This Day In Baseball History....June 29th

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On June 29 in Baseball History...

1916 - The Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds played a nine-inning game with just one baseball.

1923 - Brooklyn's Jack Fournier went 6-for-6 with a home run, two doubles and three singles. The Dodgers beat the Philadelphia Phillies 14-5.

1937 - Chicago Cubs first baseman Rip Collins played an entire game without a putout or an assist.

1941 - Joe DiMaggio singles against Washington knuckleballer Dutch Leonard in the sixth inning in the first game of a doubleheader to tie George Sisler's A.L. consecutive-game hit record of forty-one (41). In the nightcap he collects a seventh-inning single off of Walt Masterson to set the record at forty-two (42) games.

1961 - With three home runs at Philadelphia, including a tenth-inning shot to win 8-7, Willie Mays becomes the fourth major-league player with three or more home runs twice in one season. Manager Gene Mauch's efforts to conceal his starting pitcher and force Alvin Dark's hand has a Phillies lineup including hurlers Don Ferrarese (batting leadoff, playing center field), Jim Owens (third, right field), Chris Short (seventh, catcher), and Ken Lehman (ninth, pitcher) against San Francisco. When Dark sends a lefty to the mound, Mauch replaces Ferrarese. Dark then replaces Billy O'Dell with Sam Jones. Mauch replaces Lehman with Dallas Green after two batters. All the maneuvering takes three hours and twenty (20) minutes.

1968 - Detroit's Jim Northrup hit his third grand slam in a week and the Tigers beat the Chicago White Sox 5-2.

1969 - On Billy Williams Day in Chicago, the Cubs outfielder passes Stan Musial's National League record for consecutive games played (896). The Cubs sweep the Cardinals 3-1 and 12-1 before 41,060.

1977 - Willie Stargell hits his 400th career home run, this one coming off Eric Rasmussen of the Cardinals.

1984 - Pete Rose plays in his 3,309th major-league game, surpassing Carl Yastrzemski as the all-time leader. Rose goes 0-for-5, but Montreal beats Cincinnati 7-3.

1986 - Detroit beats Milwaukee 9-5 in the first game of a doubleheader split, making Tigers manager Sparky Anderson the first manager ever to win six-hundred games in each league.

1987 - In the first game of Philadelphia's doubleheader sweep of Pittsburgh, Steve Bedrosian records his twelfth consecutive save (in twelve appearances) to break the major-league record set by Sparky Lyle in 1975.

1990 - Oakland's Dave Stewart and the Dodgers Fernando Valenzuela both throw no-hitters. Stewart blanks the Blue Jays 5-0, and a few hours later Valenzuela beats the Cardinals 6-0.

1992 - Oakland's Dennis Eckersley sets the new standard with his twenty-sixth straight save of the season.

1995 - The Dodgers' Hideo Nomo struck out thirteen Colorado Rockies in a 3-0 victory, giving him fifty (50) strikeouts in four (4) games. That broke the Los Angeles record of forty-nine (49) over four (4) games accomplished three (3) times by Sandy Koufax, the last thirty (30) years earlier.

2003 - Eric Byrnes hit for the cycle and matched a franchise record with five hits in Oakland's 5-2 win over San Francisco.

Baseball Birthdays on June 29...

1848 - Radcliff, John
1861 - Sowders, Len
1863 - Robinson, Wilbert
1867 - Reitz, Heinie
1867 - Seward, Ed
1873 - Sutthoff, Jack
1875 - Steelman, Farmer
1876 - Flaherty, Patsy
1877 - Donahue, She
1880 - McGill, Bill
1884 - Patton, Harry
1887 - Nagelsen, Lou
1888 - Shelton, Skeeter
1888 - Veach, Bobby
1897 - Adkins, Grady
1898 - Long, Jimmie
1910 - Whitehead, Burgess
1910 - Healy, Francis
1915 - Trout, Dizzy
1925 - Connelly, Bill
1925 - Jones, Nippy
1926 - Morgan, Bobby
1928 - Testa, Nick
1928 - Verble, Gene
1933 - Shaw, Bob
1934 - Wilson, Duane
1936 - Killebrew, Harmon
1941 - Boccabella, John
1941 - Stahl, Larry
1951 - Freeman, Jimmy
1951 - Kimm, Bruce
1954 - Honeycutt, Rick
1956 - Guerrero, Pedro
1957 - Miller, Eddie
1966 - Hoy, Peter
1967 - Wehner, John
1969 - Martinez, Pablo
1969 - Glinatsis, George
1969 - Alberro, Jose
1973 - Rakers, Jason
1973 - Valdes, Pedro
1977 - McKnight, Tony

[soberdennis]

1916 - The Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds played a nine-inning game with just one baseball.

That is not likely to ever happen again.
On the list of birthdays, the name that caught my eye was Rick Honeycutt, who in 1983 won the AL ERA title while he ended the season with the Dodgers. (He spent most of the season in Texas.)