Saturday, July 2, 2011

This Date In Baseball

July 2
1903 - Washington outfielder Ed Delahanty went over a railroad bridge at Niagara Falls and drowned. The exact circumstances of his death never were determined.
1909 - The Chicago White Sox stole 12 bases, including home plate three times, in a 15-3 rout of the St. Louis Browns.
1930 - Chicago outfielder Carl Reynolds homered in the first, second and third innings, leading the White Sox to a 15-4 win over the New York Yankees. Reynolds, the second player in history to hit home runs in three consecutive innings, had two inside-the-park homers.
1933 - Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants beat the St. Louis Cardinals 1-0 in an 18-inning game. He allowed six hits and no walks. In the second game of the doubleheader, the Cardinals were blanked 1-0, with Roy Parmelee outdueling Dizzy Dean.
1941 - Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees hit a home run to extend his consecutive game hitting streak to 45 games, surpassing Willie Keeler's record of 44 straight games for the Orioles in 1897.
1963 - Juan Marichal of San Francisco beat Warren Spahn and the Milwaukee Braves 1-0 in 16 innings on Willie Mays' homer.
1995 - Hideo Nomo of the Los Angeles Dodgers became the first Japanese player picked for baseball's All-Star game. Nomo was the NL's leader in strikeouts and second in ERA.

5 comments:

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

1995 - Hideo Nomo of the Los Angeles Dodgers became the first Japanese player picked for baseball's All-Star game.

I remember that!
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Unknown said...

I too remember Nomo's AS selection.

Juan Marichal I remember more for taking a bat to Johnny Roseboro:

http://www.dodgerblues.com/content/features_fights.html#roseboro

M. Bouffant said...

Editor:

Ahem.

Unknown said...

OMG..I am a newbie here Mr. B, so I had no idea you were a baseball aficionado..and you site the same website I do!

That was one helluva fighting day wasn't it?

Great minds and all that mierda. ;-D

M. Bouffant said...

Wretched Editor;

Aficionado only so far as mocking the stereotype of the aging honky (the only demographic that still cares) & to irritate those leftish non-fans (gym-class rejects) who hate fascist sports & dumb lists.