Baseball History
This Day in Baseball History
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On June 21st, 1917, “Scrappy” Moore, played his first Major League game for the St. Louis Browns vs. the Detroit Tigers. William Allen “Scrappy” Moore was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1892. He pinch hit and played 3B in a total of 4 major leagues games in his career, all in 1917. He also Read more
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On June 18th, 1976, Commissioner Bowie Kuhn voided 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 were ‘not in the best interest of baseball.’ A’s owner Charlie Finley filed a $10 million damage suit against Kuhn, and would refuse Read more
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On June 11th, 1990, the ageless Nolan Ryan pitched his unprecedented sixth career no-hitter, striking out 14 batters in a 5-0 win over the A’s. He became the first to pitch a no-hitter for three different teams, and the first to throw a no-hitter in three different decades. Those of us who watch sports know that some Read more
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On June 10th, 1944, pitcher Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds became the youngest player in major-league history. Nuxhall, only 15 years, ten months old, pitched one-third of an inning in an 18-0 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals. He managed to give up five walks and two hits before manager Bill McKechnie took him out. I am not Read more
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On June 8th, 2015, Carlos Correa played in his first Major League Baseball game. Since shortstop Carlos Correa plays currently for my local nine, the Minnesota Twins, I get to see him play regularly. When he and Byron Buxton are healthy, I don’t think there is a better shortstop-centerfielder combination in the game. Correa has Read more
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On June 4th, 1992, San Jose voters tell the Giants they don’t want them by rejecting a plan to build a new stadium in their town. Then the Astros add insult to injury by swatting the ball every which way in a 12-6 drubbing at Candlestick Park in front of just 8,850. Billionaires are a Read more
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On May 27th, St. Louis Cardinals Rookie Leon Durham went 1 for 5 with 1 RBI in first Major League game, as the Cards lost to the New York Mets 5-9. When I first moved to Chicago and started to regularly attend Cubs games, Leon “Bull” Durham was a fixture. In his 10-year career with Read more
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On May 24th, 1962, former Washington Senator and Cleveland infielder George “Rabbit” Nill died in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I have mentioned here often before that as I “research” baseball history I am naturally drawn to players with the kind of nicknames that you do not see anymore in baseball, or society at large. “Rabbit” is Read more
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On May 21st, 1987, 24-year-old Gene Larkin played in his first Major League game. I have mentioned here before that I was lucky enough to be at Game 7 of the 1991 World Series where Jack Morris pitched 10 scoreless innings for the Minnesota Twins vs. the Atlanta Braves. The game and the series was Read more
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On May 20th, 1984, 26,731 baseball fans under the teflon sky of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome got to witness history: the first of 354 career victories by the greatest pitcher of all time.5-4. Over his Hall-of-Fame worthy career, Clemens had a ..649 Winning Percentage (24-13) against the Minnesota Twins, my local nine. The only Read more
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