The 1936 season was the beginning of another Yankee dynasty as New York won the first of six championships in eight years between 1936 and 1943. This was also the rookie season of CF Joe DiMaggio, who hit .323 with 29 HR and 125 RBI as a 21-year-old budding legend. DiMaggio combined with veterans Lou Gehrig, Bill Dickey, and Tony Lazzeri to fuel an offense that scored 1065 runs. Gehrig won the AL MVP after hitting .354 with 49 homers, 152 runs batted in, and 167 runs scored.

The New York Giants won the NL pennant but the Yankees’ potent offense proved too much. Giants pitcher Carl Hubbell led the Senior Circuit with 26 wins and a 2.31 ERA to beat out St. Louis hurler Dizzy Dean for the Most Valuable Player trophy. The inaugural class to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame includes Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson, and Ty Cobb.

Nine Players Who Debuted in 1936

Johnny Mize
Joe DiMaggio
Bill Nicholson
Eddie Joost
George McQuinn
Jeff Heath
Bob Feller
Nels Potter
Birdie Tebbetts

World Series – New York Yankees AL over New York Giants NL 4 games to 2

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September 30, 1936

 Carl Hubbell scatters 7 hits and limits the Yankees to a solo home run by George Selkirk to give Giants 1-0 Series Lead

October 2, 1936

Yankees routing the Giants at the Polo Grounds, 18-4 even the World Series at a game each

October 3, 1936

Yankees Slide by Giants in Game 3 of World Series – Full Radio Broadcast

October 5, 1936

Giants beat Yankees in extra innings to stay alive and win game 5 of World Series 1936 – Full Radio Broadcast

October 6, 1936

Yankees topple Giants to win the series

December 24, 1936

History of the World Series – 1936

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Polo Grounds V

MVP Awards –

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Lou Gehrig Stats & Facts

Carl Hubbell Stats & Facts

NL Carl Hubbell

AL Lou Gehrig

On July 7 1936 – The National League, having lost the first three All-Star Games, wins the 1936 All-Star Game, 4 – 3 at Braves Field, Boston’s National League Park with four different Cub players (Augie Galan, Billy Herman, Gabby Hartnett and Frank Demaree) scoring runs. After Dizzy Dean and Carl Hubbell each pitch scoreless three-inning stints, Curt Davis is hammered by the American League, including Lou Gehrig’s home run, but Lon Warneke shuts the door. Meanwhile, the NL is helped by Joe DiMaggio’s loose fielding and error and Augie Galan’s home run. Joe DiMaggio is the first rookie to play in an All-Star Game. The NL plays its starting lineup except for two late-inning pinch hitters. Local favorite and three-time starter Wally Berger doesn’t appear. Missing from the NL roster are Dolph Camilli and Buck Jordan, co-leaders in the batting race at .348, as well as the eventual batting champ, Paul Waner.

All-Star Game – July 7th – N.L. 4 over A.L. 3, played at Braves Field (NL)
AL Starter Lefty Grove+ NL Starter Dizzy Dean

National League All-Stars

American League All-Stars

All-Star Managers

All-Star Game Ball Park

The stories that shapped the year:

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January 4, 1936

As the second part of the December 10 deal for Jimmie Foxx, the Boston Red Sox get Doc Cramer and Eric McNair from the Philadelphia Athletics for Hank Johnson, Al Niemiec, and $75,000

January 6, 1936

1936 – New York Giants President Charles Stoneham dies of Bright’s disease. He was the last surviving member of the trio that purchased the team in 1919.

January 15, 1936

Horace Stoneham is elected president of the New York Giants, succeeding his late father, Charles. Stoneham, at age 32, will remain president for the next 40 years, presiding over its move to San Francisco, CA, before selling the team in 1976.

January 15, 1936

IRS figures for 1934 show Branch Rickey as the highest-paid man in Major League Baseball at $49,470. Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis had voluntarily taken a cut in 1933 from $65,000 to $40,000 because of the Depression.

January 17, 1936

The New York Yankees trade Jimmie DeShong and Jesse Hill to the Washington Senators for Bump Hadley and Roy Johnson.

January 21, 1936

1936 – The Hollywood Stars, last place finishers in the Pacific Coast League in 1935, move to San Diego, where they will become the Padres. The Stars were unable to pay the annual rent of $8,000 for Wrigley Field.

January 30, 1936

Boston Braves conduct a survey of newspaper reporters, asking them to come up with a new nickname for the franchise

February 2, 1936

Baseball Writers’ Association announces the results of the first Hall of Fame vote

February 20, 1936

1936 – The New York Giants buy back good-hitting first baseman Sam Leslie from the Brooklyn Dodgers.

