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Happy birthday to Andre Dawson, and a mighty host of others.
Today in baseball history, in 1936 – At Forbes Field, Chuck Klein hits four home runs in one game, including the tie-breaker in the 10th, helping the Phillies defeat the Pirates, 9-6. The Indianapolis, Indiana native barely misses hitting an additional homer in the 2nd when right fielder Paul Waner catches his drive against the wall. At 36, Klein is the oldest player ever to accomplish the feat, and
the first National Leaguer in the 20th century to do so, and other stories as well.
Today in baseball history:
- 1913 – Led by Ward Miller‘s two-run triple, the Cubs stop the Giants, 3-2. The victory ends the New Yorkers’ win streak at 14 games and stops Christy Mathewson‘s win streak at nine.
- 1920 – After banging out 11 straight hits, Tris Speaker is stopped by Tom Zachary of Washington. It’s the American League record until Pinky Higgins of the Red Sox will rack up 12 in a row in 1938. Speaker will hit .388 for the season.
- 1932 – Indians flychaser Johnny Burnett collects a record nine hits in 11 at-bats in an 18-inning game in which the A’s outscore the Tribe, 18-17. Jimmie Foxx hits three home runs, and has 16 total bases and eight RBI for the A’s.
- 1948 – After yielding a two-run homer to the A’s Hank Majeski to tie the score, reliever Satchel Paige gets his first major league win as Larry Doby hits a two-run homer and the Indians tack on another run in the 9th to beat Philadelphia, 8-5.
- 1969 – The Cubs score five runs in the fifth inning to beat the Mets, 6-2, behind Bill Hands. The win halts the Mets’ seven-game win streak and leaves the New Yorkers in second place by four games.
Cubs Birthdays: Sergio Alcántara, John Rudolph, Bobby Lowe, Andre Dawson* HOF.
Today in history:
- 1919 – US President Woodrow Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate.
- 1937 – Belgian-Romani-French jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt‘s “Quintette du Hot Club” debuts at La Grosse Pomme nightclub in Montmartre, Paris.
- 1938 – Howard Hughes flies around the world in 91 hours.
- 1943 – Singer Judy Garland headlines her first solo concert, with an orchestra led by conductor Andre Kostelanetz at the Robin Hood Dell in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park; sell-out crowd of 15,000 augmented by additional 5,000 outside the open-air venue
- 1964 – The Beatles release “A Hard Day’s Night,” their third studio album.
- 1965 – Rolling Stones score their first US number 1 single “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”.
- 1967 – Bobbie Gentry records “Ode to Billie Joe,” which goes on to win four Grammy awards.
- 1985 – Coca-Cola Co. announces it will resume selling old-formula Coke.
- 2023 – Fourteenth-century document by a civil servant asking for time off identified as only known handwriting by Geoffrey Chaucer, the “Father of English Literature”.
*pictured.
