Baseball from 1920 to 1929 Chronology

The longest baseball game (by innings) was played. The Boston Braves and the Brooklyn Dodgers played an incredible 26 innings -- with the same pitchers! Leon Cadore of Brooklyn and Boston’s Joe Oeschger went the distance and saw the game end in a 1-1 tie.

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Babe Ruth's first Yankee homerun & 50th of his career, is hit out of the Polo Grounds

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May 02

The first game of National Negro Baseball League is played in Indianapolis as the hometown ABC's beat the Chicago Giants, 4-2.

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May 14

Giants inform Yankees that the lease allowing them to play in the Polo Grounds will not be renewed at end of 1920 season.

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May 14

Senator legend Walter Johnson beats the Tigers, 9-8, for his 300th major league victory.

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May 20

The Chicago police, dressed as soldiers and farmers, raid the Wrigley Field bleachers arresting two dozen Cub fans for gambling as Grover Cleveland Alexander blanks the Phillies, 6-0.

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Jun 05

Citing the abolition of spitball as the reason for the dramatic HR increase, A's veep Tom Shibe denies the baseballs are livelier this season. Mr. Schibe is also a member of the company which makes the baseballs.

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Jun 20

Yanks win protest of 1-0 White Sox win & game is replayed.

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Jun 30

Leaving Cardinal Park in midseason, the Redbirds make their debut as the home team at Sportman's Park, which is also the home of the American League's St. Louis Browns. After signing a ten-year lease for $20,000 annually with Browns' president Phil Ball, the team moves six blocks to be able to play its home games in modern ballpark.

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Jul 01

At Fenway Park, Walter Johnson pitches a no-hitter defeating the Red Sox, 1-0. Bucky Harris's error ruins the 'Big Train's' bid for a perfect game, but it's the Senator second baseman's hit which drives in the game's only run.

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Jul 06

Yanks score team record 14 runs in 1 inning vs Senators.

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Jul 15

Ruth ties his record of 29 HRs in a season.

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Jul 16

Swatting his 30th home run in a 5-2 victory over the Browns, Yankee outfielder Babe Ruth breaks his own record of which he established last season with 29 . He'll set a new standard ending the season with 54.

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Jul 25

Red Sox turn triple-play, but Ruth's 35th HR leads Yanks to 8-2 win.

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Aug 08

Tigers beat Yanks 1-0 in shortest AL game, 73 minutes.

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Aug 16

At the Polo Grounds, Ray Chapman suffers a fracture skull and will die the next day as a result of being hit by a Yankee Carl Mays fastball. The Indian shortstop will be the only on-field player fatality in major league history.

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Sep 17

Going 6-for-6, left fielder Bobby Veach becomes the first Tiger to hit for the cycle as Detroit beats the Red Sox in 12-inning victory, 14-13. Giants George Burns also hits for the cycle in New York's 10 inning 4-3 win over the Pirates making it the only time it has ever happened twice in the same day.

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Sep 29

Babe Ruth sets then home run season record at 54.

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Oct 02

In the only tripleheader ever played in the 20th century, the Reds win the first two games, 13-4 and 7-3, and the Pirates avoid the sweep in the finale, 6-0. Peter Harrison is the home plate umpire for all three games.

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Second baseman Bill Wambganss of Cleveland executes an unassisted triple play against Brooklyn, in the World Series. (2003 Sports Illustrated Almanac, ISBN 1-929049-55-2)

Outfielder Elmer Smith becomes the first player to hit a grand slam in World Series history as the Indians defeat the Dodgers and Burleigh Grimes, 8-1.

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Oct 12

Stan Coveleski shuts down the Brooklyn Dodgers, leading the Indians to a 3-0 victory. The Indians are World Champions for the first time, winning the series 5 games to 2.

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Oct 29

Edward Barrow named Yankee general manager.

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Nov 08

A new twelve team National League format, made up of the eleven dissenting clubs and one of the five teams still loyal to Ban Johnson, is agreed to at a meeting held for the purpose of dismissing the American League president. This revolutionary plan for a new senior circuit will be discarded a few days later.

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Nov 12

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis accepts a contract to become the first baseball commissioner. He became the czar following the Black Sox scandal of 1919 and remained commissioner for seven years.

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Dec 06

Upholding the reserve clause, which states baseball is not interstate commerce nor subject to antitrust laws, a lawsuit that had awarded $264,000 damages to the Baltimore franchise in the Federal League is reversed by a court of appeals. The suit was originally initiated because the Baltimore Feds were left out in the settlement of the Federal League war thwarting an effort to have a major league team in Baltimore.

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Dec 15

Brooklyn's Rube Marquard is traded to the Reds for Dutch Ruether. Marquard had been fined for scalping World Series tickets in Cleveland.

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Dec 17

American League votes to allow pitchers who used the spitball in 1920 to continue using it as long as they are in the league (The National League will do the same 17 holdover spitballers in all).

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1921

Jan 12

Kenesaw Mountain Landis becomes first commissioner of baseball.

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Feb 05

Yankees purchase 20 acres in the Bronx for Yankee Stadium.

