Sports History Network August 13, 1910 – A mirror image on the baseball diamond? The Brooklyn Superbas and the Pittsburgh Pirates played “the game of perfect symmetry” in baseball. They were pretty evenly matched that day, I mean really neck and neck. The NL opponents reached an 8-8 tie, as both had 8 runs, 13 hits, 2 errors, 12 assists, … Read more
August 12, 1948 – This really had to be a fun game to witness. Amazingly the Cleveland Indians produced 29 hits in a 9-inning game in the second contest of the day against the St. Louis Browns. After the Tribe dropped the first of the twin bill 8-4 to St. Louis they came roaring back in game two … Read more
August 11, 1984 – World-class sprinter Carl Lewis earned the title of the fastest man on the planet, He repeated what Jesse Owens had accomplished almost 50 years earlier in 1936, by winning a fourth Olympic gold medal as part of the US 4 x 100m relay team. That relay team set a world record of 37.83 … Read more
August 10, 1944 – Bucky Walters of the Cincinnati Reds pitched a whale of a game, allowing only 6 hits by the Boston Braves, and if it weren’t for some wacky and weird fielding by his defense he would have had a shutout. However, the opposing hurler, ironically named Charley “Red” Barrett (a former Cincy player), threw only … Read more
The multi-talented Ladd excelled at football, wrestling, and basketball. Ernie “The Big Cat” Ladd. Mention his name to any sports fan born in the 1960s or 1970s, and most folks would likely remember him as a pro wrestler. I was born in 1962, and that is how I remember him. I didn’t know at the … Read more