On July 17, 1988 Philadelphia’s Ricky Jordan homers in his first major league at bat and the Phillies go on to beat Houston, 10 – 4.
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Baseball Reference July 17
Bill Veeck suggests the idea of a mid-summer series of interleague games and proposes a split-season schedule format. Although the Cub president’s concept of games between the two circuits receives some support, Senator owner Clark Griffith opposes the proposal, calling the American League a major league not in need of grandiose schemes he deemed as “Hippodrome stuff”.
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August 22, 1933