February 22, 1936

As thousands cheer on both sides of the river, 48 year-old Senator legend Walter Johnson throws a silver dollar to the far side of the Rappahannock, believed to be a 386-foot toss. The Washington, D.C. Sesquicentennial celebration, which includes commemorating the 204th anniversary of George Washington’s birth, stages the event to duplicate the alleged feat that the young Virginian accomplished when he threw a silver dollar across the Potomac River.

March 1, 1936

After spring training, the Yomiuri Giants beat the San Francisco Seals 

March 5, 1936

Luis Tiant Sr – beats the Cardinals in Cuba

March 7, 1936

Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio during spring training in St. Petersburg, FL.

March 17, 1936

1936 – Much-heralded rookie Joe DiMaggio makes his debut with the New York Yankees, collecting four hits including a triple. The day is marred when the St. Louis Cardinals win, 8 – 7.

March 21, 1936

Joe DiMaggio prize rookie is left unattended with his foot in a diathermy machine and will miss 2 months

March 21, 1936

The Cincinnati Reds trade first baseman Jim Bottomley to the St. Louis Browns in exchange for utility player Johnny Burnett. Bottomley will have a strong season this year and, midway through the 1937 season, will be named manager.

March 23, 1936

Dizzy Dean ends his well-publicized holdout and signs a contract with the St. Louis Cardinals

March 24, 1936

1936 – Pitcher Paul Dean follows his brother Dizzy into the fold and signs with the St. Louis Cardinals for $10,000.

March 26, 1936

Hank Greenberg signs with the Detroit Tigers to a $20,000 contract, and Red Ruffing accepts $12,000 from the New York Yankees.

April 14, 1936

At Sportsman’s Park, Eddie Morgan, appearing as a pinch-hitter in the Cardinals’ 12-7 loss to Chicago, hits a home run in his first major league first at-bat. The round-tripper will be the 21 year-old rookie’s only career homer during his brief stint with St. Louis and Brooklyn.

April 23, 1936

Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants pitches a three-hit shutout against the Boston Bees For his 17th straight win 

May 3, 1936

Joe DiMaggio makes his major league debut.

May 10, 1936

By beating the A’s, 7 – 2, at home the Yankees move into first place and will remain there the rest of the season. Rookie Joe DiMaggio makes his belated home debut and hits his first home run, off George Turbeville. Lou Gehrig has four hits and two RBIs and Johnny Murphy, in his first start of the season, picks up the win.

May 10, 1936

In Washington, the Senators top the A’s and Lefty Grove, 4 – 0. Grove had come into the game having allowed just one earned run in his previous 48 innings.

May 10, 1936

Joe Sullivan, Detroit pitcher, weakens after 12 innings of scoreless relief and Cleveland edges Detroit, 9 – 7. Sullivan takes over for Elden Auker in the 2nd and is splendid before losing in the 15th.

May 15, 1936

Washington’s Bobo Newsom strikes out 11 former teammates to hand the Browns their 23rd loss in their last 27 games. The Nats win, 10 – 5, behind a 17-hit attack. Les Tietje is the loser without retiring a batter.

May 18, 1936

Brooks Robinson is born in Little Rock, Arkansas

May 21, 1936

Philadelphia Phillies re-acquire future Hall of Famer Chuck Klein from the Chicago Cubs

May 22, 1936

Collecting 17 hits, including eight doubles, the Cards overwhelm the Pirates, 11 – 4. Dizzy Dean breezes to his 6th win and the Cards increase their lead to 1 1/2 games. Pepper Martin scores in his 13th consecutive game, but will go runless tomorrow.

May 22, 1936

 Phils pitcher Bucky Walters shuts out the Dodgers, 15 – 0. Freddie Fitzsimmons, routed before getting an out, is the loser. The big blow in the seven-run 1st inning is a grand slam by Pinky Whitney.

May 23, 1936

At Crosley Field‚ following a single by Lee Handley‚ and two pinch-hitters reaching base‚ Sammy Byrd hits a pinch ultimate grand slam in the bottom of the 9th to give the Reds a 4 – 3 win over Pittsburgh. Bucs starter Bill Swift loads the bases and reliever Cy Blanton serves up just one pitch to Byrd who lets it fly. Byrd will hit one more homer this year and then retire next March 10th to play professional golf. The three pinch-hitters scoring ties the National League record.

May 23, 1936

Tony Lazzeri hits 3 home runs in twin bill as the crowd pelts the field with cushions‚ bottles and other articles‚ making play difficult

May 24, 1936

The Giants whip the Phillies‚ 13 – 5, as Sam Leslie goes 5 for 5 and hits for the cycle for New York.

May 24, 1936

Tony Lazzeri sets AL record 11 RBIS

May 29, 1936

In the second 15 – 0 shutout in a week‚ New York’s Al Smith is the beneficiary of the hitting as he closes down the Bees. Smith will toss 4 shutouts this year‚ tops in the National League. Smith gives up a Texas Leaguer by Hal Lee in the 8th and a ground single in the 9th.

