I never knew about Glanville....So we have Mesa, Hudler, and Glanville...A-ha!!

May 5th-

1863: Happy Birthday Paul Cook 1884 Phillies C 3 games

1867: Happy Birthday Thomas 'Vinegar Tom' Vickery 1890, 93 Phillies P 61 games

1884: Happy Birthday Charles Albert 'Chief Al' Bender, died in Philadelphia and buried at Hillside Cemetery in Roslyn PA, 1916-17 Phillies P 48 games; Athletics 1903-14 P/OF/1B/2B 432 games; member 1905 Philadelphia Athletics AL Pennant winning team, member 1910, 11, 13 Philadelphia Athletics World Series winning teams, and member 1914 Philadelphia Athletics AL Pennant winning team

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1893: Ed Stein hurls a one-hitter to lead Brooklyn to a 3-1 win over the Phils.

1915: The Giants finally beat Grover Cleveland Alexander, nipping the Phillies ace, 4-2. It's his 1st loss of the year.

1933: Phils sell Charlie Butler P to Albany (International League) and Fred Brickell OF and Hugh Willingham SS/3B/OF/2B to Kansas City (American Association)

1933: Pepper Martin of the Cardinals hits for the cycle and adds a double in 5-3 win against the Phillies.

1935: Happy 73rd Birthday Jose Pagan 1973 Phillies IF 46 games; member 1962 Giants NL Pennant winning team and member 1971 Pirates World Series winners



1938: Phils pitcher Harold Kelleher surrenders an NL record 12 runs in the 8th inning of a 21-2 loss to the Cubs. Wayne LeMaster gets the loss despite leaving the game (injury) after throwing a 3-1 count to Cubs leadoff hitter Stan Hack in the 1st.

1939: Phils claim Gene Schott P on waivers from the Reds

1947: Phils release Rollie Hemsley C

1947: Happy 61st Birthday Larry Hisle 1968- 71 Phillies OF 314 games; 1977-78 AL All-Star



1965: At Shea Stadium, Jim Bunning homers off of Warren Spahn for the only run in the Phils 1-0 win over the Mets. He also throws a complete game, five strikeout, and four hit shutout. Bunning's career record against the Mets is now -six starts, six complete games, six wins, three shutouts, and four earned runs in 54 innings.



1969: Phils trade Don Lock OF to the Red Sox for Rudy Schlesinger OF

1974: Rest in Peace Vitautis Casimirus 'Vito' Tamulis 1941 Phillies P 6 games

1986: Phils sign Lary Sorensen P as a free agent

1999: Phils trade Paul Spoljaric P to the Blue Jays for Robert Person P

2006: At Citizens Bank Park, Omar Vizquel of the San Francisco Giants played his 2,302nd game at shortstop, catching Cal Ripken, Jr. for third-most all time. Vizquel is now behind Hall of Famers Luis Aparicio (2,581) and Ozzie Smith (2,511).

Other Baseball History-

1898: Baltimore manager Ned Hanlon sends a nasty letter to the league president, Nick Young, for scheduling a single game in New York. The Orioles arrived for the game, but were rained out, and Hanlon paid for the futile trip "without receiving a penny."

1900: Chicago's Jimmy Ryan leads off against Cincinnati Reds pitcher Noodles Hahn by lining a home run, the 20th time he he's hit a leadoff round tripper. The Colts win, 4-3.

1901: At Milwaukee, the White Sox jump to a 4-1 lead over the Brewers before the hosts roar back against Roy Patterson, scoring eight runs in the 4th on their way to a 21-7 win. The Sox make just three hits. Patterson, meanwhile faces 57 batters, 53 official at bats-both major league records-and is pasted for 25 hits. Patterson, the pitcher who won the first AL game to weeks ago, will give up 345 hits this season, a distant 2nd to Baltimore's Joe McGinnity.



1904: Boston ace Cy Young hurls a perfect game against the Philadelphia Athletics. Young outduels another future Hall of Famer, Rube Waddell, winning 3-0. It's the first perfect game since the rules change that moved the pitching mound to 60 feet, six inches away from home plate. Young will eventually complete 24 straight hitless innings, still the record, and 45 shutout innings in a row, a record until broken by Jack Coombs' 53 scoreless frames in 1910.

1909: The Pirates move into first place to stay in the NL. The Tigers will lead all the way in the AL, except for one week in May and two in mid-August.

1910: P Cy Morgan and 2B Eddie Collins of the Athletics and P Dixie Walker and C Gabby Street of the Senators handle all the assists in the 10-1 Philadelphia victory.

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1917: Browns' hurler Ernie Koob no-hits Ed Cicotte and the White Sox, 1-0, thanks to a scorer's decision turning Buck Weaver's first inning questionable hit into an error



1922: Bob "Fats" Fothergill becomes the first - and only - man to pinch-hit for the legendary Ty Cobb. Fothergill is actually inserted into the game by Cobb, who is the player/manager of the Detroit Tigers. Fothergill strikes out in the historic at-bat.

1922: The Giants evict their American League tenants as of the end of the year, so the Yankees sign a contract to build their own $750,000 stadium on a site they had held an option on since 1920.

