1924 — Jesse Haines of the St. Louis Cardinals pitched a 5-0 no-hitter against the Boston Braves. 1925 — Tris Speaker is the 5th player to reach 3,000 hits. 1936 — Carl Hubbell’s 24-game winning ...
Joe DiMaggio's mythic status in American culture has been cemented in so many ways -- from his perhaps unsurpassable 56-game hitting streak in 1941 and his Hall of Fame-calibre play for 13 Major ...
It started innocently enough. Hitting streaks always do. You think the great Joe DiMaggio ever imagined that seven decades later, we'd still be talking about a first-inning single in a 13-1 loss on a ...
The 1941 Yankees were a loaded team. They would win 101 games, the American League pennant and the world championship. It was a team of stars—solid outfielders Charlie Keller and Tommy Henrich, rookie ...