Today in Baseball History

[Pirhala]

[b:433e121dae]Today's featured birthday is that of Dennis Lewallyn who turns 58. [/b:433e121dae]

A )[b:433e121dae]1929[/b:433e121dae] - Babe Ruth becomes the first player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.

B) [b:433e121dae]1935[/b:433e121dae] - The third East-West Game is played with the West winning 11 to 8 over the East at Chicago's Comiskey Park. The key blow is a 11th-inning 3-run homer by Mule Suttles off of Martin Dihigo.

C) [b:433e121dae]1940[/b:433e121dae] - Hanshin defeats Hankyu, 1 - 0 in just 56 minutes, a record for a nine inning game that will stand until 1946.

D) [b:433e121dae]1961[/b:433e121dae] - The Vancouver Mounties steals nine bases in the eighth inning against the Salt Lake City Bees in a 10–2 win.

E) [b:433e121dae]1991[/b:433e121dae] - Chicago White Sox rookie hurler Wilson Alvarez throws a no-hitter when he defeats the Baltimore Orioles, 7-0, in his second big league start.

[travelingjack]

If [b:5a76a578e2]D[/b:5a76a578e2] happened today a beanball war would break out.

[toronto50]

I wonder who was second to Ruth at the time and how many?

[Pirhala]

Ask and you shall receive. The leaders in alltime homeruns at the end of the day on 11 August 1929 were.....

1) Babe Ruth: 500

2) Rogers Hornsby: 263

3 Cy Williams 249

8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)

[toronto50]

unbelievable gap

does cy williams have a card???