How did your team fare the day you were born?

[runningshoes]

Boston Red Sox bats were idle on June 20, 1966. The baseball Gods held me in limbo while Carl Yastrzemski, Tony Conigliaro, Rico Petrocelli and a fledgling first baseman named George Scott, who was battling Chicago White Sox phenom Tommie Agee for Rookie of the Year honours, took the twilight game of a double header that day against Boog Powell, Luis Aparicio, Davey Johnson and a pair of Robinsons who would rock the baseball world and lead the Baltimore Orioles to its first world championship later that year.

One month later, while the boys of Bean town continued their slide to the bottom of the American League along with the New York Yankees, the greatest natural hitter in the game’s rich history, Ted Williams, was enshrined at Cooperstown. The following year, Yaz and the boys turned it around and took the dream all the way to the seventh game of the World Series, only to lose to the powerhouse St. Louis Cardinals.

How did your team fare the day you entered this world destined for a love affair with the greatest game ever conceived? Were your heroes, who you have come to know so well, victorious on their march to October, or did they fall as you slept, waiting for the wonders of America's pastime to enrich your life?

If you don’t know or you’re unsure, simply post your birth date and your favourite team and I will research it for you. I will also try to let you know a little about your team's performance that day, if you don’t already know.

If you do know, then please let us all know as well.

And if, by some horrible twist of fate, you had the misfortune of being born during basketball season, feel free to let everyone know what was happening on diamonds across America and Canada anyways.

Have fun. :)

[RBi]

HEHE My cubs did not lose on that day.

I will take that!
:)

[RuthMayBond]

The Tribe got shelled early, tried to make a comeback, and fell short. Pretty much the story of their life :grouchy

[VTSoxFan]

All right.... How did my beloved Red Sox do on August 13, 1968?

[RBi]

All right.... How did my beloved Red Sox do on August 13, 1968?
Chicago 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 – 3 10 2
Boston 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 x – 4 8 0

[runningshoes]

All right.... How did my beloved Red Sox do on August 13, 1968?

On August 1, 1968 the Boston Red Sox defeated the Chicago White Sox 4 -3.

Rico Petrocelli had the big bat for Boston that day going 2 for 3 and driving in three runs with a double (15) and a home run (12).

The baseball Gods were watching over you that day, Annie

[Brian McKenna]

can't play - my birth date is in january 1966 but my orioles did win the series that year with my all time favorite brooks robinson homering in his first w.s. at bat

[Chisox73]

As far as I know,the White Sox were watching the snow piling up on December 6,1965.:laugh

As for that 1965 (http://baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1965&t=CHA) season,they finished 2nd place in the American League,7 games behind Minnesota at 95-67.The recently departed Al Lopez was manger of the team.They were led in hitting by Don Buford who hit .293 and stole a team high 17 bases for the Sox.John Romano and Moose Skowron each hit 18 homers to pace the club,while Skowron had 78 RBIs to top the team.

Knuckle ball pitcher Eddie Fisher led the team with a 15-7 record and a 2.40 ERA,Tommy John was 14-7 with a club leading 126 strikeouts.

[Go Bravos!!!#1]

That fateful day June 10,1992. The braves beat the Dodgers 2-1 behind the arm of Steve Avery. Also I was born that day.
My parents named me Justice after David Justice ,now you know I had to become a braves fan.
1992 became the year when Sid Bream slid home to win the pennant. I was probably sucking on a bottle when it happened wondering why my dad was so ecstatic.
Unfortunently ,we lost the WS to the Blue Jays. But,hey you can''t win 'em all.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.;) :)

[DownUnderDodger]

Unfortunatly, on the day I was born I was too young to remember what happened in the MLB. In fact being born in Australia I had no idea what MLB was - wait a minute I did "Mommy Loves Bobby" (My name is obviously Bob). :crazy :laugh

Now, as to the date, 12th August in a year before 1958, my team did not exist per se, and I say this in due respect to donzblock, DodgerDeb and all other Brooklyn Dodger fans who frequent this site. :D But in further respect to those fine folk I just mentioned, I will pass my allegiance back to Brooklyn for a moment and after research here is some of what happened in the wonderful year and on the great day of my birth.

Year 1952:
Russia openly criticized the American game of baseball by citing their own version called "lapka" as being the original concept for the game. The State Department quickly came to the defense of the National Pastime by accusing the Soviet's claim as the founders of baseball to be part of its "Hate America" Cold War campaign.

Brooklyn Dodgers won the National League by 4 1/2 games over NY Giants with a 96-57-2 win/loss record (yep, in the days when ties were ties!). They lost the WS 4 games to 3 to cross city rivals NY Yankees (Yuk!!)

Notable Brooklyn Dodgers player stats included:
OBP - Jackie Robinson .440
Stolen Bases - Pee Wee Reese 30

Notable Brooklyn Dodgers team stats included:
Base on Balls 663
HR 153
OBP .348
Runs 775
Slugging .399
Stolen Bases 90
Strikeouts 773

On my birthdate - 12th August
The Brooklyn Dodgers had a travel day. The previous day they had disposed of The Phillies 9-5 at Philadelphia and the next day they took care of the Giants, 5-4 in Brooklyn. And, as I was born at 8:40pm Eastern Australian time, the clock had already ticked over to 12th August in New York, so we cannot use the time difference to change the circumstances.

I think that is enough info - and I have enjoyed researching same. Thank you Baseball Almanac!!


That fateful day June 10,1992. The braves beat the Dodgers 2-1 behind the arm of Steve Avery. Also I was born that day.
My parents named me Justice after David Justice ,now you know I had to become a braves fan.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.;) :)

What an interesting story (I would stick to it too!!), and from one so young. It is wonderful to have such youth participating here at Baseball Fever :clapping . You have done great Justice to this thread ;) !! And I will forgive the Braves for beating the LA Dodgers on such an auspicious day!! :D

[brewcrew82]

23rd of June 1981, the brewers, as well as the rest of Major League Baseball were on strike...:grouchy

[west coast orange and black]

annie: How did my beloved Red Sox do on August 13, 1968?

more swag for you, annie:

red sox lineup:
andrews - 2b
jones - 1b
yastrzemski - lf
harrelson - rf
smith - cf
foy - 3b
petrocelli - ss
nixon - c
pizarro - p

it was a night game
2:14 total time
23,648 attendance

pizarro went the full nine
petrocelli had the gwrbi on a sac fly, scoring harrelson
luis aparicio was caught stealing pizarro/jones/petrocelli
tommy davis was caught stealing nixon/andrews

[steveox]

How did My Beloved Orioles do on August 3rd 1961 and who was winning pitcher and the losing pitcher? And who hit the homers? What was the weather like? Who carried the game was televised?

[runningshoes]

That fateful day June 10,1992. The braves beat the Dodgers 2-1 behind the arm of Steve Avery. Also I was born that day.
My parents named me Justice after David Justice ,now you know I had to become a braves fan.

Looks like the baseball Gods were watching over you that day.

A good Friend of mine named his son Cal after you know who and my cousin named his son Hayden after......:eek:

And to think, I almost named my son Theodore. :D

[iPod]

The Giants were missing out on the playoffs on the day I was born, but the '02 Giants clinched the pennant on my birthday. That was a pretty cool day.

[Captain Cold Nose]

I was born in the offseason. November 25. There are a few birthdays on the 25th (Joe DiMaggio, of course) but I don't think I share my exact birthday, 1970, with anyone, or anything of significance happened that.
I will be eligible to run for President in 16 days. Vote for me but not in Ohio. The Secretary of State won't allow it.

[runningshoes]

How did My Beloved Orioles do on August 3rd 1961?

The baseball Gods were watching over you that Thursday afternoon, Steve, as your Orioles shut out the Twins at Memorial Stadium on their way to a 95 win season, 14 games shy of the New York Yankees who captured the World Series title in five games against the Cincinnati Reds that year.

Hal brown, the fifth man in a rotation that included Milt Papas and 18 game winner and 1961 shut out leader Steve Barber, struck Twins batters out five times on his way to a respectable 10-6 record. Jim Kaat, whose 9-17 record that year was by no means an indication of what we could expect from him in coming years, took the 3-0 loss.

Other Orioles on the roster that year were future Hall of Farmer's Brooks Robinson and Hoyt Wilhelm, as well as Whitey Herzog, Dick Williams and Jim Gentile who tied Ernie Banks single season record of five grand slams with a dinger off Chicago White Sox pitcher Don Larsen later that year.

Neither team used its bullpen and the 8,806 who attended the game did not get to see a home run.

[BoSox Rule]

Nothing happened on March 16, 1989.

[runningshoes]

Nothing happened on March 16, 1989.

In March of that year, the Red Sox were in Sarasota gearing up for their season opener in Baltimore.

Roger Clemens, two years away from his third Cy Young Award in six years got the nod from manager Joe Morgan (No, not the Joe Morgan).The Orioles scattered 12 hits including a Cal Ripken Jr. Home run in the 6th off Clemens.

The Orioles swept the two game series and the Red Sox moved on to Kansas City losing the first two games of the three game series, but they quickly recovered winning seven of eight at home.

[rockin500]

cubs were still in the offseason (pitchers and catchers may have reported already) on March 1, 1978

[donzblock]

On the bitter day in March when I was born, Paulus' 6th Army surrendered at Stalingrad, and that was the culmination of the greatest encirclement in military history. Of the approximately 500,000 man army that Paulus allowed to be encircled, only about 5,000 survived. The Nazis were led on a death march, and the survivors were routinely pulled out of the march and stripped for their clothing and butchered. It was probably not the turning point of WWII, but it severely crippled Hitler, and it could not have happened to a nicer guy. I began reading about it as soon as I emerged from the womb.

[RuthMayBond]

HEHE My cubs did not lose on that day.

I will take that!
:)But Cub Dick Bartell was born on your birthday (in 1907)

[runningshoes]

23rd of June 1981, the brewers, as well as the rest of Major League Baseball were on strike...:grouchy

The last day before Major League Baseball's fifth work stoppage began in June of 1981, The Milwaukee Brewers recorded a win at home against the Texas Rangers. Gorman Thomas, Ted Simmons and Former Blue Jay Roy Howell, who I saw play in 1978, all went deep for the Brew Crew.

Pete Vuckovich, also a former Blue Jay. picked up the win and Hall of Fame reliever Rollie Fingers got the save. The two combined to hold the Rangers to only three hits. Hall Of Fame pitcher and fellow Canadian Fergie Jenkins was saddled with the loss.

Eleven days later brewcrew82 was born.

Vuckovich and Fingers returned to the mound two months later on the team's first day back in Cleveland and defeated future Hall of Famer Bert Blyleven, who pitched nine strong innings but avoided the loss, at Municipal Stadium.

The baseball Gods were cradling you that summer. They were your book ends.

[RuthMayBond]

All right.... How did my beloved Red Sox do on August 13, 1968?And exactly 44 years before you were born, they beat the ChiSox with only one assist in one game :clapping

[RuthMayBond]

As far as I know,the White Sox were watching the snow piling up on December 6,1965.:laughIf only you were a north sider, your birthday would be on the same month & day as Stan Hack & Larry Bowa

[oscargamblesfro]

anybody have any recommendations of sites where i can find this info?

[RuthMayBond]

Now, as to the date, 12th August in a year before 1958, my team did not exist per se, and I say this in due respect to donzblock, DodgerDeb and all other Brooklyn Dodger fans who frequent this site. :D That may be true, but the "other" Dodgers had a funny story on this date in 1995

[RuthMayBond]

The Giants were missing out on the playoffs on the day I was born, but the '02 Giants clinched the pennant on my birthday. That was a pretty cool day.True, but Giant Christy Mathewson had his third straight WS shutout in 6 days on your birthday in 1905 :clapping

[RuthMayBond]

Nothing happened on March 16, 1989.Maybe, but when you were four days old, commish Ueberroth announced that Pete Rose was under investigation :eek:

[oscargamblesfro]

anybody have any recommendations of sites where i can find this info?


they didn't play on that day, in october- the red sox finished 3rd in '70...

[mordeci]

anybody have any recommendations of sites where i can find this info?
retrosheet.org


On 8/29/67 (that's 1967, not 1867):
Nolan, McCool and Abernathy combined for a shutout as the Reds beat Jim Bunning and the Phillies 1-0. The Reds were outhit 7-2, but scored the games only run in the 7th. Vada Pinson doubled, moved to 3rd on Pete Rose's groundout and scored on a SF by Lee May. Johnny Bench played in his 2nd big league game, having made his major league debut the day before.

