On this day in Yankee history...
1920: In Boston, 33,000 are on hand for a doubleheader and to see Babe Ruth return to his former home park. The Babe hits his 45th homer in the opener to give New York a 5-3 win. In the nitecap, Carl May pitches to a mixture of boos and cheers. Mays takes a 5-3 lead into the 9th, then fails to back up home on a play at the plate. A loose ball allows Joe Bush to score for a 6-5 Red Sox win.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1920/B09041BOS1920.htm
1923: Sam Jones no-hits the A's in a 2-0 Yankee win, beating Bob Hasty. Babe Ruth makes the only strikeout of the game as he slips a point behind Detroit's Harrt Heilmann in the batting race. Not till Ken Holtzman in 1969 will another pitcher record a no-hitter with no strikeouts.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1923/B09040PHA1923.htm
1945: Long-time Yankee batting practice pitcher Paul Schreiber, who last appeared on a mound in the majors in 1923 and the minors in 1931, relieves for the Yankees in a Detroit blowout. Schreiber gives up no hits in 3 1/3 innings, but the Tigers' Dizzy Trout wins 10-0.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1945/B09040NYA1945.htm
1955: Mickey Mantle's 1st-inning three-run home run allows Bob Turley to coast to an 8-3 win over Washington. This is Mantle's last home run of the year.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1955/B09040NYA1955.htm
1961: Mickey Mantle misses the Labor Day doubleheader with a painful and swollen forearm, but the Yankees don't need him as they sweep a pair from the Senators, 5-2 and 3-2. The sweep moves the Yanks six games up on the slumping Tigers. Mantle's replacement, Johnny Blanchard, breaks a 3-3 tie in the opener with an 8th-inning homer.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1961/B09041NYA1961.htm
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1964: The Yankees overcome two homers by Ken Harrelson to beat the host Kansas City A's 9-7 in 10 innings. Mickey Mantle and Elston Howard hit back-to-back homers in the 4th inning for New York. With the Orioles losing today, they (81-54) and the White Sox (82-55) are virtually tied for first, with the Yankees (77-56) three games back.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1964/B09040KC11964.htm
1972: The Yankees split a twinbill with the Orioles, losing the opener 4-3 beofre taking the second game 5-2. The split leaves the Yankees (69-61) in 4th place, just one-half game out of first place. The Orioles (69-60) are tied with the Tigers for the lead. Andy Etchebarren's three-run homer in the first game off Fritz Peterson is the big blow, while the Yankees take the nitecap behind the three hits, including a homer, by Bobby Murcer.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1972/B09041BAL1972.htm
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1991: Lou Gehrig's 1938 Yankees road uniform brings $220,000 at a memorabilia auction in San Francisco, becoming the most expensive non-card sports memorabilia item ever sold. An autographed Gehrig bat also sells for $47,500.
1993: Jim Abbott tosses a no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians for a 4-0 Yankee win.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1993/B09040NYA1993.htm
1996: Andy Pettitte wins his 20th as the Yankees prevail over the A's 10-3. Paul O'Neill and Tino Martinez hit solo homers in the 4th inning. The Yanks' last 20-game winner was Ron Guidry in 1985.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1996/B09040OAK1996.htm
Babe Dahlgren dies at the age of 84.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Dahlgren
1998: Defeating the White Sox 11-6, the Yankees win their 100th game on the earliest date in major league history, besting the 1906 Chicago Cubs and 1954 Cleveland Indians by five days. The 1906 Cubs set the major league record for fewest contests to reach 100 victories, accomplishing the milestone in 132 games.
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