June 4, 1936

Coming in as a reliever‚ Cards P Paul Dean loses for first time to the Dodgers. The final score is 4 – 3.

June 4, 1936

The Tigers score 10 runs in the 3rd and 6 in the 5th en route to a 18 – 9 thrashing of the A’s

June 5, 1936

1936 – Lou Gehrig plays in his 1,700th consecutive game, as the Yankees beat the Indians, 4 – 3.

June 7, 1936

1936 – A home run by George Selkirk in the 16th inning gives Red Ruffing and the New York Yankees a 5 – 4 win over Oral Hildebrand and the Cleveland Indians. Ruffing has three hits, including a homer. Incredibly, there are no strikeouts in the long game.

June 10, 1936

The Pirates hand the visiting Dodgers a 6 – 3 defeat‚ the 7th loss in a row for Brooklyn. Though he hasn’t pitched since a pounding in Chicago on June 5‚ Van Lingle Mungo jumps the team in Pittsburgh‚ complaining of poor support and demanding to be traded.

June 17, 1936

Red Ruffing Piles up 10 total bases

June 21, 1936

Mickey Cochrane checks out of the hospital and goes to a Wyoming ranch to recover his health.

June 21, 1936

Van Mungo stops the Cubs’ win streak at 15, leaving them a half-game behind the Cards, who lose to the Giants.

June 22, 1936

At Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field, Ival Goodman hits an unusual home run when his fifth-inning fly ball lands and stays on top of the scoreboard in right field. With the perched ball considered in play, the three Dodger outfielders watch the Reds’ right fielder round the bases for an easy inside-the park round-tripper in their 7-2 loss to Cincinnati.

June 24, 1936

Rookie Joe DiMaggio ties three major-league records He becomes the first Yankee and fifth player in major league history to hit two home runs in one inning.

June 25, 1936

Brooklyn’s Van Mungo ties the major-league record with seven consecutive strikeouts, but loses to the Reds, 5 – 4.

June 28, 1936

Larry French and Bill Lee pitch the Cubs to twin shutouts, 3 – 0 and 6 – 0, over the Giants and replace the Cardinals in the league lead.

June 29, 1936

Harmon Killebrew is born in Payette, ID

July 1, 1936

Powel Crosley, Jr. exercises his 2-year option and buys controlling interest in the Cincinnati Reds.

July 1, 1936

Detroit collects 25 hits off three White Sox pitchers to win, 21 – 7.

July 1, 1936

The Athletics send veteran pitcher Bill Dietrich to Washington for the waiver price. He’ll be there three weeks before the Senators waive him to the White Sox on July 20.

July 2, 1936

Cleveland OF Bruce Campbell, recently returned from a bout with spinal meningitis, goes 6 for 6 in the first game of a doubleheader. He singles in his first at bat in the nightcap. The Indians sweep two, winning 14 – 6 and 4 – 2.

July 3, 1936

San Diego minor leaguer Ted Williams, pinch-hitting for the pitcher in the seventh inning in a game against the Angels, gets his first professional hit, a long single off the right-field fence at LA’s Wrigley Field off Glen Babler. The 17 year-old Padres player stays in the PCL contest to replace the hurler he batted for, retiring the side in order, but will be removed from the mound in the next frame when he gives up two home runs.

July 5, 1936

In the first of two games with the A’s, Boston explodes for 11 runs in the 2nd inning to ease home, 16 – 2. The Sox ease up on the nitecap to win, 8 – 2. The Mackmen have now lost 12 straight.

July 6, 1936

Bob Feller, a 17 year-old farm boy from Van Meter, Iowa, strikes out 8 consecutive batters in three innings during an All-Star break exhibition game

July 7, 1936

1936 All Star Game – Joe DiMaggio First Rookie to Start

July 9, 1936

106 degrees temp is the hottest July 9th on record in New York – Cleveland routs NY

July 10, 1936

Chuck Klein becomes the oldest player to  hits 4 home runs in one game

July 10, 1936

Bobo Newsom pitches one-hit ball in blanking the Tigers, 5 – 0. The lone hit off the Washington pitcher is Jack Burns’ 3rd-inning grounder that both the first baseman and second baseman go after. 1B Joe Kuhel stops the ball but no one covers the bag.

July 10, 1936

The Yankees roll to an easy victory over the Indians, as Red Ruffing takes the shutout, 18 – 0. Lloyd Brown, the first of three pitchers, is the loser. Lou Gehrig has a pair of homers to take over the American League lead with 23.

July 11, 1936

The Giants lose, 5 – 4, in Pittsburgh as Carl Hubbell, in relief, walks in the winning run. The loss leaves New York eleven games behind the front-running Cubs. New York wins the second game, 14 – 4, as Bill Terry, hobbled with a knee injury, bangs out a single, double and triple. The win sparks a Giants surge that will see them win 39 of their next 47 games.