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Feb 22

Shortstop 'Rabbit' Maranville is traded by Brooklyn to the Pirates for Billy Southworth, Fred Nicholson and Walter Barbare.

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Mar 04

Twelve-year Red Sox veteran outfielder Harry Hooper is traded to the White Sox for outfielder Nemo Leibold and Shano Collins.

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The Eddie Grant Memorial, built in memory of a former Giants player killed in World War I, is dedicated at the Polo Grounds. The five-foot high momument is located in center field at the base of the clubhouse wall.

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May 31

Suffy McInnis (1st base) begins an errorless string of 1,700 chances.

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Jun 07

Due to the body of a slain girl found at the ballpark in Kingsport, TN, the game is canceled to prevent the bloodhounds from becoming confused.

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Jun 10

Yankee slugger Babe Ruth hits his 120th HR off Indian pitcher Jim Bagby to become baseball's career home run leader. It is a position the 'Sultan of Swat' will hold until Hank Aaron hits number 715 in 1974.

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Jun 13

At the Polo Grounds in New York, Babe Ruth pitches the first five innings and hits two home runs, including a 460-foot shot into the center-field bleachers, as the Yankees defeat Tigers, 11-8

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Jul 05

The Red Sox establish an American League record losing four consecutive doubleheaders with no other contests between the eight losses. The dubious streak began on June 29th.

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Jul 21

Indians (9) & Yankees (7) hit a record 16 doubles.

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Aug 05

KDKA radio in Pittsburgh, PA did the first play-by-play broadcast of a baseball game. Harold Arlin described the action as the Pirates beat Philadelphia 8-5.

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Aug 08

Luke Stuart of the St. Louis Browns hits a home run in his first major league at bat.

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Aug 12

Despite giving up 12 hits, Phillies hurler George Smith pitches a shutout beating the Braves, 4-0.

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Aug 19

At the age of 34, Ty Cobb becomes the 4th (and youngest) player to reach 3000 hits when he singles of off Red Sox hurler Elmer Myers.

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Aug 25

Yankee pitcher Harry Harper hits 3 batters in an inning tying record.

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Sep 05

Walter Johnson breaks Cy Young's strike-out record as he fans seven Yankees for a career total of 2,287.

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Sep 27

Yanks beat Indians 21-7 in Polo Grounds.

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Oct 01

White Sox backstop Ray Schalk is the first catcher to make a putout at every single base. The feat has not been accomplished again.

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Oct 01

First all NY series to be played entirely in 1 stadium (the Polo Grounds) & 1st NY Yankee World Series begins (World Series #18).

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Oct 09

Babe Ruth's first WS homer; only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays.

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Oct 13

In the first all New York World Series, the Giants beat the Yankees, 1-0 to win the baseball's championship in eight games.

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Dec 20

American League votes to return to best-of-7 World Series, while National League votes best-of-9 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis casts deciding vote for best-of-7.

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1922

Feb 18

Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his post as U.S. District Judge in Illinois. Judge Landis had been baseball commissioner since 1920 to devote full-time to baseball.

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Mar 06

Babe Ruth inks a three-year deal for $52,000; Home Run Baker, who makes $16,000, is the second highest paid New York player.

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Mar 30

Christy Mathewson is elected as Bucknell's "B" Club first president.

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Apr 22

With George Sisler aboard each time, Browns' left fielder Ken Williams hits three dingers becoming the first AL player to hit three homers runs in a game in the 10-7 St. Louis victory over the White Sox at Sportsman Park.

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Apr 30

White Sox reliever Charlie Robertson, in only his fourth career start, becomes the third modern pitcher to throw a perfect no-hit, no-run game as he beats the Tigers at Navin Field, 2-0. Rookie Johnny Mostil, playing in his only major league game, makes two outstanding catches to save Robertson's place in history.

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White Sox hurler Charlie Robertson becomes the third modern pitcher to throw a perfect no-hit, no-run game as he beats the Tigers at Navin Field, 2-0.

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May 03

Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium.

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May 05

Construction begins on Yankee Stadium (Bronx).

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Walter Mueller of the Pittsburgh Pirates hits a home run in his first major league at bat.

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New York Giant Jesse Barnes no-hits Phillies, 2-0.

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May 20

Babe Ruth & Bob Meusel, suspended on October 16, 1921, by Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis, return to the New York lineup & go hitless.

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Col. Ruppert buys out Col. Huston's share of the NY Yankees for $1,500,000

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May 22

The Yankees, who have been sharing Polo Grounds with Giants since 1913, begin construction on their own stadium in the Bronx.

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May 25

Babe Ruth is suspended for one game and fined $200 for throwing dirt on an umpire and going after a fan in the stands. These actions will cost him his position as Yankee captain.

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Traded between games of a doubleheader, Cliff Heathcote and Max Flack exchange their Cardinal and Cub uniforms respectively. Both get hits for their new teams in the nightcap.

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Jun 02

Suffy McInnis (1st base) ends an errorless string of 1,700 chances.

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Jun 12

St Louis gets record 10 hits in a row & beats Phillies 14-8.

