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On September 8 in Baseball History...
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  • 1880- The Polo Grounds in New York is leased by the new National Association Metropolitan club. The grounds, which have been used for polo matches, will be converted into the first commercial baseball park to be built on Manhattan Island. It opens three weeks later.

  • 1905- The Pittsburgh Pirates stranded eighteen runners in an 8-3 loss to the Cincinnati Reds to set a National League record for men left on base.

  • 1916 - Wally Schang of the A's homers from both sides of the plate against the Yankees. Only a handful of people see the rare feat on a rainy day.

  • 1939 - Twenty-year-old Bob Feller becomes the youngest 20th-century pitcher to win twenty games, as Cleveland beats St. Louis 12-1.

  • 1955- The Brooklyn Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Braves, 10-2, to clinch the National League pennant with a seventeen-game lead.

  • 1958 - Roberto Clemente tied a Major League record by hitting three triples in a 4-1 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.

  • 1963 - Braves pitcher Warren Spahn ties Christy Mathewson with his thirteenth 20-win season by notching a 3-2 victory in Philadelphia. At forty-two, Spahn becomes the oldest twenty-game winner.

  • 1965 - Bert Campaneris of the Kansas City A's played all nine positions before having to leave after a ninth-inning collision with Ed Kirkpatrick of the Angels. The Angels won, 5-3, in 13 innings.

  • 1972 - Fergie Jenkins of the Chicago Cubs beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 4-3, for his 20th victory of the season. It was the sixth straight year that Jenkins won at least twenty games.

  • 1980 - Commissioner Bowie Kuhn suspendsFergie Jenkins indefinitely as a result of his August 25 drug arrest in Toronto. On September 22, the suspension will be overturned by arbitrator Raymond Goetz, the first time ever a commissioner's decision is overruled by an arbitrator.

  • 1985 - Cincinnati's Pete Rose inserted himself into the lineup when the Chicago Cubs started right-hander Reggie Patterson. Rose singled in the first inning and again in the fifth inning to tie Ty Cobb with 4,191 career hits. Rose was retired in his other at-bats and the game was called because of darkness after nine innings with the score tied, 5-5.

  • 1988- National League president Bart Giamatti is unanimously elected baseball's seventh commissioner, and will succeed Peter Ueberroth in 1989.

  • 1993 - Darryl Kile pitched baseball's second no-hitter in five days as the Houston Astros beat the New York Mets, 7-1.

  • 1995- Cleveland ends a postseason drought of forty-one years by clinching the American League Central Division with a 3-2 win over the Orioles.

  • 1996 - Todd Hundley of the New York Mets became the ninth player to hit forty home runs during the season, breaking the Major League record set in 1961. Hundley's homer, in a 6-2 win over Atlanta, tied Roy Campanella's Major League record for homers by a catcher.

  • 1998 - Mark McGwire broke Roger Maris' thirty-seven year-old home run record, lining historic No. 62 just over the wall in left field with two out in the fourth inning. McGwire's homer off the Chicago Cubs' Steve Trachsel set off a wild celebration in Busch Stadium.


Baseball Birthdays on September 8...
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