Baseball Guru
07-14-2001, 04:58 PM
This Day in Baseball History - July 14
"I really humbled by this because I never consider myself a super-star like Williams, DiMaggio or Aaron." -LOU BOUDREAU, former Indian player-manager on his induction into the Hall of Fame (1938-52)
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(1916) Brown Ernie Koob pitches a complete game going all 17-innings in 0-0 tie; Red Sox Carl Mays pitches first 15 innings for the Red Sox with Dutch Leonard finishing the game.
(1934) Yankee legend Babe Ruth hits 700th career home run.
Despite a HR and four doubles by Lou Boudreau, the Indians still lose to the Red Sox 11-10 thanks to Ted Williams' three HRs and eight RBIs. During the second game of the twin bill, player-manager Boudreau will become the first skipper to employ the 'Williams' Shift' which puts four infielders and two outfielders on the righ side of the field. Laughing at the unusual alignment, the 'Splendid Spinter' doubles in his first at-bat against the new defense.
(1956) At Fenway Park, Red Sox hurler Mel Parnell no-hits the White Sox, 4-0.
(1967) As an Astro Eddie Mathews, the long-time Brave third baseman, hits homerun #500 against Juan Marichal at Candlestick Park becoming the seventh major leaguer to reach this plateau.
(1968) Braves' Hank Aaron hits homerun #500 off of Giant Mike McCormick becoming the eighth major leaguer to reach this level.
(1968) Houston Astro Don Wilson strikes out eighteen batters and beats the Reds, 6-1.
(1970) In the twelfth inning of the All-Star game, Pete Rose bowls over Indian catcher Ray Fosse to score the deciding run in 5-4 NL victory at Riverfront Stadium.
(1972) Tiger catcher Tom Haller looks over his shoulder and sees his brother Bill, the home plate ump - a major league first.
(1992) Mariner outfielder Ken Griffey, Jr. homers off Cub hurler Greg Maddux making it the first time in history a father and a son have hit All-Star home runs; his dad hit one off the Yankees' Tommy John in the 1980 Mid-summer Classic.
(1995) Ramon Martinez no-hits the Marlins, 7-0; the Dodger hurler was perfect for 7 1-3 innings before walking Tommy Gregg.
(2000) Mariner first baseman John Olerud has a game-tying double disallowed because first base umpire Jim Wolf had called time, but then hits a three-run homer helping Seattle to beat the Padres, 7-5.
(2000) Major League owners decide to return to playing an unbalanced schedule (teams play more games against teams in their own division) rather than the presently used balanced schedule (play approximately the same number of games against all teams within the league.); the AL has used to a balanced schedule since 1977 and the NL started in 1993.
(2000) A report presented to owners, The Commissioner's Initiative: Women and Baseball, finds women make up 46 percent of the average crowd at a big league game and urges major league franchises to make more of an effort to market to women patrons. According to the same report forty-three percent of women could not name a player on their home team's roster.
"I really humbled by this because I never consider myself a super-star like Williams, DiMaggio or Aaron." -LOU BOUDREAU, former Indian player-manager on his induction into the Hall of Fame (1938-52)
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(1916) Brown Ernie Koob pitches a complete game going all 17-innings in 0-0 tie; Red Sox Carl Mays pitches first 15 innings for the Red Sox with Dutch Leonard finishing the game.
(1934) Yankee legend Babe Ruth hits 700th career home run.
Despite a HR and four doubles by Lou Boudreau, the Indians still lose to the Red Sox 11-10 thanks to Ted Williams' three HRs and eight RBIs. During the second game of the twin bill, player-manager Boudreau will become the first skipper to employ the 'Williams' Shift' which puts four infielders and two outfielders on the righ side of the field. Laughing at the unusual alignment, the 'Splendid Spinter' doubles in his first at-bat against the new defense.
(1956) At Fenway Park, Red Sox hurler Mel Parnell no-hits the White Sox, 4-0.
(1967) As an Astro Eddie Mathews, the long-time Brave third baseman, hits homerun #500 against Juan Marichal at Candlestick Park becoming the seventh major leaguer to reach this plateau.
(1968) Braves' Hank Aaron hits homerun #500 off of Giant Mike McCormick becoming the eighth major leaguer to reach this level.
(1968) Houston Astro Don Wilson strikes out eighteen batters and beats the Reds, 6-1.
(1970) In the twelfth inning of the All-Star game, Pete Rose bowls over Indian catcher Ray Fosse to score the deciding run in 5-4 NL victory at Riverfront Stadium.
(1972) Tiger catcher Tom Haller looks over his shoulder and sees his brother Bill, the home plate ump - a major league first.
(1992) Mariner outfielder Ken Griffey, Jr. homers off Cub hurler Greg Maddux making it the first time in history a father and a son have hit All-Star home runs; his dad hit one off the Yankees' Tommy John in the 1980 Mid-summer Classic.
(1995) Ramon Martinez no-hits the Marlins, 7-0; the Dodger hurler was perfect for 7 1-3 innings before walking Tommy Gregg.
(2000) Mariner first baseman John Olerud has a game-tying double disallowed because first base umpire Jim Wolf had called time, but then hits a three-run homer helping Seattle to beat the Padres, 7-5.
(2000) Major League owners decide to return to playing an unbalanced schedule (teams play more games against teams in their own division) rather than the presently used balanced schedule (play approximately the same number of games against all teams within the league.); the AL has used to a balanced schedule since 1977 and the NL started in 1993.
(2000) A report presented to owners, The Commissioner's Initiative: Women and Baseball, finds women make up 46 percent of the average crowd at a big league game and urges major league franchises to make more of an effort to market to women patrons. According to the same report forty-three percent of women could not name a player on their home team's roster.