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09-26-2010, 07:33 AM
1908 - Ed Reulbach (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=reulbed01) of the Chicago Cubs became the only pitcher to throw two shutouts in a doubleheader, beating the Superbas 5-0 and 3-0.
1916 - Washington manager Clark Griffith (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=griffcl01) excuses several regulars for the remaining games of the season so he can use some new players. Included is Walter Johnson (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=johnswa01), who has already won 25 games for the seventh-place club. In a league-leading 371 innings, he did not give up a home run, an all-time record.
1921 - Babe Ruth (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=ruthba01) hits home runs 57 and 58 to beat the Indians 8-7, and the Yankees take a two-and-a-half-game lead. The four-game series draws 147,000 people.
1932 - Chuck Klein (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=kleinch01) closes the season with 38 home runs and 20 stolen bases and becomes the only player of the lively-ball era (1920 and after) to lead his league in these two departments.
1953 - Billy Hunter (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=huntebi03) becomes the last St. Louis Browns player to homer in a game. The Browns lose anyway 6-3 to Chicago.
1954 - Art Ditmar (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=ditmaar01) of the Athletics defeats the Yanks 8-6 in the last game the franchise will play in Philadelphia before moving to Kansas City. Yankees catcher Yogi Berra (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=berrayo01) plays his only game at third base in his career and Mickey Mantle (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=mantlmi01) plays shortstop.
1955 - Ted Williams (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=willite01) finishes the season at .356, well ahead of Al Kaline's (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=kalinal01) .340, but does not have enough at-bats to win the batting title. The same thing happened in 1954. Williams (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=willite01) was walked 136 times in 1954 and 71 times (an American League leading 17 were intentional) this year. A rule change will be made to recognize plate appearances, not times at bat.
1959 - At Milwaukee the Braves beat the Phillies 3-2 behind Spahn's (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=spahnwa01) 21st win. He is now ahead of Eppa Rixey (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=rixeyep01) as the winningest National League lefty.
1961 - Roger Maris (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=marisro01) of the Yankees tied Babe Ruth (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=ruthba01) 34-year-old record with his 60th homer, off Baltimore's Jack Fisher (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=fisheja01).
1965 - Minnesota gains its first American League pennant by defeating Washington, 2-1. Jim Kaat (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=kaatji01) (17-11) wins the clincher.
1971 - Jim Palmer (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=palmeji01) becomes the fourth member of the Orioles 1971 pitching staff to notch his 20th victory. Only one other team in Major League history - the 1920 White Sox - boasted four 20-game winners.
1978 - New York District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that women sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms in the state.
1979 - Atlanta's Phil Niekro (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=niekrph01) notches his 20th win of the season by beating his brother Joe (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=niekrjo01), the National League's only other 20-game winner of the season, 9-4. The Niekro brothers are the second pair (the other was Jim (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=perryji01) and Gaylord Perry (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=perryga01)) to win 20 games in the same year. Phil Niekro (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=niekrph01), who finishes at 21-20, is the first pitcher since fellow knuckleballer Wilbur Wood (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=woodwi01) in 1973 to win and lose 20 games the same year, and the first National League pitcher to do so since 1905.
1981 - Nolan Ryan (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=ryanno01) of the Houston Astros became the first to pitch five no-hitters, hurling a 5-0 victory over Los Angeles at the Astrodome.
1983 - Bob Forsch (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=forscbo01) of the St. Louis Cardinals pitched the second no-hitter of his career, defeating Montreal 3-0.
1987 - Padres catcher Benito Santiago (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=santibe01) extends his hitting streak to 28 games in a 3-1 loss to the Dodgers, setting a new Major League record for rookies. Pittsburgh's Jimmy Williams (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=williji01) had held the record with a 27-game streak in 1899.
1993 - Randy Johnson (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=johnsra05) of the Seattle Mariners became the eighth pitcher to strike out 300 batters in a season with 13 strikeouts in 10 innings of a 3-2, 12-inning loss to Oakland.
1998 - Curt Schilling (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=schilcu01) became the fifth to strike out 300 batters in consecutive seasons when he fanned Kevin Orie in the seventh inning of Philadelphia's 4-3 loss to Florida in the first game of a doubleheader.
