Today In Baseball History
September 2

Baseball

• 1919 - National Commission recommends a best-of-9 World Series


• 1927 - Rumour starts that Yankee Lou Gehrig will be traded to Tigers


• 1946 - Johnny Neun replaces Bill Dickey as Yankee manager


• 1956 - Orioles trailing Red Sox 8-0 come back to win 11-10 in 9 innings


• 1957 - Milwaukee Braves' Frank Torre scores 6 runs in 1 game


• 1958 - Minnesota announces $9 million bond issue to improve Metropolitan Stadium


• 1962 - Stan Musial's 3,516th hit moves over Tris Speaker into 2nd place


• 1965 - Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his 400th HR (off Curt Simmons)


• 1969 - New York Yankee Joe Pepitone is reinstated


• 1969 - Ralph Houk signs 3-year contract to manage Yankees at $65,000 a season


• 1971 - Cesar Cedeno hits an inside-the-park grand slammer


• 1972 - Chicago White Sox Milt Pappas no-hits San Diego Padres, 1-0


• 1973 - Billy Martin fired as manager of Tigers


• 1978 - Reggie Jackson is 19th player to hit 20 HR in 11 straight years


• 1987 - Kevin Bass is 1st NLer to switch hit HRs in a game twice in 1 season

That's all for today.

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