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1993 Texas Ranger Jose Canseco pitches 8th inning in 15-1 loss to Red Sox, he gives up 3 runs on 2 hits and 3 walks, he damages his arm

1991 Jackie Martling walks off of Howard Stern show for 1 day

1990 Andre Dawson receives a record 5 intentional walks in a game

1989 Wade Boggs is 1st to get 200 hits and 100 walks in 4 consecutive seasons

1989 Pirates score 10 in 1st (their best inning since 1942), prompts Pirate Jim Rooker to say he would walk from Pitts to Philadelphia if Pirates lost, Phillies beat them 15-11, Rooker walks at end of season broadcaster

1984 Indians' Andre Thornton ties record for most walks (6 in 16 inn)

1977 James Brown's band walks out claiming they were underpaid and overworked

1974 Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 and walks only 2 as Angels top Red Sox, 4-2

1974 Philippe Petit walks tightrope strung between twin towers

1973 Yankee Ron Blomberg becomes 1st designated hitter, he walks

1970 Dodgers Bill Singer no-hits the Phillies 5-0, giving up no walks

1967 Phillies Clay Dairymple ties NL record of 6 walks in doubleheader

1963 Bob Dylan walks off Ed Sullivan Show

1962 Roger Maris walks 5 times (record 4 intentionally) in a 9 inn game

1961 Oriole Jack Fisher walks 12 LA Angels in a 9 inning game

1960 Jack Paar walks off his TV show

1959 Chicago White Sox beat Kansas City Athletics 20-6, in 1 inning Sox score 11 runs on 1 hit, 10 walks, and 3 errors

1958 St. Louis Card Vinegar Bend Mizell walks a record 9 men in a shutout

1948 Cleveland Indians tie AL record of 18 walks (beat Red Sox 13-4)

1944 Gen De Gaulle returns to Paris/walks Champs Elysees Paris

1944 New York Giant, Mel Ott scores 6 runs in 1 game drawing 5 walks for 4th time

1941 New York Yankee Lefty Gomez walks most (11) in a shutout (Yanks 9, St. L 0)

1936 Red Sox Wes Ferrell, walks off mound when he feels he did no get good feilding, Sox suspend him

1934 Babe Didrikson pitches an inning in an A's-Dodgers exhibition game Walks 1, hits the next guy, 3rd guy hits into triple-play

1930 Max Bishop draws 8 walks in a doubleheader

1926 Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:11.4)

1926 Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:26.2)

1916 Battle on the Somme: British 4th Army walks to German lines

1915 Yanks get record 16 walks and 3 wild pitches beat A's Bruno Hass, 15-0

1911 Yanks steal 15 bases and get 13 walks, beating Browns 16-12; with a major-league record 6 stolen bases in 1 inning

1910 Dodgers and Pirates play to 8-8 tie, both have 38 at bats, 13 hits, 12 assists, 2 errors, 5 strikeouts, 3 walks, 1 pass ball and 1 hit by pitch

1906 Henry Mathewson (New York Giants, Christy's brother) walks 14 men

1900 Dodgers' Brickyard Kennedy walks 6 straight Phillies

1883 Phillies make 27 errors against Providence (wild pitches, walks and and passballs count as errors prior to 1888)

1865 James Cooke walks tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks, SF

1854 With a 3-2 count, Phillies Richie Ashburn fouls next 14, then walks

1838 London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward then forward in 8 hours



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