On August 10, 1981, After tying the mark in June in the last game played before the two-month baseball strike, major league play resumes. A crowd of 60,561 attends the game at Veterans Stadium. 

Bush Stadium in St. Louis, where Pete Rose of the Philadelphia Phillies is attempting to break Stan Musial’s all-time National League hit record with hit No. 3,631. Rose hits a wicked infield grounder to Garry Templeton that the official scorer rules an error, rather than giving the Phillies first baseman his historic hit. Amidst the loud booing by the large vocal crowd at Veterans’ Stadium, fireworks begin as an anxious stadium engineer ignites the planned celebration prematurely, thinking he heard Bill Giles said ‘go’ into the walkie-talkie, when the Phillies president had really said ‘no’.

Rose will later single to the opposite field off Cardinal hurler Mark Littell to over take Musial. The Phillies first baseman is congratulated on the field by Stan Musial, who previously held the mark, in front of 60,561 enthusiastic fans at Veterans Stadium.

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