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W.TN.Orange Blood said:
It'll be a sad day tomorrow (Monday) for America. I was at work having breakfast watching the TV set when two suicide Boeing 767 planes hit the Twin Towers in NYC. What was to be a 30 minute break turned into an all day TV watcher. That morning (9/11) was on a Tuesday.

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Same at work ....that horrible day....
 
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Yanks, hitless into 11th inning, top Brewers in 13

The Yankees, hitless through 10 1/3 innings, twice rallied to tie the Brewers in extra innings before winning 4-3 in the 13th inning Sunday.
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According to the Elias Sports Bureau, this was the fourth time a team was no-hit into the 11th and won -- and the first since the Mets did it on June 14, 1965, at Cincinnati.
 
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On September 11 in Baseball History...
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  • 1875- The first baseball game played with women professionals takes place in Springfield, Illinois. The diamond is half-sized and a nine-foot high canvas surrounds the entire field. The uniforms are similar to the male version, except the pants are shorter.

  • 1886 - Connie Mack makes his Major League debut with Washington, catching flawlessly and contributing a single as the Nationals defeat the Phillies 4-3.

  • 1903- A new National Agreement signed by the National Association of minor league clubs officially organizes professional baseball under one comprehensive set of rules.

  • 1912 - Eddie Collins stole six bases for the Philadelphia Athletics as they defeated the Detroit Tigers, 9-7. Collins stole six more in a game on Sept. 22.

  • 1918 - The Boston Red Sox beat the Chicago Cubs, 2-1, behind the three-hit pitching of Carl Mays to win the World Series in six games.

  • 1922 - The Yankees play their farewell home game in the Polo Grounds. An estimated crowd of 40,000 overflows the stadium with another 25,000 turned away. Joe Bush beats the Philadelphia A's in the opener, 10-3, and Waite Hoyt takes the second game 2-1. This is the last regular season American League game at the Polo Grounds as the Yankees will open Yankee Stadium in 1923.

  • 1923 - After leadoff hitter Whitey Witt reaches first on a controversial single, Boston pitcher Howard Ehmke retires the next 27 batters for a 3-0 win. Ehmke has now given up just one hit in his last two games.

  • 1956 - Frank Robinson of the Cincinnati Reds tied a rookie record for home runs in a season with his 38th homer of the year. The blow came off Steve Ridzik of the New York Giants and the Reds went on to an 11-5 victory.

  • 1959 - The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5-4, ending reliever Roy Face'swinning streak at twenty-two games. It was Face's only loss of the season as he finished with an 18-1 record.

  • 1974 - It took the St. Louis Cardinals 25 innings - 7:04 - to beat the New York Mets. A record 202 batters went to the plate, as Felix Millan and John Milner had twelve appearances apiece.

  • 1976 - Minnie Minoso comes to bat for the White Sox after a twelve-year hiatus. He goes hitless in his three at bats against Frank Tanana, but his appearance makes him one of a handful of Major League players to play in four decades. His at bat in 1980 will match him with Nick Altrock as a five-decade player.

  • 1980 - In a 6-5 win over the Cubs, Montreal's Ron LeFlore steals his 91st base of the season and Rodney Scott steals his 58th, breaking the Major League-record for stolen bases by teammates in one season. Lou Brock and Bake McBride set the record with the 1974 Cardinals.
  • 1985 - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds became the career hit leader with his 4,192nd hit to break Ty Cobb's record. Rose lined a 2-1 pitch off San Diego pitcher Eric Show to left-center field for a single in the first inning. It was the 57th anniversary of Ty Cobb's last game in the majors.

  • 1987 - New York Mets third baseman Howard Johnson, with thirty-four homers, became the first National League infielder to hit thirty home runs and steal thirty bases in the same season. His 30th stolen base came in the fourth inning of a 6-4, 10-inning loss to the St. Louis Cardinals.

  • 1996 - San Diego's Ken Caminiti broke his own Major League record by homering from both sides of the plate in a game for the fourth time this season. In a 6-5 win over Pittsburgh, Caminiti homered left-handed in the fifth inning, hitting a two-run shot. Batting right-handed in the seventh, he hit a solo homer to break his record set last year.


Baseball Birthdays on September 11...
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Baseball Deaths on September 11...
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W.TN.Orange Blood said:
It'll be a sad day tomorrow (Monday) for America. I was at work having breakfast watching the TV set when two suicide Boeing 767 planes hit the Twin Towers in NYC. What was to be a 30 minute break turned into an all day TV watcher. That morning (9/11) was on a Tuesday.

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I was at school teaching when a para came in and told me. We stayed at school til after 9pm because we had students whom had parents that worked at the Pentagon and/or we couldn’t get in touch with them, commuting from DC. Awful day.
 
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