» April 15, 1933:
Schoolboy Rowe of Detroit makes his first ML
start and shuts out the White Sox 3-0.
» May 7, 1934: In Boston, Schoolboy Rowe wins for Detroit with five innings of relief, as Detroit tops the Red Sox, 8–6. Rowe settles the game with a home run.
» May 27, 1934:
Detroit gets a complete game from young Schoolboy Rowe, who beats the Red Sox, 9–2.
» June 6, 1934:
Cleveland's Bob Weiland, recently acquired, fires a one-hitter at the Tigers, but loses, 2–1. Charlie Gehringer's RBI single is the only hit. Weiland does stop Goose Goslin's hit streak at 30 games. The victory by Schoolboy Rowe puts the Tigers in 1st place.
» June 15, 1934: Detroit's Schoolboy Rowe tops the Red Sox, 11–4, scattering nine hits. This will start Rowe on a 15-game win streak.
» July 12, 1934:
Schoolboy Rowe fans 11 Yankees in a 4-2 win that puts the Tigers back in first place.
» July 15, 1934:
Gehrig returns to 1B and goes 4-for-4, including 3 doubles, off Schoolboy Rowe, but the Yankees lose
to Detroit 8-3.
» August 14, 1934:
The largest weekday crowd in history watches as the Tigers sweep a pair at Yankee Stadium. It is the Tigers' 14th straight; Schoolboy Rowe has won 13 in succession. The next day the Yankees will end
the Tiger streak.
» August 25, 1934:
Schoolboy Rowe, Detroit's sensational rookie P, defeats the Senators 4-2 for his 16th win in a row, tying the AL record held by Walter Johnson,
Joe Wood, and Lefty Grove.
» August 29, 1934:
A capacity crowd at Shibe Park sees Detroit's Schoolboy Rowe fail to win his 17th straight. He is knocked from the box in the seventh inning of the second- game, 13-5 loss to Philadelphia.
» September 13, 1934:
With his fianceé, Edna Mae Skinner
of Oklahoma, watching, Schoolboy Rowe halts the Tiger
skid with a 2-0 win over Washington. He asks
in a radio interview: "How'm I doing, Edna?"
» October 3, 1934:
Dizzy Dean wins the opening game of the WS 8-3,
as Detroit manager Mickey Cochrane holds back his
ace, Schoolboy Rowe. Veteran Al Crowder is ineffective
as the Cardinals romp. Joe Medwick homers in a 4-for-4
day while the Tigers make 5 errors.
» October 4, 1934:
Schoolboy Rowe evens the Series with a 12-inning,
3-2 win, shutting out the Cardinals over the
final 9. The Tigers tie the game in the 9th inning
and win on Goose Goslin's single.
» October 8, 1934:
Paul Dean holds off the Tigers in a pitching duel
with Schoolboy Rowe, winning 4-3. Weak-hitting
Leo Durocher has 3 hits, as does Tigers manager Mickey
Cochrane.
» June 21, 1935: After three straight losses to New York, host Detroit wins, 7–0, behind the pitching of Schoolboy Rowe. Rowe's wife has just given birth.
» August 14, 1935:
Schoolboy Rowe beats the Senators 18-2 and also goes 5-for-5 at the plate. His hits include a double and a triple, and he scores three and knocks in 3.
» September 10, 1935: Washington's Buck Newsom scatters six hits to shut out the leading Tigers, 6–0. Schoolboy Rowe pitches six innings to take the loss.
» September 22, 1935:
The Browns Earl Caldwell, up from San Antonio (Texas) defeats the leading Tigers, 1–0 on three hits. Schoolboy Rowe is the loser and his error in the 6th allows the only run. Caldwell pitched briefly in the NL seven years ago.
» October 2, 1935:
The WS opens in Detroit and Lon Warneke, the Cubs
ace, shuts out the Tigers and Schoolboy Rowe 3-0.
» July 21, 1936:
Mickey Cochrane has a relapse, and Del Baker again takes charge of the Tigers. Detroit takes a pair from the visiting A's, winning 8–0 behind Tommy Bridges, and 9–8, as Schoolboy Rowe wins in relief. The Tigers score a pair in the 8th inning when, with the bases loaded, Mickey Owen hits into a double play. Goslin scores the tying run and Walker, who reaches 3rd on the play, scores when 1B Chubby Dean is caught napping.
» July 30, 1936:
The Yankees, with Jake Powell back in CF for the injured Hoag, drop a 5–4 decision to Detroit. On August 1st, Powell will go to LF, with DiMaggio playing CF for the first time. Selkirk will return to RF. The Yanks loses today when Charlie Gehringer ties the match with a two-run homer in the 8th. Bill Dickey allows a ball to get by him in the 10th and Burns scores the winner. Schoolboy Rowe pitches 10 innings for the win over Johnny Broaca.
» May 8, 1937: Washington's Bobo Newsom, who will pitch in four decades, hits his only major-leaguer homer. It comes in Detroit off Tiger ace Schoolboy Rowe as the Talkative One wins, 8–3.
» May 25, 1937: After hitting a solo home run against the Yankees in his third-inning at-bat off Bump Hadley to break a 1–1 tie, player-manager Mickey Cochrane is hit by a 3–1 pitch from Hadley in the 5th inning and suffers a skull fracture in three places. Coach Del Baker will run the team for the hospitalized Detroit leader, who will never return to active play. Cochrane's homer is his last at bat. In the hospital, Cochrane will exonerate Hadley saying, "I lost the ball." The Yanks win the game, 4–3, beating Schoolboy Rowe, who makes his first appearance of the season following a suspension for lack of conditioning.