Jim Longborg and the Sox beat Mel Stottlemyre and the yankees 2-1. Both pitchers threw complete games. Tom Tresh accounted for the only yankees' run with a 1 out HR in the 7th. Longborg had 2 sacrifices and drove in Reggie Smith with a base hit to left for the eventual winning run.

The Reds won, the Sox beat the yankees, Bench played his 2nd game, "The Fugitive" finally found the one armed man, and I was born. Aug. 29, 1967 was an exciting day all around, but I barely remember any of it.

[RuthMayBond]

On 8/29/67 (that's 1967, not 1867):
Nolan, McCool and Abernathy combined for a shutout as the Reds beat Jim Bunning and the Phillies 1-0. The Reds were outhit 7-2, but scored the games only run in the 7th. Vada Pinson doubled, moved to 3rd on Pete Rose's groundout and scored on a SF by Lee May. Johnny Bench played in his 2nd big league game, having made his major league debut the day before.

Jim Longborg and the Sox beat Mel Stottlemyre and the yankees 2-1. Both pitchers threw complete games. Tom Tresh accounted for the only yankees' run with a 1 out HR in the 7th. Longborg had 2 sacrifices and drove in Reggie Smith with a base hit to left for the eventual winning run.

The Reds won, the Sox beat the yankees, Bench played his 2nd game, "The Fugitive" finally found the one armed man, and I was born. Aug. 29, 1967 was an exciting day all around, but I barely remember any of it.Bert Campaneris got three triples in one game against, who else, Cleveland

[KCGHOST]

Being born on February 6th means there was no game action. In the year of my birth (1947) the KC Royals didn't exist. I was born in Brooklyn but to my knowledge the Dodgers didn't do anything of note.

On a baseball note, Babe Ruth did celebrate his 52nd birthday. He would be dead a little over 18 months later.

[RuthMayBond]

Being born on February 6th means there was no game action. In the year of my birth (1947) the KC Royals didn't exist. I was born in Brooklyn but to my knowledge the Dodgers didn't do anything of note.

On a baseball note, Babe Ruth did celebrate his 52nd birthday. He would be dead a little over 18 months later.You're exactly six days younger than Nolan Ryan and the Green Monster, and five days younger than the ML pension plan :clapping

[Brian McKenna]

That fateful day June 10,1992. The braves beat the Dodgers 2-1 behind the arm of Steve Avery. Also I was born that day.
My parents named me Justice after David Justice ,now you know I had to become a braves fan.
1992 became the year when Sid Bream slid home to win the pennant. I was probably sucking on a bottle when it happened wondering why my dad was so ecstatic.
Unfortunently ,we lost the WS to the Blue Jays. But,hey you can''t win 'em all.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.;) :)

yeah - i scared the hell out of my kids for years yelling at ball games on tv - now they ignore me

[Brian McKenna]

. I was born in Brooklyn but to my knowledge the Dodgers didn't do anything of note. (in february 1947)

.

they were about to

[Honus Wagner Rules]

My beloved S.F. Giants beat the Phillies 6-4 in Philadelphia. Bobby Bonds went 2-4 with two runs scored. Wilie Mays was 2-5 with a run scored and a double. Ron Hunt also went 2-4 with two runs scored. Juan Marichal won the game to up his record to 22-5. At the end of the day the Giants were in second place but were 13 games behind the eventual N.L. champion St. Louis Cardinals.

[runningshoes]

My beloved S.F. Giants beat the Phillies 6-4 in Philadelphia. Bobby Bonds went 2-4 with two runs scored. Wilie Mays was 2-5 with a run scored and a double. Ron Hunt also went 2-4 with two runs scored. Juan Marishal won the game to up his record to 22-5. At the end of the day the Giants were in second place but were 13 games behind the eventual N.L. champion St. Louis Cardinals.

The one and only....

[sschirmer]

My beloved Cubbies were licking their collective wounds, after one of MLB's more classic collapses.

On the day I was born, my Cubbies got together with my adopted Tribe for a rousing nine inning "shovel-off" at frigid Wrigley Field. Rumor has it, the Cubbies pulled it out when a huge scoop of the white stuff was gathered up by Ron Santo in the bottom of the ninth!

[RuthMayBond]

My beloved Cubbies were licking their collective wounds, after one of MLB's more classic collapses.

On the day I was born, my Cubbies got together with my adopted Tribe for a rousing nine inning "shovel-off" at frigid Wrigley Field. Rumor has it, the Cubbies pulled it out when a huge scoop of the white stuff was gathered up by Ron Santo in the bottom of the ninth!Five days before you were born, a NYC federal court ruled against antitrust allegations in a suit brought by umps. On your sixth birthday Bill Veeck, who planted the ivy for your beloved Cubbies, bought the ChiSox.

[runningshoes]

My beloved Cubbies were licking their collective wounds, after one of MLB's more classic collapses.

On the day I was born, my Cubbies got together with my adopted Tribe for a rousing nine inning "shovel-off" at frigid Wrigley Field. Rumor has it, the Cubbies pulled it out when a huge scoop of the white stuff was gathered up by Ron Santo in the bottom of the ninth!

Doesn't Ron look great in cross town red? :eek:

[gregvanv]

Obviously the Indians did not play that day, but were just months away from one of the greatest regular seasons in ML baseball history. (They didn't win the World Series, and haven't since either:grouchy.)

A couple things to note on that day:
1. Joe DiMaggio married Marilyn Monroe.
2. I'm told that's the last day streetcars ran in Cleveland.

[mordeci]

They didn't win the World Series, and haven't since either.
Look at the bright side. You'll be one of the "I never thought I'd see this in my lifetime" people that gets interviewed when the Indians win the series in 2054.

[RuthMayBond]

2. I'm told that's the last day streetcars ran in Cleveland.Do you think there's any correlation? ;)
If you like Scott McGregor, you were four days old when he was born

[Captain Cold Nose]

Do you think there's any correlation? ;)
If you like Scott McGregor, you were four days old when he was born
How old would he have been if he didn't like Scott McGregor?

McGregor seems to be a nice guy. He signed my card for me after an Orioles-Tigers game many years ago. Included a biblical reference with his signature. I can't remember what it was, though. Not John 3:16.

[janduscframe]

No Brewers yet when I was born. No Twins either...If there had been, they'd be shoveling snow or wrapping up xmas shopping. Or maybe going to Al Kaline's birthday party.

[charlesblalack@yahoo.com]

Born in 11/4/65 no baseball and my Rangers were known as the Senators. In the 65 season the Senators went 70-92 and finsihed 8th in the American Leauge. The Senators don't reach .500 until 69' under manager Ted Williams.

[DownUnderDodger]

Nothing happened on March 16, 1989.

Not baseball, but.........

March 16, 1989
Ithaca College
Robert Cray
Campus Quad
Attendance: 2000
Tickets: Free

[RuthMayBond]

Born in 11/4/65 no baseball and my Rangers were known as the Senators. In the 65 season the Senators went 70-92 and finsihed 8th in the American Leauge. The Senators don't reach .500 until 69' under manager Ted Williams.The paper on the day you were born might have reported yesterday's game with Lew Krausse having 21 K in 9 IP including ten straight K, his 33rd K over 2 winter league games. When you were six days old, Willie Mays won the MVP, and in a week, William Eckert was named commish. The day after that Versalles won MVP.

[sschirmer]

The paper on the day you were born might have reported yesterday's game with Lew Krausse having 21 K in 9 IP including ten straight K, his 33rd K over 2 winter league games. When you were six days old, Willie Mays won the MVP, and in a week, William Eckert was named commish. The day after that Versalles won MVP.

Damn RMB, it must be nice to work at the library!:rolleyes:

[runningshoes]

Damn RMB, it must be nice to work at the library!:rolleyes:

He's definately not a reporter. :laugh

[RuthMayBond]

Damn RMB, it must be nice to work at the library!:rolleyes:Has nothing to do with the library

[Sultan_1895-1948]

Thanks for starting this thread. Never knew I was born on the same day as Joe Morgan and Duke Snider :D

September 19th, 1977.

Umm, lets see, the FailBlazers won the Championship that year. Not sure what was happening in baseball. He runningshoes, can you look at see what the A's did that day and year?

[Chisox73]

I have it for you Sultan.

The A's lost at Chicago 8-0 on Sept.19,1977.Ken Kravec went the distance for the White Sox,besting Vida Blue,who dropped to 14-18 at that time.

In 1977,the A's finished an abysmal 63-98 in the AL West,1/2 game behind the expansion Seattle Mariners,and 38 1/2 behind the Kansas City Royals.

Vida Blue and Bill North were the only holdovers from thier world Championship teams of 1972-74.

[Cubsfan97]

HEHE My cubs did not lose on that day.

I will take that!
:)
What do ya know, the Cubs didn't lose on my B-Day either! Unfortunately they didn't win either.

[Sultan_1895-1948]

I have it for you Sultan.

The A's lost at Chicago 8-0 on Sept.19,1977.Ken Kravec went the distance for the White Sox,besting Vida Blue,who dropped to 14-18 at that time.

In 1977,the A's finished an abysmal 63-98 in the AL West,1/2 game behind the expansion Seattle Mariners,and 38 1/2 behind the Kansas City Royals.

Vida Blue and Bill North were the only holdovers from thier world Championship teams of 1972-74.

OUCH

thanks :cool:

What about the Cardinals??

[runningshoes]

I have it for you Sultan.

The A's lost at Chicago 8-0 on Sept.19,1977.Ken Kravec went the distance for the White Sox,besting Vida Blue,who dropped to 14-18 at that time.

In 1977,the A's finished an abysmal 63-98 in the AL West,1/2 game behind the expansion Seattle Mariners,and 38 1/2 behind the Kansas City Royals.

Vida Blue and Bill North were the only holdovers from their world Championship teams of 1972-74.

Did you know Vida gave up several college football scholarships to sign with the Athletics at the tender age of 19? A's owner Charles Finley seriously wanted him to change his name to True, but Vida refused.

In 1971, Blue went 24-8 to capture both the league's MVP and Cy Young awards. He was dealt to the Giants during the 1978 season, after posting a dismal 14-19 the previous year, for seven players and $390,000.

He finished the year with an 18-10 record and became the first pitcher to start the All Star game for both leagues.

Blue was suspended for drug abuse in 1983 and retired permanently in 1987 after failing a urine test.

What a shame.

[runningshoes]

What about the Cardinals??


Philadelphia Phillies 8, St. Louis Cardinals 4 :(

The major highlight of the Cards' 1977 season was Hall of Famer Lou Brock's breaking of Ty Cobb's career stolen base mark of 892. Brock finished his career with 938 and held the record until surpassed by future Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson in 1991.

The Cards finished the season in 3rd place with an 83-79 record, 18 games behind the National League East winning Phillies. Garry Templeton finished the season with a league high 18 triples.

Brock retired at the end of the 1979 season with 1,730 career strike outs and only 761 walks. He led the National League in errors seven times, putting together five of those consecutively.

I guess he had to make his times on base count.

[runningshoes]

The Phillies are my team in the National League. Anyone want to tell me how they made out June 20, 1966?

[ed hardiman]

Wednesday, May 22, 1957
Phillies Lose to Braves, 4-3 at County Stadium
Starters: Robin Roberts vs Lew Burdette
Phillies (16-14) in 4th place 5 games back...

Thursday May 23, 1957
Preceded earlier in the year by future Phutiles Bob Dernier, Dave Stewart, Steve Lake, and later followed by Don Robinson, Doug Jones, Dave Rucker, Dave Palmer, Steve Bedrosian, and Tom Gorman I was born at Temple University Hospital.
Earliest scouting report on my baseball talent from May 24th 1957:
"All diaper no glove."

Friday, May 24, 1957
Phillies Defeat Pirates 7-3 at Shibe Park
Starters: Jack Sanford vs Bob Friend
Phillies (17-14) in 3rd place 4½ games back.

The Phillies finish 18 out in 1957.

On Wed Oct. 9th 1957 the Miracle Braves take the World Series from the Yanks...I celebrate by spitting strained peas on my bib...

[runningshoes]

can't play - my birth date is in january 1966 but my orioles did win the series that year with my all time favorite brooks robinson homering in his first w.s. at bat

I was still in the oven. :laugh

[ed hardiman]

The Phillies are my team in the National League. Anyone want to tell me how they made out June 20, 1966?
Monday, June 20 1966
Phillies on the 4th game of a 5 game losing streak fall on the road to those Atlanta Braves 7-5 (Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium)
Starters: Chris Short vs Tony Cloninger
Phillies (35-31) in Fifth place 5½ games out of 1st.

