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On September 5 in Baseball History...
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  • 1908 - Brooklyn's Nap Rucker pitched a 6-0 no-hitter against the Boston Braves at Washington Park. Rucker struck out fourteen and walked none. The Dodgers made three errors.

  • 1918 - The Cubs switch their home games to Comiskey Park with its larger seating capacity for the World Series. Babe Ruth/A>, having completed thirteen scoreless innings in his first World Series two years ago, adds nine more in edging Hippo Vaughn 1-0 in the opener. During the seventh-inning stretch, a military band plays "The Star Spangled Banner." From then on, it is played at every World Series game, every season opener, and whenever a band is present to play it, though it is not yet adopted as the national anthem. The custom of playing it before every game will begin during World War II, after the installation of public address systems.

  • 1921 - Walter Johnson breaks Cy Young's career strikeout mark by fanning seven Yankees to run his total to 2,287.

  • 1954- Joe Bauman, playing for Roswell of the Longhorn League, hit three home runs to give him 72 for the season. Bauman never made it to the majors.

  • 1955 - Don Newcombe of the Brooklyn Dodgers hit his seventh homer of the season for a National League record for home runs by a pitcher. The Dodgers beat the Phillies 11-4.

  • 1971 - J.R. Richard tied Karl Spooner's Major League record by striking out fifteen San Francisco Giants in his first Major League game as the Houston Astros beat the Giants.

  • 1979 - Matt Keough of the A's beats the Brewers 6-1 for his first victory after 14 straight losses. He ended 1978 with four defeats and barely avoided tying the American League record of nineteen consecutive losses.

  • 1982 - Roy Smalley hit a pair of three-run homers, one from each side of the plate, as the Yankees beat the Kansas City Royals 18-7.

  • 1998 - Mark McGwire became only the third player to reach sixty home runs, as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-0. He joined Babe Ruth and Roger Maris with sixty homers in a single season.


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VolPack22 said:
  • 1908 - Brooklyn's Nap Rucker pitched a 6-0 no-hitter against the Boston Braves at Washington Park. Rucker struck out fourteen and walked none. The Dodgers made three errors.

  • 1918 - The Cubs switch their home games to Comiskey Park with its larger seating capacity for the World Series. Babe Ruth/A>, having completed thirteen scoreless innings in his first World Series two years ago, adds nine more in edging Hippo Vaughn 1-0 in the opener. During the seventh-inning stretch, a military band plays "The Star Spangled Banner." From then on, it is played at every World Series game, every season opener, and whenever a band is present to play it, though it is not yet adopted as the national anthem. The custom of playing it before every game will begin during World War II, after the installation of public address systems.

  • 1921 - Walter Johnson breaks Cy Young's career strikeout mark by fanning seven Yankees to run his total to 2,287.

  • 1954- Joe Bauman, playing for Roswell of the Longhorn League, hit three home runs to give him 72 for the season. Bauman never made it to the majors.

  • 1955 - Don Newcombe of the Brooklyn Dodgers hit his seventh homer of the season for a National League record for home runs by a pitcher. The Dodgers beat the Phillies 11-4.

  • 1971 - J.R. Richard tied Karl Spooner's Major League record by striking out fifteen San Francisco Giants in his first Major League game as the Houston Astros beat the Giants.

  • 1979 - Matt Keough of the A's beats the Brewers 6-1 for his first victory after 14 straight losses. He ended 1978 with four defeats and barely avoided tying the American League record of nineteen consecutive losses.

  • 1982 - Roy Smalley hit a pair of three-run homers, one from each side of the plate, as the Yankees beat the Kansas City Royals 18-7.

  • 1998 - Mark McGwire became only the third player to reach sixty home runs, as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-0. He joined Babe Ruth and Roger Maris with sixty homers in a single season.










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Wow Candy Maldonado is that old now ..... Loved him was an adequate player...
 
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