1925: 38-year-old Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers hits three home runs against the St. Louis Browns. Cobb's explosion comes as part of a six-hit day, helping the Tigers to a 14-8 win over St. Louis. Cobb also ties a modern record with 16 total bases. The next day, Cobb will blast two more homers to set a record for homers in back-to-back games. Cobb's outburst of power comes after he tells sportswriters to watch what he can do if he tries to hit home runs.

1925: The longest consecutive playing streak to date ends at 1,307 as Yankee skipper Miller Huggins replaces Yankee shortstop Everett Scott with Pee Wee Wanninger. Ironically Lou Gehrig will start his streak on June 1 when he pinch-hits for Wanninger.

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1929: The Braves play their first Sunday home game in history, losing to Pittsburgh, 7-2 before 35,000. The winning pitcher is Burleigh Grimes, who helps his own cause by starting a 3rd inning triple play (1-5-2-5-4-2) on a grounder by Al Spohrer. Heinie Mueller is run down, Spohrer is caught trying to reach 2B, and Rabbit Maranville is caught trying to score. The Bucs have four triples, one each by the Waners.



1930: The Philadelphia Athletics beat the St. Louis Browns 4 - 3 in 12 innings and scored all their runs on solo home runs. Al Simmons' leadoff home run in the bottom of the 12th made Lefty Grove a winner over General Crowder, as both starters went all the way. Joe Boley with two homers and Mule Haas with one provided the other Athletics runs, a record to date in the American League. The New York Giants will score five runs on solos five weeks from now.



1934: With the Red Sox leading 9-3 against the Browns, Lefty Grove makes his first appearance in a Boston uniform, and bombs. He gives up three hits and two walks, five earned runs, without retiring a batter.

1935: Thirty thousand fans are on hand in Boston to watch two superstars face each other-the Cardinals with young Dizzy Dean on the mound against the Braves with 40-year-old Babe Ruth. Diz walks Ruth his first two times up, then with two strikes on the Bambino, Dean waves his outfielders back and pipes a fast ball down the middle that Ruth misses. Dean wins the game, 7-0, and in his first at bat, homers over Ruth's head in right. Dean will face Ruth again on the 19th, holding the Babe hitless again, and win that game as well.



1949: Former Detroit Tigers second baseman Charlie Gehringer is elected to the Hall of Fame. "The Mechanical Man" batted over .300 in 13 seasons, including 1937, when he won the American League batting title and MVP Award.



1949: Before the start of a series with the Yanks, the White Sox abandon their trick LF fence. The 5-foot chicken wire fence, erected to cut the distance by 20 feet, resulted in 11 home runs in eight games, but opponents hit seven of them. The American League will subsequently rule that fences cannot be moved more than once a season

1955: Brooklyn Dodgers lefthander Tom Lasorda makes his first major league start. Lasorda throws three wild pitches in one inning, tying a major league record. Lasorda will enjoy far more success after his pitching career - as a Hall of Fame manager.

1962: Lefthander Robert 'Bo' Belinsky of the Los Angeles Angels fires a no-hitter against the Baltimore Orioles. Belinsky strikes out nine batters and walks four in beating fellow left-hander Steve Barber, 2-0.



1964: To foil Sadaharu Oh, the Hiroshima Carp use an exaggerated shift that places all fielders in right and center, leaving LF unguarded. Oh responds by hitting a 400-foot home run to RF.



1969: The Baseball Records Committee reverses its earlier decision and decides to stay with the pre-1920 rules on sudden death home runs. This rule stated that a team batting last in the 9th or in extra innings could not win by more than one run. Before 1920 if a player hit an outside-the-park home run with a runner(s) on base, he was not credited with a home run. Babe Ruth (July 8, 1918) and 36 other players "lost" home runs because of the ruling reversal.

1975: The Oakland A's release designated runner Herb 'Hurricane' Washington, ending his unusual major league career. Washington appeared as a pinch-runner in 105 games with the A's over two seasons, but never came to bat or played an inning in the field. Washington leaves the game with 31 stolen bases and 33 runs scored



1977: Fans at Yankee Stadium throw dozens of newly created 'Reggie' bars onto the field, halting play momentarily. Fans had been given free samples of the candy bars, which are named after New York Yankees star Reggie Jackson.

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1978: Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds collects the 3,000th hit of his career - a single to left field against Steve Rogers of the Montreal Expos. Rose becomes the 13th player in history to reach the milestone. Rose receives a five-minute standing ovation from the 37,823 fans at Riverfront Stadium



1980: For pushing his glove in the face of umpire Gerry Crawford, Pirates' infielder Bill Madlock is suspended for 15 days and fined $5,000 by National League president Chub Feeney.



1995: Thirty-four years after Don Zimmer played third base in the franchise's first game, Edgardo Alfonzo becomes the 100th player to cover the 'hot corner' in Mets history. Howard Johnson played the most games at the position appearing in 835 games over a span of 8 seasons

1996: In an interview aired tonight, Reds owner Marge Schott sticks her foot in her mouth again when she says that Hitler "was good in the beginning, but went too far." Schott's answers come in response to a question about her continued possession of a swastika. Schott's views of Hitler are almost verbatim to those she expressed in 1992, which resulted in a league fine and a year's suspension.



1999: Beating the Cubs, 13-6, the Rockies become only the third team in the 1900's to score a run in every inning. The Cardinals also accomplished the feat against the Cubs in 1964 and Giants scored in every frame against the Phillies in 1923.

