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As a Yankee, Babe Ruth returns to the mound after a nine-year absence at Fenway Park and pitches a complete game, beating the Red Sox at Fenway Park, 9-3. The last time the ‘Bambino’ took the mound, he defeated the A’s at the end of the 1921 season.
On September 27, 1930, Hack Wilson of the Chicago Cubs belts two home runs, giving him a National League record 56 for the season. Wilson’s latest power barrage helps the Cubs to a 13-8 win over the Cincinnati Reds…The Cub outfielder’s total of 56 for the season will stand until Mark McGwire breaks the record…
On September 27, 1930, Joe McCarthy resigns as manager of the Chicago Cubs and is replaced by Rogers Hornsby. After the season, “Marse Joe” will begin a successful reign as the manager of the New York Yankees. Vintage Baseball HOT ON EBAYCard Collections ENDING SOON ON EBAYMOST WANTED ROOKIE CARDSVINTAGE SPORTS TICKETSBaseball Hall of Famers…
Almost overlooked is Wally Berger’s 38th homer for the Braves, at Ebbets Field, as Boston tops Brooklyn, 7 – 1. It is a record for rookies and still stands as a National League record.
In Yankee Stadium, Josh Gibson of the Homestead Grays hits what his biographer John Holway will call “perhaps the longest home run ever hit in the House that Ruth Built,” and Gibson himself describes as hit “on a line into the bullpen in deep left field.” The Pittsburgh Courier’s guess-timate is 430 feet while the Amsterdam News says 460. The bullpen in question extends quite a long way, and could easily accommodate anything from a 415-footer to a 500-plus-foot blast.
Lou Gehrig plays the last of 885 consecutive games at 1B. In the next game, the season’s finale, he will take Babe Ruth’s LF position.
1930 – Jesse Haines pitches the St. Louis Cards to a 10 – 5 pennant-clinching win over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
9/26/1930: Babe Ruth repeated his 4/15 drive headed into the right-centerfield stands in Philadelphia. This also hit the speaker and returned to the field. The double came off Charlie Perkins.
With four games remaining in the campaign, Cubs skipper Joe McCarthy (442-331) ‘resigns’ and is replaced by Rogers Hornsby, who was recently named by owner William Wrigley Jr. as Chicago’s player-manager for next year. McCarthy, who was not offered a contract for the upcoming season with his team still mathematically alive in the pennant race, will agree in October to manage New York, where he will win seven World Series in his 15 seasons with the Yankees.