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Relief


1998 "Comic Relief" benefit comedy show

1990 Comic Relief '90 (4th one) raises $4.7 million

1990 Oriole Gregg Olson sets relief pitcher rec of 41 cons scoreless inns

1989 Balt's Gregg Olson is 1st relief pitcher to win AL Rookie of Year

1987 Phillies Kent Tekulve pitches his 900th game in relief

1985 "Live Aid" concert raises over $70 million for African famine relief

1985 Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief

1981 Rollie Fingers is 1st relief pitcher to win AL MVP

1977 Seattle's John Montague pitches 6 2/3 innings of perfect relief tying 2 game record of retiring 33 consecutive batsmen

1976 Former Twins relief ace Bill Campbell is 1st free-agent to sign with a new team, joining the Red Sox for $1 million over 4 years

1974 Dodger Mike Marshall is 1st relief pitcher to win Cy Young Award

1974 Mel Stottlemyre's AL record 272nd consecutive start, without relief

1973 Dodgers trade Willie Davis to Expos for relief pitcher Mike Marshall

1965 Denny McLain in relief strikesout 1st 7 batters faced and record 14 in 6 2/3 innings, Bill Freehan ties catcher record of 19 putouts

1963 Oriole's Dick Hall retires his 28th consecutive player in relief

1953 Red Sox Ben Flowers sets then record of 8 consecutive games in relief

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

1951 Richard "Goose" Gossage, relief pitcher, Yankees, Padres, A's

1946 Rollie Fingers, relief pitcher, Oakland Athletics, MVP/Cy Young-1981

1944 Sparky Lyle, relief pitcher, New York Yankees, Cy Young

1943 United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration forms

1942 Walter Johnson pitches to Babe Ruth in pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for New York - Washington game, raises $80,000 for Army-Navy relief

1942 1st twilight game in 24 years, the Dodgers top Giants 7-6 raising $60,000 for Navy Relief Fund

1939 White Sox reliever Clint Brown sets record of 61st relief appearance

1936 Indians' Bob Feller makes his major league debut in relief

1935 1st U.S. surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, Cleveland

1933 Federal Emergency Relief Administration and Agricultural Adjustment Administration form to help the needy and farmers

1932 Jack Burnett gets 9 hits, Eddie Rommel relieves in 2nd 18-17 victory in 18 as his A's beats Indians in longest relief job

1915 Cubs George "Zip" Zabel relieves with 2 outs in 1st and winds up with 4-3 19-inning win over Brooklyn in longest relief job ever

1912 Relief laws replaces those of 1854, in Netherlands

1906 Cub's Pitcher Jack Taylor ends a string of completing 202 games (187 complete, 15 relief) by Dodgers in 3rd inning

1900 Franklin C Fry, U.S. minister, Lutheran World Relief

1857 Relief of Lucknow by Havelock and Outram begins

1834 Antonius van Gils, RC theologist (against Relief), dies at 75

1831 Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch poet/literary (My Relief), dies at 75

1566 Girolamo della Robbia, Italian sculptor (Majolica relief), dies


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