July 11, 1936

Dizzy Dean hit in the head for second time

July 12, 1936

At Cincinnati, Phillies starter Joe Bowman gives up his first hit of the game, a leadoff triple in the 9th inning to Kiki Cuyler, and then is relieved by Claude Passeau, who retires the next three batters. The Phils win, 4 – 0.

July 13, 1936

Bill Lee wins a 1 – 0 duel from Carl Hubbell, as the Cubs move into first place. It is the last game the Giant ace will lose this year; he will win his final 16 decisions.

July 14, 1936

Pitcher Roger Wolff, in his debut with the Oklahoma City Indians of the Texas League, holds the Galveston Buccaneers hitless and runless for nine innings but loses on two hits in the 10th.

July 15, 1936

Cincinnati plays the first Ladies Night game, beating the Brooklyn Dodgers, 5 – 3.

July 15, 1936

After an absence of several weeks, manager Mickey Cochrane rejoins the Detroit Tigers in New York, as they split a doubleheader with the Yankees. The Tigers take the opener, 5 – 1, then lose, 7 – 4, as New York maintains its 9-game lead. Cochrane will suffer a relapse and coach Del Baker will take over on the 21st.

July 15, 1936

At Pittsburgh, the New York Giants lose the opener, 5 – 4, when reliever Carl Hubbell walks in the winning run. With the loss, the Giants are 11 games in back of the leading Chicago Cubs. New York rebounds in the second game, winning, 14 – 4, behind Bill Terry. Terry, playing on an injured knee, collects a single, double and triple. The Giants will win 39 of their next 47 games.

July 16, 1936

The Reds call off their game with the Dodgers because of intense heat.

July 16, 1936

Boston Bees C Al Lopez reaches first three times on errors, the third player to do so

July 17, 1936

Yankees Red Rolfe, Lou Gehrig and Bill Dickey hit 3rd-inning home runs against Detroit to tie the American League record, since topped. New York rolls, 9 – 4, dropping the Bengals to 4th place. Goose Goslin has a pair of homers for Detroit.

July 17, 1936

Carl Hubbell starts his 24-game winning streak, beating Pittsburgh, 6 – 0

July 18, 1936

1936 – The Chicago White Sox and Philadelphia A’s set an American League record for most runs scored by two teams, as the White Sox win, 21 – 14, in the nitecap. Chicago OF Rip Radcliff ties an AL record with six hits (4 singles and 2 doubles) in seven at bats in the 9-inning game. The Sox also win the opener, 7 – 4.

July 19, 1936

Bob Feller makes major league debut

July 20, 1936

1936 – In an exhibition game in Pittsburgh, former Yankee Waite Hoyt stops his old teammates, 7 – 2. Lou Gehrig’s 6th-inning homer is the first score for New York. Ted Kleinhans is cuffed in his eight innings. While Hoyt wins, another old pitcher loses as the Pirates hand Guy Bush his release. The Bees will sign him.

July 21, 1936

Mickey Cochrane has a relapse, and Del Baker again takes charge of the Tigers. Detroit takes a pair from the visiting A’s, winning, 8 – 0, behind Tommy Bridges, and 9 – 8, as Schoolboy Rowe wins in relief. The Tigers score a pair in the 8th inning when, with the bases loaded, Mickey Owen hits into a double play. Goose Goslin scores the tying run and Gee Walker, who reaches third base on the play, scores when 1B Chubby Dean is caught napping.

July 21, 1936

Cardinals slugger Joe Medwick has 10 hits in succession to equal the National League record

July 22, 1936

1936 – In a 16 – 4 cakewalk over the Pirates, Phillies OF Johnny Moore hits three straight home runs.

July 23, 1936

1936 – The White Sox edge the Nationals, 7 – 6, for their 17th win in 21 games. Vern Kennedy wins his 9th straight when he drives home the winner with an 8th-inning double against Bobo Newsom. Luke Appling is 2 for 4 to keep his American league-leading batting average at .382.

July 25, 1936

In the A’s 15 – 12 win over the Indians, Philadelphia catcher Frankie Hayes equals a major-league record with four doubles, the last coming in the 9th with the bases loaded. Reliever Harry Kelley is the winner, despite he and Carl Doyle giving up 18 hits. Veteran pitcher George Uhle, recently added to the Indians’ roster, hits a homer, but is replaced by Lloyd Brown.

July 25, 1936

The Red Sox tally 20 hits to crush the Tigers, 18 – 3, scoring all their runs in two big innings. The Sox score six in the 2nd to drive Tommy Bridges from the mound, then tally 12 more in the 5th; it is the second time this month that the Red Sox have scored more than 10 runs in an inning. Doc Cramer has four Boston hits, while three others have three hits. Lefty Grove gives up nine hits in the easy win.

