This Date in Baseball

"Any minute, any day, some players may break a long-standing record. That's one
of the fascinations about the game - the unexpected surprises." -CONNIE MACK,
major league manager (1894-96, 1901-50)

1950 After 50 years of managing, Connie Mack retires as skipper of the A's. The winningest manager (most defeats, also) in major league history will be replaced by Jimmy Dykes.
1960 Five days after losing to the Pirates in Game 7 of the World Series, the Yankees fire Casey Stengel believing he's too old to manage. Few days later, the 'Old Professor' quips, "I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again".
1967 The American League owners grant Charley Finley permission to move the A's to Oakland and awards new franchises to Kansas City and Seattle.

1977 Reggie Jackson hits three home runs on three consecutive pitches propelling the Yankees to their twenty-first World Championship. 'Mr. October' also hit a homer in his last at bat in the previous game.
2001 Larry Dierker, who left the Astros' broadcast booth to take over the dugout duties as the team's skipper in 1997, resigns as Houston manager (448-362, .553, four divisional titles) despite tying the Cardinals for the best record in the National League (93-69) and winning the Central Division. The team failed to win a playoff series in his five-year tenure going 2-12 in post season action.

2004 After 5 hours, 49 minutes and 471 pitches, the Red Sox outlasts the Yankees, 5-4, in Game 4 of the league championship. Boston’s DH David Ortiz, who is the first player in baseball history to hit two walk-off home runs in during the postseason, ends the longest game in ALCS series history at 1:22 a.m. with a two-out single into center scoring Johnny Damon from second in the 14th inning at Fenway Park.