In a Class C Western Association minor league game against the Topeka Jayhawks, future major league player and manager Paul Richards of the Muskogee Chiefs is summoned from his shortstop position to pitch. The 19 year-old right-hander throws with both hands during his brief appearance on the mound, including an unusual confrontation with a switch-hitter, that briefly results in both the pitcher and the batter continually swapping hands and batter’s boxes, respectively, until the ambidextrous hurler becomes a left-hander and right-hander on alternate pitches, regardless of where the batter places himself.

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In a Class C Western Association minor league game against the Topeka Jayhawks, future major league player and manager Paul Richards of the Muskogee Chiefs is summoned from his shortstop position to pitch. The 19 year-old right-hander throws with both hands during his brief appearance on the mound, including an unusual confrontation with a switch-hitter, that briefly results in both the pitcher and the batter continually swapping hands and batter’s boxes, respectively, until the ambidextrous hurler becomes a left-hander and right-hander on alternate pitches, regardless of where the batter places himself.

Red Faber of the White Sox comes up to bat in the 8th

Red Faber knocks in the winning runs with a single to center.

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1928 – P Red Faber of the White Sox comes up to bat in the 8th with two runners on base and the game with the Yankees tied, 4 – 4. He swings twice right-handed against righty Wilcy Moore and misses. He then switches to the left side and knocks in the winning runs with a single to center.

Baseball’s biggest battery is recorded, appropriately, with the New York Giants, as Garland “Gob” Buckeye, a 260-pound pro football lineman in the off-season, makes his National League pitching debut with 250-pound Shanty Hogan behind the plate. The Giants lose to the Cardinals.

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Baseball’s biggest battery is recorded, appropriately, with the New York Giants, as Garland “Gob” Buckeye, a 260-pound pro football lineman in the off-season, makes his National League pitching debut with 250-pound Shanty Hogan behind the plate. The Giants lose to the Cardinals.

Ray Schalk resigns as White Sox manager; Lena Blackburne replaces him. Blackburne will last one year and in 1930 will start selling his Rubbing Mud from the Delaware River to the American League to use to take the shine off of baseballs. The National League will adopt it in the 1950s.

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Ray Schalk resigns as White Sox manager; Lena Blackburne replaces him. Blackburne will last one year and in 1930 will start selling his Rubbing Mud from the Delaware River to the American League to use to take the shine off of baseballs. The National League will adopt it in the 1950s.

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6/30/1928 – In the top of the fifth of the second game, Walt Lerian who had struck out to end the fourth, came up to start the inning and singled. (Perhaps since the Robins had scored six in the bottom of the fourth, Lerian, the catcher, had lost track of things.) He eventually scored on a single three batters later. Brooklyn protested that the run should not count, but the home plate ump, Cy Rigler, correctly pointed out that the objection was made too late and the Phillies had batted in the correct order after Lerian’s hit. Since Brooklyn was ahead 12-3 at the time, they really did not care.

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6/30/1928 – In the top of the fifth of the second game, Walt Lerian who had struck out to end the fourth, came up to start the inning and singled. (Perhaps since the Robins had scored six in the bottom of the fourth, Lerian, the catcher, had lost track of things.) He eventually scored on a single three batters later. Brooklyn protested that the run should not count, but the home plate ump, Cy Rigler, correctly pointed out that the objection was made too late and the Phillies had batted in the correct order after Lerian’s hit. Since Brooklyn was ahead 12-3 at the time, they really did not care.

Babe Ruth slugs two home runs to lead the Yankees to a 10 – 4 victory over the Athletics, and Ty Cobb appears in his 3,000th career game.

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Babe Ruth slugs two home runs to lead the Yankees to a 10 – 4 victory over the Athletics, and Ty Cobb appears in his 3,000th career game.