1915 The Boston Braves open Braves Field defeating the Cardinals, 3-1. The concrete and steel facility, which took only five months to construct, becomes the first ballpark to seat more than 40,000 people.
1940 Jimmy Powers, sport editor of the Sunday New York Daily News, causes a flap when he suggests the Yankees poor play this season can be attributed to "a mass polio epidemic" contracted from Lou Gehrig. The former Yankee first baseman and his roommate, Bill Dickey, file suit and the newspaper retracts the story (9/26/40) and apologizes.
1956 In their 13-4 victory at Crosley Field, the Reds hit eight home runs (Bob Thurman [3] Ted Kluszewski [2] Frank Robinson [2] and Wally Post [1] ) to tie a major league mark. The Braves add two more to set a National League mark for total homers for a nine inning game.
1959 Long time baseball executive Branch Rickey is named president of the newly formed Continental League. The 77-year old former Dodger general manager is currently serving as an advisor with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1965 After hitting a ball on top of the pavilion at Sportman's Park, Braves' Hank Aaron is denied a homer because umpire Chris Pelekoudas calls him out for being out of the batter's box.
1967 Tony Conigliaro's left cheekbone is shattered by a fastball thrown by Angels' hurler Jack Hamilton. The 22-year old Red Sox slugger will miss the rest of 1967 and all next year, and will never come close to the Hall of Fame potential displayed during his first three seasons.
1975 Earl Averill, Bucky Harris, Billy Herman, 'Judy' Johnson and Ralph Kiner are inducted into the Hall of Fame.
1982 Passing Hank Aaron, Pete Rose becomes the all-time leader in plate appearances when he steps up the plate for the 13,941st time.
1989 Bucky Dent replaces Dallas Green (5th place, 56-65) as Yankee manager. The 1978 play-off hero loses his managerial debut to the Tigers in Detroit, 7-3.
1989 The Orioles' Cal Ripken passes Steve Garvey for the third-longest consecutive games streak by playing in his 1,208th straight game.
1995 In spite of Brave rally in the ninth, Tom Henke records his 300th career save as the Cardinals edge Atlanta, 4-3. The Kansas City native becomes the seventh pitcher in major league history to reach this milestone.
1998 Greg Maddux wins his 200th career game as the Braves beat the Giants, 8-4. All of Atlanta's nine hits in the game were doubles.
2000 After beating out a potential double play ball to prolong a five-run ninth inning rally which ties the game, Angel flycatcher Darin Erstad makes a 10th inning game-saving catch and follows it with a game-winning homer in the 11th to beat Yankees, 9-8.
2002 In a pre-game ceremony, Tommy Agee is inducted posthumously in to the Mets Hall of Fame. The Mets' center fielder (1968-72) is best remembered for two his great two catches in Game 3 of the 1969 World Series.
2004 The Spokane Indians (Texas Rangers) edge the Tri-City Dust Devils (Colorado Rockies) 2-1 In 23 innings. The Northwest League game, which lasted 6 hours, 37 minutes., was scoreless for 19 innings and suspended in a 1-1 tie in the 21st inning the previous night.
2006 At Fenway Park, the Yankees beat the Red Sox in the night cap to complete a day-night doubleheader sweep. The 14-11 slugfest, in which the Al East Division rivals bang out a total 34 hits, takes 4 hours and 45 minutes to play making it the longest nine-inning game in big league history.
2006 Mike Lieberthal passes Red Dooin to become the Phillies’ all-time leader in games as a catcher. The former Philadelphia backstop, who caught 1,124 games from 1902-14, is given credit for being the first catcher to wear shin guards (1906) and as player-manager (1914) tried but failed to convince owner William Barker to buy three promising player from the Baltimore’s International League franchise, which included a pitcher named Babe Ruth.
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