Cubs rookie King Cole pitches a seven-inning no-hitter for a 4 – 0 win over St. Louis. Cole will top the National League with a 20-4 record, but will have only one more winning season.

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Cubs rookie King Cole pitches a seven-inning no-hitter for a 4 – 0 win over St. Louis. Cole will top the National League with a 20-4 record, but will have only one more winning season.

The “surprise of the year,” according to Ed Bang in Sporting Life, “came on July 30th when it was announced that the Naps had secured Joe Jackson from the New Orleans Pelicans for $5,000

The “surprise of the year,” according to Ed Bang in Sporting Life, “came on July 30th when it was announced that the Naps had secured Joe Jackson from the New Orleans Pelicans for $5,000

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1910 – The “surprise of the year,” according to Ed Bang in Sporting Life, “came on July 30th when it was announced that the Naps had secured Joe Jackson from the New Orleans Pelicans for $5,000. It is believed that Connie Mack made the Naps the concession [as part of the Bris Lord-Morrie Rath trade] to allow them to purchase Jackson from New Orleans.” Jackson had been up with the A’s briefly in 1908 and 1909.

White Sox OF Patsy Dougherty breaks up Detroit’s Ed Summers’s no-hitter. It is the fourth time in his 10-year career that the .284 hitter has ruined someone’s no-hitter.

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White Sox OF Patsy Dougherty breaks up Detroit’s Ed Summers’s no-hitter. It is the fourth time in his 10-year career that the .284 hitter has ruined someone’s no-hitter.

1910 – Bugs Raymond, talented but hard-drinking spitball pitcher, walks the winning run home in New York’s fourth straight loss to the Pirates. John McGraw suspends him for the rest of the season.

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1910 – Bugs Raymond, talented but hard-drinking spitball pitcher, walks the winning run home in New York’s fourth straight loss to the Pirates. John McGraw suspends him for the rest of the season.

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On July 19, 1910, Cy Young wins his 500th game when the Naps (Indians) beat the Senators in 11 innings at American League Park, 5-2. The Nap’s down 1-0 in the 9th score 2 runs, but Young could not hold the lead as the Senators tied it at 2-2 in the bottom half of the


The legendary verse detailing the Cubs’ double-play combination of Tinker to Evers to Chance, entitled That Double Play Again, is published for the first time. When the ‘New York Evening Mail’ republishes the same poem six days later, the newspaper will use the title by which the poem is best known today, Baseball’s Sad Lexicon

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The legendary verse detailing the Cubs’ double-play combination of Tinker to Evers to Chance, entitled That Double Play Again, is published for the first time. When the ‘New York Evening Mail’ republishes the same poem six days later, the newspaper will use the title by which the poem is best known today, Baseball’s Sad Lexicon

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Addie Joss wins the last game of his career

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On July 11, 1910, Addie Joss wins the last game of his career. Troubled with arm injuries, Joss was sidelined for the last two months of the 1910 season. On April 14, 1911, he died suddenly from tubercular meningitis at the age of 31. He was elected to the HOF in 1978. @ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF90YWdzIiwic2V0dGluZ3MiOnsiYmVmb3JlIjoiTGVhcm4gTW9yZSBhYm91dCB0aGUgdGVhbXMsIHBsYXllcnMsIGJhbGwgcGFya3MgYW5kIGV2ZW50cyB0aGF0IGhhcHBlbmVkIG9uIHRoaXMgZGF0ZSBpbiBoaXN0b3J5IC0gLSAtIC0gLSAtIC0gIiwiYWZ0ZXIiOiIiLCJsaW5rX3RvX3Rlcm1fcGFnZSI6Im9uIiwic2VwYXJhdG9yIjoiIHwgIiwiY2F0ZWdvcnlfdHlwZSI6InBvc3RfdGFnIn19@ Play by