1907 Phillies' freshman hurler George McQuillan begins his major league career with 32 shutout innings establishing a rookie record.
1908 Allowing only one walk, Ed Walsh wins both ends of a doubleheader to establish an American League record. The Meriden, Connecticut resident beats the Red Sox at Chicago’s South Side Park 5-1 and 2-0.
1913 Senators' legend Walter Johnson beats the Philadelphia A's, 1-0, to finish the season with 36 victories.
1935 On the last day of the season, Pirates catcher Aubrey Epps goes 3-for-4, including a triple and three RBI’s, in his major league debut at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field. It be the only game ‘Yo Yo’ will ever play in the big leauges.
1946 On the last day of the campaign, by striking out opposing pitcher Hal Newhouser and four others, Bob Feller establishes a major league record by striking out his 348 batters in one season. Future research, however, will show Rube Waddell had struck out 349 in 1904.
1951 At Philadelphia’s Shibe Park, Don Newcombe becomes the first black to win 20 games in a season. The Dodger right-hander bests Robin Roberts and blanks the Phillies, 5-0.
1954 Centerfielder Willie Mays makes 'The Catch', a spectacular over-the-shoulder grab, robbing Vic Wertz of an extra hit. The Giants, thanks to pinch-hitter Dusty Rhodes home run, beat the Indians 5-2 in Game 1 of the World Series.
1958 At Forbes Field on the last day of the season, Dave Philley of the Phillies establishes a big-league record by getting his 8th consecutive pinch hit in a 10-inning 6–4 victory over the Pirates.
1963 In his last game, Stan Musial helps the Cardinals beat the Reds, 3-2 at Busch Stadium getting two hits in his final three at-bats. The 'Man' will retire with 3,630 hits (1815 hits at home and 1815 on the road).
1963 On the final day of the season, John Paciorek, brother of Tom and Jim, goes 3-for-3, driving in three runs and scoring four times in his big league debut as Houston routs the Mets at Colt Stadium, 13-4. Due severe back problems, the 18-year-old Colt .45's right fielder, who also makes two outstanding defensive catches, will never again play in a big league game.
1971 Expos second baseman Ron Hunt is plunked by a pitch for the 50th time of the season establishing a big league record. By comparison, the runner-up in the league, teammate Rusty Staub, will only be hit by a pitch nine times.
1976 Tommy Lasorda is named to succeed Walter Alston as Dodger manager. 'Smokey', compiled a 2040-1613 record (.558), during his 23-year tenure with the club winning seven pennants and four world championships.
1986 Mike and Greg Maddux become the first siblings to start a game against one another. In the rookie match-up, Cubs' righty Greg beats his older brother and the Phillies, 6-3.
1987 Yankees' first baseman Don Mattingly sets a major league record by hitting his sixth grand slam of the season. Remarkably, it will be the only six bases-full homers he’ll hit during his entire 14-year career.
2000 Gary Sheffield ties Duke Snider's 1956 mark for the Dodgers' franchise single-season home run record with his career best 43rd round tripper helping Los Angeles to defeat the Padres, 3-0.
2001 On three consecutive pitches, Astros' starter Dave Mlicki gives up homers to Fred McGriff, Rondell White and Todd Hundley. The back-to-back-to-back homers enables the Cubs to beat Houston, 6-2.
2001 Mariners' outfielder Ichiro Suzuki gets his 234th hit of the season breaking 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson 1911 record for the hits in a season by a rookie. The historic hit also ties the major league record for singles in a season established in 1985 by Red Sox infielder Wade Boggs with 187.
2001 Miguel Tejada's seventh inning grand slam makes him the 15th player in A's history to hit for the cycle. The slugging shortstop had tripled in the first inning, singled in the third and doubled in the sixth.
2002 On the last day of the season, the Braves use 24 players and the Mets use 21 to tie the major league record for the most players used in a nine-inning game The Expos and the Cubs also combined to use 45 players on September 5, 1978.
2002 Barry Bonds sets a new season mark for on-base percentage with a .582 OBP. The 38-year old Giant left fielder, who became the oldest first-time winner of a batting title hitting .370, easily surpassed the 1941 mark established by Ted Williams with a .553 OBP.
2004 Major League Baseball announces Washington D.C. will become the new home of the Montreal Expos in time for the 2005 season. The nation's capital, which was chosen over finalists including Las Vegas and Northern Virginia, will have baseball first time in 33 years since the expansion Senators left in 1971 to become the Texas Rangers.
2004 With the Braves beating the Mets 6-3, Bobby Cox becomes the ninth manager in baseball history to win 2,000 games as a manager. All of the other skippers who have reached this milestone are enshrined in the Hall of Fame with the exception of Tony La Russa, who is still active managing the Cardinals.
2005 Jhonny Peralta sets a new club record for home runs hit by an Indian shortstop. The 24-year old's third inning blast against the Devil Rays gives the Dominican his 24th round tripper of the season, one more than Woodie Held hit in 1961.
2005 Staving off what would have been one of the worst collapses in baseball history, the White Sox clinch their first American League Central title since 2000 beating the Tigers at Detroit’s Comerica Park, 4-2. The Pale Hose had watched their 15-game lead on August 1 shrink to 1.5 to the rampaging Indians.
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