan Gonzalez (401) watched Rafael Palmeiro add his 460th home run to the total.

    2004 - At Shea Stadium, Hall of Fame catchers Carlton Fisk, Johnny Bench, Gary Carter, and Yogi Berra take part in a pre-game ceremony to honor Mike Piazza for hitting the most home runs as a catcher in baseball history. The Mets’ backstop established the new mark, breaking Carlton Fisk’s record, with his 352nd home run on May 5.

    2005 - After 136 at-bats and 155 plate appearances with the bases full, Derek Jeter hits the first grand slam in his career. The Yankees shortstop’s homer ends the longest drought (at bats and number of homers) among current major leaguers without hitting a bases loaded home run.

    2005 - Julio Franco becomes the oldest player to hit multiple home runs in a game when he goes deep on two occasions in the Braves' 6-1 victory over Cincinnati. The 46 year, 299 day year-old Atlanta first baseman homers twice off Cincy starter Eric Milton, going yard in the first and third innings at the Great American Ball Park.

    2006 - In a game in which veteran hurler Kenny Rogers wins his 200th career victory, the Tigers go yard eight times to set a club record. Cubs starter Mark Prior, who recently returned from the 60-day disabled list, gives up three of the home runs in the 6-run first inning of the 12-3 barrage at Wrigley Field.

    2007 - Trailing the Red Sox by 15½ games in the AL East after playing just sixty-nine games, the last-place Orioles fire Sam Perlozzo as the team's manager. Bullpen coach Dave Trembley is named as the interim manager in the midst of an O's eight-game losing streak as the club embarks on a West Coast road trip.

    2010 - President Obama, along with his two daughters, makes an unannounced trip to Nationals Park to watch Stephen Strasburg pitch against his favorite team, the White Sox. The commander-in chief is on hand to see the 21-year old fireballer strike out ten batters to bring the phenom's three-game total to 32, three more than the rookie record of 29 established by J.R. Richard in 1971.  However, the Pale Hose win 2-1 in 11 innings on a infield single by Alex Rios.


    2012 - R.A. Dickey throws his second consecutive one-hitter when he allows only a fifth-inning single by Wilson Betemit in the Mets' 5-0 victory over Baltimore at Citi Field. The 37- year-old knuckleball pitcher, who hasn't allowed an earned run in 42 2-3 innings, also limited Tampa Bay to a lone safety in his last start.

    2012 - After a lengthy ten-week trial, Roger Clemens is acquitted by a jury on all charges that he obstructed and lied to Congress when he testified at a deposition during a 2008 nationally televised hearing. The seven-time Cy Young winner, who won 354 games playing for the Red Sox, Blue Jays, Yankees and Astros during his 24 years in the major leagues, contended that the success in the latter part of his career was a result of an over-the-top work ethic and not due to taking performance-enhancing drugs as widely believed.

    2012 - With his one-out, solo home run off Shawn Kelley in the seventh in the Diamondbacks 7-1 victory over Seattle at Chase Field, Aaron Hill becomes the fifth player in franchise history to hit for the cycle. The Arizona second baseman, the first D-Back to single, double, triple and homer in four at-bats, joins Kelly Johnson (2010), Stephen Drew (2008), Greg Colbrunn (2002) and Luis Gonzalez (2000) in accomplishing the rare feat.

    2014 - With the only batter reaching base as a result of a throwing error by shortstop Hanley Ramirez in the seventh inning, Clayton Kershaw no-hits the Rockies at Dodger Stadium, striking out a career-high 15 batters. The left-hander’s teammate Josh Beckett also threw a no-hitter 24 days ago, making it the shortest span between no-hitters by a team since the Reds’ Johnny Vander Meer accomplished it in consecutive starts, four days apart, in 1938.


    2015 - Carlos Correa, the number one overall pick in 2012, becomes the second-youngest player in the modern era to steal three bases in a game when he swipes a trio of bags in Houston's 8-4 victory against the Rockies at Coors Field. In 1979, Rickey Henderson was 20 years and 241 days old when he accomplish the feat, 18 days younger than the Astro shortstop.


    Baseball Birthdays on June 18...


    1849 - Tipper, Jim
    1853 - Haley, Fred
    1860 - Grady, John
    1862 - Blaisdell, Dick
    1862 - Ganzel, Charlie
    1866 - Anderson, Varney
    1874 - Blank, Fred
    1882 - Fritz, Charlie
    1888 - Berghammer, Marty

    1893 - Shaw, Ben
    1896 - Halliday, Newt
    1917 - Pofahl, Jimmy
    1927 - Medlinger, Irv
    1929 - Upton, Bill
    1932 - Necciai, Ron
    1933 - Phillips, Taylor
    1939 - Brock, Lou
    1941 - Brown, Paul
    1949 - Schneck, Dave
    1961 - McCarthy, Tom

    1961 - Galarraga, Andres
    1962 - Leiper, Dave
    1963 - McGinnis, Russ
    1964 - Hinzo, Tommy
    1966 - Alomar, Jr., Sandy

    1976 - Powell, Jeremy
    1976 - Heredia, Felix
    1980 - Watkins, Tommy
    1983 - Hoffpauir, Jarrett
    1984 - Rodriguez, Fernando
    1985 - Coghlan, Chris
    1986 - Cishek, Steven
    1986 - Joseph, Caleb
    1987 - Castro, Jason
    1987 - Shuck, J.B.
    1987 - Thompson, Taylor

    1989 - Moore, Matt
    1990 - Winkler, Kyle
    1991 - Telis, Tomas



    Baseball Deaths on June 18...


    1915 - Faust, Charlie
    1926 - Gardner, Alex
    1927 - Harper, Jack
    1929 - Bishop, Frank
    1936 - Nichols, Al
    1937 - Adams, Willie
    1939 - Currie, Murphy
    1947 - Harting, Ed
    1955 - Katoll, Jack

    1957 - Allison, Milo
    1961 - Gaedel, Eddie
    1963 - Geraghty, Ben
    1966 - Naylor, Rollie
    1968 - Bishop, Lloyd
    1977 - Frederick, Johnny
    1979 - Trosky, Hal

    1981 - Barnes, Honey
    1989 - Senteney, Steve
    2002 - Jenkins, Jack
    2003 - Doby, Larry

    2003 - Fleming, Tom
    2016 - Schaffernoth, Joe
    2018 - Connors, Billy


               


         





                    






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« Reply #4761 on: June 18, 2018, 12:09:29 am »
Today In White Sox History - June 18th





         

June 18, 2006 - Jon Garland becomes the first White Sox pitcher to homer in a big league game in 35 years when he hits a two-run shot off the Reds Esteban Yan in the 8th inning of a game at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati. White Sox right fielder Jermaine Dye drives in three runs with his two hits, one of them his 20th homer of the season. Final score: White Sox 8, Cincinnati Reds 1.

Boxscore & P-B-P:  http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2006/B06180CIN2006.htm


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« Reply #4762 on: June 19, 2018, 12:03:52 am »

On June 19 in Baseball History...


    1846 - The very first organized baseball game is played between Alexander Cartwright's New York Knickerbockers and the New York Nine. It is proclaimed to be the very first ever game played in public using Cartwright's rules. (Our thanks to Alexander Joy Cartwright IV for reminding us of this historic fact)

    1903 - In Manhattan’s East Harlem neighborhood, a baby boy weighing nearly 14-pounds becomes the second child of four born to German immigrants Heinrich and Christina Gehrig. They will name their only surviving child Lou, a future Hall of Fame first baseman, who will be lauded for his durability that results in playing 2,130 consecutive games with the Yankees, and for his courage battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a rare progressive neurodegenerative disease which will come to bear his name.

    1927 - Jack Scott becomes the last pitcher to go the distance in both ends of a doubleheader. The 35 year-old Phillies right-hander, who will compile a 9-20 record, beats Cincinnati in the opener, 3-1, but loses the night cap, 3-0 in the Redlands Field twin bill.

    1938 - The Reds' Johnny Vander Meer extends his string of hitless innings to 21 2/3 before Debs Garms singles for Boston in the fourth.

    1941 - Joe DiMaggio goes 3-for-3 against the White Sox to extend his consecutive game hit streak to 32. The Yankee Clipper's perfect day at the plate, which includes two singles and a home run, contributes to the Bronx Bombers' 7-2 victory over the Pale Hose at Yankee Stadium.


    1942 - Paul Waner singles off Pirate Rip Sewell to collect his 3000th hit. The Braves outfielder becomes the seventh major leaguer to accomplish this feat and the first to do it since 1925.

    1942 - For the first and only time in a career that spans 1,787 contests, Joe DiMaggio strikes out three times in a game. Indians' hurler Mel Harder does the deed in the Tribe's 5-4 victory over the Yankees at Cleveland Stadium.

    1952 - Carl Erskine throws a no-hitter against the Cubs in the Dodgers' 5-0 victory at Ebbets Field. A third inning walk to the opposing pitcher, which accounts for the only runner to reach base, may have been a result of skipper Charlie Dressen telling the 25 year-old right-hander to speed up his pitches due to an impending storm.

    1961 - Roger Maris' homer leading off the ninth inning off Kansas City pitcher Jim Archer puts the Yankees up by a run, but the A's will score twice in the bottom of the frame for a 4-3 victory at Municipal Stadium. The 'Rajah's' 25th round-tripper of the season puts him seven games ahead of Babe Ruth's record pace.

    1961 - Charlie Finley makes his first managerial change, booting Joe Gordon (26-33) in favor of Hank Bauer.

    1963 - At Fenway Park, his first major league at bat, Gates Brown hits a pinch home run. The homer will the first of 16 pinch round trippers for the Tiger outfielder during his 13-year career in Detroit.

    1963 - At Yankee Stadium, the Mayor's Trophy Game is revived with the cellar-dwelling Mets beating the mighty Yanks, 6-2. Prior to leaving for the West Coast, the Dodgers would play the Bronx Bombers in the annual midsummer exhibition contest to raise money for sandlot baseball teams.

    1972 - At Three Rivers Stadium, Roberto Clemente hits a two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth inning to become the Pirates all-time RBI leader. The Pittsburgh right fielder's three ribbies in the 13-3 drubbing of the Dodgers gives the future Hall of Famer a total of 1,274 runs batted in for the Bucs.

    1973 - In different games, the Reds' Pete Rose and Dodger Willie Davis both collect their 2,000th career hit. The Cincinnati infielder, known as 'Charlie Hustle' reaches the milestone with a single against San Francisco in the Reds' 4-0 victory at Candlestick Park, and the L.A. outfielder, known as 3-Dog, reaches the plateau in front of the home crowd with a two-run home run in the team's 3-0 victory over Atlanta.

