Pirate Honus Wagner steals second base, third base and home in the 7th inning
In the second game of a doubleheader in Boston, Pirate Honus Wagner steals second base, third base and home in the 7th inning. Wagner also did it in 1899.
Kid Nichols and Christy Mathewson throw shutout ball for nine innings
1901 – Kid Nichols and Christy Mathewson face each other again and both throw shutout ball for nine innings. Boston finally scores three in the 10th to win, 3 – 0. Nichols and Mathewson will go at each other tomorrow, in the second game of two, with the match ending in an 11-inning, 5 – 5 tie.
1900 – A mechanical pitching machine is used in a game between the Memphis Chicks and the Nashvilles. The invention of Princeton professor Charles Hinton, the early pitching gun strikes out two and allows three hits in two innings.
1900 – A mechanical pitching machine is used in a game between the Memphis Chicks and the Nashvilles. The invention of Princeton professor Charles Hinton, the early pitching gun strikes out two and allows three hits in two innings.