2000: Cardinals' first baseman Mark McGwire hits the longest home run in the 30-year history of Riverfront Stadium/Cinergy Field, but the 473-foot shot isn't enough as Ken Griffey Jr.'s homer leads the Reds past St. Louis, 3-2.

2000: For the first time in team history, the Rangers overcome an eight-run deficit beating the A's, 17-16. The teams tie (Red Sox and A's - June 29, 1950) an American League record as 18 players score, including every starter

2000: Former Dodger skipper Tommy Lasorda is named manager of the United States' Olympic baseball team. The Hall of Fame pilot won four National League pennants and two World Series titles with Los Angeles



2004: With his 352nd round tripper as a catcher, Mike Piazza of the Mets passes Carlton Fisk for most home runs hit by a catcher. The Norristown PA native's historic 405-foot opposite field homer comes off a Jerome Williams' 3-1 fastball during the first inning of the Mets 8-2 victory at Shea Stadium.

2004: With his strike out of Raul Mondesi swinging in the fifth inning, Roger Clemens moves ahead of Steve Carlton (4,136) into second place on the career strikeouts list. Nolan Ryan is the all-time K King with 5,714 whiffs.

2007: Roger Clemens agrees to a one-year deal worth $28 million to pitch for the New York Yankees. Appearing in George Steinbrenner's private suite at Yankee Stadium during the seventh inning stretch, Clemens announces over the PA speaker in dramatic fashion that he will return to the team that he pitched for from 1999-2003. Clemens had came out of retirement in 2004 to pitch for the Houston Astros for three seasons, pitching only part of the year and not attending most of the games in which he didn't start. He receives the same conditions from the Yankees.

May 6th-

1859: Happy Birthday Washington Franklin 'Gid' Gardner 1888 Phillies 2B 1 game

1918: Brooklyn's Dan Griner has a no-hitter with two outs in the 9th, but gives up a hit to Phillie Gavvy Cravath. He nevertheless wins 2-0.

1926: The Reds use a ML record-tying eight sacrifices in a 14-4 win over the visiting Phillies.

1941: Phils trade Vito Tamulis P to the Dodgers for Lee Grissom P

1946: Rest in Peace Bill Deitrick 1927-28 Phillies OF/SS 57 games

1953: Happy Birthday Larry Andersen 1983-86, 93-94 Phillies P 241 games; member 1983 and 1993 Phillies NL Pennant winning teams



1956: Cincinnati Reds outfielder Gus Bell hit home runs off Bob Miller in both ends of a doubleheader against the Phils at Crosley Field. Cincinnati won 10 - 2 and 11 - 9.

1966: In the 11th inning, Phils score five runs and the Pirates score four setting an NL record for total runs scored in that inning. Phils win 8-7.

1974: A crowd of only 4,149 spectators, smallest in Vet history, turn out to watch Steve Carlton and the Phils lose to the Padres 7-6.

1979: Rest in Peace Charlie Ripple 1944-46 Phillies P 11 games

1991: Phils Lenny Dykstra and Darren Daulton are injured in a late night car accident after their vehicle skidded across the road and smashed into a large tree in Wayne PA. The two players were attending a bachelor party for John Kruk. Dykstra, who is charged with driving under the influence, suffers three broken ribs, a broken collarbone, and a broken cheekbone, and will be sidelined until mid-July. Daulton's injuries are less severe.





1996: Phils sign Ruben Amaro OF as a free agent



2001: The Phillies score nine runs in the 2nd inning, then hold on to beat the Giants, 10-8. Pitcher Omar Daal has two hits in the big score, the first Phillies pitcher to have two hits in a frame since Dennis Cook, in 1990. In his next start on May 12, Daal will go 3-for-3.



Other Baseball History-

1892: John Clarkson and Elton "Icebox" Chamberlain pitch a 14-inning scoreless tie, finally called by Jack Sherdian because the angle of the sun was blinding both the batter and pitcher. Clarkson limits the Reds to four hits, one fewer than the Beaneaters can manage off of Chamberlain. The Cincinnati Enquirer states that calling a game "on account of the sun" a good one. "His decision, while it may appear ridiculous on the face of it, was, strange to relate, a just and sensible one."





1902: A circuit court in St. Louis rules that the NL reserve clause is unfairly restrictive on three defectors who jumped to the Browns. Inability to retrieve jumpers gives the NL a strong push to reconcile differences with the AL

1903: The White Stockings commit 12 errors, and the Tigers commit 6, for a modern major-league record by two teams in one game. Sox shortstop Lee Tannehill leads the way with four errors, while 3rd sacker Frank Isbell and Patsy Flaherty check in with three apiece. Trailing 9-7 in the 9th inning, Chicago salvages a 10-9 victory for Flaherty over Mal Eason.

1913: Better organized and financed than other aspiring circuits, the Federal League opens modestly and quietly, with clubs in Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Covington, KY. No attempt is made to sign established ML players. Cy Young manages Cleveland, Deacon Phillippe manages Pittsburgh. After a 6-week season, the pennant winner is Indianapolis.

1914: Pittfed's Ed Lennox collects the only Federal League cycle in a 10-4 win over Kansas City.

