As with many no-hitters, the pitcher struggled to get through the ninth inning. The date was June 15, 1938. The scene was the first night game for the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field. The pitcher was Johnny Vander Meer. Just four days earlier, the 23-year old left-hander had no-hit the Boston Braves at Crosley Field […]
Category: 1930s Baseball History
Let there be light. Although there had been games played at night before, it was 80 years ago when the first night contest in the Major Leagues occurred at Crosley Field in Cincinnati on May 24, 1935. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, pushed a button at the White House and […]
With the Cincinnati Reds hosting the Major League All-Star Game this summer on July 14, it will be the fifth time the history of the organization the best players will converge near the Ohio River. The mid-summer classic was in Cincinnati for the first time in 1938. Crosley Field was also the site for the […]
Records may be made to be broken, but there are some that may never realistically be challenged. Lefty Gomez, who pitched for the New York Yankees at the time, holds one of those marks. In 1935, Gomez tossed six innings during the all-star game at Cleveland’s Municipal Stadium, which remains as the most ever for […]