Exactly 100 years ago

[frankbmd]

100 years ago today Boom Boom Beck made his major league debut at 19 years of age. He didn’t play again in the bigs until 1927, but his career spanned 20 years. He is not in the Hall of Fame though.

[frankbmd]

Who played in their first and last game exactly 100 years today?

I'm sure its on the tip of your tongue, but if you don't have a tongue it's
PATRICK EDWARD BURKE

A summary of his career includes 3 at bats without a hit. He did reach base on an error though. At third base he did not make any errors, nor did he even touch the ball apparently.

In fact his career probably is being summarized for the first time here on Net54.

[GeoPoto]

On September 26, 1924 the Washington Senators began the day with a two-game advantage over New York in the American League with four games to play. Washington was set to begin a four-game season-ending series in Boston and looking forward to clinching the American League pennant against a poor Red Sox club. Leading with their ace pitcher, who brought a 13-game win streak, Washington could also look forward to the vocal support of the Boston fans who were fully charmed by the prospect of Walter Johnson's likely last chance to play in a World Series. Washington's potent offense expected to be paced by Sam Rice, currently engaged in a team-record 31-game hitting streak.

Wahington eagerly and confidently awaited word that the Senators had taken another big step toward capturing the pennant. But this is baseball, so of course, Walter Johnson's consecutive-win streak was broken at 13 in a 2-1 heartbreaker. Meanwhile, New York pounded Philadelphia 7-1. And Sam Rice went 0-4.

But, before all that, an enterprising and overconfident news operative put out a picture of righthanded Senator pitcher, Al Russell, asserting that because he was previously employed by the Yankees, Russell could take special delight in beating them out of the (still hotly contested) pennant:

[frankbmd]

The season didn’t end too soon for Buddy Crump, who played in his only major league game on the last day of the season for the Giants. Some say it was a lackluster performance despite having a sacrifice hit for an RBI, but you can bet that it was a game that Buddy always remembered. He played several more years in the minors, but never got another cup of coffee in the “bigs”.

[frankbmd]

Senators blow 9th-inning lead but recover to even World Series at one game apiece.

[GeoPoto]

"Senators blow 9th-inning lead but recover to even World Series at one game apiece"

It was Peck's walk-off double that gave Washington its first-ever World Series game win:

[FrankWakefield]

100 years ago today, October 7, 2024, the Washington Nationals won the fourth game of the World Series, 7 to 4. Goose Goslin hit cleanup for the Nationals, and went four for four, a home run, and four RBIs. The Nationals beat the Giants that day, 7 to 4. The game took 2 hours and 10 minutes to play; among the umpires were Bill Klem and Bill Dinneen (who is among the T206 players). The Nationals went on to win the World Series, in seven games, beating the New York Giants.

During the regular season in 1924, The Goose had hit .344, racking up 199 hits, and a league leading 129 RBIs.

Read about him or listen to him in Professor Ritter's great bookThe Glory Of Their Times.
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[GeoPoto]

The "Goose Goslin Game":

[Spike]

Seattle fans mourning last night's game can think of better times, like...

This week in 1924 (Oct 6-12): Seattle's Indians won six-of-seven against the SF Seals, keying a run to their first PCL title. "Brick" Eldred hit a ton for those 1920s Seattle teams, later earning a spot in the Mariners HOF.

More on Eldred: https://www.sportspressnw.com/215639...00-hit-machine

[Leon]

Credit SABR writer Stew Thornley

https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/octo...st-one-of-all/

And a Big Train W575-1, obtained raw...

[ValKehl]

The winning run for the Senators in the 12th inning of the 7th game of the 1924 World Series was driven in by unheralded rookie center fielder Earl McNeely, who the Senators had acquired from Sacramento of the PCL in early August.

[FrankWakefield]

Resorting to a birthday, since no one else has gone with an event...

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Dave Jolly. Happy 100th Birthday. Born in Stoney Point, NC; and later buried there. I urge you to read the SABR Project bio link is in his Baseball Reference page. We gravitate to celebrating baseball heroes for their 'on the field' efforts. We should remember players like Dave Jolly who was a Star in the game of life. He has a youth league field named for him.

