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  • 1900:
  • 1904 - With Napoleon Lajoie lining a major-league record three triples, Cleveland rolls past the Highlanders, 16 - 3.
  • 1905 - The Philadelphia A's "sell" catcher Mike "Doc" Powers to the New York Highlanders. Powers will be sold back to the A's on August 7. As noted by Lyle Spatz, Powers was needed to replace back up C Red Kleinow, injured yesterday in a game with Detroit. Powers will play mainly at 1B, replacing Hal Chase whose nose was broken in the Detroit game.
  • 1907 - The Reds manage 11 hits off Christy Mathewson, but no runs, and the Giants win 4-0.
  • 1908 - New York sweeps the Pirates, beating Lefty Leifield, 7 - 0, on a 3-hitter by Christy Mathewson, then taking the nitecap 7 - 4. Pittsburgh racked up three homers -- by Wagner, Chief Wilson and Alan Storke -- but to no avail. McGinnity wins the nitecap with relief help from Hooks Wiltse.
  • 1909 - At Nicollet Park in Minneapolis, Irv Young puts on "the greatest single-day mound performance in the history of the Millers" (according to historian Stew Thornley). In the first game of a doubleheader with the Milwaukee Brewers (AA), Young holds the Brewers to four hits to win, 1-0. Young homers in the fifth for the game's only run. So impressive is Young that he pitches the nightcap, holding the Brewers hitless until the 9th and finishing with a one-hit, 5-0 victory. The double shutout puts the Millers two games in front of Milwaukee. The two teams will fight for the AA lead for the next two months, before fading in the final week, allowing Louisville to sneak into first.
  • 1911 - In the 9th against the A's, Ty Cobb breaks a 7-7 tie by scoring from first on a Jim Delahanty's single. Cobb runs through coach Hughie Jennings' frantic signal to hold up and using a fadeaway slide eludes the tag of the catcher Ira Thomas. Detroit wins 8-7 to stay in first place.
  • 1915 - Pete Alexander wins his 9th in a row for the Phils, shutting out the visiting Cardinals, 8-0.
  • 1916 - Detroit's Bill James strikes out seven straight batters in the Tigers 3 - 1 win over Washington.
  • 1919 - Submarine P Carl Mays quits the mound after two innings at Chicago, blaming his teammates for lack of support afield. In defiance of Ban Johnson's order that no action be taken until Mays is returned to good standing, Boston owner Harry Frazee trades Mays to the Yankees for pitchers Bob McGraw and Allen Russell and $40,000. Johnson suspends Mays indefinitely and orders umpires not to let him pitch for New York. The Yankees get a court order restraining Johnson from interfering, further eroding Johnson's authority and standing. The AL directors will reinstate Mays. In retaliation, on October 29th the National Commission will refuse to recognize the Yankees' third-place finish and will withhold the players' share of the pool. New York's owners will pay out of their own pockets.
  • 1920 - The fans are flocking to see the mighty Ruth hit home runs (12 in June). A twin bill with the Browns draws a Polo Grounds record of 38,823, the third record-breaker of the year.
  • 1922:
  • 1927 - Chicago admirers present Eddie Collins, now with the A's, with a new automobile.
  • 1930 - The defending champs, the Philadelphia A's, move into first place by beating the Browns, 12-1, and will remain in the lead the rest of the season.
  • 1934 - In front of 20,000 fans during the third inning at Navin Field in Detroit, Babe Ruth wallops a Tommy Bridges 3-2 pitch far over the right field wall for his 700th career home run. The 4-2 victory over the Tigers put the Bronx Bombers back into first place, but Lou Gehrig is helped off the field in the first inning with a severe bout of lumbago.
  • 1935 - The A's Doc Cramer has a 6-for-6 game, tying the AL mark for the second time. He had also done it in 1932.
  • 1936 - Bill Lee wins a 1 - 0 duel from Carl Hubbell, as the Cubs move into first place. It is the last game the Giant ace will lose in 1936; he will win his next 16 decisions.
  • 1937 - The Cardinals' Pepper Martin is fined $200 for violation of training rules.
  • 1941 - Former major-league player Eddie Mayo, playing for Los Angeles (Pacific Coast League), spits in the face of umpire Ray Snyder. PCL President W. C. Tuttle suspends Mayo for one year.
