Baseball from 1910 to 1919 Chronology

Cleveland Indian Cy Young gets his 500th win, beats Washington 5-4 in 11 innings.

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May 23

During the last inning in a game against Boston, Reds' Dode Paskert steals second base, third base as well as home plate.

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Jun 01

Philadelphia A's Chief Bender no-hits the Indians, 4-0.

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Jun 28

Cub shortstop Joe Tinker steals home twice becoming the first major leaguer to accomplish the feat in the same game.

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Jul 01

Comiskey Park opens to a packed house but the White Sox lose to the St. Louis Browns, 2-0. The new stadium replaced the 39th Street Grounds, home of the White Sox from 1900-10.

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Jul 10

Chicago White Sox Comiskey Park opens, visiting Browns win 2-0.

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Cleveland Nap Cy Young makes baseball history by winning his 500th game, 5-4 against Washington. Young spent 1890-1898 pitching with the Cleveland Spiders and joined the Naps from 1909-1911.

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Jul 30

Chic Cub King Cole no-hits St Louis, 4-0 in a 7 inning game.

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Jul 31

Chic Cub King Cole no-hits St Louis, 4-0 in a 7 inning game.

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Aug 04

A's Jack Coombs & White Sox Ed Walsh pitch a 16 inn scoreless tie.

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Aug 13

In a game which features each team having 38 at-bats, 13 hits, 12 assists, 2 errors, 5 strikeouts, 3 walks, 1 hit batsman, and 1 passed ball, the Pirates and the Superbas (later to be known as the Dodgers) play to what else an 8-8 tie.

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Yank Tom Hughes pitches 9 no-hit innings but loses to Cleve 5-0 in 11.

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Oct 06

Braves beat Phillies 20-7.

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Oct 09

Ty Cobb, who sits out the last two games, wins the third of his nine consecutive batting titles by edging Nap Lajoie, who had six bogus hits on the last day, by less than a percentage point.

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Oct 16

Ban Johnson, American League president, declares Tiger outfielder Ty Cobb the league's batting champ after questioning Nap Lajoie's suspicious eight-hit performance in a doubleheader against the Browns.

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Oct 20

A baseball with a cork center is used in a World Series game for the first time. The Philadelphia Athletics (managed by Connie Mack) and the Chicago Cubs (managed by P.K. Wrigley) played for the championship. (Philadelphia wins the series 4 games to 1.)

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Oct 23

A's hurler Jack Coombs picks up his record-tying third World Series win as he beats the Cubs, 7-1 as Philadelphia takes the Fall Classic in five games.

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1911

Jan 02

Brooklyn Dodgers president Charles Ebbets announces purchase of grounds to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 30,000.

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Apr 01

All National League umpires are asked by league president Tom Lynch to provide evidence of vision tests.

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Apr 04

Hugh Chalmers, automaker, suggests idea of baseball MVP.

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Apr 13

Polo Grounds grandstand & left field bleachers go up in flames.

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Apr 15

Walter Johnson strikes out 4 batters in the 5th inning.

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May 13

The New York Giants set a major-league baseball mark. Ten runners crossed home plate before the first out of the game (against St. Louis) was recorded.

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May 13

New York Giant Fred Merkle is first to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st).

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Philadelphia Athletics are 12½ games back in American League, & win the World Series.

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May 22

Braves pitcher, Cliff Curtis, loses his 23rd game in a row.

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Jun 07

Hard drinking and battling Turkey Mike Donlin returns to the Giants after having little success in vaudeville and the movies. His comeback will fall short.

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Jun 11

Tigers trailing White Sox 13-1 come back to win 16-15.

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Jun 18

In the sixth at Navin Field, the White Sox lead the Tigers, 13-1, and after eight innings, the Sox are still ahead, 15-7. The Tigers, however, score eight unanswered runs in the final two innings and win, 16-15 despite being down by as much as 12 runs.

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Jun 27

The Red Sox lose their protest about A's Stuffy McInnis hits a 'warm-up, pitch homer, but the event causes a rule change. Warm-up pitches no longer end when a player steps into the box.

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Jul 03

Ty Cobb hits in his 40th straight game. Does not get a hit next day.

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Ty Cobb goes 0 for 4 & ends a 40 game hit streak.

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Armando Marsans and Rafael Almeida become the first Cuban natives to appear in a major league game as they both make their debut for the Reds.

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Former circus acrobat Walter Carlisle completes an unassisted triple-play for Vernon (LA) of the Pacific Coast League when he catches a ball in shallow centerfield flips and touches second base and beats the runner back to first base.

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Jul 20

Boston Red Sox Smokey Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0.

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Jul 24

In a forerunner of today's All-Star Game, stars gathered at Cleveland's League Park for an exhibition against the Naps to benefit the family of the late Addie Joss. The All-Stars cruise to a 5-3 victory, but the goal of the event is accomplished - $12,931.60 is raised for the Joss family.

