» July 17, 1909: Red Sox reliever Smoky Joe Wood fans 10 Cleveland batters in just four innings, as visiting Boston wins, 6–4.

» April 14, 1910: In the season opener before 25,000 at New York's Hilltop Park, the Red Sox, sport laced collars, the last major league team to wear a collar. Boston sends the Yankees into extra innings before the game is called at the end of 14 innings with the score, 4–4. Ed Cicotte starts for Boston, with Joe Wood relieving in the 8th inning. Hippo Vaughn goes all the way for New York, retiring Boston batters in the 4th and 12 innings on four pitches. He needs just three pitches in the 10th.

» May 8, 1911: At New York, Smoky Joe Wood beats the Yankees, 4–0, in six innings. He gives up just one hit, a single to Caldwell.

» May 15, 1911: With the score tied in the 10th inning, Boston's Smoky Joe Wood intentionally walks Ty Cobb, issuing one of two free passes the star will receive all season. Two batters later Jim Delahanty drives in Cobb for Detroit's 5–4 win. With two safeties today, Cobb starts a 40-game hit streak.

» June 5, 1911: Boston reliever Smoky Joe Wood strikes out three White Sox pinch hitters in the 9th inning to save a 5–4 Red Sox win.

» July 7, 1911: At St. Louis, Smoky Joe Wood allows a single to Burt Shotton in pitching a one-hitter. Boston wins, 6–1.

» July 24, 1911: An AL all-star team plays the Naps in Cleveland, raising $12,914 for the late Addie Joss's family. The all-stars win 5–3. Joe Wood and Walter Johnson pitch for the all stars, while Cy Young twirls for the Naps.

» July 29, 1911: Red Sox fireballer Joe Wood hurls a 5–0 no-hitter against the Browns. He walks two and hits one batter.

» August 25, 1911: Red Sox lefty Smoky Joe Wood tops the St. Louis Browns, 3–2, for his 20th win.

» September 16, 1911: Boston's Smoky Joe Wood and rookie Buck O'Brien toss back-to-back shutouts to beat Cleveland. Wood wins 6–0 and O'Brien follow with a 3–0 win. O'Brien, who relieved in his last appearance, will finish all of his five starts going, 5–1.

» April 11, 1912: Playing the Red Sox in the opener at New York's Hilltop Park, the Yankees wear pinstripes for the first time. Boston scores a run in the 1st against Ray Caldwell, and the Yankees respond with two runs in the bottom against Joe Wood. That is all the scoring until the ninth inning, when the Sox score four runs, including two on a Smoky Joe single. Boston wins, 5–3, on Wood's seven hitter.

» May 29, 1912: At Fenway Park, the second-place Red Sox take two from Washington 21–8 and 12–11. Joe Wood wins the opener, allowing 11 hits, while Boston collects 18. The two squads combine for 59 hits for 77 total bases.

» June 16, 1912: Smoky Joe Wood beats the host White Sox, 6–4, allowing five hits. The Red Sox ace is now 13–3.

» June 26, 1912: Boston's Smoky Joe Wood outguns the Nationals ace Walter Johnson to win, 3–0. Wood allows three hits to Big Train's 4. Johnson fans 10 batters in the loss.

» June 29, 1912: At Fenway, the Red Sox sweep two from the Yankees, winning 13–6 and 6–0. Smoky Joe Wood wins the nitecap, his 2nd shutout in a row, allowing just one hit, in winning 6–0 in seven innings. Dutch Sterrett's single is the lone hit. In the nitecap, Hick Cady makes two hits in one at bat. His single scores Jake Stahl from 3B, but umpire Silk O'Loughlin rules that Stahl was balked home. In Cady's 2nd chance, he doubles.

» July 4, 1912: Boston's Smoky Joe Wood suffers his worst loss of the year, a 16–4 shellacking at the hands of the Athletics. Eddie Plank beats Wood, who will finish the year at 34–5. Wood will win his next start on July 8th, the first of 16 in a row.

» July 12, 1912: In Boston, the Red Sox edge the Tigers 1–0 in 11 innings. Smoky Joe Wood goes all the way in the win allowing five hits and striking out 10.

» July 23, 1912: In Boston, Smoky Joe Wood (20–4) pitches Boston to a 6–3 win over Cleveland. He allows nine hits while striking out 7.

» August 6, 1912: At Cleveland, Joe Wood gives up 13 hits in an 11-inning 5–4 win for Boston. He strikes out five in running his record to 23–4.

