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    1922 George Kell HOF third baseman (10 x MLB All-Star; AL batting champion 1949; Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox), born in Swifton, Arkansas (d. 2009)
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    1948 Ron Blomberg 1st baseman (NY Yankees) and 1st designated hitter, born in Atlanta, Georgia
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    1958 Julio Franco, oldest regular position player in MLB history, born in Hato Mayor, Dominican Republic
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    1972 Raul Casanova player, born in Humacao, Puerto Rico
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    1973 Casey Blake player, born in Des Moines, Iowa
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    1980 Denny Bautista player, born in Sánchez, Dominican Republic
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    FROM MLB's This Day in Baseball History+
    1906 At American League Park in Washington, DC, the White Sox establish a new American League record, winning their 19th consecutive game with a 4-1 victory over the hometown Senators. In 2002, the A's will string together 20 straight wins to surpass the AL mark but will fall one short of the major league mark established by the 1935 Cubs
    1907 The day after his 25th birthday, Pirates right-hander Howie Camnitz tosses an unofficial no-hitter, beating the Giants, 1-0, in an agreed-upon beforehand shortened five-inning nightcap of a Polo Grounds twin bill. The Kentuckian, called Red by his teammates, finishes his 11-year career with a 133-106 (.556) record, including posting a 25-6 mark for the eventual World Champion Bucs in 1909.
    1931 Attempting to break Walter Johnson's consecutive game-winning streak of 17 games, Lefty Grove loses when Browns' hurler Dick Coffman throws a three-hit shutout, his only whitewash this season, against the A's. Reserve outfielder Jimmy Moore, playing in place of the absent Al Simmons, misjudges a fly ball, leading to the decisive run and the Philadelphia hurler's meltdown in the locker room.
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    1936 The Indians' seventeen-year-old rookie pitcher, Bob Feller, makes his first major league start, striking out the first eight batters he faces in the team's 4-1 over the Browns at Cleveland's League Park. 'Rapid Robert' will finish the game with 15 strikeouts, the highest total in a debut for a starting pitcher and one shy of the American League 1908 mark established by A's southpaw Rube Waddell.
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    1942 Between games of a doubleheader between New York and Washington, Babe Ruth appears in pinstripes for the first time in seven years to face former Senator fireballer Walter Johnson, helping to raise over $80,000 for the Army-Navy Relief Fund. To the delight of nearly 70,000 enthusiastic fans at Yankee Stadium, the 47-year-old Bambino goes deep on the fifth pitch the 54-year-old hurler throws, and after he hits a barely foul upper-deck blast on the 15th and final pitch, he rounds the bases tipping his cap before leaving the field with the Big Train to a thunderous standing ovation.
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    1952 Augie Donatelli ejects Bob Elliott from the Sportsman's Park contest when the Giants' third baseman protests a strike two call and begins kicking dirt on the arbitrator during his plate appearance. Bobby Hofman, replacing the New York corner infielder in the batter's box, will also be thrown out in the same at-bat when he vehemently disputes a called third strike.
    1958 Gil Hodges hits his 14th career grand slam in the Dodgers' 10-1 victory over Milwaukee at LA Memorial Coliseum. The first baseman's bases-full round-tripper establishes a new National League record but is far fewer than Lou Gehrig's major league mark of 23.
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    1958 Nellie Fox's 98 consecutive games without striking out ends when lefty Whitey Ford whiffs him in the White Sox's 7-1 victory over the Yankees in the Bronx. The Chicago second baseman last struck out on May 16th against another southpaw, Cleveland's Dick Tomane.
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    1961 In the 14-0 rout of the Reds at Crosley Field, the Giants score twelve runs in the top of the ninth with ten hits and three Cincinnati errors. Orlando Cepeda, Felipe Alou, Jim Davenport, Willie Mays, and John Orsino go deep in the frame to tie a major league team record with five round-trippers, joining the 1939 Giants and 1966 Twins, in addition to setting a record for total bases in one inning with 27.
    1961 Dave Philley ties Sam Leslie's 29-year-old major league record with his 22nd pinch hit of the season. The historic moment occurs in an Orioles 7-5 extra-inning victory over the A's when the 41-year-old singles in the top of the 7th pinch-hitting for Hoyt Wilhelm at Municipal Stadium.
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    1967 Twelve-year-old Robert Stratta throws the eighth no-hitter in Little League World Series history when Chicago's Roseland North team beats Rota, Spain in the quarterfinals, 1-0. The future transplant surgeon doesn't allow the ball to leave the infield, retiring the last 11 batters he faces, eight on strikeouts.