    1974 - Steve Busby tosses his second no-hitter in 14 months, giving up just one walk, beating the Brewers, 2-0, in the first ever no-no thrown by a Kansas City hurler at Kauffman Stadium. Last season, the 23-year old Royals right-hander as a rookie held Detroit hitless in a 3-0 complete game victory at Tiger Stadium for the team's first no-hitter in franchise history.


    1977 - With five home runs in an 11-1 win against the Yankees, the Red Sox set a major league mark hitting 16 round trippers in three games. The power surge at Fenway Park provides the energy needed for a three-game sweep of the Bronx Bombers.

    1977 - The Indians fire manager Frank Robinson and replace him with Jeff Torborg.

    1979 - In New York, 36,211 fans show up to witness the return of Billy Martin as Yankees manager, but the Yanks lose to the Blue Jays 5-4. Martin had been named to replace Bob Lemon (34-31) the previous day, and begins his second stint as New York's skipper a season earlier than previously announced.

    1989 - Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden wins his 100th career game, 5-3 over the Expos. His 100-37 career record is second only to Whitey Ford's 100-36 start.

    1990 - Gary Carter breaks a National League mark when he catches his 1‚862nd career game in the Giants' 4-3 loss to San Diego. The 'Kid' surpasses Al Lopez who had established the record for backstops in 1946.

    1990 - Don Robinson becomes the first hurler to pinch hit a home run since 1971 when he goes deep off Padres' southpaw Bruce Hurst batting for Ed Vosberg in the bottom of the fifth inning. The Giants' right-hander does not stay in the Candlestick Park contest to pitch, an eventual 4-3 loss to the Friars.

    1994 - In a 3-1 victory over the Blue Jays at Detroit, the Tigers tie the Yankees' major league record by homering in their 25th consecutive game. The 53-year-old record is matched in the second inning when Mickey Tettleton goes deep into the upper deck in right field.

    1994 - Wally Kaname Yonamine, three-time batting champ and former Central League MVP, becomes the first American to be inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame as a player. The Hawaiian native, who also played in the NFL with the San Francisco 49ers, was the first American to join a team in Japan after World War II.

    1995 - Darryl Strawberry signs a one-year contract with the Yankees despite the fact he is under a sixty-day suspension for drug abuse. During his five seasons in the Bronx, the southpaw-swinging slugger will contribute to the team's tremendous success in the late 90's.

    1996 - Cardinals' infielder Ozzie Smith, considered the best all-time defensive shortstop, announces he will retire at the end of the season. The 15-time All-Star infielder will be elected to the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.

    1996 - In the first game played by a minor league affiliate of Tampa Bay's new expansion team, the GCL Devil Rays lose to the GCL Yankees 10-1. A record crowd of 7,582 is in attendance at Al Lang Stadium to see 18-year-old right-hander Pablo Oretga throw the first pitch in franchise history.

    1996 - Copper Kings infielder Jim Kerr hits the first home run in Devil Rays history. The 21-year old former Yankees farmhand goes deep in the Buttes Pioneer League opener against Idaho Falls.

    1999 - Ted 'Double Duty' Radcliffe becomes the oldest player to ever appear in a professional baseball game. At the of age 96 in a Northern League game, the former Negro League takes the mound for the Schaumburg Flyers and throws one pitch to Fargo-Moorhead DH Matt Faulken, before leaving the game to a standing ovation at Alexian Field.

    2001 - At Jacobs Field, Ellis Burks hits three solo home runs, beginning with one in sixth, follow by an eighth inning round-tripper, and then delivers once more in the bottom of the twelfth. The Indians DH's home run heroics prove not to be enough when Minnesota beats the Tribe, 10-9, in 12 innings.

    2003 - During a College World Series contest against Stanford, a pitch strikes Cal State Fullerton shortstop Justin Turner on the left side of his face as he attempts to bunt. Adding insult to injury, the future Mets infielder also suffers a broken ankle on the play when he unsuccessfully tries to avoid getting hit by the 87-mph fast ball thrown by Matt Manship.

    2003 - Reds hurler Paul Wilson, who is trying to lay down a sacrifice bunt, takes exception to a pitch that moves inside and glances off the catcher's glove of the catcher. As the ball is retrieved he starts jawing with Kyle Farnsworth and then charges the mound where he is pummeled by the Cubs reliever igniting a bench-clearing brawl.


    2007 - On the bus ride to Shea Stadium to take on the Mets in an inter-league contest, Twins' color commentator Bert Blyleven says he will have his head shaved if the tonight's starter, Johan Santana, throws a complete-game shutout. The left-hander from Venezuela will shave the broadcaster's head after going the distance in Minnestoa's 9-0 victory over New York's National League team.

    2008 - John McLaren is fired as the manager by the Mariners after getting off to a 25-47 start in a season which began with playoff potential. Jim Riggleman, the team's bench coach, becomes the club’s fifth manager in the past six seasons.

    2008 - The Braves set a major league mark when they drop their record 22nd straight one-run decision on the road when Texas rallies for a 5-4 victory at the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. The previous record of 21 was established by the Royals during a stretch spanning over the 2000-01 seasons.

    2008 - In his first minor league appearance, 22-year old Staten Island Yankee ambidextrous hurler Pat Venditte Jr., facing the Brooklyn Cyclones at KeySpan Park in Coney Island, pitches a scoreless ninth inning that includes striking out a very frustrated Ralph Henriquez to end the game. The unhappy switch-hitter, after delaying the game to adjust his shin guard each time he changed batter boxes to gain the advantage of the pitcher throwing with both hands, is told by the umpiring crew he must first select from which side of the plate he intended to hit, and that the pitcher would then be allowed to declare with which arm he would pitch.


    2010 - The Pirates fire a mascot who participates in-game pierogi race due to the criticism of the team's upper management posted on his Facebook page. The 24-year old, who will be reinstated by Pittsburgh, is offered a position by the Washington Wild Things of the Frontier League, an independent baseball organization, to become one of its racing hot dogs.

    2011 - After less than one season in the dugout, Edwin Rodriguez unexpectedly resigns as the manager of the struggling last-place Marlins, who have dropped 17 of 18 contests this month. During his brief tenure with Florida, the first Puerto Rican-born manager in major league history compiled a 78-86 record with the team.

    2013 - Mark Appel, who was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2013 first-year player draft, is introduced by the Astros at a Minute Maid Park press conference. The Stanford right-hander, a Houston native and a fan of the team growing up, will receive a $6.35 million signing bonus, which is significantly less than the assigned slot value of $7.8 million.

    2015 - The Orem Owlz, the Rookie Affiliate of the Angels in located in Utah, cancels its “Caucasian Heritage Night” scheduled for August 10 after the event stirred an outcry on social media. In light of recent racially motivated massacre at a historic black church in Charleston, SC, the Pioneer League team issued an apology, stating their intentions have been misconstrued because the goal of the promotion, like many of their theme nights at Brent Brown Ballpark, was to make fun of everyday normalcies as evidenced by the planned festivities that included serving burgers on Wonder Bread with mayonnaise and showing clips from Seinfeld and Friends about TV characters trying to solve the vertical leaping challenge.

    2015 -  Alex Rodriguez, after being suspended from baseball last season, becomes the 29th major leaguer to collect his 3,000th hit when he blasts a first inning solo home run to right field off a 95-mph fastball thrown by Detroit ace Justin Verlander in the team’s 7-2 victory at Yankee Stadium. The Bronx Bombers' DH joins Derek Jeter, the last person to reach the magic number, and Wade Boggs as the only players to hit a round-tripper to reach the historic milestone.


    2015 - "@Yankeefan98 I'll give him the finger and a dummy ball. That man deserves favors from no one, least of all a fan." - Zack Hample, a Tweet from the fan who caught A-Rod’s 3000th hit.

Zack Hample, the author of How to Snag Major League Baseballs: More Than 100 Tested Tips That Really Work, catches Alex Rodriguez's 3,000th hit, a first inning solo home run to right field off Detroit ace Justin Verlander. Hample, not a big fan of the New York slugger, will hold on to the historic horsehide for a week, before receiving perks from the Yankees for catching the ball, including getting the team to donate a large amount of money to Pitch In for Baseball, a children charity that donates equipment to the underprivileged kids.




    Baseball Birthdays on June 19...


    1856 - McLaughlin, Frank
    1867 - Terrell, Tom
    1872 - Leitner, Dummy
    1881 - Betts, Harry
    1884 - Cicotte, Eddie

    1887 - Adams, Dan
    1892 - Daubert, Harry
    1903 - Gehrig, Lou
    1906 - Stanton, Buck
    1909 - Asbjornson, Casper
    1912 - Anderson, Red
    1912 - Gutteridge, Don

    1922 - Burpo, George
    1924 - Blackburn, Jim
    1929 - Ferrarese, Don

    1931 - Mason, Hank
    1935 - Boak, Chet
    1937 - Miller, Larry
    1938 - Aspromonte, Bob
    1946 - Osborn, Dan "Ozzie"
    1949 - Reuss, Jerry

    1950 - Arroyo, Rudy
    1950 - Gonzalez, Fernando
    1950 - Slaton, Jim
    1950 - Kuiper, Duane
    1954 - LeMaster, Johnnie
    1957 - Gibson, Bob
    1958 - Davis, Butch
    1961 - Stanicek, Steve
    1962 - Smajstrla, Craig
    1974 - Mientkiewicz, Doug
    1975 - Roberts, Willis
    1976 - Mohr, Dustan
    1977 - Chen, Bruce
    1978 - Vargas, Claudio
    1982 - Brown, Dusty
    1985 - Parker, Blake
    1987 - McHugh, Collin
    1988 - DeGrom, Jake
    1988 - Mesoraco, Devin
    1990 - Verrett, Logan
    1991 - Villanueva, Christian
    1992 - Brice, Austin
    1992 - Taveras, Oscar



    Baseball Deaths on June 19...


    1904 - Quinton, Marshall
    1913 - Quick, Eddie
    1916 - Dodge, John
    1920 - Barry, Ed
    1923 - Jones, Tom
    1928 - Weimer, Jake
    1932 - Breitenstein, Alonzo
    1932 - Getzien, Charlie
    1940 - Pabst, Ed
    1943 - Goodwin, Art
    1945 - Gandy, Bob
    1947 - Brady, Neal
    1951 - Gerber, Wally
    1952 - Crutcher, Dick
    1956 - Monroe, John
    1971 - White, Jack
    1971 - Graham, Bert
    1974 - Morse, Hap
    1976 - Oana, Prince
    1991 - Rambo, Pete
    1993 - Hooks, Alex
    2006 - Kellner, Walt
    2013 - Freese, Gene

    2013 - Kravitz, Danny
    2014 - Renna, Ben
    2015 - Matarazzo, Len


     







 








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On June 20 in Baseball History...


