1986 in baseball

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See also: 1986 Major League Baseball season and 1986 Nippon Professional Baseball season

The following are the baseball events of the year 1986 throughout the world.

Years in baseball
1986 in sports

Champions

Major League Baseball

League Championship Series
(ALCS, NLCS) 		World Series
      
East Boston 4
West California 3
AL Boston 3
NL NY Mets 4
East NY Mets 4
West Houston 2

Other champions

Awards and honors

MLB statistical leaders

  American League National League
Type Name Stat Name Stat
AVG Wade Boggs BOS .357 Tim Raines MON .334
HR Jesse Barfield TOR 40 Mike Schmidt PHI 37
RBI Joe Carter CLE 121 Mike Schmidt PHI 119
Wins
 Roger Clemens BOS 24 Fernando Valenzuela LAD 21
ERA Roger Clemens BOS 2.48 Mike Scott HOU 2.22

Major league baseball final standings

Draft

Main article: 1986 Major League Baseball draft

Events

January

  • January 8 –
    Billy Williams
    falls four votes shy of the 319 needed for election.
  • January 28 - Darrell Porter signs with the Texas Rangers after spending much of his career with the St. Louis Cardinals.

February

March

April

May

June

July

  • July 6 – First baseman
    Fulton County Stadium
    .
  • July 15 – At the Houston Astrodome, the American League wins the All-Star Game 3–2, for its second triumph in the last 15 years. AL starter Roger Clemens pitches three perfect innings to win the Game's MVP Award. The game turns out to be the last major league game ever managed by the defending World Series champion Kansas City Royals' manager Dick Howser. Howser, who admitted he felt sick before the game, is diagnosed with a brain tumor and undergoes surgery. Mike Ferraro takes over as Royals manager for the remainder of the season.
  • July 22 –
    right field. They traded positions with two outs in the eleventh, and McDowell traded positions with left fielder Mookie Wilson with one out in the 12th. This rotation continued for the remainder of the game, which the Mets won in fourteen innings.[2]
  • July 29 – Sparky Anderson of the Detroit Tigers becomes the first in baseball to achieve 600 career wins as a manager in both the American and National League.

August

September

October

November

December

Births

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Deaths

January

  • January   1 – Bill Hall, 57, backup catcher who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates over part of three seasons spanning 1954–1958.
  • January   2 – Bob Finley, 70, catcher for the Philadelphia Phillies during the 1943 and 1944 seasons.
  • January   2 –
    Baseball Hall of Fame
    in 1991.
  • January   3 – Chico Hernández, 70, Cuban backup catcher who played from 1942 to 1943 for the Chicago Cubs.
  • January   4 – Dave Morey, 96, a five-sport star at Dartmouth College and Major League Baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics in 1913, who later became a prominent coach of football and baseball at the Lowell Technological Institute, Middlebury College, Auburn University, Fordham University and Bates College in the period between 1916 and 1939.
  • January   7 – Joe Burns, 85, catcher who played eight games for the 1924 Chicago White Sox.
  • January 10 – Roy Johnson, 90, pitcher in ten games for 1918 Philadelphia Athletics who became a minor league manager; longtime employee of the Chicago Cubs as a coach (1935–1939, 1944–1953) and scout; interim manager of Cubs for one game (May 3, 1944).
  • January 11 – Grover Resinger, 70, minor-league player and manager who was an MLB coach for the Atlanta Braves, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers and California Angels for all or part of seven seasons between 1966 and 1976.
  • January 12 – Eddie Solomon, 34, trustworthy relief pitcher who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals, Atlanta Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago White Sox over ten seasons spanning 1973–1982.
  • January 13 –
    Mike Garcia, 62, three-time All-Star pitcher who played for three teams in 14 seasons from 1948 to 1961, mostly with the Cleveland Indians in a span of 12 years, winning 142 games for the Indians, including 20 or more wins and leading the American League in earned run average twice each, being also a member of their storied 'Big Four' pitching rotation in its 1954 season, along with Bob Feller, Bob Lemon and Early Wynn, as they started 147 of the 156 games of the team, while posting a collective record of 93–36 and 2.85 ERA, guiding the Indians to the World Series for the first time in six years and the third in 34 years.[3]
  • January 15 – Fred Thomas, 93, third baseman for three American League clubs from 1918 to 1920, who was also a member of the 1918 World Series Champion Red Sox and a World War I veteran.
  • January 24 – John Boozer, 47, pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies over seven seasons between 1962 and 1969, who has the distinction of being one of only four Major League Baseball pitchers to be ejected from a game for violation of the spitball rule.
  • January 28 – Tom Grubbs, 91, pitcher who played for the New York Giants in its 1920 season.