The Phillies would finish 1966 in 4th place

[runningshoes]

Monday, June 20 1966
Phillies on the 4th game of a 5 game losing streak fall on the road to those Atlanta Braves 7-5 (Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium)
Starters: Chris Short vs Tony Cloninger
Phillies (35-31) in Fifth place 5½ games out of 1st.

The Phillies would finish 1966 in 4th place

Why does this not surprise me? :laugh

Thanks, Ed.


Here's Shorts 1968 Topps baseball card.

[runningshoes]

Year 1952:

Brooklyn Dodgers won the National League by 4 1/2 games over NY Giants with a 96-57-2 win/loss record (yep, in the days when ties were ties!). They lost the WS 4 games to 3 to cross city rivals NY Yankees (Yuk!!)

Notable Brooklyn Dodgers player stats included:
OBP - Jackie Robinson .440
Stolen Bases - Pee Wee Reese 30

Notable Brooklyn Dodgers team stats included:
Base on Balls 663
HR 153
OBP .348
Runs 775
Slugging .399
Stolen Bases 90
Strikeouts 773

On my birthdate - 12th August
The Brooklyn Dodgers had a travel day. The previous day they had disposed of The Phillies 9-5 at Philadelphia and the next day they took care of the Giants, 5-4 in Brooklyn. And, as I was born at 8:40pm Eastern Australian time, the clock had already ticked over to 12th August in New York, so we cannot use the time difference to change the circumstances.

I think that is enough info - and I have enjoyed researching same. Thank you Baseball Almanac!!

The Phillies lost a ball game? :laugh

[runningshoes]

As far as I know,the White Sox were watching the snow piling up on December 6,1965.:laugh

As for that 1965 (http://baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1965&t=CHA) season,they finished 2nd place in the American League,7 games behind Minnesota at 95-67.The recently departed Al Lopez was manger of the team.They were led in hitting by Don Buford who hit .293 and stole a team high 17 bases for the Sox.John Romano and Moose Skowron each hit 18 homers to pace the club,while Skowron had 78 RBIs to top the team.

Knuckle ball pitcher Eddie Fisher led the team with a 15-7 record and a 2.40 ERA,Tommy John was 14-7 with a club leading 126 strikeouts.

Fisher was taught the knuckleball by Hoyt Wilhelm.

I don't know about you, but I kinda like the red uniforms.

[runningshoes]

Wednesday, May 22, 1957
Phillies Lose to Braves, 4-3 at County Stadium
Starters: Robin Roberts vs Lew Burdette
Phillies (16-14) in 4th place 5 games back...

Here's Roberts in the nicest looking uniform....Ever!!!!!!!!

[RBi]

Hmz, I am sure on the day I was born, the Cubs, and their fans were "waiting til next year!"

:)

No doubt!

[runningshoes]

On the bitter day in March when I was born, Paulus' 6th Army surrendered at Stalingrad, and that was the culmination of the greatest encirclement in military history. Of the approximately 500,000 man army that Paulus allowed to be encircled, only about 5,000 survived. The Nazis were led on a death march, and the survivors were routinely pulled out of the march and stripped for their clothing and butchered. It was probably not the turning point of WWII, but it severely crippled Hitler, and it could not have happened to a nicer guy. I began reading about it as soon as I emerged from the womb.

Yup, you can actually buy a bombed out city and try to put it back together again. :crazy

Looks like LA after the Watt's riots.

[runningshoes]

Born in 11/4/65 no baseball and my Rangers were known as the Senators. In the 65 season the Senators went 70-92 and finsihed 8th in the American Leauge. The Senators don't reach .500 until 69' under manager Ted Williams.

Just plain looks weird.

[hiddengem]

When I was a kid I grew up within a bike ride's distance from Anaheim Stadium. I was an Angel fan growing up and still am today. Made it even more memorable when I ran on the field as a part of the team.

My B-day is in January of 77

[sschirmer]

Just plain looks weird.

I have that card at home, it's one of my favorites.

[runningshoes]

I have that card at home, it's one of my favorites.

Where are you now, the office? :coffee

[RuthMayBond]

OUCH

thanks :cool:

What about the Cardinals??Lou Brock broke Cobb's SB record 21 days before you were born, and stole his 900th base when you were 11 days old

[RuthMayBond]

When I was a kid I grew up within a bike ride's distance from Anaheim Stadium. I was an Angel fan growing up and still am today. Made it even more memorable when I ran on the field as a part of the team.

My B-day is in January of 77On January 28 of 1982, the Angels made one of their not better trades, giving Jeff Schneider AND Doug Decinces and getting Dan Ford. In January of 1977,
On the 2nd, Kuhn suspended Ted Turner for a year for tampering
On the 4th, Mary Shane was the first female TV play-by-play announcer (for ChiSox)
On the 31st, Joe Sewell, Amos Rusie & Al Lopez were elected to the Hall

[runningshoes]

When I was a kid I grew up within a bike ride's distance from Anaheim Stadium. I was an Angel fan growing up and still am today. Made it even more memorable when I ran on the field as a part of the team.

My B-day is in January of 77

And of course, this young man recorded his 2000th strike out.

[bluezebra]

Born on April 14, 1932, Chicago, IL

CHI N 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 - 3 8
CIN N 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 x - 5 12

Final Results :1932 National League..90-64 (.584) Even though they didn't win on my birth date, they did win the NL pennant.

Bob

[runningshoes]

Born on April 14, 1932, Chicago, IL

CHI N 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 - 3 8
CIN N 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 x - 5 12

Final Results :1932 National League..90-64 (.584) Even though they didn't win on my birth date, they did win the NL pennant.

Bob

And they did it with a huge contribution from this fellow. Warneke finished with a league leading 22 wins, 2.37 era and tied Dizzy Dean and Steve Swetonic with four shutouts.

[RuthMayBond]

Born on April 14, 1932, Chicago, IL

CHI N 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 - 3 8
CIN N 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 x - 5 12

Final Results :1932 National League..90-64 (.584) Even though they didn't win on my birth date, they did win the NL pennant.

BobSince you are an ump, two days before you were born, the umps threw out Goose Goslin's striped bat, and it was upheld the next day

[runningshoes]

Since you are an ump, two days before you were born, the umps threw out Goose Goslin's striped bat, and it was upheld the next day

In living colour

[driver62]

What did the Reds do on July 16, 1941?

[Chisox]

What did the Reds do on July 16, 1941?
Hey! Change the date to 41 years later and you have my b-day?
Of course, you realize that was the last day of Joe Ds hit streak? (at least ended in-tact)

[RuthMayBond]

What did the Reds do on July 16, 1941?They got behind four in the first and fell to the Jints 7-4. You were born on the same day as the last game of DiMaggio's hitting streak, and just eight days after Ted Williams' game-winning All-Star clout. And one day before Japanese legend Takagi Morimichi. You were nine days old when Lefty Grove won his 300th

[Aa3rt]

July 1st, 1953-the ORIGINAL Washington Senators, enroute to a 76-76 record and 5th place finish, defeat the Philadelphia Athletics in Philly by the score of 5-3. :)

If someone would like to post any additional information, I'd be most appreciative.

[leecemark]

--Too lazy to check out how the game turned out that day (Sept 20, 1959), but it was the waning days of a disappointing season in a disappointing decade for the Tigers. They did have some individual heros, with Harvey Kuenn winning the batting title, Al Kaline leading the league in slugging and Eddie Yost in runs.

[Go Bravos!!!#1]

I wanted to thank you for the warm posts. I really appreciate it.:) :waving

Oh and check this out, I hated baseball until I was about nine. My dad would have a braves game on and I'd say "Oh,you're watching that again" and walk away.
Then out of the blue ,I started understanding the sport and all it meant. I was hooked and I still am. I love baseball!!!
I'm 13 and the sad thing is that kids are more into Football and Baketball than Baseball. If they only knew what they are missing out on.:rolleyes: :(
To me life revolves around baseball. As it should with any kid ,or adult ,young at heart.:) ;)

[RuthMayBond]

--Too lazy to check out how the game turned out that day (Sept 20, 1959), but it was the waning days of a disappointing season in a disappointing decade for the Tigers. They did have some individual heros, with Harvey Kuenn winning the batting title, Al Kaline leading the league in slugging and Eddie Yost in runs.
Better than you think. Detroit struck for two in the first and hung on to beat the pale hose 5-4. Kuenn went yard among his four hits, Kaline HRed too. Mossi was touched for four runs in six IP but the bullpen of Donovan/ Lown/ Shaw slammed the door.

[ElCaminoSS]

:mad: :mad: :mad: Damn!! Why did I have to be born in the offseason!!! :mad: :mad: :mad:

[runningshoes]

:mad: :mad: :mad: Damn!! Why did I have to be born in the offseason!!! :mad: :mad: :mad:

Just tell us what happened with the team that year. Standout players..awards..stuff like that.

[DownUnderDodger]

I'm 13 and the sad thing is that kids are more into Football and Baketball than Baseball. If they only knew what they are missing out on.:rolleyes: :(


Very interesting comment in light of a recent thread in General Baseball Forum - "Baseball isn't our national pastime any more."

[ElCaminoSS]

But the finished up the season 93-69-for the regular season were 54-27 (0.667 winning percentage) at home and 39-42 (0.481 winning percentage) away.

[runningshoes]

But the finished up the season 93-69-for the regular season were 54-27 (0.667 winning percentage) at home and 39-42 (0.481 winning percentage) away.

Awsome...what team and what year would that be? :confused:

[ElCaminoSS]

oops, Thats kinda important isnt it. Its the Dodgers in 1991

[DownUnderDodger]

That may be true, but the "other" Dodgers had a funny story on this date in 1995
Please elaborate RMB.
I note they defeated the Pirates 11-10 in bottom of 11th, the middle game of a 3 game sweep, at Dodgers Stadium in front of 44,032 spectators, but that was about all I could find out!.

[Bklyn Boy since 1936]

I really don't know what my team did on April 22, 1936, Troy. My eyes were closed, there was no radio in the room and TV hadn't been invented yet. I didn't develop into a BROOKLYN DODGERS fan for several days after the day I was born. :lookitup

[runningshoes]

I really don't know what my team did on April 22, 1936, Troy. My eyes were closed, there was no radio in the room and TV hadn't been invented yet. I didn't develop into a BROOKLYN DODGERS fan for several days after the day I was born. :lookitup

We'll find out for you..check back tomorrow. :)

[Clockwork]

My dad and my older sister were at the Phillies game when my Mom went into labor. It was the Philly Phanatics birthday. April 26, 1987.

[bluezebra]

anybody have any recommendations of sites where i can find this info?

http://www.retrosheet.org/

Bob

[bluezebra]

I really don't know what my team did on April 22, 1936, Troy. My eyes were closed, there was no radio in the room and TV hadn't been invented yet. I didn't develop into a BROOKLYN DODGERS fan for several days after the day I was born. :lookitup

I beg to differ. Television was invented before your parents were born.

"History of Television Timeline





Main Page
• History of Television


By Mary Bellis
Television was not invented by a single inventor, instead many people working together and alone, contributed to the evolution of TV.

1831: Joseph Henry's and Michael Faraday's work with electromagnetism makes possible the era of electronic communication to begin.

1862: Abbe Giovanna Caselli invents his "pantelegraph" and becomes the first person to transmit a still image over wires.

1873: Scientists May and Smith experiment with selenium and light, this opens the door for inventors to transform images into electronic signals.

1876: Boston civil servant George Carey was thinking about complete television systems and in 1877 he put forward drawings for what he called a "selenium camera" that would allow people to "see by electricity." Eugen Goldstein coins the term "cathode rays" to describe the light emitted when an electric current was forced through a vacuum tube.

Late 1870's: Scientists and engineers like Paiva, Figuier, and Senlecq were suggesting alternative designs for "telectroscopes."

1880: Inventors like Bell and Edison theorize about telephone devices that transmit image as well as sound. Bell's photophone used light to transmit sound and he wanted to advance his device for image sending. George Carey builds a rudimentary system with light-sensitive cells.

1881: Sheldon Bidwell experiments with telephotography, another photophone.

1884: Paul Nipkow sends images over wires using a rotating metal disk technology calling it the "electric telescope" with 18 lines of resolution.

1900: At the World's Fair in Paris, the 1st International Congress of Electricity was held, where Russian, Constantin Perskyi made the first known use of the word "television."

