BB On this Date ~ Events & Birthdays #2

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1910 Frank Demareel outfielder (MLB All Star 1936, 37; Chicago Cubs, NY Giants), born in Winters, California (d. 1958)

1947 Ken Singleton (Orioles), born in Mt Vernon, New York

1973 Pokey Reese (Boston Red Sox), born in Columbia, South Carolina

1976 Freddy García born in Caracas, Venezuela

 

FROM MLB's This Day in Baseball History+​

1902 Baseball lifer Horace Fogel, also known for his career as a sportswriter, is fired as the Giants' manager just 44 games into the season. The 51-year-old former skipper, who will go on to an administrative position with the Phillies, will be best remembered for his attempt to turn future Hall of Fame sophomore hurler Christy Mathewson, a 20-game winner last year, into a position player.
1930 After seven consecutive victories from the start of the season, A's right-hander Lefty Grove loses in eleven innings to the White Sox, 7-6. The future Hall of Famer will finish the season 28-5, along with a 2.54 ERA for the eventual World Champion club.

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1937 The Senators trade Bobo Newsom (3-4, 5.85) and outfielder Ben Chapman (.262, 0, 12) to the Red Sox for the brother battery of Wes (3-6, 7.61) and Rick Ferrell (.308, 1, 4), as well as outfielder Mel Almada (.236, 1, 9). Rick, the catcher, will be inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1984, but his brother Wes, the pitcher, will hit more career home runs.

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1938 With his team trailing Chicago, 13-1, at Fenway Park, Red Sox manager Joe Cronin lets Bill Lefebvre bat for himself in the eighth inning and watches the rookie hurler homer off Monty Stratton. The 22-year-old southpaw from Natick, RI, who will have only one at-bat this season, doesn't fare as well on the mound when he gives up six runs in four innings in his only appearance this season.

 

1944 Six weeks shy of his 16th birthday, Joe Nuxhall becomes the youngest person to play in a major league contest in this century, beginning a 60-year tenure with the Reds organization that includes becoming best known as the voice for the team's radio broadcasts. After being called in the ninth inning into a 13-0 rout by the Cardinals at Crosley Field, the 15-year-old high school southpaw retires the first batter he faces but is unable to get out of the inning, yielding five walks, two hits, one wild pitch, and five runs.

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1953 Against five different pitchers, Jimmy Piersall ties a major league record, going 6-for-6 when Boston bombs the Browns in the first game of a doubleheader, 11-2. The Red Sox right fielder is held hitless in the Sportsman's Park nightcap and is sent sprawling to the ground by Satchel Paige, a pitcher he had infuriated during a game in his rookie season by mimicking the right-hander's every move.

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1954 At County Stadium, Bill Taylor's pinch home run in the 10th inning off Gene Conley gives the Giants an eventual 1-0 win over Milwaukee. Taylor's first major league home run accounts for all of the scoring, making it the first time a solo pinch-hit round-tripper is the only tally of the game.
1954 Reds' southpaw Fred Baczewski goes the distance, blanking Pittsburgh at Crosley Field, 6-0. 'Lefty,' a former college basketball player at the University of Tennessee, gives up 11 hits and walks a batter, but the Pirates strand 12 players on the bases.
1959 In Baltimore, Rocky Colavito becomes the sixth player to hit four home runs in one game, helping the Indians defeat the Orioles, 11-8. The New York City native joins Lou Gehrig as the only player to accomplish the feat with four consecutive shots.

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1966 Indian hurler Sonny Siebert throws the only no-hitter of the season, defeating the Senators, 2-0. The right-hander strikes out seven batters, walking only one, in his Cleveland Stadium gem.

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1966 In his big league debut, Dick Rusteck pitches a four-hit masterpiece, blanking the Reds at Shea Stadium, 4-0. The 24-year-old rookie southpaw will pitch in seven more games, including two more starts, without ever winning another major league contest, finishing his career with a 1-2 record and a 3.00 ERA.
1967 In front of his family and friends, Astros' outfielder Jimmy Wynn, a Cincinnati native, hits the longest home run in the history of Crosley Field. The Toy Cannon's monstrous shot off the right-hander, Mel Queen in the team's 9-4 loss to the Reds, clears the 58-foot scoreboard in left-center and bounces onto Interstate 75 outside the stadium.

