2007 In his 325th game, Ryan Howard becomes the fastest player to hit 100 home runs, accomplishing the feat 60 contests quicker than the...
1993 Anthony Young sets a major league record when he drops his 24th straight decision, a 5-3 Mets loss to St. Louis at Shea Stadium. The...
1980 Dodger southpaw Jerry Reuss, facing only 28 batters, no-hits the Giants at Candlestick Park, 8-0. Shortstop Bill Russell's errant throw on...
1972 Wade Blasingame's American League debut, his last career start, for the Yankees is inauspicious when the Tigers go deep three consecutive...
1962 Pursued by all 20 major league teams, 17-year-old Bronx teenager Monroe High School standout Ed Kranepool, who sat as a guest on Opening...
1958 At Comiskey Park, White Sox hurler Billy Pierce retires 26 consecutive batters before pinch-hitter Ed Fitzgerald doubles weakly inside the...
This Day in Baseball History June 27th 1911 At the start of the seventh inning at Boston's Huntington Avenue Grounds, A's infielder Stuffy...
JUNE 27 BASEBALL BIRTHDAYS ************************************** 1931 Eddie Kasko infielder (MLB All Star 1961, 1961²; Cincinnati Reds) and...
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2011 Three days after Jim Riggleman's sudden resignation, the Nationals name senior advisor Davey Johnson as the team's manager for the...
2000 Alex Cabrera homers in his first major league at-bat, hitting a two-run pinch-hit round-tripper off Yorkis Perez in Arizona's 6-1 victory...
1993 Hall of Fame (1969) catcher Roy Campanella dies at 71 after a heart attack in Woodland Hills (CA). The wheel-chair-bound former Brooklyn...
1983 Rusty Staub ties the single-season record with his eighth consecutive pinch-hit. 'Le Grand Orange' equals the 1958 mark established by...
1968 Cardinals right-hander Bob Gibson tosses his fifth consecutive shutout as he blanks the Pirates, 3-0, in the first game of a doubleheader...
1960 With the help of Ron Santo, making his major league debut, the Cubs sweep a doubleheader from first-place Pittsburgh, 7-5 and 7-6. The...
1944 At the Polo Grounds, with over 50,000 fans looking on, the New York major league teams face each other in a six-inning three-team game (a...