Soon after, the momentum shifted from ideas and discussions to physical development of TV systems. Two paths were followed:

Mechanical television - based on Nipkow's rotating disks, and

Electronic television - based on the cathode ray tube work done independently in 1907 by English inventor A.A. Campbell-Swinton and Russian scientist Boris Rosing.

1906: Lee de Forest invents the "Audion" vacuum tube that proved essential to electronics. The Audion was the first tube with the ablity to amplify signals. Boris Rosing combines Nipkow's disk and a cathode ray tube and builds the first working mechanical TV system.

1907: Campbell Swinton and Boris Rosing suggest using cathode ray tubes to transmit images - independent of each other, they both develop electronic scanning methods of reproducing images.

American Charles Jenkins and Scotsman John Baird followed the mechanical model while Philo Farnsworth, working independently in San Francisco, and Russian émigré Vladimir Zworkin, working for Westinghouse and later RCA, advanced the electronic model.

1923: Vladimir Zworykin patents his iconscope a TV camera tube based on Campbell Swinton's ideas. The iconscope, which he called an "electric eye" becomes the cornerstone for further television development. He later develops the kinescope for picture display.

1924 - 1925: American Charles Jenkins and John Baird from Scotland, each demonstrate the mechanical transmissions of images over wire circuits. Photo Left: Jenkin's Radiovisor Model 100 circa 1931, sold as a kit. Baird becomes the first person to transmit moving silhouette images using a mechanical system based on Nipkow's disk. Vladimir Zworykin patents a color television system.

1926: John Baird operates a 30 lines of resolution system at 5 frames per second.

1927: Bell Telephone and the U.S. Department of Commerce conduct the first long distance use of TV, between Washington D.C. and New York City on April 9th. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover commented, “Today we have, in a sense, the transmission of sight for the first time in the world’s history. Human genius has now destroyed the impediment of distance in a new respect, and in a manner hitherto unknown.” Philo Farnsworth files for a patent on the first complete electronic television system, which he called the Image Dissector.

1928: The Federal Radio Commission issues the first television license (W3XK) to Charles Jenkins.

1929: Vladimir Zworykin demonstrates the first practical electronic system for both the transmission and reception of images using his new kinescope tube. John Baird opens the first TV studio, however, the image quality was poor.

1930: Charles Jenkins broadcasts the first TV commercial. The BBC begins regular TV transmissions.

1933: Iowa State University (W9XK) starts broadcasting twice weekly television programs in cooperation with radio station WSUI.

1936: About 200 hundred television sets are in use world-wide. The introduction of coaxial cable, which is a pure copper or copper-coated wire surrounded by insulation and an aluminum covering. These cables were and are used to transmit television, telephone and data signals. The 1st "experimental" coaxial cable lines were laid by AT&T between New York and Philadelphia in 1936. The first “regular” installation connected Minneapolis and Stevens Point, WI in 1941. The original L1 coaxial-cable system could carry 480 telephone conversations or one television program. By the 1970's, L5 systems could carry 132,000 calls or more than 200 television programs."

So, you see, TV was around for a LONG time before you came into the world.

Bob

[runningshoes]

I really don't know what my team did on April 22, 1936, Troy. My eyes were closed, there was no radio in the room and TV hadn't been invented yet. I didn't develop into a BROOKLYN DODGERS fan for several days after the day I was born. :lookitup

The baseball Gods were watching over over you on that day.

The Dodgers shut out the Bees 5-0.

Van Mungo led the National League that year with 238 along with Dizzy Dean
coming in a distant second with 195, and the Dodgers finished seventh, 25 games behind the New York Giants.

And speaking of machetes Mungo had to be smuggled out of spring training in Cuba to "escape the machete-wielding husband of a nightclub dancer with whom he'd been caught in bed" (deadballera.com)

This is Mungo in his 1939 Play Ball card.

[runningshoes]

Television was invented before your parents were born.

I think for many Americans, owning a television set in 1936 was not even a consideration or a possibility, and my guess is he's not the only one who didn't think it was around back then.

[runningshoes]

What did the Reds do on July 16, 1941?

Giants won the game 7-4, but the Reds came back to win 10 of their next 13 against the Giants, Dodgers, Phillies and Braves.

Elmer Riddle led the league with a 2.24 ERA and Johnny Vander Meer took the strike out crown with 202. Vander Meer, of course, pitched back to back no hitters in 1938 one happening at the first night game at Ebbet's Field. in Brooklyn. He also pitched the longest 0-0 tie in baseball history. If anyone knows when and who this was against, can you please let us know?

The Reds finished the season at 88-66, good enough for third place, 12 games behind the Brooklyn Dodgers.

This is Vander Meer's 1949 Bowman card.

[runningshoes]

July 1st, 1953-the ORIGINAL Washington Senators, enroute to a 76-76 record and 5th place finish, defeat the Philadelphia Athletics in Philly by the score of 5-3. :)

If someone would like to post any additional information, I'd be most appreciative.

The box score for this game is not readily available, but here is some info about the 1953 Washington Senators.


Mickey Vernon led the American league in batting average at .337 and doubles with 43. A bit of an iron man himself, Vernon retired having played more games than anyone at first base with 2,237. Dwight Eisenhower had a penchant for Vernon; he was the president's favourite player.

Pitcher Bob Porterfield Finished with a league high 22 wins, one shy of Robin Roberts and Warren Spahn in the National League.

[runningshoes]

Hey! Change the date to 41 years later and you have my b-day?
Of course, you realize that was the last day of Joe Ds hit streak? (at least ended in-tact)

And on that fateful day Chisox, your 2005 World Champion White Sox were in the midst of five game sweep at the hands of the Milwaukee Brewers.

Five games you say, Troy?

Yes it was five games. The previous day, the Sox had lost a doubleheader. The next day, while you were wondering who had turned on all the lights, Paul Molitor, Phil Gantner, Ted Simmons, Moose Haus and Rollie Fingers were busy giving it to Jerry Koosman and the White Sox. Robin Yount, who went hitless this day, was held to only five hits in the series.

La Marr Hoyt, seen here in his 1984 Topps card, helped the White Sox to a third place finish in the American League West, six games behind the California Angels with his league leading 19 wins.

Twenty three years later, the Baseball Gods smiled on you.

[runningshoes]

--Too lazy to check out how the game turned out that day (Sept 20, 1959), but it was the waning days of a disappointing season in a disappointing decade for the Tigers. They did have some individual heros, with Harvey Kuenn winning the batting title, Al Kaline leading the league in slugging and Eddie Yost in runs.

Here's Harvey Kuenn's 1959 Topps card

[Ursa Major]

Well, on my birthday of October 1, 1955 (yep, I'm that old, my dear Giants, then in New York, had completed the season (only 154 games then) a week earlier, and presumably they were finishing packing to go their off-season homes and jobs. (Yeah, players' paltry salaries required 'em to do that.) The bigger news everywhere on my birthday was that young actor James Dean had died in an auto accident the previous day.

The Giants had stumbled through a lumbering, middle of the pack season, burdened by old timers who didn't have it the way they did back in the 1951 hey day (like Sal Maglie and Al Dark), or newcomers who weren't quite there yet (Johnny Antonelli) or never would bes. This year was also Leo "The Lip" Durocher's last as the Giants' skipper. The still had two more desultory years left in New York, before they would move to the West Coast and pick up in short order such future HOFers as Cepeda, McCovey and Marichal.

But, they had Willie Mays, who led the team in every significant offensive category -- highlighted by his 51 home runs to go with his .319 batting average and 127 home runs. In a way, 1955 truly was his break-out year, showing the baseball world that he had that fifth "tool" -- power -- to go along with his fielding, throwing, baserunning, and hitting for average.

[runningshoes]

But, they had Willie Mays, who led the team in every significant offensive category -- highlighted by his 51 home runs to go with his .319 batting average and 127 home runs. In a way, 1955 truly was his break-out year, showing the baseball world that he had that fifth "tool" -- power -- to go along with his fielding, throwing, baserunning, and hitting for average.

Nice post.

Here's Willie's 1955 Topps card.

[runningshoes]

Maybe, but when you were four days old, commish Ueberroth announced that Pete Rose was under investigation :eek:

I guess they get baseball cards too.

[RuthMayBond]

:mad: :mad: :mad: Damn!! Why did I have to be born in the offseason!!! :mad: :mad: :mad:One day before you were born, the Hall of Fame board said that Rose is ineligible as long as he is banned from baseball

[RuthMayBond]

Please elaborate RMB.
I note they defeated the Pirates 11-10 in bottom of 11th, the middle game of a 3 game sweep, at Dodgers Stadium in front of 44,032 spectators, but that was about all I could find out!.Supposedly, the Pirates catcher fielded a ball WITH HIS MASK. This gave the batter-runner two bases and probably was the difference in the game.

[RuthMayBond]

I really don't know what my team did on April 22, 1936, Troy. My eyes were closed, there was no radio in the room and TV hadn't been invented yet. I didn't develop into a BROOKLYN DODGERS fan for several days after the day I was born. :lookitup(LA) Dodger Ron Perranoski was born three weeks before you. Brooklyn Dodger Eddie Morgan (who was not a Dodger at the time) hit a HR on the 1st ML pitch he saw (was supposedly also the 1st to hit a pinch-HR in his 1st ML AB) eight days before you were born. Brooklyn's Ben Geraghty reached on catcher's interference twice in one game when you were four days old. I guess you were "born" to be a Dodger fan

[RuthMayBond]

My dad and my older sister were at the Phillies game when my Mom went into labor. It was the Philly Phanatics birthday. April 26, 1987.Former Phillie Steve Carlton joined Phil Niekro to have two 300-G winners throw for the same team (Indians) in the same game 17 days before you were born.
Mike Schmidt hit his 500th HR eight days before you were born - it was a three-run shot in the 9th that was the game-winner.

[RuthMayBond]

Well, on my birthday of October 1, 1955 (yep, I'm that old, my dear Giants, then in New York, had completed the season (only 154 games then) a week earlier.Eleven days before you were born, Willie Mays hit home runs off Vern Law in BOTH :eek: games of a twinbill

[runningshoes]

Former Phillie Steve Carlton joined Phil Niekro to have two 300-G winners throw for the same team (Indians) in the same game 17 days before you were born.
Mike Schmidt hit his 500th HR eight days before you were born - it was a three-run shot in the 9th that was the game-winner.

Can't find a pic of Steve with the Indians, so you'll have to settle for this.......

[runningshoes]

Eleven days before you were born, Willie Mays hit home runs off Vern Law in BOTH :eek: games of a twinbill

Vern's 1952 Bowman card.

[runningshoes]

(LA) Dodger Ron Perranoski was born three weeks before you. Brooklyn Dodger Eddie Morgan (who was not a Dodger at the time) hit a HR on the 1st ML pitch he saw (was supposedly also the 1st to hit a pinch-HR in his 1st ML AB) eight days before you were born. Brooklyn's Ben Geraghty reached on catcher's interference twice in one game when you were four days old. I guess you were "born" to be a Dodger fan

Eddie Morgan 1933 Goudy.

[ballparks]

Born in Toronto, Canada.

With the birth of Canada's greatest fan, the executives of Labatt's and other Canadian based corporations realized that there was a conspicuous absence of a baseball team in Toronto. One would be needed to provide for the newborn child a baseball atmosphere in which he could grow up.

Within four years, the hometown Blue Jays were on the field at Exhibition Stadium. That's fine, as I wouldn't have remembered anything before that age anyways!!

Since I root for the home team wherever I am, the Blue Jays were my first 'team'. My current favs however are the Cardinals, as I lived in St. Louis for 5 years before returning to Canada. They won a 2-0 contest over the Dodgers behind the pitching of Rick Wise.

[Chris from NY]

Well as my luck would have it the Blue Jays were idle on April 5, 1988; better known as the day I was born. But they staret off that year by taking 2 of 3 from the Royals. A week later the Jays would pound the Yankees 17 - 9 in the second to last home opener played at Exibition Stadium before they moved to Skydome/ Rogers Centre.

[RuthMayBond]

Born in Toronto, Canada.

With the birth of Canada's greatest fan, the executives of Labatt's and other Canadian based corporations realized that there was a conspicuous absence of a baseball team in Toronto. One would be needed to provide for the newborn child a baseball atmosphere in which he could grow up.

Within four years, the hometown Blue Jays were on the field at Exhibition Stadium. That's fine, as I wouldn't have remembered anything before that age anyways!!

Since I root for the home team wherever I am, the Blue Jays were my first 'team'. My current favs however are the Cardinals, as I lived in St. Louis for 5 years before returning to Canada. They won a 2-0 contest over the Dodgers behind the pitching of Rick Wise.Either that, or you caused the DH eighteen days before you were born. Six days after you were born NO GAMES were scheduled that day.