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Aug 02

Ken Williams homers in his sixth straight game setting an American League record. The Browns left fielder's home run helps beat the Red Sox, 9-4.

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Aug 08

Pirates set record of 46 hits in a doubleheader (against Phillies).

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Aug 24

First Phillie to hit for the cycle (Cy Williams).

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Aug 25

In spite of a fourth inning lead of 25-6, the Cubs need to hold on defeating the Phillies, 26-23; Philadelphia leaves the bases loaded in the ninth.

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Sep 05

Yankees final game at the Polo Grounds, after 7 years.

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Sep 09

Baby Doll Jacobson of the Browns triples three times Browns in a 16-0 rout of the Tigers.

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Sep 10

Largest Polo Grounds crowd Meusel, Ruth & Gehrig consecutive HRs.

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Sep 13

Joe Sewell of the Cleveland Indians plays in the first of his 1103 consecutive games. ("The 1999 ESPN Sports Almanac")

Sep 24

Roger Hornsby sets the NL HR mark at 42.

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Sep 30

Yanks clinch pennant #2.

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Oct 05

Yanks & Giants play an infamous 3-3 tie world series game (World Series #19).

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Oct 08

NY Giants beat Yankees, 4 games to 0, with a tie in 19th World Series.

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Dec 13

Charles Ebbets proposes putting numbers on players' sleeves or caps.

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Dec 16

Mutual Association of Eastern Colored Baseball Clubs formally organizes.

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1923

Feb 20

After buying the club along with two partners for $300,000, Christy Mathewson becomes the president of the Boston Braves.

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Mar 06

The Cardinals announce players will wear numbers on their uniforms. The digits will correspond to the player's place in the batting order.

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Mar 07

Commissioner Landis turns down the American Legion requests to discontinue major league morning games on Memorial Day.

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Mar 08

Despite admitting to prior knowledge of the 1919 World Series fix, Commissioner Landis allows pitcher Rube Benton to return to the National League; Benton signs with the Reds and has a 14-10 season.

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Apr 03

Expelled players Happy Felsch and Swede Risberg, both who were indicted on fixing the 1919 World Series file suit against the White Sox for back salary and $400,000 in damages.

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Longest National League opening game, Phillies & Dodgers tie 5-5 in 14.

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Apr 18

In front of over 72,000 fans, Yankee Stadium opens with Babe Ruth hitting the first home run in the ballpark's history which helps beat the Red Sox, 4-1.

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Apr 24

President Warren G. Harding witnesses the first shutout ever thrown at Yankee Stadium as Babe Ruth homers in a 4-0 victory over the Senators.

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May 02

Senator pitcher Walter Johnson blanks Yankees 3-0 for his 100th career shutout.

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May 11

Establishing several Pacific Coast League marks, Pete Schneider hits five home runs and a double driving in 14 runs as Vernon routs Salt Lake City, 35-11.

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May 11

10 homeruns hit in Phillies 20-14 victory over St Louis Cardinals.

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May 25

Ty Cobb surpasses Honus Wagner record by scoring his 1,741 run.

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Jun 01

Scoring in every inning, the New York Giants beat the Phillies at Baker Bowl, 22-8. It is the first time this century a team has tallied in every frame.

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Jun 28

Dodgers lost 7-0 lead, as Philles score 8 in bottom of 9th.

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Jul 07

Lefty O'Doul, who will become an outstanding major league hitter later in his career, gives up 13 runs in the sixth inning as the Indians rout the Red Sox, 27-3. He will finish his 11-year stint in the majors with a lifetime batting average of .349.

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Jul 17

Carl Mays gave up 13 runs & 20 hits in 13-0 loss to the Indians.

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Jul 20

Yanks hit into a triple-play but beat A's 9-2.

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Jul 21

Phillies score 12 in 6th & beat Cubs 17-4

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Walter Johnson becomes the first to strikeout 3,000.

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Aug 07

Hitting a double and five singles, Indian Frank Bower goes 6-for-6 as Cleveland routs the Senators, 22-2.

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NY Yankee Sad Sam Jones no-hits Phila A's, 2-0.

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Sep 07

Boston Red Sox Howard Ehmke no-hits Phila A's, 4-0.

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Sep 11

After a single, Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires the next 27 Yanks.

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Sep 14

Red Sox first baseman George Burns completes an unassisted triple play against the Indians when he gathers in Frank Brower line drive, tags Rube Lutzke coming from first, and beats Riggs Stephenson back to second.

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Sep 27

Lou Gehrig's first homer.

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Sep 28

Setting an American League record, the Yankees bang out thirty hits in one game as they maul the Red Sox, 24-4.

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Sep 30

It's Zack Wheat Day at Ebbets Field and the retiring Dodger outfielder collects two hits and is given an automobile. Cy Williams of the Phillies spoils the special day as he ties the score in the seventh inning with his 39th homer and his 40th in the 12th frame gives Philadelphia the victory, 6–4.

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Oct 06

The first unassisted triple play in NL history occurs when Braves' shortstop Ernie Padgett catches Walter Holke's line drive, doubles up James Tierney at second and tags Cliff Lee for the third out.