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    1972 Joining Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, and Alex Johnson, Dick Allen becomes the fourth major leaguer to hit a ball into the center field bleachers at Comiskey Park. The gargantuan blast nearly nails White Sox announcer Harry Caray, doing play-by-play from the grandstands.
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    1975 Making his first major league start, Indian rookie Rick Waits tosses a complete game, beating Kansas City, 7-1. The 23-year-old southpaw from Atlanta allows only five hits in the Royals Stadium contest.
    1979 Rickey Henderson swipes three bases in the A's 8-6 victory over the Indians at Cleveland Stadium. At the age of 20 years, 241 days old, the rookie outfielder becomes the youngest player to accomplish the feat.
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    1982 Home plate umpire Dave Phillips ejects Mariners starter Gaylord Perry from the game for applying a foreign substance to the ball, making the ejection the first since the 1940s for doctoring the ball. Although suspected for years of cheating, the 43-year-old right-hander evaded detection until today.
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    1989 In front of an enthusiastic crowd at Williamport's (PA) Stadium, Victoria Brucker becomes the first girl on an American team to play in the Little League World Series, walking twice, hitting a single, and scoring three times in San Pedro's (CA) 12-5 rout of Tampa (FL). The 12-year-old is the first female ballplayer to get a hit and score a run in the annual international tournament for youngsters, but Victoria Roche is the first to appear on an LLWS roster, earning the distinction in 1984 as a reserve outfielder on a Brussels team that won the European regional championship.
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    1989 The second-longest shutout in big-league history ends when Rick Dempsey hits a home run in the top of the 22nd inning, giving the Dodgers an eventual 1-0 victory over the Expos at Olympic Stadium. The Astros blanked the Mets for 24 frames en route to a 1-0 win at the Astrodome in 1968.
    1989 In the 11th frame of an eventual 22-inning 1-0 loss, the Expos' Youppi! becomes the first mascot to be thrown out of a game when Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda complains to the umpires about the hairy orange giant's behavior at Olympic Stadium. The LA skipper takes exception to the loud noise caused by the furry creature's running leap onto the visitors' dugout before sneaking back into a front-row seat.
     
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    1992 The Clearwater Phillies beat the Winter Haven Red Sox, 1-0, in the Class A Florida State League contest, marking the first time in 40 years neither team records a hit in a professional game. The lone run crosses the plate in the seventh inning, thanks to a pair of walks and two sacrifice bunts.
    1998 Barry Bonds becomes the first player in major league history to hit 400 home runs and steal at least 400 bases (438). The Giant slugger reached the unmatched plateau with his 26th homer of the year against Marlin southpaw Kirt Ojala in a 10-5 San Francisco victory.
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    1998 Leading off the bottom of the eighth inning at County Stadium against the Padres, Bob Hamelin hits his fourth pinch-hit home run of the season, tying the score at nine runs apiece. The round-tripper sets the franchise mark for the most pinch-hit home runs hit by a Brewer in a season.
    1998 With his 50th and 51st dingers, Cubs' slugger Sammy Sosa joins Mark McGwire (53) of the Cardinals in hitting 50 home runs, making it only the second time two National League hitters have reached the plateau in the same season. Pirates outfielder Ralph Kiner and Giants first baseman Johnny Mize each hit a league-leading 51 round-trippers in 1947.
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    1998 Although Scott Rolen has started all but one game this season and appeared in every contest, Phillies manager Terry Francona's decision not to play his third baseman today, of all days, proves to be very unpopular. It's Scott Rolen T-shirt Day, a promotion for kids 14 and under, and many of the Veterans Stadium fans voiced their disappointment about not being able to watch the 23-year-old infielder play on his special day.
    1999 Joining Babe Ruth and Mark McGwire, Mariner outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. becomes the third player in major league history to hit 200 homers in a four-season span. Junior's 39th helps Seattle beat the Indians, 4-1.
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    2000 At Comerica Park, fans flee their seats as swarms of small insects invade the stands during the first inning. The six-legged pests do not affect the players, and the game continues uninterrupted, with the Tigers edging the Mariners, 6-5.
    2000 Team president Bob Graziano apologizes to a female couple asked to leave Dodger Stadium two weeks ago because the two shared a kiss during a game. The pair felt the action of the eight security guards was discriminatory because of the couple's friends, a man and a woman, also kissed but were not ejected.