[RuthMayBond]

Well as my luck would have it the Blue Jays were idle on April 5, 1988; better known as the day I was born. But they staret off that year by taking 2 of 3 from the Royals. A week later the Jays would pound the Yankees 17 - 9 in the second to last home opener played at Exibition Stadium before they moved to Skydome/ Rogers Centre.I thought George Bell hit his three Opening Day HRs in anticipation of your arrival the next day :D

[runningshoes]

I thought George Bell hit his three Opening Day HRs in anticipation of your arrival the next day :D

Here's George Bell in his 1987 Topps card gearing up for your arrival, Chris.

[runningshoes]

Born in Toronto, Canada.

With the birth of Canada's greatest fan, the executives of Labatt's and other Canadian based corporations realized that there was a conspicuous absence of a baseball team in Toronto. One would be needed to provide for the newborn child a baseball atmosphere in which he could grow up.

Within four years, the hometown Blue Jays were on the field at Exhibition Stadium. That's fine, as I wouldn't have remembered anything before that age anyways!!

Since I root for the home team wherever I am, the Blue Jays were my first 'team'. My current favs however are the Cardinals, as I lived in St. Louis for 5 years before returning to Canada. They won a 2-0 contest over the Dodgers behind the pitching of Rick Wise.

The Blue Jays may not have been around when you were born, but construction of this beauty started in 1973....

[Chris from NY]

You can see it in his eyes. He knew I was coming and he wanted to hit a couple extra Home Runs to make up for the ones he wouldn't be able to hit the next day. :D

[runningshoes]

You can see it in his eyes. He knew I was coming and he wanted to hit a couple extra Home Runs to make up for the ones he wouldn't be able to hit the next day. :D

Nah, that's the photagrapher's wife he's looking at. :D

[Chris from NY]

Good point, had those eyes had anything to do with me he would have been grinning from ear to ear!

[ballparks]

The Blue Jays may not have been around when you were born, but construction of this beauty started in 1973....

On Feb 6th, just 2 1/2 months before! After SkyDome was built, they were joking that they would build another SkyDome on the other side of the tower as a lasting tribute to Pierre Trudeau!!!

[runningshoes]

What, and Bob Rae wouldn't pony up the money? :D

[wamby]

The Indians drop a doubleheader at Tiger Stadium: 3-1 & 4-1.

[ballparks]

What, and Bob Rae wouldn't pony up the money? :D

:clapping :clapping :clapping :clapping

That cheap, hypocritical SOB was too busy trying to steal it from the province!!

[wamby]

On the bitter day in March when I was born, Paulus' 6th Army surrendered at Stalingrad, and that was the culmination of the greatest encirclement in military history. Of the approximately 500,000 man army that Paulus allowed to be encircled, only about 5,000 survived. The Nazis were led on a death march, and the survivors were routinely pulled out of the march and stripped for their clothing and butchered. It was probably not the turning point of WWII, but it severely crippled Hitler, and it could not have happened to a nicer guy. I began reading about it as soon as I emerged from the womb.

My father was born on the day that Goebbels announced the surrender of Stalingrad to the German Reich.

In my estimation, this was the first of three major turning points during the war in Europe, the others being Operation Citadel and Operation Overlord.

[runningshoes]

:clapping :clapping :clapping :clapping

That cheap, hypocritical SOB was too busy trying to steal it from the province!!

You ever see his house?

The company I worked for in 1993 installed his high-fi...socialist, my ***.

[JohnnysGhost]

Me and Ursa Major share the same day..10/1/55..Also think Mark McGwire born that day..

[runningshoes]

Me and Ursa Major share the same day..10/1/55..Also think Mark McGwire born that day..

McGwire was born in October, 1963.

[Big_Mac]

April 25, 1992

Pat Hentgen got the win in front of over 50,000 at SkyDome in a 6-4 victory of the Kansas City Royals.

boy how times have changed, its now Miguel Batista blows a 3 run lead in the bottom of the 9th in front of 5,000 at the Rogers Center in a 7-6 loss to Tampa Bay.

[Chris from NY]

boy how times have changed, its now Miguel Batista blows a 3 run lead in the bottom of the 9th in front of 5,000 at the Rogers Center in a 7-6 loss to Tampa Bay.

:D That's one of the funniest things I've heard all day. Oh what contrast

[Boston Boxer]

30 September, 1967...i think the Sox beat the Cards in a World series game. Maybe some one can fill in the blanks for me

[RuthMayBond]

30 September, 1967...i think the Sox beat the Cards in a World series game. Maybe some one can fill in the blanks for meIt wasn't the World Series yet but Yaz hit a three-run shot in the 7th (among his 3 hits), Santiago went a strong 7 and survived Minnesota's 2 off Bell in the 9th to hang on by 6-4. George Scott also went yard. The next day Yaz would get his tenth hit in his last thirteen AB to win the Triple Crown. Unfortunately Gibson & Brock would edge the BoSox four days later for the difference. At least Ken Brett was the youngest to pitch in the World Series four days after that.

[Mr. Met]

I was born in Brooklyn, NY on 3/31/55. The Dodgers ended up having a pretty good year that year. ;)

Unfortunately I was born about 15 years too late to fully appreciate the Brooklyn Dodger thing. My mom's favorite player was Gil Hodges.

When I started getting into baseball in the mid-60's, the Koufax/Drysdale/Wills/Davis boy L.A. Dodgers were my favorite team. I stuck with them through the Lasorda/Garvey/Cey era but by the early 80's I realized that I was just rooting for a uniform anymore and swung my allegiance to the hometown Mets.

[runningshoes]

I was born in Brooklyn, NY on 3/31/55. The Dodgers ended up having a pretty good year that year. ;)

Unfortunately I was born about 15 years too late to fully appreciate the Brooklyn Dodger thing. My mom's favorite player was Gil Hodges.

When I started getting into baseball in the mid-60's, the Koufax/Drysdale/Wills/Davis boy L.A. Dodgers were my favorite team. I stuck with them through the Lasorda/Garvey/Cey era but by the early 80's I realized that I was just rooting for a uniform anymore and swung my allegiance to the hometown Mets.

The great Gil Hodges......

[runningshoes]

April 25, 1992

Pat Hentgen got the win in front of over 50,000 at SkyDome in a 6-4 victory of the Kansas City Royals.

Roberto Alomar had the big bat for the Jays that day going 3 for 4; all singles.

boy how times have changed, its now Miguel Batista blows a 3 run lead in the bottom of the 9th in front of 5,000 at the Rogers Center in a 7-6 loss to Tampa Bay.

Yeah, and it's not the nicest place to look around when it's empty.

[MasonDixon]

I was born in October, and as everyone here knows, the Phillies never play in October.

[History Of Baseball Fan]

what were the results of games on April 7th, 1986 ??

[Chisox73]

Fisher was taught the knuckleball by Hoyt Wilhelm.

I don't know about you, but I kinda like the red uniforms.
Got both the card and the jersey:D

[Chisox73]

I just voted this thread 5 stars:clapping :clapping :clapping :clapping :clapping

[ElCaminoSS]

I just voted this thread 5 stars:clapping :clapping :clapping :clapping :clapping
And so will I, great idea runningshoes!

[runningshoes]

I just voted this thread 5 stars:clapping :clapping :clapping :clapping :clapping

Thanks guys, it's been a lot of fun so far.

[runningshoes]

what were the results of games on April 7th, 1986 ??

What's your team?

[runningshoes]

HEHE My cubs did not lose on that day.

I will take that!

Yeah, but do you think they would have one had they played? :D

But Cub Dick Bartell was born on your birthday (in 1907)

And he expired on this day in 1995......

[runningshoes]

It wasn't the World Series yet but Yaz hit a three-run shot in the 7th (among his 3 hits), Santiago went a strong 7 and survived Minnesota's 2 off Bell in the 9th to hang on by 6-4. George Scott also went yard. The next day Yaz would get his tenth hit in his last thirteen AB to win the Triple Crown. Unfortunately Gibson & Brock would edge the BoSox four days later for the difference. At least Ken Brett was the youngest to pitch in the World Series four days after that.

Yastrzemski is my favourite player, with Cal Ripken Jr. coming in a close second.

Yaz's attitude that hard work and success go hand in hand is known throughout the baseball world.

The first time I saw him play was May 22, 1978 at Exhibition Stadium. I was 12 years old. Not only was it my first Red Sox game, but it was my first baseball game. I don't remember too much about the actual events of the game and I had to go into baseball almanac and research the date, which was not too difficult because I knew I left for Florida in May, shortly after attending the game.

There were, however, three distinct things I remembered that made finding the date quite easy. And here comes the Magic. Both Yaz and Jim Rice hit home runs to almost the exact same spot in right center-field. I still remember the balls rolling all the way to the concert stage at the far end of the grandstand. I also remember waiting for hits from Fisk and Lynn that never came. I went into baseball almanac, found the series in May against the Jays, and there it was. And it all started coming back to life for me.

One thing I really remember about that day is Jesse Jefferson's hair ballooning out from under his cap. I was in the Grandstand bleachers and his hair looked huge!


Here's Yastrzemski 1978 Topps card.

[runningshoes]

My beloved Cubbies were licking their collective wounds, after one of MLB's more classic collapses.

well, are you????

:laugh

[runningshoes]

Obviously the Indians did not play that day, but were just months away from one of the greatest regular seasons in ML baseball history. (They didn't win the World Series, and haven't since either:grouchy.)


And in August of 1954, the Indians smoked the Red Sox eleven straight games...ouch.

Early Wynn and Bob Lemon combined for an American League leading 46 wins (23 each).

Wynn went into broadcasting, first with the Blue Jays and then the White Sox. He He was inducted into the Hall of Fame, and 1972 and died in 1999 at the age of 79.

Here's Wynn in his 1954 Dan Dee potato chip card.

[64Cards]

4/19/55-Cards beat Cincinatti 6-5. Harvey Haddix pitched against Corky Valentine. Not a good year for the Cards, went 68-86, finished 7th. It was the rookie season for Ken Boyer, one of my favorites.

My oldest daughter was born 5/21/87...we were living in Atlanta at the time and the Cards were playing the Braves at Fulton Co. that night. My wife had been in labor for about 10 hours when the game came on tv around 6PM. I was just getting comfortable, watching the 1st inning when the doctor came in, checked her out and said "lets take her to the delivery room, time to have a baby" I wanted to know if we couldn't wait a couple more hours.

For the record, Cards beat Atlanta 7-2, Bob Forsch against Zane Smith. And they won the pennant in 87. Daughter did well too, a freshman at Mo. State University. :)

[runningshoes]

4/19/55-Cards beat Cincinnati 6-5. Harvey Haddix pitched against Corky Valentine. Not a good year for the Cards, went 68-86, finished 7th. It was the rookie season for Ken Boyer, one of my favorites.

My oldest daughter was born 5/21/87...we were living in Atlanta at the time and the Cards were playing the Braves at Fulton Co. that night. My wife had been in labor for about 10 hours when the game came on tv around 6PM. I was just getting comfortable, watching the 1st inning when the doctor came in, checked her out and said "lets take her to the delivery room, time to have a baby" I wanted to know if we couldn't wait a couple more hours.

For the record, Cards beat Atlanta 7-2, Bob Forsch against Zane Smith. And they won the pennant in 87. Daughter did well too, a freshman at Mo. State University. :)

That's a great story.

For anyone who doest know, which included me until I looked it up, Forsch won 20 games for the Cards in 1977. He was originally a third baseman but converted to pitcher in the minors. He no-hit the Phillies in 1978 and the Expos in 1983. Bob and his brother Ken were the first brother to throw no-hitters. Forsch joined the Astros in 1987 leaving the Cards, behind only Bob Gibson and Jessie Haines in total games played and wins

[Bill_McCurdy]

Runningshoes -

I was born on December 31, 1937 - in the middle of the Great Depression. It was also one of he blacker hole eras in the history of my club, the St. Louis Browns. - Did my guys celebrate that New Years Eve? - All I know is -they didn't lose that day - unless they made a trade. Then they might've lost.:ughh

[eddiejc1]

Only one team was playing the day I was born, and it wasn't baseball. The Green Bay Packers defeated the Oakland Raiders 33-14 in Vince Lombardi's last game as coach of the Pack. After a year as general manager, he would coach the Redskins for one year before dying of cancer.

Should I check to see what the 'Nats were doing on July 14, 1968? That's exactly six months after my birthday!

