Schoolboy Rowe’s launches a batting practice bomb into the Polo Grounds’ center-field bleachers, a feat never before performed

Schoolboy Rowe’s launches a batting practice bomb into the Polo Grounds’ center-field bleachers, a feat never before performed

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Prior to a pre-season contest in New York, (and exactly one week before Schoolboy Rowe’s official major league debut), the highly touted Tigers pitching prospect launches a batting practice bomb into the Polo Grounds’ center-field bleachers, a feat never before performed since the stadium’s 1923 reconfiguration. It will be more than 15 years—July 18, 1948, to be precise—before Rowe’s feat is finally matched in the course of a game, by Negro Leaguer Luke Easter, and roughly 20—i.e. April 29, 1953—before the first major league version, courtesy of Joe Adcock.

Harry Heilmann and Frank O’Rourke of the Milwaukee Brewers during spring training in Hot Springs, Arkansas
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Harry Heilmann and Frank O’Rourke of the Milwaukee Brewers during spring training in Hot Springs, Arkansas

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Rogers Hornsby, out of baseball since being fired as Cubs manager last August, joins the St. Louis Cardinals

Rogers Hornsby, out of baseball since being fired as Cubs manager last August, joins the St. Louis Cardinals

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Rogers Hornsby, out of baseball since being fired as Cubs manager last August, joins the St. Louis Cardinals in spring training as a player. Hornsby will return to second base after a six-year absence from St. Louis.

During an exhibition game in Los Angeles, CA, a significant earthquake sends the Chicago Cubs and New York Giants scurrying to second base until the tremors stop.

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During an exhibition game in Los Angeles, CA, a significant earthquake sends the Chicago Cubs and New York Giants scurrying to second base until the tremors stop.