| 1973 | Twenty days after pitching his high school team to a state championship, Rangers' rookie David Clyde pitches five innings, strikes out eight, and allows just one hit in his first major league start as Texas defeats the Twins, 4-3. A crowd of 35,698 fans, the first sellout at Arlington Stadium, sees the debut of the 18 year-old phenom, $125,000 bonus baby. |
| 1970 | After fouling off a ninth-inning "Folly Floater" thrown by Steve Hamilton in the eventual 7-2 Cleveland victory at Yankee Stadium, Tony Horton asks the New York hurler to throw him the pitch again. The Indians first baseman crawls back to the dugout when his second foul ball is caught by backstop Thurman Munson.<center><iframe width="252" height="189" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WFvp7kMraAw?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></center> |
| 1944 | At the Polo Grounds with over 50,000 fans looking on, the New York major league teams face each other in a six inning three-team game (a team played consecutive innings against the other two teams then sat out an inning) to raise money for war bonds. The charity contest, billed as the Tri-Cornered Baseball Game, ends with the final score of Dodgers 5, Yankees 1, Giants 0.
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| 1974 | "He thinks he's in a sales convention dealing with a bunch of short-order cooks. That's not the way to go about getting a winner. Somebody ought to sit him down and straighten him out." - DOUG RADER, Astros third baseman's comments concerning Ray Kroc's ownership style of the Padres. Padres president Buzzie Bavasi, inspired by disparaging postgame remarks about Ray Kroc, the team's owner and board chairman of McDonald's, made previously by Astro third baseman Doug Rader, stages a Short-Order Cooks' Night promotion, which gives any fan wearing a chef's hat free admission to the game. The Houston captain, who compared Kroc's management of the Friars to a sales convention of short-order cooks, joins in on the fun by wearing a chef's hat and an apron and carrying a skillet and spatula when he brings the lineup card to home plate. |
| 2004 | At Bank One Ballpark, Diamondbacks' 40 year-old fireballer Randy Johnson records his 4000th career strikeout, whiffing Padres' third baseman Jeff Cirillo, a fellow USC Trojan, to become the fourth player in major league baseball history to reach the plateau. The 'Big Unit' (3,237 1/3) needs less innings than Nolan Ryan (3,844 2/3), Roger Clemens (4,151), and Steve Carlton (4,991 1/3) to accomplish the feat. |
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| 1958 | In their 35th home date in L.A., the transplanted Dodgers reach the one million mark in attendance. Last season, the team drew only 1,028,258 fans, playing in Brooklyn's Ebbets Field. the afternoon paper became a must read for those who like me were Bum's fans .No morning boxscore of Dodgers and Giants games anymore had to wait for a Dodgers trip to play the Reds,Cubs or Cards and hope to pick up the game on the radio. |
| 1994 | Red Sox shortstop John Valentin snares Marc Newfield's sixth-inning line drive, steps on second retiring Mike Blowers, and then tags the runner coming from first, Kevin Mitchell, to turn an unassisted triple play. After completing the rare feat, accomplishing a play that has occurred only ten times in major league history, the infielder begins a three-homer outburst by Boston in the bottom of the frame, helping the team defeat the Mariners at Fenway Park, 4-3.<center><iframe width="224" height="126" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YXJuw4Rd0ck?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></center> |
| 2002 | Despite chants of 'Let them play!' from the sellout crowd of 41,871 at Milwaukee's Miller Park, Baseball Commissioner Bud Seligxstop declares the 73rd All-Star Game a 7-7 tie after 11 innings. No player is selected to receive the first Ted Williams Most Valuable Player award, named in honor of the late Red Sox legend who died five days ago. |
| 1934 | At the All-Star Game played in New York's Polo Grounds, Giants pitcher Carl Hubbell faces a starting lineup comprised of nine eventual Hall of Famers. 'King Carl' is up to the unique occurrence in baseball history when he fans the first five batters he faces, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons, and Joe Cronin.<center><iframe width="224" height="126" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/OEO5EmgjeVc?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></center> |
| 1984 | At San Francisco's Candlestick Park, Dodger southpaw Fernando Valenzuela and Mets rookie Dwight Gooden combine to strike out six consecutive American League All-Stars on the 50th anniversary of Carl Hubbell's memorable 1934 Midsummer Classic performance of setting down five future Hall of Famers on strikes. Dwight Gooden, at the age of 19, becomes the youngest player ever to participate in an All-Star Game. |
