Today in Baseball History (Part 2)
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Historical Events
Results 101 - 200 of 577
1915-03-13 - Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit
1915-12-22 - Federal Baseball League disolved
1915-12-22 - Organized baseball & Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati
1916-06-18 - Yanks score in every inning but 8th to beat Indians 19-3 in baseball
1916-09-04 - Christy Mathewson & Mordecai Brown final baseball game
1916-12-02 - Baseballers who are injured now get full pay for duration of contract
1917-06-01 - Hank Gowdy is 1st baseball player to enlist during WW I
1917-06-27 - 1st baseball player (Hank Gowdy) to enter WW I military service
1917-08-19 - Sunday benefit baseball game at Polo Grounds results in John McGraw & Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws
1918-05-14 - Sunday baseball is made legal in Wash DC
1918-07-19 - Wash catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft Sec of War Newton D Baker rules baseball players are not draft exempt
1918-09-01 - Baseball season ends due to WW I
1918-12-10 - John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League
1919-05-04 - 1st legal Sunday baseball game in NYC (Phillies beat Giants 4-3)
1919-05-25 - Casey Stengel releases a sparrow from under his baseball cap
1919-10-30 - Baseball league presidents call for abolishment of spitball
1920-01-04 - 1st Black baseball league, National Negro Baseball League, organizes
1920-01-12 - Annual drafting of baseball players from minor leagues to be done in inverse order of the final standings, agreed to
1920-02-09 - Joint Rules Com bans foreign substances & alterations to baseballs
1920-02-10 - Baseball outlaws all pitches involving tampering with ball
1920-02-13 - National Negro Baseball League organizes
1920-05-02 - 1st game of National Negro Baseball League played in Indianapolis
1920-06-05 - A's VP Thomas Shibe denies charges that baseballs are livelier
1920-10-10 - Indians' Elmer Smith hits baseball's 1st post-season grand slam
1920-11-08 - Baseball meeting to depose Ban Johnson is set for Nov 12th
1920-11-12 - Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner
1921-01-12 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis becomes 1st commissioner of baseball
1921-08-03 - Due to a technicality, 8 Chicago White Sox accused in Black Sox scandal are acquited, however Landis throws them out of baseball
1921-08-05 - 1st radio baseball broadcast Pirates-8, Phillies-0 (KDKA, Pitts)
1922-02-18 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his judgeship to work for baseball
1922-05-29 - US Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport & not a business & thus not subject to antitrust laws
1922-12-16 - Mutual Assn of Eastern Colored Baseball Clubs) formally organizes
1923-08-03 - Baseball games cancelled following the death of President Harding
1924-02-10 - Bucky Harris, 27, becomes youngest baseball manager (Wash Senators)
1925-01-05 - French Baseball Federation awards silver medals to John McGraw, Charlie Comiskey, & Hugh Jennings
1925-04-21 - No baseball games played in NL due to Charles Ebbets' funeral
1926-12-16 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis renewed 7-years as baseball commissioner
1927-03-02 - Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year)
1928-09-03 - Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb got his 4,191th & final career hit
1930-04-28 - 1st night organized baseball game (Independence KS)
1930-12-12 - Baseball Rules Committee greatly revises the rule book
1930-12-12 - Baseball changes rule, ball bounces into stands not a HR, now a double
1931-01-05 - 1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League
1931-02-04 - National League adopts a deader baseball
1931-02-17 - 1st telecast of a sporting event in Japan (baseball)
1931-03-27 - John McGraw says night baseball will not catch on
1931-04-01 - Jackie Mitchell became 1st female in professional baseball
1931-06-15 - Eddie Collins & Harry Heilmann, retire from baseball
1931-12-09 - Baseball cuts squad from 25 to 23 players & NL continues to prohibit uniform numbers
1932-07-03 - John McGraw retires from baseball
1933-07-06 - 1st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-2 at Comiskey Park, Chicago
1933-12-15 - Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders until after June 15