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Jul 29

Joe Wood of the Red Sox whiffs twelve Browns en route to a 5-0 no-hitter.

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Aug 27

Ed Walsh, Sr. of the White Sox no-hits the Red Sox, 5-0.

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Sep 07

Phillie rookie Grover Cleveland Alexander wins a pitching duel with 44-year-old Cy Young and the Boston Braves, 1-0.

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Sep 20

Yanks set team record 12 errors in a double header.

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Sep 22

At age of 44, Cy Young gains his 511th and final career win defeating the Pirates, 1-0.

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Sep 25

Ground breaking begins in Boston for Fenway Park.

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Sep 29

Yanks steal 15 bases & get 13 walks, beating Browns 16-12; with a major-league record 6 stolen bases in 1 inning.

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Oct 12

Honus Wagner closes out the season with a .334 average, good enough to earn the "Flying Dutchman" his National League record eighth, and final, batting title.

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Oct 24

The World Series is resumed after six days of rain as the A's, behind the pitching of Chief Bender, beat the Giants and Christy Mathewson 4-2 giving Philadelphia a 3-1 game lead in the Fall Classic.

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Oct 26

Connie Mack’s Philadelphia Athletics beat the NY Giants in the World Series four games to two. Led by Chief Bender, the A’s cruised to a 4-hit 13-2 victory over the Giants in game six, capped by a 7-run seventh inning. The Giants managed just 13 runs and a .175 batting average off pitchers Bender, Jack Coombs, and Eddie Plank in the Series.

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Nov 21

After a sixth place finish, Hal Chase resigns as New York Highlanders manager. The former skipper will remain a player until he is traded during the 1913 season.

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Dec 13

New York politician James E. Gaffney and former player Attorney Montgomery Ward purchase the NL franchise Boston Doves; due to Gaffney's tie to Tammany Hall, the team will be called the Braves.

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1912

Jan 02

Charles Ebbets announces the purchase of 4.5 acres to build an 18,000-seat concrete and steel stadium in the Pigtown section of Brooklyn.

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Jan 03

Plans are announced for a new $150,000 Brooklyn stadium for the Trolley Dodgers baseball team.

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Feb 27

The Yankees announce they will begin wearing pinstripes on their uniforms. It will take a few seasons (April 22, 1915) before it becomes a reality.

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Mar 04

A group of sports editors suggested to Ebbets that the field should not be called Washington Park, but "Ebbets Field."

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Mar 15

Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins.

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Apr 05

The Dodgers play an exhibition game against New York in the unofficial opening of the field.

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Apr 09

The Boston Red Sox defeated Harvard 2-0 on this, the day that Fenway Park was opened for the first time. Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski, Carlton Fisk, Jim Rice, Roger Clemens, and Babe Ruth played ball at Fenway and faced the ‘Green Monster’, the huge wall in left field. Until the Humane Society ordered him to stop, Ted Williams used to take rifle shots at the many pigeons that flew around the stadium. In 1954, a ball thrown to stop a player from making a double out of a single, hit a pigeon in flight. Allegedly, the bird fell to the ground, got up and then flew away to safer territory. The ball deflected right to the second baseman, who put the tag on the runner.

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Pinstripes first appear on Highlanders' uniforms, creating a look that would become the most famous uniform design in sports.

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Redland Field (later known as Crosley Field) is officially dedicated. The Reds beat Chicago in the first game, 10-6.

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Giants' pitcher Rube Marquard begins a nineteen-game consecutive winning streak by beating the Dodgers, 18-3

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Apr 16

Pittsburgh Pirates turn a rare 5-3-7 doubleplay (left fielder covers 2nd base).

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Apr 20

The owner of the Detroit Tigers, Frank Navin, builds Navin Field (later Tiger Stadium) opens. The Tigers win 6-5 in 11 innings over the Cleveland Indians.

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Apr 20

After two days of rain, the first game ever is finally played at Fenway Park with a comeback eleven-inning Red Sox win over the New York Highlanders, 7-6; park remains much the same today as it did when opened.

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Apr 26

First homerun hit at Fenway Park (Hugh Bradley, Red Sox).

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May 11

At the Polo Grounds, the Yankees and Senators play to a fifteen inning, 4-4 tie before the game is called because of darkness.

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May 15

Ty Cobb rushes a heckler at a New York Highlander game & is suspended.

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May 16

Due to his assault on Claude Lucker, a handicapped fan and a regular heckler, Ty Cobb is suspended. Although today's game is rained out, the Tigers meet in Philadelphia voting to boycott if the 'Georgia Peach' is not allowed to play.

