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1997 St. Louis Card Mark McGwire hits his 58th HR of 1997 (34 with Oak A's)

1997 Seattle Mariner Ken Griffey, Jr. hits his 56th HR of 1997

1997 Mike Piazza is 2nd to hit a HR out of Dodger Stadium

1997 New York Yankee Cecil Fielder hits his 300th HR

1997 Dan Wilson hits Seattle Mariners 3,000th HR

1997 4-1, Mark McGwire his a 538 foot HR

1997 Seattle Mariner Ken Griffey, Jr. hits his 250th HR

1997 Mark McGwire, is 4th to HR on Detroit Tiger left field roof (others are Frank Howard, Harmon Killibrew, and Cecil Fielder)

1996 New York Yankee Bernie Williams hits record tying 7th post season HR, as Yanks tie record of 6th straight post season road win (en route to 8)

1996 Baltimore Orioles' Eddie Murray's 500th career HR

1996 New York Yankee Darryl Strawberry hits his 300th HR

1995 Jeff King of Pirates is 16th NL player to HR twice in one inning

1995 Rockies' Andres Galarraga is 4th to HR in 3 consecutive innings

1995 Marlins outfielder Andre Dawson hits his 400th NL career HR (429)

1995 Kansas City Royal John Nonely is 70th to HR on his 1st at bat

1994 11,000th HR in New York Yankees history, Matt Nokes

1993 New York Yankee Don Mattingly hits his 200th HR

1993 Dave Winfield hits 442nd HR to move into 19th place

1993 Kansas City Royal George Brett hits his 300th HR

1993 Dante Bichette hits the 1st Colorado Rockie HR (Shea Stadium New York)

1992 Lou Whitaker hits his 200th career HR

1992 Carlos Martinez hits a ball off Jose Canseco's head for a HR

1992 Indians set team record for long game lose to Red Sox (19 inn - 6 hr)

1991 Panel of 8 baseball experts vote to drop asterisk next to Roger Maris HR record and determine an official no hitter must go at least 9 innings

1991 Royals Warren Cromartie's 1st major league HR since 1983

1991 Twins Dave Winfield is 23rd to hit 400 HR

1991 Darrin Lewis hits his 1st major league HR

1991 Seattle Jay Buhner hits a 479' HR in Yankee Stadium

1990 Dodger Jose Offerman hits HR in his 1st at bat

1990 Carlton Fisk hits White Sox record 187th HR

1990 New York Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 12th HR in 1st 92 at bats and becomes 21st to hit a ball into 3rd deck of Seattle's Kingdome

1990 New York Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 11th HR in 1st 86 at bats

1990 New York Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 10th HR in 1st 72 at bats

1990 Phil Bradley hits 18th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history

1990 46th time opposing pitchers hit HR, Valenzuela (Dodgers)/Gross (Expos)

1989 5 days after hitting a HR for Yankees in a 12-2 win over the Mariners,

1989 Los Angeles Dodgers beat Montreal Expos, 1-0, in 22 innings (Rick Dempsey HR)

1989 Cleveland Indian Joe Carter has his 4th 3 HR game

1989 Barry Bond's HR sets father-son (Bobby) HR record at 408

1989 Mark McGwire's gets 100th HR, 2nd fastest (1400 at bats) (to Kiner)

1989 Carlton Fisk becomes AL catcher HR hitter, 307th at Yankee stadium

1989 Junior Felix of Toronto becomes 53rd to hit HR on 1st at bat

1988 With 2 outs in bottom of 9th, an injured Kirk Gibson hits dramatic 2 run HR to gives Dodgers a 5-4 win in 1st game of World Series

1988 Ronald J. Dossenbach sets world record for pedaling across Canada from Vancouver, BC to Halifax, NS in 13 days, 15 hr, 4 min

1988 225 at bats after #299, Met Gary Carter is 59th to hit 300th HR

1988 Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada from Vancouver BC, to Halifax, NS (13 days, 15 hr, 4 min)

