8/17/2007

Baseball History -- August 17

Complete entry for August 17 is at BaseballLibrary.com HERE.

Highlighted entry
1933
Against the Browns‚ Lou Gehrig plays his 1‚308th consecutive game to break Everett Scott's mark. Lou is 2-for-5. Manager Hornsby‚ razzed by the Yankees all afternoon‚ inserts himself as a pinch hitter with 2 outs in the 10th‚ and cracks a 3-run homer off Lefty Gomez to win the game‚ 7-6.
The lesson here was not to mess with Rogers Hornsby.

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