At Crosley Field, Smoky Burgess hits three home runs and drives in nine runs as the Redlegs rout the Pirates, 16 – 5. In the 4th inning, Roberto Clemente does his bit to curtail Burgess, leaping into the right center field screen to snare a line drive that has extra bases written all over it.
On July 25, 1955, the largest contingent of living Hall of Famers to date congregate in Cooperstown for the Induction Ceremony. The new members include: third baseman Home Run Baker, center fielder Joe DiMaggio, catcher Gabby Hartnett, pitcher Ted Lyons, catcher Ray Schalk, and pitcher Dazzy Vance. A record crowd attends the ceremony, many coming…
1955 – LF Del Ennis of the Phillies hits three home runs and drives in all seven runs as the Phils win, 7 – 2.
7/23/1955: The Senators were rained out in Detroit in the second game of a doubleheader. Eddie Yost led off the game with a homer and Frank Lary hit one in the bottom of the third. It would have been Lary’s first career home run. The game was called in the top of the fourth inning.
1955 – In the first game of a doubleheader, the Phillies beat the Cardinals, 5 – 3. The win completes an 11-game winning streak, setting a team record. All the wins were at home. They drop the nitecap, 8 – 1.
Pirate hurler Vern Law pitches 18 innings in beating Milwaukee, 4 – 3, giving up just nine hits and fanning 12.
Playing like Babe Ruth, Detroit relief P Babe Birrer pitches four innings and hits two 3-run homers.
Chattanooga (Southern Association) OF Jim Lemon clouts four home runs in the league’s All-Star contest, as the All-Stars defeat the first-place Birmingham club, 10 – 5.
1955 – Newly-acquired Jim Wilson of Baltimore two-hits the White Sox, 3 – 0.
Earl Torgeson of the Tigers steals home in the 10th to beat the Yanks, 6 – 5.
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