» August 14, 1912: Tris Speaker runs his hit streak to 20 straight games, lining a hit in game one of today's twinbill with the Browns. This is Speaker's 3rd long streak of the season; earlier he had streaks of 20 games and 30 games, the only player in history to do so. In the nitecap, Smoky Joe Wood wins his 25th, beating the Browns, 8–0. He allows four hits and strikes out 9.

» August 16, 1912: Walter Johnson and Joe Wood are in pursuit of Rube Marquard's 19-game win streak. Johnson picks on the White Sox for his 14th straight, a 2-hitter, tying Jack Chesbro's 1904 mark. The Washingtonians win, 2–0, beating "our meatball expert" (Chicago Record-Herald) Joe Benz with eight hits. A week later Joe Wood will win number 13 in a row.

» September 2, 1912: In a rainy doubleheader at the Polo Grounds, Red Sox ace Joe Wood tops the Yankees in the nitecap, 1–0, for his 30th win and his 13th straight victory. It is Wood's 8th shutout and 2nd in a row. Boston takes the opening squeeker, 2–1 to finish the year in New York with 10 wins in 10 tries. With three wins last year, and five wins in their first five road games with New York in 1913, Boston ties the major-league record for most consecutive wins on the road against one team (18).

» September 6, 1912: In one of the more dramatic matchups in history, Walter Johnson, who had won 16 straight games before losing two games, takes the mound in a doubleheader nightcap against Joe Wood, who is seeking his 14th straight win. Wood strikes out nine and beats the visiting Senators 1–0 for his 30th win. Boston's lone run comes in the 6th on back to back doubles by Tris Speaker and Duffy Lewis. Speaker's double would normally be an easy fly out, but the ball drops into the overflow crowd cordoned off by ropes.

» September 10, 1912: Boston's Smoky Joe Wood wins his 15th straight, with 9th inning relief help from Sea Lion Hall, beating the White Sox, 5–4. He scatters 12 hits and strikes out 5. There is some question about which pitcher should receive credit for the win, but American League president Ban Johnson will rule in favor of Wood.

» September 15, 1912: In the 2nd game of a doubleheader, Boston's Joe Wood wins his 16th straight game as he bests the Browns 2–1 in a game called after eight innings because of darkness. Wood scores the winning run in the 8th, scoring from 3B on a wild pitch by Earl Hamilton. Earlier in the year, Walter Johnson posted a streak of 16 straight wins.

» September 20, 1912: Joe Wood's bid for a 17th straight victory falls short as Detroit beats Boston 6–4 on two unearned runs. Wood gives up seven hits and, in the 3rd, walks four in a row. Detroit starter Bill Covington is thrown out of the game in the 5th inning with the Tigers ahead 3–1, receives credit for the victory. Joe Lake mops up the last five innings for Detroit.

» September 25, 1912: In Boston, Smoky Joe Wood fires a 2-hitter at New York, winning 6–0. The Boston ace strikes out 10 in winning his 33rd game.

» October 3, 1912: In Philadelphia, the Red Sox roll over the A's, 17–3, as Joe Wood coasts to his 34th win of the year. Smoky Joe strikes out six and scatters eight hits. Duffy Lewis homers for the winners.

» October 8, 1912: The World Series opens. Giants manager John McGraw goes with rookie Jeff Tesreau, his most effective late-season pitcher, against the Red Sox. Smoky Joe Wood fans 11 and wins 4–3 before 35,730 at New York.

» October 11, 1912: Joe Wood faces Jeff Tesreau again in New York. Despite giving up nine hits, Wood walks none and works out of several jams for a 3–1 win.

» October 15, 1912: In game 7 on a cold day in Boston, the Giants catch up with Joe Wood’s smoke, teeing off for 6 runs on 7 hits before the 32,694 fans have settled down. Jeff Tesreau wobbles to an 11–4 win and the Series is tied at 3 all. The only Boston bright spot is Tris Speaker’s unassisted double play in the 9th, the only one by an outfielder in WS play. Before the game, Red Sox management release the Royal Rooters' block of tickets to the general public, and when the Rooters march on to the field shortly before game time, they find "their" seats taken. The Rooters refuse to leave the field and the club resorts to using mounted policemen to herd them behind the left-field bleacher rail or out of the park. When the Red Sox win the coin flip after today's game to determine the site for the deciding match, the upset Royal Rooter boycott the finale, lowering the attendance.