Eddie Cunningham

[runningshoes]

I was born on December 31, 1937 - in the middle of the Great Depression. It was also one of he blacker hole eras in the history of my club, the St. Louis Browns. - Did my guys celebrate that New Years Eve? - All I know is -they didn't lose that day - unless they made a trade. Then they might've lost.:ughh

You probably already know this Bill, but for those who don't, Rogers Hornsby ended his legendary career with the Browns two months before you were born. Do you know if he played in that twin bill against the White Sox?

[runningshoes]

Only one team was playing the day I was born, and it wasn't baseball. The Green Bay Packers defeated the Oakland Raiders 33-14 in Vince Lombardi's last game as coach of the Pack. After a year as general manager, he would coach the Redskins for one year before dying of cancer.

Should I check to see what the 'Nats were doing on July 14, 1968? That's exactly six months after my birthday!

Eddie Cunningham


You can if you want Eddie, but I suspect you already know the Nationals were less than one year away from taking to the diamond as the Montreal Expos, and defeating the Miracle Mets 11-10 at Shea Stadium. Six days later, The Expos played the first MLB game at Jarry Park where Mack Jones' three run blast lifted them past the Cardinals 8-7. And a few few days later, Bill Stoneman no-hit the Phillies for the quickest no-hitter in a franchises history.

Sadly, 35 years later.....well..you all know the story.

Here's Stoneman in his 1969 Topps card.

I looked but I couldn't find a decent picture of Mack Jones in an Expos uniform. If anyone has one..well..you know.

[RedSoxFan4Life]

April 14, 1982, the Red Sox lost a close one to the Chicago White Sox. Chuck Rainey pitched well for 6 innings allowing only 1 run, but Robert Stanley blew the game in the 7th allowing 4. Interesting to note that Stanley went on to pitch 168 innings that year in 64 appearances, none of them starts. The Sox that year went 89-73 and finished 6 games behin Milwaukee for 3rd place.

[runningshoes]

April 14, 1982, the Red Sox lost a close one to the Chicago White Sox. Chuck Rainey pitched well for 6 innings allowing only 1 run, but Robert Stanley blew the game in the 7th allowing 4. Interesting to note that Stanley went on to pitch 168 innings that year in 64 appearances, none of them starts. The Sox that year went 89-73 and finished 6 games behin Milwaukee for 3rd place.

In 1982, Dwight Evens' 403 OBP led the league.

No other Red Sox in the major catagories.

This is his 1973 Topps rookie card

Hey look..it's Al Bumbry!!!!

[E.Banks#14]

April 26, 1991? I know the Cubs lost but...

[History Of Baseball Fan]

What's your team?

hard to say, i like a few teams..

[runningshoes]

hard to say, i like a few teams..

Draw straws :laugh

[RBi]

April 26, 1991? I know the Cubs lost but...
Harkey only pitched 3 innings giving up a 2 run jack to Paul O'Neill.

Chicago's lone run came off of a single from Mark Grace scoring Jerome Walton from 2nd base.

Time: 2:11
Attendance: 37,681

Cubs - 1
Reds - 3

[runningshoes]

Harkey only pitched 3 innings giving up a 2 run jack to Paul O'Neill.

Chicago's lone run came off of a single from Mark Grace scoring Jerome Walton from 2nd base.

Time: 2:11
Attendance: 37,681

Cubs - 1
Reds - 3

If nothing else, Mark Grace was a consistent player who took the back seat to alot of other Cubbies during his tenure; he preferred it that way. He was thought of as a life long Cub, but became disillusioned with the club and went to the Diamondbacks in 2000 where managed a respectable 78 rbi's.

[Aa3rt]

Should I check to see what the 'Nats were doing on July 14, 1968? That's exactly six months after my birthday!

Eddie Cunningham

Eddie, are you sure you want to ask?

While you were entering your sixth month of infancy, the Washington Senators were dropping a doubleheader to the White Sox in Chicago by the scores of 7-2 & 6-5, dropping their record for the year to 30-52. :ughh

The 1968 Senators, managed by Jim Lemon, would finish 65-96, last place in the ten team league, 37 1/2 games behind the pennant winning Detroit Tigers.

[Bill_McCurdy]

You probably already know this Bill, but for those who don't, Rogers Hornsby ended his legendary career with the Browns two months before you were born. Do you know if he played in that twin bill against the White Sox?

Runningshoes -

Yeah. I did know that Hornsby officially ended his career only two months before I was born, but he actually played his last game in a DH against the Yankees at Sportsman's Park on July 20, 1937. - Guess what? - The Browns lost both games, 5-4 and 9-6.

[RuthMayBond]

Me and Ursa Major share the same day..10/1/55..Also think Mark McGwire born that day..You didn't give a team, so you share a birthday with Japan's Takehiko Bessho, Rod Carew, and Jeff Reardon

[RuthMayBond]

I was born in Brooklyn, NY on 3/31/55. The Dodgers ended up having a pretty good year that year. ;)

Unfortunately I was born about 15 years too late to fully appreciate the Brooklyn Dodger thing. My mom's favorite player was Gil Hodges.

When I started getting into baseball in the mid-60's, the Koufax/Drysdale/Wills/Davis boy L.A. Dodgers were my favorite team. I stuck with them through the Lasorda/Garvey/Cey era but by the early 80's I realized that I was just rooting for a uniform anymore and swung my allegiance to the hometown Mets.I have an anecdote that Don Newcombe hit two HR in the same game very early in the '55 season

[RuthMayBond]

I was born in October, and as everyone here knows, the Phillies never play in October.Eight days before you were born,
Dykstra hit a two-run HR in 9th to beat Houston 6-5, wasn't it a playoff game?

[Augustin_"Gus"]

Expos didn't do much on october 28th, 1977. TV, fly fishing, quality time with the kids, who knows?

Actually, october 28 is a pretty quiet day in MLB history. Few noticable birthdays except for Lenny Harris... And a world series crown in 1995 for the Braves, wich was a sad day for all of us.

[Ontarioguy]

Nothing much happened on January 2nd 1987.

I do share the same birthday with a few players of recognition such as, David Cone, Edgar Martinez and Jeff Suppan.

[runningshoes]

Nothing much happened on January 2nd 1987.

How did the Expos do in the 1987 season?

Any standout players?

[Ontarioguy]

1987 was a good year.

The Expos went 91-71 that season. Tim Raines lead the NL with 123 runs scored. The '87 edition of the Expos didn't have all that much power. Tim Wallach was the only player to break the 20 HR mark, with 26. You had 5 other guys who broke the 10 HR mark. Former Expo Andre Dawson was having an MVP year in his first season away from Montreal. The Expos sent Tim Wallach, Tim Raines and Hubie Brooks to the all-star game. Denis Martinez went 11-4 in 22 starts. Interestingly, the Pythagorean system ranks the Expos as a 83-79 team.

[runningshoes]

1987 was a good year.

The Expos went 91-71 that season. Tim Raines lead the NL with 123 runs scored. The '87 edition of the Expos didn't have all that much power. Tim Wallach was the only player to break the 20 HR mark, with 26. You had 5 other guys who broke the 10 HR mark. Former Expo Andre Dawson was having an MVP year in his first season away from Montreal. The Expos sent Tim Wallach, Tim Raines and Hubie Brooks to the all-star game. Denis Martinez went 11-4 in 22 starts. Interestingly, the Pythagorean system ranks the Expos as a 83-79 team.

I was a big fan of Tim Wallach. I saw him at the Big "O" in a series against the Cubs shortly after George Bell went there in 1990

[Tram2Lou]

Aug 26, 1987

The Tigers beat the Twins 10-8 in Minnesota. Petry got the win, Hernandez the save. Chet Lemon hit two homers.

But the big baseball news that day was the end of Paul Molitor's hitting streak at 39 games.

[RuthMayBond]

Expos didn't do much on october 28th, 1977. TV, fly fishing, quality time with the kids, who knows?

Actually, october 28 is a pretty quiet day in MLB history. Few noticable birthdays except for Lenny Harris... And a world series crown in 1995 for the Braves, wich was a sad day for all of us.They used four pinch-runners in the ninth a month and two days before you were born. As far as birthdays, Hal Jeffcoat and Bobby Shantz.

[DownUnderDodger]

Supposedly, the Pirates catcher fielded a ball WITH HIS MASK. This gave the batter-runner two bases and probably was the difference in the game.

Thank you RMB - that could be an opening for another thread "Strange things that have happened on the ballpark" or the like (unless it has already been done).

[DownUnderDodger]

I just voted this thread 5 stars:clapping :clapping :clapping :clapping :clapping

I'll go along with that!!

[Bluesteve32]

I was born six months before Los Angeles Angels were formed and nine moths before they took the field at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore and behind Eli Grba's pitching posted a 7-0 win over the Orioles.

[RuthMayBond]

I was born six months before Los Angeles Angels were formed and nine moths before they took the field at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore and behind Eli Grba's pitching posted a 7-0 win over the Orioles.Since we can't say much about your team, at least you share a birthday with Pete Browning, Phil Douglas, and Dave Concepcion.

[Bluesteve32]

Since we can't say much about your team, at least you share a birthday with Pete Browning, Phil Douglas, and Dave Concepcion.

Barry Manilow, Newt Gingrich, Tommy Franks (Just found this out), Dean Martin, Crazy Legs Hirch, Ralph Bellamy, Martin Bormann and Heinz Guderian of Third Reich infamy, Igor Stravinsky, Venus Williams (oh my!), Jason Patric, and King Edward I "Longshanks" of England. Manilow and Gingrich were both born the same day in 1943, with Stravinsky, Martin, and Manilow the musicians seem to come out. Military men like Tommy Franks and Heinz Guderian (who was fired by Hitler because he had the 'nads to stand up to Hitler and was himself the real innovator of Blitzkrieg. Politicains like Longshanks (I know the Scots hate him, but he did convene the first Parliament), Gingrich, and Hitler's yes man, Bormann (he was pure evil, and no one is really sure what happened to him).

Now in Iceland, my birthday is a national hiliday, for it is the day they received independance from Denmark along with the birthday of their leading feedom fighter, Jón Sigurðsson. Happy Icelandic Independance Day! Here is a pic of Jon, you learn something new everyday!

[runningshoes]

When I was a kid I grew up within a bike ride's distance from Anaheim Stadium. I was an Angel fan growing up and still am today. Made it even more memorable when I ran on the field as a part of the team.

My B-day is in January of 77

These three were quite the popular Angels in 1977.

Definately a team you would have liked to play for. ;)

[mojorisin71]

Foreshadowing the events to come at the end of the season, the Dodgers lose to the Astros in the 12th inning on a Craig Reynolds sac bunt that Joe Beckwith misplayed, allowing Cesar Cedeño to score. Nolan Ryan went 8 innings that day, only allowing one earned run, and the Astros stretched their lead over the Dodgers to three games. They won the WS the next year, and again seven years later.

[RuthMayBond]

Foreshadowing the events to come at the end of the season, the Dodgers lose to the Astros in the 12th inning on a Craig Reynolds sac bunt that Joe Beckwith misplayed, allowing Cesar Cedeño to score. Nolan Ryan went 8 innings that day, only allowing one earned run, and the Astros stretched their lead over the Dodgers to three games. They won the WS the next year, and again seven years later.Rip Repulski got at least two hits for his tenth consecutive game on your birthday in 1954.
Don Sutton fanned Alan Bannister for 3000K, exactly three years after you were born.
On your birthday in 1992, Steve Howe was, uh, never mind
Three weeks before your actual birthday, future Dodger Eric Davis was chosen in the draft.
Nine days before your actual birthday, one-time Dodger Jorge Orta went six-for-six in a game.
When you were nine days old, future Dodger Ken Landreaux hit three triples in one game.

[scribe114]

August 15, 1968

The Tigers had the day off.

[Bluesteve32]

August 15, 1968

The Tigers had the day off.

Yeah but they beat the Cards in that magical 1968 WS, when the principal brought in a TV so we could watch it during lunchtime. My first real memory of watching the WS and caring about it.

[RuthMayBond]

August 15, 1968

The Tigers had the day off.And the day after you were born, Bill Freehan was hit by pitches THREE TIMES :ughh :ughh :ughh in one game :radio

[Chisox]

These three were quite the popular Angels in 1977.

Definately a team you would have liked to play for. ;)

For, or with?

[runningshoes]

For, or with?

I suspect playing for them would increase your chance of playing with them. :D

[runningshoes]

My dad and my older sister were at the Phillies game when my Mom went into labor. It was the Philly Phanatics birthday. April 26, 1987.

