Baseball History Unpacked - June 11
1904 - After pitching 9.1 innings of no-hit baseball, Cubs’ hurler Bob Wicker settles for a 1-0, twelve inning one-hit victory over the Giants.
1911 - Heinie Zimmerman of the Cubs drives in nine runs to set a team record.
1927 - The Philadelphia Athletics field a team of seven future Hall of Famers in the 9th inning: Ty Cobb (RF), Mickey Cochrane (PH), Eddie Collins (2B), Jimmie Foxx (1B), Lefty Grove (P), Al Simmons (CF) and Zack Wheat (LF).
Baseball History Unpacked - May 30
The BleedCubbieBlue.com blog unpacks the Baseball history of May 30 with ditties like:
1911- NL President Tom Lynch witnessed a play where the umpires blew a call so poorly that he ordered the play to be redone.
1935 - Babe Ruth makes his last major league appearance.
Frank Fredrickson on NHL Voices of the Past
was war hero, Stanley Cup winner, Hockey Hall of Famer.
Baseball History Unpacked - June 2
1891 - Charles ‘Old Hoss’ Radbourn of the Cincinnati Reds wins his career 300th game by beating the Boston Beaneaters at South End Grounds, 10-8.
1935 - Braves outfielder Babe Ruth announces his retirement from baseball.
1957 - Moe Drabowsky sets a National League record for the most hit batsmen in a single game when he plunks four Reds in the Cubs’ 4-3 loss at Crosley Field.
Baseball History Unpacked - June 14
1870 - At the Capitoline Grounds in Brooklyn, the Cincinnati Red Stockings see their 130-game consecutive winning streak (81 official games and 49 exhibitions) come to an end.
1979 - The Giants lose to the Cubs 8-6, but Willie McCovey hits his 513th career home run.
Baseball History Unpacked - June 10
1944 - Six weeks shy of his 16th birthday, Joe Nuxhall becomes the youngest person to play in a major league contest in this century.
2013 - Javier Baez of the Daytona Cubs (Florida State League) hits four home runs in a 9-6 win over the Fort Myers Miracle.
Jim ORourke New England Historical
Orator Jim O’Rourke, Baseball’s Irish Warrior - New England Historical Society
Baseball History Unpacked - June 9
This Day in Baseball June 17 - Bombin Brock
1962 - Lou Brock hits one of longest homeruns in Polo Grounds history.