February

Red Ruffing Goudey Card
  • February 13 –
    fourth outfielder
    who played with the Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia Athletics and Chicago White Sox over part of four seasons spanning 1950–1955.
  • February 14 – Fox Blevins, 75, third baseman for the Little Rock Grays, Homestead Grays and Oakland Larks of the Negro leagues between 1932 and 1946.
  • February 17 –
    runs batted in in 882 regular games, including at least a .303 batting average
    eight times.
  • February 20 – Bob Rice, 86, third baseman who played for the 1926 Philadelphia Phillies.
  • February 22 – Duke Lattimore, 81, diminutive catcher—listed as 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 m) tall and 141 pounds (64 kg)—who played for the Birmingham Black Sox and Columbus Blue Birds of the Negro leagues between 1929 and 1933.
  • February 25 – George Susce, 78, backup catcher and longtime coach whose MLB career spanned 44 years; played sporadically (146 career games) for the Philadelphia Phillies, Detroit Tigers, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Browns and Cleveland Indians in all or parts of eight seasons between 1929 and 1944; his son pitched in the American League during the 1950s.

March

  • March 2
  • March 3 – Paul Castner, 89, pitcher for the 1923 Chicago White Sox.
  • March 5 – Andy Love, 78, first baseman/outfielder who played for the Negro leagues' Detroit Stars, Washington Pilots and Harrisburg Stars between 1930 and 1943.
  • March 7 – Jimmy Moore, 82, outfielder who played from 1930 to 1931 for the Chicago White Sox and Philadelphia Athletics.
  • March 12 – Fred Hancock, 65, shortstop who played for the Chicago White Sox in 1949.
  • March 13 – Jack Warner, 82, third baseman whose career spanned from 1921 through 1946, including stints in the major leagues with the Detroit Tigers, Brooklyn Robins and Philadelphia Phillies during eight seasons between 1925 and 1932.
  • March 15 – Bill Patton, 73, backup catcher for Philadelphia Athletics in the 1935 season.
  • March 24 – Hank Grampp, 82, pitcher who played for the Chicago Cubs in the 1927 and 1929 seasons.
  • March 25 – George Grant, 83, pitcher who played for the St. Louis Browns, Cleveland Indians and Pittsburgh Pirates in a span of seven seasons from 1923 to 1931.
  • March 26 – Mel Bosser, 72, pitcher who played for the Cincinnati Reds in the 1945 season.

April

  • April   9 –
    fourth outfielder
    who played for the St. Louis Browns and Baltimore Orioles over part of five seasons spanning 1948–1954.
  • April   9 – Les Pearson, 76, outfielder who played for the 1937 St. Louis Stars of the Negro American League.
  • April 10 – Luther Harvel, 80, whose baseball career spanned nearly five decades, playing center field for the Cleveland Indians in 1924 and in the minor leagues in 14 seasons between 1929 and 1949, managing from 1933 to 1949, and later scouting for the Kansas City and Oakland Athletics, Cleveland Indians and Los Angeles Dodgers in a span of eight years from 1967 through 1974.
  • April 14 – Doc Land, 82, center fielder who played in 1929 for the Washington Senators.
  • April 18 – George Durning, 87, right fielder for the 1925 Philadelphia Phillies.
  • April 20 – Eddie Feinberg, 68, middle infielder/utility player for the Philadelphia Phillies in the 1938 and 1939 seasons.
  • April 27 – Marty Karow, 81, one of the finest all-around athletes in Ohio State University history during the early 1920s, who later played at shortstop and third base for the Boston Red Sox in its 1927 season.
  • April 28 – Pat Seerey, 63, strikeout-prone outfielder who played from 1943 through 1949 for the Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox; one of a select group of players who have hit four home runs in a single game, accomplishing the feat on July 18, 1948, at Shibe Park, Philadelphia, against the Athletics.
  • April 30 – Bill Higdon, 62, outfielder who played for the Chicago White Sox in its 1949 season.

