Monday, April 14, 2025

1936 Sporting News

1936 Several newspapers ran non-postage stamps featuring baseball players. the Sporting News ran All-Star stamps.

Other papers which printed stamps include: 

Detroit Times - Boston American - Sunday Advertiser ( Boston ) - Buffalo Times - Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph - Chicago American - Washington Herald - Los Angeles Examiner - Omaha Bee-News - Atlanta Georgian-American (Minor League) - Seattle Post Intelligencer - The San Francisco Examiner
















Friday, April 11, 2025

Pinch-hit : Michigan

1987-Jan-26 Lansing Michigan

Michigan Baseball:
  • Detroit Tigers 1901
  • Detroit Wolverines - International Association 1889 to 1891
  • Niles Blues - Indiana-Michigan League 1910
  • Traverse City Resorters - West Michigan League 1910 to 1914
  • Berrien Springs Grays - Indiana-Michigan League 1910
  • Bay City Beavers - Southern Michigan League 1913 to 1915
  • Great Lakes Loons - Midwest League 1995 - 
  • Lansing Lugnuts - Midwest League 1995 -

Monday, April 7, 2025

Pinch-hit : New York

1988-Ju-26 New York Statehood
Yankee Stadium
Milwaukee Brewers 2 - 3 New York Yankee

2010-Apr-16 Flags of Our Nation - New York
Yankee Stadium
Texas Rangers 1 - 5 New York Yankees

Friday, April 4, 2025

World Series - 1920: Cleveland Indians v Brooklyn Dodgers

1985-Oct-12 Cleveland Oh

65th Anniversary 1920 World Series
1920-Oct-10 : Game 5, Cleveland second basemen Bill Wambsganss turned an unassisted triple play. He caught a line drive off the bat of Clarence Mitchell, stepped on second base to put out Pete Kilduff, and tagged Otto Miller coming from first base. Mitchell made history again in the eighth inning by hitting into a double play, accounting for five outs in two straight at-bats.

The game also saw the first grand slam in World Series history, hit by Cleveland's Elmer Smith and the first Series home run by a pitcher, Cleveland's Jim Bagby, Sr

 

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Miguel Cabrera

2015-May-16 Busch Stadium -  St Louis Mo
Detroit Tigers 4 - 3 St Louis Cardinals
DET RBI: Miguel Cabrera (HR); Ian Kinsler; Jose Iglesias; Yoenis Céspedes
RBI: Peter Bourjos (HR); Matt Carpenter (HR); Jhonny Peralta (HR)

Miguel Cabrera 400th HR off Tyler Lyons, 1st inn, 0 on, 2 outs to CF

2021-Aug-22 Rogers Centre - Toronto Canada
Detroit Tigers 5 - 3 Toronto Blue Jays
DET RBI: Willi Castro; Daz Cameron; Miguel Cabrera (HR); Jonathan Schoop
TOR RBI: Lourdes Gurriel Jr; Alejandro Kirk
Pitching: DET Gregory Soto (W 2-innings) TOR Kirby Snead (L 0.2-innings)

Cabrera hit his 500th HR off Steven Matz, 6th inn, 0 on, 1 out to Deep CF-RF

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Roberto Clemente

1997-Oct-02 Pittsburgh Pa
25th Anniversary - Roberto Clemente's 3000 hit

1972-Sept-30 : Roberto Clemente's 3000th hit came when he doubled to left field on the first pitch he saw from Mets' starter Jon Matlack in the bottom of the fourth inning of the game