» April 30, 1942:
A month after selling veteran P Bobo Newsom, who
had slipped to 12-20 record after three 20-win seasons,
to Washington, the Tigers sell Schoolboy Rowe to the
Dodgers. The vet will win just 2 in Brooklyn before
making a comeback in Philadelphia.
» May 2, 1943: Phillies pitcher Schoolboy Rowe pinch hits with the bases loaded in the 6th inning and cracks a grand slam off Braves righty Al Javery to break a tie. The Phils win, 6–5, but it takes them 12 innings. For Rowe, it is his 2nd grand slam—he hit one in 1939 while with Detroit—and he is the only pitcher to hit a grand slam in each league. He'll finish the 1943 season with a .306 average as a pinch hitter.
» May 11, 1947: In front of 41,660 at Shibe Park—the largest crowd to date to watch a baseball game in Philadelphia—the Phils take two from Brooklyn to take three out of four in the series. The Jays win 7–3 and 5–4. In the first game, the Phils score all their runs in the 3rd and 4th to give knuckler Dutch Leonard his 5th win against a defeat, and his 2nd win in three days against the Bums. Del Ennis's first homer of the year scores 3. Schoolboy Rowe, with relief help from Ken Heintzelman wins the nitecap. He also bangs a homer, and wins his 9th straight over two seasons. Harry Walker raises his average in a Phils uniform to .406 and "closes out the nitecap with one of the most spectacular catches of the season, a catch that would have made the immortal Dode Paskert of 30 years ago doff his hat." (Philadelphia Inquirer)
» May 30, 1947:
The Giants cop a pair from the Phils, 7–1 and 5–3. Monty Kennedy allows just four hits in the first game, while Dave Koslo is the winner in game 2. Koslo, backed by two-run homers from Bobby Thomson and Joe Lafata, hands Schoolboy Rowe his first loss after six wins.
» July 8, 1947:
Clutch pinch hits by Luke Appling and Stan Spence lead the AL to a 2-1 win over the NL in the All-Star Game at Wrigley Field. Schoolboy Rowe pinch-hits for Johnny Sain, becoming the first player to appear for each side. Rowe pitched three innings for the AL in 1936.
» August 24, 1947:
In the 1st game of the doubleheader in Philadelphia, the Reds score nine runs in the 10th inning to win, 12–3. Ten batters go the plate before an out is made. Schoolboy Rowe wins the nitecap for Philly, 8–6, and helps the cause with a homer.
» July 18, 1948:
In the first of two before 39,623, the Chicago Cubs beat the visiting Philadelphia Phillies 3–2. With two outs and the bases loaded in the 9th inning, rookie Robin Roberts hits Phil Cavarretta and Andy Pafko on the back with successive pitches to force home the winner. Chicago's Johnny Schmitz allows just four hits, three by Johnny Blatnik. The Jays (as they are still occasionally referred to in print) win the nitecap, 6–4, collecting 17 hits, including a homer by Del Ennis. Schoolboy Rowe evens his record at 5–5, beating Russ Meyer.
» August 28, 1948: The Phils snap their 10-game losing streak with a pair of victories over the Pirates, 9–2 and 11–7. Del Ennis and Andy Seminick homer in the opener to back Schoolboy Rowe. Ennis hits pair in game two, Seminick adds another, as do Eddie Miller, Granny Hamner --his first of the year -- and Al Lakeman. But the Phils lose star Richie Ashburn, who breaks a finger on his left hand.
» June 2, 1949:
The Philadelphia Phillies hit five HRs in the eighth inning, tying the mark set by the 1939 Giants. The Phillie 5 includes Del Ennis, Andy Seminick (2), Pudding Head
Jones, and Schoolboy Rowe. Jones adds a triple, and Gran Hamner's 2B jumps the extra base total to 18, still a record. Seminick has three HRs in all.
» April 29, 1953:
Joe Adcock becomes the first ML player to homer
into the CF bleacher seats in the Polo Grounds, over
475 feet away. Luke Easter, in a 1948 Negro League
game, and Schoolboy Rowe, in batting practice before
a 1933 exhibition game, also accomplished the feat.
Lou Brock and Hank Aaron will match it is as well
in 1962. The Braves win the game 3-2 on a 9th-inning
wild pitch by Hoyt Wilhelm.
» May 27, 1955:
At Detroit, Frank House's home run is the only score as Bill Hoeft beats the White Sox, 1–0. In the 9th, Bill Tuttle runs down a 415 ft. drive by Jim Rivera that Schoolboy Rowe calls "the greatest catch since White's robbery of Martin in the '34 Series."
» August 27, 1957:
Hurricane Bob Hazle, hitting .526 since being recalled from Wichita, hits two 2-run HRs, as the Braves beat the Phillies 7-3 for Warren Spahn's 219th career win, moving him to a 6th on the career
list. Spahn also hits his 18th career HR, also good for sixth (tie with Schoolboy Rowe) on the career list
» September 3, 2002:
Andy Van Hekken (1–0), with a fastball topping out in the mid–80s, becomes the first American Leaguer to throw a complete game shutout in his debut since Mike Norris in 1975, and the first Tiger since Schoolboy Rowe in 1933. He stops Cleveland 4–0. The Holland, Michigan native was 5–0 at Toledo (AAA) before his promotion.
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