May 10, 1967

In the eighth inning of a game against Philadelphia’s Jim Bunning, Hank Aaron hits the only inside-the-park home run of his career.

May 10, 1970

The Braves’ Hoyt Wilhelm becomes the first player to appear in 1,000 games in a loss to St. Louis.

May 10, 1981

The Expos’ Charlie Lea no-hits the Giants 4-0. It was the first no-hitter in Olympic Stadium, which opened in 1977.

May 9, 1984

The longest game in Major League history was played between the Chicago White Sox and the Milwaukee Brewers. The game, longest in time and innings, ends in the 25th inning when Harold Baines homers giving the White Sox a 7-6 victory. The game lasted eight hours and six minutes.

The game is halted on May 8th and continued before the regular scheduled game on May 9th. Tom Seaver wins the game with an inning of relief, then starts the regularly scheduled game and tosses 8.1 innings of  ball to win both games in the day.

May 9, 1987

Eddie Murray hits a home run from both sides of the plate for the second consecutive day. This was the first time this happened in Major League history.

Born on this day:

1960 Tony Gwynn

May 8, 1906

Connie Mack of the Athletics inserts pitcher Alvin “Chief” Bender into left field in the sixth inning due to injuries. Bender responds by hitting a pair of inside-the-park home runs in a game against the Boston Pilgrims.

May 8, 1907

Big Jeff Pfeffer, of the Boston Braves, tosses a no-hitter against the Reds giving the Braves a 6-0 win.

May 8, 1929

The New York Giants Carl Hubbell tosses a no-hitter against the Pittsburgh Pirates. It was the first no-hitter by a lefty in 13 years.

May 8, 1946

The Red Sox Johnny Pesky scores six runs in a game against the White Sox becoming the first player in the American League to do so.

May 8, 1966

Baltimore right fielder Frank Robinson hits the first ball completely out of Memorial Stadium in Baltimore. The homer run ends Luis Tiant‘s scoreless-innings streak at 27.

May 8, 1968

Catfish Hunter tosses a perfect game for the Oakland A’s against the Minnesota Twins winning 4-0.

May 8, 1998

The St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Mark McGwire hits his 400th home run at Shea Stadium. He is the 26th player to make it to 400 home runs. He would finish with 583 home runs placing him 10th on the all-time list.

May 7, 1922

The New York Giants Jesse Barnes throws the only no-hitter of the year beating the Philadelphia Phillies 6-0.

May 7, 1957

Cleveland pitcher Herb Score was hit in the eye by a line drive in the first inning. The ball, off of Gil McDougald‘s bat, broke Score’s nose and damaged his right eye. He would miss the rest of the season.

Score won 20 games in 1956, but after the injury never won more than nine in a year. He hurt his arm in 1958, then changed his motion in 1959 to try to avoid a similar injury again.

May 7, 1959

On “Roy Campanella Night” at the Los Angeles Coliseum, 93,103 fans came out to show their affection for the paralyzed Dodger catcher. The Yankees then defeated the Dodgers in an exhibition game after the ceremonies.

Born on this day:

1929 Dick Williams

Died on this day:

1995 Gus Bell

May 6, 1915

Pitching for the Boston Red Sox, Babe Ruth picks up three hits in a game against the Yankees at the Polo Grounds including his first home run off of Jack Warhop.

May 6, 1917

Bob Groom no-hits the Chicago White Sox as the Browns win 3-0. The no-hitter came in the second game of a double header, but the day before Groom’s teammate Ernie Koob also no-hit the White Sox.

May 6, 1953

St. Louis Browns pitcher Bobo Holloman tosses a no-hitter against the Philadelphia Athletics winning 6-0. It was his first big league start and the only complete game of his career.

May 6, 1982

Gaylord Perry, pitching for the Seattle Mariners, beast the New York Yankees 7-3 at the Kingdome. The win was Perry’s 300th making him the 15th man to reach 300 wins. He would go on to finish his Hall of Fame career with 314 wins currently putting him 17th on the all-time list.

Born on this day:

1931 Willie Mays

May 5, 1904

The Boston Americans pitcher Cy Young tosses his second no-hitter when he tosses a perfect game against Rube Waddell and the Philadelphia Athletics.

Young would wind up tossing 24 straight hitless innings and 45 shutout innings in a row.

May 5, 1922

In an effort to end the Browns’ Bill Bayne‘s bid at a no-hitter. Tigers’ manager Ty Cobb sends up five straight pinch-hitters in the ninth inning. The first pinch-hitter breaks up the no-no.

One of the hitters Cobb sends to the plate is Bob Fothergill. He hits for Cobb and becomes the only man to ever pinch-hit for him.