1915: Boston Red Sox rookie Babe Ruth hits his first major league home run. Ruth connects against Jack Warhop of the New York Yankees at the Polo Grounds. Ruth will go on to hit 714 home runs, a mark that will stand until surpassed by Hank Aaron.



1917: Bob Groom of the Browns duplicated teammate Ernie Koob's feat of the previous day by pitching a 3-0 no-hitter against the Chicago White Sox in the second game of a doubleheader in St. Louis.

1925: Ty Cobb hits his fifth home run in two games tying 1884 Cap Anson's record.

1929: The American League announces that it will discontinue the MVP award. The National League will abandon it after this year; in 1931 the Baseball Writers Association will pick it up and conduct the balloting from then on.

1934: At Fenway, the Red Sox hit four consecutive triples (Carl Reynolds, Moose Solters, Rick Ferrell and Bucky Walters) en route to a 14-4 win over the Tigers.

1931: Future Hall of Famer Willie Mays is born in Westfield, Alabama. After a brief career in the Negro Leagues, Mays will make his major league debut with the New York Giants in 1951. During a 22-year career, Mays will bat .302 and hit 660 home runs, the third highest total in the major leagues.

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1933: The Reds sign Jack Quinn, 49. Quinn is the oldest to ever play for the Reds. For Quinn, it is his 8th team, tying him with Jim Delahanty for most teams played for, a record that will be topped.

1936: Jimmie Foxx hits his 7th and 8th homers of the season as Wes Ferrell beats the St. Louis Browns, 9-6, to keep the Red Sox in first place.

1940: Two ML records are set as Pittsburgh uses 24 players and both clubs use 40 as the Boston Bees win in 12 innings, 10-7.

1941: The Brooklyn Dodgers acquire future Hall of Fame second baseman Billy Herman from the Chicago Cubs for outfielder Charlie Gilbert, infielder Johnny Hudson, and cash. Herman, struggling with a .194 batting average, will hit .291 for the Dodgers over the balance of the season.



1941: Hank Greenberg makes his last game before entering the U.S. military a memorable one. The future Hall of Famer hits two home runs and drives in three, helping the Detroit Tigers to a 7-4 win over the New York Yankees

1949: Bobby Shantz makes a sensational debut, tossing nine hitless innings in relief in a 13-inning, 5-4, Athletics' win over the Tigers. Shantz finally gives up two hits and a run in the 13th, but old-timer Wally Moses, now back with the A's, saves him with a 2-run home run in the bottom of the 13th.



1951: Cliff Chambers of the Pittsburgh Pirates throws a no-hitter against the Boston Braves, despite walking eight batters and throwing a wild pitch. Chambers, who earns a 3-0 victory, becomes only the second Pirate pitcher to hurl a no-hitter.

1951: Boom Boom Beck, 46-year-old coach for the Toledo Mud Hens, takes the mound in the Game One of a twinbill against Minneapolis (AA) and wins 10-2. The victory gives the former major leaguer an overall pro mark of 236-236.

1953: St. Louis Browns pitcher Bobo Holloman, making his first big league start, twirls a no-hitter against the Philadelphia A's. Holloman becomes only the third pitcher in history to fire a no-hitter in his initial major league start. Holloman will win only two more games during a brief one-year career.

1958: Giant Mike McCormick, 19, shuts out Pittsburgh 7-0 on three infield singles. Orlando Cepeda's first-inning home run helps put the game away.

1968: Giants' reliever Lindy McDaniel sets a National League record playing his 225th consecutive game without committing an error. The streak includes 108 chances handled successfully since June 16, 1964.

1974: A's pitcher Paul Linblad's major league streak of 385 consecutive errorless games ends when he makes an errant throw in a 6-3 loss to the Orioles.

1982: Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry enters the exclusive 300-win circle by beating the New York Yankees, 7-3, at the Seattle Kingdome. The Seattle Mariners' righthander becomes the first pitcher to notch his 300th win since Early Wynn of the Indians in 1963



1983: In a 4-2 California victory over Detroit at Tiger Stadium, Rod Carew, with his 3-for-4 performance, raises his present batting average to .500 (48-for 96). The Angels' first baseman will finish the season at .339, second best the AL as Wade Boggs leads the league with .361 pace.



1994: Anthony Young won as a starter for the first time in more than two years as the Chicago Cubs beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 10-1. The win ended Young's 29-game losing streak as a starter.

1998: Chicago Cubs rookie Kerry Wood ties a major league record by striking out 20 batters in a 2-0 shutout of the Houston Astros. Wood's performance sets a new National League record for a nine-inning game, while tying Roger Clemens' mark for most K's in a nine-inning game.



2001: The Yanks tie a major-league record by starting the season 13-0 against below .500 teams, matching a mark set by the 1902 Pirates and the 1966 Indians.

2005: In a 6-5 win over the Cardinals, Trevor Hoffman becomes the third closer in major league history to save 400 games The Padres reliever joins Lee Smith (478) and John Franco (424) as the other bullpen artists who have also reached this milestone



2007: Hideki Matsui doubles to left in an at-bat against Jarrod Washburn. It his 2,000th hit between MLB and NPB and makes him the 46th member of the meikyukai.