Philly Phantic with his cousin George.

http://www.ajclay.com/PTC/pictures/26.jpg


His other famous cousin was busy and and couldn’t make it that day.

http://www.ajclay.com/PTC/pictures/27.jpg

And the Expos beat the Phillies 6-4.

[mordeci]

I would much rather hang out with his cousins than his niece.

[Chisox]

I suspect playing for them would increase your chance of playing with them. :D

Well then, definetely something to think about!:) :) :)
:gt :gt :gt
Anyone know if I can get in my TV during one of their reruns?

This is a great thread. Very funny and enlightening. BTW, thanks for the PM on this, but how did you know my name was Chris?:confused: :confused:

[runningshoes]

how did you know my name was Chris?:confused: :confused:

If I told you, there would be "consequences and repercussions." :laugh

[runningshoes]

They got behind four in the first and fell to the Jints 7-4. You were born on the same day as the last game of DiMaggio's hitting streak, and just eight days after Ted Williams' game-winning All-Star clout. And one day before Japanese legend Takagi Morimichi. You were nine days old when Lefty Grove won his 300th

"He was 31 and a veteran of 12 season when Gold Gloves began being awarded, and yet he managed to snare three before he retired. I'd guess that the rating system doesn't give him enough credit for his defense based upon that fact and his defensive reputation. He was awarded 7 Best Nines, 5 of them before Gold Gloves were given. He led the league in steals 3 times and hit for a .290 or better average 7 times. He had a high of 24 HR in a season, but had six more years with 15-20 homers." - Jim Albright

http://baseballguru.com/jalbright/analysisjalbright06.html

[Chisox]

If I told you, there would be "consequences and repercussions." :laugh
:laugh :laugh :laugh :laugh :laugh :laugh :laugh

Question though, I don't remember ever telling A.J. my name.
Kinda flattering, though, to be thought of as a "cool" mod.:gt :o

[runningshoes]

On your birthday in 1992, Steve Howe was, uh, never mind

In 1992, I was at Skydome watching this Steve Howe weaving a little magic of his own.

http://www.ajclay.com/PTC/pictures/34.jpg

Alas, I don't think that is the Steve Howe to whom you refer. ;)

Is this him? :laugh

http://www.ajclay.com/PTC/pictures/35.jpg

[runningshoes]

Question though, I don't remember ever telling A.J. my name.
Kinda flattering, though, to be thought of as a "cool" mod.:gt :o

I guess BBF has a

http://www.ajclay.com/PTC/pictures/36.jpg
http://www.ajclay.com/PTC/pictures/37.jpg

:laugh

[RuthMayBond]

In 1992, I was at Skydome watching this Steve Howe weaving a little magic of his own.

http://www.ajclay.com/PTC/pictures/34.jpgYes, THIS guy manages to hold on and can play guitar in more than a roundabout way

[jrh31584]

On May 31, 1984, the Atlanta Braves beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-1 to start a nine-game winning streak. Dale Murphy hit a two-run home run as part of a five-run ninth inning.

[Dravecky43]

Da Jints didn't play on the day i was born because the AL beat the NL 3-2 at the Astrodome the day before. The Midsummer Classic has only been played on my birthday once, and that was actually the year BEFORE I was born.

[Chisox]

I guess BBF has a

http://www.ajclay.com/PTC/pictures/36.jpg
http://www.ajclay.com/PTC/pictures/37.jpg

:laugh

I laughed so hard I choked so hard I cried.
:laugh :laugh :laugh :laugh :laugh :laugh

[RuthMayBond]

On May 31, 1984, the Atlanta Braves beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-1 to start a nine-game winning streak. Dale Murphy hit a two-run home run as part of a five-run ninth inning.Sixteen days before you were born Joaquin Andujar allowed the Braves one run AND hit a grand slam. Four days after you were born Maddux & Glavine were both picked in the draft (just not by Atlanta)

[RuthMayBond]

Da Jints didn't play on the day i was born because the AL beat the NL 3-2 at the Astrodome the day before. The Midsummer Classic has only been played on my birthday once, and that was actually the year BEFORE I was born.Nineteen days before you were born, Robby Thompson was caught stealing four times in one game :ughh

[64Cards]

These three were quite the popular Angels in 1977.

Definately a team you would have liked to play for. ;)
I'm sure I'm in the minority on this, but I preferred Cheryl Ladd to Farrah.

[Chisox]

I'm sure I'm in the minority on this, but I preferred Cheryl Ladd to Farrah.
I knew I was forgetting an Angel!

Not if you saw the pictures I've got, or at least had.

[Captain Cold Nose]

I'm sure I'm in the minority on this, but I preferred Cheryl Ladd to Farrah.
Cheryl Ladd was, is and will always be my favorite.

[Bluesteve32]

I'm sure I'm in the minority on this, but I preferred Cheryl Ladd to Farrah.

I did too. However, I'd take Jaclyn Smith over both of them any day.

[runningshoes]

What, you guys didn't like Bosley? :laugh

[Captain Cold Nose]

What, you guys didn't like Bosley? :laugh
Old Grandpa Pickles? It was funny how all he had to do was stare real hard at whoever they were chasing and they would catch him an instant later.

[runningshoes]

Since we can't say much about your team, at least you share a birthday with Pete Browning, Phil Douglas, and Dave Concepcion.

Dave Concepcion

This Venezuelan is one of baseball's greatest shortstops. He was a team leader and the winner of five Gold Gloves and played in five All-Star Games.

He was a member of the back-to-back World Series winning "Big Red Machine" in Cincinnati.

[runningshoes]

Foreshadowing the events to come at the end of the season, the Dodgers lose to the Astros in the 12th inning on a Craig Reynolds sac bunt that Joe Beckwith misplayed, allowing Cesar Cedeño to score. Nolan Ryan went 8 innings that day, only allowing one earned run, and the Astros stretched their lead over the Dodgers to three games. They won the WS the next year, and again seven years later.

Reynolds came up with the Mariners and hit .292 in 1978. He was traded to the Astros and started at shortstop until Dickie Thon emerged in 1982. He took over again after a beaning nrearly ended Thon's career. In 1981 Reynolds led the NL with 12 triples in 1981, three of them coming in one game.

[runningshoes]

August 15, 1968

The Tigers had the day off.

But the following day, Denny McLain and the Tigers took it to my Red Sox, shutting them out 4-0 at Fenway.

McLain won 31 games that year earning Cy Young and MVP honours.

And the icing on the cake was Detroit's victory over The Cardinals in the World Series.

[Yankee Legend]

May 2, 1989

My team didn't do so well. The Yankees lost 5-3 that day to the Kansas City Royals. It was mainly due to a good complete game by Kansas City pitcher Mark Gubicza.

[RuthMayBond]

May 2, 1989

My team didn't do so well. The Yankees lost 5-3 that day to the Kansas City Royals. It was mainly due to a good complete game by Kansas City pitcher Mark Gubicza.But three days before you were born, Rickey Henerson broke the record for leading off a game the most times with a home run.

[runningshoes]

May 2, 1989

Oh man, I was just starting University. :ughh

[Chisox]

But three days before you were born, Rickey Henerson broke the record for leading off a game the most times with a home run.

That will never be broken.

May 2, 1989
Oh man, I was just starting University.

May 2nd, you were STARTING at a University? What University was that?:confused:

[runningshoes]

May 2nd, you were STARTING at a University? What University was that?:confused:

I started in 1989..you know what I meant.

[125osprey]

My team, at least until Toronto was awarded a franchise, was the Montreal Expos. Les Expos played their inaugural season the year I was born. They sucked.

I was born at 11:30 in the evening on September 16, 1969. This is how the National League East stacked up on the day I was born:

W L GB WP RS RA

NYM 89 58 - .605 583 504
CHC 86 63 4.0 .577 676 558
STL 79 68 10.0 .537 539 495
PIT 78 69 11.0 .531 653 605
PHI 59 88 30.0 .401 589 672
MON 48 101 42.0 .322 540 727

The Expos lost to the Cubs 5-4 at Jarry Park in Montreal.

[Chisox]

I started in 1989..you know what I meant.
Wasn't sure. Thanks.:)

[RuthMayBond]

My team, at least until Toronto was awarded a franchise, was the Montreal Expos. Les Expos played their inaugural season the year I was born. They sucked.

I was born at 11:30 in the evening on September 16, 1969. This is how the National League East stacked up on the day I was born:

W L GB WP RS RA

NYM 89 58 - .605 583 504
CHC 86 63 4.0 .577 676 558
STL 79 68 10.0 .537 539 495
PIT 78 69 11.0 .531 653 605
PHI 59 88 30.0 .401 589 672
MON 48 101 42.0 .322 540 727

The Expos lost to the Cubs 5-4 at Jarry Park in Montreal.You're also a week older than Jeff Cirillo. As for your team, Bill "no-hit" Stoneman struck out for his 55th time in 73 AB twelve days after you were born, fortunately he was a pitcher.

[Jennifer]

Grrrrrr! Runningshoes53 if you were on my holiday gift list I'd be taking you off for starting this thread. I looked up how the Tribe did on September 28, 1983 and, of course, it had to be a humiliating loss. The Tribe wnt into the botton of the 9th up by two, 4-2. Jamie Easterly had come into the game in the 7th and pitched scoreless ball through the 8th. Yount hit a 2 run HR with 1 out to tie the score and Oglive followed with a 2 run blast with two outs to win the game. Grrrrrr!

Exactly one year later the Tribe was down to the Twins at one point 10-0 and went on to win 11-10. Go Tribe!

[RuthMayBond]

Grrrrrr! Runningshoes53 if you were on my holiday gift list I'd be taking you off for starting this thread. I looked up how the Tribe did on September 28, 1983 and, of course, it had to be a humiliating loss. The Tribe wnt into the botton of the 9th up by two, 4-2. Jamie Easterly had come into the game in the 7th and pitched scoreless ball through the 8th. Yount hit a 2 run HR with 1 out to tie the score and Oglive followed with a 2 run blast with two outs to win the game. Grrrrrr!

Exactly one year later the Tribe was down to the Twins at one point 10-0 and went on to win 11-10. Go Tribe!But 25 days before you were born, Oakland used SIX pitchers in the ninth as the Tribe scored TEN :gt
23 days after you were born we gave up Len Barker and got Butler, Jacoby, AND $150K. :gt

[antihipster]

December 2, 1963.

No games for the Cardinals on that day.
Cardinals had a 93-69 record in '63.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/STL/1963.shtml

[Elvis]

My birthday - February, 23, 1971

My team won! Lakers 114, Baltimore Bullets 107 (At Baltimore):dance

[Bluesteve32]

My birthday - February, 23, 1971

My team won! Lakers 114, Baltimore Bullets 107 (At Baltimore):dance

I probably watched that game. The Bullets had quite unattractive uniforms back then, even Chick said so. Wes Unseld was the best player on the Bullets back then.:laugh

[Jennifer]

But 25 days before you were born, Oakland used SIX pitchers in the ninth as the Tribe scored TEN :gt
23 days after you were born we gave up Len Barker and got Butler, Jacoby, AND $150K. :gtI went back and looked at the 1983 Tribe roster. Would you believe the team contained 12 players (8 postion and 4 starting pitchers) that during their careers were named to one or more All-Star games? The players:

Mike Hargrove
Manny Trillo
Toby Harrah
Julio Franco
Andre Thornton
Pat Tabler
Bake McBride
Rick Manning
Rick Sutcliffe
Len Barker
Bert Blyleven
Neal Heaton

From just looking at the list (without knowing where in their careers these players were) one would think the Tribe was pretty competitive in 1983. In 1983 the Tribe was 72-90. Come to think of it (BIG SIGH) for the Tribe teams of 60s, 70s and 80s a 72-90 team was one of their more competitive teams (EVEN BIGGER SIGH). Mercifully, I was too young to be aware of the 80s so their badness is less tramautic to me than some of you oldsters.:D

[55 chmps]

My New York Mets didn't play, so, um they didn't lose so that's good.

[Swiss]

Mmmmhhhh... I was born February 28th 1971... so the Red Sox were in spring training.

At the end of 1971, they finished 85-77 (3rd in AL East).

[RuthMayBond]

Mmmmhhhh... I was born February 28th 1971... so the Red Sox were in spring training.

At the end of 1971, they finished 85-77 (3rd in AL East).24 days before you were born, the Hall of Fame finally decided to give blacks a "wing" in the Hall, five days after which Paige was voted in. 6 days after you were born Charles Finley experimented with 3-ball walks and there were nineteen total in one game. You share a birthday with Negro Leaguer Jud Wilson (1899) and Frank Malzone (1930).