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May 18

Since baseball great Ty Cobb had been suspended from playing the game, Hugh Jennings, manager of the Detroit Tigers, gave way to Cobb's teammates who said they wouldn't play unless Cobb was allowed to suit up and play, too. So, with the Tigers off the field for the day, Jennings hired the baseball team from nearby St. Joseph's College to play in place of the Tigers! It was not, to say the least, a good day for the Tigers. St. Joseph's pitcher, Aloysius Travers, was pounded by the Philadelphia Athletics 24-2. Travers gave up all 24 runs -- a single-game record.

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American League president Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will be banned from baseball.

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Jun 12

Christy Mathewson records his 300th win defeating the Cubs 3-2.

Jun 20

In a slugfest, the Giants and Braves score a total of 17 runs in the ninth inning. NY 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. NY Giant Josh Devore steals 4 bases in an inning (2nd & 3rd twice).

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Jul 03

Giant Rube Marquard of the NY Giants win his 19th consecutive game from the start of the season beating the Dodgers, 2-1.

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Tiger pitcher George Mullins celebrates the nation's birthday and his own by throwing a 7-0 no-hitter against the St. Louis Browns.

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Jul 08

Giant hurler Rube Marquard's consecutive winning streak is stopped at 19 as the Cubs defeat New York, 7-2.

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Jul 20

Phillies Sherry Magee steals home twice in 1 game.

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Yankee Guy Zinn sets record by stealing home twice in a game.

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Aug 20

Wash Senator Carl Cushion no-hits Cleve Indians, 2-0 in 6 innings.

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St Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1.

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Sep 06

NY Giant Jeff Tesreau no-hits Phila, 3-0.

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Eddie Collins steals six bases as Philadelphia beats the Tigers. 9-7. The A's second baseman will steal six bases again on September 22.

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Sep 15

Red Sox pitcher Joe Wood ties then record of 16 straight wins.

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Sep 22

Eddie Collins steals 6 bases in a game, for 2nd time in 11 days.

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Oct 01

Yanks lose game #100 en route to a 50-102 season.

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Oct 05

Yanks (Highlanders) win final game at Hilltop stadium.

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Oct 16

Giant center fielder Fred Snodgrass's error in the 10th inning leads to the Red Sox scoring two runs en route to a 3-2 World Series deciding victory.

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Nov 16

In failing health, Giant president John T. Brush dies aboard a train en route to CA. Harry Hempstead, his son in-law, will take over the club.

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1913

Jan 08

Frank Chance becomes the manager of a very weak NY Yankee team.

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Feb 01

Olympic hero Jim Thorpe signs with the New York baseball Giants.

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Feb 02

Jim Thorpe signed a pro baseball contract with the New York (baseball) Giants this day. And, if you will allow a little digression, here is some interesting history regarding Jim's transition from amateur to professional athlete. Thorpe had run into problems at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden. He was stripped of his gold medals for his pentathlon and decathlon victories when, somehow, Olympic officials learned that he had received what could be considered a pittance for playing pro baseball ... well, it was really semiprofessional baseball ... in North Carolina. Therefore, they determined that Thorpe was not an amateur and was not eligible to compete in the Olympic Games. In 1982, the decision was reversed and Jim Thorpe was honored as the record holder for the 1912 events, and co-winner with those who had received the original gold. The following year, the gold medals were finally presented to his family (30 years after his death).

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Mar 04

The Yankees become the first team to train outside of the United Stated States when they practice in Bermuda.

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Mar 08

In Indpls, John Powers, founder of last year's failed mid-western Columbian League, organizes the Federal League. To avoid the agreement of the National Commission, the upstart league will operate independently with franchises in Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Indpls, Pittsburgh and St. Louis.

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Apr 01

The Highlanders change their name to the Yankees, move to share Polo Grounds with New York Giants. (Month is April… date is unspecified).

Apr 05

In an exhibition game against the Yankees, 25,000 fans watch the Dodgers play their first game in Ebbets Field. Brooklyn beats New York, 3-2 with Casey Stengel hitting the park¹s first HR, an inside-the-parker.

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Apr 09

Ebbets Field makes it debut as 12,000 cold fans watch the Phillies beat the Dodgers,1-0.

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Apr 10

In a game which features President Woodrow Wilson throwing out the first pitch, Washington's Walter Johnson gives up an unearned run in the first inning of the home opener but will not yield another for 56 innings. The Seanators beat the Yankees, 2-1.

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Apr 29

Wearing the uniforms of the White Sox, the Reds lose to the Cubs, 7-2. The team forgot to pack uniforms and had to don those of their opponents' crosstown rivals.

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May 10

Yankees commit 8 errors & still beat Tigers 10-9 in 10 innings

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Washington Senator Walter Johnson ends record scoreless streak at 56 innings.