July 25, 1936

The Cubs pound out 19 hits to beat the Phils, 17 – 4, and extend their lead over the Cardinals to three games. Curt Davis is the winner, holding his former teammates to six safeties. Three of the Philly hits come in the 9th when they score three runs on Walt Bashore’s single and consecutive homers by Chuck Klein and Dolph Camilli. The Cubs are led by homers from Augie Galan and Ethan Allen as they chase Bucky Walters with four runs in the 3rd, and add another nine off Syl Johnson in three innings.

July 26, 1936

Umpire Bill Summers is forced out the game after he is hit in the groin by a pop bottle thrown from an unruly crowd of 50,000 at Comiskey Park. The crowd is upset with an outcall at first base on Rip Radcliff in the 8th inning of the nitecap. Judge Landis, on hand to watch the game, offers a $5,000 reward over the public address system for the culprit, but only draws more boos. The deluge of pop bottles finally abates when Jimmy Dykes pleads through the field amplifier. The Yanks sweep a pair from the Sox, winning, 12 – 3 and 11 – 8, in 11 innings. Lou Gehrig hits his 29th homer with two aboard to start New York’s scoring in the opener. Joe DiMaggio and Tony Lazzeri add round trippers to make it easy for Johnny Broaca. Sugar Cain is the losing pitcher. In the nitecap, Gehrig adds another homer, while Zeke Bonura homers and drives home four runs for the Sox. DiMaggio has one hit, a triple. The sweep increases New York’s lead to 9 1/2 games.

July 26, 1936

The Giants score three runs in the bottom of the 9th to beat the Reds, 5 – 4. Helping the victory is a 4th-inning triple play started when LF Hank Leiber makes a brilliant catch near the left centerfield wall.

July 26, 1936

The Tigers strand 14 runners and lose to Boston and Wes Ferrell, 10 – 3. The Tigers have 13 hits, including those of Goose Goslin who goes 3 for 3. Jimmie Foxx hits his 28th homer of the year in Boston’s five-run 8th, then hits another in the 9th, to pin the loss on Elden Auker.

July 26, 1936

Before a paid attendance of 41,596 in Boston, the largest crowd in the National League since 1930, the Cards and Bees split. The Bees take the opener, 4 – 3, on Wally Berger’s two-run homer in the 8th inning off Jesse Haines. The nitecap is knotted at 2 – 2 in the 7th, when the Cards unload five runs. Joe Medwick leads off the frame with a homer, Johnny Mize doubles, and Virgil Davis homers to knock out Ben Cantwell. After two more reach base, Dizzy Dean drives them both home to ensure his 16th win of the year. Dean has a run-scoring triple in the 3rd as well.

July 27, 1936

Under rainy conditions at Ebbets Field, the Dodgers thrill a crowd of 485 by routing Cy Blanton and beating the Pirates for the third straight time, 6 – 3. Fred Frankhouse has only one bad inning – the 3rd in which the Bucs make all their runs on six hits – in winning his 6th against eight losses. Frankhouse has five assists while SS Lonny Frey has none.

July 27, 1936

In an exhibition game against a semipro shoe company, Paul Dean is hammered for six hits and four runs in four innings. The Cards then rally with Flint Rhem and Pepper Martin on the mound to win, 8 – 5. A tearful Dean threatens to quit after the rout.

July 27, 1936

The A’s knock out Vern Kennedy and then break an 8 – 8 tie with seven runs in the 9th to win, 15 – 8. Red Evans is the loser to Harry Kelley. The A’s collect 25 hits, including 5 by Lou Finney.

July 28, 1936

In the 6th inning of a 16 – 6 Yankee win in Detroit, the Tigers’ Goose Goslin drives a ball in the gap in right center. RF Joe DiMaggio and CF Myril Hoag, in for a slumping Jake Powell, sprint for the ball and collide, the ball bounding by for an inside-the-park home run. Both players are knocked unconscious but appear unhurt: DiMaggio stays in though Hoag is replaced. Hoag will play tomorrow and collect a single, then collapse in his hotel room on the 30th with a brain clot. Hoag will be operated on successfully at Harper Hospital and will be out the rest of the season, but he’ll return to play six more years. New York wins the game on 20 hits, scoring four runs in each of the first two innings, and three apiece in the 4th and 5th. Lou Gehrig’s two doubles, single and home run number 31 with two aboard pace the visitors. Tommy Bridges is the loser while Johnny Murphy, who relieves Monte Pearson in the 4th, is credited with the win. George Selkirk adds a homer for the Yankees, who have now hit 122.

July 28, 1936

Dolph Camilli’s 9th-inning homer, his second of the game, caps a four-run rally as the Phillies top the visiting Cubs, 5 – 3

July 28, 1936

Bill Dietrich makes his first start for the White Sox since being picked up on waivers and Chicago makes it easy with a 19 – 6 win over Philadelphia. Dietrich helps his own cause with four singles.

