On the road early today SEPTEMBER 5 BASEBALL BIRTHDAYS ************************************** 1874 Napoleon "Nap" Lajoie, HOF second baseman...
Wyatt Langford (2024) second person with a cycle, inside-the-park HR, and walk-off Grand Slam in the same season Jackie Robinson (1948) [IMG][IMG]
Pod Up With Matthews In The Morning Let's stay mad about the right things. Rookie of the Year odds have Wyatt sitting in 7th? This is crazy. This...
"I didn’t just like Stan Musial, I wanted to be like Stan Musial.” Hank Aaron After the color line broke in baseball, black players were often...
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2013 Matt Adams becomes the seventh major leaguer to hit two home runs in extra innings of the same game when he goes deep twice in the...
2007 In the fifth inning of Florida's loss 4-3 to Washington, Miguel Cabrera singles off Shawn Hill to drive home Hanley Ramirez for his 500th...
2000 The Red Sox honor Hall of Fame catcher Carlton Fisk. [ATTACH] The New Hampshire resident, who played his first nine seasons with Boston,...
1995 Robin Ventura becomes the eighth player to hit two grand slams in the same game. The third baseman's blasts in the fourth and fifth...
1991 The Statistical Accuracy Committee re-defines a no-hit game as one ending after nine or more innings with one team failing to get a hit....
1969 After thirty-one games, the third-longest consecutive game hitting streak in National League history ends when Dick Kelley and Gary Ross...
1941 The Yankees, who will finish 17 games ahead of the second-place Red Sox, clinch their third straight pennant when they beat Boston at...
1923 Sam Jones no-hits the A's, 2-0 at Shibe Park. The Yankee hurler does not strike out any Philadelphia batters, a feat not repeated until...
This Day in Baseball History September 4th 1906 The Highlanders beat the Boston Americans, 1-0, at Huntington Avenue Grounds, ending a run in...
SEPTEMBER 4 BASEBALL BIRTHDAYS ************************************** 1941 Ken Harrelson (MLB All Star; AL RBI leader 1968; Kansas City A's,...
Willie Cornelius, pitcher for the Chicago American Giants, was born #OTD in 1906. A 4-time All-Star, he led the league in shutouts in 1930, and in...
