On June 22, 1930, Lou Gehrig hits three home runs in the second game of a doubleheader to lead the New York Yankees to a 20-13 win over the Philadelphia Athletics. In the first game, Babe Ruth hits two home runs, as the Yankees blow out the A’s, 10-1. Ruth had hit three home runs…
At Cleveland’s League Park, the Indians defeat the Yankees, 4 – 3, in the first game in major league history in which players from both teams wear numbers on the back of their jerseys.
1929 – The New York Yankees announce they will put numbers on the backs of their uniforms, becoming the first baseball team to start continuous use of the numbers. The first numbers are based on positions in the batting order; thus, Babe Ruth will wear number 3 and Lou Gehrig number 4. In a few weeks, the Cleveland Indians announce that they, too, will put numbers on the uniforms. By 1931, all American League teams will use them. It will be 1933 before all National League players are numbered.
On October 15, 1928 Six days after winning the World Series two of baseball’s most famous players — the Yankees’ Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig — arrived at Ottawa’s Union Station as part of a 21-game barnstorming tour across North America. They took a suite at the Château Laurier and later played an exhibition game…
On October 9, 1928, At Sportsman’s Park in St. Louis, the Yankees beat the Cardinals, 7-3, completing their second consecutive sweep of the World Series. The Yankees trailing 2-1, Ruth and Lou Gehrig hi back to back homeruns in the top of the 7th, for Ruth it was his second of the game. Pete…
1928 – In the World Series, Lou Gehrig hits two home runs to lead the New York Yankees to a 7 – 3 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals, giving them a 3-0 lead.
1928 – In the World Series, Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees unloads a three-run home run in the 1st inning of Game 2. Grover Cleveland Alexander, the hero of the 1926 Series between the Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals, is driven from the game in the 3rd inning as New York cruises, 9 – 3, to take a 2-1 Series lead.
1928 – Game 1 of the World Series between the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals is a swift execution before 61,425 fans at Yankee Stadium. Babe Ruth has a single and double, and scores two runs, one on Bob Meusel’s 4th-inning home run, and Lou Gehrig is 2 for 4 with two RBI off Bill Sherdel. Pitcher Waite Hoyt sets the Cardinals down with three hits, one a solo home run by Jim Bottomley in the 7th inning, for a 4 – 1 victory.
1927,The Yankees fielded what many still consider the finest team in baseball history in 1927, winning 110 games to easily take the American League pennant. Gehrig, Ruth, Lazzeri, Meusel, and Combs formed the “Murderers Row” that scored 975 runs while the rotation of Waite Hoyt, Urban Shocker, Herb Pennock, and Dutch Reuther held the league…
In the bottom of the ninth of Game 4, Pirates right-hander Johnny Miljus loads the bases with no out, but gets Lou Gehrig to strike out swinging and strikes out Bob Meusel looking. The 32 year-old Pittsburgh hurler, facing Tony Lazzeri with two outs and a 0-1 count, throws a wild pitch, and Earle Combs races home with the winning run to give the Yankees the Fall Classic sweep of the Bucs and the team’s second world championship.
Enjoy our free trial and start listening to games, interviews and shows! Ruth, Mantle, Aaron, and Seaver!