July 28, 1936

Earl Averill raps his 18th and 19th homers of the year, off Earl Whitehill, as Cleveland beats the Senators, 6 – 4

July 29, 1936

The football Dodgers? The Dodgers smother the Cardinals, 22 – 7, in the first game of a twinbill, then lose 5 – 4.

July 30, 1936

The Boston Red Sox, led by owner Tom Yawkey and accompanied by American League President Will Harridge, fly from St. Louis to Chicago aboard one plane. Five players elect to take the train. In 1934, the Reds flew from Cincinnati to Chicago, but divided the players among three planes. Some of the Reds still chose to take the train.

July 30, 1936

Buffalo pitcher Bill Harris tosses his second no-hitter in the International League, stopping Newark.

July 30, 1936

Cardinals’ Jim Winford tosses a four-hitter in stopping Casey Stengel’s men, 7 – 0.

July 30, 1936

Kiki Cuyler of the Reds has eight straight hits – all singles – during a doubleheader split with the Phils

July 30, 1936

Vern Kennedy wins his 10th in a row, pitching the White Sox to a win over the A’s, 7 – 4. Bob Kennedy connects off his namesake for his 16th homer of the year, while Gordon “Dusty” Rhodes is handed one of his American League-high twenty losses. Hod Lisenbee, signed yesterday, is effective in relief of Rhodes.

July 30, 1936

The Yankees, with Jake Powell back in CF for the injured Myril Hoag, drop a 5 – 4 decision to Detroit.

July 30, 1936

At the funeral of Charles Knapp, president of the Baltimore Orioles as well as the International League, Warren Giles is named interim league president. Giles is the president of the Rochester Red Wings. With Knapp’s death, Mrs. Jack Dunn, majority owner of the Orioles, assumes the role of team president.

July 31, 1936

At the Polo Grounds, the Giants manage just four hits off Chicago’s Larry French and lose, 3 – 1. The Terrymen’s only tally is a homer by Hank Leiber. The loss leaves the front-running Cubs a game ahead of the Cards.

July 31, 1936

Led by Lou Gehrig, who clouts his 33rd homer, the Yankees down the Indians, 11 – 7, at League Park. The loss snaps the Tribe’s five-game win streak, and leaves the Yankees 8 1/2 games ahead of Cleveland. Gehrig and Red Rolfe clout homers in the 5th to chase Mel Harder, but the Indians answer with three doubles by Earl Averill and a homer by Hal Trosky. Bump Hadley, with relief from Johnny Murphy, hangs on for his 9th win.

July 31, 1936

Behind Lefty Grove and Jimmie Foxx, the visiting Red Sox top the White Sox, 7 – 3. Grove wins his 13th on seven hits, while Double X bangs his 30th homer, a triple and double. Boston sub Moe Berg adds a triple, double, and single off Ted Lyons.

August 2, 1936

At Comiskey Park, the White Sox overcome deficits of 9-1 in the fifth and 11-3 in the seventh inning to defeat the Red Sox in extra innings

August 3, 1936

The White Sox overcome deficits of 9 – 1 in the fifth and 11 – 3 in the seventh inning to defeat the Red Sox in twelve innings, 12 – 11.

August 4, 1936

The Cardinals regain first place, beating the Cubs, 6 – 1, and dropping them to second place.

August 8, 1936

1936 – At the Olympics in Berlin‚ the announcement is made of the formation of the World International Baseball Federation‚ a 16-nation group‚ including Hawaii‚ to be headquartered in Miami.

August 9, 1936

1936 – The Cubs move back into first place by taking two from Pittsburgh while the Cards lose a pair to Cincinnati.

August 10, 1936

The Cards are back in first place, beating the Cubs in a game interrupted by a fight between former teammates Dizzy Dean and Tex Carleton.

August 10, 1936

Buddy Myer, last year’s American League batting champ, is sent home by Washington to recover from a season-long stomach ailment.

August 12, 1936

The largest crowd ever to watch a baseball game turns out for the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany, with between 90,000 and 125,000 fans watching the US amateurs lose, 6 – 5, to the world amateurs.

August 12, 1936

In game 1‚ Boston pitcher Wes Ferrell shows his hitting skills‚ hitting two homers off A’s veteran Hod Lisenbee. Ferrell collects all six RBIs in picking up the win‚ 6 – 4. Ferrell’s first homer comes in the 3rd with his brother Rick on base and he homers again in the 4th inning with the sacks full. The 6 RBIs ties a major league record for pitchers. The ace allows 9 hits while striking out 8. The A’s square accounts by taking the nitecap‚ 6 – 0‚ behind Harry Kelley’s 3-hitter.

August 21, 1936

Babe Herman, who quit the Reds in a dispute over a bonus, rejoins the team on orders from Commissioner Landis.

August 21, 1936

Wes Ferrell, in a tantrum walks off the mound during a Yankee rally

August 22, 1936

1936 – Washington ties an American League record when Red Kress, Joe Kuhel, and Carl Reynolds hit home runs in the fourth inning.

