Full Version: ON THIS DATE (September 17th) IN BASEBALL HISTORY
On this day back in 1984, Mr. Humble, Reginald Martinez Jackson hit his 500th career homer off of Bud Black of the Royals. He later would hit number 537 which moved him past Mickey Mantle on the all-time list. Jackson stated "that he had now passed Mickey in homers and that Mantle had struck out more than he had"..... Well, before he was finished, Ole Reggie had piled up 27 more homers than Mickey, and 887 more strikeouts than Mantle. Rumor had it that Reggie was treated more than once for "hoaf 'n my mouth" disease.
SEPTEMBER 17, 1935
Brooklyn Dodgers outfielder Len Koenecke, dropped by the team & put off an airline flight for drunkenness in Detroit, hires a private plane to fly him home. During the flight he tries to take over the controls and gets into a fight with pilot William Mulqueeney. He dies after co-pilot Irwin Davis hits over the head with a fire extinguisher.
SEPTEMBER 17, 1954
1995 Tyler WildCatters manager Wayne Krenchicki is born in Trenton, New Jersey.
SEPTEMBER 17, 1955
Baltimore Orioles third baseman Brooks Robinson goes 2-4 in his Major League debut as the O's top the Washington Senators, 3-1.
SEPTEMBER 17, 1968
San Francisco Giants pitcher Gaylord Perry no-hits the St. Louis Cardinals (and Bob Gibson at Candlestick Park, 1-0. The lone Giants run comes on a Ron Hunt solo home run. (tune in tomorrow to find out what happens the next day!)
SEPTEMBER 17, 1996
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Hideo Nomo hurls a 9-0 no-hitter against the Colorado Rockies in hitter-friendly Coors Field.
SEPTEMBER 17, 1998
Red Huff, the oldest ex-Major Leaguer, dies at the age of 107. Huff pitched for four seasons (1911-13, 1915) for the New York Highlanders & St. Louis Browns. Huff struck out the first batter he ever faced -- Ty Cobb.
Brooklyn Dodgers outfielder Len Koenecke, dropped by the team & put off an airline flight for drunkenness in Detroit, hires a private plane to fly him home. During the flight he tries to take over the controls and gets into a fight with pilot William Mulqueeney. He dies after co-pilot Irwin Davis hits over the head with a fire extinguisher.
SEPTEMBER 17, 1954
1995 Tyler WildCatters manager Wayne Krenchicki is born in Trenton, New Jersey.
SEPTEMBER 17, 1955
Baltimore Orioles third baseman Brooks Robinson goes 2-4 in his Major League debut as the O's top the Washington Senators, 3-1.
SEPTEMBER 17, 1968
San Francisco Giants pitcher Gaylord Perry no-hits the St. Louis Cardinals (and Bob Gibson at Candlestick Park, 1-0. The lone Giants run comes on a Ron Hunt solo home run. (tune in tomorrow to find out what happens the next day!)
SEPTEMBER 17, 1996
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Hideo Nomo hurls a 9-0 no-hitter against the Colorado Rockies in hitter-friendly Coors Field.
SEPTEMBER 17, 1998
Red Huff, the oldest ex-Major Leaguer, dies at the age of 107. Huff pitched for four seasons (1911-13, 1915) for the New York Highlanders & St. Louis Browns. Huff struck out the first batter he ever faced -- Ty Cobb.
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Originally posted by cheaptrick77
SEPTEMBER 17, 1935
Brooklyn Dodgers outfielder Len Koenecke, dropped by the team & put off an airline flight for drunkenness in Detroit, hires a private plane to fly him home. During the flight he tries to take over the controls and gets into a fight with pilot William Mulqueeney. He dies after co-pilot Irwin Davis hits over the head with a fire extinguisher.
That is the strangest baseball related factoid EVER...well, probably not, but it is strange non-the-less.
