BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1856 Ernie Burch
1857 Abner Dalrymple
1865 Charlie Hoover
1872 John Eubank
1876 Frank Chance
1880 Ambrose Puttmann
1886 Al Kellogg
1886 John Barney (Dots) Miller
1887 Wheeler Roger (Doc) Johnston
1889 Harry Thompson
1891 Dan Costello
1892 Dawson Francis (Tiny) Graham
1893 Walt Kinney
1897 Frankie Frisch
1899 Waite Hoyt
1905 Charlie Perkins
1909 Johnny Marcum
1910 Luther Baxter (Bud) Thomas
1912 Johnny Lazor
1913 Hugh Mulcahy
1918 Thomas Woodrow (Woody) Crowson
1926 Ed Mickelson
1931 Pete Naton
1931 Earl Averill
1935 Jim Proctor
1938 Jay Ward
1942 Ron Stone
1949 Reggie Sanders
1952 Jerry Mumphrey
1953 Steve Ratzer
1959 Tom Foley
1960 Alvin Davis
1961 Jim Corsi
1962 Joe Strong
1965 Todd Zeile
1970 Dan Miceli
1970 Joey Hamilton
1971 Robinson Checo
1972 Mike Hampton
1973 Kazuhisa Ishii
1977 Kyle Snyder
1978 Kurt Ainsworth
1980 Todd Coffey
1983 Rhyne Hughes
1983 Mike Costanzo
1983 Edwin Jackson
1983 Kyle Davies
1983 Alex Romero
1984 Brett Pill
1986 Michael Bowden
1988 Joey Terdoslavich
1988 Will Middlebrooks
1989 Anthony Ranaudo
1990 Billy Hamilton
1992 Pat Valaika
1993 Alex Young
1993 Jimmy Herget
1994 Wil Crowe
1996 JoJo Romero
OBITUARIES:
1889 Jack Gorman
1914 Willie Garoni
1915 Al Spalding
1923 George Keerl
1926 Dick Conway
1928 Urban Shocker
1934 John Dobbs
1944 Orlin Collier
1944 Frank Shugart
1949 Hal Neubauer
1949 Len Madden
1951 Chappie Snodgrass
1956 Walter Marbet
1957 Ed Karger
1957 Bill Miller
1959 Terry Lyons
1961 Jesse Barnes
1961 Rube Oldring
1964 Herschel Bennett
1964 George Stueland
1975 Ken Jungels
1981 Ernie Alten
1990 Doc Cramer
1991 Les Rock
1996 Johnny Pramesa
1996 Harry Hanebrink
1997 Richie Ashburn
1998 Jerry Zimmerman
1999 Catfish Hunter
2010 Eddie Phillips
2016 Carl Miles
2017 Jim Donohue
2018 Paul Stuffel
2019 Jim Greengrass
2019 Joe Keough
2019 Jim Archer
YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE!!!
1914 George Davis of the Braves tosses a no-hitter to blank to Phillies, 7 – 0. He’s the first pitcher to throw a no-hitter at Fenway Park… The Braves were in Fenway because the Miracle Braves were drawing crowds too big for their own park.
1945 Continuing with firsts – the first Canadian pitcher to throw a no-hitter was Dick Fowler, who beat the Browns, 1 – 0. It was the only win of the year for the Athletic pitcher.
1948 Dodger Rex Barney blanks the Giants, 2 – 0, without allowing a hit. In the rain.
1965 It’s No-Hitter Day – but the best one was Sandy Koufax’s perfect game, topping the Cubs, 1 – 0.
1998 Alex Gonzalez has a rough day – six at bats, six times striking out. Cleveland won, 6 – 3, over Toronto. Gonzalez left six on base in the extra inning loss.
2004 Royal third baseman Joe Randa goes six for six and scores six runs in a 26 – 5 win over Detroit. Only eight players have ever scored 6 runs in a game…
2020 Atlanta clobbers the Marlins, 29 – 9, at Truist Field. A blown call at third base in the second inning led to a 13 run rally. Had the umpires ruled that a baserunner was out at third, the inning was over and the Marlins would have held a 2 – 1 lead. Atlanta scored in every inning between the second and seventh innings, Adam Duvall hit three homers – the second three-homer game he had in the last two weeks. In fact, no other Brave ever had two three-homer games in a Braves uniform until Duvall. No National League team had scored this many runs in a game since 1897, and the 29 runs scored fell one run shy of the Rangers’ 30 run outburst against the Orioles about thirteen years earlier.
TRANSACTION WIRE:
1886 Washington purchases five players from Hartford, including catcher Connie Mack.
1898 Louisville purchased Topsy Hartsel from Grand Rapids of the Interstate League.
1899 Cincinnati purchased Sam Crawford from Grand Rapids of the Western League.
1902 Boston purchased Ed Abbaticchio from Nashville.
1971 Chicago signed amateur free agent pitcher Bruce Sutter.
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