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May 30

John McGraw joins Fred Clarke, Cap Anson, Frank Selee, & Connie Mack as managers who have won 1,000 games.

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Jun 06

Yankees lose their thirteenth consecutive game when the team is defeated by the Indians, 2-1.

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Jun 06

Rabbit Maranville is thrown out trying to steal home 3 times.

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Jun 13

Yanks win 13th game of year after losing 36 games.

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Jun 13

In the top of the ninth inning with no outs at New York's Polo Grounds, Christy Mathewson strands a runner on third base to record his 300th career victory as the Giants edge the Cubs, 3-2. During his 17-year major league career, 'Big Six' will compile 373-188 record.

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Jun 17

A Chicago Cubs pitcher set a baseball record for the longest appearance by a reliever in a game. George ‘Zip’ Zabel came in from the bull pen with two outs in the first inning of a game at Ebbets Field in NY. George kept pitching until the 19th inning when the Cubs finally beat the Dodgers 4-3.

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Jun 20

3 of first 4 Yankees hit-by-pitch en route to a record 6 hit batsman Bert Daniels set AL mark, being hit-by-pitch 3 times in a doubleheader.

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Jun 26

After failing in Cincinnati and moving across the Ohio River to Covington, Kentucky, the Federal League team decides to relocate again. The franchise shift to Kansas City, which is American Association territory, will cause organized baseball to 'declare war' on the upstart league.

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Jun 28

Due to the relocation of the Covington, Kentucky (formerly Cincinnati) franchise to Kansas City, organized baseball declares war on the new independent Federal League. Kansas City is considered territory of the American Association.

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Jun 30

NY Giants score 10 in 10th to beat Phillies 11-1.

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Jul 16

In a game against the Cubs, Dodger second baseman George Cutshaw handles 14 chances without an error.

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Jul 18

After 68 straight innings Christy Mathewson gives up a walk.

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Jul 22

In a game against the Giants, Slim Sallee becomes the only Cardinal pitcher in history to steal home.

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Jul 25

Pirates Max Carey goes hitless, but scores 5 runs against Phillies.

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Jul 25

Carl Weilman strikes out 6 times in a 15 inning game.

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Aug 19

Grover Alexander is reached for nine straight hits and six runs as the Cubs defeat Phillies,10-4.

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Phillies lead Giants 8-6 in top of 9th, fans in bleachers try to distract Giants, Umpire forefeits game to Giants, later overruled.

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Sep 05

Phillies & Braves tie record of only 1 run in a double header, Phillies win first game 1-0, then a scoreless tie into 10th.

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Sep 14

Despite giving up fourteen hits, Cubs' pitcher Larry Cheney blanks the Giants, 7-0.

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Sep 29

Senator Walter Johnson beats the Philadelphia A's, 1-0, to finish the season with 36 victories.

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Oct 02

Phillies beat NY Giants 2 games out of 3 in a tripleheader.

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Oct 11

Phila A's beat NY Giants, 4 games to 1 in 10th World Series.

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Nov 17

Wilbert Robinson is named as the Dodgers' new manager.

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Dec 06

At Keio University Stadium in Tokyo, the White Sox defeat the Giants, 9-4 as part of their world tour. Tomorrow, a combined squad will beat the Keio University team,16-3, before the White Sox defeat the Giants again, 12-3.

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Dec 09

John K Tener becomes president of baseball's National League.

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Dec 12

The Reds trade outfielder Bob Bescher to the Giants for Buck Herzog. Herzog will play shortstop and will manage the team replacing Joe Tinker.

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Dec 13

The Reds trade outfielder Bob Bescher to the Giants for Buck Herzog. Herzog will play shortstop and will manage the team replacing Joe Tinker.

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Dec 31

Charles Weeghman signs deal for the Chicago Cubs to lease property for ballpark at Clark and Addison streets.

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1914

Feb 01

In the very first game ever to take place in the Egyptian desert, the White Sox and Giants play to a 3-3 tie. The contest was part of a 56-game world tour promoting baseball.

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Feb 11

Johnny Evers declines the Cubs' offer and elects to play for the Boston Braves.

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Apr 13

Major league baseball returns to Baltimore as the first Federal League game is played with approximately 27,000 patrons on hand to watch the Baltimore Terrapins beat Buffalo, 3-2.

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Apr 22

Babe Ruth, in his first pro game, shutouts Providence to give Baltimore a 6-0 win.

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Chicago's Jim Scott no-hits Cleveland, gives up 2 hits in 10th & loses 1-0.

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May 31

Chicago White Sox Joe Benz no-hits Cleveland Indians, 6-1.

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Jun 09

Honus Wagner becomes the second player in the history of the game to collect 3000 hits when he doubles off of Philadelphia’s Erskine Mayer.

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Jul 05

Boston Braves are 15 games back in NL, & win the World Series.

