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On September 13 in Baseball History...
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  • 1909 - Ty Cobb clinches the American League home run title with his ninth round-tripper. It is an inside-the-park drive against the Browns. In fact, all his nine home runs this season are inside the park, including two in one game on July 15. He is the only player in this century to lead in home runs without hitting one out of the park.

  • 1925 - Brooklyn's Dazzy Vance threw a no-hitter against the Philadelphia Phillies in the first game of a doubleheader as the Dodgers won 10-1.

  • 1927 - Babe Ruth hits two home runs to give him 52 for the year as the Yankees win a pair from Cleveland to clinch the American League pennant. It is Miller Huggins' fifth pennant, tying him with Connie Mack. The Yankees win the nightcap 5-3, as Waite Hoyt wins his 20th.

  • 1932 - The New York Yankees clinched the American League pennant as Joe McCarthybecame the first manager to win flags in both leagues.

  • 1934- Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis sells the World Series broadcast rights to the Ford Motor Company for $100,000. Previously no fee had been charged.

  • 1936 - Bob Feller, just seventeen, beat the Philadelphia A's 5-2 on two hits. The Cleveland youngster fanned an American League-record seventeen batters.

  • 1938- A special committee names Alexander Cartwright to Baseball's Hall of Fame for originating the sport's basic concepts. Henry Chadwick, inventor of the box score and the first baseball writer, is also honored.

  • 1946 - The Boston Red Sox clinch the American League pennant, edging the Cleveland Indians 1-0 on Ted Williamss inside-the-park home run, the only one of his career. Williamspunches the ball over the shift when left fielder Pat Seerey pulls in behind the shortstop position.

  • 1951 - The Cards split a rare doubleheader with two different teams, defeating the Giants 6-4 in the first game [Box Score] in the afternoon and losing to the Braves in the nightcap [Box Score]. The Cards manage just one hit in losing to Warren Spahn 2-0. It is the first time a team in the National League has played two different teams in the same day since the early years of the century.

  • 1958 - Warren Spahn becomes the first lefty to win twenty or more games nine times, as the Braves beat St. Louis 8-2. Eddie Plank and Lefty Grove each won twenty games eight times.

  • 1963 - Jim Bouton's 20th win clinches the Yankees 28th pennant. It's a 2-0 shutout in Minnesota.

  • 1964- St. Louis becomes the first National League club to score in each inning since the Giants did it on June 1, 1923. They coast 15-2 at Wrigley Field.

  • 1965 - Willie Mays hit his 500th career home run off Houston's Don Nottebart in a 5-1 San Francisco victory.

  • 1969 - Bobby Bonds becomes the fourth 30-homer, 30-steal player in Major League history, but the Reds beat the Giants 6-4.

  • 1971 - Frank Robinson hit his 500th career home run off Detroit's Fred Scherman. The ninth-inning shot gave the Baltimore Orioles a split of a doubleheader against the Tigers.

  • 1978- The New York Yankees beat the Tigers 7-3 at Detroit to move into sole possession of first place for the first time after being 14 games out.

  • 1983 - Oakland's Rickey Henderson steals three bases in a 6-5 win over Texas to give him 101 for the season. It is his third season with one-hundred or more steals.

  • 1986 - Texas hit a club record seven home runs, including two each by Darrell Porter and Ruben Sierra, as the Rangers routed the Minnesota Twins 14-1. The Rangers rocked starter Bert Blyleven for five home runs, raising his season total to forty-four and breaking an American League record.

  • 1989- Fay Vincent is elected baseball's eighth commissioner, succeeding the late Bart Giamatti, whom he served as deputy commissioner.

  • 1991- A 55-ton block collapses in Montreal's Olympic Stadium. The Expos, already in last place, will have to play the rest of their home games on the road.

  • 1995 - Alan Trammell and Lou Whitaker, the middle infield of the Detroit Tigers, set an American League record when they played in their 1,915th game together.

  • 1998 - Sammy Sosa becomes the second player of the week to break the home run record of Roger Maris. Sosa, who had watched Mark McGwire tie and set the mark against the Cubs on September September 8, launches two home runs against the Brewers at Wrigley Field. The second one breaks the record, sets off a mad dash of fans chasing the ball on the street outside the ballpark, and sets up a game-tying rally against the Brewers in the ninth inning. Mark Grace later wins the game for the Cubs 11-10 with a home run.


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cobbwebb0710 said:
Ok guys and gals, it’s Florida week and I know we can have civil conversation in this thread(except for fiddy too and OB and their Cowboys nonsense)
What is everyone’s thoughts on the game?
To be honest, last weeks performance has me a little worried. Our O-line looked and performed drastically different from week 1 to week 2.
The dropped passes don’t worry me as much, I think that was just one of those things that happens and then the receivers let it get in their heads.
We have to be able to pound the ball on Florida!
Imo, AP laid out a pretty damn good game plan last week.
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Word of advice.
Lower your expectations.
 
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MAD said:
Happy or not with the games picked for your local market?


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I’d rather see the Ravens/Bengals instead of the Titans/Chargers.
The Cowboys and Jets...🤢
The Fox games are all garbage, but I could handle watching the Lions or the dirty birds.
And who the hell is NOT pumped to watch the Dolphins Sunday night?!
The Dolphins are America’s team after all.
 
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knoxvol52 said:
From an uneducated point of view Wainwright getting his 200 th should get him in HOF ....but this is coming from a person that doesn't know anything about sports...
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I would vote him in. If it weren’t for Clayton Kershaw, he would have a couple NL Cy Young’s to his name. He had about as good of a 5 or 6 year run as anyone in the early 2010s.
 
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cobbwebb0710 said:
I’d rather see the Ravens/Bengals instead of the Titans/Chargers.
The Cowboys and Jets...🤢
The Fox games are all garbage, but I could handle watching the Lions or the dirty birds.
And who the hell is NOT pumped to watch the Dolphins Sunday night?!
The Dolphins are America’s team after all.
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From an uneducated Cowboys fan Fox always has their games....Cowboys 8.5 million fans they are a must show team for ratings.....😎 but just an uneducated guess.....
 
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knoxvol52 said:
From an uneducated Cowboys fan Fox always has their games....Cowboys 8.5 million fans they are a must show team for ratings.....😎 but just an uneducated guess.....
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How many times do you need to tell the same people over & over you're uneducated or to make an uneducated guess? You having your own pity party today?

Geez, we get it already. 🤣
 
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