About this episode

The episode discusses significant events in baseball history, including Joe DiMaggio's record hitting streak and the birth of Shoeless Joe Jackson.

On July 16, 1853 - The New York Clipper publishes what is believed to be the first tabulated boxscore of a baseball game. The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York defeated the Gotham Club 21-12 on July 5. Shoeless Joe Jackson, the best major league player not in the Hall of Fame was born on this day in 1887. Babe Ruth once said of Jackson "I copied Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen.. He's the guy who made me a hitter." Jackson was implicated in the 1919 Black Sox scandal as one of the 8 men who threw the World Series. During that series Jackson led both teams in hits and batting average, did not commit a single error and even threw a runner out at the plate. Jackson has the third highest career batting average in MLB history at .356. On July 6 1897 - At the age of 45, Chicago's Cap Anson becomes the first major leaguer to amass 3,000 hits when he singled off Baltimore's George Blackburn. As a matter of fact, it took years for the figure filberts of baseball to come to Anson’s “official” stats. Anson played from 1876-97 and his hit total changed over time, soaring as high as 3,509 and as low as 2,995 as researchers dissected box…

Topics covered

• baseball history
• hitting streaks
• major league records
• player biographies
• historical events

Keywords

• Joe DiMaggio
• hitting streak
• Shoeless Joe Jackson
• Cap Anson
• baseball history
• 1919 Black Sox scandal
• Babe Ruth

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: New York Clipper, Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, Gotham Club

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