This Day in Baseball History....

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On June 27, 1973, Joe Torre hit for the cycle for the first time in his 13-year major league career. He had Cardinals manager Red Schoendienst to thank for it.

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On this date in 1935, Cardinals slugger Joe Medwick hit a home run off the foul pole to complete the cycle:

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On June 30, 1954, Joe Cunningham kicked off his 12-year major-league career with a single, homer, and five RBIs in an 11-3 Cardinals victory over the Cincinnati Redlegs.

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On July 1, 1934, Dizzy Dean threw 17 innings and Joe Medwick hit a game-winning home run as the Cardinals beat the Reds 8-6 in 18 innings:

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2021/06/04/ ... -marathon/

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Remembirds wrote:
July 1 22, 7:18 am
On July 1, 1934, Dizzy Dean threw 17 innings and Joe Medwick hit a game-winning home run as the Cardinals beat the Reds 8-6 in 18 innings:

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2021/06/04/ ... -marathon/
Can you imagine a starter pitching 17 innings today.

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AWvsCBsteeeerike3 wrote:
July 1 22, 7:44 am
Remembirds wrote:
July 1 22, 7:18 am
On July 1, 1934, Dizzy Dean threw 17 innings and Joe Medwick hit a game-winning home run as the Cardinals beat the Reds 8-6 in 18 innings:

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2021/06/04/ ... -marathon/
Can you imagine a starter pitching 17 innings today.
Pretty sure Flaherty will get to 17 innings this season. But I've always been a hopeless optimist.

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On this date in 1967, a Lou Brock stolen base sparked a 12-minute brawl between the Cardinals and Reds that required 19 St. Louis police officers to restore order:

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2020/10/04/ ... -and-reds/

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On July 5, 1961, Bill White and Bob Gibson starred in Solly Hemus's final day as Cardinals' manager. Neither was disappointed to see him go:

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2022/04/13/ ... lly-hemus/

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35 years ago, Steve Lake hit a game-tying, 9th-inning home run and Jack Clark drove in the game-winning single in the 10th to finish a double-header against the Dodgers a little after 3 a.m.:

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2022/04/15/ ... der-sweep/

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60 years ago today, 41-year-old Stan Musial became the oldest player to hit three home runs in a game:

https://www.stlredbirds.com/2022/04/15/ ... -the-mets/

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