Jack Chesbro Position: Pitcher Bats: Right • Throws: Right 5-9, 180lb (175cm, 81kg) Born: June 5, 1874 in North Adams, MA us Died: November 6, 1931 in Conway, MA Buried: Howland Cemetery, Conway, MA Debut: 1899 (2,122nd in major league history) Last Game: October 2, 1909 Hall of Fame: Inducted as Player in 1946. (Voted by Old Timers Committee) Induction ceremony in Cooperstown held in 1947. View Jack Chesbro’s Page at the Baseball Hall of…
1946 – Former major leaguers Jesse Burkett, Frank Chance, Jack Chesbro, Johnny Evers, Clark Griffith, Tommy McCarthy, Joe McGinnity, Eddie Plank, Joe Tinker, Rube Waddell and Ed Walsh are inducted into the Hall of Fame.
The Athletics and Red Sox split a doubleheader, each team winning, 1 – 0. The Red Sox also pick up pitcher Jack Chesbro (0-4) on waivers from the Highlanders. The future Hall of Fame member will pitch and lose one game for Boston before calling it quits.
On September 7, 1908 — On Labor Day, Manager Joe Cantillon starts Walter Johnson in place of one pitcher who is sick, and another who returned to Washington to be with his sick wife. Only three Senators pitchers made the trip to New York. Walter Johnson shuts out the New York Highlanders for the third…
With the Highlanders leading the Tigers, 3 – 2, in the 8th, Detroit scores two runs on a Ty Cobb triple. With lefty Claude Rossman the next hitter, New York’s new manager Kid Elberfeld moves righty pitcher Jack Chesbro to 1B and replaces him with first baseman Hal Chase. Chase allows a fly ball that scores Cobb, then goes back to 1B and Chesbro resumes his spot on the mound. It is Chase’s only pitching appearance as the Tigers win, 5 – 3.
In his first major league at-bat, 18 year-old center fielder Ty Cobb doubles off Jack Chesbro in the first inning of the Tigers’ 5-3 victory over the Highlanders at Detroit’s Bennett Park. The two-bagger is the first of the 4,189 hits the ‘Georgia Peach’ will collect during his 24-year Hall of Fame career.
1904 STANDINGS National League New York Giants 106 47 .693 — Chicago Cubs 93 60 .608 13 Cincinnati Reds 88 65 .575 18 Pittsburgh Pirates 87 66 .569 19 St. Louis Cardinals 75 79 .487 31.5 Brooklyn Superbas 56 97 .366 50 Boston Beaneaters 55 98 .359 51 Philadelphia Phillies 52 100 .342…
Jack Chesbro gets his 41st win of the season when the Highlanders beat Boston in New York, 3-2. Happy Jack’s win-total is considered to be the modern era major league mark for the most victories in a season.
1904 – More than 23,000, reputedly the largest crowd in Boston history, show up for the showdown twinbill with the New York Highlanders. New York scores three runs in each of the first two innings against Bill Dineen. Jack Chesbro (35-8) holds on for a 6 – 4 win, his 7th win in a row. New York briefly takes over 1st place. But Cy Young tops New York, 4 – 2, in the nitecap, beating Ned Garvin, recently acquired from Brooklyn. The two teams complete their three doubleheaders at 2-2-2.
On June 25, 1904 In Boston, the Highlanders’ Jack Chesbro wins his 12th straight, besting Cy Young, 5 – 3. Patsy Dougherty has three hits against his former teammates. @ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF90YWdzIiwic2V0dGluZ3MiOnsiYmVmb3JlIjoiTGVhcm4gTW9yZSBhYm91dCB0aGUgdGVhbXMsIHBsYXllcnMsIGJhbGwgcGFya3MgYW5kIGV2ZW50cyB0aGF0IGhhcHBlbmVkIG9uIHRoaXMgZGF0ZSBpbiBoaXN0b3J5IGp1c3QgY2xpY2sgdGhlIHRhZ3MhICAiLCJhZnRlciI6IiIsImxpbmtfdG9fdGVybV9wYWdlIjoib24iLCJzZXBhcmF0b3IiOiIgfCAiLCJjYXRlZ29yeV90eXBlIjoicG9zdF90YWcifX0=@