2001
» The American League celebrates its 100th anniversary.

1999
» In New York's 2–0 loss to the Cubs, Mets' leadoff man Rickey Henderson bats five times, going 2-for-4, and on each occasion he leads off the inning. The Mets strand 12 as Chicago reliever Terry Mulholland throws six 2/3 scoreless innings. Sammy Sosa homers for Chicago.

1998
» Yankee Stadium is cleared to reopen, so a series that was originally scheduled to be in Detroit opens in New York. Darryl Strawberry homers to complete a four run rally in the 1st in the Yankees 8–4 win. David Cone earns the win, his 150th, over Greg Keagle.

Moises Alou drives in five runs and Carl Everett homers from each side of the plate—the 7th time an Astro has accomplished this—to lead the Astros to an 8–4 win over Montreal.

John Burkett lasts just four 2/3 innings but gives up 11 earned runs—8 in the 2nd—to set a Rangers' club record for earned runs allowed.

The Mets unveil a model of their proposed new stadium. The park, patterned after the old Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, will have a retractable roof and a retractable field, so that it can be used for an assortment of events.

1996
» Twins' manager Tom Kelly apologizes to the fans after his team wallops the host Tigers 24–11, the highest score rung up on Detroit since their loss in 1912 when the team boycotted over the suspension of Ty Cobb and a sub team was hastily cobbled together. Greg Myers and Paul Molitor each drives in five runs as Minnesota scores against all seven Tiger pitchers they face. The 35 runs is the most today as major league teams total 195 runs, the most this century. The average game total of 13.9 runs tops the record of 13.6 set on July 12, 1931.

Reggie Jefferson's 3rd double of the game breaks a 7th-inning tie as Boston edges the Rangers 11–9. Texas is led by unlikely slugger Kevin Elster, who slugs homers in the 2nd and 3rd for five RBIs.

Henry Rodriguez clouts his 9th homer and Shane Andrews singles home the winner in the 10th as Montreal beat the Reds, 7–6, for its 6th straight win, to lead the National League East by two 1/2 games. Rodriguez has now hit six homers in his last 13 at bats.

1995
» Darryl Strawberry is sentenced to six months of home confinement on tax evasion charges. He must also pay the government $350,000 in back taxes.

1994
» Julio Franco and Robin Ventura twice hit back-to-back home runs in Chicago's 7-6 loss to Detroit. It is the 17th time it has happened in major league history, and the 2nd time this week.

1993
» Modesto A's catcher Izzy Molina cycles and collects eight RBIs in a 22–1 blasting of Stockton.

1992
» Former 14-year major leaguer Derrel Thomas is arrested on drug charges in Los Angeles.

Former Yankees vice president Leonard Kleinman drops his $30 million lawsuit against baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent. The suit had been one of the obstacles standing in the way of George Steinbrenner's reinstatement with the Yankees.

1991
» Houston rookie P Darryl Kile hurls six hitless innings against Cincinnati in his 1st big league start. Manager Art Howe removes him with the no-hitter intact rather than risk an injury to his arm. The Reds finally manage a single off Curt Schilling in the 9th as Houston wins, 1-0.

1985
» Pete Vuckovich records his first win for Milwaukee since his Cy Young Award winning season of 1982, pitching seven innings of the Brewers 3–2 win over Chicago. He had been sidelined most of the past two seasons with shoulder problems.

1982
» The Cardinals win their 12th game in a row 7–4 over the Phillies. St. Louis will finally lose tomorrow 8–4 to Philadelphia, as Steve Carlton wins his first game of the season after four straight defeats.

At Toronto, Jesse Barfield hits the first pinch grand slam in Blue Jay history, connecting in the 8th inning off Boston's Tom Burgmeier.

1979
» Substitute umpires consult 28 minutes over a decision, change their minds twice, and finally issue a compromise decision. Both the Mets and the Giants play the game under protest; the Mets win 10–3.

1978
» The Angels Nolan Ryan strikes out 15 Mariners—the 20th time he has had 15 K's in a game—in nine innings, but leaves without a decision. Seattle prevails 6–5 in the 12th frame.

1977
» Fergie Jenkins fires the first shutout ever in Toronto's Exhibition Stadium, as the Red Sox defeat the Blue Jays, 9–0.

1976
» Oakland's Bert Campaneris steals five bases in an 8–7 win over Cleveland.

1974
» A scoreless dual between the Cubs Bill Bonham and the Reds Jack Billingham ends with a bases-loaded 9th inning walk to George Foster. The Reds beat the Cubs, 1–0.

1969
» After belting homers his first two at bats, Reggie Jackson is decked twice by pitches from Dick Woodsen and charges the mound. Reggie gets tossed but the A's win, 6–4, over the Twins.

1966
» Pete Richert enters the major-league record books with seven consecutive strikeouts against the Tigers. Richert still loses a 4–0 decision as the Tigers sweep a pair at Washington.

Atlanta's 5–2 win at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium in the first game of a doubleheader is an National League-record 18th straight home win against the Mets. "Home" for 17 of those wins was Milwaukee.

