August 10, 1901 - Frank Isbell of the Chicago White Sox set an American League record by stranding 11 teammates on the basepaths.
August 10, 1904 - Jack Chesbro is knocked out by the White Sox after pitching 30 complete games in a row. For the year he will win 41 games, pitching 48 complete games out of 51 starts for the New York Highlanders. All are post-1900 records.
August 10, 1929 - Grover Alexander beats the Phils 7-1 for his 373rd and last National League victory. He pitches four scoreless relief innings for the Cardinals to win 11-9 in the 11th inning.
August 10, 1934 - Babe Ruth announces 1934 is definitely his final season as a regular player. He says he will seek a managerial role and will pinch-hit.
August 10, 1944 - Red Barrett of the Boston Braves threw only 58 pitches to beat the Cincinnati Reds, 2-0, in a nine-inning game.
August 10, 1957 - Mickey Mantle became the first player to clear the center-field hedge at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium when his 460-foot homer hit the base of the scoreboard. The Yankees beat the Orioles, 6-3.
August 10, 1971 - Harmon Killebrew of the Minnesota Twins hit his 500th home run in the first inning off Baltimore's Mike Cuellar to become the 10th player to hit 500 or more in a career. Killebrew also hit No. 501 off Cuellar, but the Orioles won, 4-3.
August 10, 1971 - Sixteen baseball researchers at Cooperstown form the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).
August 10, 1981 - Major League Baseball resumed play after a two-month strike. In the Cardinals-Phillies game at Philadelphia, attended by 60,561 fans, Pete Rose broke Stan Musial's National League hit record when he singled for his 3,631st hit. It came off Mark Littell in the eighth inning.
August 10, 1986- During Billy Martin Day at Yankee Stadium, the Bronx Bombers retire uniform #1 and dedicate plaque in Monument Park which reads, 'There has never been a greater competitor than Billy'. The team's former scrappy second baseman and four-time manager tells the sold-out crowd, "I may not have been the greatest Yankee to put on the uniform, but I am the proudest."
August 10, 1987 - Phillies pitcher Kevin Gross becomes the second pitcher in eight days to be ejected for scuffing the baseball when umpires discover sandpaper in his glove during the fifth inning of a 4-2 win over the Cubs. Like Joe Niekro, Gross will be suspended for 10 games.
August 10, 1989- After fifteen months of recovery from cancer surgery to his arm, Dave Dravecky pitches one-hit baseball for seven innings blanking the Reds to get the victory. The Giant bullpen holds on for a 4-3 win at Candlestick Park.
August 10, 1995 - Ball Night at Dodger Stadium turned into the first forfeit in the majors in 16 years. Los Angeles forfeited a game to the St. Louis Cardinals after fans threw souvenir baseballs onto the field three times. The game was called with one out in the bottom of the ninth.
August 10, 1998- Joining Jimmie Foxx, Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, Albert Belle becomes only the fourth player to drive in 100 runs and hit 30 homers for seven consecutive seasons.
August 10, 2002- Sammy Sosa hits three home runs in consecutive at bats in the third, fourth and fifth innings tying a Cubs' record with nine RBIs established by Heinie Zimmerman in 1911. With his sixth career three-homer game performance, the Chicago right fielder also ties the major league record set by Johnny Mize and he also becomes only the fifth player in big league history to homer in three straight innings.
August 10, 2005- Jackie Robinson’s former Negro League roommate 103-year old Ted Radcliffe, probably the oldest professional baseball player, dies after long battle with cancer. The 1943 Negro American League Most Valuable player was dubbed ‘Double Duty’ by Damon Runyon after catching a shutout in the opener of a 1931 Negro League World Series Yankee Stadium doubleheader and then hurling one of his own in the night cap.
August 10, 2005- After being released from the hospital, an 18-year old fan appears in court to face criminal charges of trespassing, reckless endangerment, and criminal mischief stemming from his 40-foot plunge last night from the upper deck of Yankee Stadium into the netting behind home plate. Team owner George Steinbrenner called the incident ``... the only exciting thing that happened today,'' after his struggling club loses to the first-place White Sox. 2-1.
August 10, 2005- Radio talk-show host Larry Krueger, who caused an uproar in the team’s clubhouse, is fired by KNBR, the flagship station of the Giants for making inappropriate racial remarks. During a postgame rant the controversial the on-air personality said the team had too many ``brain-dead Caribbean hitters” and tells his listeners that manager Felipe Alou's mind "has turned to Cream of Wheat".
August 10, 2005- For the second consecutive season, Mike Lowell employs the hidden ball trick on an unsuspecting base runner. Representing the tying run in the eighth inning, Diamondbacks outfielder Luis Terrero is the Marlins third baseman latest victim.
August 10, 2008- With their 11-3 rout over the Mariners at Safeco Field, the first-place Rays improve their record to 71-46. The 71st victory establishes a record for wins in the 11-year history of the franchise.
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