The Meikyukai is sometimes called one of the Japanese baseball Hall of Fame but this designation is not technically correct as the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame is the lone such institution. To be honored as part of the Meikyukai, a player has to reach the 2,000-hit plateau, 200 career victories or 250 saves in Nippon Pro Baseball and Major League Baseball. Occasionally, other players can be added who have not reached any of those levels - for instance, Yutaka Fukumoto was added when he reached 800 career steals (he later accumulated 2,000 hits). Some gaijin who have reached the level have not been added to the Meikyukai. Hiromitsu Ochiai is the only player to turn down membership (as he felt the guidelines were too arbitrary) while Yutaka Enatsu gave up his membership due to a drug scandal.

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May 7th-

1880: Happy Birthday Michael Joseph 'Doc' 'Mickey' Doolan 1905-13 Phillies SS 1301 games



1896: Happy Birthday Jonathan Thompson Walton 'Tom' Zachary 1936 Phillies P 8 games; member 1924 Senators World Series winning team, 1925 Senators AL Pennant winning team, and 1928 Yankees World Series winning team

1903: At the Polo Grounds, Giants 1B Dan McGann steals four bases to lead New York to an 8-4 win over the Phillies. Christy Mathewson beats the Phils for the 2nd time in a week, scattering nine hits. Teammate Iron Joe McGinnity, a bench spectator, is tossed in the 8th inning by umpire August Moran for mouthing off too much.

1909: Happy Birthday Edward Burlton 'Ed' 'The Wild Elk of the Wasatch' Heusser 1938, 48 Phillies P 34 games

1922: Giants Jesse Barnes pitches a no-hitter against the Phils at the Polo Grounds. The Phils lose 6-0. Cy Williams is the only Phillie to get on base; he earns a walk in the top of the fifth. Williams is erased on a DP and Barnes faces just 27 batters in the no-hitter. Lee Meadows takes the loss

1925: Phils vs. Giants game at the Baker Bowl is postponed due to rain, the eighth consecutive Phils game to be postponed.

1926: At Crosley Field, Chuck Dressen's 4th hit of the game, in the Reds 3-run 9th, drives in the winning run in a 6-5 win over the Phils.

1930: Chick Hafey has five RBI in the 5th inning as the Cards beat the Phils 16-11 to move out of the cellar and begin the climb to an eventual pennant. Pete Alexander makes his first appearance against his old mates and is hit hard. The loss drops the Phils to last place, while the Cards head the other way

1932: A rare dual league doubleheader takes place at Forbes Field. In the first game the Pirates play the Phillies, losing 5-3. In the nitecap, the local Negro League Homestead Grays take on the Philadelphia Hilldales.

1934: The Cubs Bill Lee makes his first major-league start, stopping the Phillies, 2-0.

1935: Phils sell Phil Collins P to the Cardinals

1935: Rest in Peace Sid Farrar 1883-89 Phillies 1B 816 games



1941: At Philadelphia, Cubs pitcher Bill Lee cracks a pair of homers while pitching Chicago to an 11-2 win over the Phils. Bill Crouch takes the loss.

1946: Phils release Merrill Glend 'Pinky' May 3B/SS



1955: Behind Carl Erskine, the Dodgers beat Robin Roberts and the Phils, 6-3, for their 9th straight win. All the Phils scoring is on solo homers -- two by Willie Jones and one by Del Ennis. For the Phils, it is their 8th loss in a row while the Dodgers have now won 20 out of 22 games. The game is almost forfeited in the 7th after plate ump Art Gore chases Roberts, Earl Torgeson, and Jack Meyer from the Phils bench. Fans rain dozens of beer cans down on Gore and fellow ump Jocko Conlan.

1958: Phils sign free agent Dennis Bennett P minors

1959: Phils return Al Schroll P to the Red Sox

1960: At the LA Memorial Coliseum, Phils and Dodgers are tied 2-2 in the bottom of the 11th when Dodger pinch hitter Norm Sherry homers off of Phils Ruben Gomez with 2 outs to get the win for the Dodgers 3-2. Reliever Larry Sherry, brother of Norm, gets the win.

1961: At Connie Mack Stadium, the Phils outhit the Giants, but first place SF wins, 7?0, behind Billy Loes. Three of the Giants six hits off Robin Roberts are home runs.



1975: Phils send Jim Essian C, Barry Bonnell OF and $150,000 to the Braves for Dick Allen 1B and Johnny Oates C. Allen had refused to report to the Braves after being acquired in an off-season deal with the Chicago White Sox.

1982: Keith Moreland has two home runs and seven RBI to power the Cubs to a 12?6 win over the Phils.

1986: Back problems force Phils Garry Maddox CF to retire at age 36.

Thus ends a 14-year career in which the last 11 seasons were spent with the Phils, who obtained him for popular first baseman Willie Montanez in a then- controversial 1975 trade with the San Francisco Giants.
Maddox went on to win eight Gold Gloves for defensive excellence - more than any other National League outfielders except Hall of Famers Roberto Clemente and Willie Mays. He was the outfield glue for the finest teams in the Phillies' history, with the pinnacle being reached in 1980, when he knocked in the winning run and caught the final out of the pennant-clinching victory in Houston.

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1987: Rest in Peace Walter William 'Boom-Boom' 'Elmer the Great' Beck 1939-43 Phillies P 148 games



1999: The Rockies defeat the Phillies, 8-1. In the process, they tie an NL record by extending their scoring streak to 14 straight innings before Curt Schilling stops them in the 2nd frame.