    2001 In his major league debut, Rockies right-hander Jason Jennings throws a complete-game shutout, blanking the Mets at Shea Stadium, 10-0. Additionally, the 23-year-old rookie enjoys a 3-for-5 day at the plate, including a solo home run leading off the ninth inning off Donnie Wall.
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    2001 In the Angels' 7-6 loss to the Red Sox at Edison Field, Bengie Molina, with three singles and a double, establishes a franchise record with nine consecutive hits, a mark previously shared by four players with eight straight safties. The 27-year-old backstop also becomes the first Halo to record consecutive four-for-four games since Tim Salmon accomplished the feat in 1994.
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    2001 Arizona left-hander Randy Johnson becomes the first pitcher to strike out 300 batters in four consecutive seasons. The Big Unit's 16-strikeout performance isn't enough as the Pirates beat the Diamondbacks, 5-1, ending the southpaw's eight-game winning streak.
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    2003 In front of a full house at Yankee Stadium, Ron Guidry's uniform 49 is retired on the lefty's special day. 'Louisiana Lightning,' who played his entire career in New York, posting a 170-90 record for the Bronx Bombers, is surprised the club hasn't just honored him with a day but has retired his jersey and placed a plaque in Monument Park in his honor.
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    2006 Carlos Delgado's 400th career home run, his second of the game, proves to be significant when his fourth-inning grand slam dramatically closes the gap in the Mets' eventual 8-7 comeback victory over the Cardinals at Shea Stadium. The bases-loaded home run is New York's ninth of the season, establishing a new club record.
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    2006 Joining the 1989 Pirates, the Royals became the second team in big-league history to have a ten-run first inning and not win the game. At Kauffman Stadium, the home team takes an early 10-1 lead before losing to the Indians in ten innings, 15-13.
    2006 With his 16th bunt single of the season, Houston center fielder Willy Taveras extends his hitting streak to 26 games to set an Astros record. Second baseman Jeff Kent set the previous mark in 2004.
     
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    2007 With his 1,150th victory as the Bronx Bombers skipper, Joe Torre passes Casey Stengel for second place on the Yankees' all-time managerial win list. Joe McCarthy compiled a franchise record, winning 1,460 contests during his 16-year tenure in the dugout.
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    2008 At Beijing's Wukesong Baseball Field, South Korea, not favored to compete for a medal, upsets Cuba to win the gold in the Olympic final. Due to their heroics on the diamond, the unbeaten squad, which finished with a 9-0 record, now will not have to report for two years of military duty.
    2008 At a protest meeting, parents and teammates demand Jericho Scott be allowed to continue to pitch in the Youth Baseball League of New Haven. The nine-year-old, a right-hander with pinpoint control of a 40-mph fastball, was banned from the mound for throwing too hard.
    Tragically, 16-year-old Jericho Scott, an honor student still playing baseball, was killed in 2015 in a drive-by shooting on his way home to have pizza and wings with his brother.
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    2009 After making an error and a poor play allowing a batter to reach on an infield hit, Eric Bruntlett redeems himself when he turns the Mets' attempted double steal into a game-ending unassisted triple play, marking only the 14th regular-season triple-killing. The rare event occurs when the second baseman snares Jeff Francoeur's line drive for the first out, steps on second to double up Luis Castillo, and then tags the runner coming from first base, Daniel Murphy, for the last out of Phillies' 9-7 Citi Field victory.
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    2011 The Angels formally announce signing their #1 starter, 28-year-old right-hander Jered Weaver, to a five-year contract extension reported to be worth $85 million. The American League All-Star Game starter, who was eligible to become a free agent after the 2012 season, compiled a 14-6 record along with a league-leading 2.10 ERA so far this season.
    2013 At a Dodger Stadium press conference, LA announces Vin Scully will continue to broadcast Dodgers' games for his 65th consecutive season. Some of the historic moments the Hall of Fame broadcaster has called include Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series, 19 no-hitters, four thrown by Sandy Koufax, and Hank Aaron's 715th home run, and Kirk Gibson's dramatic walk-off in the 1988 Fall Classic.
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    2019 After two and a half innings, Miami, wearing futuristic uniforms, trails Philadelphia, 7-0, before tying the game with a seven-run outburst in the third frame. The Fish build an eight-run margin in the highest-scoring game in the history of Marlins Park, beating the Phillies, 19-11.
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    On August 23 in Baseball History...
      • 1881 - Boston left fielder Joe Hornung makes ten putouts and one assist as the Reds beat Buffalo 4-3. This one-game record of eleven chances accepted by a left fielder still stands.
