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November 11
TODAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY
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Happy Veterans Day! A special callout to two people I miss daily. My grandfather Joe, who fought under General Patton and received the Purple Heart, and my Dad, a former Marine who served between two wars. He ironed his tee shirts, had a crease in every pair of pants he wore, and spit shined his shoes until the day he passed. Thank you for your service!
November 11, 1926, the Chicago White Sox fire one Hall of Famer and replace him with another. The White Sox fire Eddie Collins as both player and manager, despite his record of 81-72 and .344 average. He will rejoin the Philadelphia Athletics as a player-coach. In his place, Chicago hires catcher Ray Schalk, who will guide the White Sox to a record of 70-83 next season.
After the 1919 scandal gutted the club, Collins still starred. He was one of the few bright lights for the decimated White Sox in the early 1920s. He filled in as player-manager for 27 games during the 1924 season and assumed the role full-time for the 1925 and 1926 campaigns. The club finished fifth in each of his full years at the helm. Injuries cut into his playing time in both of these seasons. Deposed as White Sox manager on November 11, 1926, Collins was released as a player two days later. He signed with Philadelphia six weeks later, and emerged as a solid pinch-hitter in 1927. From 1928 through 1930 he mostly coached, finally playing his last game at age 43 on August 5, 1930.
Collins concluded his career with a .333 batting average, 1,821 runs scored, 3,315 hits, and 741 steals, figures that assured his induction into the Hall of Fame in 1939, as one of the original 13 players honored by the baseball writers upon the museum’s opening.
Ray Schalk
Schalk was a big part of the White Sox's triumph over the New York Giants in the 1917 World Series. He caught every inning behind the plate and contributed a .263 average. In the 1919 World Series, he was one of the "clean" White Sox left untouched by the Black Sox Scandal. He knew something was amiss with pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Lefty Williams as they refused to follow his signals, and he became increasingly frustrated, eventually being ejected from Game 5 when he could take no more. He batted .304 for the Series, then followed that with one of his best seasons in 1920 and on June 27, 1922, he hit for the cycle, becoming only the second catcher in major league history to do so. He was also the first player to have a cycle for the White Sox, a feat that would not be matched until 1977, when Jack Brohamer did it. He did help the team tremendously in 1923 when he discovered a young Ted Lyons pitching for Baylor College in Texas and urged Charles Comiskey to sign him.
Schalk managed the Sox in 1927 and faired worse than Collins for part of 1928. He was having limited success, then came into disagreement with Comiskey over his salary, and left the Sox to become a player-coach with the Giants in 1929.
He will go a longer road getting into Cooperstown, he retired as an active player in 1929, and will eventually be elected in in 1955 by the Veterans Committe.
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Todays Trivia . . .
Who hit the first double in All-Star Game history?
Hint: #1 He made history again the following year in the All-Star Game when he stole home.
Hint: #2 He was elected to the Hall of Fame by the BBWAA with the fewest votes.
Quote of the day:
"Red Faber was ill during the (1919) Series. But if he'd been able to (pitch), we'd have beaten the Reds despite the gamblers." Ray Schalk.
Game of The Day:
Game of the Day — September 8, 1957 New York Giants vs Brooklyn Dodgers
There last meeting in New York called by Vin Scully
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November 11 highlights and Historic Days!
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This day in baseball has a deeper dive into every event from November 11
Hal Trosky was Born: November 11, 1912 in Norway, IA, The 1940 Cleveland Indians were heavily favored to win the American League pennant. But the players despised their manager, Oscar Vitt, who made a practice of openly berating them. Led by first baseman Hal Trosky, the “Crybaby” Indians petitioned owner Alva Bradley for Vitt’s removal. Vitt lasted out the year, but Trosky and others were roundly criticized. This incident tarnished Trosky’s reputation late in a superb career as one of the league’s top sluggers and as Cleveland’s all-time first baseman.
Trosky batted .330 as a rookie in 1934, exhibiting his lefthanded power with 35 homers, 45 doubles, and 142 RBI – second in the AL to Lou Gehrig. In 1936 he put together a 28-game hitting streak, led the league with an Indians-record 162 RBI, and reached career highs of .343 and 42 HR. He drove in 100 or more runs six straight years. He twice hit three HR in a game, and his 216 HR put him second, behind Earl Averill, on the Indians all-time list.
After the 1941 season, Trosky announced a premature retirement, due to migraine headaches. He returned to his Iowa farm, but during 1943 he made known his wish to play again. He was sold to the White Sox after being declared 4F by the military. He hit just 10 HR in 1944, sat out a season, played in 1946, and then became a White Sox scout. His son, Hal Jr., made two appearances as a White Sox pitcher in 1958.
