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Monday, July 24, 2017

S&H Farm Supply brings you "On this Day in History" July 24, presented by Hiland Dairy, Great Southern Bank and Chevy Dealers of the Ozarks

In 1941, Joe DiMaggio is at Yankee Stadium vs Cleveland and he goes 1-3 with a walk, and has now hit safely in 63 of 64 games and is hitting .375.  Meanwhile at Fenway, Ted Williams is 2 for 5 in an 11-1 victory over the White Sox, he's now at .397.

At Sportsman Park in St. Louis, the Cardinals, who have yet to call up Musial, win 3-2 over the New York Giants behind 2 hits from Creepy Crespi
Frank Angelo Joseph "Creepy" Crespi (February 16, 1918 – March 1, 1990) was a Major League Baseball player who played infielder from 1938-1942 for the St. Louis Cardinals. He made his major league debut on 14 September 1938 playing second base for the Cardinals.
In 1951, longtime Cardinals star shortstop Marty Marion praised Crespi as the best defensive second baseman he'd ever played with. "For one year—1941—Crespi was the best second baseman I ever saw. He did everything, and sensationally." [1]
Frank Crespi's nickname, 'Creepy', is widely considered one of the more colorful and unusual names in baseball history. In a 1977 radio interview with future hall-of-fame broadcaster Jack Buck, Creepy was asked if people still called him by his nickname (answer was yes). Jack followed up with, "Why do they call you that?" Crespi replied, "Well, it's an involved thing...I used to hear a lot of different stories. But I think the best one is (from) some sportswriter. He said the way I creep up on a ball, because I run low to the ground after a ground ball." [2]
Although Crespi lost the starting second base job for the Cardinals in 1942 to Jimmy Brown, he still appeared in 93 games that season. The Cardinals won the National League pennant and played the New York Yankees in the 1942 World Series. Crespi played in one game in the World Series, serving as a pinch runner in game 1, and scoring a run. The Cardinals won the series, four games to one.
Crespi was drafted into the army in early 1943. Though he qualified for a deferment as the sole supporter of his elderly mother, he refused, claiming, "I don't think I'm too good to fight for the things I've always enjoyed." [4]
During an Army baseball game in Kansas, he suffered a compound fracture of his left leg while turning a double play.[4] Soon afterwards, he broke the same leg during a training accident, and later he broke it a third time during an impromptu wheelchair race while in the hospital.[5]
While he was recuperating at the hospital, a nurse accidentally applied 100 times the appropriate quantity of boric acid to his bandages, causing severe burns on Crespi's leg and leaving him with a permanent limp.[4][6]
According to Marty Marion, a total of 23 operations were performed on Crespi's leg.[1]

After the war[edit]

In an attempt to qualify for the major league pension plan, Crespi applied various times as coach. Unable to obtain the position, he became a budget analyst for McDonnell Douglas, where he worked for 20 years.[4]
After his retirement from McDonnell Douglas, Crespi discovered that he had not been retired from baseball, but rather had been on the disabled list, when the major league had first implemented its pension plan during the 1940s. This discovery entitled Crespi to his major league pension.[4]
Crespi died of a heart attack on 1 March 1990 in Florissant, Missouri.[4]



The 1st Base umpire in this game was George Magerkuth, interesting story here:Image result for George Magerkurth

  • 1908 John Hayes wins 4th olympics marathon (2:55:18.4 world record)
  • 1909 Bkln Dodger Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pittsburgh Pirates
  • 1921 15th Tour de France won by Leon Scieur of Belgium
  • 1941 Red Sox Lefty Grove, 41, wins his 300th game
  • 1946 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League) die in a bus crash
  • 1949 Inidian pitcher Bob Lemon hits 2 HRs to beat Senators, 7-5
  • 1949 Stan Musial hits for the cycle in Brooklyn 
  • 1952 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record 5K (14:06.6)
  • 1955 Betty Jameson/Mary Faulk wins Virg Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament
  • 1956 Dodgers lose to the Reds, 2-1, playing in Jersey City
  • 1958: Ted Williams is fined $250 for spitting at Boston Fans again
  • 1961: Roger Maris hits 4 homeruns in a doubleheader giving him 40 on the season, pushing him past Mickey Mantle at 38
  • 1965 Casey Stengel resigns as manager of NY Mets
  • 1966 48th PGA Championship: Al Geiberger shoots a 280 at Firestone CC Akron
  • 1966 Gloria Ehret/Judy Kimball wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open
  • 1967 49th PGA Championship: Don January shoots a 281 at Columbine CC Colo
  • 1967 Race riots in Detroit force postponement of Tigers-Orioles game
  • 1969 Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game
  • 1970 International Law Tennis Association institutes 9 point tie break rule
  • 1973 44th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Royals Stadium, KC
  • 1973 All star MVP: Bobby Bonds (SF Giants)
  • 1977 32nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy
1977: Pete Rose passes Frankie Frisch as switch-hit leader with 3881
1979: Carl Yastrzemski hits 400th homerun


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