Baseball Guru
08-15-2001, 12:57 PM
This Day in Baseball History - August 2
"I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can." -WALTER JOHNSON, Hall of Fame pitcher (1907-27)
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(1907) Senator Walter Johnson makes his major league debut losing to the Tigers, 3-2; Ty Cobb gets the first hit off of the future Hall of Famer with a bunt single.
(1921) With the jurors lifting the men onto their shoulders, the eight White Sox players accused of throwing the 1919 World Series are acquitted by the jury; the next day, Commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis would say the overwelming evidence clearly shows the Black Sox fixed the games with gamblers and all would be banned from playing professional baseball again.
(1938) As an experiment, bright yellow baseballs are used in the Dodger 6-3 victory over the Cards; it was hoped the balls would be easier to see.
(1979) Yankee catcher Thurmond Munson dies in plane crash at the age of 32.
(1987) Royal rookie third baseman Kevin Seitzer goes 6 for 6, including 2 HRs and 7 RBIs, in a 13-5 victory over the Red Sox.
(1989) Reds' Eric Davis becomes the seventh player to join the 30-30 club as he homers in the 5-4 victory over the Giants. No one had ever accomplished the feat with still nearly two months left to play in the season.
(1995) Long time coach Jimmie Reese, whose 23 years in an Angels uniform equals longest in club history is inducted into the Angels' Hall of Fame. The former roommate of Babe Ruth began his career as a batboy for the Pacific Coast League's Los Angeles Angels in 1917.
"I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can." -WALTER JOHNSON, Hall of Fame pitcher (1907-27)
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(1907) Senator Walter Johnson makes his major league debut losing to the Tigers, 3-2; Ty Cobb gets the first hit off of the future Hall of Famer with a bunt single.
(1921) With the jurors lifting the men onto their shoulders, the eight White Sox players accused of throwing the 1919 World Series are acquitted by the jury; the next day, Commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis would say the overwelming evidence clearly shows the Black Sox fixed the games with gamblers and all would be banned from playing professional baseball again.
(1938) As an experiment, bright yellow baseballs are used in the Dodger 6-3 victory over the Cards; it was hoped the balls would be easier to see.
(1979) Yankee catcher Thurmond Munson dies in plane crash at the age of 32.
(1987) Royal rookie third baseman Kevin Seitzer goes 6 for 6, including 2 HRs and 7 RBIs, in a 13-5 victory over the Red Sox.
(1989) Reds' Eric Davis becomes the seventh player to join the 30-30 club as he homers in the 5-4 victory over the Giants. No one had ever accomplished the feat with still nearly two months left to play in the season.
(1995) Long time coach Jimmie Reese, whose 23 years in an Angels uniform equals longest in club history is inducted into the Angels' Hall of Fame. The former roommate of Babe Ruth began his career as a batboy for the Pacific Coast League's Los Angeles Angels in 1917.