Milt Gaston of the Red Sox beats the Senators to stop a 10-game winning streak by the league-leading Senators. In 1929, he halted an 11-game string by the A’s, the eventual pennant winners.
On January 29, 1930, the Boston Red Sox sell former American League home run king Ken Williams to the rival New York Yankees for the waiver price. Williams, a lifetime .319 hitter, will be released prior to the start of the season and will never again play in the major leagues.
Former Red Sox owner Harry Frazee dies. Frazee is forever remembered as the man who sold the Babe to the Yankees.
On November 9, 1928, the “Boston Daily Globe” reports that Massachusetts passed a referendum allowing baseball to be played on Sundays. At the time, only one state still barred Sunday baseball Pennsylvania. On the right side, April 15,1929, the first Sunday baseball game is played at Braves Field in Boston before a crowd of about…
November 6, 1928: Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly approved the state-wide referendum amending the state’s “Blue Laws” to allow professional baseball on Sunday; the referendum prohibits professional baseball within 1,000 feet of a house of worship, delaying Sunday games at Fenway Park until that provision is changed in 1932. @ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF90YWdzIiwic2V0dGluZ3MiOnsiYmVmb3JlIjoiTGVhcm4gTW9yZSBhYm91dCB0aGUgdGVhbXMsIHBsYXllcnMsIGJhbGwgcGFya3MgYW5kIGV2ZW50cyB0aGF0IGhhcHBlbmVkIG9uIHRoaXMgZGF0ZSBpbiBoaXN0b3J5IC0gLSAtIC0gLSAtIC0gIiwiYWZ0ZXIiOiIiLCJsaW5rX3RvX3Rlcm1fcGFnZSI6Im9uIiwic2VwYXJhdG9yIjoiIHwgIiwiY2F0ZWdvcnlfdHlwZSI6InBvc3RfdGFnIn19@ Play by Play, Box Scores,…
Tris Speaker, in his final major league at-bat, is struck out by Red Sox hurler Red Ruffing. The 40 year-old A’s outfielder known as the ‘Grey Eagle’ ends his 22-year Hall of Fame career with a .345 batting average, sixth best in major league history.
1928 – The New York Yankees are out of first place for the first time since May 1926 as they lose to the Boston Red Sox in the morning Patriots Day game at Fenway Park.
September 5, 1927 – In the first of two at Fenway‚ the Red Sox and Yankees battle for 18 innings before the Red Sox emerge the winners‚ 12-11. Buddy Myers’ double is followed by a single from Ira Flagstead. New York scores a pair in the top of the 9thg to tie‚ and then there…
Pounding five Boston pitchers for 22 hits, the 2nd-place Tigers outlast the Red Sox, 17 – 11. Harry Heilmann leads the cat attack with two homers and two singles.
White Sox righty Ted Lyons pitches a 6-0 no-hitter against Boston
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