Baseball Hall gets no new members; Schilling 16 votes shy
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R.I.P. HANK AARON 1934-2021
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Perspective | We’ll miss Opening Day, but its wonderful sense of anticipation will return someday soon I’m a little late, but I couldn’t pass up sharing this “Opening Day” column fro...
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It only seemed right to end this the way it began. First post, last post. One of my all-time favorites. Rickey brought an intensity, a joyous exuberance to the game, which I think is how it shoul...
APRIL 30, 2019 Tomorrow marks the sixth anniversary of this-day-in-baseball. Unfortunately, it will also mark its final post. This was definitely not an easy decision for me. I have agonized ov...
APRIL 30, 1922 Charlie Robertson, in only his fourth career start, becomes the third modern pitcher to throw a perfect game when he beats the Tigers at Navin Field, 2-0. The White Sox pitcher, ...
APRIL 29, 1931 Cleveland pitcher Wes Ferrell no-hits the St. Louis Browns, including his brother Rick, 7-0. The pitching star also provided offense, knocking in four runs with a double, and a h...
APRIL 28, 1934 At Navin Field, Goose Goslin grounds into four consecutive double plays. The Tiger outfielder’s lack of offense doesn’t matter, as Detroit beats the visiting Indians, 4-1.
APRIL 27, 1973 Kansas City’s 22-year-old starter Steve Busby becomes the 13th rookie to throw a no-hitter, beating Detroit, 3-0, at Tiger Stadium. It is the first ever no-hit game thrown by a...
APRIL 26, 2013 Anibal Sanchez breaks Mickey Lolich’s franchise record of 16 strikeouts when he retires the side on strikes in the eighth inning of the Tigers’ 10-0 rout of Atlanta. In his e...
APRIL 25, 1937 Cliff Melton becomes the first rookie to fan at least ten batters in his major league debut, finishing with 13 strikeouts in a complete-game loss to the Braves at the Polo Ground...
APRIL 24, 2017 Dovydas Neverauskas, taking the roster spot of DL-bound Adam Frazier, becomes the second person born in Lithuania, but the first raised there, to appear in a major league game wh...
APRIL 23, 2014 Conrado Marrero, the oldest living former major leaguer, dies two days before his 103rd birthday. The 5-foot, 5-inch Cuban right-hander, named to the American League All-Star tea...
APRIL 22, 2018 Brandon Belt works one of the longest at-bats in modern major league history when he sees 21 first-inning pitches from LA’s Jaime Barria in the Giants’ 4-2 victory at Angel S...
APRIL 21, 1898 In a game against the Giants, Philadelphia pitcher Bill Duggelby hits a grand slam in his first major league at-bat. Bobby Bonds will hit one in his first game in his third at-ba...
APRIL 21, 2018 Sean Manaea tosses the 12th no-hitter in A’s franchise history and the first since Dallas Braden’s perfect game in 2010, when he keeps the opponents hitless in the team’s 3...
APRIL 19, 2000 Orel Hershiser ties a major league mark, equaled by 19 others, hitting four batters in one game. Astro Richard Hidalgo also ties a modern major league record by getting hit three...
APRIL 18, 1923 At South Field on Columbia’s campus in New York City, a collegiate pitcher strikes out seventeen batters from Williams to establish a school record but loses the game 5-1 due t...
APRIL 17, 1945 Browns outfielder Pete Gray, playing with one arm, makes his major league debut with one hit in four at-bats in a 7-1 victory over Detroit at Sportsman’s Park. The 30-year-old ...
APRIL 16, 1929 In a 5-4 Opening Day victory over Detroit at League Park, Indians’ rookie center fielder Earl Averill homers on a 0-2 pitch off Detroit’s pitcher Earl Whitehill, becoming the...