29 April in Sports History

Sports history is made every day of the year. We will preserve at least a small sampling from some great athletes every day based on the uniform number they wore.

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April 29, 1892 - Charlie Reilly of the Philadelphia Phillies becomes Major League Baseball's first pinch hitter. Reilly is also famous for another baseball accomplishment. He was the first of two players to have four hits that included al least one home run, as he hit two, in their first major league game

April 29, 1918 - Future Hall of Fame Centerfielder of the Boston Red Sox, Tris Speaker tied a career outfield record of four unassisted double plays.

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April 29, 1931 - Cleveland Indians pitcher Wes Ferrell, Number 14 tossed a no-hit shutout against the St Louis Browns, 9-0. Ferrel had a brillinat 15 year career with various teams in the AL and was vited as an All-Star twice during his career.

April 29, 1953 - Milwaukee Braves' Joe Adcock, Number 9 is the first ever player to drive a home run into Polo Grounds center field bleachers.

Here are some more events from the hardball diamonds that occured on this date from The Day in Baseball History website for April 29.

April 29th in 1980s Baseball

J. Daniel presents the great moments of the '80s MLB with news about Juan Samuel, Storm Davis, Steve Carlton, George Brett, Larry Parrish, Billy Beane, and more. MLB April 29

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This Day In Baseball April 29

The This Day In Baseball website bring us events on importance from the diamond for April 29 including pieces about John McGraw, Tris Speaker, Lou Gehrig, Wes Ferrell, Bump Hadley,Frank Thomas, Roberto Clemente, Nolan Ryan, Phil Garner, and more. MLB April 29

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The website of NBA.com offers these nuggets of history for the day.

April 29, 1970 - Los Angeles Lakers guard Jerry West hit a 60-foot desperation shot at the buzzer to tie Game 3 of the NBA Finals against the New York Knicks. In overtime, however, the Lakers scored just six points and lost 111-108.

April 29, 2011 - Behind a 31-point, 11-rebound game from Zach Randolph, the Memphis Grizzlies defeat the San Antonio Spurs, 99-91, in Game 6 of their first-round series. With the victory, Memphis ousts the No. 1-seeded Spurs, marking the first time a No. 1 seed lost in the first round since the 1999 playoffs.

A Very Special thanks to information obtained from the following brilliant internet sites: On This Day Sports, This Day in Baseball, NBA.com,the Vintage Hockey Jerseys website, 80sbaseball.com, the Sports Reference's family of website databases & Stathead.com.

Banner photo is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons of Charles Thomas "Charlie" Reilly, 3rd Base, St. Paul Apostles, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes by the Goodwin & Company.