2006: Rest in Peace Jeffrey Lynn 'Jeff' 'Jesse' James 1968-69 Phillies P 35 games

2006: As Barry Bonds takes up his position in left field, the Phillies fans in the stands behind him unfurl a section-long banner which leaves no doubt about their sentiments concerning the Giants' outfielder pursuit of the Babe. The most noticeable banner was draped across left field and grew in cleverness by the day. It read: "Ruth did it on hot dogs & Beer. Aaron did it with class. How did YOU do it?" Bonds later said the abuse was "nothing." Bonds hits his 713 career home run off of Phils pitcher 'Fritz' Lieber in the 6th inning. Phils win the game 9-5.

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Other Baseball History-

1880: George Gore of Chicago goes 6-for-6'all singles'with five runs scored as the White Stockings trounce Cincinnati 20-7. Gore will lead the National League in batting with a .360 average.

1894: Baltimore (National League) routs the Washington Senators 17-0 for Baltimore's only shutout of the season. Tony Mullane is the winner over Al Maul, the 2nd time Al has been on the short end of a lopsided mauling (August 29, 1890).

1896: Boston scores in all eight innings in a 17-1 rout of the hapless Colonels, who help to dig their own grave by committing 10 errors.

1902: Elmer Flick signs with Cleveland. Sporting Life says that A's officials "presumably consented" to the move.



1906: Umpire Tim Hurst strikes New York Highlander manager Clark Griffith in the mouth. Hurst is suspended for five days.



1906: Detroit Tigers P Bill Donovan steals 2B, 3B, and-on the front end of a double steal-takes home in the 5th inning of an 8-3 victory over Cleveland. He also slugs a triple. Donovan swiped home against Cleveland last year as well.

1917: Boston Red Sox lefthander Babe Ruth outduels Washington Senators star Walter Johnson in a matchup of future Hall of Famers. Ruth allowed only two hits as he outpitched Johnson. Ruth knocks in the only run of the Red Sox' 1-0 victory with a sacrifice fly

1925: Pittsburgh shortstop Glenn Wright made an unassisted triple play in the ninth inning against the St. Louis Cardinals when he caught Jim Bottomley's line drive, stepped on second to double Jimmy Cooney, and tagged Rogers Hornsby coming from first. The play involves two future Hall of Famers



1927: At Comiskey Park, Lou Gehrig christens the new RF pavilion by parking a 9th inning grand slam there, off Ted Lyons. It's the 1st homer in the remodeled park. The Yankees coast to an 8?0 win behind Herb Pennock.

1928: Trailing the Browns 15-1, the Senators let reliever Clay Van Alstyne bat in the 9th inning, Clay had earlier scored the only Nats run and responds with his first ML home run, a solo shot. It is also his last home run and his last at bat.

1929: Yankee southpaw Tom Zachary wins a 6-5 game in relief at St. Louis, the first of his 12 wins without a loss for the year, a ML record. No pitcher will have a better season without losing a game. His batterymate, rookie Bill Dickey, helps out with his first major league homer, off General Crowder.

1940: The Brooklyn Dodgers become the first National League team to fly when they travel by air to Chicago from St. Louis.

1941: The Pittsburgh Pirates trade future Hall of Famer Lloyd Waner to the Boston Braves for pitcher Nick Strincevich. Although Waner will hit .412 in 19 games, the Braves will trade him to the Cincinnati Reds on June 12.

1941: At the Polo Grounds, Reds SS Eddie Joost accepts a record 19 chances as Cincinnati edges New York, 1-0. In addition to his 10 assists and nine putouts, Joost has a throwing error and the game's only stolen base. Ernie Lombardi's homer accounts for the only run as Bucky Walters is the winner over Prince Hal Schumacher in a battle of veterans. Both pitchers keep the ball down and each outfield accounts for a single flyout, tying the ML mark for fewest chances by two teams.



1956: The future National League president, Bill White of the NY Giants, homers, off Ben Flowers, in his first time up in the ML. But the Giants lose to St. Louis, 6-3 at the Polo Grounds.

1957: Cleveland pitcher Herb Score was hit on the right eye by a line drive off the bat of Gil McDougald in the first inning. The ball broke Score's nose and damaged his eye; he missed the rest of the season. Although Score will make a comeback, he will never be the dominating pitcher had been prior to the injury.

1959: The largest crowd in major league history, 93,103, came to the Los Angeles Coliseum on "Roy Campanella Night" to show their affection for the paralyzed Dodger catcher. The Dodgers were beaten by the New York Yankees, 6-2, in an exhibition game that followed the ceremonies. Even though the game is only an exhibition, the record crowd honors the former star, whose career was ended by an auto accident.



1960: Eddie Bressoud's 3-run home run -- a 397-foot, inside-the-park shot off Harvey Haddix -- highlights a 6-run rally as the Giants edge Pittsburgh 6-5 at Candlestick Park. San Francisco ties a major-league record and sets a National League record by having left just two men on base in two consecutive games (16 innings), while winning both.

1960: Takehiko Bessho becomes the winningest pitcher in Japan as his Tokyo Giants beat the Hanshin Tigers 6-3. Bessho has 302 wins, one more than Victor Starfin.

