One of Baseballs most celebrated events was its first night game. It was in in 1935 at Crosley field in Cincinnati, Ohio. Today however we are looking at the first night game in the American League. The other first night game was on May 16, 1939 at Shibe park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Athletics hosted the Cleveland Indians. The Indians won the game by a score of 8-3. The game took 10 innings to play. 15 thousand fans watched Al Milnar of the Indians pitch against Lynn Nelson of the Athletics. Neither pitcher was around when the Indians 5 run 10th inning.
Today night games are very common place. More games are played at night today then during the day. Up until the 1930s all games were played in the day time. The Negro Leagues were first to take up the playing of night games, the minors soon followed. Major League baseball was abit slow to try it. Today it is a necessity.
Tomorrow we look at one great finish.
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