    1901 - John W. Taylor goes the distance but takes the loss when the Orphans are defeated by the Beaneaters at Boston's South End Grounds. The right-hander's start begins a stunning streak of 187 consecutive complete games that ends in August of 1906 when he is relieved by another pitcher, after amassing an amazing 1,727 innings of work that includes finishing up 15 games in relief.

    1912 - In a slugfest, the Giants and Braves score a total of 17 runs in the ninth inning. New York scores seven runs in the top of the frame, but the Braves scored 10 runs in the bottom of the ninth to narrow the margin, 21-12.

    1921 - At Fenway Park, Babe Ruth hits his 127th home run helping the Yankees defeat the Red Sox in 10 innings, 7-6. The homer moves the 'Sultan of Swat' past Sam Thompson into second place on the career list for homers and 11 dingers behind all-time leader, Roger Connor.

    1925 - At Forbes Field, Max Carey becomes the first switch-hitter to hit for the cycle. The Pirate outfielder's performance helps Pittsburgh to bash Brooklyn, 21-5.

    1932 - Roger Cramer of the A's has six hits in consecutive times at bat in a nine-inning game. Cramer will do this again in 1935, the only A.L. player to repeat the feat.

    1948 - Cleveland draws 82,781 for a doubleheader, a major league record for a regular season game that will be broken by the same club in 1954. The Indians will attract 2.6 million for the season.

    1950 - After stroking a RBI single in the third inning, Joe DiMaggio strikes again in the seventh with another run-scoring safety to collect his 2,000th career hit. The Yankee Clipper reaches the milestone in an 8-2 victory in Cleveland, the 1537th contest he has played in the major leagues.

    1951 - Bobby Avila goes 5-for-6 at the plate collecting 15 total bases and scoring four runs in the Indians' 14-6 victory over Boston. The Tribe's second baseman offensive output at Fenway Park includes three home runs and a double.

    1956 - At Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle poles two Billy Hoeft pitches into the right center field bleachers, something no other player had done since the bleachers were built in the late 1930s. New York wins 7-4.

    1963 - The first Mayor's Trophy Game between the Yankees and Mets is played in the Bronx. A crowd of 50,742, made up of mostly National League fans, sees Casey Stengel's expansion team defeat the reigning World Champions, 6-2.

    1967 - At Connie Mack Stadium, Phillies starter Larry Jackson one-hits the Mets, 4-0. It is the right-hander's eighteenth victory over New York without a defeat.

    1973 - In a 7-5 loss to Cincinnati, Giants right fielder Bobby Bonds hits his 22nd career leadoff homer. The first inning shot at Candlestick Park off Don Gullett breaks Lou Brock's record for homers leading off a game.

    1973 - Chicago's Cy Acosta becomes the first A.L. pitcher to bat since the DH rule went into effect. Acosta strikes out in the eighth inning, but is credited with an 8-3 victory over California.

    1980 - Five-foot five Fred Patek hits three home runs to help the Angels beat the Red Sox, 20-2. During his 14-year career in the big leagues with Kansas City, Pittsburgh, and L.A., the diminutive shortstop will hit 41 round-trippers, an average of four each season.

    1982 - At Three Rivers Stadium, in a 3-1 loss to the Pirates, Pete Rose becomes the fifth major leaguer to appear in 3000 games. The Phillies first baseman, playing in his 523rd consecutive contest, joins Ty Cobb‚ Stan Musial‚ Hank Aaron‚ and Carl Yastrzemski as one of only five players to reach the milestone.

    1983 - Yankee outfielder Bobby Murcer retires as an active player ending his 17 year major league career with a .277 lifetime batting average and 252 home runs. The popular outfielder, who also played for the Giants and Cubs, will become a mainstay in the broadcast booth until he succumbs to a brain tumor in 2008.

    1986 - After leading the club to a 26-38 record, Tony LaRussa is fired as manager of the White Sox and replaced by Jim Fregosi. LaRussa will be hired to manage the A's early next month.

    1986 - Collegiate football standout Bo Jackson, who will eventually spend four seasons with the Oakland Raiders, signs to play baseball with the Royals, the defending World Champions. The Auburn running back had been drafted first overall in the 1986 NFL Draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but the Heisman trophy winner turns down the Buccaneers' more lucrative offer when the team refuses to let him play two sports.

    1987 - After giving home runs to Dale Murphy and Ken Griffey, Reds starter Bill Gullickson plunks Andres Thomas in the back with a pitch in the Reds' 8-6 loss at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. The Braves' shortstop takes exception and charges the mound, precipitating a bench-clearing brawl that will result in both of the initial combatants being tossed from the game.

    1991 - At Comiskey Park, Ivan Rodríguez makes his major league debut with the Rangers. The 19-year old backstop becomes the youngest person to catch a major league game.


    1991 - The Reds lose the MVP of the 1990 World Series when Jose Rijo breaks his ankle in a steal attempt. Cincinnati also loses the game to Montreal 1-0.

    1992 - Kelly Saunders fills in for Baltimore's Rex Barney becoming only the second woman to be a public address announcer at a major league game. In 1966, Joy Hawkins McCabe, the daughter of the Senators' public-relations director, became the first female P.A. announcer doing one game for Washington at D.C. Stadium against the White Sox.


    1994 - In a 7-1 defeat to the Indians, the Tigers' string of 25 straight games of hitting a home run ends. The streak tied the major league record set by the 1941 New York Yankees.

    1996 - The Devil Rays get their first win in the history of the organization when the club's Gulf Coast League affiliate beats the GCL Astros. Jose Rodriguez, an 18-year old right-hander from Cotui in the Dominican Republic, gets the victory.

    1997 - Aaron Boone, son and grandson of former major leaguers Bob and Ray, is called up from the minor leagues by the Reds. To make room on the roster Cincinnati demotes his brother, Bret.

    1999 - A rusty Troy Percival, who hasn't pitched in a week, establishes a franchise record with his 127th save for the Angels when he finishes the team's 4-2 victory in New York. The right-handed closer's less than stellar outing, allowing four batters to reach base and giving up a run, surpasses the team mark established by Bryan Harvey in 1992.

    2001 - Hitting his 38th homer of the season, Barry Bonds breaks the major league mark established by Reggie Jackson (1969) and Mark McGwire (1998) for home runs hit before the All-Star game. The Giants' left fielder still has 17 games to add to the record.

    2002 - Luis Castillo extends his hitting streak to 34 games breaking the 1922 record established by Rogers Hornsby for the longest hitting streak by a second baseman. The Dominican infielder's streak, the 14th longest in major league history, also ties Benito Santiago's record set in 1987 for the longest established by a Latin player.

    2002 - A 4 1/2 -hour closed-casket public viewing is held at Busch Stadium for Jack Buck, the 77-year-old Hall of Fame broadcaster, who died from complications following lung surgery. The bronze statue depicting him at the microphone outside the stadium is stuffed with cards, stuffed animals, photographs and other memorabilia in memory of the KMOX legend.

    2003 - Miguel Cabrera's first major league hit is a two-run walk-off homer in the eleventh inning of a 3-1 Marlin victory over the Devil Rays at Dolphin Stadium. The Marlins had signed the skinny 20-year old outfielder from Maracay, Venezuela as an amateur free agent in 1999.

    2004 - On Father's Day with his dad in attendance, 34-year old Ken Griffey, Jr. blasts a sixth-inning Matt Morris fastball over the right field wall at Busch Stadium for his 500th career home run. The Reds' center fielder becomes the twentieth major leaguer, and the sixth youngest to reach the milestone.

    2006 - The combined efforts of Rockies' starter Jason Jennings and relievers Tom Martin and Brian Fuentes produce the first one-hitter in franchise history. The 6-0 victory against Oakland marks the third time that one hit or less has been given up in a Coors Field's contest.

    2007 - Connecting on a fifth inning hanging breaking ball thrown by Cubs' hurler Jason Marquis, Sammy Sosa becomes the fifth major league player to hit 600 career home runs. The Rangers' designated hitter, who missed the entire season last year, joins Hank Aaron (755), Barry Bonds (748), Babe Ruth (714) and Willie Mays (660) in reaching the milestone.

    2008 - John Gibbons becomes the third manager to be let go in the last four days as the last place Blue Jays fire their skipper. Cito Gaston, who piloted Toronto to a pair of world championships in 1992 and 1993, has been brought back to lead the team.

    2008 - In recognition of their significant contributions to the community, the Dodgers become the first sports franchise to be honored by the Hollywood Historic Trust and the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. The team receives an Award of Excellence star, which is placed in the Walk of Fame which includes a constellation of celebrities, real and fictional, who have had a major impact on the entertainment industry.

    2009 - Jeff Weaver beats his kid brother Jered when the visiting Dodgers best the Halos, 6-5, at Angel Stadium. The Northridge, California natives become the eighth set of siblings to start against one another in major league history.

    2009 - A.J. Burnett strikes out the side on nine pitches in the third inning in the Yankees' 2-1 loss to Florida. Josh Johnson, Chris Coghlan, and Emilio Bonifacio all strike out swinging in the Land Shark Stadium contest.

    2009 - A major league oddity happens when two games end on walk-off wild pitches in extra innings on the same day. Jason Jennings errant throw allows Nate Schierholtz to score the winning run for the Giants with two outs in the 11th inning to beat Texas, 2-1, and Andres Blanco comes home on Kerry Wood's miscue giving the Cubs a 6-5 victory over Indians in 13 innings.

    2010 - Twenty-one year-old Dayán Viciedo makes his MLB debut at 3B for the White Sox.  Viciedo goes 1-4 with a strikeout and starts a 5-4-3 DP in the field.  Freddy Garcia picks u his 8th win in the 6-3 victory by the White Sox at National Park in Washington, D.C.


    2011 - The Marlins announce Jack McKeon will be the team's interim manager replacing Edwin Rodriguez, who resigned yesterday. The 80-year old skipper is taking over the floundering Fish club that has lost 10 consecutive games and 18 of its last 19, after starting the season by winning 30 of its first 50 contests.

    2013 - Reds third baseman Todd Frazier, a New Jersey native, has the "The Sopranos" theme song played when he steps up to the plate in the game against Arizona at Chase Field. With the iconic tune from the HBO series, the Cincinnati infielder was paying tribute to James Gandolfini, the actor best known for his role as Garden State mob boss Tony Soprano who passed away yesterday at the age of 51.

    2015 - One out away from a perfect game, Max Scherzer’s bid for immortality is spoiled when Jose Tabata is hit by a pitch, a slider off the elbow that many believed the Pittsburgh outfielder’s leaned into on purpose to get on base. The right-hander records the final out on the next batter to complete his first ever no-hitter, allowing just one hit in two consecutive starts after tossing a 16-strikeout, one-hit complete game against Milwaukee in his last outing.


