(1) HAS INFLATION REALLY BEEN THAT BAD?
GALVESTON DAILY NEWS
MAY 17, 1921
SUBMITTED BY DARRELL PITTMAN
In case that type copy from 1921 is too hard to read, it says back in 1921 that the New York Yankees are planning to construct their own baseball park over in the Bronx and that the 75,000 seat stadium will cost $2,000,000 to build. Two Million Dollars??? – For that kind of money today, a fan could buy 20,000 salvage seats from the now vacant and unused Astrodome!
(2) LONGEST NO-HITTER IN HISTORY WENT 17 INNINGS IN 1909
THE SPORTING NEWS
BY CONTRIBUTOR TIM HAGERTY
JUNE 22, 2014 (from a suggestion by Darrell Pittman)
Chalk this mind-bending achievement up to pitcher Fred Toney of the Class D Winchester (KY) Hustlers. Back on May 10, 1909 he pitched his home club to a 17-inning, 1-0, no-hit shutout of the Lexington (KY) Colts. The game finally ended when Winchester got down a successful squeeze play bunt in the bottom of the 17th to protect Toney from might have been the biggest individual heartbreak in baseball history had the visitors finally cashed in a run on a scrawny hit of their own in the top of the 18th or somewhere even more ridiculously beyond that incredible game mark.
What we still don’t know from this report is – how long did it take in hours and minutes to play this classic game? Based upon the way things have slowed down in received years, our guess is that got to 17 innings in a 1909 Class D ballgame in which neither team had scored to that point in less time than it now takes an MLB club in 2015 to lay nine innings of an everyday multiple runs and hits game.
Here’s a link to the story by Tim Hagerty:
And here’s how the story was written back in 1909.
Sporting News, Vol. 53 No. 11,
May 22, 1909
Contributed by Darrell Pittman
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