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On August 4 in Baseball History...​
  • 1901 - Cincinnati and Pittsburgh players are clocked while running from home plate to first base. The fastest time for the 90-foot sprint is three seconds flat, by Pirates outfielder Ginger Beaumont.

  • 1909 - Umpire Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting at Athletics second baseman Eddie Collins, who had questioned a call. This incident eventually leads to Hurst's banishment from baseball two weeks later.

  • 1910 - Jack Coombs of the Philadelphia A's and Ed Walsh of the Chicago White Sox hooked up in a 16-inning scoreless tie. Coombs struck out 18 and allowed three hits.

  • 1929 - The Cleveland Indians, down to their last out, scored nine runs in the ninth inning for a 14-6 comeback victory over the New York Yankees.

  • 1941 - In the third inning, catcher Mickey Owen catches three foul flies, the first time in the major leagues that feat has been recorded. His Dodgers whip the Giants 11-6.

  • 1963 - New York's Mickey Mantle, batting for the first time in two months after breaking his left foot, hit a pinch home run in the ninth inning to beat the Baltimore Orioles 11-10 and give the Yankees a split of a doubleheader.

  • 1980 - The Seattle Mariners fire manager Darrell Johnson and replace him with Maury Wills, who becomes the third black manager in Major League history. Seattle had lost nine games in a row and 20 of 24 since the All-Star break.

  • 1982 - Joel Youngblood became the first in Major League history to get a base hit for two different teams in two different cities in the same day. In the afternoon, his hit drove in the winning run for the New York Mets in a 7-4 victory in Chicago. After the game, he was traded to the Montreal Expos and played that night in Philadelphia. He entered the game in right field in the fourth inning and later got a single.

  • 1983 - While warming up before the fifth inning of the Yankees 3-1 win over the Blue Jays game at Toronto's Exhibition Stadium, New York outfielder Dave Winfield accidentally kills a seagull with a thrown ball. After the game, Winfield is brought to the Ontario Provincial Police station on charges of cruelty to animals and is forced to post a $500 bond before being released. The charges will be dropped the following day.

  • 1985 - The 40-year-old Tom Seaver became the 17th 300-game winner in major league history with a six-hitter � all singles � as the Chicago White Sox defeated the New York Yankees 4-1 on Phil Rizzuto Day. Seaver walked one and struck out seven, giving him 3,499 in his 19-year career.

  • 1989 - Dave Stieb of the Toronto Blue Jays, who lost consecutive no-hit bids with two outs in the ninth inning in September, came within one out of a perfect game before settling for a two-hit 2-1 victory over the New York Yankees.

  • 1993 - Tony Gwynn has six hits against the Giants. It is the Padres outfielder's fourth game of 1993 with five or more hits. He becomes only the third person to get five hits or better that many times in a season.

  • 1996 - Jim Bunning and Earl Weaver are inducted into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

  • 1997 - Brad Radke of Minnesota got his 12th straight win, pitching seven strong innings in the Twins' 9-3 victory over Toronto. Radke became only the third pitcher since 1950 to win 12 consecutive starts.

Baseball Birthdays on August 4... ​


Baseball Deaths on August 4... ​

 
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Big 10 gets Oregon and Washington. Big 12 gets Arizona along with Utah and Arizona State putting in their application. PAC-12 has now been reduced to 4 teams over the past year and a half. Oregon State, Stanford, California, and Washington State are all that remain.
 
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VolPack22 said:
Big 10 gets Oregon and Washington. Big 12 gets Arizona along with Utah and Arizona State putting in their application. PAC-12 has now been reduced to 4 teams over the past year and a half. Oregon State, Stanford, California, and Washington State are all that remain.
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Seems to suggest they didn’t like the PAC-12 plan to stream their games on apple TV
 
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VolPack22 said:
Yeah the writing was on the wall whenever USC and UCLA jumped ship also. Everyone thought the Big 12 was going to be the one that collapsed but it ended up being the PAC-12.
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Yep, the big 12 is pretty crafty. Before this round of realignment, what’s their best team? Baylor? Tx Tech?
 
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