1988 Mike Schmidt passes Mickey Mantle with his 537th HR into 7th place

1988 Chris Speier hits for the cycle and Ernest Riles hits 10,000th Giant HR

1988 Mike Schmidt hits his 535th HR, moving into 8th place

1988 Yanks HR 9,999 (D Winfield) 10,000 (C Washington) 10,001 (J Clarke)

1987 Giant's Jeffrey Leonard hits playoff record HR in his 4th cons game

1987 Carlton Fisk clubs his 300th career HR off Danny Jackson

1987 Oakland's Mark McGwire sets rookie HR record at 39, en route to 49

1987 Cincinnati Red Eric Davis becomes 7th and earliest 30 HR 30 steal man

1987 Eddie Murray hits his 300th HR

1986 Indians Jay Bell is 10th to hit a HR on 1st major league pitch he sees

1986 A's Mark McGwire hits his 1st major league HR

1986 Reggie Jackson hit his 537th HR passing Mickey Mantle into 6th place

1986 Cubs 3rd baseman Ron Cey hits his 300th and 301st HR

1985 Roger Maris, HR hitter (61 in 61, New York Yankees), dies of cancer at 51

1985 Tigers Darrell Evans is 1st to hit 40 HR seasons in both leagues

1985 Alayson Gibbons sets 24 hr women swim record of 42.05 mi in 25 m pool

1985 Dave Kingman hits his 400th HR

1985 Oakland A's Dave Kingman becomes 21st to hit 400 HR

1985 Nicholas Mark Sanders (England) begins circumnavigation of globe, covering 13,035 road miles in 78 days, 3 hr, 30 min

1985 Reggie Jackson hits his 513th HR to move into 10th place

1984 Toronto's Cliff Johnson hits record 19th career pinch HR

1984 Cliff Johnson sets a record with his 19th pinch hit HR

1984 Joe Morgan sets career HR mark for 2nd basemen with #265

1983 George Brett's 2 run HR against Yanks on July 24 (pine tar game)

1983 Pine Tar Game: Brett's HR disallowed against Yanks (overturned)

1983 Charlos Vieira completes 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria Portugal

1983 Charlos Vieira begins 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria, Portugal

1983 Toronto Blue Jay Cliff Johnson hits record 18th pinch hit HR

1982 1st annual Cracker Jack Oldtimers Classic 75-year-old Luke Appling hits a 250-foot HR off Warren Spahn, AL beats NL 7-2

1981 George Foster hits his 8th HR into red seats at Riverfront

1981 Phils Mike Schmidt hits his 300th career HR off New York Met Mike Scott

1980 Sadaharu Oh, 40, pro baseball's all-time HR run king with 868, retires

1980 Mike Schmidt's 2-run HR clinches NL East title for Phillies

1980 Yanks Reggie Jackson hits his 400th HR off Chicago's Britt Burns

1980 Johnny Bench hits his 314th HR as a catcher breaks Yogi Berra's record

1980 Bucky Dent hits an inside park HR, Royals walk 14 Yanks including 5 with bases loaded, Yanks win 16-3

1980 Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits his 521st and final HR

1979 KC's Willie Wilson hits 5th inside-the-park HR (most since 1925)

1979 Dave Kingman becomes 6th to have a 2nd 3 HR game

1979 Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th HR

1979 New York Giants Willie McCovey 513th HR is an NL lefty record

1979 Bobby Bonds hits his 300th HR (2nd to have 300 home runs and 300 stolen bases)

1978 Reggie Jackson is 19th player to hit 20 HR in 11 straight years

1978 Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs, Yanks Paul Blair hits a 3 run HR

1978 Jackson slugs a 3-run HR in the 1st inning, and the field is showered

1977 Dusty Baker 30th HR joins teammates Steve Garvey (33), Reggie Smith (32), and Ron Cey (30) in make Dodgers 1st team to boast 4 30-HR hitters

