6/19/2007

Baseball History -- June 19

Complete entry for June 19 is at BaseballLibrary.com HERE.

Highlighted entry:

1942
At Forbes Field‚ Paul Waner‚ now with the Boston Braves‚ joins Cap Anson and Honus Wagner as the only NL players with 3‚000 hits‚ with a single off Rip Sewell. Two days earlier‚ Waner's grounder bounced off an infielder's glove and had been ruled a hit. Waner‚ who did not want his 3000th hit to be a tainted one‚ signaled to the scorekeeper that it was an error‚ and the ruling was changed. Bob Elliott hits 2 HRs to help the Pirates win 7-6 in 11 innings.

Paul was known as "Big Poison". His brother Lloyd was "Little Poison".

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