  • 1943 - The AL edges the NL 5-3 at Shibe Park in the first All-Star Game played under the lights. Bobby Doerr of the Red Sox is the hitting hero with a 3-run HR off Mort Cooper in the second inning. Vince DiMaggio of the Pirates has a single, triple and HR in three trips. Doerr also handled six fielding chances. At the All-Star break he had handled 307 errorless chances, dating back to May 20th. His AL streak will end at 349 chances, a record he will break in 1948. The game is broadcast to GIs via shortwave radio.
  • 1944 - A .300 hitter as a rookie for the Tigers in 1943, Dick Wakefield finishes Navy air training and then is released from the service pending assignment. He rejoins the Tigers and will hit .355 the rest of the season, pushing Detroit near the flag despite the loss of 12 of its first 13 home games. In the first week after the All-Star Game, Wakefield homers twice, and goes 9-for-24.
  • 1946 - Al Zarilla of the St. Louis Browns gets two triples in the fourth inning against the A's. The Browns win 11-4 at Shibe Park.
  • 1947 - Making his 14th major-league uniform switch, Bobo Newsom joins the Yanks. His 7-5 record the rest of the way will help the Yankees to the title. The next season Newsom will join the Giants.
  • 1948 - At Sportsman's Park, the American League defeats the National League for 11th time in 15 All-Star contests, 5-2. Vic Raschi pitches three scoreless innings to pick up the win and hits a two-run single as well. Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, George Kell and Hal Newhouser miss places in the lineup due to injuries.
  • 1950 - Doctors remove seven bone fragments from Ted Williams' elbow in a 75-minute operation. He will be sidelined until mid-September. But he will go on to hit .350 for the rest of 1950 and .336 throughout the rest of his career, including .388 and .328 to lead the AL in 1957 and 1958 respectively.
  • 1951:
    • The Red Sox and White Sox play 19 innings under the lights, tying a major-league record. Mickey McDermott pitches the first 17 innings for Boston, as Chicago wins this marathon, 5 - 4. Clyde Vollmer has a homer and two singles for the BoSox and 3B Vern Stephens plays the entire game (18 1/3 innings) without a put out. Boston scores twice in the top of the 19th, but the Sox strike back with three runs. For the second night in a row, the two teams set a record for the longest night game. Tomorrow the Sox will set a major-league mark when they pull off their 14th DP in four games.
    • Both Wes Westrum and Davey Williams of the Giants hit grand slams, as the Giants beat St. Louis 14 - 4 at the Polo Grounds. The win moves New York into second place.
  • 1952:
  • 1954 - At Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, Senators hurler Dean Stone does not retire a batter, but gets the win in the American League's 11-9 All-Star victory as he throws out Red Schoendienst trying to steal home in the eighth inning for the third out before throwing a pitch. The AL breaks the NL's 4-game winning streak. Larry Doby's pinch HR in the eighth, followed by Nellie Fox's 2-run single, ends the highest scoring All-Star Game in history. The two teams combine for 31 hits, with the AL amassing 17. The Indians' Al Rosen has two HRs and 5 RBIs.
  • 1955 - The Orioles deal OF Hoot Evers to the Indians in exchange for P Bill Wight.
  • 1958 - Orlando Cepeda's third HR in three days and Felipe Alou's run-scoring hit in the ninth, give the Giants a 6-5 win over the Braves. San Francisco now leads the Braves by a 1/2 game.
  • 1959 - The Red Sox sweep their 5-game series with New York with a 13 - 3 rout featuring a big 6th inning. Gene Stephens pinch-runs for Ted Williams and, when the Sox bat around, Stephens then hits a grand slam.
  • 1960 - Vern Law becomes the 2nd Pirate to win a 1960 All-Star Game, working two scoreless innings. Stan Musial comes off the National League bench and hits his record 6th and last All-Star Game home run. Willie Mays, Ken Boyer and Eddie Mathews also homer in the 6 - 0 NL win, the 3rd shutout in All-Star Game history.