1977 Japan's Sadaharu Oh hits 756th HR to surpass Hank Aaron's total

1977 New York City experiences 25 hr black-out

1977 Willie Stargell hits his 400th career HR

1977 Former White House chief of staff HR Haldeman enters prison

1977 NBC News and Information Service (24 hr news) ends on radio

1977 Red Sox (6) and Brewers (5) tie single game HR record of 11

1977 Eddie Murray hits his 1st HR

1976 Al Bumbry hits 17th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history

1976 Only HR of Joe Niekro's 22-year career, comes off brother Phil

1976 St. Louis Cardinal Reggie Smith hits 3 HR

1975 Red Sox Carlton Fisk's 12th inning HR beats Reds 7-6 in game 6 of WS

1975 NBC News and Information Service (24 hr news) premieres on radio

1975 Billy Williams's 400th career HR

1975 Hank Aaron's 1st HR in Milwaukee since 1965

1975 John Mitchell, HR Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman sentenced to 2-8 yrs

1974 Hank Aaron's 733rd career HR on his last NL at bat

1974 Clarence Jones of Kintetsu Buffaloes hits his 38th HR, 1st American to win a Japanese HR title

1974 New York Met Benny Ayala hits a HR in his 1st at bat

1974 Oriole Al Bumbry hits an inside-the-park HR against New York Yankees

1974 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th HR, breaks Babe Ruth's record

1973 Willie Mays hits 660th and last HR (off Don Gullett of Cincinnati)

1973 Braves Hank Aaron hits Ken Brett's fastball for his 700th HR

1973 Phillies Ken Brett 4th consecutive game HR in which he pitched

1972 Eddy Merckx (Belgium) covers 30 miles, 1,258 yards in 1 hr

1972 Hank Aaron's grandslammer (14) ties him for NL lead with Gil Hodges and moves him ahead of Willie Mays as #2 HR hitter (649)

1972 Greg Luzinski's 500' HR hits Liberty Bell monument in Philadelphia Vet

1971 Frank Robinson hits his 500th HR

1971 Willie Mays hits record 22nd and last extra inning HR

1971 Willie Mays hits his 638th HR, sets NL record of 1,950 runs scored

1970 Tony Perez becomes 1st to hit a HR in red seats at Riverfront

1970 Oriole's Brooks Robinson get his 2,000 career hit, a 3 run HR

1969 Met Cleon Jones awarded 1st base when shoe polish on ball proves he is hit by a pitch, he scores on a HR in World Series

1969 T Agee and Ed Kranepool HR, Agee makes 2 great catches, Mets win 5-0

1969 Red Sox Rico Petrocelli hits shortstop record 40th HR of season

1969 San Francisco Giant Willie Mays, becomes 2nd player to hit HR # 600

1969 Willie Mays hits his 600 HR off Mike Corkins

1969 Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a HR outside of Dodger Stadium

1968 Alberto Giolani of Italy roller skates record 23.133 miles in 1 hr

1968 Marisa Danisi of W Germany roller skates record 21,995 miles in 1 hr

1968 Denny McLain's 31st win and Mickey Mantle's 535th HR

1968 Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th HR off San Francisco Giant Mike McCormick

1968 AL Kaline hits his 307th HR, surpassing Hank Greenberg as a Tiger

1968 Frank Howard ties AL record with HR in his 6th consecutive game his 10 home runs in the most in 6 games

1968 Frank Howard belts record 8th HR in 5th straight game

1967 Silver Bay bridge (Oh-WV) collapes during afternoon rush hr, 34 die

1967 Astro Eddie Matthews hits his 500th HR off San Francisco Giant Juan Marichal

1967 Mickey Mantle's 500th HR off Oriole's Stu Miller

1967 New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits career HR #500 off Stu Miller

1967 Hank Aaron only inside the park HR (vs Jim Bunning)

1966 Johnny Miller becomes 1st Yank to hit a HR on his 1st at bat

1966 Willie Mays takes 2nd place on all-time HR list

1966 Indians set club record by hitting 7 HR in 15-2 win over Detroit

1966 Only HR ever hit out of Baltimore's Memorial Park (Frank Robinson)

1966 Willie Mays hit his 512th HR

1965 Willie Mays's 500th HR (off Don Nottebart), Giants 11th straight win

1965 Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his 400th HR (off Curt Simmons)

