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The year 2020 was an especially difficult one for devotees of Major League Baseball. Not only did the COVID-19 pandemic delay the start of the season for nearly four months and then limit it to 60 games (rather than the usual 162), but for the most part fans weren’t allowed to attend any of those regular-season games. On top of that, the baseball world lost an astounding 10 Hall of Fame members who passed away in the nine-month period between April 2020 and January 2021: Al Kaline, Tom Seaver, Lou Brock, Bob Gibson, Whitey Ford, Joe Morgan, Phil Niekro, Tom Lasorda, Don Sutton, and Hank Aaron.
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Previous anniversaries of Cubs first league game By JohnW53 on May 7, 2021, 4:43am CDT +
The Cubs are scheduled to host the Pirates today, May 7 the
150th anniversary of their first league game, also played at home: their National Association debut, a victory over the Cleveland Forest Citys.
After 3 innings at the Union Grounds, the White Stockings, as they were known then, led, 14-1. But they barely hung on to win, 14-12.
I described that game in detail in a previous post.
Then I wondered how the Cubs had fared on other significant anniversaries of that historic win.
Here is what I found:
ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 5, 2021 The St. Louis Cardinals have announced Keith Hernandez will be inducted into the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame, presented by Edward Jones. Hernandez will join the 2020 Class of Tom Herr, John Tudor and Bill White for induction during an enshrinement ceremony on Saturday, August 21.
Chosen by the fans, Keith Hernandez was the top vote getter in the Cardinals Hall of Fame online balloting presented by Edward Jones. This year’s ballot also included Cardinals legends Steve Carlton, Matt Morris, Edgar Renteria and Lee Smith.
“Selecting members for induction into the Cardinals Hall of Fame is one of our organization’s greatest traditions,” said Bill DeWitt Jr., Cardinals Chairman and CEO. “We thank the thousands of fans who cast their votes in this year’s online balloting and congratulate Keith Hernandez on this tremendous honor. We look forward to celebrating the achievements of all four of these remarkable players with Cardinals Nation this
Cobb took to baseball early in his life: by age 14 he was playing alongside adults on the local baseball team in Royston, Georgia. In 1904 he joined a semiprofessional team in Anniston, Alabama, and the following year he signed with the minor league Augusta (Georgia) Tourists. While playing with the Tourists, Cobb had his personal life jolted by an unusual tragedy: on August 8, 1905, his mother shot and killed his father, who was atop the family’s porch roof in an attempt to catch her being unfaithful and whom she purportedly mistook for a burglar. That event overshadowed his promotion to the Detroit Tigers later that month. His combative reaction to his subsequent rookie hazing created animosity between Cobb and his teammates that lasted for years, which greatly helped to establish the antagonistic public persona that would become one of Cobb’s hallmarks.
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