May 5, 1962

Los Angeles Angels rookie Bo Belinsky tosses a no-hitter against the Baltimore Orioles.

The Angles drafted Belinsky from the Orioles in the 1961 Rule 5 draft. He would finish his rookie season 10-11, his best year in the big leagues.

May 5, 1975

Herb Washington is released by the Oakland A’s. He played in 105 games as a pinch runner. Over those games he never got an at-bat nor played in the field. He stole 31 bases in 48 tries.

May 5, 1978

Pete Rose collects hit number 3,000 when he singles off of Montreal’s Steve Rogers.

Died on this day:

1969 Eddie Cicotte

May 4, 1966

Willie Mays sets the N.L. home run record when he blasts his 512th homer. The homer put him past a former Giant, Mel Ott.

May 4, 1975

In the first game of a doubleheader at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, the Houston Astros Bob Watson scores the Major League’s millionth run in the second inning.

May 4, 1981

New York Yankees reliever Ron Davis strikes out the final eight Angels in a 4-2 win. This ties Nolan Ryan‘s A.L. record for consecutive strikeouts and setting a new record for a reliever.

May 4, 1982

Minnesota Twins rookie Jim Eisenreich is forced to remove himself from a game when he is taunted about his condition, he suffers from the nervous disorder Tourette’s Syndrome, when he can’t control his violent twitching. He will be hospitalized a few days later and retires in 1984.

Thankfully he finds an effective treatment for the disorder and makes a comeback in 1987 with the Kansas City Royals. He would go on to play 12 years in the big leagues after his return.

Born on this day:

1945 Rene Lachemann

1956 Ken Oberkfell

1968 Eddie Perez

1971 Joe Borowski

1974 Miguel Cairo

May 3, 1938

Lefty Grove wins his 20th consecutive game at home, Fenway Park. He would not lose here for another three years.

May 3, 1979

Bobby Bonds becomes the second player to hit 300 home runs and steal 300 bases when he hits #300 off of Moose Haas. The only other player to be a 300/300 man at the time was Willie Mays. The list now includes a total of eight players.

May 3, 1980

Willie McCovey hits his 521st and final home run of his career. The homer comes off Montreal’s Scott Sanderson tying him with Ted Williams on the all-time list. He would retire a month later.

May 3, 1980

Fergie Jenkins becomes the first player to win 100 games in both leagues when he defeats the Orioles 3-2 with the Texas Rangers. He would finish his Hall of Fame career with 284 wins.

May 3, 1982

The Baltimore Orioles Gregg Olson becomes the youngest player to save 100 games. He is just 25 years old. He would finish the year with 36 saves and his career with 217.

May 3, 1995

David Bell makes his Major League debut for the Cleveland Indians. His appearance marks the second time a three-generation family has played in the big leagues. His grandfather Gus, who died four days later, and father Buddy also played in the big leagues. The only other family to do that is the Boone family.

Born on this day:

1904 Red Ruffing

1945 Davey Lopes

1977 Ryan Dempster

Died on this day:

1999 Joe Adcock

May 2, 1909

In the first inning in a game with the Chicago Cubs, Honus Wagner steals his way around the bases. It was the fourth time he had done it which is a N.L. record.

May 2, 1917

With a feat that may never be repeated, the Cubs Hippo Vaughn and Reds Fred Toney both have no-hitters after nine full innings. Then with an out in the top of the tenth, and runners at second and third, a swinging bunt is hit toward the mound. Vaughn picks it up and fires home, but the catcher, Art Wilson, stalls and the ball hits him in the chest letting in the only run of the game.

Toney sets down the Cubs in the tenth and has the fourth ten-inning no-hitter to date.

May 2, 1939

Lou Gehrig voluntarily benches himself for the good of the team. This ends Gehrig’s streak of 2,130 consecutive games played.

Born on this day:

1887 Eddie Collins

1954 Keith Moreland

May 1, 1906

The Philadelphia Phillies Johnny Lush no-hits the Brooklyn Dodgers. He would finish the season 18-15 with a 2.37 ERA.

May 1, 1920

Babe Ruth hits his first home run as a New York Yankee helping beat Boston 6-0. He would finish the season with 54 home runs.

May 1, 1920

Boston’s Joe Oeschger and Brooklyn’s Leon Cadore both pitch an amazing 26 innings dueling to a 1-1 tie in what is still the longest game in MLB history. The game is called due to darkness.

May 1, 1926

A 19-year old Satchel Paige makes his debut in the Negro Southern League leading Chattanooga to a 6-5 win over Birmingham. It would be another 22 years before Paige would make his long overdue MLB debut.