1962
» Sandy Koufax ties the modern major-league record he shares with Bob Feller by fanning 18 Cubs in nine innings. The Dodgers win 10–2.

Reds rookie Sammy Ellis wins his first ML game, beating the Mets, 7–3. Ellis goes six innings and allows just one hit, but walks 11 and is replaced by Moe Drabowsky.

Mets manager Casey Stengel is fined $500 by Commissioner Ford Frick for allowing his picture to appear in a beer ad.

In a South Atlantic League game at Macon, the Peaches beat Greenville, 32–5. Peaches 2B Pete Rose is 6-for-8 with a home run, triple and six RBIs. Seven Spinner pitchers walked 19 batters, as the Peaches batted around four times.

1960
» The Yankees score eight runs against the Orioles before the first out is made, tying an American League record set by Cleveland July 6, 1954, also against Baltimore. The Orioles respond with grand slams by Albie Pearson and Billy Klaus in the 8th and 9th, but New York holds on for a 15–9 triumph.

Lou Berberet's first-inning grand slam off Early Wynn at Detroit is the AL's 3rd of the day, tying the major-league record for number of slams on one day in one league. The Tigers beat the White Sox 12–4.

Jimmie Coker's slam for Philadelphia off Ted Wieand of the Reds is the day's 4th. This ties the major-league record for most slams in one day, and gives the Phils a 9–5 win.

George Altman of the Cubs earns a "3-ball walk," as umpire Ken Burkhart accidentally counts a balk as a ball in Chicago's game against the Giants. The Cubs add some offense and win, 9–4, behind Don Elston. Billy Loes loses.

1957
» Chicago Cub pitchers walk 9 Reds in the 5th inning, an NL mark, as Cincinnati wins 9-5. Moe Drabowsky starts with 4 walks, Jackie Collum adds 3 and Jim Brosnan has 2 passes.

The NY Board of Estimates fails to act on the Moses plan as outlined by Mayor Wagner.

1956
» AL umpire Frank Umont is the first to wear glasses in a regular season game, between Detroit and Kansas City. The former NFL tackle (New York Giants) still presents an intimidating appearance to most players and fans.

1954
» In the 3rd inning of a 6–1 Boston win, Mickey McDermott of the Senators fractures former teammate Boston P Mel Parnell's left forearm with a pitch. A pinch runner for Parnell, a walk, and then a popped bunt is nabbed by McDermott, who starts a triple play.

At Crosley Field, Wally Post belts a 2-out home run in the 9th inning with a man on to give the Reds a 6–5 win against the Cubs. Kiner and Sauer belt back-to-back home runs for the Cubs in the 7th.

Marv Grissom and the Giants shut out the Phils, 1-0, at the Polo Grounds. Whitey Lockman's 300-foot home run off Robin Roberts is the only score.

The White Sox spoil Vern Bickford's American League debut chasing him after four innings and winning 14–4. The O's use three relievers including former Negro Leaguer Jehosie "Jay" Heard, making his ML debut. Heard is the first black player for the Orioles. He'll make just one other appearance. On September 10, African American OF Joe Durham will make his debut as the second black Oriole.

1953
» Jackie Robinson walks twice in the 6th inning, as the Dodgers score 6 runs en route to a 12-4 pasting of the Giants.

1952
» Leo Durocher charges that the umpires are ignoring the "quick pitch" rule.

1950
» In a pitching duel with vet Ken Raffensberger, Max Lanier drives in the only run to give the Cards a 1–0 win over the Reds.

1949
» Lloyd Merriman of the Reds gets a HR and a triple in his first ML game.

1948
» The Cubs hit 4 home runs at home in a 6-2 win over the Phils. Bill Nicholson's HR, to the right of the Wrigley Field scoreboard, lands on Sheffield Avenue. It bounces off a building and allegedly lands on the hood of a southbound car.

1947
» Johnny Mize of the New York Giants hits three successive home runs in a 14–5 loss in Boston. It is a record 5th time in his career that Mize has hit three home runs in one game; he will do it a 6th time with the Yankees in 1950.

1946
» Eleven former players--Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, Frank Chance, Jess Burkett, Tom McCarthy, Rube Waddell, Eddie Plank, Ed Walsh, Jack Chesbro, Clark Griffith, and Joe McGinnity--are named to the Hall of Fame.

1945
» At a meeting of owners in Cleveland a list of possible successors to Judge Landis is cut to 6: Ford Frick, president of the National League, and five politicians, Jim Farley, Carl Vinson, Robert Patterson, Bob Hannegan, and Frank Lausche. Larry MacPhail suggests adding the name of Albert "Happy" Chandler, a Kentucky senator. The list then narrows to Chandler and Hannegan. On the first ballot Chandler leads 11-5, short of the required three-fourths. One vote switches over, and the owners unanimously approve the selection. Also approved is the Malaney Plan for interleague play, first brought up at the February meeting. Besides the same-city games, Cincinnati will play at Cleveland, Brooklyn at Washington, and Detroit at Pittsburgh. The latter contest will later be scrapped when the ODT refused to grant the Tigers permission to detour 62 miles to get to Pittsburgh. The seven benefit games will held on July nine and 10.