    2015 - After using Instagram during the game, Red Sox third baseman Pablo Sandoval is benched for one contest for violating the team's social media policy. The Panda had hit the “like” button while in the rest room during Boston’s 7-4 loss to Kansas City at Kauffman Stadium.

    2016 - The Texas Rangers signed Neal Cotts as a free agent.

    2016 - The San Diego Padres signed Edwin Jackson as a free agent.


    Baseball Birthdays on June 20...

    1845 - Cuthbert, Ned
    1857 - Esterbrook, Dude
    1874 - Mercer, Win
    1876 - Hinton, John
    1879 - Delahanty, Jim
    1885 - Hendricks, Ed
    1888 - Hagerman, Rip
    1889 - Warner, Ed
    1890 - Wilkinson, Ed
    1890 - Grover, Charlie
    1898 - Shirey, Duke
    1901 - McBee, Pryor

    1902 - Dean, Wayland
    1908 - Werber, Billy
    1919 - Clemensen, Bill
    1920 - Barbary, Red
    1925 - Koshorek, Clem
    1928 - Mahoney, Bob

    1928 - Schult, Art
    1929 - Burnette, Wally
    1930 - Graber, Rod
    1932 - Barragan, Cuno
    1941 - Alcaraz, Luis
    1943 - Etchebarren, Andy
    1944 - Nelson, Dave

    1945 - Newman, Ray
    1954 - Chevez, Tony
    1956 - Monroe, Larry

    1958 - Thon, Dickie
    1958 - Huffman, Phil
    1960 - Gwosdz, Doug
    1960 - See, Larry
    1961 - Varsho, Gary
    1970 - Grace, Mike
    1972 - Bako, Paul
    1972 - Castro, Juan
    1973 - Cradle, Rickey
    1976 - Mackowiak, Rob
    1976 - Lee, Carlos

    1978 - Gregg, Kevin
    1978 - Seay, Bobby
    1979 - Patterson, Scott
    1979 - Vance, Cory
    1983 - Morales, Kendrys
    1984 - Gillespie, Cole
    1985 - Brown, Brooks
    1991 - Liriano, Rymer

    1991 - Schultz, Jaime
    1993 - Mejia, Adalberto


    Baseball Deaths on June 20...

    1890 - Weyhing, John
    1907 - Sutton, Ezra
    1909 - Kemmler, Rudy
    1938 - Newnam, Pat
    1947 - Ewing, Bob
    1952 - Callahan, John
    1957 - Warmoth, Cy
    1959 - Walker, Speed
    1961 - Bergman, Al
    1965 - Dahl, Jay
    1966 - Wilie, Denney
    1974 - Way, Bob

    1976 - Klein, Lou
    1976 - Donnelly, Blix
    1978 - Dietrich, Bill

    1983 - Britton, Gil
    2001 - Keegan, Bob
    2006 - Johnson, Billy


     


 





     


 


 




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Today In White Sox History - June 20th


 

June 20, 1980 - Tigers outfielder Al Cowens attacks White Sox relief pitcher Ed Farmer. In the 11th inning of a game at Comiskey Park, Cowens ran towards Farmer after hitting a ground ball instead of running towards first base. The two had a melee on the mound. One year earlier Farmer broke his jaw when he was pitching for Texas. Chicago police went looking for Cowens after the game to press assault charges.

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On June 21 in Baseball History...


    1939 - The New York Yankees announce Lou Gehrig's retirement, based on the report that he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The 36-year-old star will remain with the team as captain.

    1941 - Lefty Grove's Fenway consecutive win streak, which started on May 3, 1938, ends at 20 games with a 13-9 loss to the St. Louis Browns. The future Hall of Fame southpaw, facing just 13 batters, allows six runs yielding 5 hits and walking 3 in 1.2 innings of work.

    1941 - In New York's 7-2 loss to the Tigers at Yankee Stadium, Phil Rizzuto's seventh-inning round-tripper extends the team's consecutive-game home run streak to 17. The historic homer, which ties the major league record established by Detroit, is only the light-hitting shortstop's second career home run.

    1950 - Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit, a seventh-inning single off the Indians Chick Pieretti, as the Yanks win 8-2. DiMaggio joins Luke Appling and Wally Moses as the only active players with 2,000 or more hits.

    1952 - The Harrisburg Senators sign softball shortstop standout Eleanor Engle, but the 24-year-old stenographer will never take the field when National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues George Trautman bans the signing of women. Commissioner Ford Frick will go one step further by formally prohibiting females from professional baseball using the ruling to prevent teams from using women players as a publicity stunt.

    1956 - Jack Harshman tosses a one-hitter in the White Sox' 1-0 victory over the Orioles. The opposing Baltimore hurlers, Connie Johnson and George Zuverink, also combined to yield only one hit to the Chicago batters in the Comiskey Park contest.

    1957 - In his first major league start, Von McDaniel‚ who graduated from high school last month, two-hits the Dodgers at Sportman's Park ‚ 2-0. Brooklyn did not get a hit off the 18-year bonus baby old until the sixth inning.

    1957 - Going the distance in the Senators' 6-3 victory over Cleveland, Chuck Stobbs wins his first game since throwing a shutout against Baltimore last September. The 27-year old right-hander snaps a personal 16-game losing streak, that includes dropping his first 11 decisions this year.

    1960 - Richie Ashburn plays his first game in Philadelphia since being traded to the Cubs in the offseason. 'Whitey', a fan favorite during his dozen years with the Phillies, strikes out looking to start his 1-for-6 day in an extra inning loss to his former team at Shibe Park.

    1964 - On Father's Day, Phillies' hurler Jim Bunning becomes the first modern pitcher to toss a no-hitter in both leagues when he throws a perfect game to beat the Mets, 6-0. Gus Triandos also becomes the first catcher to handle a no-hitter in both leagues.


    1964 - Despite the four errors made by the Phillies, Rick Wise wins the first of his 188 major league victories when Philadelphia beats the Mets at Shea Stadium in the nightcap of a twin bill, 8-2. The 18-year old rookie right-hander's accomplishment will be overlooked when his effort follows Jim Bunning's perfect game in the opener.

    1967 - In retaliation for Joe Foy being struck in the helmet in the top of the frame, Red Sox starter Jim Lonborg promptly plunks opposing pitcher Thad Tillotson in the back igniting a bench-clearing brawl in the second inning of the Yankees' 8-1 loss to Boston at the Stadium. The five-minute melee results in no ejections, but doesn't quite settle the matter when Reggie Smith is brushed back in the third and Dick Howser leaves the game in the fifth after being hit the head with a pitch.


    1970 - Detroit's Cesar Gutierrez goes seven-for-seven to tie a record set in 1892 in a 12-inning, 9-8 win over Cleveland. Mickey Stanley's home run wins it for the Tigers. Gutierrez will collect just seven hits in all of 1971, and 128 hits for his career.

    1971 - Indians slugger Ken Harrelson announces his retirement from baseball to join the pro golf tour.

    1978 - On the first pitch in his first at bat, Dave Machemer hits his only major league home run. The rookie second baseman, batting leadoff for the visiting Angels, starts the Halos' eventual 5-2 victory over Minnesota with a long fly over the left field wall at Metropolitan Stadium.

    1986 - Bo Jackson, college football's Heisman Trophy winner in 1985 and the first pick (by Tampa Bay) in the NFL draft, stuns observers nationwide by signing with the Kansas City Royals instead.

    1988 - At Tiger Stadium, Detroit scores six times in the bottom of the ninth inning to beat a stunned Yankees team, 7-6. Allen Trammell ends the game in dramatic fashion hitting a two-out walk-off grand slam off Cecilio Guante.

    1989 - The Yankees trade outfielder Rickey Henderson back to the A's for journeymen pitchers Eric Plunk and Greg Cadaret and outfielder Luis Polonia.

    1998 - Bill Russell is released as Dodger manager and is replaced in the dugout by Glenn Hoffmann. In the front office, Tommy Lasorda assumes the general manager duties of the third-place club from Fred Claire.

    1998 - Michael Bouton's passionate and elegant open letter to the Yankees is published in New York Times on Father's Day, asking the franchise to reconsider their long-time snub of his dad, Jim, the team's former 20-game winner and controversial author of Ball Four, a book that angered the baseball establishment for revealing the game's less glamorous side. Thanks to his son's efforts, Jim Bouton's banishment from Yankee Stadium will end next month when the right-hander is invited to return to the Bronx ballpark for the first time in nearly thirty years to participate in the team's Old-Timers' Day.

    1999 - Blue Jay Tony Fernandez becomes the Dominican-born career hits leader with his 2,178th hit to move ahead of Julio Franco. The shortstop's hit plated the winning run with two outs in the ninth in Toronto's 2-1 victory over Kansas City.

    2001 - The Newark Bears (Atlantic) sold Jose Canseco to the Chicago White Sox.


    2002 - During the New York-Penn League game between the New Jersey Cardinals and the Staten Island Yankees, a fan hops a fence and goes onto the field to argue an umpire's call at first base. The 38-year old woman, who will face disorderly person charges, is at the game with her 8-year old daughter's Brownie troop.

    2002 - Luis Castillo hits safely in his 35th consecutive game tying Fred Clarke (1895), Ty Cobb (1917), and George Sisler (1924-25) for the tenth longest streak in major league history. The Marlins' infielder's third inning infield hit off knuckleballer Steve Sparks' glove also surpasses 1987 Benito Santiago's for the longest streak established by a Latin player.

    2003 - Tied 2-2 after nine innings at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium, the Red Sox and Phillies exchange runs in the twelfth, and after Boston tallies twice in the thirteenth, the hometown team scores three times in the bottom of the frame to win the inter-league contest, 6-5. BoSox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra goes 6-for-6 for the day, all singles.

    2005 - General manager Dan O'Brien meets face to face with Reds skipper Dave Miley (125-164) to inform the third-year manager of his decision to fire him. Former Ranger manager Jerry Narron becomes the 58th manager in Reds history.

    2005 - After building a 10-2 lead at Yankee Stadium, the Rays lose to the Bronx Bombers 20-11 making it the second time in franchise history the team is ahead by eight or more runs and loses by nine or more tallies. No other club in baseball history has ever achieved this dubious distinction as the D-Rays with their 1999 defeat to the Indians now have accomplished the feat twice.

    2005 - Giving up 13 runs in the bottom of the second inning, the Devil Rays become the first team in history to yield that many tallies in one inning twice during the same season. The benefactors each time are the Yankees as the visiting Tampa Bay hurlers also had a 13-run melt down in April.

