It sounds almost unbelievable but it happened today 104 years ago. (Hall of) Fame(d) shortstop Honus Wagner hit his final round-tripper that happened to be an inside-the-park home run. In the fourth inning, Wagner goes deep off Reds’ right-hander Elmer Knetzer in the team’s 2-1 victory at Cincinnati’s Redland Field. Even at the wrong side…
It has been a while since I last wrote about the minor league history. This time I pay attention to the Iron and Oil League. The Iron and Oil League was a minor league at the end of the nineteenth century. It had two runs that lasted (parts of) a season. The first played in…
I bumped into a comment about Jack Chesbro, the famed pitcher that still holds one of the longest standing records in Major League Baseball. The comment claims that Chesbro was only elected to the HOF because of his 1904 season. Jack Chesbro was born as John Dwight Cheesbro on June 5 1874 in Houghtonvill, Massachusetts….