November 11, 1943 — The Most Valuable Player Awards for both leagues are named. Yankees pitcher Spud Chandler wins it in the American League and Cardinals outfielder Stan Musial in the National League.
November 11, 1981 — Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Fernando Valenzuela becomes the first rookie to win a Cy Young Award, edging Tom Seaver of the Cincinnati Reds by a 70-67 margin for National League honors. Valenzuela was the first rookie since Herb Score in 1955 to lead his league in strikeouts with 180.
November 11, 1986 — 45-year-old player-manager Pete Rose is dropped from the Reds’ 40-man major league roster to make room for pitcher Pat Pacillo. Rose will continue to manage the club.
November 11, 1987 — Roger Clemens becomes the first pitcher since Jim Palmer in 1975-1976 to win consecutive Cy Young Awards, collecting 21 of 28 first-place votes to easily beat runner-up Jimmy Key, for 1987 Cy Young honors.
November 11, 1995 — Gaffney Street, near the former site of Braves Field in Boston, MA, is renamed Harry Agganis Way, after the former Boston University and Boston Red Sox star, who died during the 1955 season.
November 11, 2002 — Barry Bonds becomes the first player in major league history to win the Most Valuable Player Award five times. The 38 year-old Giant left fielder, who also won the award with the Pirates in 1990 and ’92 and with San Francisco in 1993 and last season, was the National League’s batting champion with a .370 average and broke 1941 Ted Williams’ on-base percentage record with an amazing .582 OBP.
Milestones November 11
🎙️ Did you know? Herb Score passes away on November 11, 2008
With a catapulting delivery that left him in an awkward fielding position, Score simply overpowered American League hitters for the first two years of his career. In that short time, he joined Whitey Ford and Billy Pierce as the league's dominant lefthanded pitchers. One can only speculate about the kind of career he might have put together had his fortunes not been irreversibly altered on May 7, 1957.
As AL champions in 1954, the Indians used a starting rotation comprised exclusively of righthanders, three of whom, Bob Feller, Bob Lemon, and Early Wynn, would become Hall of Famers. Because the three were also in their mid-thirties, Score's debut in 1955 was propitiously timed. He was the first and best of a young crop of Cleveland pitchers that included Gary Bell, Mudcat Grant, and Jim Perry, and he was expected to lead the new staff in replacing the old.
Score astonished. He won 16 games, fanned a league-leading, rookie-record 245 batters, and was named AL Rookie of the Year. His 1956 seaon was more than an encore. He upped his strikeouts to 263 while taming some of the wildness he had shown in his rookie season. He posted 20 wins, pitched a league-leading five shutouts, and held opposition batters to a minuscule .186 average. Teammate Hal Newhouser, who was at the end of a career that saw him lead the AL in victories four times and in ERA and strikeouts twice, said he would trade his past for Score's future in a minute.
On May 7, 1957 at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, Gil McDougald hit a line drive that struck Score in the eye and ended his season. Questions were raised in the aftermath of the bloody scene as to whether Score would ever see properly again. He made a partial comeback in 1958, and pitched a full season in 1959. Perhaps it was the layoff or fear or loss of vision; whatever the reason, he was no longer unhittable, despite retaining a fine ratio of strikeouts to innings pitched.
As the Indians' young staff of the late 1950s came into its own, Score became expendable. He was traded to the White Sox for Barry Latman after the 1959 season. He pitched for Chicago in 1960 and for fragments of 1961 and 1962 before retiring. In 1988, Score celebrated his 25th anniversary as a play-by-play announcer for the Indians.
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ANSWER TO TODAY’S TRIVIA
TRIVIA ANSWER: PIE TRAYNOR
- Ans. In history’s first MLB All-Star Game in 1933 in Chicago, STL’s Pepper Martin started at 3rd base. Traynor entered the game as a pinch-hitter in the 7th inning & promptly hit a double off Lefty Grove. Grove stranded him there & Traynor was replaced before he had the chance to demonstrate his well-known fielding prowess. The AL won 4-2.
- #1 In the 1934 ASG in the Polo Grounds, Traynor reach on E3 & was moved around to 3rd. The AL’s Mel Harder & C Bill Dickey couldn’t keep him there as he stole home. Rod Carew is the only other player to steal home in All-Star competition.
- #2 Traynor received 93 of 121 votes to reach 76.9% on his 9th vote on 1948.
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