Baseball History
This Day in Baseball History
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On July 3rd, 1968, Luis Tiant struck out 19 Twins in 10 innings as Cleveland defeated Minnesota 1-0. With that performance, Tiant set two major-league records: most strikeouts in a ten-inning game and 32 strikeouts in consecutive games (and he tied the record of 41 strikeouts in three successive appearances). Sometimes when I am bored,… Read more
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On July 1st, 1910, White Sox Park opened. The stadium, which became known as Comiskey Park, cost $750,000 to build. It was the oldest stadium in baseball when it was closed in 1990 and replaced by a new structure called then also Comiskey Park. I went to a lot of games at Old Comiskey in… Read more
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On June 30th, 1995, future Hall of Fame, Eddie Murray got his 3,000th career hit against the’s Minnesota Twins’s Mike Trombley in a 4-1 Cleveland win at the Metrodome. Murray became the 20th player to reach that milestone and the third in franchise history to do it wearing a Cleveland uniform. I was lucky enough… Read more
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On June 29th, 1990, Oakland’s Dave Stewart and the Dodgers’s Fernando Valenzuela both threw no-hitters. Stewart blanked the Toronto Blue Jays 5-0, and a few hours later Valenzuela did the same thing to the Saint Louis Cardinals with a final score of 6-0. The rareness of this event was possible because Stewart and Valenzuela were such absolute studs at their profession.… Read more
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On June 28th, 1907, Branch Rickey, then a 26-year old backup catcher for the New York Yankees, had 12 Washington Senator players steal safely on him. The Yankees, predictably, lost that day to the Senators 16-5. It is easy to forget that Branch Rickey, who is most famous for bringing Jackie Robinson to the Major… Read more
