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Happy birthday to Blake Parker, and a mighty host of others.
Today in baseball history, in 1846 – First officially recognized baseball game (played by Cartwright Rules) – NY Nine defeats the NY Knickerbockers 23-1 in Hoboken, New Jersey, and other stories as well.
Today in baseball history:
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1897 – MLB Baltimore Orioles outfielder Wee Willie Keeler’s then-record 44 game hitting streak ends.
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2019 – One day after fouling a bunted ball in his face during batting practice and breaking his nose, Max Scherzer takes the mound for the Nationals against the Phillies sporting a prominent black eye. He still stymies the opposition with seven scoreless innings in a 2-0 win. “Trust me, this thing looks a lot worse than it actually feels,” he explains to journalists.
Cubs Birthdays: Blake Parker*. Also notable: Lou Gehrig HOF.
Today in history:
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1865 – Union General Gordon Granger declares slaves free in Texas, now the date the end of slavery is celebrated across the US as Juneteenth.
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1917 – The British Royal Family, which has had strong German ties since George I, renounces its German names and titles and adopts the name of Windsor.
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1936 – German boxer Max Schmeling KOs up-and-coming American heavyweight Joe Louis in 12 rounds at Yankee Stadium, New York.
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1937 – Second of two legendary recording sessions by Delta Blues musician Robert Johnson with producer Don Law at the Vitagraph Studios, Dallas, Texas.
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1946 – First TV sports and boxing spectacular, Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in a match broadcast across New York.
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1960 – Loretta Lynn records “I’m a Honky Tonk Girl”.
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1964 – Ameican folk singer Bob Dylan completes his first UK tour.
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1970 – Jim Bouton’s controversial baseball diary “Ball Four” is published.
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1971 – Carole King starts a five-week run at No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with the double A-sided single “It’s Too Late / I Feel The Earth Move.”
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1973 – “The Rocky Horror Show” stage production first opens in London written by Richard O’Brian and directed by Jim Sharman and starring Tim Curry.
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1978 – Garfield, created by Jim Davis, first appears as a comic strip.
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2019 – Oklahoma writer Joy Harjo is named the first Native American US Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress.
*pictured.
