Exactly 100 years ago
 

On August 20, 1924 Casey Stengel hit the last home run of his career.

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in person autograph obtained in spring training 1957

Posting one event on the same day 100 years ago will suffice to complete your post.
Cheating is allowed and probably necessary.
Restricted to baseball. This is Net54 after all. The winter months will be tough for that reason. Births and deaths may be used as a last resort.
Do not pre-post for a day in the future. If a day goes by without a post, so be it.

Feel free to post a related card or auto if you can. Let's keep the ball rolling. Tomorrow is August 21, 2024.


Hint: If you have an item you would like to post on a future date, save it and post it in exactly 100 years here on the correct date.

This is a great idea, Frank! A lot of history upcoming...

Here's a Conlon "Vampire Eyes variation 1 of 1" photo dated 8/20/1924.

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Famed Sportscaster born...
 

OKay I cheated AND had to use the fall back of a birthday..... but this guy was iconic!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Buck

Today is my birthday that I share with Jack Buck, although I’m a tad younger. Ironically I have had several “nicknames” during my life and still have a friend who calls me “Bucket”. Hmmmmmmmmmm.

Thanks for your participation. No further posts are required until tomorrow, but rules are made to be broken in the fine tradition of Net54. Look at what we’ve learned already.:eek::D

How about some interesting Jack Buck info:

https://www.newstribune.com/news/202...als-announcer/

August 21, 1924 Washington Senators defeated the Chicago White Sox 2-1 before 6,000 at Griffith Stadium. WP: Walter Johnson; Save: Firpo Marberry.
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Here's the first paragraph of Fred "Firpo" Marberry's SABR bio:
"Fred Marberry, one of the best pitchers in baseball for a decade, was the first great hurler to be used primarily as a relief pitcher. He played a large role in Washington’s only World Series triumph, and set many records for relievers that would not be bested for many years. Almost forgotten today, he has been denied larger fame by splitting his career between starting and relieving —had he done one or the other, he might be in baseball’s Hall of Fame today."

In 1924, Marberry's second year in MLB, he led the Majors with 15 saves. He led the Majors in saves again in 1925 and 1926 with 16 and 22, respectively.

Every thread needs a Firpo.

Bill Pettus passed away on 8/22/1924. His black baseball career spanned from 1909-1923. He was 40 when he passed away. He once played for six different teams in one season.

Well, all I found was game final scores. Now I will look up and read about Bill Pettis.

August 23, 1924. Washington Senators defeated the Chicago White Sox 2-1 before 12,000 at Griffith Stadium. WP: George Mogridge.

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George, this game was noteworthy as well for being the first game in Sam Rice’s 31 game hitting streak during which he only struck out 4 times.

100 years ago today, Sherm Lollar, yet another superb ballplayer who is 100 percent overlooked today, was born.

Exactly 100 years ago today, August 24, 1924, the Detroit Tigers beat the New York Yankees 7 to 2 at the Yankee Stadium. Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb each hit a home run. The Yankees fell to 2 games back of the American League-leading Washington Senators with the loss.

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August 25, 1924. The Washington Senators defeated the St. Louis Browns 2-0 before 7,000 fans at Griffith Stadium. WP: Walter Johnson, who pitched a rain-shortened, 7-inning no-hitter to improve to 16-7 on the season. The scheduled second game was rained out. Sam Rice was 1-4.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...39b074a263.jpg

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100 years ago today, August 26, 1924, Alex Kellner was born. He won 20 games in 1949 pitching for a bad team. Alex has a losing record for his career due to pitching for bad teams. That's why he is relegated to being a common in all the cards sets. I knew Ozzie Van Brabant's son. Ozzie had a cup of coffee with the Philadelphia Athletics, who were awful during this early 1950s time frame. One name mentioned was Alex Kellner, who Ozzie thought could have been a very good pitcher on a better team.