He was under contract to at least 4 different organizations, all of his playing time in the Majors was with the Milwaukee Braves, lifetime batting average .292. His pitches seemed to have been a fairly good slider and a sneaky letter high fastball. Toward the end of his time in the Majors he did add in an occasional knuckle ball. His first minor league stop was with the Moorsville, NC team (about half an hour from Stoney Point), a team-mate was Hoyt Wilhelm. He was on the Braves' 1957 World Series roster, but did not get into a game. He played in the minors after not making a major league roster. Back home after baseball, he taught boys Sunday school, coached the state's Babe Ruth league champions, and he bought his church a new organ from his World Series share. And then he died prematurely. If Stoney Point was big enough to have a Hall of Fame, Dave Jolly would have been in it.

Dave was a good guy.

[GeoPoto]

From Wikipedia:

October 18, 1924, at Schorling Park in Chicago

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Hilldale 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 9 1
KS City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 9 0
W: Bullet Rogan (2–1) L: Rube Currie (1–1)
HRs: none
Umpires: Goeckel, Moore, McGrew, and Costello

In one of Negro league baseball's legendary games, the Monarchs rallied for three runs in the ninth to stun Hilldale. Because of an injury to shortstop Jake Stephens some weeks before and to get maximum offensive output from his lineup, Hilldale manager Warfield moved regular third baseman Judy Johnson to short, moved catcher-short stop Mackey to third, and installed aging backup receiver Louis Santop as the regular catcher. With three players playing out of position at critical defensive positions, Warfield's moves came back to haunt him in the ninth when Mackey and Johnson both missed key plays, and when Santop dropped Frank Duncan's foul popup, Duncan lined a single past Mackey that scored the tying and winning runs.

Also legendary was the vicious verbal assault that Warfield launched against Santop following the loss, laying blame for the loss squarely at Santop's feet. Santop and others were already in tears in their locker room following the game, and it is one of Blackball's legends that Santop never recovered from the humiliation of Warfield's tirade.

[Seven]

Originally Posted by GeoPoto

From Wikipedia:

October 18, 1924, at Schorling Park in Chicago

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Hilldale 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 9 1
KS City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 9 0
W: Bullet Rogan (2–1) L: Rube Currie (1–1)
HRs: none
Umpires: Goeckel, Moore, McGrew, and Costello

In one of Negro league baseball's legendary games, the Monarchs rallied for three runs in the ninth to stun Hilldale. Because of an injury to shortstop Jake Stephens some weeks before and to get maximum offensive output from his lineup, Hilldale manager Warfield moved regular third baseman Judy Johnson to short, moved catcher-short stop Mackey to third, and installed aging backup receiver Louis Santop as the regular catcher. With three players playing out of position at critical defensive positions, Warfield's moves came back to haunt him in the ninth when Mackey and Johnson both missed key plays, and when Santop dropped Frank Duncan's foul popup, Duncan lined a single past Mackey that scored the tying and winning runs.

Also legendary was the vicious verbal assault that Warfield launched against Santop following the loss, laying blame for the loss squarely at Santop's feet. Santop and others were already in tears in their locker room following the game, and it is one of Blackball's legends that Santop never recovered from the humiliation of Warfield's tirade.

Jose Mendez was also apart of those Monarch Teams. One of the most talented pitchers/players of that era for sure. At that point he reinvented himself, but apparently his talent was the stuff of legends!

[sec249]

Not baseball, but here's a good one: Red Grange scores 4 TDs in the first 12 minutes helping Illinois defeat Michigan 39-14.

One of 11 tickets graded by PSA shown below (link is to my ebay listing). ** EDIT: ITEM HAS SOLD.***

https://www.ebay.com/itm/176608155880

[Beercan collector]

Originally Posted by sec249

Red Grange scores 4 TDs in the first 12 minutes

https://www.ebay.com/itm/176608155880

What ?
Had to look this up .. he returned the opening kick off 95 yards (TD) then had TD runs of 65, 56 and 44 yards , Later in the game he added an 11 yard TD run (5 TDs) .. oh and he also threw a 20 yard Touchdown pass .
WOWzee
EDIT : and intercepted two passes