    2006 - Jose Reyes becomes the ninth player in Mets history to hit for the cycle. The 23 year old shortstop from the Dominican Republic hits a leadoff homer in the bottom of the first inning followed by a double in the third, then a triple in the fifth, and completes the feat with an eighth inning single in the 5-4 loss to the Reds at Shea Stadium.
    2008 - The New York Mets released Jose Valentin.

    2009 - Tony La Russa gets his 2,500th victory as a manager when the Cardinals defeat Kansas City at Kauffman Stadium, 12-5. Joining Connie Mack and John McGraw, the Redbird skipper, who also piloted the White Sox and A's, becomes only the third major league manager to reach the milestone.


    2013 - The Chicago Cubs sold Brent Lillibridge to New York Yankees.

    2015 - Melissa Mayeux becomes the first female to be placed on the Major League Baseball's international registration list, making her eligible to be signed by pro teams on July 2. The 16 year-old shortstop of the French U-18 junior national team campaigned successfully to abolish the country's "no-girls-allowed" rule, so she could keep competing with the boys.

    2016 - Dean Kremer becomes the first-ever Israeli to sign a contract with a Major League baseball team when he comes to terms with the Dodgers, after being selected in the annual amateur draft earlier this month. The 20-year-old right-hander, who won Europe's Most Valuable Pitcher award in both 2014 and 2015, has hurled for Israel's national baseball team for the past three seasons.

    2016 - Erik Kratz, who tossed an ineffective inning for the Astros in an 11-1 rout to the Angels in April, becomes the first player in the modern era to catch and pitch for two teams in the same season when he throws a scoreless ninth inning in relief in the Pirates' 15-4 loss to the Giants at PNC Park. The 36 year-old journeyman backstop, who was obtained from the Angels earlier in the month, allows two hits, striking Brandon Belt for the first out of the frame.



    Baseball Birthdays on June 21...

    1860 - Levis, Charlie
    1866 - Kilroy, Matt
    1876 - Gilbert, Billy
    1877 - Watkins, Ed
    1879 - Hill, Hunter
    1884 - Tift, Ray
    1891 - Adams, Bert
    1898 - Adams, Spencer
    1900 - Barron, Red
    1906 - Van Atta, Russ
    1906 - Moore, Randy
    1906 - Smith, Art
    1918 - Lopat, Ed

    1927 - Collum, Jackie
    1950 - Beard, Mike
    1952 - Downs, Dave
    1953 - Pentz, Gene
    1953 - Moore, Charlie
    1956 - Sutcliffe, Rick
    1957 - Pettibone, Jay
    1963 - Musselman, Jeff
    1964 - Moore, Brad
    1969 - Osborne, Donovan
    1974 - Runyan, Sean
    1977 - Deago, Roger
    1978 - Rivera, Luis
    1980 - Rleal, Sendy
    1981 - Baker, Jeff
    1981 - Jones, Garrett
    1982 - Lee, Dae-ho
    1982 - Munoz, Arnaldo

    1989 - Almonte, Abraham
    1991 - Marte, Jefry



    Baseball Deaths on June 21...

    1895 - Smith, Rex
    1918 - Force, Davy
    1923 - Grevell, Bill
    1923 - Elliott, Claud
    1934 - Cross, Monte
    1936 - Puttmann, Ambrose
    1943 - Chadbourne, Chet
    1944 - Swacina, Harry
    1952 - Dunning, Andy
    1974 - Jenkins, Joe

    1983 - Carson, Kit
    1986 - Portocarrero, Arnie
    1987 - Weintraub, Phil
    1988 - Linke, Ed
    1991 - Wilke, Harry
    1998 - Campanis, Al
    2000 - Stewart, Bud

    2015 - Hamilton, Darryl


   





     


   





     



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This Date In White Sox History - June 21st



 

June 21, 1956 - Jack Harshman tosses a one-hitter in the White Sox 1-0 victory over the Orioles. The opposing Baltimore hurlers, Connie Johnson and George Zuverink, also combined to yield only one hit to the Chicago batters in the Comiskey Park contest.

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June 21, 1989 - Carlton Fisk surpasses Yogi Berra as the American League leader for career home runs by a catcher. The White Sox backstop's 307th home run helps to beat the Yankees, 7-3 at Yankee Stadium.

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June 21, 2001 - Returning to the major leagues after a stint with Newark Bears of the independent Atlantic League, Jose Canseco starts as the designated hitter for the White Sox. The former All Star, who has 446 career home runs (23rd all time), didn't get any offers after being released by the Angels in the spring.

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    On June 22 in Baseball History...


    1925 - Max Carey gets two hits in both the first and eighth innings when the Pirates beat the Cardinals at Sportsman's Park, 24-6. The feat will not be accomplished again until Rennie Stennett, also with Pittsburgh, collects two hits in one inning twice, the first and the fifth frames, in 1975.

    1926 - The Cardinals pick up 39-year-old Grover Cleveland Alexander on waivers from the Cubs to help in the pennant chase. He'll go 9-7 down the stretch.

    1932 - The National League finally approves the use of uniform numbers to identify players. Although some teams in the AL implemented digits on their jerseys on a regular basis a few seasons ago, the Senior Circuit had refused to follow suit, probably as the result of the Cardinals being harassed by opposing players and fans when they wore numerals on their sleeves in 1923.

    1936 - At Brooklyn's Ebbets Field, Ival Goodman hits an unusual home run when his fifth-inning fly ball lands and stays on top of the scoreboard in right field. With the perched ball considered in play, the three Dodger outfielders watch the Reds' right fielder round the bases for an easy inside-the park round-tripper in their 7-2 loss to Cincinnati.


    1941 - In their 5-4 victory over Detroit, the Yankees establish a new record by hitting at least one home run in 18 straight contests. Joe DiMaggio's sixth inning blast not only breaks the major league mark, previously held by the Tigers, but also continues his own consecutive game hitting streak to 35 games.

    1944 - Charley Schantz gets the win when the Phillies blank Boston for 15 innings, matching the longest shutout in franchise history. Philadelphia right-fielder Ron Northey's homer in the top of the frame scores the game's only run in the 1-0 victory at Braves Field.

    1946 - Bill Veeck heads a syndicate that purchases the Cleveland Indians. This launches Veeck on a long career as a lively promoter.

    1947 - Ewell Blackwell just misses pitching back-to-back no-hitters when Eddie Stanky of the Brooklyn Dodgers singles with one out in the ninth inning. Blackwell then gets Al Gionfriddo before Jackie Robinson bangs out a single. Blackwell wins 4-0, his ninth straight win to improve to 11-2. Stanky's hit ends Blackwell's hitless-inning skein at 19.

    1959 - Sandy Koufax goes the distance beating Philadelphia at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum, 6-2. The Dodger southpaw fans 16 Phillies to set a new record for strikeouts in a night game.

    1962 - Boog Powell becomes the first player to homer over the center field hedge at in Baltimore's Memorial Stadium.The Orioles first baseman's 469-foot blast comes off Don Schwall in the Birds 4-3 victory over Boston.

    1966 - At the Astrodome, Houston sets a home attendance mark which will last for 22 years. Dodger southpaw Sandy Koufax, who tosses a complete game to improve his record to 13-2, beats the hometown team, 5-2, in front of the 50,908 fans attending the Wednesday contest.

    1976 - Randy Jones pitches the Padres to a 4-2 win over the Giants, and ties Christy Mathewson's 63-year-old N.L. record by going 68 innings without a base on balls. He receives a standing ovation from the home crowd after striking out Darrell Evans to end the seventh. His streak ends when he walks catcher Marc Hill leading off the eighth. It is Jones's 13th win of the year.

    1977 - In a 7-4 victory over the Orioles at Memorial Stadium, the Red Sox collect their 100th round-tripper of the season, the earliest the club has ever reached the milestone. Today's homers, hit by George Scott, Jim Rice, Carlton Fisk (2) and Butch Hobson all off Jim Palmer, contribute to a major league record of 29 home runs launched by one club in a span of eight consecutive games.

    1979 - With the Orioles trailing 5-3, going into the bottom of the ninth inning, Doug DeCinces hits a two-out walk-off home run off reliever Dave Tobik to give the team a 6-5 victory over the Tigers at Memorial Stadium. The win is credited for triggering the start of "Oriole Magic”, igniting an atmosphere of unbridled enthusiasm in the Charm City for the franchise.


    1982 - Pete Rose doubles off John Stuper in the third inning of a 3-2 loss to the Cardinals for his 3,772nd career hit, moving him past Hank Aaron into second place on baseball's all-time list.

    1984 - In a teary home plate ceremony before the Twins-White Sox game at the Metrodome, Calvin Griffith and his sister, Thelma Haynes, sign a letter of intent to sell their 52 percent ownership of the Twins to Minneapolis banker Carl Pohlad for $32 million. Griffith and his sister had been involved with the franchise since 1922, when owner Clark Griffith of the then-Washington Senators adopted them.


    1987 - Tom Seaver abandons his comeback attempt with the injury-riddled Mets and retires with a career record of 311-205, an ERA of 2.86, 3,640 strikeouts, and 61 shutouts.

    1990 - The last-place Braves fire manager Russ Nixon and replace him with general manager Bobby Cox, who last managed Toronto in 1985.

    1993 - On his final day as a professional baseball player, 45 year-old White Sox backstop Carlton Fisk catches his 2,226th game to surpass Bob Boone as the all-time leader. 'Pudge' played the first 11 seasons in his 24-year major league career with the Red Sox.



    1994 - Hitting his 31st home run of the season, Ken Griffey Jr. breaks Babe Ruth's record for most homers before July 1. Although the Yankee slugger needed only 63 games to reach 30 homers in 1928 and 68 games in 1930, Junior accomplishes the feat in the Mariners' 70th game of the season.

    1994 - In the Mets' 5-2 victory at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, southpaw closer John Franco picks up his 253rd save‚ breaking Dave Righetti's record for most saves by a lefthander.. The first two Braves' batters in the lineup, Roberto Kelly and Jeff Blauser‚ both hit home runs off New York starter Pete Smith, but the back-to-back first inning round-trippers will prove to be the only scoring done by the team for the rest of the game.

    1998 - At Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, the Marlins defeat the Devil Rays in an inter-league contest, 3-2. The Citrus Series contest marks the first time the two major league teams from Florida have faced one another in the regular season.

    1999 - Although he has been dead for fifty-one years, Hack Wilson is awarded another RBI increasing his major league RBI record to 191. The commissioner's office revises the total after baseball's historian Jerome Holtzman discovered the Cubs outfielder did not get credit for driving in Kiki Cuyler with a third-inning single inning in a game played in July of 1930.