Ted Lyons must have done something on August 27, 1924. :eek:

On Aug. 27, 1924 Ted Lyons did something that would probably not happen today. He pitched 8-2/3 innings (which could still happen but does not very often) and gave up 15 hits and 9 runs (8 earned). It is doubtful a pitcher today would be in the game long enough to allow that many runs (or runners). I can't find a pitch count, but I would guess it was "a lot".

He took a 12-3 lead into the ninth but was taken out with the score 12-8 and runners on first and second. Sarge Connally came in and got the (retroactively credited) save by walking one, hitting a batter to force in a run, and getting the last batter to ground out.

A Goose Attack in the Bronx
 

Goslin hits for cycle and bats in 6 in 11-6 win over the Yankees on August 28, 1924.

And a card.

(Molenick: Fantastic card! I won't try to top that.)

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Hitting for the cycle is one of the most underrated accomplishments in baseball.

One hundred years ago today, Cleveland played the (post Black Sox) White Sox in a game that had "No True Outcomes", meaning there were no walks, strikeouts, or Home Runs.

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Can you imagine a game today without a walk, strikeout or Home Run?

May never happen again.

August 29, 1924. The Washington Senators pushed the New York Yankees another game back as they won 5-1 before 25,000 at Yankee Stadium. WP: Walter Johnson, who took a 5-0 lead into the eighth inning before giving way to Marberry who put out the fire and finished the game. Goslin had another big game, but Joe Judge had a triple to earn a card:

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The Saga of John Dobb
 

John Dobb, a 22 year old rookie, played in his first ML game on August 13, 1924. He pitched one scoreless inning for the White Sox in Boston.

He sat in the bull pen for 16 days

Seventeen days later on August 30, 1924, he pitched the bottom of the eighth in Cleveland in a game the Sox were already losing 6-9. He gave up 2 runs.

His lifetime ERA was 9.00. He never played in another game, but lived to the ripe old age of 89.

I doubt that he ever had a baseball card, but if anyone has one, let's see it.:D

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yes, this is John Dobb

Mays, Mantle and Inao were his teammates
 

On August 31, 1924 , George Wilson was born. Who the hell is George Wilson you ask?

Well George had a long but mediocre career with a paucity of highlights. But in 1956 he played for both the New York Giants and the New York Yankees. I don't think anyone else in 1956 was a teammate of both Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays, but none of their prowess rubbed off on George.

George returned to the minors in 1957 and continued to drift into oblivion.
His last two years in organized ball were played with the Nishitetsu Lions, where he was a teammate of Kazuhisa Inao, the workhorse of the Lions pitching staff for a number of years.

George retired at the age of 39

September 1, 1924. The Washington Senators defeated the Philadelphia Athletics 5 -3 before 18,000 at Griffith Stadium. WP: Tom Zachary, who went the distance despite allowing three runs in the ninth inning. Joe Judge went 4-4 with (another) triple and two doubles, but Muddy Ruel went 1-3 with a walk and two runs scored, so he gets the card:

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The Courtesy (or Temporary) Fielder
 

September 1, 1924 was another landmark day in baseball history that very few have even heard of. Consider yourself lucky.

9/1/1924 (Athletics at Senators, game 2) - (COURTESY FIELDER) With one out in the Senators 2nd inning Athletics third baseman Sammy Hale ripped his uniform. Rather than delay the game while Hale's uniform was being repaired, Senators manager Bucky Harris allowed Harry Riconda to be a temporary fielder for the rest of the inning (the final two outs of the inning) and Hale was allowed to re-enter the Athletics lineup for his turn at bat in the top of the third inning.

There is no record of subsequent temporary fielders and no photographs to document the tear in Hale's uniform or the resultant exposure.

BTW, the Senators won the game against the Athletics that Frank referred to in the previous post by the score of 4 - 3, with Fred "Firpo" Marberry the winning pitcher. By winning both games on September 1st, the Senators maintained their 1.5 game lead over the Yankees, who swept 2 games from the Red Sox on this date.