1965 Hank Aaron loses a HR, because he hit it out of batter's box

1965 Phillies Dick Allen hits 529' HR out of Connie Mack Stadium

1965 Willie Mays 512th HR breaks Mel Ott's 511th NL record

1964 Mickey Mantle gets hits #1999, 2000 and 2001 and his 450th HR

1964 10th time Mantle switch-hits HR in a game, one goes 502 feet

1964 Mickey Mantle switch-hits HR record 10th and final time in a game

1964 A's Bert Campaneris home runs on 1st pitch, hits a 2nd HR on 2nd at bat

1964 Longest HR (471') in Balt Memorial Stadium (Harmon Killebrew, Minn)

1963 Stan Musial hits a HR in his 1st at bat as a grandfather

1963 Jerry Lynch's record 15th pinch-hit HR gives Pirates a 7-6 win

1963 Philadelphia Phillies Roy Siever hits HR # 300

1963 Giant Willie Mays' HR in 16th inning gives them a 1-0 win over Braves

1963 New York Mets Jimmy Piersall, hits his 100th HR, he circles bases backwards

1963 New York Met Duke Snider hits his 400th HR

1962 New York Met Frank Thomas hits his 6th HR in 3 games

1962 Milwaukee Brave Warren Spahn sets HR record of 31 by a pitcher

1962 Brave's Hank Aaron hits HR #500

1962 Jack Reed's 22nd-inning HR wins longest New York Yankee game in history

1962 Lou Brock is 2nd to HR into Polo Grounds right-center field bleachers

1962 3 more Cleveland HR set AL record for most HR (26) over 8 games

1962 New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits his 375th HR

1961 Ted Williams hits a HR on his last at bat

1961 Roger Maris hits HR #60 off Jack Fisher, tying Babe Ruth's record

1961 Mickey Mantle becomes 7th to hit HR # 400

1961 Commissioner Ford Frick rules Babe Ruth's record of 60 HR in 154-game sched in 1927, must be broken in 1st 154 of 162 games

1961 Roger Maris loses a HR (of his 61) due to a rain-out in 5th

1961 Ford Frick rules that if anyone breaks Babe Ruth 60 HR record, it must be done in 1st 154 games

1961 Astro's Eddie Matthews hits HR #500

1960 Pirate's Mazeroski's bottom of 9th lead off HR beats New York Yankees 10-9 in game 7 of 57th World Series

1960 Ted Williams last at bat is his 521st HR (off Jack Fisher)

1960 New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 643' HR over right field roof in Detroit

1960 White Sox Ted Kluzewski's 3-run HR is disallowed as ump called time

1960 Gil Hodges set NL righty HR record with #352

1960 Ted Williams hit his 500th HR

1960 George Crowe's record 11th pinch-hit HR

1960 Los Angeles Dodger Norm Sherry's 11th HR wins the game for brother Larry

1959 Jesse Barfield, Illinois, outfielder, Blue Jays, Yankees, 1986 HR leader

1959 White Sox Early Wynn beats Red Sox 1-0 on his own HR

1959 Dodger pitcher Don Drysdale hits his 2nd Opening Day HR

1958 Gil Hodges hits his 300th HR and Pee Wee Reese plays in 2,000th game

1958 Chuck Klein, Philadelphia Phillie HR hitter, dies at 53

1957 Strom Thurmond (Sen-D-SC) ends 24 hr filibuster against civil rights

1957 Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 200

1957 3 B-52's set record for around-the-world flight, 45 hr 19 min

1956 Phillies Robin Roberts gives up a major league record 46th HR

1956 Yanks Mickey Mantle hits his 52nd HR of season

1956 Cincinnati Red Frank Robinson ties rookie record with his 38th HR

1956 Mickey Mantle HR just misses clearing Yankee Stadium's roof

1956 Mickey Mantle misses by 18" hitting 1st HR out of Yankee Stadium

1956 Pirate Dale Long hits 9th-inning HR, 1st HR in 8 straight games

1956 Mickey Mantle hits HR from both sides of plate for record 3rd time

1955 Willie Mays hits record tying 9th HR at Ebbets Field (ties Joe Adcock)

1955 Phillies Don Newcombe hits NL pitcher record 7th HR of season

1955 Harmon Killebrew hits his 1st HR (off Billy Hoeff)

1955 Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 100

1955 New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 550' HR off Chicago Billy Pierce

1955 Stan Musial hits his 300th HR

1954 Robin Roberts gives up a HR then retires next 27 men in a row

1953 Cubs Ernie Banks hits his 1st major league HR

1953 Mickey Mantle hits a 565' (172 m) HR in Washington D.C.'s Griffith Stadium

1952 New York Giant Hoyt Wilhelm wins his 1st relief game and hits his only HR

1951 After going 0-for-12, Willie Mays connects for his 1st HR

1951 Mickey Mantle's 1st HR

1950 Phillies win NL pennant on last day of season (10th inning HR)

1950 Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st to hit 3 HR in a game at Griffith Stadium

