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Happy birthday to Todd Hundley, and a mighty host of others.
Today in baseball history, in 2006 – At Fenway Park, Curt Schilling becomes the 104th pitcher in major league history to reach 200 wins
in the 6-4 triumph over Tampa Bay. Schilling becomes only the fourth pitcher to earn his 200th win while in a Red Sox uniform, joining Lefty Grove (1934), Ferguson Jenkins (1976) and Luis Tiant (1978) — and other stories as well.Today in baseball history:
- 1880 – Fred Goldsmith of the Chicago White Stockings shuts out the Buffalo Bisons, 11-0, on two hits. Chicago extends its winning streak to 13 games, to set a new National League record.
- 1922 – Bibb Falk singles with one out in the 8th to break Urban Shocker‘s bid for a perfect game. Falk comes in to score on Ray Schalk‘s double, and the White Sox win the game, 2-1, in ten innings as Shocker gets tagged with the loss for the Browns.
- 1937 – Carl Hubbell earns his 24th consecutive victory over two seasons and Mel Ott hits a 9th-inning home run as the New York Giants defeat the Cincinnati Reds, 3-2. Hubbell wins the game in relief. His 24-win string started on July 17, 1936.
- 1939 – For the first time in his career, Charlie Gehringer of the Detroit Tigers hits for the cycle, in a 12-5 win against the St. Louis Browns. Gehringer does it in order – single, double, triple, home run.
- 1997 – Ken Griffey, Jr. of the Seattle Mariners breaks his own major league record for home runs hit through May by connecting for his 23rd of the season in an 11-10 loss to Minnesota. Griffey breaks the mark he set in 1994 with 22 homers.
- 2015 – Cubs pitcher Jon Lester sets a new record for most hitless at bats from the start of a career by going 0 for 2 in a game against the Nationals. Coming into the game, he had been tied with Joey Hamilton with 57 fruitless at-bats.
Cubs Birthdays:
Brad Boxberger, Todd Hundley*, Jerry Kindall, Jimmy Hallinan. Also notable: Frank Thomas HOF. Jeff Bagwell HOF.
Today in history:
- 1692 – William Phips, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony authorizes a special Court of Oyer and Terminer (“to hear and determine”), to administer Salem witch trials.
- 1895 – British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector.
- 1905 – Japanese fleet destroys the Russian East Sea fleet in the Battle of Tsushima, the only decisive clash between modern steel battleships in history.
- 1916 – President Woodrow Wilson addresses the League to Enforce Peace, founded in 1915, and gives public support to the idea of a league of nations.
- 1930 – The 1,046-foot (319-meter) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public,
- 1930 – Richard Drew invents masking tape.
- 1937 – Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opens to pedestrians.
- 1958 – Ernest Green becomes the first African-American to graduate from Little Rock’s Central High School.
- 1963 – Columbia Records releases “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan“, the second studio album by folk singer Bob Dylan; it contains his songs “Blowin’ in the Wind”, “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” and “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right”, and serves as his critical and commercial breakthrough.
- 1968 – George Halas retires from coaching, finishing with 318 regular-season wins and 6 NFL titles
- 1971 – John Lennon records the song “Imagine” at his Ascot Sound home studio at Tittenhurst Park, England.
- 1977 – The Sex Pistols release “God Save the Queen,” sparking major controversy and leading to a ban on the song by the BBC.
*pictured.