September 2, 1924, was an off day for the Washington Senators. Just before taking the 2 games from the Red Sox in DC on September 1st, the Senators had taken 3 of 4 games from the Yankees at New York, to go from being .5 game behind the Yankees in the AL standings to 1.5 games ahead. The DC fans had never before been so excited about the Senators. I assume President Calvin Coolidge knew a good promotional opportunity when he saw one, for he invited the Senators team to visit the White House on September 2nd, and, of course, photos were taken:

September 3, 1924 was another day without baseball for the Washington Senators, a brief interruption of their pennant struggle with the Yankees. The pitching staff was caught, however, in a picture dated on the 3rd. (Given the background shown, it seems impossible that the picture was actually taken on the third, but perhaps it was issued to help fill the news vacuum created by the off day.) The caption-writer offers an optimistic view of Washington's chances to achieve its unprecedented objective:

September 4, 1924
 

September 4, 1924. The Washington Senators routed the Boston Red Sox 12-5 before 12,000 fans at Griffith Stadium. WP: Walter Johnson (19-6); SV: Allen Russell (8). (Here's an odd rabbit hole: The Baseball-Reference Box Score indicates that Russell has been awarded a Save, despite entering the game in relief of Walter Johnson who is credited with 7 innings pitched. Boston scored a run in the top of the seventh inning off Walter to make the score 9-3; Washington scored 3 runs in the bottom of the seventh to get to 12-3 before Russell took over. Doesn't make sense to me.)

Anyway, Sam Rice had a big game (4-6 with 5 RBIs), but the card goes to Bucky Harris who was 3-5 with a walk, an RBI, and three runs scored:

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Thanks for the preview (.). :D

Until we hear from Eric, don't forget that Miss Ruth Malcomson from Philadelphia won the fourth Miss America pageant on this day 100 years ago.

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100 years ago today, Urban Schocker managed to beat the White Sox twice in one day.

In the first game of the double header, Shocker pitched a complete game and gave up 2 runs on 9 hits.

In the second game of the double header, Shocker pitched another complete game and allowed 2 runs on just 5 hits.

The score of both games was 6 to 2.
He struck out but one White Sox player in the 18 innings.

Thanks I stayed up too late after the Chiefs and forgot . With apologies to cgJackson222 And urban schocker , Probably breaking the rules with two things happening on the same day 100 years ago .. anyhoo ..
On September 6, 1924 the Giants and the Phillies split a doubleheader , scoring a combined 45 runs on 70 hits !
On a sidenote the Phillies were also involved in the double hitter record of 73 combined hits with the Cardinals July 6, 1929

If you can figure out what the rules are, don't hesitate to break them. No penalty for being a day or two off either. Sometimes more than one thing happens on one day and some days are slow "news" days.

100 years ago today a ballplayer mimicked Shohei Ohtani in Boston.

He walked twice, had one single, was caught stealing and in the eighth inning hit a two run homerun to lead his team to 2-0 victory preserving a 2 hit shutout for Bush.

His name wasn't Pipp.:D

On September 8, 1924, Walter Johnson pitched a complete-game, 8 to 4 win over the Philadelphia Athletics to keep the Senators 2 games ahead of the Yankees in the race for the AL pennant. Player-manager Bucky Harris led the attack with 3 RBIs, and WaJo himself, a very-good-hitting pitcher, chipped in with 2 hits, a RBI and 2 runs scored.

Duplicate post - sorry!

September 9, 1924 Rogers Hornsby went 2-4 with a rbi in the 138th game of the season - by this point he had what could be considered a full season with 207 hits and 40 doubles - His batting average at this time was .432 !
From here he would go on to “slump” down to .424

A Pitcher's Duel????
 

On September 10th my namesake Frankie Frisch had six consecutive hits before being retired to complete a 6 for 7 day at the plate. The Giants were ahead 20-0 in the seventh inning. Huntzinger relieved Barnes for the Giants in the 8th and gave up a run to Boston. The Giants however prevailed 22-1 and Huntzinger is credited with a retroactive "save". At least Barnes got the W.

