4/16/2007

Baseball History -- April 16

Complete entry for April 16 is at BaseballLibrary.com HERE.

Highlighted entries:
1972
In Chicago‚ 22-year-old rookie Burt Hooton of the Cubs no-hits the Phillies 4-0. It is Hooton's 4th ML game over 2 seasons and he has allowed just 8 hits in 30 innings. Throwing his knucklecurve‚ Hooton walks 7 and fans 7.

WGN-TV used to show the final two or three innings of this game during Cub rain delays. Speaking of WGN-TV
1948
The White Sox beat the Cubs 4-1 at Wrigley Field with Jack Brickhouse at the WGN-TV mike. This is the first telecast on WGN-TV: the first broadcast for the Cubs was on WBKB-TV in 1946.

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