In my upcoming book, I have 21 entries listed under "July 25". Noone of them seem to stand out as worthy of an entire blog. So, today we will discuss 4 games that were played on July 25.
The first game was played at Ringwood Park in Peoria, Illinois in 1907. The 3-I League game was played between the Clinton Infants and the Peoria Distillers. The games was scoreless through the first 21 innings. Then, the hometown Distillers scored 3 runs in the top of the 22nd and then as the Infants threatened in the bottom half of the inning, the Distillers pulled a triple play to snuff out the rally and end the game.
Just two years later, a Illinois-Missouri League game at Galesburg, Illlinois went into the 18th inning scoreless. The Galesburg Boosters scored a run in their half of the 18th to win. The Boosters pitcher was future Hall of famer Grover Cleveland Alexander.
Moving ahead all the way to 1978, we look at a California League game played at Lawrence Park in Lodi, California. It took triple plays in the first and fifth innings by the Lodi Dodgers to take an 11-6 win over the Fresno Giants.
Our final stop was in 2001 at the Gund Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. In the Womens National Basketball Association game between the Cleveland Rockers and the Miami Sol, the Rockers scored only 52 points and still won the game by 4 points in overtime!!!
Sports history is full of stories such as the four of these. My upcoming book will feature close to 8000 stories like these among its 400 pages. Tomorrow we will look at a 1933 hitting streak.
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Hello erinhovland@yahoo.com 406-235-8786. I like your blog, I enjoy your writing style. I would be happy to share sports history with you. I grew up in a family of trailblazing barnstorm athletes.
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