This day in baseball: Speaker resigns as manager
Posted: November 29, 2018 Filed under: 20th Century, This day in baseball | Tags: Baseball, Billy Evans, Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, Dutch Leonard, history, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Major League Baseball, MLB, sports, Tris Speaker, Ty Cobb Leave a commentTris Speaker resigned as Indians manager on November 29, 1926, after a scandal broke in which pitcher Dutch Leonard claimed that Speaker and Ty Cobb fixed at least one game between Cleveland and the Detroit Tigers. Umpire Billy Evans called these accusations “purely a matter of personal revenge” for Leonard, who is reported to have been upset with Cobb and Speaker after a trade ended with Leonard in the minor leagues. Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis cleared both Speaker and Cobb of any wrongdoing when Leonard did not show up at a hearing to discuss his accusations.
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This day in baseball: A long way to tie
Posted: July 14, 2017 Filed under: 20th Century, This day in baseball | Tags: Baseball, Boston Red Sox, Carl Mays, Dutch Leonard, Ernie Koob, Major League Baseball, MLB, sports, St. Louis Browns Leave a commentOn July 14, 1916, the Browns’ Ernie Koob pitched a 17-inning complete game against the Red Sox. For the Sox, Carl Mays pitched 15 innings, with Dutch Leonard finishing the final innings of the contest. The game ended in a 0-0 tie.
Ernie Koob, 1917 (Wikipedia)
