Tyler Colvin* has a really bad day, Ernie Banks is grand, and other stories.
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:
- 1906 – At Boston, Chicago clinches the National League pennant by topping Boston, 3-1. Ed Reulbach is the winner. (2)
- 1915 – Dick Whitworth of the Chicago American Giants no-hits the Chicago Giants, 4-0, in the first game of a doubleheader. (2)
- 1925 – At Chicago, the Cubs beat the Giants, 6-2, behind Sheriff Blake. Taking the loss is Jack Scott, the first of ten straight losses the Cubs will hand him. (2)
- 1935 – The Cubs complete a four-game sweep of the Giants, beating Carl Hubbell for their 16th straight win, 6-1. Billy Herman has three hits and is 11 for 18 in the series with the Giants. The 16 wins in a row is most in the National League since the 1924 Brooklyn Robins won 15. Giants manager Bill Terry tells reporters that, “the Cubs will win … they are playing way over their heads.” (2)
- 1951 – At Wrigley Field, the Phils’ Bubba Church (15-10) defeats the Cubs, 5-1, for his tenth win in a row over the Cubs in his two years with Philadelphia. Bob Rush takes the loss. (2)
- 1955 – Cubs infielder Ernie Banks hits his fifth grand slam of the season to establish a new major league mark, but Rip Repulski‘s 12th-inning homer off Jim Davis proves to be the difference as the Cardinals beat Chicago, 6-5. (1,2)
- 1973 – Chicago’s Ron Santo and Billy Williams celebrate their long association together by each hitting their 20th homer of the season in an 8-6 win over Montreal. It is number 325 for Santo and 376 for Williams in more than 2,000 games together. (2)
- 1978 – During a 12-11 win over the Cubs, the Pirates’ 38-year-old, lead-footed Willie Stargell attempts to steal second base. Cubs shortstop Ivan de Jesus waits with the ball as Stargell slides ten feet short of the base, signaling “time-out.” The Pirates lead, 11-2, in the seventh, but the Cubs rally and tie it in the ninth. Dave Parker homers in the 11th off Bruce Sutter to give the Bucs their seventh straight win and 30th in their last 38 since August 12th. Besides his two homers, Parker adds two run-scoring singles. (2)
- 1986 – White Sox pitcher Joe Cowley, who had been demoted to the minors earlier in the season, pitches an ugly no-hitter against the Angels. Cowley walks seven batters and allows a sacrifice fly as Chicago wins, 7-1. For Cowley, this win is his high note, as he won’t record another big league victory, going 0-4 with the Phils in 1987. (2)
- 2010 – Rookie OF Tyler Colvin* of the Cubs suffers a frightening injury. He is standing at third base when teammate Welington Castillo shatters his bat while hitting a double down the third base line. One of the shards pierces Colvin’s chest and punctures a lung. (2)
Cubs Birthdays: Buddy Schultz, Phil Stephenson, Randy Myers, Scott Baker. Also notable: Duke Snider HOF, Joe
Morgan HOF.
Today in History:
- 634 – Muslim forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid capture Damascus, 1st major city of Eastern Roman Empire taken by the Rashidun Caliphate.
- 1648 – First inn opens in New France, a pastry shop and hostelry in Québec owned by Jacques Boisdon.
- 1876 – First carpet sweeper patented by Melville Bissell of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
- 1896 – Beginning of the Bombay plague epidemic when Dr.Acacio Gabriel Viegas detects the first case in Mandvi. Goes on to spread and kill 12 million in India.
- 1926 – 80,000 demonstrate for democratic peace in Hague.
- 1961 – Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.
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
- 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 of why.