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1969 The Mets win their 11th consecutive game, a 9-4 victory over the Giants at Candlestick Park, to establish a franchise record. Later in the season, the Amazins will also a post a ten-game (Sept. 6-13) and a nine-game winning streak (Sept. 21-Oct. 1).
1972 Hank Aaron passes Willie Mays, moving into second place on the all-time home run list. The Braves outfielder connects for a grand slam, his 14th, to tie Gil Hodges' NL mark, against the Phillies for his 649th career homer, 65 shy of Babe Ruth's total.

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1973 Ranger reliever Charlie Hudson accidentally shoots himself in the middle finger of his pitching hand while cleaning a .38 revolver at home. The 24-year-old left-handed knuckleballer returns to the team at the end of July, and as a starter, blanks the Twins, 2-0, on September 2 at Arlington Stadium.
1974 Mike Schmidt collects one of the longest singles in big-league history when the ball he hits off Astros hurler Claude Osteen caroms of the public address speaker hanging 117 feet in the air and 329 feet from home plate is ruled in play due to the ballpark's ground rules. The Rice University mathematics department calculates the Astrodome blast would have traveled 550 feet if left unimpeded.

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1979 Trailing by a run, Orioles right-hander Dennis Martinez induces Ranger third baseman Buddy Bell to line into a 5-4-3 triple play to end the sixth inning. Baltimore's triple killing, their eighth since moving to the Charm City, contributes to the team's 5-4 walk-off victory at Memorial Stadium.

 

1992 A's first baseman Mark McGwire hits his 200th career home run when he goes deep in the second inning off Chris Bosio in the team's 5-2 victory over Milwaukee at County Stadium. The 28-year-old slugger will end the season with 42 round-trippers, en route to a career total of 583.

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1995 Jeff Manto hits his fourth consecutive home run over three games, equaling Johnny Blanchard's 1961 accomplishment. The Orioles' third baseman, who hit two homers against the Angels last night and one the previous night off the Mariners' Rafael Carmona, goes deep in the bottom of the second inning during Baltimore's 6-2 victory over the Halos at Camden Yards.

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1995 Legendary Hall of Fame announcer Lindsey Nelson, who for 17 years, along with Bob Murphy and Ralph Kiner, made up the original broadcast team for the expansion Mets in 1962, dies of complications of Parkinson's disease at 76. In addition to doing play-by-play for the San Francisco Giants from 1979-1981, the colorfully attired announcer also called football games, including 26 Cotton Bowls, five Sugar Bowls, four Rose Bowls, and announced syndicated Notre Dame gridiron contests for 14 years.

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1997 Marlins' hurler Kevin Brown no-hits the Giants at Candlestick Park, 9-0. The right-handed sinkerballer, who faces 28 batters, misses a perfect game when he barely grazes Marvin Benard with a 1-2 pitch with two outs in the eighth inning.

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2000 In a pregame ceremony at Kauffman Stadium, the Royals commemorates David Glass's new ownership of the team. The former Wal-Mart executive, who became Kansas City's interim CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors in 1993, had his $96 million offer to buy the team approved by the Board in April, despite a competing bid of $120 million by New York-based attorney Miles Prentice.
2000 Darin Erstad's second-inning two-run double off Arizona's Omar Daal is the Angels' leadoff hitter's 100th hit of the season. The hit, coming in the Halos' 61st game, makes the 26-year-old left fielder the fastest major leaguer to reach the milestone since Hall of Famer Heinie Manush accomplished the feat with the Senators in 1934.

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2002 Former Japanese Orix Blue Wave teammates Ichiro Suzuki and So Taguchi play against each other when the Mariners blank the Cardinals, 10-0. The Safeco Field contest marks the first time two Japanese position players have played in the same major league game.

