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The Bay Quake and other stories. Happy birthday to Johnny Klippstein* and other former Cubs.
On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past. Here’s a handy Cubs timeline, to help you follow the various narrative paths.
“Maybe I called it wrong, but it’s official.” — Tom Connolly, HoF Umpire.
Today in baseball history:
- 1911 – The Philadelphia Athletics score twice in the 11th inning to beat the New York Giants, 3-2, in Game 3 of the World Series. Frank Baker hits a home run in the 9th inning off Christy Mathewson to tie the score, 1-1. Baker will be tagged with the nickname “Home Run” Baker for his exploits. (1,2)
- 1960 – The National League formally awarded franchises to the New York Metropolitan Baseball Club, Inc., headed by Joan Payson, and a Houston group headed by Judge Roy Hofheinz, Craig Cullinan, and R.E. Smith. (1)
- 1964 – Despite a 99-63 record, the Yankees fire manager Yogi Berra after losing the World Series to the Cardinals in seven games. Manager Johnny Keane of the World Champs Cardinals resigns unexpectedly. He will take the Yankee job which opens as the result of the firing of Berra. (2)
- 1974 – The Oakland Athletics defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers, 3-2, to win their third straight World Series. Joe Rudi‘s seventh-inning home run provides the winning margin. The Athletics join the New York Yankees as the only franchises in major league history to win three straight titles. (2)
- 1979 – Willie Stargell‘s two-run homer gave the Pirates a 4-1 triumph over the Baltimore Orioles and the World Series in seven games. (1,2)
- 1989 – Minutes before Game 3 of the World Series between Oakland and San Francisco, an earthquake hit the Bay area. The game was postponed and the Series resumed 11 days later. (1,2)
- 1996 – The Atlanta Braves had the biggest blowout in postseason history, beating St. Louis, 15-0, in Game 7 of the NL championship series to complete a comeback from a 3-1 deficit. The Cardinals became the only club to blow a 3-1 edge three times in the postseason. (1,2)
- 2017 – The Dodgers defeat the Cubs, 6-1, in Game 3 of the NLCS at Wrigley Field to move within one game of the World Series. Yu Darvish gives up a first-inning homer to Kyle Schwarber but then shuts down the Cubs until the seventh, when the bullpen takes over. Meanwhile, solo homers by Andre Ethier and Chris Taylor put the Dodgers ahead, and they seal the deal with a couple more runs on a triple by Taylor and a bases-loaded walk to Darvish, before adding a pair in the eighth. (2)
- 2021 – Major League Baseball announces that it will now mandate teams to provide adequate housing for their minor league players, after numerous stories over recent months have highlighted the poor living conditions that players are often forced to endure as a result of the pittance they are being paid while toiling in the minors. (2)
Cubs Birthdays: George Nicol, Paul Derringer, Johnny Ostrowski, Johnny Klippstein, John Mabry,
Carlos González. Also notable: Buck Ewing HOF.
Today in History:
- 1662 – Charles II of Great Britain sells Dunkirk to France for 2.5 million livres (320,000 English pounds).
- 1777 – British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga during the American Revolutionary War.
- 1814 – London Beer Flood: A burst vat at Meux & Company Brewery floods city streets with over 300,000 gallons of porter ale, killing eight, with a possible ninth later from alcohol poisoning.
- 1855 – Bessemer steelmaking process patented by Henry Bessemer revolutionizes manufacturing.
- 1907 – Guglielmo Marconi’s company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
- 1920 – The Decatur Staleys, later known as the Chicago Bears, play their first American Professional Football Association game against an affiliated APFA team and defeat the Rock Island Independents 7-0 at Douglas Park, Rock Island, Illinois.
- 1933 – Albert Einstein arrives in the US as a refugee from Nazi Germany.
Common sources:
- (1) — Today in Baseball History.
- (2) — Baseball Reference.
- (3) — Society for American Baseball Research.
- (4) — Baseball Hall of Fame.
- (5) — This Day in Chicago Cubs history.
- (6) — Wikipedia.
- (7) — The British Museum
- (8) For world history.
*pictured.
Things are as near to the truth as we can get them. Some of these items spread from site to site without being fact-checked, and that is why we ask for verifiable sources, so that we can help update the records and have documentation.
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