  • 1961 - Chicago's Early Wynn gets an early departure as he retires just two Yankees in the first inning. Then Mickey Mantle (30th) and Roger Maris (34th) belt back-to-back homers to send the vet to the showers. For Mantle, it is the 13th homer in his career off Wynn, his favorite target. New York wins, 6 - 2
  • 1962:
    • In Kansas City, the Red Sox outlast the A's, 11 - 10, in 15 innings. Boston collects 21 hits to KC's 20. Lou Clinton wins the marathon with an RBI single and adds the cycle as he goes 5-for-7. Dick Radatz is the winner over Ed Rakow. KC catcher Haywood Sullivan is 4-for-4 before leaving for a pinch runner in the 10th.
    • Cubs rookie Cal Koonce (8-2) stops the Reds on one hit, a single by Don Blasingame, to win, 1 - 0. It is the first of four times that the Dixie Blazer will collect the only hit in a game. The Cubs only run is unearned off Bob Purkey (14-3).
    • Orioles C Charlie Lau hits four doubles in a 10 - 3 victory over Cleveland to tie a ML record. Charlie's average jumps to .294.
  • 1963 - At Kansas City in the 2nd game of a doubleheader, Cleveland's 43-year-old Early Wynn leaves with a lead after struggling through five innings. Four scoreless relief innings by Jerry Walker enables Wynn to score his 300th career victory 7-4. It has taken Wynn eight tries to cop his 300th (and last) career win.
  • 1964 - The Yankees clout four homers in Cleveland to top the Tribe, 10 - 4.
  • 1965 - For the first time in All-Star history, the National League takes the lead in games won over the American League as the Senior Circuit edges the junior loop, 6-5 at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota. Willie Mays homers, walks twice and scores twice. Game MVP Juan Marichal throws three scoreless innings.
  • 1966 - Manager Don Heffner (37-46) is fired by the Reds and replaced by coach Dave Bristol.
  • 1968 - At Pittsburgh, the Phils take their 4th straight from the Bucs, winning 3-2 in 16 innings.
  • 1969:
  • 1971 - In a game which features six home runs, including Reggie Jackson's crushing a Dock Ellis fourth inning pitch off the power generator located on the Tiger Stadium right-field roof 520 feet from home plate, the American League beats the NL, 6-4 in the All-Star action. All the players who homer - Johnny Bench, Hank Aaron, Roberto Clemente, Frank Robinson, Harmon Killebrew as well as Reggie - will become members of the Hall of Fame. It is the only AL All-Star victory between 1962 and 1983.
  • 1972 - In a contest which lasts on 93 minutes, the Cardinals play the quickest nine-inning game in their history.
  • 1973:
    • Bobby Murcer hits three home runs, all off starter Gene Garber, and knocks in all the runs in the Yankees' 5 - 0 win over the Royals. Mel Stottlemyre Sr. scatters six hits in racking up his 39th shut out. Murcer does not hit another homer until August 19.
    • At Atlanta Stadium, Hal Breeden of the Expos becomes only the second major leaguer to pinch-hit home runs in both ends of a doubleheader. On June 17, 1943, Red Sox player-manger Joe Cronin accomplished against the Philadelphia A's. Expo pinch-hitter Jim Lyttle also adds a homer. Montreal outslugs Atlanta, 11-7 in game 1, and the Braves return the favor, 15-6 in game 2.
  • 1975 - The Reds score four runs in the 8th inning to defeat Tom Seaver and the Mets, 5 - 3. The Reds have won 41 of their last 50 games.
  • 1976 - The National League emerges victorious in the annual All-Star Game at Veterans Stadium, 7 - 1. George Foster, one of seven Reds position players on the squad, homers, drives in three runs, is named the game's MVP. Rookie Mark Fidrych gives up two runs and takes the loss. It is the NL's 13th win in the last 14 games.
  • 1977 - At Shea Stadium, the Cubs' game is suspended due to a major black-out which darkens New York City. The Mets' players amuse the crowd by performing antics in front of the headlights of cars which they drive onto the field.
  • 1979 - California's Nolan Ryan and Boston's Steve Renko (with one-out help from Bill Campbell) each lose no-hitters in the 9th inning, and each settle for one-hit victories: 6 - 1 over New York, and 2 - 0 over Oakland, respectively. Rickey Henderson has the one-out hit off Renko.
  • 1982 - In the first All-Star game played outside the United States, the National League cruises to its 11th straight win beating American League at Montreal's Olympic Stadium, 4-1. Dave Concepcion's second inning two-run homer off Red Sox starter Dennis Eckersley is the turning point of the game. The NL has now won 19 of the last 20 contests.
