What was the hit? Single? Double? Triple? 4 bagger?

 

Not sure, I was learning how to talk...:fire: :fire:

Not sure, I was learning how to talk...:fire: :fire:

....:lol:

 

I was choosing a college....

I was getting ready to start my sophmore year of high school.

I wasn't in existence.

I believe it was a single, one of many he had.

 

My fault. I was thinking of when he got some significant hit in St Louis that was a double. I think it was when he passed Stan the Man in some category.

My fault. I was thinking of when he got some significant hit in St Louis that was a double. I think it was when he passed Stan the Man in some category.

Here is a little know stat about Rose....

 

Rose had almost had as many 1B's (3,315) as he did games played (3,562)....that is a phenomenal feat.

August 11th

 

1926 In a 7-2 loss to the White Sox, Tris Speaker hits his 700th career double, The Indian outfielder will establish a major league a record with 792 2B's.

 

1929 At League Park in Cleveland, Babe Ruth hits Willis Hudlin’s first delivery in the second inning over the right field fence to record his 500th career home run. The Bambino has more than twice the number of round-trippers than Phillies Cy Williams who is #2 on the all-time list with 237.

 

1961 Braves lefty Warren Spahn scatters six hits to beat the Cubs, 2-1, for his 300th career victory.

 

1951 The Braves beat the Dodgers 8-1 in the first major league game to be televised in color.

 

1970 With a 6-5 victory over the Astros, the Phillies' Jim Bunning becomes the first pitcher since Cy Young to win 100 games in both leagues.

1948 The Indians set a major league record as 14 different players get a hit as the Tribe, with a total of 29 hits, rout the Browns, 26-3.

 

1964 For a major league record tenth time and for the final time in his career, Yankee switch-hitter Mickey Mantle hits a home run both left-and right-handed in the same game.

 

1974 Angels' fireballer Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 Red Sox batters en route to a 4-2 victory.

 

1984 With the first pitch of the game, thrown by Braves’ hurler Pascual Perez, hitting Padres’ leadoff hitter Alan Wiggins, the stage is set for a literal ‘slugfest’. When Ed Whitson throws behind the Atlanta's starter head in the second inning the benches empty the first fight of the game which will be followed by brawls in the fifth, eighth and ninth innings as San Diego continue to use Perez for target practice every time he steps to the plate.

 

1994 The MLB Players' Association members go on strike, the work stoppage will lead to the cancellation of the World Series and a delayed opening of next season.

1984 With the first pitch of the game, thrown by Braves’ hurler Pascual Perez, hitting Padres’ leadoff hitter Alan Wiggins, the stage is set for a literal ‘slugfest’. When Ed Whitson throws behind the Atlanta's starter head in the second inning the benches empty the first fight of the game which will be followed by brawls in the fifth, eighth and ninth innings as San Diego continue to use Perez for target practice every time he steps to the plate.

 

And this is what, then, manager Joe Torre had to say:

 

"Dick Williams is an idiot. It was obvious he was the cause of the whole thing. Precipitating a thing like that was inexcusable. It was stupid of them, period, to take four shots at Perez. It was gutless. It stinks. It was Hitler-like action. I think he (Williams) should be suspended for the rest of the year" -JOE TORRE, Atlanta Braves manager referring to the opposing skipper action in a 1984 game.

1966-Art Shamsky of the Reds connected for three home runs in a 14-11,13inning loss to the Pirates at Crosley Field. Two of the homers came in the 10th and 11th innings. The game featured 11 homers by both clubs. Shamsky entered the game in the eight inning for defenive purposes. In the bottom of the eighth, Shamsky hit a two-run homer to put the Reds ahead 8-7. Shamsky hit a solo shot to tie the game 9-9 in the tenth.Shamsky came back in the 11th inning with a two-run homer to tie the game again,11-11.The Pirates scored three runs in the 13th for the victory.

August 14th

 

1919 In a total of two hours and seventeen minutes, the Dodgers and Cubs split a doubleheader. In the opener, the Cubs blank Brooklyn 2-0 in one hour and 10 minutes and in the nightcap it takes the Dodgers one hour and 7 minutes to shut out Chicago, 1-0.