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In the first post season game ever played at Yankee Stadium, veteran Giant outfielder Casey Stengel breaks a 4-4 deadlock in the top of the ninth inning with an inside-the-park HR off Joe Bush. It is the first World Series game to be broadcast nationally.

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NY Giants & NY Yankees become first teams to play each other for 3 consecutive World Series, also 1st played at Yankee Stadium (World Series #20).

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Oct 12

The largest crowd to catch a World Series game (over 62,000) saw Casey Stengel hit the winning home run as the NY Giants beat the Yankees 1-0.

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Oct 13

Casey Stengel's home run is the difference as Giant hurler Art Nerf out duels Sam Jones and the Yankees, 1-0, in Game 3 of the World Series.

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Oct 15

The Yankees defeat cross-town rivals New York Giants for their first World Championship.

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Nov 12

Giant manager John McGraw trades outfielders Casey Stengel and Bill Cunningham along with shortstop Dave Bracroft to the Braves for pitchers Joe Oeschger and Bill Southworth.

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Dec 23

Yankees pitcher Carl Mays sold to Reds for $85,000.

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1924

Jan 07

The Indians trade catcher Steve O'Neill, second baseman Bill Wambsganns and pitcher Danny Boone to the Red Sox for first baseman George Burns, second baseman Chick Fewster and catcher Al Walters.

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Feb 10

Bucky Harris, 27, becomes the youngest baseball manager (Washington Senators).

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Feb 12

The National League announces it will join the AL in awarding a thousand dollars to the player selected by writers as the league's MVP.

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Feb 25

Ty Cobb, one of the legends of baseball, issued an edict to his team, the Detroit Tigers, that forbid players to play the game of golf during training camp. A report in the Detroit Free Press said that Cobb went so far as to confiscate players’ golf clubs.

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Apr 23

On WMAQ, Hal Totten, a Chicago Daily News play-by-play reporter, does a play-by-play radio report of the 12-1 Cubs' victory over the Cardinals. It will be the first broadcast of every Cub and White Sox home game of the season marking the first time a team's games have been on the airwaves on a regular basis.

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Apr 29

Future Yankee starter, schoolboy Bump Hadley, throws a perfect game against the Hadley-Lynn team of Massachusetts. The Mercersburg Academy standout will strike out 26 of the 27 batters he faces.

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Jun 13

After Bob Meusel get hit with a pitch in his back in the top of the ninth, the Yankee outfielder hurls his bat at Tiger pitcher Bert Cole, and charges the mound. The resulting melee, including players, fans and police, lasts for nearly 30 minutes and when ump Billy Evans is unable to clear the field, he forfeits the game to New York, 10-6.

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Jun 25

Pirate relief pitcher Emil Yde's double ties the score in the ninth inning and his triple in 14th beats the Cubs.

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Jul 17

St Louis Cardinal Jesse Haines no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0.

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Aug 01

Dazzy Vance strikes out seven consecutive batters to establish a major league record as the Robins defeat the Cubs, 4-0.

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Aug 25

Wash Senator Walter Johnson 2nd no-hitter beats Browns, 2-0 in 7 inn.

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The Brooklyn Robins take a twin bill from the Braves sweeping their fourth doubleheader in four consecutive days. Between September 1-3, the Brooks beat the Phillies six times.

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Sep 16

Jim Bottomley goes 6-for-6, including two homers, and bats in a record twelve runs as the Cardinals beat the Dodgers, 17-3; the previous mark of 11 RBIs in one game was established in 1892 by today's opposing Dodger manager, Wilbert Robinson .

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Sep 20

The 37-year old righty Grover Cleveland Alexander wins his 300th game as the Cubs beat the Giants in 12 innings, 7-3. 'Old Pete' will collect 373 victories during his 20-year career.

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Oct 04

NY Giants become first team to appear in 4 consecutive World Series (World Series #21).

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With the score tied at 3-3 and one out in the bottom of the 12th, Senator backstop Muddy Ruel lifts a high catchable foul popl-up which Giant catcher Hank Gowdy misses as he stumbles over his own mask. Given a second chance, Ruel then doubles and eventually scores the winning run.

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Oct 20

Baseball’s first “colored World Series” is held in Kansas City, Mo.

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Oct 28

Fewer than 20 people paid to see an exhibition baseball game between the Chicago White Sox and the NY Giants. Maybe the fact that the game was played in Dublin, Ireland had something to do with the low turnout. Newspapers reported that attendance was off because church services were going on at the time. (Sox 8, Giants 4.)

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Dec 10

Agreement reached on permanent rotation of World Series with each league, getting games 1, 2, 6, 7 in alternating years.

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Dec 17

The Yankees trade three pitchers to the Browns to get back Urban Shocker, a pitcher traded to St. Louis in 1918. Shocker had been a 20-game winner for four consecutive seasons.

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1925

Jan 05

During the White Sox and Giants European tour, John McGraw, Charlie Comiskey and Hugh Jennings are honored by the French Baseball Federation for their efforts promoting the game in France.

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Feb 02

NL holds Golden Jubilee Year meeting at same hotel where NL began.