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2002 In front of 45,698 fans at Yankee Stadium, Marcus Thames becomes the 17th player in history to hit a home run on the first pitch he sees in the major leagues. The New York rookie, who hit his two-run dinger off four-time Cy Young winner Diamondback southpaw Randy Johnson, joins John Miller (1966) as only the second Yankee to homer in his first at-bat.
2003 In a game against the Orioles at Camden Yards, Sammy Sosa becomes the target of a man who runs onto the field throwing corks. Last week, the umps discovered the Cubs' slugger used the illegal substance after breaking his bat in a game against the Devil Rays.
2005 The document, believed to be the precursor to the 'Curse of the Bambino,' is acquired for $996,000 when Gotta Have It Collectibles submits the winning bid for the 1919 contract, signed by owners Harry Frazee of the Red Sox and Jacob Ruppert of Yankees, which sold Babe Ruth to New York. The cost of the five typed pages is nearly ten times the value the 'Bronx Bombers' paid to get the emerging 'Sultan of Swat.'

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2005 For the first time in nearly 90 years, the Red Sox play the Cubs in Chicago, making their first visit to Wrigley Field. The two teams which have had the fates influenced by curses last met at Comiskey Field, the more spacious home of the White Sox, in the 1918 World Series, won by Boston in six games behind the solid pitching of Babe Ruth.

 

2006 Using a fishing rod with a baseball attached to the hook at the end of a heavy-duty line he designed, Pro Bass Angler Kevin Wirth throws out the ceremonial "First Cast" from the pitcher's mound before the Louisville Bats take on the Indianapolis Indians at Slugger Field. The catcher uses a fishing net to capture the CITGO Bassmaster Elite Series Angler toss at home plate.
2006 Reggie Sanders, in the Royals' 9-5 loss to Tampa Bay at Kauffman Stadium, hits his 300th career home run off Chad Harville. The Kansas City outfielder becomes just the fifth player in major league history to hit 300 home runs and steal 300 bases, joining Barry and Bobby Bonds, Andre Dawson, and Willie Mays.

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2007 Masumi Kuwata becomes the first Japanese player in Pirates' history, making his major league debut in the team's 13-6 loss to the Yankees in the Bronx. The 39-year-old Osaka native, the oldest person to start a big-league career in the post-World War II era except for Satchel Paige and Diomedes Olivo, gives up two runs in two innings when Alex Rodriguez takes him deep.
2007 In addition to the Reds wearing a dark patch with the word "NUXY" printed in white on their uniform, the team honors broadcaster Joe Nuxhall, Marty Brennaman, and Waite Hoyt, with replica microphones to hung on the wall near the radio booth. The recognition commemorates the 63rd anniversary of the 'ol' left-hander' becoming the youngest person ever to play in the major leagues in the modern era.

2008 Tiger general manager Dave Dombrowski announces the team is optioning Dontrelle Willis, acquired in an off-season blockbuster trade, to their Class A minor league team in Lakeland. The former Marlin southpaw was the 2003 National League Rookie of the Year and compiled a 22-10 record with the Fish just two years later, and recently signed a three-year deal worth $29 million with Detroit.
2010 White Sox third baseman Omar Vizquel becomes the fourth player to hit a home run in four different decades when he goes deep off Max Scherzer in the first inning of the team's 3-0 victory over Detroit at U.S. Cellular Field. The 43-year-old Venezuelan infielder, who made his major league debut in 1989, joins Ted Williams (1939-1960), Willie McCovey (1959-1980), and Rickey Henderson (1979-2003) on the shortlist of big leaguers who have accomplished the rare feat.

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2011 Tony La Russa manages his 5,000th major league game, a disappointing 8-0 Cardinal loss to Milwaukee at Miller Park. The 66-year-old skipper, whose 33-year managerial career includes stints with the A's and White Sox, is the second manager to reach the milestone but remains far behind Connie Mack's record of 7,755 contests.

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2011 Michael Acosta, a longtime Twins fan, gets a chance to manage the team for a day, thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. An episode of ESPN SportsCenter's "My Wish" series features the testicular cancer survivor's big day at Target Field.
2012 The Orioles win their ninth straight extra-inning game when Matt Wieters lines a one-out RBI double in the 10th to give the club a 5-4 walk-off victory over Philadelphia at Camden Yards. The streak of overtime victories, which includes yesterday's 12-inning win, breaks the team's previously twice-accomplished record of eight.
2012 Bobby Abreu, tied with Mickey Mantle for 109th place on the all-time hit list, surpasses the Yankee legend with a second-inning double in L.A.'s 8-2 interleague victory over Seattle at Safeco Field. The 38-year-old outfielder has collected 2,416 hits playing for the Astros, Phillies, Yankees, Angels, and Dodgers.

