1935 Pirate center fielder Lloyd Waner sets the major league mark, recording 18 putouts during a doubleheader played at Braves Field. The...
1920 Lou Gehrig hits his first home run in a major league ballpark, going deep at Wrigley Field, known as Cubs Park then, in a high school...
This Day in Baseball History June 26th 1906 Herbert Whitney, a catcher for the Burlington Pathfinders, becomes the first professional baseball...
JUNE 26 BASEBALL BIRTHDAYS ************************************** 1903 Babe Herman right fielder (.324 career average; hit for cycle record x...
Kent Tekulve with his natural arm delivery [IMG]
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Tim Wakefield [IMG]
1970 All-Star Game Richard Nixon, Earl Weaver, Johnny Bench, and Gil Hodges [IMG]
2011 In front of a sold-out crowd of 42,130 fans at AT&T Park, the Giants beat the Indians, 1-0, with the game's lone run scoring on a...
2006 With his White Sox trailing 9-2, second baseman Tadahito Iguchi hits a three-run bomb in the eighth and then delivers a game-tying grand...
2000 After leading off in the bottom of the first with a round-tripper, Darin Erstad ends the game in the bottom of the 11th inning with a...
1998 Sammy Sosa breaks the major league record for homers in a single month when he hits his 19th dinger in June, a seventh-inning solo shot...
1995 The Astros rout the Cubs, 19-6, to set a club record for runs in one game. After scoring a lone tally in the fourth, Houston puts up...
1984 Dodger infielder Bill Russell plays his 1,953rd game to become the team's leader in games played. The shortstop, who will extend the mark...
1971 Pirates left fielder Willie Stargell hits the longest home run in the history of Veterans Stadium off starter Jim Bunning in the second...
1943 With the first pitch thrown at 6 p.m., the Cubs right-hander Hi Bithorn shuts out the Cardinals, 6-0, in a twilight game at Wrigley Field....