August 23, 1936

Bob Feller makes his first major league start

August 23, 1936

The East uses a balanced offense to thump the West, 10-2, in the 1936 East-West Game. Leroy Matlock got the win and Sug Cornelius the loss while Cool Papa Bell went 3 for 3.

August 25, 1936

1936 – The Giants win their 13th straight and take over first place.

August 25, 1936

The Braves establish a new major league record, hitting seven doubles in one inning. The two-bagger barrage occurs in the first frame of a 20-3 rout of the Cardinals at Sportsman’s Park.

August 28, 1936

Player Manager Bill Terry delivers a bases loaded PH single leading Giants to 15th straight win

August 31, 1936

1936 – Yankees manager Joe McCarthy consents to Dixie Walker as a temporary substitute while the White Sox patch up Mike Kreevich, who is spiked on a play. Walker runs for Kreevich but does not replace him in the outfield.

September 1, 1936

Detroit’s Schoolboy Rowe fires his second two-hit game in 8 days‚ beating the A’s‚ 4 – 1. Rowe beat the Red Sox on August 25th by a 5 – 0 score. Philadelphia is saved from a shutout when Bob Johnson blasts his 22nd home run in the 9th inning. All of Detroit’s runs come in a hitless 4th when they use 5 walks‚ a fielder’s choice and error.

September 1, 1936

It is a wet afternoon in St. Louis for the Mound City celebration of the 60th anniversary of the National League. The 1876 recreated game starts at 2:30 with NL publicity head Bill Brandt as the tall-hatted umpire who is shot dead after calling a runner out at home. Following is a 2 1/2 inning match between the 1926 Cards and the current team. Pete Alexander gives up an unearned run in the first for the ’26 team‚ and Vic Keen pitches the second. George Earnshaw K’s 4 of the 1926 team‚ but does give up a double to Wattie Holm in the 1st. The 1936 Cards win‚ 1 – 0. The regular game between the Giants and Cards is washed out after 4 innings.

September 3, 1936

Luke Appling’s 27-game hitting streak is snapped by Wes Ferrell when the Red Sox right-hander goes the distance, holding the White Sox shortstop hitless in four plate appearances, that includes two bases-on-balls, in Chicago’s 3-2 victory at Fenway Park. The 29 year-old infielder, who establishes a franchise record for consecutive games with a hit, will lead the American League with a .388 batting average this season.

September 6, 1936

The Washington Senators sweep a pair from the visiting A’s winning, 7 – 1, and 7 – 5. Hod Lisenbee finishes both games for the A’s, losing the second game in relief of rookie Stu Flythe. Flythe allows no runs in 1 1/3 innings and throws a wild pitch in what will be his last major league appearance. In just 39.1 innings he throws 16 wild pitches to lead the American League.

September 6, 1936

Boston Bees pinch hitter Tommy Thompson slugs a 9th-inning homer to beat the Giants, 3 – 2, the third loss to Boston in two days for the Giants. Boston also purchases P Fabian Kowalik from the Phils. Meanwhile, the Reds are sweeping a pair from the Cardinals, who drop three games back in the race for the National League pennant.

September 6, 1936

At Fenway Park, the Yankees drop a pair to the Red Sox, 14 – 5, and 4 – 2. In the opener, Wes Ferrell coasts to a win, allowing 14 hits and occasionally lobbing the ball to the plate. Jimmie Foxx’s 37th homer starts the scoring. Yankees second baseman Tony Lazzeri’s homer in game two deprives Lefty Grove of a shutout.

September 7, 1936

1936 – Sonny Dunlap, an All-American girls A.A.U. basketball player for the Tulsa Stenos, is in RF for the Fayetteville Bears in a 5 – 1 win over Cassville (Class D Arkansas-Missouri League). She goes hitless in 3 trips but hits the ball hard. She is the first woman to play an entire game, and represents the second and last time a woman plays in the minors.

September 9, 1936

The Yankees clinch their eighth pennant with a doubleheader sweep of the Tribe at Cleveland’s League Park. The Bronx Bombers will finish the season 19.5 games ahead of Detroit, for their largest margin in franchise history.

September 11, 1936

1936 – Hod Lisenbee of the Philadelphia A’s ties a major league record for hits allowed, giving up 26 in a 17 – 2 rout by the White Sox.

September 12, 1936

Kid Elberfeld, at age of 61, grounds out to third as he pinch-hits for the Fulton team in the Kitty League.

September 13, 1936

17-year-old Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians strikes out 17 Philadelphia A’s in a 5-2 victory

September 13, 1936

The Cardinals and Giants split a doubleheader at the Polo Grounds before 64,417, the largest crowd in the 60-year history of the National League.

September 14, 1936

Pittsburgh’s Paul Waner ties Rogers Hornsby’s modern National League record, reaching 200 hits for the 7th time.

