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Top 5 Reasons You Can’t Blame Bob Short for Moving the Washington Senators to...
September 30, 1971, 50 years ago: The last Washington Senators game is played, against the Yankees at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium.Team owner Bob Short, having already moved the NBA's Minneapolis Lakers...
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Yankees Close to Clinching
The Yankees were facing a tough task if they didn't win last night. With the last 3 games being at home, but against the already-clinched American League Eastern Division Champion Tampa Bay Rays, they...
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October 1, 1921: The 1st Yankee Pennant
October 1, 1921, 100 years ago: The New York Yankees go into this date with 4 games left in the regular season, and were 2 games ahead of the Cleveland Indians in the race for the American League...
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Scores On This Historic Day: October 1, 1950, The Dick Sisler Game
October 1, 1950, 70 years ago: Dick Sisler hits a home run off Don Newcombe in the top of the 10th inning at Ebbets Field, and the Phillies beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 4-1, to clinch the National League...
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October 1, 1961: Roger Maris Hits 61 in '61
October 1, 1961, 60 years ago: Roger Maris comes to bat for the New York Yankees in the bottom of the 4th inning, against Tracy Stallard of the Boston Red Sox, in the last game of the regular season....
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Scores On This Historic Day: October 1, 1967, The Red Sox Impossible Dream
October 1, 1967: The American League's tightest Pennant race ever goes down to the final day. Just 2 days earlier, in this next-to-last season of single-division leagues, 4 teams were still in it....
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Hot-and-Cold Yankees Go Cold Again at Worst Possible Time
All season long, the Yankees have followed a hot streak with a cold streak, and then that with another hot streak, and then that with another cold streak. They rode a hot streak to put themselves in...
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Scores On This Historic Day: October 2, 1959, The Twilight Zone Premieres
October 2, 1959: The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS. Earl Holliman -- still alive at age 93 -- plays Mike Ferris, a man who walks into a deserted down, sees no people, and yells out the episode's...
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Yankees Forget It's Bucky Dent Day, Play Like Garbage
What a disaster. No, I don't mean East Brunswick High School's football game last night. They won, 21-9 over Watchung Hills of Warren Township, Somerset County, to advance to 4-1. They will probably...
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Scores On This Historic Day: October 3, 1990, Germany Is Reunified
October 3, 1990: The reunification of Germany is completed after 45 years.There had been tribes identified as "Germanic" for over 2,000 years, and they stopped the advance of the Roman Empire under...
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October 3, 1951: The Shot Heard 'Round the World
October 3, 1951, 70 years ago: Along with the Bucky Dent Game of 1978, this may be the most written-about single game in the history of baseball. And if you have to ask why, then you don't know the...
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Happy 70th Birthday, Dave Winfield!
October 3, 1951, 70 years ago: David Mark Winfield is born in St. Paul, Minnesota, 1,200 miles northwest of the Polo Grounds, where Bobby Thomson was writing his name into baseball history. For Dave...
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Yankees Bring Drama to Proper End, Clinch Playoff Berth
For the New York Yankees, the simplest solution was the best one: Win, and you're in. A win would have guaranteed them a place in the American League Wild Card Game.If the Boston Red Sox lost to the...
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How to Be a Giants Fan In Dallas -- 2021 Edition
"I'm in hell!"– Morgan Freeman"Worse: You're in Texas!"– Chris Rock-- Nurse BettyYesterday, after losing their 1st 3 games, the New York Giants finally won a game, 27-21 in overtime against the New...
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Scores On This Historic Day: October 5, 1982, The New Jersey Devils Debut
October 5, 1982: The New Jersey Devils play their 1st regular-season game, a 3-3 tie against the Pittsburgh Penguins at the Brendan Byrne Arena in East Rutherford, Bergen County, New Jersey. As a favor...
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1941: The Brooklyn Dodgers' 1st "Next Year"
October 5, 1941, 80 years ago: Game 4 of the World Series at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. It made the home fans shudder. I read an interview once, with a Dodger fan, whose name I've forgotten, citing a...
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Scores On This Historic Day: October 5, 1962, The 1st James Bond Film
His name was Connery. Sean Connery.October 5, 1962: A film premieres, Doctor No. It is the 1st film based on a character created by Ian Fleming, a former officer in the intelligence division of...
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Scores On This Historic Day: October 5, 2001, Barry Bonds Hits His 71st Home Run
October 5, 2001, 20 years ago: At what was then known as Pacific Bell Park (now Oracle Park), Barry Bonds hits his 71st and 72nd home runs of the season, to set a new major league single-season record…...
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History Will Be Made at Fenway Tonight
Boston Sox are RedPinstripes are BlueI hate the Red Soxand you should, too.Tonight, the Yankees and their arch-rivals, the Boston Red Sox, will face each other in the American League Wild Card Game at...
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Scores On This Historic Day: October 5, 2007, The Bug Game
October 5, 2007: Game 2 of the American League Division Series. This was the Bug Game. The Yankees are leading 1-0 in the 8th inning, on a Melky Cabrera home run.Suddenly, a swarm of insects,...
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