May 1, 1951

In a game between the New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox, two historic events happened. First was Minnie Minoso becoming the first black player for the White Sox. In his Sox debut, Minoso hits a home run in his first at bat. Minoso would go on to win the 1951 A.L. Rookie of the Year Award.

The other first in the game was the first home run by a young Yankee named Mickey Mantle. Mantle would go on to hit 535 more over his storied career.

May 1, 1969

Houston pitcher Don Wilson tosses a no-hitter against Cincinnati as the Astros win 4-0 and Wilson strikes out 13. The Astros had been no-hit the day prior.

May 1, 1991

Forty-four-year-old Nolan Ryan strikes out 16 Blue Jays as he tosses his seventh no-hitter at Arlington Stadium. The Rangers would win 3-0.

On the same day on the west coast, Rickey Henderson surpasses Lou Brock after stealing third base in a game against the Yankees. It was Henderson’s 939th stolen base. He would go on to shatter the record with 1,406.

May 1, 2002

The San Diego Padres Trevor Hoffman sets the record for saves with one club with 321 breaking Dennis Eckersley‘s record. He would finish his career with 601 saves (552 with the Padres). Both are now 2nd all-time behind Mariano Rivera.

April 30, 1922

Chicago White Sox pitcher Charlie Robertson pitches a perfect game against the Detroit Tigers. Robertson would finish the year 14-15 with an ERA of 3.64.

April 30, 1946

Bob Feller tosses his second no-hitter beating the New York Yankees 1-0. The no-hitter was his first after serving four years in the Navy. He would end his Hall of Fame career with three no-nos.

April 30, 1967

Baltimore Orioles pitchers Steve Barber and Stu Miller combine to no-hit the Detroit Tigers winning 2-1. Barber pitched 8.2 innings and Miller finished it off with the final out.

April 30, 1969

The Cincinnati Reds Jim Maloney no-hits the Houston Astros. He struck out 13 on his way to the victory and his second no-hitter.

April 30, 1985

Dale Murphy drives in his 28th and 29th run for the month of April tying Ron Cey‘s 1977 record for RBI in April (since broken).

April 30, 1994

The Toronto Blue Jays Joe Carter sets the Major League record for RBI in April with his 31st of the month. The Rockies Andres Galarraga set the N.L. mark with 30.

April 30, 1997

Tino Martinez breaks Carter’s three year old record knocking in 34 runs in the month of April with the New York Yankees.

Born on this day:

1949 Phil Garner

April 29, 1931

Cleveland Indians pitcher Wes Ferrell throws a no-hitter against the St. Louis Browns. Ferrell also hit a home run and a double knocking in four runs in the Indians 7-0 win.

April 29, 1981

Steve Carlton became the first left-hander, and sixth major leaguer, to strike out 3,000 batters when he struck out Tim Wallach in the first inning of the Phillies win over the Expos.

Carlton would end his career with 4,136 strike outs.

April 29, 1986

Boston Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens sets the Major League record for strikeouts in a game when he fans 20 Seattle Mariners.

Born on this day:

1934 Luis Aparicio

1947 Tom House

1952 Ron Washington

April 28, 1952

The St. Louis Browns send two minor league players, John Britton and Jim Newberry, to the Hankyu Braves of the Pacific League in Japan. The Browns become the first team to send players outside of the U.S.

April 28, 1956

Cincinnati Redlegs rookie Frank Robinson hits his first Major League home run off of Cubs pitcher Paul Minner. This would be the first of Robinson’s 586 home runs.

Robinson went on to hit 38 in his rookie season helping him win the N.L. Rookie of the Year Award.

April 28, 1961

Just five days after his 40th birthday, Warren Spahn became the second oldest pitcher to throw a no-hitter behind Cy Young. Spahn and the Braves beat the San Francisco Giants 1-0.

Hank Aaron drives in the only run helping Spahn win his 290th game. He would go on to win 363 over his Hall of Fame career.

April 28, 1988

The Baltimore Orioles lose 4-2 to the Minnesota Twins setting the A.L. record with their twenty-first consecutive loss.

April 28, 1998

Juan Gonzalez, the Texas Rangers right fielder, drives in his 35th run in April setting a new Major League record.

Born on this day:

1960 Tom Browning

1964 Barry Larkin

April 27, 1944

Jim Tobin tosses a no-hitter for the Braves against the Dodgers, and he hits a home run.

April 27, 1968

Tom Phoebus throws a no-hitter for the Orioles against the Red Sox as Baltimore wins 6-0. Brooks Robinson drives in three runs and makes a great stop at third base.