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2012 The Red Sox pass the NBA's Portland Trailblazers for the most consecutive sellouts for a North American pro franchise with their 745th straight capacity crowd at Fenway Park. The streak, which has featured an average paid attendance of 36,544 fans, started on May 15, 2003, a year after the team's new ownership bought the Boston ball club.
2019 The Diamondbacks (8) and Phillies (5) hit the most combined home runs in a single game, collectively going deep 13 times in Arizona's 13-8 victory at Citizens Bank Park. The previous mark of 12 was set by the Tigers and White Sox, who accomplished the feat twice, first on May 28, 1995, and then on July 2, 2002.
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On June 10 in Baseball History...​

1944 - Pitcher Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds is the youngest player in major-league history. Nuxhall, only 15 years, ten months old, pitches one-third of an inning in an 18-0 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals. He manages to give up five walks and two hits before Bill McKechnie takes him out.
1959 - Rocky Colavito hits four consecutive home runs in Baltimore's Memorial Stadium to lead the Indians to an 11-8 win. Colavito joins Lou Gehrig and Bobby Lowe as the only major-league players to hit four consecutive four-baggers.
1966 - Sonny Siebert pitches a no-hitter against the Senators. Leon Wagner homers off loser Phil Ortega as first-place Cleveland wins 2-0.
1968 - A.L. games at Baltimore and Chicago are postponed as mourning for Robert Kennedy continues. Astros Rusty Staub and Bob Aspromonte are fined for not playing in the Astros' game against Pittsburgh on June 9, the National Day of Mourning for Robert Kennedy.
1972 - Hank Aaron hits his 14th career grand slam, tying Gil Hodges's N.L. record, as the Braves defeat the Phillies 15-3. It is career home run 649 for Aaron, enabling him to pass Willie Mays for second place on the all-time list.
1974 - During a 12-0 win over the Astros, Phillies third baseman Mike Schmidt hits a ball off the public address speaker hanging from the Astrodome roof, 117 feet up and 300 feet from the plate. Schmidt must settle for a titanic single.
1975 - The Yankees sponsor Army Day at their temporary home, Shea Stadium (Yankee Stadium is being refurbished). During a ceremonial 21-gun salute, glass is splintered, the park is filled with smoke, part of the fence is blown away, and another part is set afire.
1981 - Phillies first baseman Pete Rose singles off Nolan Ryan in the first inning to tie Stan Musial as the N.L.'s all-time hit leader with 3,630, then strikes out in his next three at-bats. Rose's single is the only hit off Ryan until the eighth inning, when Philadelphia scores five times for a 5-4 win over Houston.
1986 - The N.L. announces that Yale University president A. Bartlett Giamatti will be its next President after Chub Feeney's retirement in December.
1995 - Orioles third baseman Jeff Manto, who had four home runs in his first three years in the major leagues, homers in his fourth consecutive at-bat. In all, he homers five times in six at-bats in three games.
Baseball Birthdays on June 10...

1856 - Rollinson, Bill
1860 - Sullivan, Mike
1861 - O'Connell, Pat
1870 - McCauley, Pat
1876 - Prentiss, George
1880 - Coveney, Jack
1882 - Barbeau, Jap
1883 - Lindemann, Ernie
1886 - Graney, Jack
1887 - Smith, Jake
1892 - Gilhooley, Frank
1894 - Sanders, Roy
1894 - Hofmann, Fred
1900 - Wolf, Lefty
1900 - Braxton, Garland
1905 - MacFayden, Danny
1908 - Kreevich, Mike
1910 - Demaree, Frank
1912 - Moore, Whitey
1913 - Dorsett, Cal
1917 - Henry, Earl
1920 - Podgajny, Johnny
1921 - Verdel, Al
1928 - Lehman, Ken
1929 - Foiles, Hank
1933 - Palmquist, Ed
1938 - Edwards, Johnny
1947 - Singleton, Ken
1948 - Randall, Bob
1950 - Sosa, Elias
1953 - Camp, Rick
1953 - Barrios, Francisco
1955 - Bannister, Floyd
1956 - Ullger, Scott
1956 - Gulden, Brad
1956 - Johnson, Randy
1965 - McNamara, Jim
1969 - Flora, Kevin
1973 - Reese, Pokey
1978 - Pineda, Luis

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