    2001 - The Braves trade John Rocker along with minor league third baseman Troy Cameron to the Indians in a four-player deal in return for relievers Steve Karsay and Steve Reed as well as cash. The Atlanta fireballer became a national figure after his negative comments about New Yorkers, homosexuals, unwed moms and immigrants appeared in Sports Illustrated.

    2002 - Commissioner Bud Selig decides to postpone the scheduled game between St. Louis and the Cubs when pitcher Darryl Kile is found dead in his Chicago hotel room. The 33-year old Cardinal pitcher is found dead in his Chicago hotel room apparently dying from natural causes as no signs of forced entry or foul play are found.


    2006 = Opposing a pitcher who was born in the year before he began in major league career, Roger Clemens makes his much-hyped season debut against the Twins. The 'Rocket', starting his 23-year major league season, is bested by Francisco Liriano, a 22-year-old pitching sensation from the Dominican Republic, as Minnesota beats the Astros, 4-2.

    2007 - The fifth longest consecutive game streak in baseball history comes to an end at 1,152 as Migel Tejada sits out when Baltimore plays the Diamondbacks in Arizona. The Oriole shortstop, who was struck by San Diego's Doug Brocail two games ago resulting in non-displaced fracture of the left radius, continued his streak yesterday with an attempted sac bunt, but was lifted for a pinch runner in the first inning.

    2010 - The Milwaukee Brewers released Brian Bruney.

    2011 - The Marlins tie the franchise record for most losses in a month when they are beat by the Angels in 10 innings, 6-5. The defeat is team's 20th out of 22 decisions in June.

    2011 - In the nightcap of a twin bill split with New York, Chris Heisey blasts three homers and drives in half of the Reds' runs in the team's 10-2 inter-league rout of the Bronx Bombers. The Cincinnati leadoff hitter goes deep off Brian Gordon in the first and fifth, and in the eighth frame connects off Hector Noesi in the Great American Ball Park contest.

    2016 - The Chicago White Sox claimed Juan Minaya from Houston Astros on waivers.




    Baseball Birthdays on June 22...

    1860 - O'Brien, Tom
    1877 - Thompson, Gus
    1879 - Zalusky, Jack
    1884 - Roy, Charlie
    1885 - Donalds, Ed
    1887 - Fisher, Red
    1887 - Hitt, Roy
    1888 - Whaling, Bert
    1888 - Kauffman, Dick
    1890 - Fitzgerald, Mike
    1892 - Mercer, John
    1893 - Pezold, Larry
    1897 - Mizeur, Bill
    1899 - Moon, Leo
    1900 - Poetz, Joe
    1903 - Hubbell, Carl
    1907 - Puccinelli, George
    1909 - Rosenberg, Harry
    1914 - Asbell, Jim
    1914 - Newlin, Maury
    1920 - Masterson, Walt
    1931 - Throneberry, Faye
    1934 - Snyder, Russ

    1936 - Bronstad, Jim
    1937 - O'Rourke, Charlie
    1937 - Wood, Jake
    1942 - Heiser, Roy
    1949 - Tomlin, Dave
    1949 - Hodges, Ron
    1951 - Anderson, Mike
    1952 - Scarbery, Randy

    1953 - Thomas, Roy
    1960 - Booker, Greg
    1964 - Hunter, Jim
    1966 - Brito, Jorge
    1971 - Brown, Brant
    1971 - Sackinsky, Brian
    1972 - del Toro, Miguel
    1974 - Yan, Esteban
    1975 - Kawakami, Kenshin
    1978 - Ferrari, Anthony
    1978 - Harris, Willie

    1979 - Hawpe, Brad
    1980 - Maza, Luis
    1982 - Kinsler, Ian
    1982 - Motte, Jason
    1984 - Raos, Cesar
    1990 - Ceciliani, Darrell
    1994 - Vielma, Engelb
    1995 - O'Neill, Tyler



    Baseball Deaths on June 22...

    1903 - Briody, Fatty
    1908 - Mills, Everett
    1910 - Doran, Tom
    1919 - Woerlin, Joe
    1926 - Crotty, Joe
    1930 - Dam, Bill
    1953 - Hemphill, Charlie
    1955 - Hayes, Frankie

    1956 - Forsythe, Ed
    1959 - Bubser, Hal
    1974 - Blankenship, Homer
    1988 - Edwards, Hank
    1991 - Owen, Marv
    1993 - Phillips, Bubba

    2002 - Kline, Ron
    2002 - Kile, Darryl
    2003 - Kinzy, Harry

    2006 - Campbell, Paul

   


   


   





   






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Today In White Sox History - June 22nd






June 22, 1938 - White Sox outfielder Hank Steinbacher becomes the second player in franchise history to rap out six hits in a game. Steinbacher goes 6 for 6 with two RBI and three runs scored in the Sox 16 - 3 win over the Senators at Comiskey Park.

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On June 23 in Baseball History...


    1915 - In his major league debut, Bruno Hass tosses a complete game, but loses to the Yankees at Shibe Park, 15-7. The 24-year old southpaw, known as Boon, issues 16 walks during the nine-inning contest establishing a post-1900 major league record.

    1917 - Boston pitcher Babe Ruth starts against Washington. He walks leadoff man Eddie Foster, griping to plate umpire Brick Owens after each pitch. On ball four, Ruth plants a right to the umpire's jaw. He is ejected, and Ernie Shore relieves. Foster is caught stealing, and Shore retires all 26 men he faces in a 4-0 win, getting credit in the books for a perfect game.

    1930 - The Dodgers get twelve consecutive hits in a 19-6 win over the Pirates at Forbes Field. Two of the dozen hits in the eight-run sixth inning include a pair of homers hit by Brooklyn outfielder Babe Herman.

    1932 - Lou Gehrig plays his 1,103rd successive game in a Yankees uniform, equaling Joe Sewell's record with one team (Cleveland).

    1933 - The Dodgers get twelve consecutive hits in a 19-6 win over the Pirates at Forbes Field. Two of the dozen hits in the eight-run sixth inning include a pair of homers hit by Brooklyn outfielder Babe Herman.

    1933 - With his 2-for-5 performance at the plate in Washington's 7-3 victory over Chicago, Joe Cronin sets a major league record by collecting 15 hits in four consecutive games. The Senators' player-manager's recent offensive output also includes two four-hit games and another with five.


    1946 - At the Polo Grounds, Eddie Waitkus and Marv Rickert hit back-to-back inside-the-park home runs in the fourth inning. The Cubs, however, still lose to the Giants, 15-10.

    1950 - The game's eleventh round-tripper, a ninth inning game-winning home run by Hoot Evers, gives the Tigers a dramatic a 10-9 victory over the Yankees. The decisive four-bagger in the Bronx sets the major league record for the most homers ever hit in a single game.

    1961 - Sam Mele is named to replace Cookie Lavagetto as the manager of the Twins during the team's first season in Minnesota. As a coach, the Astoria, New York native filled in as the skipper of the club while Lavagetto took a seven-game leave of absence in earlier in the month.

    1961 - Ernie Banks voluntarily takes the bench as a sore knee brings his 717 consecutive-games-played streak to an end.

    1962 - Larry Doby, retired from the Cleveland Indians, signs on with the Chunichi Dragons. He becomes, with Don Newcombe, the first former major league player to toil for a Japanese team. Doby's season batting average will be a mediocre .225.

    1963 - After taking Phillies pitcher Dallas Green deep, Jimmy Piersall runs around the bases in the correct order, but backward, to celebrate his 100th career home run. Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick, who was in the stands, was not amused. The Mets' outfielder, who thought of the stunt after being disappointed by the lack of attention Duke Snider's 400th round-tripper received, will be released two days later by manager Casey Stengel.


    1963 - The Colt .45's streak of 40 consecutive innings without scoring a run ends with Howie Goss's second inning rbi-single in an 8-1 loss to Cincinnati at Crosley Field. Houston will immediately begin another scoreless streak of 30 innings before scoring again.

    1971 - In addition to hitting two home runs and driving in three runs, Rick Wise throws only 95 pitches to 28 batters to no-hit the Reds, 4-0. The Phillies' hurler will again hit two home runs in the same game this season against San Francisco in August.

    1973 - Twenty days after pitching his high school team to a state championship, Rangers' rookie David Clyde pitches five innings, strikes out eight and allows just one hit in his first major league start as Texas defeats the Twins, 4-3. A crowd of 35,698 fans, the first sellout at Arlington Stadium, sees the debut of the 18-year-old phenom, $125,000 bonus baby.

    1973 - For the fourth consecutive game that he pitches during the month of June, Phillies' hurler Ken Brett hits a home run. The right-hander will end his 14-year career with ten round-trippers, 307 less than his brother George.

    1973 - In his major league debut‚ Jesse Jefferson loses his shut out when Red Sox third baseman Rico Petrocelli's two-out, ninth inning solo home run ties the Fenway Park contest. The 24 year-old rookie right-hander will hang on to get the complete game victory after the Orioles score a run in the 10th to beat Boston, 2-1.

    1981 - Dave Koza scores Marty Barrett with a bases-loaded single in the bottom of the 33rd inning, giving Pawtucket a 3-2 win over Rochester and ending the longest game in professional baseball history. The game had been suspended April 19 after 32 innings and eight hours, seven minutes of play, but the continuation took only eighteen minutes to complete. Bob Ojeda pitches one inning to earn the win.

    1984 - Chicago's Ryne Sandberg hit two late-inning home runs off St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bruce Sutter to tie the game twice as the Cubs went on to win 12-11 in 11 innings. Sandberg led off the ninth inning with a solo home run to tie the game 9-9 then hit a two-run, two-out homer in the 10th to tie the game 11-11.

    1984 - The Roger Maris Museum opens in the West Acres Shopping Center located in Fargo, North Dakota. Nearly 2,000 visitors are attracted to the 72-foot showcase which features memorabilia from the slugger’s 12-year big league career, including a ticket stub from the 162nd game of the 1961 season.

    1986 - The Braves strand 18 runners on base establishing a National League record. Enough Atlanta players do score to give the team a 6-5 victory over L.A. at Dodger Stadium.

    1988 - George Steinbrenner fires Billy Martin for the fifth time, replacing him with Lou Piniella. In 1985, Piniella was fired and replaced by Martin. In 1985, Martin was fired and replaced by Piniella. New York's 40-28 record is the fourth best in the big leagues, but the Yankees had just completed a 2-7 road trip.

    1993 - Jay Buhner becomes the first player in Mariners history to hit for the cycle. To complete the task, the right fielder triples and will score the winning run in the 14th inning of an 8-7 victory over the A's at the Kingdome.

    1994 - Replays show that A's pitcher Bobby Witt beat Kansas City's Greg Gagne to first base in the sixth inning, but umpire Gary Cedarstrom sees it differently. The infield hit is the only blemish on what otherwise would have been a perfect game.