Phoebus would finish his career with 56 wins and 11 shutouts in only 201 games.

April 27, 1973

Kansas City Royals rookie Steve Busby tosses a no-hitter against the Tigers in Detroit. The Royals win 3-0. Busby was the first pitcher to throw a no-hitter and not bat in the game.

April 27, 1983

Nolan Ryan strikes out Brad Mills in a 4-2 Astros win over the Expos. With the strikeout, Ryan moved past Walter Johnson on the all-time strikeout list with 3,509. Ryan would go on to rack up another 2,205 strikeouts.

April 27, 1994

Minnesota pitcher Scott Erickson throws the first Twins no-hitter since 1967 when he no hits the Brewers.

Born on this day:

1896 Rogers Hornsby

1916 Enos Slaughter

1975 Chris Carpenter

April 25, 1904

New York Highlanders pitcher Jack Chesbro won his first game of the season. He would go on to set the American League record with 41 victories.

He would finish the year with a record of 41-12 and an ERA of just 1.82. He threw 48 complete games and six shutouts over 454.2 innings of work.

April 24, 1976

Chicago Cubs outfielder Rick Monday saves an American flag from two people who ran onto the field and tried to burn it. It happened in the fourth inning of a game at Dodger Stadium.

April 25, 1995

Major League Baseball returned after a 257-day labor dispute that saw the 1994 season without a World Series.

April 23, 1903

The New York Highlanders defeat the Washington Senators 7-2 earning the first win in franchise history. The franchise would stay with the Highlanders name until the 1913 season when they changed it to the Yankees.

April 23, 1903

Ted Williams goes 4-5 and hits the first home run of his career in a 12-8 loss to Philadelphia at Fenway Park.

April 23, 1954

Hank Aaron hits his first Major League home run at Sportsman’s Park in St. Louis as the Braves win 7-5 in 14 innings. The home run came off of Vic Raschi.

April 23, 1964

The Houston Colt .45′s Ken Johnson becomes the first pitcher to lose a nine-inning no hitter when second baseman Nellie Fox commits an error allowing the only run. The Cincinnati Reds win the game 1-0.

April 23, 1999

The St. Louis Cardinals Fernando Tatis sets a new record when he hits two grand slams in the same inning (the third). The Dodgers pitcher Chan Ho Park became the first player in the century, and second ever, to give up two grand slams in an inning.

Born on this day:

1921 Warren Spahn

1977 Andruw Jones

April 17, 1929

Babe Ruth and actress Claire Hodgson are married. The wedding takes place at 5 am to avoid crowds. In his first at-bat in the next game, Ruth hits a home run off of Red Ruffing.

April 17, 1934

Casey Stengel manages his first game. His Brooklyn Dodgers lose to the Boston Braves 8-7. Stengel would go on to win 1905 games with four different franchises including 7 World Series titles with the New York Yankees.

April 17, 1947

Jackie Robinson gets his first of 1,518 hits in the Dodgers 12-6 win over the Boston Braves. The hit came off of Glenn Elliot.

April 17, 1963

Mickey Mantle hits a 565-feet home run off of Chuck Stobbs of the Washington Senators. It was the longest home run in Griffith Stadium history.

April 17, 1979

The Oakland A’s beat the Seattle Mariners 6-5 in front of a crowd of only 653 fans.

Born on this day:

1967 Marquis Grissom

April 16, 1929

Hall of Famer Earl Averill of Cleveland becomes the first American League player to hit a home run in his first at bat off of Detroit Tigers hurler Earl Whitehill. The Indians would win 5-4 in 11 innings.

Averill would go on to hit 238 career home runs with a career high of 32 in both 1931 and 1932.

April 16, 1940

Cleveland Indians pitcher Bob Feller throws the first Opening Day no-hitter since 1909. He beats the Chicago White Sox 1-0 at Comiskey Park.

April 16, 1972

Rookie Cubs hurler Burt Hooton no-hits the Phillies winning 4-0. It was only the fourth game Hooton pitched at the Major League level.

April 16, 1978

Bob Forsch of the St. Louis Cardinals no-hits the Philadelphia Phillies. The Cardinals win 5-0 in the first of two no-hitters tossed by Forsch.

April 16, 1989

Kelly Gruber becomes the first Toronto Blue Jay to hit for the cycle in a 15-8 win over the Kansas City Royals.

Born on this day:

1903 Paul Waner

1955 Bruce Bochy

April 15, 1918

Babe Ruth leads the Boston Red Sox to a 7-1 victory against the A’s on Opening Day. Ruth led the Sox on the mound, not from the batters box, as Ruth allows just four hits in a complete game victory.

