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This day in baseball: Williams’s six-game streak

Posted: August 2, 2019 | Author: | Filed under: 20th Century, This day in baseball | Tags: , , , , , , , , , |Leave a comment

Ken Williams of the St. Louis Browns homered in his sixth consecutive game on August 2, 1922, setting what was at the time an American League record.  However, the Browns still lost to the Athletics, 8-4, at Sportsman’s Park.

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