Baseball headlines in history

[JohnU]

9-15-08

Cubs played Houston in Milwaukee because of Hurricane Ike.
Houston wasn't happy about it and their concerns were justified, as it turned out. Zambrano went on to be one of the biggest assholes in baseball history, but he was talented.

 

[JohnU]

4-7-73

First use of the DH -- Bloomberg for the Yanks and Orlando Cepeda (yes, Orlando) for the Red Sox.

 

[JohnU]

7-3-1966

Tony Cloninger clubbed 2 grannies in 17-3 win over the Giants in SF. Went 3-for-5 and 9 Ribeyes.

 

[JohnU]

NY tabloids were not shy in expressing their own form of controversy. Bonds did have an amazing career, sadly we won't know how all the answers.

 

[Dusty]

And, a cop was shot

 

[JohnU]

View attachment 200542 View attachment 200543 And, a cop was shot

Good stuff. The almost-first was pretty interesting as well. 1947

 

[JohnU]

10-14-60

 

[JohnU]

Wow, $3.5 MILLION ... where will this stuff end?

 

[JohnU]

May 27, 1959
Madison (WI) State Journal reported the score as 2-0 because Adcock's HR was with a man on. But later, they corrected it.

 

[JohnU]

6-11-44

The headline tells you one story, the rest of it you gotta dig for.
But it's a big deal. ( I got no damned idea about the horse race, OK?)

 

[JohnU]

And the rest of it is ... remember this was the war, OK?
Henry Eisenhart, btw, had a big-league career of 2 batters.

 

[JohnU]

10/16/46

Slaughter's mad dash to immortality

 

[nynasty]

 

[Omar 382]

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That's fucking iconic, considering (obviously) Torre's 4 WS with the Yanks.

 

[JohnU]

Ha, nobody ever accused the Daily News of being insensitive.
10-9-98

 

[JohnU]

Ha, nobody ever accused the Daily News of being insensitive.
10-9-98

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[JohnU]

October 1915 ... the long grueling season at an end, the Philly Wonder 9 against the Boston Teabaggers. In a series that the whole world has largely forgotten, the Philly papers were right on top of it ...

The World's Gonfalon was at stake! OMG!!!

 

[JohnU]

4-24-62

The Mets finally win a game during the 1962 laugh-an-inning season.

 

[VikingFan2k2]

My favorite was a NY Post (or maybe Daily News) when Clemens went to Houston saying: "What An ASS-TRO!"

I looked everywhere and couldn't find it.

 

[JohnU]

They haven't had this much fun along the Lake since.

Unruly = drunker'n a two-toed sloth.

(So what's this about Seattle getting an NFL team?)

6-4-74