 

1932 Brooklyn's 10-inning, 2-1 victory over the Giants at the Polo Grounds makes reliever John Quinn, at the age of 49, the oldest player to win a major league game.

 

1937 In a doubleheader against the Browns, the Tigers set a major league record scoring thirty-six runs in the twin bill.

 

1958 Indian Vic Power steals home twice in the same game. The infielder from Puerto Rico will finish the season with a total of three.

 

1982 With his 12,365th career at-bat, Phillies' Pete Rose passes Hank Aaron to become the all-time leader of plate appearances.

 

1986 Reds' player-manager Pete Rose collects his 4,256th and final hit of off Giant reliever Greg Minton. (Thanks to Danny O'Brien for tracking down Greg Minton and Pete Rose to verify this fact)

 

1987 A's Mark McGwire hits his 39th round-tripper breaking the major league record for home runs by rookies surpassing Wally Berger and Frank Robinson. The freshman first baseman will finish the season with 49 homers to lead the American League.

 

1998 The A's Rickey Henderson's stolen base in the first-inning against the Tigers makes the thirty-nine year old the oldest player to steal 50 bases in a season.

 

1999 With Pudge's 20th stolen base in Chicago, Texas backstop Ivan Rodriguez becomes the first catcher in major league history with 20 homers and 20 stolen bases in the same season.

August 15th

 

1941 In spite of leading 6-3, the Senators forfeited the game to the Red Sox because the league ruled the home ground crew deliberately refused to cover the field when it started to rain.

 

1955 Braves' hurler Warren Spahn hits a home run off Cardinal Mel Wright giving the crafty lefty at least one round tripper in every National League stadium.

 

1962 Mets pinch hitters tie a major league record by hitting two home runs (Choo Choo Coleman in the sixth and Jim Hickman in the eighth) in the same game. The Amazin' Mets still manage to lose to the Phillies.

 

1975 Earl Weaver is ejected twice by umpire Ron Luciano. The fiery Baltimore manager is thrown out in the first game of a doubleheader and is tossed again before the start of the second game.

 

1989 In his second start after coming back from cancer surgery, Giant Dave Dravecky suffers a broken arm beating Expos, 3-2. The Youngstown, Ohio native collapses to the ground and clutched his left arm in severe pain after throwing a wild pitch to Tim Raines.

August 16th

 

1920 At the Polo Grounds, Ray Chapman suffers a fracture skull and will die the next day as a result of being hit by a Yankee Carl Mays fastball. The Indian shortstop will be the only on-field player fatality in major league history.

 

1948 At the age 53, with his wife Claire and his two adopted daughters at his side, Babe Ruth dies of throat cancer at Memorial Hospital in New York City.

 

1950 At the Polo Grounds, Hank Thompson hits two inside-the-park home runs as the Giants drubbed the Dodgers, 16-7.

 

1964 Cardinal outfielder Curt Flood has eight consecutive hits in a doubleheader split with the Dodgers. Los Angeles wins the first game 3-0 with St. Louis taking the nightcap, 4-0.

 

1967 After retiring the first 19 batters, Reds' hurler Jim Maloney is forced to leave the game when hurts his ankle stepping in a Forbes Field hole. Billy McCool finishes the game giving up two hits in a 4-0 victory over the Pirates.

 

1968 Blanking the Red Sox 4-0 at Fenway Park, Tiger hurler Denny McLain improves his record on the road to 16-0.

 

1996 The first major league game ever played outside of the United States or Canada takes place in Monterrey, Mexico as the Padres out-slugged the Mets, 15-10.

1964 Cardinal outfielder Curt Flood has eight consecutive hits in a doubleheader split with the Dodgers. Los Angeles wins the first game 3-0 with St. Louis taking the nightcap, 4-0.

 

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How many of today's players even know who Curt Flood is and what he went through?

How many of today's players even know who Curt Flood is and what he went through?

Not many my friend and without his stance, Free-Agency would have been around much later.

 

I don't think Bowie Kuhn was much of a fan