1934-01-05 - National & American baseball leagues select a uniform ball
1934-07-10 - 2nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-7 at Polo Grounds, New York
1934-12-11 - Ford C Frick becomes president of baseball's National League
1934-12-11 - NL votes to permit night baseball (up to 7 games per home team)
1934-12-26 - Yomiuri Giants, Japan's 1st professional baseball team forms
1935-05-24 - 1st major league night baseball game, in Cincinnati (Reds 2, Phil 1)
1935-07-08 - 3rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-1 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve
1936-01-29 - 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame-Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson & Walter Johnson
1936-04-29 - 1st pro baseball game in Japan is played Nagoya defeats Daitokyo, 8-5
1936-07-07 - 4th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Braves Field, Boston
1936-08-12 - Demo baseball game at 1936 Olympics in Berlin, world beats US, 6-5
1936-12-09 - AL OKs night baseball for St Louis
1937-01-19 - Cy Young, Tris Speaker & Nap Lajorie elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1937-07-07 - 5th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 8-3 at Griffith Stadium, Wash
1938-04-01 - Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, NY
1938-06-01 - Protective baseball helmets 1st worn by batters
1938-06-19 - Reds Johnny Vander Meer extends his string of hitless baseball innings to 21 2/3 before Debs Garms singles for Boston in 4th
1938-06-21 - Baseball's Pinky Higgins gets 12th straight hit
1938-07-06 - 6th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati
1938-08-02 - 1st test of a yellow baseball (Dodgers vs Cardinals)
1938-09-13 - Alexander Cartwright selects to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1939-05-17 - 1st sports telecast-Columbia vs Princeton-college baseball
1939-06-12 - Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown NY
1939-07-11 - 7th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Yankee Stadium, New York NY Yankee/AL maanager Joe McCarthy starts 6 Yankees
1939-08-26 - 1st major league baseball telecast-Reds beat Bkln Dodgers (W2XBS NY)
1939-08-30 - NY Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph)
1939-12-07 - Lou Gehrig, 36, is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1940-04-16 - 1st televised baseball game, WGN-TV, (White Sox vs Cubs exhibition)
1940-07-09 - 8th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-0 at Sportsman's Park, St Louis
1940-10-24 - Japan eliminates US terms (strike, play ball) from baseball
1941-03-08 - 1st baseball player drafted into WW II (Hugh Mulcahy, Phillies)
1941-04-26 - A tradition begins, 1st organ at a baseball stadium (Chicago Cubs)
1941-07-08 - 9th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-5 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit
1941-09-28 - Ted Williams ended the baseball season with .406 batting avg
1942-01-15 - FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WW II
1942-02-03 - Baseball owners agree to permit each club up to 14 night games in 1942
1942-03-01 - Baseball decides that players in milt can't play when on furlough
1942-05-18 - NYC ends night baseball games for rest of WW II
1942-06-19 - Paul Waner, is 7th to get 3,000 baseball hits
1942-07-06 - 10th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Polo Grounds, New York
1943-03-13 - Baseball approves official ball (with cork & balata)
1943-05-21 - Fastest 9 inning AL baseball game (89 mins), White Sox beat Senators
1943-07-13 - 11th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Shibe Park, Philadelphia
1943-11-23 - Phils owner William D Cox is permanently banned from baseball for having bet on his own team
1943-12-04 - Commissioner Landis announces any baseball club may sign Negroes
1943-12-22 - Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core
1944-02-02 - Baseball meets in NYC to discuss postwar action
1944-02-18 - Youngest baseball player, Cin Reds sign 15 year old Joe Nuxhall
Famous Birthdays
Results 101 - 200 of 1,623
1889-09-28 - Jack Fournier, American baseball player (d. 1973)
1889-10-25 - Smoky Joe Wood, American baseball pitcher (d. 1985)
1890-01-11 - Max Carey, American baseball player (d. 1976)
1890-05-14 - Alex Pompez, American baseball executive (d. 1974)
