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This day in baseball: First AL game

Posted: April 24, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: 20th Century, This day in baseball | Tags: , , , , , , , , , |1 Comment

The first ever American League game was played on April 24, 1901 at the Chicago Cricket Club in front of a crowd of 14,000.  The game, which only lasted ninety minutes, featured Roy Patterson of the White Sox, as they defeated the Cleveland Blues (now the Indians), 8-2.

Roy Patterson (Wikipedia)

Roy Patterson (Wikipedia)

One Comment on “This day in baseball: First AL game”

  1. wkkortas says:
    April 24, 2015 at 10:55 am

    Ninety minutes? That’s more like it. Get in the box and hit, son.

    Reply

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