  • 1984:
  • 1985:
  • 1988 - After replacing John McNamara as the Red Sox manager, Joe Morgan makes a good first impression as the team wins the first nineteen out of twenty with him at the helm.
  • 1991 - The Orioles defeat the A's 2-0 on a combined no-hitter by pitchers Bob Milacki, Mike Flanagan, Mark Williamson and Gregg Olson. It is only the second time in history that four pitchers have combined to throw a no-hitter. On September 28, 1975, Vida Blue, Glenn Abbott, Paul Lindblad and Rollie Fingers turned the trick for Oakland against the California Angels. Milacki is lifted in the 6th after Willie Wilson smashes a ball off the pitcher's index finger.
  • 1993 - Players Association chief Donald Fehr says that if serious negotiations between the players and the owners don't begin soon, the players could go out on strike in September, threatening the postseason.
  • 1995 - Greg Maddux of the Braves defeats the Padres, 4-1. His streak of 51 innings without issuing a walk is ended when he gives up a free pass to opposing pitcher Joey Hamilton, a career .041 hitter.
  • 1996:
    • The Giants top prospect Shawn Estes throws his first game of the season, pitching seven scoreless innings and striking out 11 Dodgers for his first win. The Giants win, 7 - 0.
    • The Indians score four runs in the 4th, five runs in the 5th, and six runs in the 6th as they defeat the Twins, 19-11. The Tribe counts 12 doubles and three home runs among its 22 hits. The 12 doubles ties an American League record set in 1990, and the two teams combine for 18 doubles, a new AL record (the National League mark is 23). Of Rich Becker gets four hits, including a double and two homers, and drives home six runs for Minnesota.
  • 1997:
    • With the temperature at 100 degrees, Pedro Martinez fires a one-hit shutout to beat the Reds, 2 - 0. The Expos' ace gives up a single to Bret Boone in the 5th for the only hit. Mike Lansing triples twice for the Expos before leaving in the 5th inning with exhaustion.
    • Dennys Reyes, the first lefty in nearly five years to start a game for the Dodgers, throws six strong innings in beating the Giants, 9 - 3. The last lefty starter for L.A. was Bob Ojeda, on September 24, 1992, in a no-decision at Cincinnati.
    • The Marlins use an 8-run 4th inning to wallop the Phillies, 9 - 3. Gary Sheffield is the main man with two homers in the inning, hitting a solo shot and a 3-run homer, before leaving with a pulled hamstring.
    • Seattle and Texas combine for a record 31 strikeouts in the Rangers' 4 - 2 victory. Randy Johnson racks up 14 K's in seven innings, and reliever Bobby Ayala adds 4, but gives up two runs in the 9th. The previous mark was 30 set by the Mariners and Athletics on April 30, 1986.
  • 1999 - At Fenway Park, hometown favorite Pedro Martinez strikes out five of the six batters he faces to win MVP honor. The two All-Star pitching squads combine for a record 22 strikeouts as the American League tops the NL in the 70th Mid-Summer Classic, 4-1. The game begins 15 minutes late as Hall of Fame OF Ted Williams rides out in a cart for the first-pitch ceremony. Players from both teams surround the former Red Sox star in a spontaneous display of homage.
  • 2000 - The Dodgers edge the Angels, 4 - 3, in 10 innings but not before California executes an unusual play. After the Dodgers' Adrian Beltre triples off the newly-renovated RF fence in the bottom of the 10th, the Angels move LF Darin Erstad to the infield to prevent the run scoring. Erstad, playing at about 2B, throws out Kevin Elster for an OF assist. Jim Leyritz then singles in the run.
  • 2001:
  • 2002 - The Tigers defeat the White Sox twice, 5-3 and 3-1, to mark their first sweep of a double-header in almost nine years.
  • 2004 - Having earned the All-Star MVP award as a 23-year old for pitching three perfect innings at the Astrodome in 1986, the 41-year old Roger Clemens gives up six runs in the first inning in the 75th Midsummer Classic played at Houston's Minute Maid Park. The eventual 9-4 American League victory is halted in top of the fifth inning as the much chagrined "Rocket" receives the Commissioner's Historic Achievement Award from Bud Selig in recognition of his outstanding 21-year career.
  • 2008:

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