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Baseball History on May 16 from the Baseball Almanac

Baseball history on May 16, including every baseball player who was born on May 16, died on May 16, made their debut on May 16, and ended their big league career on May 16, by Baseball Almanac. — www.baseball-almanac.com

The Baseball Almanac website presents the Baseball History on May 16., such as Red Ruffing, Lefty Gomez, Billy Martin, Hank Bauer, and more.

These posts include birthdays plus events concerning names like Dummy Hoy, Dummy Taylor, Johnny Allen, George Pipgras, with more legendary series as well.

May 16th in 1980s baseball

Happy Birthday to a Hall of Famer, a Hall of Famer ends his career, and a Hall of Famer hits for the cycle on Today in 1980s Baseball — 80sbaseball.com

In 1980s baseball on May 16, we learn an Astro has three triples in a game, a home run drought ends, and a power hitter drills his 1st career HR.


J. Daniel presents some of the top events in the 1980s MLB for May 16 including items about Jack Morris, Rick Rhoden, Mark Funderburk, Billy Martin, Bob Patterson, Bryan Harvey, Steve Farr, Jeff Innis, Mark Gardner, Marty Pevey , Fred Lynn, Craig Reynolds, and more.

Best Baseball Players Born May 16

Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar.
Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for May 16: — www.mlb.com

The MLB.com website presents their opinion of who the top players in baseball history are that were born on May 16.

This Day in Baseball May 16

Ruth pitches a gem, a famous Boston player hits for the cycle, the Pirates overcome a 5-run deficit against a top pitcher, an AL HR record for seven games is tied, and dozens more stories from May 16 MLB history.


The crew at This Day in Baseball.com gives us the scoop on May 16 events that concern Sam Thompson, Christy Matthewson, Red Ames, Babe Ruth, Earle Combs, Tommy Bridges, Roberto Clemente, Wally Moon, Ted Williams, and more.

2024-05-19

May 19 Numbers

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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. 8 - 6 - 30 May 19, 1942 - Boston Braves outfielder Paul Waner, Number 8 became the third player in NL history at the tim...

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2024-05-18

May 18 Numbers

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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. 3 - 7 - 16 May 18, 1897 - Early MLB star of the New York Giants, Bill Joyce established a record of 4 triples in 1 ...

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2024-05-17

May 17 Numbers

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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. 44 - 36 May 17, 1925 - Cleveland Indians centerfielder Tris Speaker reached his 3,000th hit in his MLB career. In 1...

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2024-05-16

May 16 Numbers

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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. 5 - 9 - 22 May 16, 1927 - New York Yankee outfielder, Bob Meusel, wearing Number 5 stole 2nd base, 3rd base and&nbs...

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2024-05-15

May 15 Numbers

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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. May 15, 1912 - Detroit Tigers star slugger Ty Cobb,  let's an obnoxious fan get to him and the player leaped the rail...

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2024-05-14

May 14 Numbers

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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. 3 - 37 - 7 May 14, 1913 - Washington Senator pitcher Walter Johnson, had his amazing MLB record of scoreless innings str...

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Bears versus Cardinals: The NFL's Oldest Rivalry
Author Joe Ziemba the master historian of football in Chicago has released another beauty. It is titled Bears versus Cardinals: The NFL's Oldest Rivalry. _________________________

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Historian Timothy P. Brown has released another excellent book to help fill our football minds with knowledge. His latest is called Hut! Hut! Hike!: A History of Football Terminology.

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