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Feb 10

AL decides to alternate leagues for game 1 of World Series each year.

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Apr 05

Yankees whip Dodgers in exhibition 16-9 but Babe Ruth collaspes at railroad station in Asheville, North Carolina, and will be hospitalized in New York.

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Apr 07

As he is playing first base, A's Joe Hauser's kneecap shatters spontaneously. His other knee would shatter in the same way a few years later.

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Apr 09

Babe Ruth rushed to hospital.

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Apr 14

WGN is the first radio station to broadcast a regular season game; listeners hear Cub hurler Grover Alexander beat Pirates, 8-2.

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Apr 14

The Indians start the season drubbing the Browns, 21-4 to establish the major league mark for the most runs scored by one club on Opening Da. Cleveland tallies 12 times in the eighth inning with the help of five St. Louis errors.

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Babe Ruth undergoes an operation for an ulcer.

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Apr 21

No baseball games played in National League due to Charles Ebbets' funeral.

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Apr 22

In their home opener against the Reds, the Cardinals score 11 first-inning runs on a National League record 12 hits coasting to a 12-3 win.

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In a game against Washington, 17 year-old A's rookie catcher Jimmie Foxx pinch-hits a single in his first at-bat.

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May 05

Ty Cobb goes 6-for-6 with 16 total bases, as the Tigers defeat the Browns, 14-8.

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May 05

Yankee shortstop Everett Scott's record-setting consecutive game streak ends at 1,307 as Yankee skipper Miller Huggins replaces him with Pee Wee Wanninger. Ironically Lou Gehrig will start his streak on June 1 when he pinch-hits for Wanninger.

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May 06

Replaced by Pee Wee Wanninger, Yankee shortstop Everett Scott's consecutive game streak ends at 1,307. It started as a player for the Boston Red Sox and is longest consecutive playing streak to date.

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May 06

Ty Cobb hits his fifth HR in two games tying 1884 Cap Anson's record.

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Pirate shortstop Glenn Wright catches Jim Bottomley's line drive, doubles up Jimmy Cooney at second and tags Rogers Hornsby coming from first to complete an unassited triple play in a 10-9 loss to the Cardinals.

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Phillies have their 8th game postponed in a row.

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May 12

With Tris Speaker scoring the winning run from first on a single, the Indians scored six runs in the bottom of the ninth to defeat the Yankees, 10-9.

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May 17

In a 2-1 loss to the Senators, Indian player-manager Tris Speaker singles off pitcher Tom Zachary at League Park to reach the career 3000-hit milestone .He is the second player to do so for Cleveland.

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May 20

Scoring from first base on a single in the bottom of the ninth, the veteran outfielder Tris Speaker gives the Indian a dramatic 10-9 comeback victory over the Yankees. The Tribe had been trailing the Bronx Bombers, 9-4, going into the last frame.

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Tigers and Senators tie a nine inning major league record combining for nine double plays.

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Babe Ruth is finally out of bed, 5 weeks after ulcer surgery.

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Tigers' Ty Cobb is first to collect 1,000 extra-base hits (ends 1,139).

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Roger Hornsby replaces Branch Rickey as manager of Cardinals.

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Jun 01

Lou Gehrig of the NY Yankees played the first of what would become 2,130 consecutive baseball games (Gehrig played in every Yankee game until May 2, 1939), setting a major-league record not to be broken until Cal Ripken, Jr. of Baltimore did so in the summer of 1995. Gehrig wasn’t even a starter on this day. He was inserted in the lineup for Wally Pipp.

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Jun 06

White Sox Eddie Collins, at the age of 38, becomes the sixth major leaguer to have 3000 hits when he doubles off of Washington's Walter Johnson.

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Jun 15

At Shibe Park, the A's are losing to the Indians in the seventh inning, 14-2. Philadelphia, in an amazing comeback, scores one run in the seventh and eighth and crosses the plate 13 times in the ninth to defeat Cleveland, 17-15.

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Jun 22

Max Carey gets two hits in one inning twice (1st & 8th) as the Pirates beat the Cardinals, 24-6.

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Jul 03

Dodger second baseman Milt Stock sets a National League mark by having his fourth consecutive four-hit game.

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Jul 04

In a battle of southpaws, Yankee Herb Pennock and A's Lefty Grove hook up in a 15 inning pitchers' duel which the Yankees win, 1-0.

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Yankees purchase infielder Leo Durocher.

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Jul 23

Lou Gehrig hits the first of his record 23 career grand slams as Yankees beat the Senators, 11-7.

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Aug 09

Only time Babe Ruth pinch-hit for, Bobby Veach flies out.

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Sep 08

In the nightcap of a doubleheader at Fenway Park, Babe Ruth hits his 300th career home run of southpaw Buster Ross as the Yankees defeat the Red Sox, 7-4.

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Sep 13

Dodger hurler Dazzy Vance no-hits the Phillies after one-hitting the team from the City of Brotherly Love five days earlier.

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Sep 19

White Sox Ted Lyons loses his no-hit bid when Senator Bobby Veach hits safely with two outs in the ninth. Washington's outfielder Sam Rice's streak of nine consecutive hits is stopped.

