Phillies rookie Jim Command’s first major league hit is a grand slam off Brooklyn’s Carl Erskine. The 25 year-old third baseman’s blow in the sixth-run eighth isn’t enough when Brooklyn hangs on to win the Ebbets Field contest, 8-7.

On July 11, 1954 — Phillies rookie Jim Command’s first major league hit is a grand slam off Brooklyn’s Carl Erskine. The 25 year-old third baseman’s blow in the sixth-run eighth isn’t enough when Brooklyn hangs on to win the Ebbets Field contest, 8-7.

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