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On June 23 in Baseball History...​
  • 1917 - Boston pitcher Babe Ruth starts against Washington. He walks leadoff man Eddie Foster, griping to plate umpire Brick Owens after each pitch. On ball four, Ruth plants a right to the umpire's jaw. He is ejected, and Ernie Shore relieves. Foster is caught stealing, and Shore retires all 26 men he faces in a 4-0 win, getting credit in the books for a perfect game.

  • 1932 - Lou Gehrig plays his 1,103rd successive game in a Yankees uniform, equaling Joe Sewell's record with one team (Cleveland).

  • 1950 - Hoot Evers' ninth-inning home run gave the Detroit Tigers a 10-9 victory over the New York Yankees as the teams combined for 11 home runs, a major league record. The Yankees hit six and the Tigers five.

  • 1961 - Ernie Banks voluntarily takes the bench as a sore knee brings his 717 consecutive-games-played streak to an end.

  • 1962 - Larry Doby, retired from the Cleveland Indians, signs on with the Chunichi Dragons. He becomes, with Don Newcombe, the first former major league player to toil for a Japanese team. Doby's season batting average will be a mediocre .225.

  • 1963 - Jimmy Piersall of the New York Mets hits the 100th home run of his major league career and celebrates by running around the bases backwards. Dallas Green of the Phillies, who gave up the home run, is not amused. Neither is Commissioner Ford Frick, who is in the stands.

  • 1971 - In a spectacular performance, Phillies pitcher Rick Wise no-hits the Reds 4-0 and hits two home runs in the game. Wise gets Pete Rose for the last out.

  • 1973 - Phillies pitcher Ken Brett beats the Expos 7-2 and hits a home run for a major-league record for a pitcher fourth consecutive game. He hit home runs on June 9, 13, and 18: he will total ten for his career.

  • 1981 - Dave Koza scores Marty Barrett with a bases-loaded single in the bottom of the 33rd inning, giving Pawtucket a 3-2 win over Rochester and ending the longest game in professional baseball history. The game had been suspended April 19 after 32 innings and eight hours, seven minutes of play, but the continuation took only eighteen minutes to complete. Bob Ojeda pitches one inning to earn the win.

  • 1984 - Chicago's Ryne Sandberg hit two late-inning home runs off St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bruce Sutter to tie the game twice as the Cubs went on to win 12-11 in 11 innings. Sandberg led off the ninth inning with a solo home run to tie the game 9-9 then hit a two-run, two-out homer in the 10th to tie the game 11-11.

  • 1988 - George Steinbrenner fires Billy Martin for the fifth time, replacing him with Lou Piniella. In 1985, Piniella was fired and replaced by Martin. In 1985, Martin was fired and replaced by Piniella. New York's 40-28 record is the fourth best in the big leagues, but the Yankees had just completed a 2-7 road trip.

  • 1994 - Replays show that A's pitcher Bobby Witt beat Kansas City's Greg Gagne to first base in the sixth inning, but umpire Gary Cedarstrom sees it differently. The infield hit is the only blemish on what otherwise would have been a perfect game.

Baseball Birthdays on June 23... ​


Baseball Deaths on June 23... ​

 
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VolPack22 said:
Crazy that we could possibly have 7 positional players starting.
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What's crazy in 3 categories Braves -Dodgers are the finalist. The shortstop is a head scratcher though figured Trea Turner would be running first playing in Philly. Freddie will get nod at first base and Mookie guaranteed an outfield slot that's good for me Dodgers are so-so this year.
 
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knoxvol52 said:
What's crazy in 3 categories Braves -Dodgers are the finalist. The shortstop is a head scratcher though figured Trea Turner would be running first playing in Philly. Freddie will get nod at first base and Mookie guaranteed an outfield slot that's good for me Dodgers are so-so this year.
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What’s crazy is the polar bear is nowhere to be found on this list??!!🤪
 
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knoxvol52 said:
What's crazy in 3 categories Braves -Dodgers are the finalist. The shortstop is a head scratcher though figured Trea Turner would be running first playing in Philly. Freddie will get nod at first base and Mookie guaranteed an outfield slot that's good for me Dodgers are so-so this year.
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Looks like a Braves/Dodgers vs Rangers/Blue Jays, all star game.
 
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Twitter has been "interesting" this morning.

Backstory:

There's a major cycling event in Knoxville are this weekend. Cycling road racing national championships.

Evidently there are several pretend women competing in the event and there is a protest event planned at Pat Summitt Plaza including Riley Gaines.

Maria Cornelius - one of the lead soup nazis on the other board, called them out as follows:



Long story short, Maria has apparently only been pretending to support women's sports for decades as she was seemingly willing to drop that shallow support for her "other" beliefs. And assumes Mrs. Summitt would gladly have done so as well.

This odd trans sports movement has put their supporters in the worst Twister(TM) position I have ever seen. Keep in mind, several of these people would rather die than see a male coach the Lady Vols basketball team, but would be apparently ok to see a guy play for the team.

Twister+Game+7.jpg
 
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fryeguy93 said:
Twitter has been "interesting" this morning.

Backstory:

There's a major cycling event in Knoxville are this weekend. Cycling road racing national championships.

Evidently there are several pretend women competing in the event and there is a protest event planned at Pat Summitt Plaza including Riley Gaines.

Maria Cornelius - one of the lead soup nazis on the other board, called them out as follows:



Long story short, Maria has apparently only been pretending to support women's sports for decades as she was seemingly willing to drop that shallow support for her "other" beliefs. And assumes Mrs. Summitt would gladly have done so as well.

This odd trans sports movement has put their supporters in the worst Twister(TM) position I have ever seen. Keep in mind, several of these people would rather die than see a male coach the Lady Vols basketball team, but would be apparently ok to see a guy play for the team.

Twister+Game+7.jpg
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Not gonna post this over at the LV site? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😇
 
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