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Happy birthday to Eric Jokisch, and a mighty host of others.
Today in baseball history, in 2014 – The Cubs win the longest game in team history, 4-3, as the 16 innings take 6 hours and 27 minutes to complete, 17 minutes longer than a 21-inning game played over two days in 1982; it’s also the record for a Rockies game. Catcher John Baker is pressed into mound duty in the 16th and earns the win when he scores the winning run after leading the bottom of the inning with a walk and is driven home on Starlin Castro’s sacrifice fly, and other stories as well.
Today in baseball history:
Today in Cubs history:
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1951 – Against the Phillies, Cubsplayer-managerPhil Cavarretta earns his money by driving home three runs in a first-game win, 5-4, snapping the Cubs’ ten-game home losing streak. His triple in the sixth off Robin Roberts ends the Cubs’ scoreless inning skein of 31 innings, and the consecutive scoreless innings by Phils pitchers at 41. Cavarretta takes the bench in the second game but inserts himself as a pinch-hitter in the seventh when Roberts relieves, and hits a grand slam home run as the Cubs sweep, winning the nightcap, 8-6.
Cubs Birthdays: Tyson Miller, Eric Jokisch*, Ken Kravec, Roy Henshaw, Luther Roy, Frank Martin, Earl Moore, Sam Dungan.
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1933 – Police shootout with Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow’s gang in Iowa leaves one member, Clyde’s brother Buck Barrow, dead and one captured; Bonnie and Clyde escape.
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1938 – Olympic National Park is established in Washington state, featuring the longest undeveloped coastline in America.
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1957 – Floyd Patterson TKO’s Tommy Jackson in the 10th round for the heavyweight boxing title.
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1958 – US President Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, establishing NASA.
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1966 – First show by rock trio “Cream,” consisting of guitarist Eric Clapton, bassist Jack Bruce, and drummer Ginger Baker, at the Twisted Wheel nightclub in Manchester, England.
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1976 -In New York City, the “Son of Sam” kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
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2021 – Following Simone Biles’ withdrawal, teammate Sunisa Lee becomes first Hmong-American Olympic champion in any sport, winning women’s artistic individual all-around gymnastics gold in Tokyo.
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2023 – 46,000-year-old minuscule pair of roundworms revived from their cryptobiotic state after being frozen in Siberian permafrost, proving life can be stopped and then restarted according tto scientists.
*pictured.
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