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On September 18 in Baseball History...
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  • 1908 - Bob Rhoads of the Indians pitched a no-hitter against the Boston Red Sox for a 2-1 victory in Cleveland.

  • 1909 - Ty Cobb wins the Triple Crown with a .377 batting average, nine home runs and 107 RBI. He also leads the American League with 216 hits, 116 runs and 296 total bases.

  • 1922 - George Sisler's 41-game hit streak is stopped by New York's Joe Bush, the same pitcher the St. Louis Browns first baseman had started the streak against on July 27. Whitey Witt, his head bandaged from being hit by a bottle, drives in two in the ninth for a 3-2 Yankees' win.

  • 1930 - New York pitcher Red Ruffing hit two home runs as the Yankees edged the St. Louis Browns 7-6 in 10 innings.

  • 1954- The Cleveland Indians clinched the American League pennant with a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers.

  • 1956 - Mickey Mantle hits his 50th home run, making him the eighth player to do so, in the eleventh inning off Chicago's Billy Pierce. New York wins 3-2 to clinch another pennant. Mickey Mantle will win the Triple Crown with a .353 batting average, 52 home runs and 130 RBI.

  • 1963- The New York Mets lost their last game at the Polo Grounds to the Philadelphia Phillies, 5-1, in front of only 1,752.

  • 1965 - On Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium, 50,180 fans see Mantle play his 2,000th game.

  • 1968 - Ray Washburn pitched a 2-0 no-hitter against the San Francisco Giants at Candlestick Park, one day after the Giants' Gaylord Perry tossed a no-hitter against Washburn's St. Louis Cardinals.

  • 1976 - In his last Major League appearance as a player, Cleveland manager Frank Robinsonpinch-hits in the eighth inning and singles against Rudy May of the Orioles.

  • 1977 - Spoiling Brooks Robinson Night in Baltimore, Boston's Ted Cox goes 4-for-4 in his first Major League game, a 10-4 win over the Orioles. Cox will get two more hits the following day against the Yankees, setting a Major League record for consecutive hits at the start of a career.

  • 1984- The Detroit Tigers clinched the American League East Division with a 3-0 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers, making the Tigers only the fourth team in Major League history to lead from start to finish. The other three were the 1923 New York Giants, 1927 New York Yankees and the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers.

  • 1987 - Detroit's Darrell Evans became the first 40-year-old player in Major League history to hit 30 home runs in a season as the Tigers beat the Milwaukee Brewers 7-6.

  • 1993 - The Yankees trail the Red Sox 3-1 in the ninth inning when Mike Stanley hits a popup to left field. Just before the pitch, a fan runs onto the field and umpire Tim Welke calls timeout, so the last out doesn't count. The Yankees rally for three runs and the Red Sox lose the game as well as the protest filed by the team.

  • 1996 - Roger Clemens equaled his own Major League record, striking out 20 batters and pitching a four-hitter to lead Boston over the Detroit Tigers 4-0.


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cobbwebb0710 said:
Professor, how are you holding up? Been thinking about you too!
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On a side note, my dad and I were having a nice conversation about movies we could go to this Fall, and then he says he could get back into going to the opera, if he had someone to go with (he loves opera and dragged me when I was a kid), and I was like ooooohhh 😣 now that will be a test of what I can stand!
 
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Volprofch05 said:
On a side note, my dad and I were having a nice conversation about movies we could go to this Fall, and then he says he could get back into going to the opera, if he had someone to go with (he loves opera and dragged me when I was a kid), and I was like ooooohhh 😣 now that will be a test of what I can stand!
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chuckiepoo said:
Amen! 🙏
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Right now she might as well be in a coma. No eating drinking & talking. Hopefully, after getting the stent done to the kidney, it'll help flush the infection/bacteria from her system. That will help better with her breathing too. She's been breathing too hard.
 
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cobbwebb0710 said:
I go to shows with my wife from time to time. Some I enjoy, some not so much.
It’s not opera but the last show that I really enjoyed was fiddler on the roof.
I have an appreciation for the arts.😎
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Ok, now fiddler on the roof is pretty awesome, I would happily see some righteous theater, but opera? 😣
 
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