On this day in baseball, June 29

[Ohiogal]

In 1897, the Chicago Colts (later the Chicago Cubs), defeat the Louisville Colonels 36-7, a still-standing record for most runs scored by one team in an MLB game.

In 1941, Joe DiMaggio breaks the then 41-game hitting streak set by George Sisler.

In 1990, two pitchers (Dave Stewart and Fernando Valenzuela) throw no-hitters on the same day for the first time since Hippo Vaughn and Fred Toney did it back in 1917.

[TEB]

1. I still think

It is so cool your father played ball friend

[Ohiogal]

2. Well, it was semi pro

I think he instilled the interest in me, along with my grandmother who used to listen to the games on the radio and keep score of Indians day games in a book, for my grandfather, who was working in the steel mills. He would come home from work and look over her game scoring and enjoy the games that way. I wonder if anyone still scores games any more.

[Auggie]

3. I'm sure there are die-hard fans who still score games

Wonderful story about your grandparents.

My grandmother worked concessions at old Municipal Stadium. She retrieved a home run ball from either Vic Wertz or Al Rosen that made it to a ramp and rolled to right in front of where she was working.

[Ohiogal]

4. Wow, that's great!

Talk about being in the right place at the right time! Did she get the player’s autograph on it?

That old Municipal Stadium was a cavern. I can still smell the hot dogs,stale beer, and flooded restrooms. But when my dad took me to my first major league game, I remember walking up the ramp and at the top opening was the bluest sky and greenest expanse of grass and the whitest uniforms I ever could imagine. It was nothing short of magical.

Speaking of baseballs, I was at a game with my dad, we were sitting on the first base side which is where he always liked to sit. This was the old Municipal Stadium and I was about 11 or 12. Ray Fosse came up to bat and fouled one off that went a mile up in the air and came down and glanced off the knee of the lady in front of me, and rolled under her chair. They were all scrambling to find it, and there it was, as big as could be, right at my feet, so I picked it up and held onto it. I got a couple of dirty looks from that family I assume because it hit the lady in the knee they felt that they should have gotten the ball, but I thought, hey, finders keepers. I still have it.

[Auggie]

5. Neat story

Ray Fosse was one of my favorite players of that era.

I can't recall if my grandmother ever had the ball autographed. I have no idea what happened to it.

[Ohiogal]

6. I always wished I could have gotten him to sign it, somehow.

He was one of my favorites during that era, too.