1966: After only four victories in the first twenty games, Yankee skipper Johnny Keane is fired and is replaced by the team's general manager and former skipper, Ralph Houk.

1966: San Francisco sets a modern National League record (for the inning) by scoring 13 runs in the 3rd inning en route to a 15-2 win at St. Louis. The 13 runs are also the most scored in the 3rd inning by two teams.

1970: Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Wes Parker completed the cycle by hitting a triple in the tenth inning to beat the New York Mets, 7 - 4, at Shea Stadium. Parker became the first Dodger to hit for the cycle since Gil Hodges did it with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1949.

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1991: Darryl Strawberry returns to New York as a Dodger with mixed results. A crowd of 49,118 mostly booing fans watch him hit a two-run home run, and they cheer when he makes the last out of the game with the potential tying and winning runs on base in the 6-5 Met victory.

1995: Rest in Peace David Russell 'Gus' Bell Jr. at the age of 66; 1950-64 Pirates, Redlegs, Reds, Mets, and Braves OF 15 years 1,741 games; 1953,54, 56, 57 NL All-Star, member 1961 Reds NL Pennant winning team; father of Buddy Bell and grandfather of David Bell 2003-06 Phillies 3B/2B 470 games. As the patriarch of a three-generation baseball family, Gus Bell reached the 100-RBI mark four times while starring for the Cincinnati Reds. His son, Buddy, and his grandsons, David and Mike, later played in the major leagues

1995: Atlanta manager Bobby Cox is arrested by police at his home, and jailed overnight, as he is charged with simple battery. He is accused of punching his wife and pulling her hair. The couple will appear together at a news conference to deny that he assaulted her. Mrs. Cox called police to request their help in breaking up an argument.

1996: Eric Anthony and Eric Davis hit back-to-back homers in the 12th inning off reliever Todd Worrell to give host Cincinnati a 3-2 win over the Dodgers



1997: Former Tiger star Denny McLain is sentenced to eight years in prison and ordered to pay $2.5 million in restitution for stealing from the pension fund of a company he owned. The company, Peet Packing, went bankrupt 18 months after McLain bought it.

1997: The Expos score a National League-record 13 runs in the 6th inning of their game against the Giants on the way to a 19-3 win. The Expos send 17 batters to the plate. Mike Lansing homers twice in the inning to drive in five runs, becoming the 3rd Expo to perform the feat, and the 1st NL second baseman to do so since Bobby Lowe in 1894. Henry Rodriguez hits a grand slam in the 5-run 5th.

1998: The Tigers sweep a series (of any length) in Oakland for the first time ever, coming back to beat the A's 6-3. The Tigers sweep the 2-game series with the 3rd game rained out. The last road sweep for Detroit against the A's was in 1965, in Kansas City.

1999: In a 7-1 victory over the A's, Carlos Lee becomes the first White Sox to homer in his first major league at-bat.



1999: In the biggest comeback in Jacobs Field history, the Indians score 18 runs in the final three innings to overcome a 9-1 deficit to beat the Devil Rays, 20-11. Tampa Bay's first baseman Fred McGriff sets a major league record by homering in his 34th park.

1999: Rookie Bruce Aven hits the first pinch-hit grand slam in Marlin history helping Florida beat the Dodgers, 6-3.

1999: Yankee Hideki Irabu opposes Matt Suzuki in the first match up of Japanese starters in major league history.

1999: The Rockies, by scoring in the first inning on a Larry Walker two-out homer tie a National League record established by the 1894 Pirates and 1949 Giants scoring in 14 consecutive innings, The major league mark is 17 set by the 1903 Red Sox.

2000: The Twins whitewash the Tigers, 4-0, as manager Tom Kelly gets his 1,000th career win. He is the 46th skipper to reach the milestone.

2002: A collector from Pennsylvania buys Shoeless Joe Jackson's famous bat, Black Betsy, for $577,610, believed to be the highest price ever paid for a bat

2003: Seventy-nine year old Wayne Terwilliger, skipper of the Central Baseball League's Fort Worth Cats, becomes the oldest manager in minor-league history. Only Connie Mack is ahead of 'Twig' in being the eldest dugout leader ever in professional baseball.



2003: A man wanted by the police on drug and parole-violations is apprehended at the Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati. The 24-year-old Westwood man's cover was blown when his parole officer saw him kissing his girlfriend on the stadium's scoreboard during Kiss Cam.

2005: At the age of 46 years and 257 days old, Julio Franco of the Atlanta Braves becomes the second-oldest player to homer in big league history. Jack Quinn, a pitcher who accomplished the feat when he was 100 days older, hit a home run for the A's on June 27, 1930.

2006: With a 8-5 victory over the Rangers, Joe Torre joins Joe McCarthy (1,460); Casey Stengel (1,149) and Miller Huggins (1,067) as the fourth Yankee manager win a 1000 games. The Yankee skipper has compiled a 1,000-645 record during his 11-year tenure with the team.

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1858: Happy Birthday Dennis Joseph 'Big Dan' Brouthers 1896 Phillies 1B 57 games



1893: Happy Birthday Edson 'Ed' Hemingway 1918 Phillies 2B/3B/1B 33 games

1896: In the top of the 9th inning, Phils 3B Billy Nash starts to argue with the umpire over a called strike. Clark Griffith throws a pitch in the midst of the argument which nicks Nash's bat, resulting in a DP. Griffith's quick thinking helps the Chicago Colts take a 5-3 victory.



