Today In Baseball History
May 17

Baseball

• 1903 - Cleveland Indians beat New York Highlanders 9-2 in Columbus Ohio


• 1905 - Waseda U of Tokyo defeats Louisiana High School 5-3 in baseball


• 1915 - Cubs George "Zip" Zabel relieves with 2 outs in 1st & winds up with 4-3 19-inning win over Brooklyn in longest relief job ever


• 1925 - Cleveland Indian Tris Speaker gets his 3,000th hit


• 1927 - Chicago Cubs beat Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings


• 1939 - 1st sports telecast-Columbia vs Princeton-college baseball


• 1941 - Pennsylvania declares legal holiday to honor A's manager Connie Mack


• 1953 - Yankees & Browns use record 41 players in a game


• 1963 - Houston Colt .45's Don Notterbart no-hits Phillies, 4-1


• 1964 - Phillies triple play Houston Colt .45s


• 1968 - Frank Howard belts record 8th HR in 5th straight game


• 1970 - Hank Aaron becomes 9th player to get 3,000 hits


• 1973 - Joe Ferguson, hits the 6,000th Dodger home run


• 1973 - Angels outfielder Bobby Valentine breaks his leg trying to scale wall to prevent a Dick Green home run during a 5-4 loss to the A's


• 1978 - Lee Lacy hits record 3rd consecutive pinch-hit home run


• 1979 - Phillies beat Cubs, 23-22, on 50 hits with 11 HRs


• 1984 - Cincinnati Reds Mario Soto throws 4 strikeouts in one inning


• 1992 - Expos Gary Carter is 3rd to catch 2,000 games (joins Boone & Fisk)

That's all for today.

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