The Giants take two from Pittsburgh, winning both by 7 – 0 scores. Slim Sallee and Jeff Tesreau are the winners.
The Giants take two from Pittsburgh, winning both by 7 – 0 scores. Slim Sallee and Jeff Tesreau are the winners.
Babe Ruth fires a two-hitter, by Ty Cobb and George Burns, for a 6 – 0 win for the first place Red Sox over the Tigers. Ruth adds two hits at the plate.
Babe Ruth fires a two-hitter, by Ty Cobb and George Burns, for a 6 – 0 win for the first place Red Sox over the Tigers. Ruth adds two hits at the plate.
Carl Mays tops the St. Louis Browns, 9 – 3, for a Red Sox win. With the Browns sweeping the Yankees, Boston goes into first place.
Carl Mays tops the St. Louis Browns, 9 – 3, for a Red Sox win. With the Browns sweeping the Yankees, Boston goes into first place.
The New York Times Book Review pans Ring Lardner’s baseball novel You Know Me Al, recently published by George H. Doran Company at $1.25. The reviewer says “the author was for some time sporting writer on a Chicago newspaper, and so may be supposed to know his subject thoroughly, but for the honor of the ‘national game’ we trust that his ‘busher’ is not typical of the majority of its players […] As it contains many accounts of baseball games strung together on the thinnest possible thread of plot, it may please the ‘fans.'” Notwithstanding the poor review, the novel will be recognized in time as a classic.
The New York Times Book Review pans Ring Lardner’s baseball novel You Know Me Al, recently published by George H. Doran Company at $1.25. The reviewer says “the author was for some time sporting writer on a Chicago newspaper, and so may be supposed to know his subject thoroughly, but for the honor of the ‘national game’ we trust that his ‘busher’ is not typical of the majority of its players […] As it contains many accounts of baseball games strung together on the thinnest possible thread of plot, it may please the ‘fans.'” Notwithstanding the poor review, the novel will be recognized in time as a classic.
Tigers favorite Harry Heilmann gets an appreciative hand from the crowd for having dived into the Detroit River last night to save a woman from drowning.
Tigers favorite Harry Heilmann gets an appreciative hand from the crowd for having dived into the Detroit River last night to save a woman from drowning.
Tris Speaker has three hits against lefty Babe Ruth to finally drive him from the mound in the 8th inning
1916 – Tris Speaker has three hits against lefty Babe Ruth to finally drive him from the mound in the 8th inning. Reliever Rube Foster wild pitches home a run and Braggo Roth’s second double gives Cleveland a 5 – 3 lead. The Tribe wins it, 5 – 4, with Ruth the loser. Ruth is 2 for 4 with a two-run single.
1916 – In Toronto, ON the Red Sox play a 5 – 5 exhibition tie with the Toronto Maple Leafs. With Canada at war in Europe, two Sox players of German extraction anticipate possible adverse fan reaction; 1B Dick Hoblitzel sits out the game while Heinie Wagner plays under the name Richardson.
1916 – In Toronto, ON the Red Sox play a 5 – 5 exhibition tie with the Toronto Maple Leafs. With Canada at war in Europe, two Sox players of German extraction anticipate possible adverse fan reaction; 1B Dick Hoblitzel sits out the game while Heinie Wagner plays under the name Richardson.
7/21/1916: Brooklyn was rained out in Pittsburgh in the fourth inning. Billy Hinchman of the Pirates smashed a solo homer in the bottom of the third off Jack Coombs. In the bottom of the first frame, Max Carey was ejected by Al Orth over a call at first base.
7/21/1916: Brooklyn was rained out in Pittsburgh in the fourth inning. Billy Hinchman of the Pirates smashed a solo homer in the bottom of the third off Jack Coombs. In the bottom of the first frame, Max Carey was ejected by Al Orth over a call at first base.
Christy Mathewson, in his first game as the Reds manager, puts Edd Roush in CF, and the future star responds with a two-run triple and goes 3 for 5. But the Phils top Cincy, 6 – 4.
1916 – Christy Mathewson, in his first game as the Reds manager, puts Edd Roush in CF, and the future star responds with a two-run triple and goes 3 for 5. But the Phils top Cincy, 6 – 4.
The Tigers beat the 2nd-place Red Sox, 3 – 2, in 13 innings when Ty Cobb scores on a Ralph Young single. Cobb reaches on an infield chop and a throwing error by Babe Ruth, who takes over for Rube Foster in the 9th with the score tied, 2 – 2.
The Tigers beat the 2nd-place Red Sox, 3 – 2, in 13 innings when Ty Cobb scores on a Ralph Young single. Cobb reaches on an infield chop and a throwing error by Babe Ruth, who takes over for Rube Foster in the 9th with the score tied, 2 – 2.