    1995 - 'Marvelous' Marv Throneberry, known best by his antics as a Met, dies from cancer at the age of 60. The first baseman's gaffes on the field became emblematic of the hapless new franchise in the Big Apple.

    1996 - The Yankees complete a four-game sweep of the Indians in Cleveland for the first time since 1964.

    1996 - In a 5-4 Cubs' loss in San Diego, Brant Brown continues his torrid pace at the plate collecting two hits in three at bats at Jack Murphy Stadium. The rookie first baseman has collected 15 hits, including four home runs, in his first 34 career major league at-bats.

    2003 - Stealing second base at Pacific Bell Park in the 11th inning, Barry Bonds becomes the first player to hit 500 homers and steal 500 bases in his career. The Giants' left fielder may not only be the charter member of the 500-500 club, many believe, including him, he will most likely be only member, as no one else may ever reach this plateau.

    2005 - Making his professional debut, Yakima Bears hurler Ryan Doherty pitches a perfect sixth and seventh, striking out three of the six batters he faces, during a 3-2 loss to the Vancouver Canadians. At 7’1”, the right-hander from Toms River, New Jersey, who signed a free-agent contract with the Diamondbacks after pitching for Notre Dame, becomes the tallest pitcher in professional baseball history surpassing Jon Rauch who stands a mere 6 feet-11 inches.

    2006 - White Sox starter Jose Contreras establishes a franchise mark, surpassing LaMarr Hoyt and Wilson Alvarez, by winning his 16th consecutive decision as Chicago beat the Astros 7-4 in a match up of last year's World Series rivals. The Cuban right-hander, whose last defeat occurred on August 15 last season against the Twins, hasn't been beaten in his past 21 regular season starts.


    2006 - Defeating the Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre, 6-1, the Mets set a club record winning their ninth straight decision on the road. The team had won their eight decisions on a ten-game road trip including stops in Los Angeles, Arizona, and Philadelphia.

    2008 - In an inter-league contest against the Mets at Shea Stadium, Mariners' right-hander Felix Hernandez becomes the first pitcher in the 31-year history of the franchise to hit a home run. The round-tripper, which comes off fellow Venezuela ace Johan Santana, is also the first grand slam hit by an American League pitcher since Steve Dunning of the Indians homered off A’s moundsman Diego Segui in 1971.


    2010 - In a move that surprises its players, the fourth-place Marlins (34-36) fire their manager, Fredi Gonzalez along with bench coach Carlos Tosca and hitting coach Jim Presley. Edwin Rodriguez, the skipper of the team’s Triple-A affiliate in New Orleans, is named to fill the position on an interim basis.

    2011 - Upset by the management's lack of commitment about his future with the team, Nationals manager Jim Riggleman resigns abruptly after the team beats Seattle, 1-0. The club, having won 11 of their past 12 games, are 38-37 at time of the departure of their skipper.

    2012 - Jim Thome sets a major league mark with his 13th career walk-off home run, a solo shot over the let-field wall in the bottom of the ninth inning giving the Phillies a dramatic 7-6 victory over Tampa Bay. Before today's historic round-tripper at Citizens Bank Park, the 41-year-old five-time All Star Thome had shared the record with five Hall of Famers: Jimmie Fox, Mickey Mantle, Babe Ruth, Stan Musial, and Frank Robinson.


    2014 - Devin Mesoraco becomes the first major leaguer to hit a solo, two-run, three-run, and grand slam homer sequentially in successive games when he blasts a ninth-inning four-bagger in the Reds’ 6-1 victory over Chicago at Wrigley Field. The 26 year-old Cincinnati catcher, who will extend his round-tripper streak to five consecutive games with a solo shot tomorrow, accomplishes the unusual feat by clearing the fences at PNC Park (solo HR), Great American Ball Park (two and three-run HRS), and Wrigley Field (grand slam).


    2015 - The Philadelphia Phillies released Jayson Nix.



    Baseball Birthdays on June 23...

    1850 - Bird, George
    1861 - Jackson, Henry
    1875 - Nops, Jerry
    1877 - Hardy, Jack
    1884 - Egan, Dick
    1886 - Priest, Johnny
    1890 - Calhoun, Bill
    1890 - Williams, Harry
    1895 - Smith, Jack
    1900 - Harris, Bill
    1902 - Pettit, Leon
    1906 - Foley, Ray
    1907 - Cooke, Dusty
    1910 - Perrin, Bill
    1912 - Ford, Gene
    1913 - Cox, Bill
    1915 - Robinson, Aaron
    1915 - Humphries, Johnny

    1916 - Jungels, Ken
    1917 - Sanford, Jack
    1917 - Floyd, Bubba
    1920 - Donahue, Deacon
    1924 - Schaeffer, Harry
    1931 - Spooner, Karl
    1937 - Haller, Tom
    1949 - Goltz, Dave
    1956 - Johnson, Tony
    1958 - Barrett, Marty
    1960 - Deshaies, Jim
    1960 - Rabb, John
    1962 - Beasley, Chris
    1965 - Walker, Mike
    1967 - Meulens, Hensley
    1970 - Castillo, Juan
    1974 - Hendrickson, Mark
    1982 - Daley, Matt
    1989 - McGuire, Deck
    1993 - Anderson, Tim




    Baseball Deaths on June 23...

    1894 - Say, Jimmy
    1902 - Firth, Ted
    1908 - Traffley, Bill
    1911 - O'Rourke, John
    1924 - Gallagher, Shorty
    1928 - Kittridge, Malachi
    1931 - Cross, Clarence
    1941 - Nelson, Bill
    1949 - Godar, John
    1954 - Massey, Roy
    1958 - Boehler, George
    1959 - Hitchc0ck, Jim
    1967 - Bashang, Al
    1967 - Gilbert, Tookie
    1970 - Reynolds, Ross
    1973 - Aberson, Cliff
    1974 - Boucher, Al
    1975 - Callaghan, Marty
    1976 - Warneke, Lon
    1985 - Anderson, Alf
    1989 - Anderson, Rick
    1994 - Throneberry, Marv
    1994 - Dobson, Joe
    1999 - Haas, Bert

    2000 - Tillman, Bob
    2003 - Smith, Bob
    2006 - Wells, Leo

    2007 - Beck, Rod








     





       


   



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This Date In White Sox History - June 23rd





 


June 23, 2006 - White Sox starter José Contreras establishes a franchise mark, surpassing LaMarr Hoyt and Wilson Alvarez, by winning his 16th consecutive decision as Chicago beat the Astros 7-4 in a match up of last year's World Series rivals. The Cuban right-hander, whose last defeat occurred on August 15 last season against the Twins, hasn't been beaten in his past 21 regular season starts. White Sox outfielder Scott Podsednik had two hits including his second homer of the season and drove in four runs in the game.

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 On June 24 in Baseball History...


    1936 - Joe DiMaggio becomes the first Yankee and fifth player in major league history to hit two home runs in one inning. The 21-year old rookie outfielder’s homers come in the fifth frame in an 18-11 trouncing of the White Sox at Comiskey Park.

    1946 - Traveling at dusk in a light rain on Washington's Highway 10 en route to Bremerton, eight Spokane Indians players and their manager, Mel Cole, are killed when their team bus veers off a Cascade Mountain pass road to avoid an oncoming car approximately sixty miles east of Seattle. Jack Lohrke, a future infielder with the Giants and Phillies, will become known as 'Lucky', having left the bus at its last stop 15 minutes before the accident at Snoqualmie Pass because he had received orders to report to San Diego.

    1947 - At Forbes Field, Jackie Robinson steals home in the Dodgers’ 4-2 victory over the Pirates. It is the Brooklyn infielder's first thievery of the dish, something the rookie will accomplish 19 times during his ten-year career.

    1950 - Giants' catcher Wes Westrum hits three home runs and a triple. The 27-year old backstop's fifteen total bases help New York defeat Cincinnati at the Polo Grounds, 12-2.

    1950 - Willie Mays makes his professional baseball debut playing centerfield for Trenton, the Giants' farm team in the Class B Inter State League. The 20-year old outfielder from Alabama goes hitless in the game against Hagerstown in Maryland, but will hit .353 in 81 games, before being promoted to the the Minneapolis Millers, the Triple A affiliate of the parent club.

    1953 - The Braves sign right-hander Joey Jay from Middletown, Connecticut as an amateur free agent. The 17-year old bonus baby will become the first former Little Leaguer to play in the major leagues.

    1955 - In an 18-7 Washington loss to the Tigers, Senator third baseman Harmon Killebrew hits his first major league home run. The 18-year old rookie, who becomes known as 'Killer', will finish his 22-year Hall of Fame career with 573 homers.

    1960 - Stan Musial returns to the Cardinals' lineup after being benched at the start of the season by skipper Solly Hemus, who tried to implement a youth movement in the organization. The 39-year old future Hall of Famer responds with a single in the team's 4-3 loss to Philadelphia.

    1962 - The longest game ever played in Yankee history ends thanks to a home run hit by Jack Reed in the 22nd inning. The Mississippi native's lone big league career homer helps the Bronx Bombers beat Detroit in Tiger Stadium, 9-7.

    1968 - Jim Northrup becomes the sixth big leaguer to hit two grand slams in the same game. The “Slammer’s” power surge in the fifth (off Eddie Fisher) and sixth (off Billy Rohr) frames enable the Tigers to rout the Indians at Cleveland Stadium, 14-3.
 
    1969 - Phillies skipper Bob Skinner suspends Dick Allen indefinitely after the slugger fails to appear for a twilight doubleheader at Shea Stadium against New York. The 27-year old first baseman, who will be reinstated on July 20, got stuck in traffic after watching a horse race in New Jersey.


    1970 - In the last game ever played at Crosley Field, Lee May and Johnny Bench hit back-to-back home runs in the eighth to give the Reds a 5-4 win. After the game home plate is presented to Mayor Eugene Ruehlman and is flown by helicopter to the Reds' new home, Riverfront Stadium.

    1970 - After fouling off a ninth-inning "Folly Floater" thrown by Steve Hamilton in the eventual 7-2 Cleveland victory at Yankee Stadium, Tony Horton asks the New York hurler to throw him the pitch again. The Indians first baseman crawls back to the dugout when his second foul ball is caught by backstop Thurman Munson.


    1972 - Culminating a long battle to reach pro baseball, Bernice Gera umpires the first game of a doubleheader between Auburn and Geneva (New York-Pennsylvania League). Several disputes take place and she ejects the Auburn manager. Gera resigns before the second game, leaving in tears.

    1974 - Steve Busby retires the first nine White Sox to set an A.L. record with 33 consecutive batsmen retired. The Royals lose, however, 3-1.