Bottomley on September 16, 1924
 

I remember it well for on this day Jim Bottomley set an enduring record by knocking in 12 runs in a game against Brooklyn. He went 6 for 6 with 3 singles, 1 double and 2 home runs. He was so tired that after his sixth hit in the 9th inning, a single, he was replaced with a pinch runner. Jim hit a grand slam in the 4th inning. In each of his six trips to the plate there were runners on base and all six of his hits knocked in at least one run. I suspect that having an RBI in six different innings of a game may also be a record. The Cardinals won this game 17-3.

A card.

Bottomley’ s 12 RBIs in a game is still a record but he now shares it with another Cardinal, Mark Whiten, who on 9-7-93 had 4 HRs and 12 RBIs in a game against the Reds

9/18/24
 

The Yankees win 2-1 in a comeback victory over St. Louis, spurred on by a 9th-inning pinch-hit home run by Bullet Joe Bush off rookie Ernie Wingard.

100 years ago today Boom Boom Beck made his major league debut at 19 years of age. He didn’t play again in the bigs until 1927, but his career spanned 20 years. He is not in the Hall of Fame though.

Who played in their first and last game exactly 100 years today?

I'm sure its on the tip of your tongue, but if you don't have a tongue it's
PATRICK EDWARD BURKE

A summary of his career includes 3 at bats without a hit. He did reach base on an error though. At third base he did not make any errors, nor did he even touch the ball apparently.

In fact his career probably is being summarized for the first time here on Net54.

26 September 1924
 

On September 26, 1924 the Washington Senators began the day with a two-game advantage over New York in the American League with four games to play. Washington was set to begin a four-game season-ending series in Boston and looking forward to clinching the American League pennant against a poor Red Sox club. Leading with their ace pitcher, who brought a 13-game win streak, Washington could also look forward to the vocal support of the Boston fans who were fully charmed by the prospect of Walter Johnson's likely last chance to play in a World Series. Washington's potent offense expected to be paced by Sam Rice, currently engaged in a team-record 31-game hitting streak.

Wahington eagerly and confidently awaited word that the Senators had taken another big step toward capturing the pennant. But this is baseball, so of course, Walter Johnson's consecutive-win streak was broken at 13 in a 2-1 heartbreaker. Meanwhile, New York pounded Philadelphia 7-1. And Sam Rice went 0-4.

But, before all that, an enterprising and overconfident news operative put out a picture of righthanded Senator pitcher, Al Russell, asserting that because he was previously employed by the Yankees, Russell could take special delight in beating them out of the (still hotly contested) pennant:

September 28 th
 

The season didn’t end too soon for Buddy Crump, who played in his only major league game on the last day of the season for the Giants. Some say it was a lackluster performance despite having a sacrifice hit for an RBI, but you can bet that it was a game that Buddy always remembered. He played several more years in the minors, but never got another cup of coffee in the “bigs”.

World Series on October 5
 

Senators blow 9th-inning lead but recover to even World Series at one game apiece.

Roger Peckinpaugh
 

"Senators blow 9th-inning lead but recover to even World Series at one game apiece"

It was Peck's walk-off double that gave Washington its first-ever World Series game win:

October 7, 1924
 

100 years ago today, October 7, 2024, the Washington Nationals won the fourth game of the World Series, 7 to 4. Goose Goslin hit cleanup for the Nationals, and went four for four, a home run, and four RBIs. The Nationals beat the Giants that day, 7 to 4. The game took 2 hours and 10 minutes to play; among the umpires were Bill Klem and Bill Dinneen (who is among the T206 players). The Nationals went on to win the World Series, in seven games, beating the New York Giants.

During the regular season in 1924, The Goose had hit .344, racking up 199 hits, and a league leading 129 RBIs.

Read about him or listen to him in Professor Ritter's great bookThe Glory Of Their Times.
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The "Goose Goslin Game":

Seattle fans mourning last night's game can think of better times, like...