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Burleigh Grimes accounts for seven outs in just three plate appearances. The Dodger pitcher hits into two double plays, then into a triple play.

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Yank Ben Paschal hits 2 inside-the-park homers.

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Oct 04

In the season finale, Tiger outfielder Ty Cobb and Browns' first baseman George Sisler pitch against each other as Detroit beats St. Louis, 11-6. Both players, better known for their hitting, are the player-manager of their respective teams.

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Oct 15

The Pirates become the first team to win a World Series after being down three games to one as the Bucs beat Washington and Walter Johnson in Game 7, 9-7. Kiki Cuyler's bases-loaded double in the eighth inning proves to be the difference.

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Dec 09

American League extends Ban Johnson's contract to 1935 & raise to $40,000.

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Dec 30

The Giants trade two pitchers, Jack Bentley and Wayland Dean, to the Phillies for hurler Jimmy Ring.

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1926

Feb 06

St Louis Browns acquire catcher Wally Schang from New York Yankees.

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Apr 13

On Opening Day, 38-year old Senators' hurler Walter Johnson strikes out 12 A's as he out duels Eddie Rommel for 15 innings beating Philadelphia at Washington's Griffith Stadium,1-0.

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Apr 27

In the Giants' 9-8 win over Phillies, Mel Ott, 17, first appearance.

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Apr 28

American League baseball owners agreed to have home plate umpires carry resin on the field for the benefit of pitchers with sweaty hands. However, it was mandated that pitchers were not to ask for the sticky powder. This scheme was scrapped when someone, possibly a disgruntled pitcher, came up with the idea of putting resin in absorbent bags to be left in the area of the pitching mound and used by the pitcher as needed.

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The legendary Satchel Paige makes his pitching debut in Negro Southern League.

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May 08

A three-alarm blaze burns down Fenway's grandstand roof and left field bleachers (first time; 1/05/1934 also). The Red Sox, desperately in need of cash, use most of the insurance proceeds to pay for operations and leave a vacant lot where the bleachers once stood.

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White Sox Earl Sheely hits a record 6th consecutive double.

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May 23

Hack Wilson is first to hit a homerun off Wrigley Field scoreboard.

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Jun 05

Indians triple-play Yankees & win 15-3.

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Jun 10

Phillies Russ Wrightstone hits for the cycle.

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With the help of four triples, the Reds score 11 runs in second inning en route to a 13-1 victory over the Braves. Curt Walker ties a National League record for most triples in an inning by hitting two in the frame.

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Babe Ruth proved that he could catch a baseball. In a stunt at Mitchell Field in New York, Ruth, a private in the National Guard, caught a baseball that was dropped from an airplane. The plane was at 250 feet and traveling at about 100 miles-per-hour. As the cowhide hit the leather of Ruth’s glove, the ‘Bambino’ said, “Eeeeeeeooooooowwwwwcccchhh!”

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Aug 11

In a 7-2 loss to the White Sox, Tris Speaker hits his 700th career double, The Indian outfielder will establish a major league a record with 792 two-baggers.

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Aug 15

The famous Three Men on Third play occurs in Boston’s Fenway Park. Babe Herman came to bat in the bottom of the seventh inning. One man was out and the bases were loaded. Chick Fewster was on first base, Dazzy Vance on second and Hank DeBarry on third. Herman hit the ball off the right-field wall. DeBarry crossed the plate, Vance stopped at third and Fewster ran past second base on his way to third. Herman ran PAST Fewster on HIS way to third. Herman was declared out and Fewster was tagged out. Herman had hit into a double play. DeBarry’s score, however, was allowed -- and the Brooklyn Dodgers won, 2-1.

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Aug 21

White Sox Ted Lyons no hits Red Sox 6-0 in just 67 minutes at Fenway.

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Aug 28

Emil Lessen pitches and wins two complete games against the Red Sox, 6-1 and 5-1. The Indian pitcher does not strike out any batters in his doubleheader sweep.

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Sep 11

Yanks' Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies.

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Sep 16

St Louis Cards beat Phillies 23-3.

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At Ebbets Field, the aging 18-year veteran outfielder Zach Wheat hits his last homer as a Dodger, but severely pulls a muscle nearing second. The future Hall of Famer needs to rest nearly five minutes before completing his trip to home plate making it the longest home run trot in major league history.

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Sep 26

Shortest double header, Yanks lose 6-1 in 72 minutes & lose again 6-2 in 55 minutes to the Browns. Yanks had already clinched pennant.

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Sep 26

In his final day in a Tiger uniform, Ty Cobb watches his replacement in centerfield gets six hits in a twin bill with the Red Sox to become the new batting champs as Heinie Manush edges Babe Ruth 378 to .372 for the title.

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Oct 06

In Game 4 of the World Series, Yankee outfielder Babe Ruth hits three home runs in a 10-5 victory over the Cardinals,

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St Louis Cards beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 23rd World Series.

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Nov 16

Plans are announced to double-deck Wrigley Field, increasing seating to 40,000.

