Year |
Fun Fact |
1920 |
May 14: Walter Johnson collects career win number 300 with a 9-8 win over the Tigers. |
1920 |
Pirates pitcher Babe Adams issues only 18 walks in 263 innings pitched. |
1920 |
June 8: Reds' Edd Roush falls asleep in center field during a long argument. Infielder Heinie Groh goes out to wake him, but the ump ejects Roush for delaying the game. |
1920 |
July 10: After 11 consecutive hits, Tris Speaker is stopped by Senators pitcher Tom Zachary. This record held until 1938. |
1921 |
Cincinnati pitcher Eppa Rixey surrenders only one home run in 301 inning pitched. |
1921 |
The baseball brass rule that 17 pitchers can continue to use the spitball for the remainder of their careers. |
1921 |
April 13: Opening Day and Babe Ruth goes 5 for 5 as the Yankees topple the A's 11-1. |
1921 |
May 7: Yankees Bob Meusel needs a triple for the cycle against the Senators in the 9th inning. With President Wilson watching, he delivers the triple driving in 2 runs to lift the Yankees to a 6-5 win. |
1921 |
July 21: The Yankees and Indians combine to hit a record 16 doubles in one game. Cleveland wins the game 17-8 and the doubles battle 9-7. |
1921 |
August 19: Ty Cobb collects career hit number 3,000 off Boston pitcher Elmer Myers. |
1921 |
August 28: The A's Jimmy Dykes handles an AL record 17 chances at second base as they beat the Browns 12-4. |
1921 |
August 30: The Cubs and Braves each turn a triple play in their games, but both teams lost. |
1921 |
September 5: The Tigers and White Sox set and AL record for combined runs and hits in a game. The Sox win 20-15 and each team gets 20 hits. |
1921 |
September 15: In his only major league appearance, A's pitcher Arliss Taylor yields 7 hits and 5 runs in 2 innings against the Indians. Oddly enough, he strikes out one batter, the eagle eyed Joe Sewell. In 572 at bats this season, he fans only 17 times. |
1922 |
Cubs first baseman Ray Grimes drives in at least one run in 17 straight games. |
1922 |
Pirate shortstop Rabbit Maranville goes a single season record 672 at bats without a home run. |
1922 |
August 15: The White Sox and Red Sox set an AL mark of 35 singles in a 19-11 Chicago win. |
1922 |
August 25: The infamous 26-23 game between the Phillies and Cubs takes place in Chicago. The game boasted 51 hits, 23 walks, 10 errors, 25 men left on base. The Cubs led 25-6 through 4 innings. |
1922 |
September 18: George Sisler's 41 game hit streak comes to an end against Yankees pitcher Joe Bush, the same pitcher he started the streak against. |
1922 |
October 1: Rogers Hornsby goes 3 for 5 on the final day of the season, giving him a .401 average for the season. He became the first player of the 20th century to hit .400. |
1923 |
May 13: Senators rookie pitcher Wally Warmoth fans Indians Joe Sewell twice. It is the first of only 2 times in his 1902 game career he fans twice in the same game. |
1923 |
May 17: After starting the season with 52 innings pitched without a walk, Cub pitcher Grover Alexander walks 3 Phillies but the Cubs win 7-4. |
1923 |
June 1: The Giants score in all 9 innings beating the Phillies 22-8 at the Baker Bowl. The Phillies commit 7 errors, have 2 wild pitches and a passed ball. Ross Youngs drives in 7 RBI's and Jimmy O'Connell goes 5 for 6 with a home run, 3 doubles and 5 RBI's. |
1924 |
August 10: Ty Cobb steals second base once, third base twice and home once as the Tigers beat the Red Sox 13-7. |
1924 |
September 16: Jim Bottomley sets a league record with 12 RBI's against Brooklyn. He had 3 singles, a double and 2 homers in a 17-3 win. |
1925 |
May 5: Ty Cobb collect 16 total bases and goes 6 for 6 including 3 home runs in Detroits 14-8 win over the Browns. After 19 games, he's batting .531. |
1925 |
May 17: Senators pitcher Tom Zachary delivers the pitch that Tris Speaker smacks for his 3,000 career hit. |
1925 |
May 27: The Browns have 26 assists in a 10 inning game against the Indians. They have 24 in the first 9 innings to set an American League mark |
1925 |
June 15: In Shibe Park, with the Indians leading 15-4 after 7 innings, many fans head home and miss one of the greatest rallies of the century, as the A's score 13 runs in the 8th inning for a 17-15 win. Tom Glass collects his first and only major league win. |
1925 |
June 22: Pittsburgh defeats St. Louis 24-6. Max Carey collects 2 hits in an inning twice, in both in the 1st and 8th innings. |
1925 |
September 22: Pitcher Burleigh Grimes of Brooklyn masterfully scatters 16 hits, but goes hitless at the plate, hitting into two double plays and one triple play as Brooklyn loses to the Cubs 3-2. |
1926 |
April 20: Babe Ruth has 5 hits, 5 runs and 8 RBI's in a rout of the Senators 18-5. |
1926 |
May 12: Walter Johnson earns career win number 400 defeating the Browns 7-4. |
1927 |
May 30: Cubs shortstop Jimmy Cooney turns an unassisted triple play against the Pirates. |
1927 |
May 31: Tigers first baseman Johnny Neun turns an unassisted triple play against the Indians to end the game. |
1927 |
July 18: Ty Cobb reaches career hit number 4,000 off Tiger pitcher Sam Gibson. A's lose the game though 5-3 to Cobb's former team. |
1927 |
September 11: The Yankees played the St. Louis Browns 22 times during the season. Yanks won the first 21 meeting before finally losing 6-2. |
1927 |
September 30: In a 2-2 game versus the Senators, Babe Ruth hits a 2 run homer in the 8th inning for his 60th blast of the season. Walter Johnson makes his final appearance as a player by pinch hitting in the 9th inning and flies out to Ruth. |
1928 |
July 26: With the score tied at 1 through 11 innings, the Yankees erupt for 11 runs on 12 hits in the 12th inning of a game against the Tigers. |
1928 |
July 29: The Indians score 8 in the 1st inning and 9 more in the 2nd versus the Yankees. Indians win the game 24-6. |
1928 |
September 17: In his big league debut, Braves pitcher Ray Boggs relieves to pitch the ninth inning. He gives up no hits but in between he hits 3 batters, uncorks 2 wild pitches and issuea a walk. The Cubs only scored one run in the amazing inning, while Boggs pitched in 3 more games and was out of the league. |
1929 |
The Indians and the Yankees became the first teams to put numbers on the backs of their uniforms and leave them there. On May 13 at League Park in Cleveland, fans for the first time are treated to the sight of two teams wearing numbered uniforms. Two years later the American League makes numbered uniforms mandatory for all teams. |
1929 |
May 26: Les Bell of the Braves and Pat Crawford of the Giants each have pinch hit grand slams in a 15-9 Giants win. |
1929 |
July 3: The Cubs and Reds combine to turn 9 double plays in a 7-5 Cubs win. |
1929 |
July 5: The New York Giants installed baseballs first public address system in a game against Pittsburgh. |
1929 |
July 6: The Cardinals beat the Phillies 28-6 in the second game of a doubleheader after losing game 1, 10-6. The Redbirds had two 10 run innings. The day saw a record of 73 hits in the two games. |
1929 |
August 25: The New York Giants installed baseballs first public address system in a game against Pittsburgh. |