This Day in Baseball - The Daily Rewind
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October 1 - managerial career of Roberto Clemente began and ended on this day
October 1, 1967 – The brilliant and brief Major League
managerial career of Roberto Clemente began and ended on this day. Filling in
for interim manager Danny Murtaugh, Clemente puts up stratospheric – if
statistically insignificant – numbers as Pittsburgh's player-manager. The Pittsburgh
Press reports: "Baseball’s only undefeated ‘manager’, Roberto
Clemente, climaxed his greatest season ever by smashing his 23rd homer, a
triple and driving in three runs while managing the Bucs before 28,244 fans on Prize
Day."
October 1, 1932 - Babe Ruth, as legend has it, calls his
home run against Chicago Cubs pitcher Charlie Root in the fifth inning of Game
Three of the World Series, won by the New York Yankees 7-5 at Wrigley Field. Root
contended to his dying day that this was not the case; he claimed Ruth held up
his bat to indicate he had one strike left.
October 1, 1961 - Roger Maris hits his 61st home run of
the season against the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium eclipsing Babe Ruth's
34-year-old single season home run record. The record setter was the only run
scored in the game giving the Yankees a 1-0 win.
October 1, 1978 - The Cleveland Indians beat the New York
Yankees 9 - 2 on the last day of the season, to force an epic one-game playoff
between the Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. Boston won their eighth straight 5
- 0 over the Toronto Blue Jays.
October 1, 2008 In Anaheim, the Red Sox continue their
postseason dominance of the Los Angeles Angels by taking Game One of the ALDS,
4 - 1. Jason Bay hits a two-run homer off John Lackey, while Jon Lester gives
up only an unearned run in 7 innings of work for the win.
Historical Recap performed by:
Robyn Newton from - Robyn Says
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