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Dec 16

Kenesaw Mountain Landis renewed 7-years as baseball commissioner

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Dec 20

The World Champion Cardinals trade Rogers Hornsby to the Giants for Frankie Frish and Jimmy Ring. The trade gets complicated when the 'Rajah' refuses to sell his 1,167 shares of the team stock back to the Redbirds at the asking price.

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Dec 26

Bob O'Farrell is named to replace Rogers Hornsby as the Cardinal manager.

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Dec 30

The Chicago Tribune reports the 1917 Tigers had thrown a four-game series to the White Sox to help Chicago win the pennant; within the week, Commissioner Judge Landis will begin a hearing to investigate the charges.

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1927

Jan 01

Charles Ebbets informs the press that future Hall of Fame outfielder Zack Wheat, after 18 consecutive seasons with the Robins, has been released. The Brooklyn outfielder led the NL in hitting in 1918 with a .335 batting average.

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Jan 05

Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago & Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox. All those involved were cleared within a week.

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Jan 31

National League President John Heydler rules Roger Hornsby can't hold stock in the Cardinals & play for the Giants.

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Mar 02

Babe Ruth signed a 3-year contract with the New York Yankees for a guarantee of $70,000 a year, thus becoming baseball’s highest paid player.

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Apr 15

Babe Ruth hits first of 60 homeruns of season (off A's Howard Ehmke).

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Apr 20

The newly-expanded Comiskey Park debuted on April 20 with the White Sox losing to Cleveland, 5-4. The new outfield upper deck accommodated 23,200 additional fans.

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May 16

New York Yankee Bob Meusel steals 2nd, 3rd & home.

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May 17

Chicago Cubs beat Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings.

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For the second consecutive day, an umpire at Ebbets Field is the target of fan abuse. Arbitrator Frank Wilson needs a police escort after the Robins drop a twin bill to Cubs.

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May 22

Dodgers beat Phillies, 20-4.

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Chicago Cubs' shortstop Jimmy Cooney completes an unassisted triple play as he snares Paul Waner's liner, steps on second to double up Paul's brother, Lloyd, and the tags Clyde Barnhart coming from first for the third out.

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Walter Johnson records 113th & last shutout of his career.

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May 31

There is an unassisted triple play for the second consecutive day in the major leagues. During the ninth inning of a 1-0 game at Navin's Field, first baseman John Neun saves the victory for the Tigers as he completes an unassisted triple play by catching a Homer Summa line drive, tagging Charlie Jamieson who was on first, and beating Glenn Myatt to second base.

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Jun 08

Tony Lazzeri hits 3 HRs Yanks beat White Sox 12-11.

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Jun 11

Babe Ruth hits 19th & 20th of 60 HRs.

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Jun 23

Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in 11-4 victory over Red Sox.

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Jul 12

Babe Ruth hits 30th of 60 HRs.

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Aug 05

Phillies Cy Williams hits for the cycle in just 4 at bats.

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Aug 16

Teeing off on a Tommy Thomas pitch, Babe Ruth becomes the first player to homer over the roof of Chicago's Comiskey Park.

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Aug 22

Babe Ruth hits 40th of 60 homers.

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Sep 02

Rumour starts that Yankee Lou Gehrig will be traded to Tigers.

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Lloyd Waner of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit a short fly ball that hit inside the foul line and bounced into the stands. It was a home run, according to the rules at the time. Ironically, Waner’s brother, Paul, came to bat next and did the same thing -- for another home run. Today, a similar hit would be called a ground rule double.

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Sep 05

Red Sox beat Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings.

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Sep 09

Tony Lazzeri Day at Yankee Stadium.

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Sep 11

Babe Ruth hits the 50th of 60 homers.

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Sep 13

Waite Hoyt became the only 20 game winner of the 1927 Yankees.

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Yanks Earle Coombs hits 3 triples.

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Sep 24

Yanks set record of 106 victories.

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Sep 29

Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games.

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Sep 30

NY Yankee slugger Babe Ruth hit his 60th home run of the season, off of the Senator's Tom Zachary, to break his own major-league record; it stood for 34 years until Roger Maris of the Yankees hit 61 homers in 1961.

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Oct 07

Yank Herb Pennock retires first 22 Pirates in world series game (World Series #24).

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Oct 08

The 1927 Yankees, considered one of baseball's best team in history, live up to their reputation as they beat the Pirates, 4-3, to sweep the World Series in four games.

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Oct 11

Lou Gehrig elected MVP.

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Dec 04

Pirates' Paul Waner wins National League MVP.

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1928

Jan 04

Shortstop Lyn Lary and infielder Jimmy Reese are bought by the Yankees from the Pacific Coast League.

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Jan 10

The Giants trade Rogers Hornsby to the Boston Braves for Shanty Hogan and Jimmy Welsh. It's the Rajah's third team in three years.

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Feb 14

The American Legion receives $50,000 from MLB Advisory Council to develop a national championship program.

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Apr 11

On Opening Day, Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker are in the starting lineup for the Philadelphia A's. It is the future Hall of Famers first game as teammates.

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Apr 16

Braves' pitcher Charlie Robertson has his glove removed from the game by umpire Moran after the Brooklyn Robins complain the ball is acting strangely. The Boston hurler still manages to win, 3-2.