1890-07-30 - Casey Stengel, baseball manager (Yankees (1949-60)/NY Met's 1st)
1890-08-04 - Dolf Luque, Cuban baseball player (d. 1957)
1890-09-24 - Mike González, baseball player (d. 1977)
1891-01-15 - Ray Chapman, American baseball player (d. 1920)
1891-01-28 - Bill Doak, American baseball player (d. 1954)
1891-11-11 - Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player (d. 1954)
1892-07-26 - Sam Jones, American baseball player (d. 1966)
1893-02-17 - Wally Pipp, American baseball player (d. 1965)
1893-03-24 - George Sisler, American baseball player (d. 1973)
1893-04-27 - Allen Sothoron, American baseball player (d. 1939)
1893-05-08 - Edd Roush, baseball player (d. 1988)
1893-06-09 - Irish Meusel, American baseball player (d. 1963)
1893-07-22 - Jesse Haines, American baseball player (d. 1978)
1893-08-18 - Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1894-08-03 - Harry Heilmann, SF Cal, baseball hall of famer outfielder (Detroit)
1894-08-26 - Sparky Adams, Baseball player (d. 1989)
1894-10-23 - Rube Bressler, baseball player (d. 1966)
1894-12-19 - Ford C Frick, baseball commissioner (1951-65)
1895-02-06 - George Herman (Babe) Ruth, Baltimore, baseball great (Yankees)
1895-08-07 - Edward Gill, baseball player
1895-09-23 - Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1895-10-13 - Mike Gazella, American baseball player (d. 1978)
1896-05-28 - Warren Giles, baseball's National League president
1896-10-19 - Bob O'Farrell, American baseball player (d. 1988)
1896-11-08 - Bucky Harris, baseball manager (Phillies, Yankees)
1896-11-10 - Jimmie Dykes, American baseball player and manager (d. 1976)
1896-12-27 - Arch Ward, sportswriter (proposed baseball's all-star game)
1897-03-04 - Francis "Lefty" O'Doul, baseball player/organized Japanese baseball
1897-04-10 - Ross Youngs, American baseball player (d. 1927)
1898-01-24 - Cliff Heathcote, American baseball player (d. 1939)
1898-04-25 - Fred Haney, baseball player (d. 1977)
1898-07-14 - A. B. "Happy" Chandler, American politician and baseball commissioner (d. 1991)
1898-09-09 - Frank "Fordham Flash" Frisch, NYC, baseball player (NL MVP 1931)
1898-10-30 - Bill Terry, baseball player (d. 1989)
1899-03-28 - August Anheuser Busch, Jr., brewing magnate and American baseball executive (d. 1989)
1899-05-14 - Earle Combs, American baseball player (d. 1976)
1899-07-29 - Walter Beall, American baseball player (d. 1959)
1899-09-09 - Waite Hoyt, American baseball player (d. 1984)
1899-10-11 - Eddie Dyer, American baseball player (d. 1964)
1899-11-11 - Harold "Pie" Traynor, baseball hall of fame 3rd baseman (Pirates)
1899-12-02 - Ray Morehart, American baseball player (d. 1989)
1900-03-06 - Robert "Lefty" Grove, baseball pitcher (300 game winner)
1900-04-23 - Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (d. 1959)
1900-04-26 - Hack Wilson, American baseball player (d. 1948)
1900-09-17 - Hughie Critz, baseball player (d. 1980)
1900-10-16 - [Leon] Goose Goslin, baseball hall of famer (AL bat champ 1928)
1900-10-31 - Carl Hubbard, Missouri, baseball & football Hall of Famer
1901-05-08 - Turkey Stearnes, baseball player (d. 1979)
1901-07-20 - Heinie Manush, American baseball player (d. 1971)
1901-07-28 - Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player (d. 1979)
1902-03-02 - Moe Berg, American baseball player and spy (d. 1972)
1902-05-07 - Sal Gliatto, baseball player
1902-05-21 - Earl Averill, baseball player (d. 1983)
1902-07-07 - Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1902-08-04 - Wild Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (d. 1981)
1903-02-12 - Chick Hafey, baseball player (d. 1973)
1903-02-21 - Thomas Yawkey, baseball owner (Boston Red Sox)
1903-04-06 - Mickey Cochrane, baseball hall of fame catcher (.320 avg)
1903-05-17 - Cool Papa Bell, baseball player (d. 1991)
1903-06-19 - Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941)
1903-10-09 - Walter O'Malley, baseball team owner (Dodgers)
1903-11-02 - Travis Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1987)
1903-12-06 - Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player (d. 1946)
1904-01-01 - Ethan Allen, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1904-02-27 - Chick Fullis, American baseball player (d. 1946)
1904-02-29 - John "Pepper" Martin, baseballer (NL stolen base leader 1933,34,36)