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Jul 10

Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth from the Baltimore Orioles.

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Jul 11

Babe Ruth debuted in the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox. Ruth made $2,900 his rookie season. Just six years later, his paycheck was worth $125,000 when he became a member of the NY Yankees.

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Jul 12

Babe Ruth makes his baseball debut, pitches for the Red Sox.

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Jul 17

NY Giants beat Pitts Pirates, 3-1, in 21 innings.

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Boston began what was called its miracle drive as the Braves went from worst to first in the National League. They won the pennant and the World Series as well.

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Aug 03

Yankee catcher Les Nunamaker throws out three Tigers trying to steal second base. It will be the only time a backstop has accomplished the feat in a single inning this century.

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Philadelphia A's Rube Waddell pitches a five-inning no-hit game blanking the Browns, 2-0.

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With four sacrifices in one game, Dodger Jake Daubert sets a National League record.

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Sep 09

Boston Braves' hurler George Davis no-hits the Phillies, 7-0 .

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Sep 14

After being ejected for swearing, Johnny Evers claims he was talking to the ball and not to umpire Mal Eason, but the Braves' shortstop is still suspended for three days.

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Sep 16

At the age of 23, Roger Peckinpaugh is hired as the manager of the Yankees to finish the season.

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Sep 19

Brooklyn's Ed Lafitte no-hits KC (Federal League), 6-2.

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Sep 27

Cleveland's Napoleon Lajoie doubles against the Yankees for his 3000th career hit becoming the second modern major leaguer to reach the milestone and the first in a Cleveland uniform.

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Oct 13

The 1914 Boston "Miracle" Braves complete a 4-game sweep of the heavily favored Philadelphia Athletics, 3-1, at the South End Grounds. The Miracle Braves won only 4 of their first 22 games to start the 1914 season.

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Nov 05

The ban on Sunday baseball is upheld in Washington, DC by the Court of Appeals.

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Nov 18

The Cubs name Roger Bresnahan to manage the team.

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Dec 04

Walter Johnson accepts money from Federal League Chicago Whales Clark Griffith threatens to take Johnson to court.

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Dec 08

Afraid of losing his unsigned second baseman to the upstart Federal League, Connie Mack sells Eddie Collins to the White Sox for the hefty sum of $50,000. The A's have already lost Eddie Plank and Chief Bender to the new league.

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1915

Jan 11

Col. Jacob Ruppert and Col. Tillinghast L´Hommedieu Huston purchase the Yankees for $460,000.

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Jan 27

Babe Ruth hit his first major-league home run. He was playing for the Boston Red Sox at the time. 'The Sultan of Swat' went on to smash 714 round-trippers before he retired, as a NY Yankee, in 1935.

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Feb 11

Giant president Hempstead objects to the International League's efforts to put a team in the Bronx.

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Feb 16

Frank Home Run Baker, 28, announces retirement following a contract dispute with Connie Mack; He sits out 1915 season.

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Feb 22

Newly aquired second baseman Nap Lajoie contributes to a 7-6 loss to the Red Sox by committing five errors; this feat has been accomplished seven times to this date but will not occur again.

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Mar 13

Dodger manager Wilbert Robinson, thinking he is going to catch a baseball dropped from a plane, is surprised and splattered when the sphere turns out to be a grapefruit.

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Apr 14

Giving up a scratch hit to Harry Hooper with two outs in the ninth, A¹s Herb Pennock loses his bid to throw an Opening Day no-hitter in Philadelphia. The southpaw still blanks the Red Sox, 5-0.

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Apr 15

New York Giant Rube Marquard no-hits Brooklyn, 2-0.

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Apr 22

Yankee uniforms feature pinstripes for the first time.

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Apr 24

Pittsburgh's Frank Allen no-hits St Louis (Federal League), 2-0.

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May 06

At the Polo Grounds, Red Sox rookie pitcher Babe Ruth collects three hits, including his first HR. Homer number one, as well as homer number two, hit two weeks later, comes off of Yankee hurler Jack 'Crab' Warhop.

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May 12

Using just 67 pitches, White Sox hurler Red Faber throws a complete-game victory beating the Senators, 4-1.

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May 17

Cubs George "Zip" Zabel relieves with 2 outs in first & winds up with 4-3 19-inning win over Brooklyn in longest relief job ever.

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May 25

Chicago Claude Hendrix no-hits Pittsburgh (Federal League), 10-0.

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Jun 17

After pitching the longest relief stint ever, 18 1/3 innings, Cub Zip Zabel beats the Dodgers 4-3 in the 19th inning.

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Jun 23

Yanks get record 16 walks & 3 wild pitches beat A's Bruno Hass, 15-0.

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Jul 18

Boston Braves start move from last place to become world series champs.