    1977 - After hitting what appears to be a three-run homer in the third inning at Metropolitan Stadium, Ralph Garr is called out for passing teammate Jim Essian, who waited at first base to make sure the ball cleared the fence. The White Sox outfielder is awarded a two-run single, but the mistake proves costly when Chicago loses the game in Minnesota, 7-6.

    1979 - In a 5-1 defeat to Texas, future Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson makes his major league debut with the A's. The 20-year old outfielder singles and doubles and swipes the first of his 1,406 stolen bases, a major league record.

    1983 - Milwaukee's Don Sutton strikes out Alan Bannister in the eighth inning of a 3-2 win over Cleveland to become the eighth pitcher in major-league history with 3,000 career strikeouts. County Stadium is packed with 46,037 fans for the game, mostly to welcome back popular outfielder Gorman Thomas, who was traded to Cleveland earlier in the month.

    1987 - The Mets play their 5000th game in team history losing to Philadelphia at Veterans Stadium, 6-3. Although the New York has a record of 527 wins and 473 losses in its last thousand games, the franchise is still 338 games under .500 since playing it first game as an expansion team in 1962.

    1988 - In one of the longest games ever played, it takes 27 innings for the Bluefield Orioles to beat the hometown Burlington Indians, 3-2. The Appalachian League contest, which ended at 3:27 in the morning, lasted eight hours and 15 minutes.

    1988 - In a tribute held at Shea Stadium, Tom Seaver (41) becomes the only Met player to have his uniform number retired. In addition to managers Casey Stengel (37) and Gil Hodges (14), the future Hall of Fame right-hander, who compiled a 198-124 record (.615) during a dozen seasons with the Amazins, becomes the third person to be honored by the franchise in this manner.


    1989 - Cardinals outfielder Vince Coleman steals his 39th and 40th consecutive bases in a 5-2 loss to the Pirates to break the major-league record set by Davey Lopes in 1975. Coleman has not been caught stealing since September 15, 1988.

    1992 - Much to the protest of the Yankees brass, Fay Vincent permanently suspends pitcher Steve Howe for repeated drug offenses, after the left-handed reliever is arrested for buying a gram of coc@ine. In November, an arbitrator will overturn the lifetime ban allowing the the former Rookie of the Year to enjoy one of his best seasons when he saves 15 games with a 1.80 ERA for the Bronx Bombers in 1994 .

    1993 - During the Marlins' fire sale, San Diego goes shopping and acquires Gary Sheffield, Rich Rodriguez, and an unheralded rookie right-hander. The little-known freshman reliever is Trevor Hoffman, who will go on to save 552 games for the Padres during his fifteen and half years with the franchise.

    1994 - Jeff Bagwell of the Astros becomes the 28th player to hit two home runs in one inning when he connects twice in the sixth against the Dodgers. Bagwell adds another homer in the eighth.

    1997 - Randy Johnson ties Steve Carlton's major-league record for lefthanders with 19 strikeouts against the Oakland A's. He breaks Ron Guidry's A.L. mark for lefties, but like Carlton, Johnson takes the loss in his 19-K game. Mark McGwire's 538-foot home run powers Oakland to a 4-1 victory.

    2003 - With a bunt single in the second, a double in the fifth, a triple in the sixth, and a homer in the seventh, Brad Wilkerson becomes the fifth Expo player to hit for the cycle. The left fielder's 4-for-4 performance, which drives in four runs, enables Montreal to beat Pittsburgh, 6-4.

    2003 - After enjoying a 6-for-6 performance against Philadelphia three days ago, Nomar Garciaparra goes 5-for-5 in the Red Sox' 10-1 rout of Detroit at Fenway Park. All eleven hits are singles.

    2004 - In a slugfest at the Skydome, Julio Lugo goes 5-for-5 to set a club record for hits in a game. The Toronto shortstop's effort isn't enough to stop the Devil Rays as they pound out 24 hits en route to a 19-13 rout of the Blue Jays.

    2005 - Due to Bernie Williams dropping a ball in center field, the Mets become the first National League team to hit three sacrifice flies in one inning. Backstop Ramon Castro's sac fly to right ties the game at 1-1 as David Wright advances to third; the Yankees' center fielder then drops Jose Reyes' deep fly ball allowing Wright to score; Mike Cameron skies to right plating Mientkiewicz, who had advanced to third on an errant pick off throw.

    2008 - The Cleveland Indians signed Tony Graffanino as a free agent.

    2008 - During an eventual 11-0 inter-league loss to the Mariners at Shea Stadium, Brian Runge enrages Jerry Manuel when the ump appears to show up Carlos Beltrán after calling a strike on the center fielder. The commissioner’s office will suspend the home plate umpire for one game for bumping the Mets manager during the ensuing heated argument, with the New York skipper and outfielder, who were both thrown out of the game, being fined for arguing balls and strikes.

    2008 - The Chiefs and Dragons bench-clearing brawl, which results in 15 players being ejected, although some will be allowed back into the game so that the teams could complete the Midwest League contest, starts when Peoria right-hander Julio Castillo, fires a ball toward the Dayton dugout causing both teams to charge the Fifth Third Field. The 20-year-old Dominican starter will be arrested on a felony assault charge because his errant throw ricochets into the crowd hitting a male fan.


    2011 - In New York's 4-2 loss to Colorado, A.J. Burnett becomes the first Yankee hurler to strike out four hitters in one inning. The right-hander starts the sixth frame by whiffing Rockies batters Chris Iannetta and Carlos Gonzalez and when Chris Nelson reaches first base after swinging at a wild pitch for a third strike, he faces Todd Helton and strikes him out swinging to end the inning.

    2011 - Michael Kacer, a 29-year old veteran, who lost his arm during a rocket attack in Afghanistan, makes an amazing grab of Curtis Granderson's foul ball at Yankee Stadium. The event attracts national attention when the video of the catch becomes viral on the web, and with ESPN including it in its top plays segment on SportsCenter.

    2011 - The Nationals name bench coach John McLaren as the interim manager to replace the departed Jim Riggleman, who surprised the team by quitting yesterday. Washington GM Mike Rizzo indicates the appointment is just for a few games, and will name Davey Johnson as the long-term replacement in the next few days.

    2011 - For the second time in two years a club plays as a road team in their own ballpark when the Marlins' three-game series with the Mariners is shifted to Safeco Field due to preparations at Sun Life Stadium for a U2 concert to be held in Miami. Last season, MLB moved the Blue Jays home series against the Phillies, scheduled to be played at Rogers Centre, due to security concerns raised because of protests at the G20 Summit that is being held near the Toronto stadium.

    2011 - In their 5-1 inter-league loss to the Rays at Minute Maid Park, the Astros become the first team to use three pitchers with the same last name in a single game. Houston starter Wandy Rodriguez is followed to the mound by Fernando Rodriguez in the seventh and eighth with Aneury Rodriguez tossing a scoreless ninth frame.

    2012 - The Boston Red Sox traded Kevin Youkilis and cash to the Chicago White Sox in exchange for Brent Lillibridge and Zach Stewart.


    2013 - At Tropicana Field, the Rays halt the Blue Jays' 11-game winning streak, 4-3, thanks to back-to-back-to-back home runs in the second inning by James Loney, Wil Myers, and Sam Fuld. It is the second time in franchise history that the team has hit three consecutive home runs; Evan Longoria, Willy Aybar and Dioner Navarro accomplished the feat in Anaheim in 2008.

    2014 - Devin Mesoraco homers in his fifth consecutive game, tying a Reds' record, previously accomplished by Ted Kluszewski (1954), George Crowe (1957), Johnny Bench (1972), Ken Griffey Jr. (2003), and Adam Dunn (2008). The Cincinnati catcher's clout comes in the ninth inning of the team's 7-3 loss to Chicago at Wrigley Field.

    2016 - The Lexington Legends, a Class A affiliate of the Royals, are giving away a Glenn Hubbard bobble head, depicting him with a snake draped around his neck. The inspiration of the minor league team’s promotion is based on the former Braves infielder’s 1984 Fleer baseball card which he posed holding a real, eight-foot boa constrictor.






    Baseball Birthdays on June 24...

    1865 - Nash, Billy
    1867 - Stenzel, Jake
    1869 - Weyhing, John
    1869 - Baker, Kirtley
    1872 - Katoll, Jack

    1876 - Hanlon, Bill
    1882 - Kull, John
    1884 - Fetzer, Willy
    1886 - Cook, Doc
    1887 - Keupper, Henry
    1889 - Musser, Paul
    1891 - Clauss, Al
    1892 - Harper, George
    1892 - Fahey, Howard
    1904 - Reeves, Bobby
    1907 - Hemsley, Rollie
    1913 - Kelleher, Hal
    1915 - Adams, Buster
    1917 - Gerheauser, Al
    1923 - Hoderlein, Mel
    1925 - Banta, Jack
    1935 - Dees, Charlie
    1937 - Campbell, Jim
    1938 - Mincher, Don
    1951 - Bruhert, Mike
    1951 - Reitz, Ken
    1956 - Vukovich, George
    1957 - Jones, Doug
    1958 - Klawitter, Tom
    1962 - Mitchell, Charlie
    1973 - Ryan, Rob
    1973 - Hodges, Kevin
    1973 - Nye, Ryan
    1979 - Romano, Jason
    1980 - Bernier, Doug
    1986 - Hughes, Philip
    1987 - Francisco, Juan
    1987 - Freeman, Sam
    1989 - Ross, Robbie
    1993 - Chacin, Alejandro



    Baseball Deaths on June 24...

    1906 - Strauss, Joe
    1907 - Klusman, Billy
    1921 - Hall, Charlie
    1922 - O'Leary, Dan
    1928 - Cox, Frank
    1940 - Adams, Bert
    1940 - Lindstrom, Axel
    1957 - Burns, Jack
    1959 - Ogrodowski, Joe
    1965 - Humphries, Johnny

    1967 - Castleton, Roy
    1969 - Perrin, John
    1974 - Burns, Joe
    1984 - Roberts, Jim
    1986 - Hanning, Loy
    1987 - Newman, Fred
    1991 - Swartz, Bud
    1992 - Curtis, Vern
    2003 - Bruner, Jack

    2006 - Zachary, Chink
    2011 - Myers, Richie
    2012 - Akerfelds, Darrel
















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This Date In White Sox History - June 24th




 

June 24, 1969 - Beltin' Bill Melton hit three solo home runs in the second game of a doubleheader sweep by the White Sox at Sick's Stadium in Seattle.  However it was catcher Ed Hermann who supplied the game winning solo homer with a two-out blast in the top of the ninth inning as the White Sox beat the Pilots 7-6.

Boxscore & P-B-P:    http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1969/B06242SE11969.htm


 

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