Today In Baseball History
August 19

Baseball

• 1903 - Phillies suffer record 9th straight posponed game


• 1911 - New York Giant Christy Mathewson loses after beating Reds 22 straight times


• 1917 - Sunday benefit baseball game at Polo Grounds results in John McGraw & Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws


• 1921 - Ty Cobb, is 4th to get 3,000 hits


• 1931 - Lefty Grove wins AL record tying 16th consecutive game


• 1941 - Ump Jocko Conlan ejects Pirate manager Frankie Frisch for coming out on field holding an umbrella to get a rainout


• 1945 - Phillies Jimmie Foxx, 37, pitches 1st 7 innings vs Reds & wins


• 1951 - Bill Veeck (Browns) sends Eddie Gaedel, a 3'7" midget, to pinch-hit


• 1957 - New York Giants vote 8-1 to move their franchise to San Francisco in 1958


• 1965 - Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney 2nd no-hitter of year beats Chicago Cubs, 1-0


• 1969 - Chicago Cub Ken Holtzman no-hits Atlanta Braves, 3-0


• 1975 - Astros hire Bill Virdon to replace Preston Gomez as manager


• 1980 - George Brett ends hitting streak at 30


• 1983 - Dodgers trade Dave Stewart & Ricky Wright to Texas for Rick Honeycut


• 1990 - Dodger Jose Offerman hits HR in his 1st at bat


• 1990 - New York Yankee Kevin Massachusetts is quickest to reach 14 HRs (approx 128 at bat)


• 1997 - New York Yankee 3rd baseman Wade Boggs pitches a scoreless inning vs Anaheim

That's all for today.

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