Today In Baseball History
July 24

Baseball

• 1909 - Brooklyn Dodger Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pitts Pirates


• 1911 - Cleveland's League Park hosts 1st unofficial ML All Star game (benefit game for Addie Joss' family). Cleveland Naps lose to All Stars 5-3


• 1941 - Red Sox Lefty Grove, 41, wins his 300th game


• 1946 - 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League), die in a bus crash


• 1948 - 4 Duluth Minnesota Dukes (St Louis Cards Class C farm team) die in crash


• 1949 - Inidian pitcher Bob Lemon hits 2 HRs to beat Senators, 7-5


• 1956 - Dodgers lose to the Reds, 2-1, playing in Jesey City


• 1958 - Ted Williams is fined $250 for spitting at Boston fans again


• 1961 - Roger Maris hits 4 home runs, in a doubleheader


• 1965 - Casey Stengel resigns as manager of New York Mets


• 1968 - Hoyt Wilhelm's 907th breaks Cy Young's record for pitching appearances


• 1969 - Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game


• 1973 - 44th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Royals Stadium, Kansas City


• 1973 - All star MVP: Bobby Bonds (San Francisco Giants)


• 1977 - Pete Rose passes Frankie Frisch as switch-hit leader with 2,881


• 1977 - Seattle's John Montague pitches 6 2/3 innings of perfect relief tying 2 game record of retiring 33 consecutive batsmen


• 1978 - Pete Rose ties NL hitting streak of 37 games


• 1978 - Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "one is a born liar the other a convicted one" comment about Steinbrenner & Jackson


• 1979 - Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th HR


• 1983 - Pine Tar Game: Brett's HR disallowed against Yankees (overturned)


• 1992 - Faye Vincent reinstates Yankee owner George Steinbrenner (eff 3/1/93)


• 1993 - Met Vince Coleman injures 3 when he throws cherry bomb at Dodger fans


• 1993 - New York Met Anthony Young loses record 27th straight

That's all for today.

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