April 15, 1947

In one of the biggest events in the history of US sports, Jackie Robinson plays in his first game as a Brooklyn Dodger. He goes 0-for-3 but handles a new position just fine, first base. The Dodgers defeat the Boston Braves 5-3 in the historic game.

April 15, 1972

Reggie Jackson has a mustache in the A’s 4-3 11 inning win over the Twins. He is reported to be the first player with facial hair since 1914.

April 15, 1993

Andre Dawson becomes the 25th player to hit 400 home runs when he hits a solo home run over the Green Monster in Boston off of Indians pitcher Jose Mesa. Dawson would finish the ’93 season with 13 home runs. He would finish his career with 438 home runs.

April 9, 1913

The Brooklyn Dodgers play the first regular season game at Ebbets Field one day ahead of the rest of the league. Due to cold weather only about 12,000 fans show up to see the Phillies Tom Seaton shutout the Dodgers 1-0.

April 9, 1947

Brooklyn Dodgers manager Leo Durocher was suspended for the season by commissioner Happy Chandler for “association with known gamblers”.

The Dodgers would go on to win the NL pennant but lose to the Yankees in seven games in the World Series.

April 9, 1981

After scheduled starter Jerry Reuss pulls a calf muscle, Fernando Valenzuela is pressed into the Opening Day start. Valenzuela will go onto shut out the Houston Astros on five hits winning 2-0 in his first MLB start.

Fernando would go onto win eight straight en route to winning both the Rookie of the Year and Cy Young Awards.

April 9, 1989

Rickey Henderson steals his 800th career base as the Yankees lose to the Indians 4-3.

Born on this day:

1965 Hal Morris

1969 Graeme Lloyd

Died on this day:

2001 Willie Stargell

March 26, 1937

Ty Cobb advises Joe DiMaggio to lighten his bat from 40 ounces to 36 ounces. The result is one of his best seasons of his career.

In 1937, DiMaggio will go on to hit .346 with a league leading 46 home runs and 151 runs scored. He also leads the league in slugging at .673 and total bases with 418.

Born on this day:

1962 Kevin Seitzer

March 25, 1997

Two seasons after facing each other in the World Series, the Atlanta Braves and Cleveland Indians make a big trade.

The Braves send ’95 World Series hero David Justice and Marquis Grissom to the Indians. In return they receive speedy outfielder Kenny Lofton and left-handed reliever Alan Embree.

Embree would only spend a season and a half with Atlanta before being shipped off to Arizona. Lofton would have a down year in Atlanta before resigning with Cleveland in 1998 as a free agent.

Grissom would only spend a year in Cleveland before being traded to Milwaukee the following off season.

Justice would have the most success out of all of those dealt. He spent 3.5 seasons with Cleveland and had a great comeback year in 1997 hitting 33 home runs after being injured for most of 1996.

Born on this day:

1955 Lee Mazzilli

1966 Tom Glavine

1969 Travis Fryman

Died on this day:

1951 Eddie Collins

March 24, 1911

Helene Hathaway Britton becomes the first woman to own a franchise when her uncle Matthew Stanley Robison dies unexpectedly. Robison lef the team, the St. Louis Cardinals, to his niece. She will go on to own the team from 1911 to 1916.

March 24, 1982

Fernando Valenzuela ends his holdout and reports to the Los Angeles Dodgers spring training.

Valenzuela was holding out for more money after making just $42,500 in 1981 when he won the Rookie of the Year and the Cy Young Award. He will make a reported $360,000 in 1982 after asking for $1 million.

He will end 1982 with a 19-13 record and an ERA of 2.87. He pitches 285.0 innings with 18 complete games and four shutouts. He will finish third in the Cy Young voting as well.

Born on this day:

1893 George Sisler

1942 Jesus Alou

1956 Garry Templeton

1958 Bruce Hurst

March 22, 1972

The New York Yankees trade first baseman Danny Cater to the Boston Red Sox for pitcher Sparky Lyle.

The Yankees got the better end of this deal as Lyle went on to post a record of 57-40 and save 141 games over the next seven years with the Yankees. In addition, he won the 1972 Fireman of the Year Award and the 1977 Cy Young Award.

Cater played just three seasons for the Red Sox never playing more than 92 games in a season.

March 22, 1993

In a boating accident on Little Lake Nellie in Clermont, Florida, Cleveland Indians pitchers Steve Olin and Tim Crews die. Olin died instantly and Crews died of his injuries the next day. Also in the accident was teammate Bob Ojeda who was seriously injured but able to recover and return to the mound later that season.