Hitting a 9th inning home run for the 3rd time in four games, Butch Nieman poles a 3-run homer, giving him five RBIs as the Braves defeat the Dodgers, 8–6. Nieman's 3-run home run on April 20 beat the Phils, 6–5, and his 9th inning home run on the 22nd tied the Phils.

1943
» A spokesman for A. G. Spalding defends the ball, saying the 11 shutouts in the first 29 games are the result of it being "too wet and too cold. In time the new ball will prove to be just as lively as the old one." A few days later the company admits that the balls contain an inferior grade of rubber cement, which has hardened. The teams agree to use up their stock of balls left over from the 1942 season while a new supply of higher-quality balls is made.

1938
» Goose Goslin's pinch-hit HR is the 5th of his career, for a new AL record, but the Yankees beat the Senators 4-3.

1934
» President Roosevelt throws out the first ball for the Washington opener, but a rainstorm sends him back to the White House in the 4th inning.

1933
» Giants player/manager Bill Terry is hit by a pitch in a game with the Dodgers, breaking his wrist. He will be out 3 weeks, ending his consecutive-game streak at 468.

Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania signs a bill legalizing Sunday baseball under local option. A statewide referendum will be on the ballot in November.

1932
» The Cubs' Kiki Cuyler breaks a bone in his left foot, as Chicago beats Pittsburgh 12-3.

1931
» Rogers Hornsby, player/manager of the Chicago Cubs, hits 3 consecutive HRs to beat the Pirates at Forbes Field 10-6.

1923
» President Warren G. Harding attends the game at Yankee Stadium and sees Babe Ruth hit a HR in a 4-0 win over the Senators.

1922
» The Browns trip the Tigers, 6–2, as Ken Williams again homers, a two-run shot off Red Oldham.

It takes 11 innings, but Carl Mays and the Yankees edge the Athletics, 6–4. It is Mays' 18th consecutive win against the A's. A 2-run homer by Wally Pipp off Joe Harris decides the game.

Despite setting a team record (since 1911) for errors with 8, the Phillies are just edged out by the Giants, 3–2. The mark will be tied in 1941.

1917
» In front of 3,219 fans, Yankee lefty George Mogridge pitches a no-hitter in Fenway Park for a 2–1 New York win. It is the 2nd of what will be an AL record five no-hitters. The Yankees score on two walks, an error, and a sacrifice fly off Dutch Leonard. Not until Dave Righetti's no-hitter in 1983 will another Yankee lefty toss a no-hitter.

1915
» Frank Allen, Pittsburgh (FL) lefty, pitches a 2–0 no-hitter against the St. Louis Terriers. Allen will win 23 for Pittsburgh, who will finish 3rd just a half game back of the first-place Chicago Whales and the 2nd-place Terriers. The Terriers, in the race all the way, will outdraw the Cardinals and Browns.

At Ebbets Field, the Dodgers beat an aging Christy Mathewson, 7–5. It's the 6th loss in a row for the Giants.

1913
» At Chicago, the Browns' Gus Williams hits three straight triples. in a 3–1 win over the White Sox. The three tie a ML mark.

1911
» Battle Creek of the South Michigan League makes two triple plays in the first two innings against Grand Rapids, a trick never performed in the ML.

NL President Lynch orders his umpires to stop catchers, especially Roger Bresnahan, from verbally attacking batters.

1909
» Sidelined much of April with the flu, Walter Johnson makes his 1st appearance of the year. He should've stayed in bed as the Highlanders rough him up for six runs before he's lifted in the 3rd. Behind Joe Lake, New York rolls to a 17-0 win over Washington.

1906
» Boston makes 20 hits in trouncing the Washington Nationals, 19-2.

1905
» At Baker Bowl, Giants manager John McGraw lets Christy Mathewson hit with two on in the 9th, and the ace promptly singles in two runs to give the Giants a 5-4 lead. Matty then checks the Phils in the bottom of the 9th for the win over Bill Duggleby.

1903
» Against the Pirates, the Cardinals go into the 9th with a 7-6 lead, in part due to three errors by SS Honus Wagner. Honus atones for the miscues by tripling in the 9th and scoring on a Kitty Bransfield single. With two outs in the 11th, Wagner walks, steals 2B and scores the winner on another Kitty bingle, and the Bucs win, 7–6. Wagner finishes with two triples among his four hits, four RBIs, and three stolen bases.

1902
» The Giants lose 8-4 to Boston when RF Jim Delahanty lets a bases loaded single skip by him and three runners score. New York scores three in the bottom of the 9th, but Boston still beats Christy Mathewson.

1901
» Three rain postponements give Chicago the honor of hosting the first game of the new AL. Roy Patterson’s 8-2 win over the Cleveland Blues is the first of his 20; with manager Clark Griffith’s 24, the White Stockings will win the AL’s first pennant.