May

  • May   1 – Ed Wells, 85, pitcher who played for the Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees and St. Louis Browns in all or part of eleven seasons spanning 1923–1934, posting an overall record of 68–69 and a 4.65 ERA, leading the American League in shutouts in 1926 and winning a 1932 World Series ring while pitching for the Yankees.
  • May   4 – Hugh "Hal" Luby, 72, second and third baseman in 120 games with the Philadelphia Athletics (1936) and New York Giants (1944); a fixture in Pacific Coast League, principally for the Oakland Oaks and San Francisco Seals over nine seasons spanning 1938–1948, playing 866 consecutive games between 1939 and 1943; batted .296 in 2,824 minor-league games and amassed 3,165 hits, earning an induction into the Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame.[4]
  • May   4 – Paul Richards, 77, catcher, manager and executive; played in 523 games over eight MLB seasons between 1932 and 1946 with the Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants, Philadelphia Athletics and Detroit Tigers; member of 1945 World Series champion Tigers, starting six of the series' seven games behind the plate; managed the Chicago White Sox (1951–1954 and 1976) and Baltimore Orioles (1955–1961); from September 1954 through 1958, doubled as general manager (GM) of the Orioles, helping build the club that dominated the American League in the late 1960s and early 1970s; also helped build the Houston Colt .45s/Astros franchise as GM of the expansion team from September 1961 through 1965, then served as GM of the Atlanta Braves (1966–1972).
  • May   4 – Johnny Williams, 68, three-time All-Star pitcher for the Birmingham Black Barons and Cincinnati–Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American League between 1943 and 1948.
  • May   6 –
    middle infielder and third baseman who played from 1944 through 1946 for the St. Louis Browns; brother of Ham Schulte
    .
  • May 14 –
    scout for the New York Yankees, being inducted posthumously into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 1996.[6]
  • May 14 – Joe Sparma, 44, pitcher who posted a 52–52 record and a 3.94 ERA for the Detroit Tigers and Montreal Expos in seven seasons from 1964 to 1970, and also a member of the 1968 World Series champion Tigers.
  • May 14 – Tom Turner, 69, catcher who played with the Chicago White Sox and the St. Louis Browns in five seasons from 1940 through 1944.
  • May 18 – Spades Wood, 77, pitcher who played from 1930 to 1931 for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
  • May 23 – Hugh McMullen, 84, part-time catcher for the New York Giants, Washington Senators and Cincinnati Reds over four seasons between 1925 and 1929.
  • May 28 –
    Baseball Hall of Fame for a record he set in 1928, when he made 547 putouts in center field for St. Louis, the most in a season by an outfielder in Major League Baseball history.[7]
  • May 28 – Paul Florence, 86, backup catcher for the 1926 New York Giants, whose baseball career spanned almost 60 years, while playing 12 seasons in the minor leagues and later working as a scout and executive in the Cincinnati Reds and Houston Astros organizations.
  • May 31 – Dixie McArthur, 84, pitcher who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates in its 1914 season.

June

  • June   5 – Joe Mulligan, 72, pitcher for the 1934 Boston Red Sox.
  • June   5 – Jesse Winters, 82, pitcher who played from 1919 through 1923 for the New York Giants and Philadelphia Phillies.
  • June   6 –
    J. G. Taylor Spink Award
    in 1974.
  • June   9 –
    J. G. Taylor Spink Award in 1981, while receiving nominations for the Pulitzer Prize
    in both 1957 and 1981.
  • June 11 – Porter Charleston, 82, pitcher who hurled in four different Negro leagues between 1927 and 1936, notably for the Hilldale club.
  • June 21 – Arnie Portocarrero, 54, pitcher who played with the Philadelphia and Kansas City Athletics from 1954 to 1957 and for the Baltimore Orioles from 1958 to 1960; as a rookie, was the winningest pitcher for the Athletics, who lost 103 games that year;[8] enjoyed his career-best season in 1958, when he won 15 games for the Orioles, fifth most wins in the American League, finishing tenth in earned run average (3.25), including three shutouts and five consecutive complete game victories.[9]
  • June 24 – Loy Hanning, 68, pitcher who played for the St. Louis Browns over part of two seasons spanning 1939–1942.
  • June 29 – Thomas Albright, 76, Negro leagues pitcher who hurled for the 1929 Atlantic City Bacharach Giants and 1936 New York Cubans.

