A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Randy Myers saves 50 plus and other stories.
On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various narratives to follow as they unfold over the course of time. Here’s a handy Cubs timeline, to help you follow along.
“Maybe I called it wrong, but it’s official.” — Tom Connolly.
Today in baseball history:
- 1905 – Pilgrim Bill Dinneen, who had not thrown this month because of a sore arm, pitches the fourth no-hitter of the season. The White Sox have 26 official at bats against him in the 2-0 Boston win, their first loss to Boston after ten straight wins. Chicago gets revenge in the nitecap, whipping the Pilgrims, 15-1. With the A’s losing yesterday to the Tigers, Chicago now heads for Philadelphia, trailing by three percentage points. The Pilgrims will play 11 twin bills this month, winning two, losing two, and splitting seven. (2)
- 1919 – Babe Ruth’s 29th home run is his first of the year in Washington he is the first to hit one in every park in the league in one season. (1,2)
- 1930 – Hack Wilson clubs two homers to finish with a National League record of 56 that will hold until 1998. The Cubs win, 13-8, over the Reds at Wrigley Field as Pat Malone wins his 20th of the year. (1,2)
- 1935 – The Cubs clinch the National League pennant in the first game of a doubleheader with the Cardinals, 6-2, besting Dizzy Dean, as Bill Lee wins his 20th. The Cubs tally 15 hits off Diz, led by Freddie Lindstrom’s four. With Roy Henshaw’s victory, 5-3, in the nitecap, the Cubs extend their win streak to an incredible 21 games and reach the 100-win mark. Only once during the winning streak have the Cubs pitchers given up more than three runs. The streak ties the franchise mark set in 1880. (1,2)
- 1938 – With the Pirates 11½ games up on the Cubs, Dizzy Dean shuts out the Bucs for eight innings. In the ninth Bill Lee relieves Dean, and the Cubs win, 2-1. (2)
- 1993 -In a 7-3 victory over the Dodgers, Cubs reliever Randy Myers* becomes the first National League pitcher to record 50 saves in a season. (1,2)
- 2002 – The Pirates beat the Cubs, 13-3. Brian Giles scores five runs for Pittsburgh and drives home six with a double and a pair of home runs. Giles will hit a pinch two-run home run tomorrow to finish the year with 103 RBIs. (2)
- 2003 – Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa blasts his 40th home run to establish a National League record by reaching the plateau for the sixth consecutive season. The Chicago right fielder, who had previously been tied with Ralph Kiner and Duke Snider, needs another season of at least 40 homers to equal Babe Ruth’s major league mark of seven seasons set from 1926 to 1932. (2)
Cubs Birthdays: Don Schulze. Also notable: Mike Schmidt HOF.
Today in History:
- 1066 – William the Conqueror’s troops set sail from Normandy to conquer England.
- 1601 – Dutch Moluccan fleet of the Fifth Expedition, under command of Wolfert Harmensz, land on Mauritius suffering from scurvy, where they hunt and document the dodo.
- 1822 – French scholar Jean-François Champollion announces he has deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics using the Rosetta Stone.
- 1905 – The physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein’s paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?”, introducing the equation E=mc².
‘Common sources:.
- (1) — Today in Baseball History.
- (2) — Baseball Reference.
- (3) — Society for American Baseball Research.
- (4) — Baseball Hall of Fame.
- (5) — This Day in Chicago Cubs history.
- For world history.
*pictured.
Some of these items spread from site to site without being verified. That is exactly why we ask for reputable sources if you have differences with a posted factoid. We are trying to set the record as straight as possible. But it isn’t brain surgery.
Also, the ‘history’ segment is highly edited for space and interest. Of course a great many other things happened on those days. We try to follow up on the interesting or unfamiliar ones.
Thanks for reading.
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