In a good trade for Boston, they acquire lefty Patsy Flaherty, 2B Claude Ritchey, and OF Ginger Beaumont from the Pirates for good-fielding 2B Ed Abbaticchio. Abbaticchio will lead the National League in fielding in 1908, but Ritchey will lead in 1907, and the other pair will be mainstays.
Oct 6, 1906 – Chick Stahl‚ Boston Americans player-manager‚ closes out the season and his career last at-bat with an 8th-inning two-run homer off New York Highlanders Tom Hughes. But Long Tom emerges with a 5-4 win. One scribe wrote that Stahl was “the only man on the team who played his real game…
After Boston manager Jimmy Collins takes a vacation without permission, he is suspended. Chick Stahl is named acting manager.
Patsy Dougherty of the New York Highlanders, catcher Charlie Graham, and umpire Jack Sheridan await George Winter’s pitch during a game at Boston’s Huntington Avenue Grounds, April 17, 1906. The 17,697 fans in attendance see New York go on to defeat the Americans, 4-3. Dougherty, batting leadoff, goes 2-for-5 with two RBI and a double;…
1905 – When Boston beats the Athletics, 3 – 2, in 13 innings, they score the first runs off Rube Waddell in 44 innings. Waddell strikes out 17.
On January 16, 1905, It seems simple enough on paper: the Boston Americans buy outfielder George Stone from the Washington Senators; the St. Louis Browns reclaim Frank Huelsman from Washington, where he had been on loan, and send him along with Jesse Burkett to Boston for Stone. Boston then sends Huelsman back to Washington in…
Boston American hurler Jesse Tannehill no-hits the White Sox at Chicago’s South Side Park, 6-0. The Americans will change their name to the Red Sox for the 1907 season. The 30 year-old southpaw issues one one walk, hits a batter and strikes out three en route tossing the third no-hitter in the brief history of the American League.
The Highlanders salvage the last game of the series with the Americans, 10 – 1, but Boston leaves New York with a 2 1/2 game lead in the American League. Patsy Dougherty has four of New York’s 17 hits.
Tuesday, October 6, 1903, at Exposition Park (III) in Allegheny, Pennsylvania After two days of rest, Deacon Phillippe was ready to pitch a second straight game. He threw his third complete game victory of the series against Bill Dinneen, who was making his second start of the series. But Phillippe’s second straight win was…
October 3, 1903, at Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds Deacon Phillippe, pitching after only a single day of rest, started Game 3 for the Pirates and didn’t let them down, hurling his second complete-game victory of the Series to put Pittsburgh up two games to one. BASEBALL PLAYOFF HISTORY Division WinnersPlayoff Games/SeriesWild Card Games Divisional…