July

  • July   2 –
    OPS for the Cubs in the 1945 World Series; also performed during the 1940s in offseason exhibition games, occasionally playing alongside future Hall of Famers including Cool Papa Bell, Jimmie Foxx, Ralph Kiner, Bob Lemon, Buck Leonard, Satchel Paige and Ted Williams;[10]
    spent 18 years as an MLB coach for five teams between 1960 and 1981.
  • July   3 – Bill McCahan, 65, pitcher who posted a 16–14 record and 3.84 ERA in 57 games for the Philadelphia Athletics from 1946 to 1949, including a no-hitter game against the Washington Senators in 1947.[11]
  • July   4 – Oscar Roettger, 86, first baseman and pitcher who played for the New York Yankees, Brooklyn Robins and Philadelphia Athletics over part of four seasons from 1923 to 1932; brother of Wally Roettger.
  • July   6 – Eddie Yuhas, 61, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals during two seasons from 1952 to 1953.
  • July   8 – Johnny Cooney, 85, pitcher, outfielder and first baseman for the Boston Bees/Braves, Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees in 20 seasons from 1921 to 1944; a longtime coach who also managed the Braves for the final five weeks of 1949 during the medical leave of Billy Southworth; son and brother of big-league players.
  • July   8 – Skeeter Webb, 76, middle infielder who played for the St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, and Philadelphia Athletics over part of 12 seasons between 1932 and 1948.
  • July   9 –
    pinch-hitter, who played for the New York Giants, Boston Braves, Cincinnati Reds and Pittsburgh Pirates in a span of 15 seasons from 1923 to 1938, posting a 157–135 record with a 3.72 ERA in 396 pitching appearances and amassing 204 complete games and 22 shutouts, while recording a .280 batting average and 404 hits, 114 of them in pinch-hitting duties, including three home runs.[12]
  • July 10 – Harl Maggert, 72, outfielder who appeared in 66 games for the 1938 Boston Bees; his father, also an outfielder, had a brief MLB career.
  • July 14 – Wally Holborow, 72, pitched in 21 MLB games for the 1944–1945 Washington Senators and 1948 Philadelphia Athletics.
  • July 20 – Bill Steinecke, 79, catcher who played four games for 1931 Pirates but whose long minor-league career as a player and manager spanned 1925 to 1964.
Ted Lyons in 1930
  • July 25 –
    complete games and shutouts twice each;[13] went 22–15 with AL-leading totals of 29 complete games and 297+2⁄3 innings for a 62–92 team in 1930; completed every one of his 20 starts in 1942, at the age of 41,[13] going 14–6 and leading the league with a 2.10 ERA; threw a no-hitter in 1926 against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park, which took just one hour and 45 minutes to complete;[14]
    managed the White Sox from May 26, 1946, through 1948, posting a 185–245 record; then served as pitching coach of Detroit Tigers and Brooklyn Dodgers between 1949 and 1954.
  • July 26 – Webb Schultz, 88, pitcher who played for the 1924 Chicago White Sox.
  • July 27 – Bud Hafey, 73, outfielder who played for the Chicago White Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies in a span of three seasons from 1935 to 1939.
  • July 28 – Cliff Melton, 74, left-handed pitcher for the New York Giants over all or part of eight seasons spanning 1937–1944; went 20–9 (2.61) as rookie for pennant-winning Giants.
  • July 28 – Joe Oeschger, 94, pitcher known for his durable arm while pitching for six different teams in 12 seasons from 1914 to 1925, who shares an MLB record for the most innings pitched while playing for the Boston Braves in 1920, locked in a pitching duel with Leon Cadore of the Brooklyn Dodgers during 26 innings in a 1–1 tie eventually called because of darkness, as both pitchers had gone the distance.[15][16]
  • July 28 – Carl Whitney, 72, outfielder who played for the New York Black Yankees and Newark Eagles of the Negro National League in 1942.
  • July 30 – Mickey Heath, 82, first baseman who played from 1931 to 1932 for the Cincinnati Reds.

