1930 – Woody English scores five runs and Hack Wilson hits his 42nd home run, as the Cubs crush the Phillies, 17 – 3. Pat Malone contributes another home run and goes the distance for the win.
Washington hurlers Bump Hadley and Lloyd Brown combine to whitewash the Tigers in a doubleheader, winning 2 – 0 and 1 – 0.
Forty-year-old Braves catcher Hank Gowdy, who last appeared in the majors in 1925, goes 4 for 4 to lead the Braves to a 10 – 9 win over the Reds.
Asahi Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper, sponsors the first National High School Baseball Championship. It is an instant success and will continue every August (except during World War II) to the present. It will often be called the Koshien Tournament, after the stadium near Osaka where the games will be played starting in 1924.
Wilbur Good becomes the only Cub ever to steal second base, third base, and home in the same inning. He does it in the 6th frame of a 9 – 0 beating of Brooklyn.
The new Braves Field opens in Boston. An estimated 46,500 jam the park to see the Braves and Dick Rudolph beat the Cards, 3 – 1.
Boston defeats the Cardinals in their debut at Braves Field, 3-1. The concrete and steel facility, which took only five months to construct, becomes the first ballpark to seat more than 40,000 fans.
The Browns send pitchers Bill James and Grover Lowdermilk to the Tigers for 1B Baby Doll Jacobson.
1914 – The Braves express slows as the Reds beat Dick Crutcher, 3 – 1.
8/18/1914 – The St. Louis Browns were in Washington playing the Senators. The Browns batted out of turn for most of the game without consequence. In the bottom of the eighth inning, 3B Jimmy Austin was ejected for arguing a safe call at 3B on Howie Shanks. SS Bobby Wallace moved to 3B and Doc Lavan entered the game at SS. Here is the lineup as presented to HP umpire Billy Evans and how they batted for the first eight innings.
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