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The Washington Senators steal eight bases in one inning off of Cleveland catcher Steve O'Neil.

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Jul 29

Forty-one year old Pirate Honus Wagner reaches Dodger hurler Jeff Pfeffer for a grand slam in the eighth inning.

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Aug 16

KC's Alex Main no-hits Buffalo (Federal League), 5-0.

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Aug 18

The Boston Braves open Braves Field defeating the Cardinals, 3-1.

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Aug 31

Cubs' hurler Jim Lavender no-hits the Giants, 2-0.

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Sep 07

St Louis Dave Davenport no-hits Chicago (Federal League), 3-0.

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Eddie Plank of the Federal League's St. Louis Terriers wins his 300th game as he defeat the Newark Peppers 12-5. The future Hall of Famer (1946) is the ninth player and first southpaw to reach this milestone.

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Sep 15

Multisport star and Olympic hero Jim Thorpe goes 3-for-3 in his third call-up to the Giants. His inability to hit curveballs would keep him from ever becoming a regular.

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Sep 15

Boston Braves beat St Louis Cards 20-1.

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Sep 18

Boston Braves trounce St Louis Cardinals 20-1.

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Sep 29

Phila Phillies clinch their first pennant.

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Oct 08

Phillies win their first & only World Series (World Series #12) game before 1980, beating Red Sox, 3-1, with an 8th inning 2 run rally.

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Oct 13

The Chicago Cubs play their last game at West Side Grounds, beating St. Louis 7-2.

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Oct 13

Boston Red Sox beat Phila Phillies, 4 games to 1 in 12th World Series.

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Dec 22

Federal Baseball League is dissolved.

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Dec 22

Organized baseball & Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati OH.

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1916

Jan 08

James E. Gaffney sells to the Boston Braves for $500,000 to the coach of the Harvard football team, Percy Haughton, and a business associate. He had bought the team in 1913 for $187,000.

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Jan 17

The Giants buy the Federal League's best player, Benny Kauff, from the Tip Tops.

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Jan 19

Under the terms of the peace agreement, a list of 123 Federal League free agents is released by the National Association.

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Jan 20

Charles Weeghman and nine investors purchase the Chicago Cubs from Charles Taft.

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Feb 08

NL votes down Charlie Ebbets proposal to limit 25¢ seats.

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Feb 09

NL votes down a proposal by Giants, Braves, & Cubs to increase club player limit from 21 to 22 (The Reds want to decrease to 20).

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Feb 10

After Chief Meyers is waived by the Giants to the Robins, Brooklyn owners Ebbets and Haughton disagree on his status. A coin toss, won by Ebbets, decides the catcher will remain with the team.

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Feb 15

New York Yankees buy Frank "Home Run" Baker from the Athletics for $37,500.

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Apr 12

Red Sox trade future Hall of Famer Tris Speaker to the Indians for Sam Jones, Fred Thomas and $50,000.

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Apr 20

The Chicago Cubs beat the Cincinnati Reds, 7-6, in the first NL game at Weeghman Park, which was renamed Cubs Park in 1920 and eventually Wrigley Field in 1926.

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May 26

In a 12-1 victory over the Braves, Giants' Benny Coffey gets picked off first base three times.

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May 29

New York Giants win 17th consecutive road game.

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Jun 11

Guy Morton, Cleveland Indians, strikes out 4 batters in the 7th inning. (Sporting News Complete Baseball Record Book, 2002, ISBN 0-89204-668-0)

Jun 16

Boston Brave's Tom Hughes 2nd no-hitter beats Pitts, 2-0.

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Jun 18

Yanks score in every inning but 8th beat Indians 19-3.

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Jun 20

Everett Scott of the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees plays in the first of his 1307 consecutive games. ("The 1999 ESPN Sports Almanac")

Jun 21

Boston Rube Forster no-hits NY Yankees, 2-0.

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Jun 26

Three fans at the Polo Grounds are arrested for petty larceny by the NYPD for keeping balls hit into the stands.

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Jun 26

Cleveland Indians experiment with #s on their jerseys (one game).

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Jul 14

Brown Ernie Koob pitches a complete game going all 17-innings in 0-0 tie. Red Sox Carl Mays pitches first 15 innings for the Red Sox with Dutch Leonard finishing the game.

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Aug 09

The Philadelphia A's end their 20-game losing streak when Joe Bush beats the Tigers, 7-1.

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At Fenway Park, Red Sox hurler Babe Ruth defeats Walter Johnson and the Senators in 13 innings, 1-0.

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Aug 26

Philadelphia A's Joe Bush no-hits the Indians, 5-0.

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Aug 26

Yanks turn triple-play beating Browns 10-6.

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Boston Red Sox's Dutch Leonard no-hits St Louis Browns, 4-0.