August

  • August   9 – Clarence Maddern, 64, outfielder for the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians over part of three seasons spanning 1946–1951.
  • August 11 – Tom Gorman, 67, who pitched for the New York Giants in 1939 and went on to serve as a National League umpire from 1951 to 1976, working in five World Series, five All-Star games, two NL Championship Series and nine no-hitters, before becoming a league supervisor.
  • August 17 – Walt Lanfranconi, 69, pitcher who played with the Chicago Cubs in 1941 and for the Boston Braves in 1947.
  • August 17 – Sammy Vick, 91, part-time right fielder who played for the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox during five seasons between 1917 and 1921.
  • August 22 – Lamb Barbee, 70, outfielder for the 1945 Cincinnati–Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American League.
  • August 22 – Charlie Eckert, 89, pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics in a span of three seasons from 1919 to 1922.
  • August 23 –
    Meghan Markle
    , Duchess of Sussex.
  • August 24 – George Diehl, 68, pitcher for the Boston Braves in the 1942 and 1943 seasons.

September

Hank Greenberg, Hall of Famer and two-time MVP

October

Norm Cash in 1966
  • October 12 –
    fielding average (.992), while his 373 home runs with the Tigers rank second in franchise history behind Al Kaline (399).[22]
  • October 15 –
    home plate and score the game's only run, while Toney completed his no-hitter in the bottom of the inning for a 1–0 Reds victory.[23]
  • October 19 – George Pipgras, 86, American League starting pitcher, umpire and scout, who played for the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox over 11 seasons spanning 1923–1935, leading the American League with 24 wins, 38 starts and 300+2⁄3 innings in 1928, also winning four World Series rings with the Yankees between 1923 and 1932, while umpiring from 1939 to 1945, including officiating in the 1944 World Series as well as the 1940 All-Star Game, finishing his baseball career supervising umpires from 1946 to 1949 and working as a scout for the Red Sox.[24]
  • October 23 – Paul Gehrman, 74, pitcher for the 1937 Cincinnati Reds.
  • October 26 – Ed Holley, 87, pitcher who played with the Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies and Pittsburgh Pirates over part of four seasons spanning 1928–1934.

November

  • November   3 – John Middleton, 86, pitcher for the Cleveland Indians in its 1922 season.
  • November 10 – Doc Sykes, 94, pitcher in the Negro leagues and Black baseball between 1914 and 1924; became a dentist and practiced in Alabama and Maryland after his playing career.
  • November 12 – Rocky Stone, 68, pitcher who played for the Cincinnati Reds in 1943.
  • November 12 – Joe Strong, 84, pitcher/outfielder and graduate of Wilberforce University who appeared for eight Negro leagues teams between 1922 and 1937; twice led his circuit's pitchers in earned run average, and batted .268 lifetime.
  • November 13 –
    pinch-hitter
    by the St. Louis Browns in 1953, going 2-for-8 with a home run, one RBI and three runs scored.
  • November 13 – Les Webber, 71. pitcher who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cleveland Indians in part of six seasons spanning 1942–1948.
  • November 30 –
    bomber pilot with the rank of lieutenant, flying in 50 missions in Europe while being shut down on at least one occasion.[25]

