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BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1850 John Stedronsky
1857 Joe Hornung
1859 Hi Ebright

Hi was short for Hiram.

1860 Jack O’Brien
1862 Edgar Smith
1866 Harry Spies
1868 Sol White

His birth certificate says King Solomon White…

1873 Robert Lee (Pat) Dillard
1879 Charles Sebastian (Red) Dooin
1880 Matty McIntyre
1884 Elmer Johnson
1884 Otto Knabe
1886 Lou Schettler
1887 Joe Agler
1892 Herman Gordon
1897 Guy Lacy

Real first name? Osceola

1900 Charlie Barnabe
1904 Bill Foster

Negro League Hall of Famer…

1914 Pete Naktenis
1916 Freddie Shepard
1918 Elisha Matthew (Bitsy) Mott
1922 Jim Mains
1928 Jack Cusick
1935 Bob Thorpe
1940 Del Bates
1941 Gerry Arrigo
1943 Sam Parrilla
1945 Gary Jones
1946 Jim Strickland
1951 Dave Skaggs
1962 Darrel Akerfelds
1963 Keith Miller
1968 Scott Aldred
1970 Damon Buford
1971 Ryan Klesko
1974 Damon Hollins
1974 Hideki Matsui
1984 Kyle McClellan
1984 Roger Bernadina
1985 George Kontos
1989 Dallas Beeler
1990 Jed Bradley
1991 Avisail Garcia
1993 Sean Newcomb
1995 Aaron Civale
1995 Jeremy Walker
1996 Thomas Szapucki

OBITUARIES:

1890 Warren White

Captain William Warren White was the special examiner of pensions for the Army, based in Washington DC but serving Arkansas, when he caught malaria and died in Little Rock.  His son, Nelson, also caught the fever, but survived it.  White served with the 14th NY Artillery during the Civil War before launching his baseball career.  Then, his athletic ways helped him get a job with a military office in DC – following in the heels of other upstate New Yorkers who landed in DC to join the athletic clubs (see Henry Berthrong).  He played with five different National Association teams in five years, then was brought out of retirement (of sorts) to play a few games in the Union Association for the Washington DC entry – he had been playing on amateur teams in DC into his 40s.  White was 45 when he died, but records of his exact date of birth haven’t been discovered yet.  His final resting place is at Ballston Spa, near Saratoga, in New York.

In the photo below, you can see White seated and second from left – this is the 1882 Washington Nationals – a very good amateur lot.

“An Untimely Death,” Arkansas Democrat (Little Rock), June 13, 1890: 4.
Photo, Washington Evening Star, June 28, 1931: Sunday Star Magazine, Page 7.
https://www.findagrave.com/

1900 Mox McQuery

William T. McQuery died from infections and blood poisoning four days after being shot by an alleged “Yeggman” named Wallace Bishop. Bishop had just killed another man in a “lagoon” where railroad riders would stay outside of towns and away from the law near Covington, KY. Bishop and another man were on a trolley trying to leave Covington when that trolley was stopped on the Roebling bridge over the Ohio River. Officer McQuery asked the two men to exit the trolley, but on the way out Wallace Bishop shot McQuery on his left side – through his arm and into his abdomen. Then, in trying not to get arrested, Bishop jumped off the suspension bridge, falling 92′ into the Ohio River, only to be caught when he swam to shore on the Ohio side of the river. Bishop and his co-conspirator would die in a Kentucky prison by the end of the decade.

1902 Tim Donahue
1907 George Bryant
1915 Pat Crisham
1918 Larry Ressler
1922 Chief Johnson
1923 Cliff Carroll
1937 Jim St. Vrain
1938 Josh Reilly
1938 Buck Thrasher
1947 Eugene Scott
1948 Rasty Wright
1949 Oliver Marcell
1960 Art Wilson
1964 Walter Zink
1964 Bud Connolly
1968 Clarence Orme
1969 Joe Engel
1973 Irv Bartling
1973 Clint Blume
1974 Joe Smith
1979 Bill Brenzel
1980 Dan Thomas
1982 Webster McDonald
1988 Merle Settlemire
1990 Glen Gorbous
1990 George McNamara
1990 Jim Walkup
1992 Randy Moore
2002 Hank Boney
2005 Brandy Davis
2015 Andres Mora
2017 Bob Zick

YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE!!!

1880 Lefty Lee Richmond throws the first perfect game, with Worcester topping Cleveland, 4 – 0.

1922 Rogers Hornsby is goes 4 – 4 in the game, but ties a record by being caught stealing three times.

1954 Brave starter Jim Wilson throws a no-hitter and tops the Phillies, 2 – 0 – the first no-hitter by a Milwaukee Brave… Wilson fanned six and walked Smokey Burgess twice.

1970 Dock Ellis fires a no-hitter to beat the Padres, 2- 0. This no hitter is generally more famous because the Pittsburgh pitcher claimed he was on LSD at the time. Ellis fanned six, but walked eight and hit a batter.

1980 Pirate Mike Easler is a perfect 4 for 4 with three runs and completes the cycle.

1981 Major League Baseball comes to a halt as the players go on strike…

1988 Robin Yount is a perfect four for four, scores four runs, and completes the cycle.

1996 Marge Schott is removed as general partner of the Reds because of an interview where she claimed that Hitler was “good at the beginning, but he just went too far…” in an interview with ESPN.

2004 Barry Bonds walks five times, four of them intentionally, in the second game of a double header. I was the third of four games that year where he was intentionally passed four times in a game.

2007 Justin Verlander blanks the Brewers, 4 – 0, striking out a dozen in his no-hitter for the Tigers. He walked four batters – Bill Hall went 0 – 0 with three walks for Milwaukee.

TRANSACTION WIRE:

1937 Brooklyn purchased Waite Hoyt from the Pirates. Waite was years removed from his days as the ace of the Yankees and gave the Dodgers 20 starts and a 7 – 10 record before it was over.

1940 Brooklyn sent Carl Doyle, Bert Haas, Ernie Koy, Sam Nahem and cash to the Cardinals for Joe Medwick and Curt Davis.

1953 New York signs amateur free agent infielder Bobby Richardson.

1961 A couple of free agent pitcher signings – Jack Billingham signs with the Dodgers, and Tommy John signs with the Indians.

1964 The Mets sign amateur pitcher Tug McGraw.

1971 Philadelphia sends Tony Taylor to the Tigers for two minor leaguers (Carl Cavanaugh and Michael Fremuth).

1981 The Cubs sent Rick Reuschel to the Yankees for Doug Bird, Mike Griffin and cash. It’s really the only down period of Reuschel’s career…