1950 Single day 16 team HR record set at 37 (NL-25, AL-12)

1949 Pirates Ralph Kiner hits his 54th HR and NL record 16th in September

1949 Mike Schmidt, 3rd baseman and HR hitter, Phillies

1948 New York Yank Joe Dimaggio hits for cycle (single, double, triple, HR)

1947 Pirate Ralph Kiner hits his record 8th HR in 4 games

1947 New York Giants 183-185 HR of year breaks Yankee mark of 182 in 1936

1947 1st black baseball pitcher Don Bankhead (Hit a HR on 1st at bat)

1946 Cleve Lou Boudreau hits 4 doubles and HR but Red Sox win 11-10 on Ted Williams 3 HR with 8 RBIs

1946 Vance Dinges hits only Phillie pinch hit inside-the-park HR

1946 Braves Bernard Malamud HR shatters Bulova clock in Ebbets Field

1946 Manager Mel Ott of Giants hits 511th and final HR

1945 Hank Greenberg's final day HR wins pennant for Tigers

1945 Jimmie Foxx hits his 534th and final HR

1945 Joe Kuhel hits inside-the-park HR, only HR hit by a Senator all season at Washington's Griffith Stadium

1945 Dodgers Tommy Brown, 17, is youngest player to hit a HR

1945 Tommy Brown, Brooklyn Dodger becomes youngest HR hitter (17)

1945 Mel Ott is 1st in NL to hit 500th HR (joins Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx)

1944 Frank McCormick (Reds) HR off Ace Adams (Giants) in both games of DH

1941 New York Giant Mel Ott hits his 400th HR and his 1,500th RBI

1941 1st helicopter flight of 1 hr duration, Stratford, Connecticut

1940 Jimmy Foxx hits his 500th career HR

1940 St. Louis Browns Johnny Lucadello is 2nd to HR from each side of plate

1940 Sadaharu, Ohio, of Yomiuri Giants, Japan, hit 868 career HR

1940 Boston's Jimmie Foxx HR goes over Comiskey Park's left field roof

1940 Willie Stargell, outfielder/1st baseman, Pirates, 1971 NL HR leader

1939 Boston Red Sox Ted Williams hits his 1st HR

1937 Josh Gibson HR's just 2 feet below rim of Yankee Stadium, 580' drive

1936 HR Ekins of "NY World-Telegram" beats 2 other reporters in a race around the world on commercial flights, by 18 days

1935 Yanks set solo HR record with 6 beat Boston 7-2

1935 Babe Ruth's 1st NL game, for Boston Braves, included a HR

1934 Eiji Sawamura, 17, gives up 1 hit, Lou Gehrig's HR, Japan beats U.S. 1-0

1934 Roger Maris, Yankee, HR champ, 61 in 1961, AL MVP 1960, 1961

1934 New York Times erroneously declares Ruth 700 HR record to stand for all time

1934 Babe Ruth hits HR #700, against Detroit

1934 Jimmie Foxx hits 1st HR in Comiskey Park center field bleachers

1932 Jimmie Foxx hits his 58th HR in last game of season

1932 Bkln Dodger Johnny Frederick hits his record 6th pinch hit HR

1932 Dodgers Johnny Frederick hits record 6th pinch-hit HR of the season

1932 Sir Hubert Ferdinand Opperman sets 24 hr record of 860 mi, 367 yds

1931 Ed Matthews, Hall of Famer/Milwaukee Brave/HR hitter, 512

1931 Gehrig hits his 3rd grand slam in 4 days and his 6th HR in consec games

1931 Babe Ruth hits his 600th HR, off George Blaeholder of Browns

1931 Lou Gehrig hits a HR but is called out for passing a runner, mistake costs him AL home run crown; he and Babe Ruth tie for season

