A Time Machine To 5 Events in Baseball History

[vintagebaseballcardguy]

In no particular order:

Jackie's debut in '47
Slaughter's Mad Dash in '46
Fisk's homer in '75
Thomson's homer in '51
Owen's passed ball in '41

[Casey2296]

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Adding one I haven't seen yet.

Comiskey Park Thursday, July 12, 1979 Disco Demolition Night.

RIP Bill Veeck.
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[drumback]

1. 1908 the Merkle game.
2. Last game of the 1912 World Series.
3. Cobb spikes Wagner - or not - in the 1909 World Series.
4. 1908 -Joss perfect game in the last days of the greatest pennant race ever.
He only threw 74 pitches to beat Ed Walsh.
5. Walter Johnson pitching to Ty Cobb for the first time in 1907.

[jethrod3]

Great thread! Here's mine:

1) Closest seat to the batter's box to watch Ruth's called shot in the '32 World series
2) Larsen's perfect game
3) Vander Meer's 2nd no-hitter
4) 1975 World Series game 6 which made me a Reds fan
5) Any Ted Williams home run game (fave player that I never saw play live)

Runner up: If you could get me to the closest point where he made "the catch" then it would be the 1954 Mays World Series catch

[drumback]

That 1975 WS game 6 was incredible!

[Keith H. Thompson]

that shows Sam Thompson in RF wearing a glove. Joe Gonsowski found an obscure newspaper reference that is convincing, but we still do not know definitively whether Thompson was right handed or left handed.

[Touch'EmAll]

Great to hear everyone's excellent choices ! Here are 3:

1. The 1917 Timothy Murnane Benefit game at Fenway Park, including the non-game skills.

2. The first All-Star game July 6, 1933

3. Nolan Ryan's August 20, 1974 game in which he was clocked at 100.9 (closer to 108 mph due to clocking reading near home plate) And I was actually there - but would love to go back in time and see it again ! Is still listed in Guinness Book of World Records.

4. August 15, 1916 Babe Ruth, pitching for Boston, defeats Walter Johnson 1-0 in 13 innings

[jsfriedm]

1)Ted Williams' home run in his last at bat (still undecided between that and the double header in Philadelphia on the last day of the 1941 season)
2)A pitching duel between Mathewson and Mordecai Brown
3)The game where Josh Gibson hit the ball in Pittsburgh that came down the next day in Philadelphia.
4)Bobby Thompson's home run
5)A game pitched by Ol' Hoss Radbourn down the stretch in 1884.

[tippedfinger]

1) 1867 National Association of Base-Ball Players Convention -- to talk some sense into them and approve entry of the Pythians into the league and stop segregation from taking root in the game.
2) Game 7 Of 1937 Ciudad Trujillo Championship
3) Game 6 of the 1986 Mets Red Sox World Series
4) April 18th - 1946. Jackie's debut for the Montreal Royals in NJ.
5) The 1930 or 1934 game where Josh Gibson purportedly hit one out of Yankee Stadium, or close to it.
Honorable mention: Any game Ruth played in.

[scoutsout47]

1) 1955 WS Game 7

2) Gil McDougal’s line drive into Herb Score’s face

3) Aaron’s 1974 shot off of Al Downing

4) When Rose laid out Fosse

5) Rick Monday’s big save in the outfield

[mr2686]

1. Snodgrass Muff in 1912 WS - (I'd take this one over Merkle).
2. 1919 WS Game 1.
3. Ruth's called shot 1932 Gm 3
4. Thomson's Shot Heard 'round the world - I'd also send a note down to the dugout to not pitch Branca.
5. 1955 WS Game 7

[oldjudge]

1. Ruth called shot game
2. Reggie Jackson three HR WS game
3. Ted William's last games of 1941
4. Koufax perfect game
The fifth I was at---Aaron Boone HR playoff game against the Red Sox off Tim Wakefield

[1991AtlantaBraves]

Padres at Braves - August 12, 1984

http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/news...t1v9j1fsnj47vz