July 10, A Little "On this Day in History" Presented by S&H Farm Supply, Great Southern Bank and Nathan Dixon Farmers Insurance

On this day in Sports

• 1910 - Chicago's Comiskey Park opens, visiting Saint Louis Browns win 2-0 over Chicago White Sox.
• 1914 - Boston Red Sox purchases Babe Ruth from the Baltimore Orioles.
• 1929 - In game between Pittsburgh Pirates and Philadelphia Phillies, 9 home runs are hit, one in each inning.
• 1932 - Jack Burnett gets 9 hits, Eddie Rommel relieves in second and continues to 18-17 victory in 18 as his Philadelphia Athletics beat Cleveland Indians in longest relief job.
• 1934 - Carl Hubbell strikes out Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Jimmie Foxx in the All-Star game.
• 1934 - American League beats National League 9-7 in second All-Star Game (Polo Grounds, New York).
• 1936 - Philadelphia Phillies' Chuck Klein becomes fourth to hit four home runs in a game.
• 1947 - Cleveland Indians' Don Black no-hits Philadelphia Athletics, 3-0.
• 1951 - National League beats American League 8-3 in 18th All Star Game (Briggs Stadium, Detroit, USA).
• 1956 - National League beats American League 7-3 in 23rd All Star Game (Griffith Stad, Washington).
• 1962 - National League beats American League 3-1 in 32nd All Star Game (DC Stadium, Washington).
• 1969 - National League votes to split into two divisions.
• 1982 - Miguel Vasquez makes first public quadruple somersault on trapeze.
• 1990 - American League beats National League 2-0 in 61st All Star Game at Wrigley Field, Chicago.
• 2007 - 2007 Major League Baseball All-Star Game in San Francisco, California (American League 5, National League 4).

• 1888 - Birth of Graham McNamee; sportscaster (first Rose Bowl).
• 1921 - Birth of Jake LaMotta in the Bronx, New York, USA; middleweight boxing champion (1949-51) (Raging Bull).

World History

1940 - The Battle of Britain Begins

1943 - the Allies land on Sicily

On this day in 1941

Joe DiMaggio streak reaches 49  but just barely as the Yankees are playing at Sportsman's Park III in St. Louis, and in begins to rain. DiMaggio singles in the first inning, now batting .358 on the season, a game that would only go 5 innings, he singles off Browns pitcher Johnny Niggeling.

John Arnold Niggeling (July 10, 1903 – September 16, 1963) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. He was a knuckleball specialist who pitched for nine seasons (1938–1946) with the Boston Bees/Braves, Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Browns and Washington Senators.

Born in Remsen, Iowa, Niggeling broke into the majors at the age of 35. He won a career-high 15 games with the Browns before joining the wartime Senators, who fielded a starting rotation featuring four knuckleballers. He finished in the top ten in league earned run average three times, and twice in strikeouts. His career record was 64-69 with a 3.22 ERA.

In later years, Niggeling worked as a barber in Le Mars, Iowa.

Niggeling died at age 60 in LeMars, having committed suicide by hanging himself in his hotel room. He had been suffering from back pain the last few years of his life and had recently divorced from his wife.

Ted Williams and the Red Sox have not played since July 6, and are off again today.  They will play tomorrow and Williams is currently batting .405, but apparently the time off has not been good for the Splendid Splinter, his batting average will drop 12 points over the next week as he will go 2 for 11 over the next 4 games.