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September 29, 1879: From baseball-reference.com’s bullpen:
Baseball’s reserve clause is born. National League owners, seeking to limit player salaries, led by Boston’s Arthur Soden come to a secret agreement whereby five players on each team will be “reserved” – off limits to all other clubs. The reserve clause will be in effect for the 1880 season. The owners tell the newspapers that they have agreed upon a uniform contract with no salary advances.
I don’t think they could get away with that today….
September 29, 1919: Also from baseball-reference.com’s bullpen:
Arnold Rothstein decides to finance the World Series fix. The plan calls for Nat Evans to give a $40,000 advance to Sport Sullivan to give to the players with an additional $40,000 to be put in a safe at the Hotel Congress in Chicago, IL. Evans takes $29,000 and bets on the Cincinnati Reds, giving Chick Gandil only $10,000.
The 1919 Reds were an incredible 96-44 during 1919. The Chicago White Sox were 88-52.
Continue reading This Day in Reds History: Villone’s 16, the Reserve Clause, and the Fix is On
by Steve Price on September 25th, 2010 in Reds - General, Reds History, Reds Trivia September 25, 1925: For the first time in major league history and still the only time in National League history, teammates connect for bases-loaded triples in the same game as the Reds wallop the Brooklyn Robins, 18-7, in Cincinnati. Curt Walker clears the bases for the Reds with a triple in the third inning and teammate Rube Bressler does likewise in the fifth. The Reds scored a total of nine runs in the third inning alone.
Only 534 fans show up in Cincinnati to see the third place Reds, who finish the season 80-73, 15 games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Reds gained possession of third place back in July and had held the spot for two months.
For the game, the Reds have four players with three hits: Walker, Bressler, Elmer Smith, and Chuck Dressen. Reds starting pitcher Jakie May went the distance for the win, giving up 14 hits and seven runs, walking four.
Walker was the Reds starting rightfielder from 1924-30, playing 953 games in those seven years, batting .303 with a .378 OBP, and an OPS+ of 113. Walker finished in the top ten triples five times with the Reds, finishing second three times (1925-26, 1929). Bressler played 11 seasons with the Reds (1917-27) and was a pitcher as well as an of-1b. Bressler batted .311 in his time with the Reds with a .379 OBP (OPS+ 115). As a pitcher, Bressler pitched in 42 games and was 12-9 with a 2.76 ERA (100 ERA+).
September 25, 1951: Reds catcher Johnny Pramesa wins the game for the Reds as he clubs a 14th inning grand slam walk off home run in a 7-3 Reds victory over the St. Louis Cardinals.
Continue reading This Day in Reds History: Triples, Catchers, Maloney
September 21, 1889: Four ninth inning errors by the St. Louis Browns allow the Cincinnati Red Stockings to score four runs and win the game, 5-4.
Keep in mind, it was not uncommon for teams to make lots of errors in games back in 1889. In fact, the average team would make about four fielding errors per game. However, four in one inning was excessive even at that time.
The 1889 American Association Red Stockings would finish the season 76-63 in fourth place, 18 games behind the Brooklyn Bridegrooms. The Red Stockings’ best player of the year was 29-year-old rookie pitcher, Jesse Duryea who went 32-19 with a 2.56 ERA (155 ERA+). 22-year-old Lee Viau finished the year 22-20 with a 3.79 ERA. The leading hitter was 23-year-old rookie outfielder Bug Holliday, who batted .321 and led the AA with 19 home runs to go with 104 rbi.
September 21, 1955: Gus Bell goes 4-4 including a double, a grand slam home run, and eight rbi to lead the Cincinnati Redlegs to a 14-5 win over the Milwaukee Braves.
Bell’s grand slam came in the bottom of the first inning with one out and the Reds never looked back. Teammate Ted Kluszewski also had four hits on the day including a home run. Pitcher Johnny Klippstein went the distance to get the win.
Continue reading This Day in Reds History: Dramatic Wins
by Steve Price on July 29th, 2010 in Reds - General, Reds History July 29, 1955: Redlegs catcher Smoky Burgess breaks loose for three home runs and nine rbi in a 16-5 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. This game featured two Redlegs grand slams, one by Burgess and one by Bob Thurman.
Burgess homered with one on in the first and fourth innings and hit a [...]
by Steve Price on July 17th, 2010 in Reds - General, Reds History July 17, 1941 and 1956: On this day, in 1941, Reds’ pitcher Elmer Riddle wins his 11th consecutive game to start the season 11-0, and in 1956, Brooks Lawrence wins his 13th consecutive game to start the season 13-0 in a couple of the great pitching seasons in Reds history.
The 1941 Reds had won the 1940 World Series championship with a team built on defense and the arms of ace starting pitchers Bucky Walters and Paul Derringer. In 1941, the Reds were able to add two more exceptional arms: one from the emergence of Elmer Riddle and a second when Johnny Vander Meer found enough control to regain the major league dominance that he showed during his double no-hit 1938 season.
Riddle didn’t get his first win until May 20 and it came in relief against the Boston Braves. The Reds were trailing 5-3 after eight innings when Riddle entered the game, giving up a run in the top of the ninth. The Reds scored six in the bottom of the ninth, with first baseman Frank McCormick winning the game on a walkoff three-run homer and getting Riddle his first victory. Riddle’s second victory was also a relief effort and it came three days later over the Chicago Cubs in relief of Vander Meer. The Reds had jumped out to a 6-0 lead, but Vander Meer lost control and pitched three innings of no-hit ball, but allowed three runs on six walks and a hit batsman. Riddle came on in relief to pitch six innings of four-hit one-run baseball to secure his second win. His third win also came in relief, a 4 2/3 one-hit effort in an extra inning 3-2 win over the Cardinals.
Continue reading This Day in Reds History: 11-0 and 13-0
by Steve Price on July 6th, 2010 in Reds - General, Reds History July 6, 1949: Reds catcher Walker Cooper has the best game at the plate of any Red in history. In a 23-4 route of the Chicago Cubs, Walker goes 6-6, with three home runs, five runs, 10 rbi, and 15 total bases. The 10 rbi and 15 total bases have been Reds single game records for 60 years. The only other players in major league history to have six hits and three homers in a game are Ty Cobb in 1925, Jimmie Foxx in 1932, and Edgardo Alfonso in 1999 (per “Redleg Journal” by Greg Rhodes and John Snyder, published in 2000). Walker’s hits, runs, and homers totals all tied other Reds single game records.
Continue reading This Day in Reds History: The Best Day at the Plate
by Steve Price on June 17th, 2010 in Reds - General, Reds History On June 17, 1956, the Cincinnati Redlegs moved into sole possession of first place as they won the second game of a double header against the New York Giants, 1-0, behind lefty Joe Nuxhall’s two-hit shutout. It’s the third time in less than two weeks that Nuxhall was the winning pitcher in games that either tied or gave the Redlegs sole possession of first place.
The first came on June 5, as Nuxhall went the distance and the Redlegs beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 9-4. The win moved the Redlegs into a virtual tie for first, percentage points over the St. Louis Cardinals. In a close race, the Redlegs were 25-18, the Cardinals 26-19, the Pittsburgh Pirates 24-18, the Milwaukee Braves 20-15, and the Brooklyn Dodgers 22-19. The five teams were all within two games of each other. The Dodgers, Braves, and Redlegs would continue the battle all season, with the Dodgers placing first, the Braves second (one game out), and the Redlegs third (two games out of first place).
Continue reading This Day in Reds History: Nuxhall’s Clutch Shutout
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