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Sep 04

Reds' player-manager Christy Mathewson, pitching his only game not in a Giant uniform, beats his long-time nemesis Mordecai 'Three Finger' Brown and the Cubs, 10-8. In the 25 contests the two legends have faced one another, Matty, by winning the last decision, takes a 13-12 advantage in their final meeting.

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Sep 07

The Giants defeat the Dodgers 4-1 to start their major league record 26-game winning streak.

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Sep 08

In front the smallest crowd in American League history, A's catcher/outfielder Wally Schang, with 23 fans attending the game, becomes the first switch-hitter in major league history to homer from both sides of the plate in the same game.

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The "Star Spangled Banner" is sung at the beginning of a baseball game for the first time in Cooperstown, NY.

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Sep 14

Baseball pitcher Christy Mathewson won the last pitching assignment of his major-league career on this day. Mathewson had a total of 373 wins, 188 losses and 83 shutouts in 636 games. He struck out 2,511 batters.

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Sep 24

Marty Kavanagh hits the 1st pinch hit grand slam.

Sep 30

Giants lose to Braves 8-3, ends 26 consecutive win streak.

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Oct 02

Grover Cleveland Alexander records his 16th shutout of the year.

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Oct 09

Babe Ruth pitches & wins longest WS game (14 innings) 2-1.

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Oct 12

Ernie Shore three-hits the Dodgers, 4-1 as the Red Sox win the World Series in five games.

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Dec 02

Baseballers who are injured now get full pay for duration of contract.

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1917

Feb 24

Red Sox sell Smokey Joe Wood, his arm dead at 26, to Cleveland for $15,000.

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Babe Ruth beats New York Yankees, pitching 3-hit 10-3 win for Red Sox.

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Apr 14

Chicago White Sox Eddie Cicotte no-hits the Browns, 11-0. The Michigan native will finish the season with twenty-eight wins.

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Apr 24

George Mogridge becomes the first Yankee to throw a no-hitter in a 2-1 win at Fenway Park.

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May 02

At Wrigley Field, southpaw Hippo Vaughn of Chicago and Reds righty Fred Toney throw no-hitters against one another through the first nine innings. The deadlock is broken in the top of the tenth with a one-out single by Larry Kopf, an error and an infield hit by Jim Thorpe, and Toney then sets the Cubs down in order to preserve his extra inning gem.

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May 05

Brown's hurler Ernie Koob no-hits Ed Cicotte and the White Sox, 1-0 thanks to a scorer's decision turning Buck Weaver's first inning questionable hit into an error.

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May 06

For the second consecutive day, a Browns' hurler throws a no-hitter as Bob Groom keeps the White Sox hitless in the second game of a twin bill, 3-0; he also pitches two hitless innings in the first game.

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May 07

Red Sox Babe Ruth beats Washington Senator Walter Johnson, 1-0.

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May 16

Thanks to a scoring change made after the game by a panel of sportswriters who reverse a first inning hit into an error, Bob Groom of the Browns no-hits the White Sox, 4-0. His teammate, Ernie Koob also threw a no-hitter yesterday against the Pale Hose.

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May 26

Walt Cruise hit first homerun out of Braves Field.

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Jun 23

Babe Ruth starts for Boston walking the Senators lead-off batter Ray Morgan. Ruth argues with the umpire, Brick Owens and is thrown out of the game. Ernie Shore comes in relief. Morgan is thrown out stealing. Shore retires the next 26 batters. Boston wins 4-0. Shore gets credit for a near-perfect game. (2003 Sports Illustrated Almanac, ISBN 1-929049-55-2)

Jun 27

Hank Gowdy is the 1st baseball player to enter World War I.

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Jul 01

Reds Fred Toney pitches completes doubleheader victories over Pirates.

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Jul 10

Thanks to Ray Calwell's nine and two-thirds innings of no-hit relief, the Yankees beat the Browns in St. Louis, 7-5 in a 17 inning game.

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Aug 13

Phillies steal 5 bases in an inning against the Braves.

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Aug 19

Sunday benefit baseball game at the Polo Grounds results in John McGraw & Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws.

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Aug 22

In a 22-inning contest against the Dodgers, Pirates' outfielder Carson Bigbee sets a major-league record with 11 at-bats. The game was also the fourth straight extra-inning game played by Pittsburgh (total of 59 innings) which sets a National League record.

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Sep 03

Phillie hurler Grover Cleveland Alexander goes the distance in both games of doubleheader sweeping the Dodgers, 5-0 and 9-3.

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Oct 15

The White Sox win the World Series as Eddie Collins scurries home scoring the winning run with Giant third baseman Heinie Zimmerman chasing him. NY left home plate uncovered.

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1918

Jan 02

The Dodgers trade outfielder Casey Stengel and infielder George Cutshaw to the Pirates for pitchers Burleigh Grimes, Al Mamaux and infielder Chuck Ward.