December

  • December   3 – Bob Moorhead, 48, original New York Met and the second pitcher in franchise history, relieving starter Roger Craig in the fourth inning on Opening Day, April 11, 1962; appeared in 38 games for the hapless 1962 Mets and nine more for the 1965 edition.
  • December   5 – George Abrams, 87, pitcher who made three relief appearances for the Cincinnati Reds in its 1923 season.
  • December   7 – John Bogart, 86, pitcher who played with the Detroit Tigers in 1920.
  • December   8 – Pip Koehler, 84, part-time outfielder for the 1925 New York Giants.
  • December 10 –
    J. G. Taylor Spink Award
    .
  • December 12 – Johnny Wyrostek, 67, two-time All-Star outfielder for the Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds over 11 seasons between 1942 and 1954.
  • December 16 – Jake Caulfield, 69, backup shortstop for the 1946 Philadelphia Athletics.
  • December 18 – Bill Shanner, 92, pitcher who made one appearance for the Philadelphia Athletics in its 1920 season.
  • December 19 – Al Stokes, 86, catcher who played from 1925 to 1926 for the Boston Red Sox.
  • December 20 – Joe DeSa, 27, Puerto Rican first baseman who played with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1980 and for the Chicago White Sox in 1985.
  • December 23 – Dan Wilson, 71, five-time All-Star as an outfielder for five Negro leagues clubs between 1936 and 1947; brother of Emmett Wilson.
  • December 27 – Jack Wallaesa, 67 part-time shortstop for the Philadelphia Athletics and Chicago White Sox in a span of five seasons from 1940 to 1948.
  • Decomber 28 – Harry Else, 80, catcher for the Memphis Red Sox, Kansas City Monarchs and Chicago American Giants of the Negro leagues between 1932 and 1940.
  • December 31 – Provine Bradley, 79, pitcher/second baseman/outfielder for the Cincinnati Tigers and Memphis Red Sox of the Negro American League in 1937–1938.

References

  1. ^ "Best of the bunch. Mets no strangers to fisticuffs on the diamond". Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2008-02-27.
  2. ^ "New York Mets 6, Cincinnati Reds 3". 1986-07-22.
  3. ^ The 1954 Cleveland Indians starting rotation, one of the best ever. SBNATION. Retrieved on December 23, 2018.
  4. ^ Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame. MiLB.com- Retrieved on December 25, 2018.
  5. ^ 1912 NL Awards, All-Stars and Other Leaders. Baseball Reference. Retrieved on December 26, 2018.
  6. ^ "Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on 2011-08-26. Retrieved 2013-11-10.
  7. ^ Taylor Douhit obituary. New York Times archive. Retrieved on December 25, 2018.
  8. ^ 1954 Philadelphia Athletics Statistics. Baseball Reference. Retrieved on December 26, 2018.
  9. ^ Arnie Portocarrero statistics and history. Baseball Reference. Retrieved on December 26, 2018.
  10. ^ Peanuts Lowrey article by Dick Rosen. SABR Biography Project. Retrieved on December 26, 2018.
  11. ^ Washington Senators at Philadelphia Athletics Box Score, September 3, 1947. Baseball Reference. Retrieved on December 26, 2018.
  12. ^ Red Lucas article by Al Quimby. SABR Biography Project. Retrieved on December 26, 2018.
  13. ^ a b c Ted Lyons article. Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum website. Retrieved on December 26, 2018.
  14. ^ Ted Lyons : No-hitter Box Score. August 21, 1926. Baseball Reference. Retrieved on December 26, 2018.
  15. ^ The day the pitchers went 26 innings. ESPN. Retrieved on December 27, 2018.
  16. ^ Brooklyn Robins at Boston Braves Box Score, May 1, 1920. Baseball Reference. Retrieved on December 27, 2018.
  17. ^ Wilson's gem was the first. The Milwaukee Journal article. Retrieved on December 28, 2018.
  18. ^ Philadelphia Phillies at Milwaukee Braves Box Score, June 12, 1954. Baseball Reference. Retrieved on December 28, 2018.
  19. ^ a b c d Hank Greenberg article. Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum website. Retrieved on December 28, 2018.
  20. ^ 1943 All-Star Game Box Score. Baseball Reference. Retrieved on December 28, 2018.
  21. ^ The Braves Encyclopedia, Gary Caruso, Temple University Press, 1995, pg. 381.
  22. ^ Norm Cash article by Maxwell Kates. SABR Biography Project. Retrieved on December 29, 2018.
  23. ^ Cincinnati Reds 1, Chicago Cubs 0 Box score. Game Played on Wednesday, May 2, 1917 (D) at Weeghman Park. Retrosheet. Retrieved on December 30, 2018.
  24. ^ George Pipgras article by John Liepa. SABR Biography Project. Retrieved on December 28, 2018.
  25. ^ Roy Bruner biography. Baseball in Wartime. Retrieved on December 30, 2018.

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