On June 19, 1846, the first “real” baseball game in history was played on the Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey, due to a lack of suitable grounds on Manhattan. The game was played between Alexander Joy Cartwright’s New York Knickerbockers and the New York Nine, who were actually a group of Cricket players. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Baseball'
First baseball game
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June 19, 2008 at 5:08am
by thecodepounder
Baseball · Entertainment · History
Ken Griffey Jr. hits 600th home run
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June 10, 2008 at 7:09am
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He becomes only the 6th player to reach 600 home runs (Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, Willy Mays, Babe Ruth and Sammy Sosa).
Lesbian kiss stirs debate
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June 5, 2008 at 12:31pm
by thecodepounder
So it seems that last week two young women were attending a Seattle Mariners game. It also seems that an usher at Safeco Field asked the two to stop kissing because it was making another fan uncomfortable.
As the Mariners played the Boston Red Sox on May 26, Sirbrina Guerrero and her date were approached [...]
Baseball · Social Commentary · Sports
Rockies beat Padres in 22 innings
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April 18, 2008 at 8:31am
by thecodepounder
Rockies beat the Padres, 2-1, in 22 innings. It was the longest game in MLB since 1993 when Twins beat the Indians, 5-4, in 22 innings.
The game was scoreless until the 14th.
There was a seventh-inning stretch, a 14-inning stretch and finally, a 21st-inning stretch.
Yanks win final season-opener at ‘House that Ruth built’
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April 2, 2008 at 7:23am
by thecodepounder
Another ‘poetic’ story for a very storied ballpark:
Back in 1923, Babe Ruth homered in front of 74,200 fans on the day Yankee Stadium opened. This time, it was Melky Cabrera’s shot that tied it for New York. And the 84th opener at this storied ballpark ended like so many that came before — with a [...]