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This day in baseball: The “Hitless Wonders” streak begins

Posted: August 2, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: 20th Century, This day in baseball | Tags: , , , |1 Comment

With a 3-0 victory over the Red Sox on August 2, 1906, the Chicago White Sox launched into a 19-game winning streak, which set an American League record.  They maintained this streak even in spite of having rock-bottom numbers in slugging.  Only the 1947 Yankees would match the 19-game win streak.

This Great Game

One Comment on “This day in baseball: The “Hitless Wonders” streak begins”

  1. Bruce Thiesen says:
    August 3, 2014 at 8:18 am

    The smallest ball.

    Reply

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