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Apr 19

New York Yankees are out of first place for 1st time since May 1926.

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Apr 20

The Yankees' sixth season at Yankee Stadium opens with the left-field stands enlarged to three decks.

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May 14

John McGraw is knocked down by a taxicab & suffers a broken leg.

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May 22

US Congress accept Jones-White Merchant Naval Act.

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May 24

Record 12 future Hall of Famers take the field, as Yankees beat A's 9-7.

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A's commit 7 errors & lose to Yankees 7-4.

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May 27

New York Giant Bill Terry hits for the cycle and drives in six runs against the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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Jun 02

At Braves Field, Les Bell collects 15 total bases (three home runs and a triple) but Boston still loses to the Reds, 20-12.

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Jun 12

Lou Gehrig collects fourteen total bases to lead the Yankees to a 15-7 win over the White Sox; the NY first baseman blasts two triples and two homers.

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Jun 25

NY Giant Fred Lindstrom ties record of 9 hits in a doubleheader.

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Jul 08

Phillies set record of errorless 25 inning doubleheader.

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Jul 26

Yanks score 11 runs in 12th beating Tigers 12-1.

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Jul 29

Cleve Indians score 17 in first 2 inns to beat Yanks 24-6 at Dunn Field they also set a record with 24 singles in 1 game.

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An endurance test got underway for the Boston Braves. The team started a stretch that saw them playing nine doubleheaders in a row.

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Sep 15

The Braves play their ninth consecutive doubleheader. The streak, which began on September 4th, sees the team lose five in a row, including four to the Giants.

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Sep 15

Cards set NL record of 18 men left on base beating Phillies 8-6.

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Sep 17

Pitcher Ray Boggs hits 3 batters in 1 inning.

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Sep 18

Cards beat Phillies for 20th of 22 games in 1928.

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Sep 24

A crowd of only 404 fans, the smallest American League crowd ever in Detroit, watch the Tigers blank the last-place Red Sox, 8-0.

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Sep 28

Yanks clinch pennant #6.

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Sep 29

Yanks (17) Tigers (28) set 9 inning hit record (45)-Tigers win 19-10.

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Oct 04

25th World Series begins, NY Yankees vs St Louis Cardinals.

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Oct 09

NY Yankees sweep Cards in 25th World Series, Ruth hits 3 HR in game NY Yankees become first to sweep consecutive World Series.

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Nov 07

After hitting .387 for the Braves, player-manager Rogers Hornsby is traded to the Cubs for five players and $200,000. The 'Rajah' will hit .380 along with 39 HRs and 149 RBIs for his new club.

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Dec 02

Cardinals 1B Jim Bottomley is voted National League MVP.

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Dec 11

National League President John Heydler proposes designated hitter for pitchers.

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Dec 17

John McGraw backs National League president John Heydler's designated hitter idea.

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Dec 19

Senators' player-manager Bucky Harris is traded to the Tigers for infielder Jack Warner. The future Hall of Famer will replace George Moriarity (68-86, 6th place) as the Motor City skipper.

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1929

Feb 20

The Red Sox announce it will play newly allowed Sunday games at Braves Field because Fenway Park is too close to a church.

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Apr 16

Indian Earl Averill homers on an 0-2 pitch off Tigers' Earl Whitehill becoming the first AL player to hit a home run in his first major league at-bat.

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Apr 16

The Yankees become the first team to make numbers a permanent part of the uniform (numbers would become standard for all teams by 1932).

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Actress Claire Hodgson weds Babe Ruth. The ceremony takes place at 5 am on Opening Day to avoid crowds.

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After a rain out, President Herbert Hoover throws out the first ball and watches the A's beat the Senators,13-4.

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Apr 18

In his first at-bat since his marriage yesterday, Babe Ruth hits a HR, and as he rounds second base tips his hat to his bride, Claire Hodgson.

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Apr 27

At the Baker Bowl, Clise Dudley becomes the first player to hit a home run on the first major league pitch thrown to him. The Brooklyn relief pitcher will hit a total of three HRs in his four-year career.

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Apr 28

The Red Sox lose to the A's, 7-3 in their first ever Sunday home game. Due to Fenway's proximity to a church, the game is played at Boston's Commonwealth Park.

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May 04

Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive homeruns, Yankees 11, Tigers 9.

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May 06

The American League announces it will discontinue the league's MVP award.

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May 08

Giant hurler Carl Hubbell becomes the first left-hander in 13 seasons to throw a no-hitter as he beats the Pirates, 11-0.

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May 09

New York Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pittsburgh Pirates.

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May 13

At Cleveland's League Park, the Indians beat the Yankees, 4-3.It is the first game in major league history in which players from both teams are the first to wear numbers on the back of their jerseys.

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May 18

In the first game of a twin bill, the Dodgers rout the Phillies, 16-0. Johnny Frederick scores five times giving the Brooklyn center fielder a major league record of tallying eight runs in two games.

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May 19

Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium; 2 people crushed to death.

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May 24

Detroit Tigers beats Chicago White Sox, 6-5, in 21 innings.

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