Sox and Cubs to Face off in 15 game series
On February 6, 1903– In a joint announcement, the Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox will tell the...
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | Feb 8, 2020 | Exhibition | 0 |
On February 6, 1903– In a joint announcement, the Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox will tell the...
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | Apr 4, 1982 | Exhibition, Houston Astros, This Day In Baseball | 0 |
1982 – J.R. Richard tosses one inning in an exhibition game against Toronto. It would be his last appearance as an Astro after suffering a stroke in 1980. Richard gives up no runs and no hits but walks the bases full in the 3-2 victory.
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | Apr 4, 1977 | Exhibition, Houston Astros, This Day In Baseball | 0 |
1977 – Houston bombs the Rangers in a 16-6 exhibition win in Oklahoma City. Willie Crawford drives in five runs but the moment nobody forgets is when Bob Watson doubles into a double play. Texas catcher Bill Fahey tags out both Enos Cabell and Jose Cruz at the plate.
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | Apr 5, 1976 | Exhibition | 0 |
April 5, 1976 The first professional baseball game was played in the Superdome. Unlike with...
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | Apr 10, 1965 | Exhibition | 0 |
April 10, 1965. during exhibition games before NL opener. Opponent was Baltimore Orioles; the...
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | Apr 9, 1965 | Ball Park, Exhibition, Homerun History | 0 |
On April 9, 1965, Houston begins playing in the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’, U.S. President...
Read MorePosted by Bobby | Feb 7, 1965 | Exhibition | 0 |
On February 7, 1965 Some two months before the Astrodome’s grand opening in 1965 (then known...
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | Oct 11, 1959 | Exhibition | 0 |
At Syracuse’s MacArthur Stadium, middleweight champion Carmen Basilio umpires an exhibition game between Mickey Mantle’s AL All-Stars and Willie Mays’ NL All-Star barnstorming squads. The contest, which costs only $2.50 to attend, features a home run hitting contest between Braves slugger Hank Aaron and Indians right fielder Rocky Colavito, who led the American League in home runs this season.
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | Feb 22, 1957 | Exhibition | 0 |
1957 – Walter O’Malley says the Dodgers may play 10 exhibitions in California in 1958.
Read MorePosted by Tom | Mar 3, 1956 | Exhibition | 0 |
The New York Giants and Cleveland Indians cancel an exhibition game in Meridian, Mississippi, because of mass racial violence in neighboring Alabama.
Read MorePosted by Baseball | Apr 9, 1953 | Exhibition | 0 |
Pittsburgh’s one-sided pre-season victory over the defending World Champions notwithstanding, today’s main attraction is 21-year-old Mickey Mantle, as the Yankees’ young phenom becomes just the third batter in Forbes Field’s 44-year history—after Babe Ruth in 1935 and Teddy Beard in 1950—to clear the 89-foot-high right field roof.
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | Oct 20, 1951 | Exhibition | 0 |
1951 – Joe DiMaggio accompanies Lefty O’Doul’s All-Stars on a tour of Japan. They will win 13 of the 15 games played.
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | Apr 10, 1949 | Exhibition | 0 |
Ponce De Leon Park, Atlanta, GA, April 10, 1949 – More than 25,000 baseball fans showed up...
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | Sep 28, 1947 | Exhibition | 0 |
Cy Young, Duffy Lewis, Tris Speaker, Harry Hooper and Ty Cobb pose together prior to Old...
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | Mar 8, 1947 | Exhibition, Spring training | 0 |
In front of 5,000 fans at Havana’s new Gran Estadio de La Habana, the Yankees lose to the Dodgers in extra innings, 1-0, with Snuffy Stirnweiss’s tenth-inning single accounting for the Bronx Bombers’ only hit. Pete Reiser’s long double on a 3-2 pitch off Spec Shea scores Carl Furillo, giving Brooklyn the walk-off victory in Cuba.
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | May 21, 1946 | Exhibition | 0 |
Jesse Owens beats Indians outfielder George Case in a 100-yard match race held as a promo before a...
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | Aug 26, 1943 | Exhibition | 0 |
War Bond Game, August 26, 1943, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Walter Johnson, Tris Speaker, Lefty...
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | Aug 23, 1942 | Exhibition | 0 |
Walter Johnson pitching to Babe Ruth is the pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for the New York-Washington game at Yankee Stadium that provides $80,000 for Army-Navy relief. Ruth hits the fifth pitch into the right-field stands, and then adds one more shot before circling the bases. Sixteen relief games contribute $523,000 during the season. In the doubleheader between the Senators and the Yankees, the Senators win the opener, 7 – 6 and New York cops the nitecap, 3 – 0, in 5 1/2 innings.
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | Aug 23, 1942 | Exhibition | 0 |
Walter Johnson pitching to Babe Ruth is the pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for the New York-Washington game at Yankee Stadium that provides $80,000 for Army-Navy relief. Ruth hits the fifth pitch into the right-field stands, and then adds one more shot before circling the bases. Sixteen relief games contribute $523,000 during the season. In the doubleheader between the Senators and the Yankees, the Senators win the opener, 7 – 6 and New York cops the nitecap, 3 – 0, in 5 1/2 innings.
Read MorePosted by Tom | Feb 8, 1942 | Exhibition | 0 |
1942 – At California’s Folsom prison, the annual game between major leaguers and the prison team is stopped when it is discovered that two prisoners have escaped. With the pros leading 24 – 5 at the end of seven innings, the game ends and guards go after the two lifers, who are found three hours later. The major leaguers include Ernie Lombardi, Tiny Bonham, Gus Suhr, Joe Marty, and Johnny Babich.
Read MorePosted by Tom | Mar 5, 1936 | Exhibition | 0 |
1936 – The St. Louis Cardinals – without the brothers Paul and Dizzy Dean, who are once again holdouts – visit Cuba and are beaten by the Cuban all-stars. Luis Tiant, Sr., whose son Luis Jr. will win 229 major league games, is the starting pitcher for the Cubans.
Read MorePosted by This Day in Baseball | Oct 15, 1928 | Exhibition | 0 |
On October 15, 1928 Six days after winning the World Series two of baseball’s most famous players...
Read MorePosted by Baseball | Oct 16, 1917 | Exhibition | 0 |
1917 – The day after the World Series ends, the New York Giants and Chicago White Sox play an exhibition game for 600 soldiers at Garden City, NY. Chicago wins, 6 – 4.
Read MorePosted by Tom | Dec 6, 1914 | Exhibition, Special Days | 0 |
1914 – In a vision of things to come, an indoor baseball game is played in Chicago, IL to raise money for the family of recently deceased Chicago Cubs third baseman Jim Doyle.
Read MorePosted by Tom | Feb 26, 1914 | Exhibition | 0 |
1914 – The Chicago White Sox and New York Giants play an exhibition game in front of King George V in London, England. The White Sox win the game in 11 innings on Tom Daly’s home run.
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