Tag: Boston Beaneaters

This day in baseball: Lowe’s homer domination

May 30, 2013
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Bob Lowe (Wikipedia)

Boston Beaneaters’ second baseman Bob Lowe became the first Major League ballplayer to hit four home runs in one game.  On 30 May 1894, Lowe went 0-for-6 in the first game of  a doubleheader against Cincinnati, only to follow it up with his four round-trippers in the second game, two of which were hit in the third inning.  Boston defeated the Reds 20-11 in that game.

This day in baseball: Foul call?

May 12, 2013

At South End Grounds in Boston, on 12 May 1884, Umpire Eugene Van Court calls a Detroit Wolverines batter out on a foul tip.  The Wolverines are enraged by the call, however, arguing that the ball clearly had not been caught by the Beaneaters’ catcher, Mike Hines.  Rather, the contested strike three ball was lodged in the Boston catcher’s mask.

 

South End Grounds, 1893 (Boston Public Library)