» October 16, 1912: In the Series finale, Christy Mathewson squares off against Hugh Bedient in quest of his first win of the Series. He takes a 1–0 lead into the 7th, but with one out, Boston manager Jake Stahl hits a pop-up to short LF. The ball drops among Art Fletcher, Josh Devore, and Fred Snodgrass. Heinie Wagner walks, and with two outs, pinch hitter Olaf Henriksen doubles home the tying run. Smoky Joe Wood relieves Bedient, and the two aces match zeroes until Red Murray doubles and Fred Merkle singles in the 10th to give New York a 2–1 lead. In the last of the 10th, pinch hitter Clyde Engle lifts a can of corn to CF Snodgrass, who drops the ball. Snodgrass then makes a great catch of a long drive by Harry Hooper. Steve Yerkes walks, bringing up Tris Speaker, who pops a high foul along the 1B line. C Chief Meyers chases it, but it drops a few feet from 1B Merkle, who could have taken it easily. Reprieved, Speaker then singles in the tying run and sends Yerkes to 3B. After Duffy Lewis is walked intentionally, 3B Larry Gardner hits a long sac fly to a retreating Devore that scores Yerkes with the winning run. This World Series was the most butterfingered in history, with thirty-one errors recorded, seventeen for The Giants. The Red Sox earn $4,024.68 each; the Giants' share is $2,566.47 each.

» July 4, 1913: Red Sox pitcher Joe Wood smokes two doubles in the 4th inning against the A's, setting a record for pitchers.

» August 7, 1915: At Fenway, Smoky Joe Wood fires a one-hitter, beating Cleveland, 2–0. Bill Wambsganss single is the only Cleveland hit. For Wood, it is his 5th one-hitter, and the 3rd over regulation distance.

» August 16, 1915: At Boston, Smoky Joe Wood fires a 1–0 shutout over Washington. The Nationals have lost all 11 games at Fenway this year.

» May 24, 1918: Former P Joe Wood hits a HR in the 19th for a 3-2 Cleveland win over New York. Home Run Baker's 11 assists tie the AL record for 3B in an extra-inning game.

» May 19, 1925: In the top of the 9th at Cleveland, pinch hitter Walter Johnson clouts a 2-run home run over the 45-foot right field wall at League Park to give the Senators a 4–3 win. The only other RH hitter to clear the wall is pitcher-turned-outfielder Smoky Joe Wood. Johnson, a good hitting pitcher, will have an extraordinary year at the plate, hitting a major-league record .433.

» November 29, 1926: Tris Speaker resigns as Indians manager. Stories of a thrown game and betting on games by Ty Cobb and Speaker gain momentum when Judge Landis holds a secret hearing with the two stars and former pitcher-OF Joe Wood. The story and testimony will not be released until December 21st. Former Tiger P Dutch Leonard wrote to Harry Heilmann that he had turned over letters written to him by Joe Wood and Ty Cobb to American League president Ban Johnson, implicating Wood and Cobb in betting on a Tiger-Cleveland game played in Detroit, September 25, 1919. He charged that Cobb and Speaker conspired to let Detroit win to help them gain 3rd-place money. At a secret meeting of AL directors, it was decided to let Cobb and Speaker resign with no publicity. But, as rumors spread, Judge Landis takes charge of the matter and holds the hearings, at which Leonard refuses to appear. Cobb and Wood admit to the letters, but say it was a horse racing bet, and contend Leonard is angry for having been released to the Pacific Coast League by Cobb. Speaker, not named in the letters, denies everything. Public sympathy is with the stars, but the matter will remain unresolved until January of next year.

» August 19, 1931: At Chicago, Lefty Grove (25–2)wins his 16th consecutive game, 4–2, tying the American League record set by Walter Johnson and Joe Wood in 1912. Grove holds the Sox scoreless till the 9th, while the A's score in the 2nd, 3rd and 8th off Red Faber. Grove has completed all but one of the wins.

» September 25, 1932: Jimmie Foxx hits his 58th home run in the last game of the season to finish two short of Ruth's 1927 record of 60. Foxx adds two singles but the A's lose, 2–1, to the Senators Alvin Crowder. Alvin Crowder wins his 26th and 15th straight game, one short of the AL record held by Walter Johnson, Smoky Joe Wood, and Lefty Grove. Foxx finishes with 169 RBIs while teammate Al Simmons ties for 2nd with 151.

» 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.

» June 6, 1975: Luis Tiant wins his 100th game as a Red Sox, defeating Kansas City, 1–0. Boston's other 100+ winners include Cy Young (193), Mel Parnell (123), Joe Wood (112), Joe Dobson (106), and Lefty Grove (105) (Roger Clemens will join the group with 192). Carl Yastrzemski walks in the game, his 1,452nd, tying him for 10th on the all time list with Jimmie Foxx.