This week in 1924 (Oct 6-12): Seattle's Indians won six-of-seven against the SF Seals, keying a run to their first PCL title. "Brick" Eldred hit a ton for those 1920s Seattle teams, later earning a spot in the Mariners HOF.

More on Eldred: https://www.sportspressnw.com/215639...00-hit-machine

October 10, 1924: Big Train finally wins the biggest one of all
 

Credit SABR writer Stew Thornley

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And a Big Train W575-1, obtained raw...

The winning run for the Senators in the 12th inning of the 7th game of the 1924 World Series was driven in by unheralded rookie center fielder Earl McNeely, who the Senators had acquired from Sacramento of the PCL in early August.

Resorting to a birthday, since no one else has gone with an event...

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Dave Jolly. Happy 100th Birthday. Born in Stoney Point, NC; and later buried there. I urge you to read the SABR Project bio link is in his Baseball Reference page. We gravitate to celebrating baseball heroes for their 'on the field' efforts. We should remember players like Dave Jolly who was a Star in the game of life. He has a youth league field named for him.

He was under contract to at least 4 different organizations, all of his playing time in the Majors was with the Milwaukee Braves, lifetime batting average .292. His pitches seemed to have been a fairly good slider and a sneaky letter high fastball. Toward the end of his time in the Majors he did add in an occasional knuckle ball. His first minor league stop was with the Moorsville, NC team (about half an hour from Stoney Point), a team-mate was Hoyt Wilhelm. He was on the Braves' 1957 World Series roster, but did not get into a game. He played in the minors after not making a major league roster. Back home after baseball, he taught boys Sunday school, coached the state's Babe Ruth league champions, and he bought his church a new organ from his World Series share. And then he died prematurely. If Stoney Point was big enough to have a Hall of Fame, Dave Jolly would have been in it.

Dave was a good guy.

October 18, 1924: Game Eight of the first Colored World Series
 

From Wikipedia:

October 18, 1924, at Schorling Park in Chicago

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Hilldale 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 9 1
KS City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 9 0
W: Bullet Rogan (2–1) L: Rube Currie (1–1)
HRs: none
Umpires: Goeckel, Moore, McGrew, and Costello

In one of Negro league baseball's legendary games, the Monarchs rallied for three runs in the ninth to stun Hilldale. Because of an injury to shortstop Jake Stephens some weeks before and to get maximum offensive output from his lineup, Hilldale manager Warfield moved regular third baseman Judy Johnson to short, moved catcher-short stop Mackey to third, and installed aging backup receiver Louis Santop as the regular catcher. With three players playing out of position at critical defensive positions, Warfield's moves came back to haunt him in the ninth when Mackey and Johnson both missed key plays, and when Santop dropped Frank Duncan's foul popup, Duncan lined a single past Mackey that scored the tying and winning runs.

Also legendary was the vicious verbal assault that Warfield launched against Santop following the loss, laying blame for the loss squarely at Santop's feet. Santop and others were already in tears in their locker room following the game, and it is one of Blackball's legends that Santop never recovered from the humiliation of Warfield's tirade.

Jose Mendez was also apart of those Monarch Teams. One of the most talented pitchers/players of that era for sure. At that point he reinvented himself, but apparently his talent was the stuff of legends!

Oct 18, 1924: Red Grange trounces Michigan
 

Not baseball, but here's a good one: Red Grange scores 4 TDs in the first 12 minutes helping Illinois defeat Michigan 39-14.

One of 11 tickets graded by PSA shown below (link is to my ebay listing). ** EDIT: ITEM HAS SOLD.***

https://www.ebay.com/itm/176608155880

What ?
Had to look this up .. he returned the opening kick off 95 yards (TD) then had TD runs of 65, 56 and 44 yards , Later in the game he added an 11 yard TD run (5 TDs) .. oh and he also threw a 20 yard Touchdown pass .
WOWzee
EDIT : and intercepted two passes

21 October 1924: Trixie was born.

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Come here to learn
 

Christian General Feng Joe Siang occupied Beijing exactly 100 years ago today.

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