1904-03-30 - Ripper Collins, baseball player (d. 1970)
1905-01-17 - Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1905-05-31 - Roy Peaches Davis, baseball pitcher
1905-07-22 - Doc Cramer, American baseball player (d. 1990)
1905-09-26 - Emilio Navarro, Puerto Rican baseball player
1905-10-12 - Rick Ferrell, baseball Hall of Fame catcher
1905-11-26 - Bob Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1905-12-05 - Gus Mancuso, American baseball player (d. 1984)
1906-07-07 - [Leroy] Satchel Paige, baseball pitcher, never look back
1906-07-27 - Leo Durocher, Mass, baseball manager (Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants)
1906-10-12 - Joe Cronin, baseball (Pirates, Red Sox, Senators, MVP 1930, AL Pres)
1906-10-17 - Paul Derringer, American baseball player (d. 1987)
1906-11-17 - Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1907-04-02 - Luke Appling, American baseball player (d. 1991)
1907-05-11 - Rip Sewell, American baseball player (d. 1989)
1907-06-26 - Debs Garms, American baseball player (d. 1984)
1907-09-08 - Buck O'Neil, Old Negro League Baseball player
1907-10-22 - Jimmy Foxx, baseball HR hitter (534, Detroit Tigers)
1907-11-22 - Dick Bartell, baseball player
1908-06-20 - Billy Werber, American baseball player
1908-08-20 - Alfonso Lopez, baseball player (AL Manager of the year 1959)
1908-10-17 - Red Rolfe, American baseball player (d. 1969)
1908-11-26 - Lefty Gomez, baseball pitcher
1908-12-25 - Jo-Jo Moore, baseball player (d. 2001)
1909-03-02 - Mel Ott, American baseball player (d. 1958)
1909-03-25 - Dutch (Emil) Leonard, baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox, 1.01 ERA 1914)
1909-08-26 - Gene Moore, baseball player (d. 1978)
1909-09-12 - Spud Chandler, baseball player (AL MVP 1943)
1909-11-04 - Skeeter Webb, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1910-01-03 - Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player (d. 2000)
Famous Deaths
Results 101 - 200 of 339
1966-07-06 - Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player (b. 1892)
1966-11-07 - Rube Bressler, Baseball player (b. 1894)
1967-01-06 - Johnny Keane, baseball player/mgr (Cards, NY Yanks), dies at 55
1967-07-21 - Jimmy Foxx, baseball hall of famer (Det Tigers/534 HRs), dies at 59
1968-03-31 - Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (b. 1885)
1968-04-14 - Al Benton, American baseball player (b. 1911)
1968-04-19 - Tommy Bridges, US baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers), dies at 61
1968-06-15 - Samuel Earl "Wahoo Sam" Crawford, baseball pitcher, dies at 88
1968-07-27 - Babe Adams, baseball player (b. 1882)
1968-10-16 - Ellis Kinder, baseball player (b. 1914)
1969-01-24 - Tom Zachary, baseball pitcher (Wash Senators), dies at 72
1969-12-07 - Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player (b. 1897)
1970-01-14 - John J "Johnny" Murphy, US baseball pitcher (NY Yankees), dies at 61
1970-02-05 - Rudy York, American baseball player (b. 1913)
1970-04-15 - Ripper Collins, American baseball player (b. 1904)
1971-01-09 - Elmer Flick, baseball player (b. 1876)
1971-04-12 - Ed Lafitte, American baseball player (b. 1871)
1971-05-12 - Heinie Manush, American baseball player (b. 1901)
1971-07-28 - Myril Hoag, American baseball player (b. 1908)
1971-11-05 - Sam Jones, baseball player (b. 1925)
1972-05-29 - Moe Berg, American baseball player and spy (b. 1902)
1972-10-24 - Jackie Robinson, 1st black baseball player (Bkln Dodgers), dies at 53
1973-03-12 - Frankie "Fordham Flash" Frisch, baseball player, dies at 74
1973-05-08 - Ralph Miller, last 19th century baseball player, dies
1973-07-02 - Chick Hafey, baseball player (b. 1903)
1973-07-02 - George McBride, baseball player (b. 1880)
1973-09-05 - Jack Fournier, American baseball player (b. 1889)
1974-12-18 - Harry Hooper, American baseball player (b. 1887)
1975-03-21 - Joe Medwick, baseball player (b. 1911)
1975-05-22 - Lefty Grove, American Baseball Player (b. 1900)
1975-12-01 - Nellie Fox, American baseball player (b. 1927)
1976-05-30 - Max Carey, American baseball player (b. 1890)
1976-06-11 - Jim Konstanty, American baseball player (b. 1917)
1976-06-15 - Jimmy Dykes, baseball player and manager (b. 1896)
1976-06-20 - Lou Klein, American baseball player (b. 1918)
1976-06-30 - Firpo Marberry, baseball player (b. 1898)
1976-12-02 - Danny Murtaugh, baseball manager (Pitts Pirates), dies at 59