[Scoops]

On July 8th (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_8) 1979 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979), Reggie Jackson hit his 15th homerun of the season, a solo shot in the 2nd off Brian Kingman. Lou Piniella drove in another run in the 4th and Luis Tiant pitched a 1-hit shutout to lead the Yankees to victory over the Oakland As at the Colliseum. The Athletics' one hit was a fourth inning single by rookie (and future Yankee) Rickey Henderson, who then stole 2nd off of Tiant and Munson.
[Box Score (http://baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=197907080OAK)]

Less than a month later, Munson would die in a plane crash.

In other news, two Nobel prize winning scientists, Sin-Itiro Tomonaga (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin-Itiro_Tomonaga) and Robert Burns Woodward (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns_Woodward) both died on July 8, 1979.

[RuthMayBond]

On July 8th (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_8) 1979 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979), Reggie Jackson hit his 15th homerun of the season, a solo shot in the 2nd off Brian Kingman. Lou Piniella drove in another run in the 4th and Luis Tiant pitched a 1-hit shutout to lead the Yankees to victory over the Oakland As at the Colliseum. The Athletics' one hit was a sixth inning single by rookie (and future Yankee) Rickey Henderson, who then stole 2nd off of Tiant and Munson. Less than a month later, Munson would die in a plane crash.

[Box Score (http://baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=197907080OAK)]

In other news, two Nobel prize winning scientists, Sin-Itiro Tomonaga (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin-Itiro_Tomonaga) and Robert Burns Woodward (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns_Woodward) both died on July 8, 1979.The day before you were born Mike Schmidt hit HRs in 4 straight AB for his second time. When you were four days old, the ChiSox had the anti-disco night :clapping

[Swiss]

Thank you, RuthMayBond!

[runningshoes]

May 2, 1989

My team didn't do so well. The Yankees lost 5-3 that day to the Kansas City Royals. It was mainly due to a good complete game by Kansas City pitcher Mark Gubicza.

Gotta love the hair.

[runningshoes]

The Expos lost to the Cubs 5-4 at Jarry Park in Montreal.

The first home game by the National League’s Expos was played at an enlarged Jarry Park arena in April 1969, and the team played there until they moved to the Olympic Stadium in April 1977.

http://www.ajclay.com/PTC/pictures/49.jpg

The park was renamed Parc Jean-Paul II in 1985 in brief flurry of enthusiasm after the Pope’s mass in the park during his 1984 visit, but the name change seems never to have taken hold and the park reverted to its original name in 1987.

http://www.ajclay.com/PTC/pictures/51.jpg


Rusty Staub was nicknamed Le Grand Orange by the Quebecois for his red hair.

http://www.ajclay.com/PTC/pictures/50.jpg

[runningshoes]

Less than a month later, Munson would die in a plane crash.

1979 O-PEE-CHEE

http://www.ajclay.com/PTC/pictures/52.jpg

Thurman Munson Memorial Stadium in Canton Ohio.

http://www.ajclay.com/PTC/pictures/53.jpg

[SABR Matt]

Ny team was watching the post-season from home the day I was born (Oct. 16, 1981)...nothing of consequence happened in Seattle on thatday.

[CaliforniaCajun]

Boston Red Sox bats were idle on June 20, 1966. The baseball Gods held me in limbo while Carl Yazstremski, Tony Conigliaro, Rico Petrocelli and a fledgling first baseman named George Scott, who was battling Chicago White Sox phenom Tommie Agee for Rookie of the Year honours, took the twilight game of a double header the day against Boog Powell, Luis Aparicio, Davey Johnson and a pair of Robinsons who would rock the baseball world and lead the Baltimore Orioles to its first world championship later that year.

One month later, while the boys of Bean town continued their slide to the bottom of the American League along with the New York Yankees, the greatest natural hitter in the game’s rich history, Ted Williams, was enshrined at Cooperstown. The following year, Yaz and the boys turned it around and took the dream all the way to the seventh game of the World Series, only to lose to the powerhouse St. Louis Cardinals.

How did your team fare the day you entered this world destined for a love affair with the greatest game ever conceived? Were your heroes, who you have come to know so well, victorious on their march to October, or did they fall as you slept, waiting for the wonders of America's pastime to enrich your life?

If you don’t know or you’re unsure, simply post your birth date and your favourite team and I will research it for you. I will also try to let you know a little about your team's performance that day, if you don’t already know.

If you do know, then please let us all know as well.

And if, by some horrible twist of fate, you had the misfortune of being born during basketball season, feel free to let everyone know what was happening on diamonds across America and Canada anyways.

Have fun. :)

I became a bonafide baseball fan in 1967, and specifically an Angels fan. The Halos defeated Detroit in a doubleheader at the end of the season, the Red Sox beat the Twins, and the Red Sox went to the World Series as a result.

[Centreville82]

September 6, 1982, Labor Day

St. Louis-1
Montreal-0

[RuthMayBond]

September 6, 1982, Labor Day

St. Louis-1
Montreal-0Two days before you were born, Lonnie Smith stole FIVE bases in one game.
You also share a birthday with Oyster Burns and Red Faber.
You might like to know that on your birthdate in 1934, the Giants had a seven-game lead on the Cards with only 21 games left, I think you know how THAT one turned out :clapping

[Barnstormer]

July 21, 1970, a year and a day after Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon.

The Dodgers were in 2nd place to the Reds, who were running away with the NL West, in the second year of divisional play. The Dodgers were up against the Montreal Expos, in their second year of existence, who were on their way to the cellar of the NL East, again.

Steve Garvey, who 10 years later would become my favorite player of all-time (an opinion which has since been modified), had been called up mid-season from the Dodger's AAA club in Spokane, and was playing third base. Garvey hit the first home run of his MLB career that day, off of Carl Morton, who was having a career season (18-11) for the hapless Expos.

Alas, despite young Garvey's solo shot, the Expos prevailed, on the strength of home runs by Morton himself in the 2nd, and by Ron Fairly and Le Grand Orange (RStaub), both of whose home runs came in the 5th and sent SP Don Sutton to the showers. Final score, Expos 5, Dodgers 2.

A note - It was only thanks to this thread that I realized that my boyhood hero, Garvey, had his first HR on the day I was born!

[Centreville82]

Two days before you were born, Lonnie Smith stole FIVE bases in one game.
You also share a birthday with Oyster Burns and Red Faber.
You might like to know that on your birthdate in 1934, the Giants had a seven-game lead on the Cards with only 21 games left, I think you know how THAT one turned out :clapping


Lonnie Smith. I wonder what he's up to these days. Whenever the Cards have a major ceremony for former players, Smith and Andujar are nowhere to be found.

2.) That's amazing. Ripken broke Gehrig's record on my birthday as well

3.) I sure do :clapping



The Cards won on my brother's b-day as well, 8-0 against Atlanta...

[RuthMayBond]

July 21, 1970, a year and a day after Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon.

The Dodgers were in 2nd place to the Reds, who were running away with the NL West, in the second year of divisional play. The Dodgers were up against the Montreal Expos, in their second year of existence, who were on their way to the cellar of the NL East, again.

Steve Garvey, who 10 years later would become my favorite player of all-time (an opinion which has since been modified), had been called up mid-season from the Dodger's AAA club in Spokane, and was playing third base. Garvey hit the first home run of his MLB career that day, off of Carl Morton, who was having a career season (18-11) for the hapless Expos.

Alas, despite young Garvey's solo shot, the Expos prevailed, on the strength of home runs by Morton himself in the 2nd, and by Ron Fairly and Le Grand Orange (RStaub), both of whose home runs came in the 5th and sent SP Don Sutton to the showers. Final score, Expos 5, Dodgers 2.

A note - It was only thanks to this thread that I realized that my boyhood hero, Garvey, had his first HR on the day I was born!You share a birthday with Heinie Manush, Tony Oliva, Mike Witt.
A week before you were born Pete Rose knocked over Ray Fosse in the All-Star game.
Five days before you were born Three Rivers Stadium opened.
Three days before you were born Willie Mays got his 3000th hit.
The day you were born, Preston Gomez lifted Clay Kirby when he was throwing a no-hitter :laugh
You're just over a month older than Jim Thome.

[Bill Burgess]

Guys,

We're getting a lot of threads in the History Forum which belong in the Trivia Forum. I'll not touch it now, but please. No more of this type in History Forum, OK? Needs to be where it belongs, Trivia Forum.

Bill Burgess

[akbravesfan]

june 2, '78: the braves lost to the cubs, 2-1.

[runningshoes]

Guys,

We're getting a lot of threads in the History Forum which belong in the Trivia Forum. I'll not touch it now, but please. No more of this type in History Forum, OK? Needs to be where it belongs, Trivia Forum.

Bill Burgess

What does this thread have to do with trivia, Bill?

Members are describing what happened in baseball on the day they were born..that's history.

Besides, This thread has been here since last year. I originally posted it in the BBF speacials thread, but it was moved here by a moderator.

[RuthMayBond]

june 2, '78: the braves lost to the cubs, 2-1.You share a birthday with Wilbert Robinson, Jack O'Connor, Larry Jackson, Jim Maloney, and Bryan Harvey.

[CaliforniaCajun]

I became a bonafide baseball fan in 1967, and specifically an Angels fan. The Halos defeated Detroit in a doubleheader at the end of the season, the Red Sox beat the Twins, and the Red Sox went to the World Series as a result.

I can elaborate and say that it was one summer evening in 1967, when us sixth graders were at a slumber party and the host dad surprised us and took us to Anaheim Stadium. The Angels were playing the Yankees and when Mickey Mantle was introduced as a pinch hitter he got a tremendous ovation, in fact louder than any of the home team players. The Mick promptly struck out and as he walked back to the dugout he got the same ovation. Even though he was on the opposing team, something clicked that night that has never left me. 39 years later I can say that this remains the greatest memory I have ever had at a ballpark.

[RuthMayBond]

I can elaborate and say that it was one summer evening in 1967, when us sixth graders were at a slumber party and the host dad surprised us and took us to Anaheim Stadium. The Angels were playing the Yankees and when Mickey Mantle was introduced as a pinch hitter he got a tremendous ovation, in fact louder than any of the home team players. The Mick promptly struck out and as he walked back to the dugout he got the same ovation. Even though he was on the opposing team, something clicked that night that has never left me. 39 years later I can say that this remains the greatest memory I have ever had at a ballpark.So it was one of these

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/VCAL01967.htm

[Mike D.]

On the date of my birth, June 3, 1976, the Boston Red Sox squared off against the New York Yankees at Fenway Park.

Boston won 8-2 behind a complete game 8-hitter by Luis Tiant. New York scored two in the top of the first, but it was all Boston after that.

The big bats that day were Cecil Cooper (3-5, 2 RS, 2 RBI, 3b), Fred Lynn (3-5, 2 RS, 2 RBI, 2b) and Jim Rice (2-3, 2 RBI).

Dock Ellis started for NY, and lasted only 1 innings, giving up 4 runs on 3 walks and two hits. The Sox scored 6 runs in the 2nd inning that day.

The game put Boston at 20-23 on the season, on the way to a 83-79 finish.

[RuthMayBond]

On the date of my birth, June 3, 1976, the Boston Red Sox squared off against the New York Yankees at Fenway Park.

Boston won 8-2 behind a complete game 8-hitter by Luis Tiant. New York scored two in the top of the first, but it was all Boston after that.

The big bats that day were Cecil Cooper (3-5, 2 RS, 2 RBI, 3b), Fred Lynn (3-5, 2 RS, 2 RBI, 2b) and Jim Rice (2-3, 2 RBI).

Dock Ellis started for NY, and lasted only 1 innings, giving up 4 runs on 3 walks and two hits. The Sox scored 6 runs in the 2nd inning that day.

The game put Boston at 20-23 on the season, on the way to a 83-79 finish.You're nine days younger than Miguel Tejada.
You were born five days before Joe Niekro hit his only ML HR (off his brother).
You share a birthday with Johnny Bassler and Jim Gentile.

Wade Boggs was picked in the draft when you were five days old.
The void by Kuhn of the would-be sale of A's players to the Bosox & Yanks happened when you were fifteen days old.
Tony Conigliaro was the youngest with a grand slam exactly twelve years before you were born.
Nomar was picked in the draft on your fifteenth birthday.
Pedro had a perfect game for nine innings on your nineteenth birthday.
No wonder you're a Red Sox fan :D

[Mike D.]

No wonder you're a Red Sox fan :D

Yes...it was my destiny. :D :clapping