This Weekend In Baseball History: August 29–August 31

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1887: Denny Lyons of the Philadelphia A’s is held hitless and his consecutive game hitting streak ends at 52 games.

1948: Led by Jackie Robinson, who hits for the cycle, Brooklyn defeats STL, 12-7.

1951: The Yankees trade Lew Burdette to the Braves for Johnny Sain. Six years later, the Braves defeat the Yankees in a 7 game World Series. The hero for the Braves is Lew Burdette, who tosses 3 complete game victories against his old team.

1965: Willie Mays breaks Ralph Kiner’s record for most HR’s in the month of August. The feat was accomplished against the Mets and Kiner, doing play by play for New York, broadcast his own record falling.

1966: Robin Roberts defeats the Braves, 4-2. He is the only pitcher to defeat the Boston Braves, Milwaukee Braves and Atlanta Braves.

1971: Hank Aaron knocks in his 100^th RBI of the season. It’s the 11^th time he’s reached the century mark, a NL record.

1972: Jim Barr of the Giants retires the 1^st 20 batters he faces. In his previous start, Barr retired the final 21 batters he faced, giving him a record of 41 consecutive outs.

1977: With a stolen base against the Padres, Lou Brock passes Ty Cobb and becomes baseball’s all time SB king with 938.

1992: Braves pitcher Charlie Liebrandt records the 1000^th strikeout of his career. He decides to save the ball and rolls it to the dugout. However, he failed to call time and base runner Rickey Jordan stole 2^nd on the mental mistake.

1993: George Brett joins an elite group. Along with Hank Aaron and Willie Mays, Brett is only the 3^rd player in history with 300 HR’s and 200 SB’s.

1905: Ty Cobb makes his ML debut and doubles off Jack Chesbro of the NY Highlanders. There will be 4188 more hits to come for the young Detroit rookie.

1906: ‘Slow’ Joe Doyle becomes the 1^st pitcher to record back-to-back shut outs in his 1^st 2 career starts.

1912: Earl Hamilton of STL no-hits the Tigers, 5-1.

1916: Dutch Leonard of Boston no-hits the Browns, 4-0.

1928: In the final AB of a remarkable career, Tris Speaker strikes out against Red Ruffing. ‘The Grey Eagle’ retires with a 345 career BA, 6^th highest in history.

1965: Casey Stengel retires as Mets manager.

1999: Edgardo Alfonso becomes the 1^st Mets player to go 6-for-6. He establishes a team record of 16 total bases as New York crushes Houston, 17-1.

2005: Alex Rodriguez joins Joe DiMaggio as the only RH Yankee hitter to hit 40 Home Runs in a single season.

1950: Gil Hodges hits 4 Home Runs in 1 game as the Dodgers destroy Boston, 19-3.

1964: Ground is broken for Anaheim Stadium, future home of the California Angels.

1969: A well known (and well endowed) female, who came to be known as, “Morgana the Kissing Bandit,” jumps onto the field and kisses the batter, Clete Boyer. Mired in a 1-17 slump, Boyer would get…pardon the pun, ‘hot’…and go 8 for his next 15.

This Weekend in Baseball History: Aug 22–August 24

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1886: As Reds outfielder Abner Powell is chasing a ball hit into the gap, he is attacked by a stray dog that has run onto the field. With the dog tearing at his pant leg, Jimmy Wolfe of Louisville rounds the bases with an inside-the-park HR.

1934: The Red Sox defeat the White Sox, 3-2, in 12 innings. Pitcher Wes Ferrell hits 2 HR’s for Boston–one in the 8^th to tie it and one in the 12^th to win it.

1965: An all out 14 minute brawl erupts between the Giants and Dodgers. Giants ace Juan Marichal believes that Dodgers catcher Johnny Roseboro’s return throws to the mound are too close to him and so he attacks the catcher with his bat.

1982: The Cubs retire their first # ever, 14, to honor Ernie Banks.

1984: Mets phenom Doc Gooden fans 9 & becomes the 11^th rookie in history to strikeout 200 in his first season.

1989: With a 96 MPH fastball, Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson and reaches the unimaginable mark of 5000 strikeouts.

2007: Jose Reyes sets the Mets team SB record with number 67.

1936: Bob Feller makes his 1^st start. Only 17, Feller strikes out the 1^st 8 batters he faces and winds up with 15 for the game.

1952: NY Giants 3bman Bob Elliott is tossed out mid-At Bat for arguing balls and strikes. He is replaced in the at-bat by Bobby Hoffman. Seconds later, Hoffman gets ejected when he argues the third strike.

1961: The Giants score 12 runs in the 9^th and crush the Reds, 14-0.

1970: Roberto Clemente becomes the 1^st player since the 1800′s to go 5-for-5 in back to back games.

1980: Charlie Finley agrees to sell the A’s to the Haas family, owner of Levi Strauss, for $12.7 million. This decision will keep the A’s in Oakland.

1998: Barry Bonds becomes the 1^st player in history with 400 HR’s and 400 SB’s.

1999: Ken Griffey jr. joins Babe Ruth and Mark McGwire as the only players in history to compile 200 home runs over a 4 year period.

2006: The Royals become only the 2^nd team in history to score 10 runs in the 1^st inning–but still lose the game. The Indians won 15-13 in 10.

2007: With his 1150^th win, Joe Torre passes Casey Stengel & becomes the 2^nd winningest manager in Yankees history, trailing only Miller Huggins.

1905: The Cubs defeat the Phillies, 2-1, in 20 innings. Cubs pitcher Ed Reulbach pitches all 20 innings and gets the win.

1951: It’s ‘Fan Manager Night.’ Bill Veeck hands out 1000 signs to fans behind the Browns dugout. The words ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ are on each side of the sign and the signs are used to vote on decisions to be made by the coaching staff during the game. Veeck’s ‘stunt’ works as the Browns defeat the Phillies, 5-3.

1971: Ernie Banks hits the final HR of his career, # 512.

1975: In the 2^nd game of a double-header, Ed Halicki of the Giants no-hits the Mets at Candlestick, 6-0.

1975: Davey Lopes steals his ML record 38^th straight base. However, the streak ends in the 12^th when he is gunned down at 2b by Expos catcher, Gary Carter.

1982: John Wathan steals his 31^st base of the season, the most by a backstop since Ray Schalk in 1916.

1989: Pete Rose agrees to a lifetime suspension of baseball due to gambling and betting on baseball.