1899: Happy Birthday Frank 'Fritz' Henrich, died in Philadelphia and buried in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery; 1924 Phillies OF 36 games

1902: Bill Duggleby, the first jumper to return to the Phillies, loses, 2-1, to St. Louis. Returnee Chick Fraser will win his first start on May 23rd, 5-2 over Chicago. Harry Wolverton will return after 59 games with the Washington Nationals. All others will remain with their new teams. Of all those that the Athletics acquired, only Monte Cross stays.

1911: Phils Pete Alexander records his first shut out, stopping Brooklyn 5-0 on three hits. Pete fans nine to run his record to 3-1.

1934: Phils trade Ted Kleinhans P and Wes Schulmerich OF to the Reds for Syl Johnson P and Johnny Moore OF

1935: Reds backstop Ernie Lombardi equals the major-league record with four straight doubles, all in consecutive innings (6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th) and each off a different pitcher: Syl Johnson, Orville Jorgens, Euel Moore, and Franklin Pearce. The slow-footed Lombardi also has a "long single" in the 23-hit, 15-4 win over the Phillies in game 1. The Reds collect seven doubles and two homers. In the nitecap, the Phils snap their nine game losing streak with a 5-4 victory.

1939: Chuck Klein hits a pinch triple with the bases loaded off the Reds Johnny Vander Meer, and the Phils win 8-7.

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1939: Phils assign Eddie Feinberg SS/2B/OF to the White Sox

1940: Rest in Peace Charles Carrolton 'Chick' Fraser 1899-1900, 1902-04 Phillies P/3B/OF 174 games



1945: Phils trade Buster Adams OF to the Cardinals for John Antonelli 3B/2B/2B/SS and Glenn Crawford OF/SS/2B

1948: An infield single by Johnny Blatnik of the Phillies in the 7th prevents a perfect game by Harry Brecheen of the Cardinals. Brecheen will become the National League ERA leader with 2.24 and the winning percentage leader on a 20-7 record. The Cards win 5-0 and Brecheen scores his 3rd straight shutout.



1949: In Philadelphia, the Reds score five in the 9th to take a 7-3 lead, but the Phils tie to go into extra innings. Cincinnati then scores seven runs in the 12th to win, 147.

1962: Phils sell Billy Consolo SS/2B/3B to the Angels

1963: Indians return Bob Lipski C to the Phils

1967: Phils purchase Turk Farrell P from the Astros

1971: At Philadelphia, Joe Morgan has four hits, steals two bases, and scores three runs to lead Houston to an 8-1 win over the Phils. Winning P Don Wilson knocks in two runs with a bunt double that rolls past SS Larry Bowa, who is breaking for 3B.

1973: Phils release Dick Selma P



1991: Expos return Nikco Riesgo OF to the Phils

Other Baseball History-

1878: Providence Grays CF Paul Hines catches a fly by Jack Burdock and starts a triple play, racing in to touch third before Jack Manning could return, then throwing to second to nab Ezra Sutton. Some eyewitnesses contend that Sutton had passed third and was out when Hines touched the base, making it the only unassisted triple play by an outfielder. This contradicted the version by Manning, Jim O'Rourke and others present, which has been accepted generally as the correct account.

1901: In their long-delayed A.L. home opener, Boston defeats Philadelphia 12-4 behind Cy Young, who has jumped from the St. Louis N.L. team. He will lead the A.L. with his 1.62 ERA and 33 wins, which are 41.8 percent of his team's 79 victories. This post-1900 record will stand until Steve Carlton totals 45.8 percent of the Phillies' 59 wins in 1972.



1901: In a letter to AL team owners, Ban Johnson says that the rule requiring clubs to cut their players to 14 will not be enforced until May 20th.

1902: Chicago again tops the Giants, winning 10-4. Cubs manager Frank Selee comments that the distance from the pitcher's mound to the plate looks short. Horace Fogel, the Giants manager, measures the distance and finds the lane is 15 inches short. New York protests and it is upheld on June 3rd. The two games are ordered replayed.

1906: With the A's shorthanded because of injuries, Connie Mack puts pitcher Alvin "Chief" Bender in left field in the sixth inning of a game against the Boston Pilgrims. Bender hits two inside-the-park home runs. Bender will hit just three more homers in his 16-year career.



1907: Boston's Big Jeff Pfeffer threw a no-hitter to give the Braves a 6-0 victory over the Cincinnati Reds in Boston.

1912: The Pittsburgh Filipinos, of the newly formed United States League, opens the season at vacant Exposition Park. The team is named after its veteran Deacon Phillippe, former Pirates star. The USL has promised not to sign current major leaguers, but will not last through June.

1914: When the Senators relieve with Walter Johnson, the A's greet him with six runs in three innings to drive the Big Train from the mound. Johnson throw the one and only beanball of his career, a fast ball at the head of Frank "Home Run" Baker, a particular nemesis of Johnson's. The beanball misses Baker, whom Johnson calls "the most dangerous batter that I ever faced." Baker had hit .385 against the Nats ace up till this game (4 seasons); he'll hit just .207 off him in the next nine years. When the dust settles, the game ends in a 9?9 tie.