September 15, 1936

1936 – Johnny Allen wins his 20th for Cleveland, though he is forced to leave the game with a back injury, after hurling 5 innings of no-hit ball.

September 18, 1936

1936 – Larry MacPhail abruptly quits as the Reds’ general manager. He will be replaced by Warren Giles.

September 22, 1936

The Tigers record the most one-sided pair of shutouts in a doubleheader, sweeping St. Louis at Navin Field, 12-0 and 14-0. Both Detroit starters go the distance, with Elden Auker throwing a five-hitter in the opener, and Tommy Bridges limiting the Browns to just three hits in the nightcap.

September 23, 1936

1936 – Pitching in the 10th straight Giants game, Carl Hubbell notches his 16th consecutive victory, his 26th of the year. He will resume the streak next year to reach a record 24 wins in a row.

September 24, 1936

Hal Schumacher singles in the winning run delivering the 1936 pennant

September 24, 1936

The American League batting crown is decided when Luke Appling of the White Sox goes 4 for 4 in the second game of a doubleheader with Cleveland. Runner-up Earl Averill is held hitless. Appling will coast to a 10-point margin at .388.

September 25, 1936

Joe Medwick sets a still-standing National League record with his 64th double

September 27, 1936

1936 – Replacing Johnny Mize, who is tossed by an umpire for arguing, Cardinal rookie first baseman Walter Alston makes an error in handling two chances and is fanned by Lon Warneke in his only major league at-bat. “Smokey” will, however, win seven pennants and four World Series in his 23-year Hall of Fame career as Dodger manager from 1954 to 1976.

September 30, 1936

 Carl Hubbell scatters 7 hits and limits the Yankees to a solo home run by George Selkirk to give Giants 1-0 Series Lead

October 2, 1936

Yankees routing the Giants at the Polo Grounds, 18-4 even the World Series at a game each

October 3, 1936

Yankees Slide by Giants in Game 3 of World Series – Full Radio Broadcast

October 5, 1936

Giants beat Yankees in extra innings to stay alive and win game 5 of World Series 1936 – Full Radio Broadcast

October 6, 1936

Yankees topple Giants to win the series

October 7, 1936

Brooklyn Dodgers fire future Hall of Fame manager Casey Stengel

October 16, 1936

Lou Gehrig is voted American League MVP

October 20, 1936

Carl Hubbell becomes the first unanimous NL MVP

November 5, 1936

The Dodgers name Burleigh Grimes as their new manager replacing Casey Stengel

November 12, 1936

1936 – Following the death of Phil Ball, wealthy owner of the St. Louis Browns, his estate sells the team to a syndicate headed by Donald L. Barnes and William O. DeWitt. As the new owners of Sportsman’s Park, they announce their intention to install lights and bring night baseball to the American League.

November 12, 1936

Joe Hoerner is born in Dubuque, IA. The lefthander makes his major league debut at the end of the 1963 season with the Colt .45s and gets into seven more games the next year. He resurfaces in St. Louis in 1966 and pitches in the bigs for another 12 seasons. He died on October 4th, 1996 at age 59 in Hermann, MO after a farming accident.

November 29, 1936

Judge Landis declares Lee Handley and Johnny Peacock of the Cincinnati Reds free agents

December 2, 1936

1936 – The St. Louis Cardinals sell Virgil Davis and Charlie Gelbert to the Cincinnati Reds, and the St. Louis Browns buy Ethan Allen from the Chicago Cubs.

December 3, 1936

Brooklyn Dodgers complete 6 player trade started in September, selling off Frenchy Bordagaray, Dutch Leonard, and Jimmy Jordan

December 4, 1936

1936 – The Dodgers trade Lonny Frey to the Cubs for Woody English and Roy Henshaw. The Boston Bees buy Vince DiMaggio from San Diego (Pacific Coast League). The Dodgers get Cookie Lavagetto and Ralph Birkofer from Pittsburgh in exchange for Ed Brandt.

December 8, 1936

In a three-way deal, the Indians send Thornton Lee to the White Sox, who ship Jack Salveson to the Senators, who transfer Earl Whitehill to Cleveland.

December 8, 1936

Babe Ruth turns down an offer to manage the Albany farm team.

December 9, 1936

The Red Sox trade Bill Werber to Philadelphia for Pinky Higgins.

December 9, 1936

The American League okays seven night baseball games for St. Louis. The National League adopts a new design for home plate. It will have beveled edges, the first change in 50 years. The AL adopts a rule stating that no batter can be batting champion unless he has 400 or more at bats.

December 10, 1936

Landis rules -Feller to stay with Indians

December 18, 1936

The Giants purchase the Albany International League franchise and move it to Jersey City where the team will play in the new Roosevelt Stadium. Recently-retired Travis Jackson will manage the team.

December 19, 1936

The Bees purchase Eddie Mayo from the Giants.

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