SEPTEMBER 17, 1935
Brooklyn Dodgers outfielder Len Koenecke, dropped by the team & put off an airline flight for drunkenness in Detroit, hires a private plane to fly him home. During the flight he tries to take over the controls and gets into a fight with pilot William Mulqueeney. He dies after co-pilot Irwin Davis hits over the head with a fire extinguisher.
As Brent pointed out , Brooks Robinson got his first hit today back in 1955.
The hit came off of Chuck Stobbs in the 4th inning. It was a single to left-center. He would collect 2847 more during the regular season before hanging his glove and hat up in Cooperstown !!
The hit came off of Chuck Stobbs in the 4th inning. It was a single to left-center. He would collect 2847 more during the regular season before hanging his glove and hat up in Cooperstown !!
I have been digging around trying to locate information on the ultimate fate of pilots Mulqueeney & Davis & came up with this from Donald Dewey and Nicholas Acocella's excellent 1995 book The Biographical History Of Baseball:
There appears to be conflicting stories on who actually used the fire extinguisher...
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Two separate hearings in Canadian courts absolved Mulqueeny of any crime and found that Koenecke had drunk heavily during his stopover in Detroit. The hearings also floated the suggestion that the player had actually been bent on suicide in his attempt to take over the plane.
There appears to be conflicting stories on who actually used the fire extinguisher...
I think it was the fire-extinguisherman in the grassy knoll. There was a puff of fire retardant powder from there. The video clearly makes out this image.
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Originally posted by Five0pd310
I think it was the fire-extinguisherman in the grassy knoll. There was a puff of fire retardant powder from there. The video clearly makes out this image.
I think it was the fire-extinguisherman in the grassy knoll. There was a puff of fire retardant powder from there. The video clearly makes out this image.
No, the Warren Commission disputed that theory ..........
"....that crazy bullet zig-zagging all over the place.........that dog don't hunt.......!!"
SEPTEMBER 17, 1999
An incident that will help speed the firing of Orioles GM Frank Wren occurs as the Orioles prepare to travel. Cal Ripken is delayed in traffic and calls the team's traveling secretary to assure him that he'd be arriving at the airport within the next 10 minutes. At Wren's order, however, the plane takes off without Cal, who arrives at the gate a few minutes later and has to make his own travel arrangements. When Wren is fired after the season, part of the announcement reads: "In the opinion of management, there was no need for such an arbitrary and inflexible decision. In the meeting, Wren defiantly dismissed our concerns, characterized them as "silly" and insisted he would invoke the same takeoff order no matter what the extenuating circumstances. The Orioles management cannot and will not abide having a GM operate in such an unreasonable, authoritarian manner and treat anyone this way, especially someone such as Cal who has done so much for the Orioles and for Baseball." The Orioles defeat the Twins, 8-3, as Jesse Orosco preserves Mike Mussina's 15th win. For Orosco, it is Major League record 1,072 appearance. He had been tied with Dennis Eckersley.
(from baseballlibrary.com)
^ an Orioles GM named Wren . . . I get it
An incident that will help speed the firing of Orioles GM Frank Wren occurs as the Orioles prepare to travel. Cal Ripken is delayed in traffic and calls the team's traveling secretary to assure him that he'd be arriving at the airport within the next 10 minutes. At Wren's order, however, the plane takes off without Cal, who arrives at the gate a few minutes later and has to make his own travel arrangements. When Wren is fired after the season, part of the announcement reads: "In the opinion of management, there was no need for such an arbitrary and inflexible decision. In the meeting, Wren defiantly dismissed our concerns, characterized them as "silly" and insisted he would invoke the same takeoff order no matter what the extenuating circumstances. The Orioles management cannot and will not abide having a GM operate in such an unreasonable, authoritarian manner and treat anyone this way, especially someone such as Cal who has done so much for the Orioles and for Baseball." The Orioles defeat the Twins, 8-3, as Jesse Orosco preserves Mike Mussina's 15th win. For Orosco, it is Major League record 1,072 appearance. He had been tied with Dennis Eckersley.
(from baseballlibrary.com)
^ an Orioles GM named Wren . . . I get it
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