1977-02-19 - Mike González, Cuban baseball player (b. 1890)
1977-04-12 - Philip K Wrigley, baseball owner (Chicago Cubs), dies at 82
1977-10-17 - Robert C "Cal" Hubbard, US baseball player/umpire, dies at 77
1977-11-08 - Bucky Harris, American baseball player (b. 1896)
1978-01-13 - Joseph V McCarthy, baseball manager (NY Yankees), dies at 96
1978-03-07 - Steve Bilko, American baseball player (b. 1928)
1978-04-08 - Ford C Frick, baseball commissioner, dies at 83
1978-09-11 - Mike Gazella, American baseball player (b. 1895)
1978-12-11 - Paul O'Dea, American baseball player (b. 1920)
1979-11-18 - Freddie Fitzsimmons, baseball player (b. 1901)
1980-06-01 - [Richard] Rube Marquard, US baseball pitcher, dies at 90
1980-08-06 - Charles Urbanus, Dutch baseball player, dies at 66
1981-03-17 - Paul Dean, American baseball player (b. 1913)
1981-10-04 - Freddie Lindstrom, Major League Baseball Hall of famer (b. 1905)
1982-02-17 - Nestor Chylak, American baseball umpire (b. 1922)
1982-06-08 - [Leroy] Satchel Paige, US baseball pitcher, dies at 75
1982-07-06 - Bob Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1905)
1982-09-07 - Ken Boyer, American baseball player (b. 1931)
1982-09-29 - Monty Stratton, baseball player (b. 1912)
1983-04-12 - Carl Morton, American baseball player (b. 1944)
1983-08-16 - Earl Averill, American baseball player (b. 1902)
1984-07-14 - Al Schacht, [Clown prince of baseball], baseball player, dies at 91
1984-10-01 - Walter Alston, Baseball manager (LA Dodgers), dies at 72
1984-12-16 - Debs Garms, American baseball player (b. 1907)
1984-12-20 - Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1946)
1985-02-10 - Johnny Mokan, baseball player (b. 1895)
1985-06-10 - Bob Prince, sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball), dies at 68
1985-11-25 - Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (b. 1926)
1985-12-06 - Burleigh Grimes, US baseball pitcher, dies at 92
1986-01-02 - Bill Veeck, American baseball executive (b. 1914)
1986-07-02 - Peanuts Lowrey, baseball player (b. 1917)
1986-07-08 - Skeeter Webb, American baseball player (b. 1909)
1986-09-04 - Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (b. 1911)
1986-10-03 - Vince DiMaggio, American Baseball Player (b. 1912)
1986-12-20 - Joe DeSa, American baseball player (b. 1959)
1987-07-27 - Travis Jackson, baseball player (NY Giants), dies at 83
1987-11-16 - Jim Brewer, Major League Baseball relief pitcher (b. 1937)
1988-03-29 - Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player (b. 1924)
1988-11-21 - Carl Hubbell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1989-01-09 - Bill Terry, baseball player (b. 1898)
1989-01-21 - Carl Furillo, American Baseball player (b. 1922)
1989-02-24 - Sparky Adams, American baseball player (b. 1894)
1989-09-01 - A Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commissioner, dies of heart attack at 51
1989-09-02 - A Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commisioner, dies at 51
1989-09-29 - A A Busch Jr, brewer/baseball owner (St Louis Cards), dies at 90
1990-01-07 - Horace Stoneham, baseball owner (Giants), dies at 86
1990-01-09 - Spud Chandler, baseball player (b. 1907)
1990-02-24 - Tony Conigliaro, baseball player (Red Sox), dies of pneumonia at 45
1991-01-07 - Joe Hicks, baseball coach, dies of cancer at 64
1991-03-02 - James "Cool Papa" Bell, Negro baseball league great, dies at 87
1991-06-15 - Happy Chandler, American politician and Commissioner of Baseball (b. 1898)
1991-10-07 - Leo Durocher, baseball coach/manager (Dodgers, Giants), dies at 86
1991-12-12 - Ken Keltner, US baseball player (Cleveland Indians), dies at 75
1992-06-04 - Carl Stotz, founder (baseball's little league), dies at 82
1992-09-22 - Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (b. 1948)
1992-10-26 - Dottie Green, female baseball player (Peaches), dies of cancer at 71
1992-11-10 - Chuck Connors, US NBA/baseballer/actor (Boston Celtics), dies at 71
1992-12-09 - Carl Barger, baseball pres (Pitts Pirates, Fla Marlins), dies at 62
1993-01-22 - Charlie Gehringer, baseball player, dies at 89
1993-04-21 - Hal Schumacher, baseball pitcher, dies at 82
1993-04-22 - Mark Koenig, baseball shortstop (NY Yankees), dies at 88
1993-06-02 - Johnny Mize, baseball player, dies at 80
1993-09-20 - Loan Volkerijk, Dutch baseball coach (ADO), dies at 65
