VINTAGE BASEBALL MEMORABILIA Vintage Baseball Memorabilia On June 20, At Tiger Stadium, Yankee reliever Jose Rijo falls to 1-7 when he serves up a 2-out three-run homer to Howard Johnson in the 13th inning. Detroit wins, 9 – 6. Alan Trammell, Lance Parrish and Chet Lemon also hit homers for the Tigers, who draw…
On June 20, Dave Kingman hits his 3rd grand slam of the season in the 1st inning of the A’s 8 – 1 win over Kansas City. Kingman’s 14 grand slams are the most among active players.
On June 20, 1983 – Yankee outfielder Bobby Murcer retires as an active player.
On June 20, The Phillies’ Pete Rose plays in his 3,000th major league game (a 3 – 1 loss to the Pirates), joining Ty Cobb, Stan Musial, Hank Aaron and Carl Yastrzemski as the only players to reach that plateau. It is also “Charlie Hustle”‘s 523rd consecutive game played.
On June 20, Milwaukee’s Ben Oglivie smacks three home runs in a 7 – 5 win over Detroit. It is the second 3-homer game of his career.
On June 20, 1980, five-foot, five-inch Freddie Patek known by the nickname of “Flea” of the California Angels slugs three home runs in a game at Fenway Park. The diminutive shortstop, who will finish his career with only 41 home runs, becomes the smallest player to hit three homers in a game. Patek also…
On June 20, Leonard Smith the man who confessed to killing California Angels star Lyman Bostock, is set free. Smith killed Bostock with a shotgun blast on September 23, 1978, Smith stating he intended to shoot his wife. He later went to trial for murder, after the first trial resulted in a hung jury, Smith…
On June 20, 1980, Chicago White Sox reliever Ed Farmer swears he will take criminal action against Detroit’s Al Cowens following an on-field brawl in Chicago. Cowens hit a grounder to SS, and then charges the mound instead of running to first base. While still playing with the Royals in 1979, on May 8, in…
On June 20, 1978 – Toronto is defeated for the third consecutive game by a Canadian-born pitcher. The Blue Jays lose to John Hiller of Detroit, after having previously tasted defeat at the hands of Ferguson Jenkins and Reggie Clevelandof the Texas Rangers.
The Red Sox set a major league record when the team hits their twenty-second home run in the past six games. Butch Hobson’s eighth-inning solo shot off Rudy May in the team’s 4-0 victory over the Orioles at Memorial Stadium establishes the new mark.
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