1906 in baseball

1906 in baseball

Year in baseball
this year = 1906

Champions

*World Series: Chicago White Sox over Chicago Cubs (4-2)

Awards and honors

tatistical Leaders

National League final standings

Events

* May 1 - Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Johnny Lush pitched a no hitter in a 6-0 win over the Brooklyn Superbas.

*May 8 - Philadelphia Athletics manager Connie Mack needed a substitute outfielder in the sixth inning of a game against the Boston Pilgrims and called on pitcher Chief Bender to fill in. Bender hit two home runs, both inside the park.

*July 4 - Mordecai Brown of the Chicago Cubs defeats Lefty Leifield of the Pittsburgh Pirates 1-0, in the first game of a doubleheader, in which both pitchers throw a 1-hitter. Leifield collects the Pirates only hit off Brown and loses his own bid for a no-hitter by giving up a single in the 9th inning that ends up scoring the only run of the game.

*July 20 - Mal Eason tosses a no hitter for the Brooklyn Superbas, as they defeat the St. Louis Cardinals, 2-0.

*August 1 - Brooklyn Superbas pitcher Harry McIntire would not allow a hit to the Pittsburgh Pirates through 10 innings, only to allow a single with two outs in the 11th inning. McIntire would allow three more hits before the Pirates outlasted the Superbas, 1-0, in 13 innings.

*August 3 - At Sportsman's Park, Long Tom Hughes of the Washington Senators and Fred Glade of the St. Louis Browns entered the 10th inning with a scoreless tie, until Hughes decided the game with a solo home run to a 1–0 victory, becoming the first pitcher in major league history to pitch a shutout and hit a home run which accounted for the only run in the game.

*October 14 - In perhaps the greatest upset in World Series history, the Chicago White Sox (93 wins) defeated the Chicago Cubs (116 wins), 8-3, in Game 5, winning the World Championship, four games to one, despite hitting only .198 and committing 15 errors in the series.

Births

January-March

*January 3 - Gus Suhr
*January 19 - Rip Radcliff
*January 26 - Charlie Gelbert
*January 28 - Lyn Lary
*February 15 - Bob Cremins
*February 28 - Al Baker
*March 2 - Woody English
*March 10 - Art Herring
*March 16 - Lloyd Waner
*March 21 - Shanty Hogan
*March 22 - Marv Owen
*March 22 - Moose Solters
*March 24 - Pat Veltman

April-June

*April 26 - Ray Starr
*May 21 - Hank Johnson
*May 23 - Pat Creeden
*May 23 - Willis Hudlin
*May 25 - Martín Dihigo
*June 21 - Randy Moore
*June 25 - Joe Kuhel

July-September

*July 7 - Satchel Paige
*July 19 - Jackie Hayes
*July 28 - Ray Dobens
*August 2 - Bill Posedel
*August 19 - Tex Carleton
*August 13 - Cliff Garrison
*September 13 - Thornton Lee
*September 27 - John Smith
*September 28 - Dick Barrett

October-December

*October 5 - Si Johnson
*October 11 - Tom Carey
*October 12 - Joe Cronin
*October 15 - Sammy Byrd
*October 17 - Paul Derringer
*November 1 - Heinie Schuble
* November 15 - Gene Rye
*November 27 - Alan Strange
*November 9 - Fred Brickell
*December 28 - Tommy Bridges

Deaths

*February 27 - John Peltz, 44, outfielder.
*March 25 - Joe Cassidy, 23, shortstop for the Senators since 1904 who led AL with 19 triples as a rookie, led league in assists in 1905.
*March 27 - Toad Ramsey, 41, pitcher for Louisville who topped 35 wins in both 1886 and 1887, with strikeout totals of 499 and 355.
*June 15 - Sandy Nava, 56, catcher and first known Mexican American to play in the Majors.
*August 16 - Tom Carey, 60, 19th century infielder and player-manager.
*October 20 - Buck Ewing, 47, catcher, most notably for the New York Giants, who batted .303 lifetime and led NL in home runs and triples once each; captain of 1888-89 NL champions batted .346 in 1888 championship series; in 1883 was one of first two players to hit 10 home runs in a season; led NL in assists three times and double plays twice, was later Cincinnati manager.
*September - Matthew Porter, 47, player-manager for the by|1884 Kansas City Cowboys of the Union Association.
*December 30 - Henry Porter, 48, pitcher for three teams in the 1880s, who set a major league record with 18 strikeouts for a losing pitcher in 1884 and also threw a no-hitter in 1888


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