1916 - Washington manager Clark Griffith (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=griffcl01) excuses several regulars for the remaining games of the season so he can use some new players. Included is Walter Johnson (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=johnswa01), who has already won 25 games for the seventh-place club. In a league-leading 371 innings, he did not give up a home run, an all-time record.
1921 - Babe Ruth (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=ruthba01) hits home runs 57 and 58 to beat the Indians 8-7, and the Yankees take a two-and-a-half-game lead. The four-game series draws 147,000 people.
1932 - Chuck Klein (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=kleinch01) closes the season with 38 home runs and 20 stolen bases and becomes the only player of the lively-ball era (1920 and after) to lead his league in these two departments.
1953 - Billy Hunter (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=huntebi03) becomes the last St. Louis Browns player to homer in a game. The Browns lose anyway 6-3 to Chicago.
1954 - Art Ditmar (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=ditmaar01) of the Athletics defeats the Yanks 8-6 in the last game the franchise will play in Philadelphia before moving to Kansas City. Yankees catcher Yogi Berra (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=berrayo01) plays his only game at third base in his career and Mickey Mantle (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=mantlmi01) plays shortstop.
1955 - Ted Williams (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=willite01) finishes the season at .356, well ahead of Al Kaline's (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=kalinal01) .340, but does not have enough at-bats to win the batting title. The same thing happened in 1954. Williams (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=willite01) was walked 136 times in 1954 and 71 times (an American League leading 17 were intentional) this year. A rule change will be made to recognize plate appearances, not times at bat.
1959 - At Milwaukee the Braves beat the Phillies 3-2 behind Spahn's (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=spahnwa01) 21st win. He is now ahead of Eppa Rixey (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=rixeyep01) as the winningest National League lefty.
1961 - Roger Maris (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=marisro01) of the Yankees tied Babe Ruth (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=ruthba01) 34-year-old record with his 60th homer, off Baltimore's Jack Fisher (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=fisheja01).
1965 - Minnesota gains its first American League pennant by defeating Washington, 2-1. Jim Kaat (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=kaatji01) (17-11) wins the clincher.
1971 - Jim Palmer (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=palmeji01) becomes the fourth member of the Orioles 1971 pitching staff to notch his 20th victory. Only one other team in Major League history - the 1920 White Sox - boasted four 20-game winners.
1978 - New York District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that women sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms in the state.
1979 - Atlanta's Phil Niekro (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=niekrph01) notches his 20th win of the season by beating his brother Joe (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=niekrjo01), the National League's only other 20-game winner of the season, 9-4. The Niekro brothers are the second pair (the other was Jim (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=perryji01) and Gaylord Perry (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=perryga01)) to win 20 games in the same year. Phil Niekro (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=niekrph01), who finishes at 21-20, is the first pitcher since fellow knuckleballer Wilbur Wood (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=woodwi01) in 1973 to win and lose 20 games the same year, and the first National League pitcher to do so since 1905.
1981 - Nolan Ryan (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=ryanno01) of the Houston Astros became the first to pitch five no-hitters, hurling a 5-0 victory over Los Angeles at the Astrodome.
1983 - Bob Forsch (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=forscbo01) of the St. Louis Cardinals pitched the second no-hitter of his career, defeating Montreal 3-0.
1987 - Padres catcher Benito Santiago (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=santibe01) extends his hitting streak to 28 games in a 3-1 loss to the Dodgers, setting a new Major League record for rookies. Pittsburgh's Jimmy Williams (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=williji01) had held the record with a 27-game streak in 1899.
1993 - Randy Johnson (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=johnsra05) of the Seattle Mariners became the eighth pitcher to strike out 300 batters in a season with 13 strikeouts in 10 innings of a 3-2, 12-inning loss to Oakland.
1998 - Curt Schilling (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=schilcu01) became the fifth to strike out 300 batters in consecutive seasons when he fanned Kevin Orie in the seventh inning of Philadelphia's 4-3 loss to Florida in the first game of a doubleheader.