1930 Baseball changes rule, ball bounces into stands not a HR, now a double

1930 Brooklyn catcher Al Lopez hits major league's last recorded bounce HR

1930 Hack Wilson hits his 44th HR, breaks Chuck Klein's NL record

1930 Ruth hits 3 consecutive HR (8th-10th of 60 in 1930)

1929 Phillies Don Hurst sets NL record of 6 consecutive games with a HR

1929 Cleveland Indian Earl Averill, becomes 1st AL to hit a HR on 1st at bat

1928 New York Yankees sweep Cards in 25th World Series, Ruth hits 3 HR in game

1928 Leon Vanderstuyft of Belgium cycles record 76 mi 604 yds in 1 hr

1928 Babe Ruth hits HR # 42 and is 4 weeks ahead of his 1927 pace

1927 Babe Ruth hits record setting 60th HR (off Tom Zachary)

1927 New York Yankee Babe Ruth hits record 60th HR of season off Tom Zachry

1927 1st HR hit out of Comiskey Park Chicago (New York Yankee Babe Ruth)

1926 James Cox of Ford Motors announces 8 hr day and $5 daily minimum wage

1925 Salt Lake City (PCL) Tony Lazzeri hits his 60th HR of the season

1925 Ty Cobb hits his 5th HR in 2 games tying Cap Ansons record of 1884

1924 General Christian Worker's union demands 8 hr work day in Belgium

1923 Bobby Thomson, HR hitter, Giants win the pennant

1923 New York Giant's Casey Stengel HR beats Yanks 1-0 in World Series

1922 Ralph Kiner, HR hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates/sportscaster for the New York Mets

1922 Roger Hornsby sets NL HR mark at 42

1921 New York Yankee Babe Ruth hits then record 59th HR

1921 Babe Ruth becomes all time HR champ with #120, Gavvy Cravath

1920 Red Sox turn triple-play, but Ruth's 35th HR leads Yanks to 8-2 win

1920 Babe Ruth's 1st Yankee HR and 50th of career, out of Polo Grounds

1919 Serbian, Croatian and Slavic parliment accord for 8 hr work day

1919 Babe Ruth's 29th HR is 1st of year in Washington (1st in every park in league in one season)

1919 Babe Ruth hits his 26th HR off Jack Quinn in NY, breaking Buck Freeman's 1899 HR mark of 25

1919 British R-34 lands in New York, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hr)

1919 Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hr day and minimum wages

1918 Babe Ruth's blast over the fence in Fenway scores Amos Strunk, the Red Sox win 1-0 over Cleve, prevailing rules reduce Babe's HR to a triple

1917 Walt Cruise hit 1st HR out of Braves Field

1916 Honus Wagner, 42, is oldest to hit an inside-the-park HR

1915 Pirate Honus Wagner at 41, hits a grand slam HR

1915 Red Sox Babe Ruth pitching debut and 1st HR, loses to Yanks 4-3 in 15

1909 Ty Cobb clinches AL HR title with his 9th HR (all inside-the-park)

1907 Jimmy Foxx, baseball HR hitter, 534, Detroit Tigers

1906 Washington Natl's pitcher Tom Hughes hits HR to win his own game 1-0 in 10th

1902 Cleve's Bill Bradley is 1st ALer to hit a HR run in 4 consecutive games, not duplicated until Babe Ruth does it June 25, 1918

1897 George Davis (Giants) HR off Sport McAllister (Spiders) in DH

1886 John "Home Run" Baker, hall of famer, hit 2 HR in 1911 world series

1870 Jem Mace and defends his heavyweight crown against Irish champ Joe Coburn, it lasts 1 hr and 17 minutes, and neither is struck by a punch

1868 President Andrew Johnson passes a law that government workers would work 8 hr day

1862 James Creighton, dies of rupture bladder from hitting HR on Oct 14th

1862 Baseballer James Creighton ruptures bladder hitting HR, dies 10/18

1858 John Holden hits 1st recorded HR (Brooklyn vs New York)



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