Baseball History -- October 3

Complete Entry for October 3 at BaseballLibrary.com is HERE.


Three entries for today. One for Brewer fans, one for all-time, and one that makes up for that for one team.

1982
Robin Yount smacks two home runs and a triple as Milwaukee whips Baltimore 10–2 to win the American League East championship. Don Sutton, 4-1 since being acquired by the Brewers in late August, is the winning pitcher. Milwaukee had lost three in a row to Baltimore before today's pivotal victory. Despite Yount's stellar game, he loses the AL batting title .332 to .331 to Kansas City's Willie Wilson, who sat out the Royals' final game. Yount ends the year with 114 RBI and joins teammates Cecil Cooper (121), Gorman Thomas (112), and Ben Oglivie (102) as only the 2nd foursome since 1940 to top the 100 RBI mark: the 1977 Bosox of Fisk, Rice, Hobson and Lynn were the others. Ted Simmons is just three short of 100 RBI or the Brewers would have joined the 1936 Yankees as the only squad with five 100-RBI hitters.

1955
» No more "wait till next year" as Brooklyn, behind the 2-0 pitching of Johnny Podres, brings its first WS championship to Brooklyn in 8 tries. Sixth-inning replacement Sandy Amoros races over to the wall in LF to one-hand an opposite-field bid for extra bases by Yogi Berra with the tying runs on. Amoros turns and fires to SS Pee Wee Reese who throws a bullet to Gil Hodges at 1B for the DP on Yankee base runner Gil McDougald.

The one time that dem Bums beat the Yankees.

1951
» The Giants' Bobby Thomson hits the most famous home run in history, off Ralph Branca. His "shot heard round the world" with two runners on and trailing 4–2 in the bottom of the 9th defeats Brooklyn 5–4 and sends the jubilant Giants into the World Series. For Branca, it is his 6th loss of the season against the Giants, who have now hit 11 home runs off him this year. Whitey Lockman sets up Thomson's blast by hitting a double off Don Newcombe with Al Dark on 3B and Don Mueller on 1B. Mueller breaks his ankle sliding into 3B and is carried off the field.

The Giants win the Pennant! The Giants win the Pennant!

I can't believe that Winchester allowed Klinger to talk him into being a Dodger fan that year.

Klinger would have been a Reds fan. I don't see him being a Indians fan.

Winchester and Hawkeye both would have been Red Sox fans. But, that would have given them something in common.

Col. Potter admitted to being a Cardinal fan early in the episode.

Father Mulcahy was probably a Philadelphia Athletics fan.

Hot lips, being a rootless army brat was most definitely a Yankee fan, that team being the easiest to follow.

Radar had been long gone from the series, but he would have been a Cub fan.