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Mar 02

New York Yankees purchase first baseman George Burns from Detroit Tigers & immediately trades him to Philadelphia A's.

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Apr 18

Cleveland center fielder Tris Speaker turns an unassisted double play.

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Apr 27

After establishing a major league record with an 0-9 start, the Dodgers win their first game of the season defeating the Giants, 5-3.

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Apr 29

Tris Speaker ties career outfield record of 4 unassisted double plays.

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May 04

Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices, beat Red Sox's Babe Ruth 5-4.

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Sunday baseball is made legal in Washington DC.

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Indians' Stan Coveleski sets club record for most innings pitched (19).

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May 15

In an18-inning game, Senator Walter Johnson defeats Lefty Williams, who also pitches the entire game, and the White Sox, 1-0.

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Washington's first Sunday game, Senators beat Cleveland 1-0 in 18 innings.

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May 20

In what will become a precursor of a tragic event, Indian outfielder Tris Speaker is struck on the head by a pitch thrown by Red Sox hurler Carl Mays. The submarine pitcher, who will fatally bean Ray Chapman with a pitch in 1920, denies Speaker's allegation that it was intentional.

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May 24

Cleveland beats Yankees 3-2 in 19 innings.

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Jun 01

Yanks turn triple-play, beat Tigers 5-4.

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Jun 06

In his first at-bat at Ebbets Field since being traded by the Dodgers in the off-season, Casey Stengel calls time, steps out of the batter's box, tips his hat allowing a bird to fly out much to the amazement and amusement of the fans.

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Jun 13

Philles & Cards tie 8-8 in 19 innings.

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Jun 23

Boston Red Sox Dutch Leonard's 2nd no-hitter beats Tigers, 5-0

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Jul 17

Longest errorless game, Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 21 innings.

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Aug 01

Pitts Pirates beat Boston Braves, 2-0, in 21 innings.

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Yankee Tom Hughes pitches 9 1/3 of no-hit ball before giving up a single to Harry Niles; the Indians eventually win the game in the 11th, 5-0.

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In just fifty-seven minutes, the Giants beat the Dodgers, 1-0.

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Sep 01

Due to World War I, the major league regular season is originally scheduled to end today, but the owners decide to play through Labor Day (September 2). Browns want the Indians fined and believe the team should forfeit two games for refusing to play on the extended dates (September 1 & 2).

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Sep 05

Due to WW I, 15th World Series begins a month early.

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In the earliest conclusion of the Fall Classic, Boston's Carl Mays three-hits the Cubs' 2-1 as the Red Sox win the World Series in six games. The regular season was shorten due to World War I.

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Dec 10

National League secretary John Heydler is elected to be the president of the league.

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Dec 21

Red Sox trade Dutch Leonard, Ernie Shore & Duffy Lewis to Yankees for Ray Caldwell & Slim Love, Frank Gilhooey, Al Walters & $15,000.

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Dec 31

Kid Gleason replaces Pants Rowland as White Sox manager.

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1919

Jan 14

John McGraw, Charles A Stoneham, & Judge McQuade buy New York Giants.

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Jan 30

Reds hire Pat Moran as manager as Christy Mathewson, is still in France with US Army.

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Feb 01

Dodgers trade Jake Daubert to Reds for Tommy Griffith Daubert.

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Feb 05

NL president John Heydler dismisses charges that Hal Chase bet against his team & threw games in collusion with gamblers.

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Mar 04

Giants' manager John McGraw sells southpaw Slim Sallee to the Reds, but the team will buy him back next year.

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Apr 23

Major leagues open a reduced 140-game season.

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Apr 30

Philadelphia Phillies beat Brooklyn Dodgers 9-0 in 20 innings.

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May 04

First legal Sunday baseball game in NYC (Phillies beat Giants 4-3).

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May 11

Reds' hurler Hod Eller throws a no-hitter defeating the Cardinals, 6-0.

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May 11

Yankees' Jack Quinn & Senators' Walter Johnson, 12 inning 0-0 tie.

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May 12

Yankees & Senators play 2nd straight extra inning tie, 4-4 in 15.

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May 15

After 12 scoreless innings, Cincinnati scores 10 runs in the 13th inning to beat Al Mamaux and the Dodgers, 10-0.

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May 21

The Giants deal Jim Thorpe to Braves for the waiver price of $1,500. The olympic star will play only 60 games in Boston and will finish his six-year major league career with a lifetime .252 average

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Jun 09

Dodger standout pitcher Rube Marquard breaks his leg running the bases ending his season with a record of 3-3.

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Jun 28

Red Sox submariner Carl Mays hurls two complete games beating the Yankees, 2-0, in the first game and losing the nightcap, 4-1.

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