On his 34th birthday, Ty Cobb signs to manage the Tigers for $32,500.
1920 – On his 34th birthday, Ty Cobb signs to manage the Tigers for $32,500.
Brooklyn trades Rube Marquard to the Reds for Dutch Ruether. The Robin’s southpaw fell in displeasure with the team after being arrested in a Cleveland hotel lobby before Game 4 for scalping World Series tickets worth $52.80 for $400 to a city police detective.
Brooklyn trades Rube Marquard to the Reds for Dutch Ruether. The Robin’s southpaw fell in displeasure with the team after being arrested in a Cleveland hotel lobby before Game 4 for scalping World Series tickets worth $52.80 for $400 to a city police detective.
History of the World Series – 1920
When Brooklyn and Cleveland squared off on Sunday, October 10, the Series — another best-of-nine test — was tied at two victories apiece. Indians righthander Stan Coveleski had throttled the National Leaguers on five hits in both Games 1 and 4, winning 3-1 and 5-1 decisions (in the latter contest, Leon Cadore, who had pitched…
future Hall of Famer Stan Musial is born in Donora, Pennsylvania
On November 21, 1920, future Hall of Famer Stan Musial is born in Donora, Pennsylvania. Musial will make his major league debut 21 years later. Ironically, another standout player – Ken Griffey, Jr.– will be born in Donora exactly 49 years to the day after Musial’s birth.
Stan Musial Stats & Facts
Stan Musial Positions: Outfielder and First Baseman Bats: Left • Throws: Left 6-0, 175lb (183cm, 79kg) Born: November 21, 1920 in Donora, PA Died: January 19, 2013 in Ladue, MO Buried: Forever Bellerive Cemetery, Creve Coeur, MO High School: Donora HS (Donora, PA) Debut: September 17, 1941 (7,285th in MLB history) vs. BSN 4 AB, 2 H, 0 HR, 2 RBI, 0 SB Last Game: September 29, 1963 vs. CIN 3 AB, 2 H, 0…
Owners unanimously elect Kenesaw Mountain Landis for seven years
1920 – Owners unanimously elect Kenesaw Mountain Landis chairman for seven years. The owners’ action comes in direct response to the Black Sox Scandal, which threatens the integrity of the game. Landis accepts, but only as sole Commissioner with final authority over the players and owners, while remaining a federal judge (with his $7,500 federal salary deducted from the baseball salary of $50,000).
At a meeting to depose Ban Johnson as the American League president, a new 12-team National League is proposed
1920 – At a meeting to depose Ban Johnson as the American League president, a new 12-team National League, made up of the dissenting 11 teams plus one of the five teams loyal to Johnson, is agreed to. John Heydler will be its president and federal judge Kenesaw Landis the proposed chairman of the new commission. This revolutionary plan for a new senior circuit will be discarded a few days later, after four of the five American League clubs still backing Johnson agree to a joint meeting on November 12th in Chicago, IL.
100 Years Later: The Scandal That Rocked Baseball – The 1919 Black Sox Indictments
1920 – Eight members of the Chicago White Sox are indicted for supposedly throwing the 1919 World Series. Although considered heavy favorites to win the Series, the White Sox lost to the Cincinnati Reds in eight games in what will become known as the Black Sox Scandal.
Tris Speaker scores the only run as Duster Mails yields three hits for a 1 – 0 in Game 6 1920 World Series
1920 – In Game 6 of the World Series, Brooklyn’s P Sherry Smith gives up a 6th-inning single to Tris Speaker and double to George Burns. That’s all the scoring for the day, as Brooklyn reject Duster Mails yields three hits for a 1 – 0 win and 4-2 lead for Cleveland in the best-of-nine series.
Indians’ Bill Wambsganss becomes the only player in World Series history to complete an unassisted triple play
Indians’ Bill Wambsganss becomes the only player in World Series history to complete an unassisted triple play when he makes a leaping catch, steps on second base, and then tags the runner arriving from first base. After the play, a dead calm engulfs Cleveland’s League Park as the hometown fans try to digest what they had just witnessed.