      • 1906 - On their way to the American League pennant, the Chicago White Sox beat the Washington Senators for their 19th straight victory.
      • 1907 - Pittsburgh's Howie Camnitz pitched a five-inning no-hitter in the second game of a doubleheader at New York. The Pirates beat the Giants 1-0.
      • 1910 - Fred Clarke makes a record four outfield assists for Pittsburgh against the Phils.
      • 1931 - Lefty Grove is frustrated in his effort to win a record-breaking 17th game in a row. Philadelphia A's outfielder Johnny Moore, in place of regular Al Simmons, misjudges a routine flyball to allow the lone run in a 1-0 loss to the St. Louis Browns.
      • 1936 - Seventeen-year-old Bob Feller makes his first start and strikes out 15, one less than the American League record, as Cleveland beats the St. Louis Browns 4-1.
      • 1942 - Walter Johnson pitching to Babe Ruth is the pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for the New York-Washington game at Yankee Stadium that provides $80,000 for Army-Navy relief. Ruth hits the fifth pitch into the right-field stands, and then adds one more shot before circling the bases.
      • 1952 - At the Polo Grounds, in a Cardinals win over the Giants, New York third baseman Bob Elliott is thrown out of the game for protesting a second strike call by Jocko Conlan. Bobby Hofman replaces Elliott, takes a third strike, and is also thumbed for not liking the umpiring.
      • 1953 - Phil Paine, a former Boston Braves pitcher in military service with the U.S. Air Force in Japan, becomes the first ex-major leaguer to play in Japan. He pitches in nine games for the Nishitetsu Lions.
      • 1970 - Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente compiles his second straight five-hit game during an 11-0 pasting of Los Angeles. He is the first major leaguer this century to collect 10 hits in two consecutive games.
      • 1972 - Chicago's Dick Allen becomes the fourth major league player (Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, and Alex Johnson are the others) to hit one into the center field bleachers in Comiskey Park when he connects off New York's Lindy McDaniel. The ball just misses Harry Caray, announcing the afternoon game from bleachers.
      • 1980 - Oakland A's owner Charlie Finley sells the club for $12.7 million to the Haas family of San Francisco, owners of the Levi Strauss clothing empire, thus keeping the team in Oakland.
      • 1982 - Seattle pitcher Gaylord Perry is ejected in the seventh inning of a 4-3 loss to the Red Sox for doctoring the baseball. It is the first time in his 20 major league seasons that the self-proclaimed spitball king has been bounced for that offense.
      • 1989 - Rick Dempsey's leadoff homer in the 22nd inning gave the Los Angeles Dodgers a 1-0 victory against the Montreal Expos in the second-longest shutout in major league history.
      • 1992 - Dennis Eckersley, who previously set the record for most consecutive saves (40), becomes the first pitcher to record 40 saves in four different seasons.
      • 1992 - There were no hits in Clearwater's 1-0 victory over Winter Haven in the Single-A Florida State League. In what appeared to be the first professional game in 40 years without a hit, Andy Carter and the Clearwater Phillies beat Scott Bakkum and the Winter Haven Red Sox. The only run scored in the seventh inning on a pair of walks and a pair of sacrifice bunts.
      • 1998 - Barry Bonds becomes the first player in major league history to hit at least 400 home runs and steal 400 bases. The Giants' left fielder crushes his 400th home run into the right field seats on a 1-1 pitch from Flordia's Kirt Ojala in the top of the third inning. Bonds entered the game with 438 stolen bases.
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    1887 Harry Hooper HOF right fielder (World Series 1912, 15, 16, 18 Boston Red Sox), born in Bell Station, California (d. 1974)
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    1960 Cal Ripken Jr, Hall of Fame shortstop (MLB record consecutive game streak, Baltimore Orioles), born in Havre de Grace, Maryland
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    1968 Tim Salmon, outfielder (California Angels), born in Long Beach, California
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    1972 Kurt Miller pitcher (Florida Marlins), born in Tucson, Arizona
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    1978 Rafael Furcal, born in Loma de Cabrera, Dominican Republic
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    1986 Nick Adenhart, American baseball player, born in Silver Spring, Maryland (d. 2009)
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    FROM MLB's This Day in Baseball History+
    1905 At Philadelphia's Baker Bowl, Ed Reulbach goes the distance when the Cubs defeat the Phillies in 20 innings, 2-1. The 22-year-old right-handed rookie will finish the season with an 18-14 record (.563), along with an ERA of 1.42.
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    1910 Billy Sullivan snags three baseballs dropped by batterymate Ed Walsh from atop the 555-foot Washington Monument. The White Sox catcher, feeling the 200-to-300 pound-force the objects gain in their vertical descent, nixes the idea of trying to catch a ball tossed from a plane.
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    1919 In his first start as a member of the Indians since being traded from the Red Sox, right-hander Ray Caldwell is knocked unconscious after being struck by lightning with two outs in the top of the ninth inning. The 31-year-old free-wheeling spitballer, unconscious for about five minutes, refuses to leave the game, needing just one more out for the complete-game victory records the final out for the 2-1 victory over Philadelphia at Cleveland's League Park.
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    1928 The A's close within three games to the Yankees when Rube Walberg blanks the Indians, 1-0, completing a four-game sweep of their opponents at Shibe Park. Philadelphia's 32-year-old southpaw tallies the contest’s only run, scoring on Mickey Cochrane's third-inning single.
    1940 In Detroit's 12-1 blowout of the team, Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams pitches the last two innings of the first game of a doubleheader at Fenway Park. The 'Splendid Splinter,' who strikes out Rudy York on three pitches, allows only one run on three hits.
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    1941 During a double-header against the Cardinals, a ragtag group of five 'musicians,' dubbed the Dodger SymPhony by announcer Red Barber, makes their Ebbets Field's debut. None of the members can read music, but the band performs their zany antics at evening and weekend games.
    1945 After signing a contract with the Indians yesterday for approximately $40,000, WW II veteran Bob Feller throws a 4-2 complete-game victory over the Tigers in his first appearance since serving 44 months in the Navy. 'Rapid Robert,' wearing his familiar uniform number 19, not worn by another Tribe player in his nearly four-year absence, faces 37 batters, striking out 12 while giving up four hits in the two-hour-and-17 minute Cleveland Stadium contest.
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    1951 Using yes and no signs, a thousand sitting fans behind the Browns dugout vote on decisions made by the coaching staff. Owner Bill Veeck's idea appears to work as St. Louis beats the A's, 5-3. Ned Garver picks up the win.
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    1951 After being demoted to the minor leagues six weeks ago, Mickey Mantle returns to the Yankee lineup, going 1-for-4 with a first-inning single off Early Wynn, in the team's 2-0 victory in Cleveland. The game marks the first time the future Hall of Famer wears the iconic #7 after the team gives his original #6 to infielder Bobby Brown, who had worn the numeral in previous seasons.
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    1955 A telegram sent to Brooklyn president Walter O'Malley by the Patchogue Chamber of Commerce offers the team "thirty acres or more of dry flat land in open country in the heart of Long Island's densest Dodger fan concentration." The village's attempt to attract the fleeing franchise to the south shore of Suffolk County will not materialize, with the club, after exploring many different venues as an alternative to Ebbets Field, will leave the East Coast in 1958 to play in Los Angeles.
    1956 Johnny Kucks needs only 73 pitches to blank the Pale Hose, 2-0, on four hits in a two-hour contest played at Yankee Stadium. The 24-year-old All-Star right-hander, who improves his record to 17-7, has become the team's #2 starter, behind Whitey Ford, for the eventual world champs.
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    1957 In a 13-3 loss to Milwaukee at Ebbets Field, the Dodgers use eight pitchers in one game, tying a major league record. Johnny Podres gives up three home runs in the fourth frame when Nippy Jones, Hank Aaron, and Andy Pafko go deep off the Brooklyn starter.
    1960 During a dull game, Vin Scully, the play-by-play voice of the Dodgers, knowing that many fans in the stands follow the game on transistor radios, asks his listeners to help him surprise third base umpire Frank Secory. His ballpark audience responds when the veteran broadcaster tells them, "Let's have some fun. As soon as the inning is over, I'll count to three, and on three, everybody yell, 'Happy birthday, Frank!'".
    1963 ABC's Wide World of Sports airs the first telecast of the Little League World Series. The network provides ‘the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat’ when Grenada Hills (CA) beats Stratford (CT) in the championship game, 2-1.
    1969 The Pilots trade Jim Bouton to the Astros for Roric Harrison and Dooley Womack. The reinvented knuckleball pitcher, who posted a 2-1 record along with an ERA of 3.91 in his 57 games with the Northwest expansion team, will continue to chronicle the 1969 season for his controversial book, Ball Four.
     
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