"1920 - Brooklyn's Leon Cadore gives up 12 hits but coasts to a 10 - 0 shutout over the Braves. 1924 - The Brooklyn Robins take a twinbill from the Braves, sweeping their fourth doubleheader in four consecutive days. Between September 1-3, the Brooks beat the Phillies six times. Dazzy Vance chalks up his 12th straight win, and 24th on the year. Dutch Ruether then wins the nitecap, 9 - 1."
"1928 - The Boston Braves start a streak of playing nine consecutive doubleheaders, establishing a major league record. 1935 - The Cards score four in the 8th, then Dizzy Dean picks up a save in the 9th to beat the Braves, 5 - 3. Jesse Haines, who fails for the 11th time to win his 200th game, is lifted after seven for Bill Walker who promptly tees up Wally Berger's 30th homer of the year. Walker gives up two hits but is the winning pitcher."
"1976 - The Reds' Pat Zachry gives up a pair of singles in the 2nd in pitching a 5 - 1 two-hitter against the Braves. 1962 - Baseball re-defines a no-hit game as one which ends after nine or more innings with one team failing to get a hit, thereby removing 50 games from the list that had previously been considered hitless, including the 1959 performance of Harvey Haddix's 12 perfect innings against the Braves and Jim Maloney's 1965 1 - 0 loss to the Mets in 11 innings. 2001 - The first-place Braves draw just 3,613 fans in Montreal as they beat the Expos, 3 - 2. Andruw Jones hits a leadoff homer in the 9th for the difference. The crowd is the smallest at Olympic Stadium in 17 years. 1966 - When 18,670 patrons show up in Cincinnati to watch the Reds lose to Los Angeles, 8 - 6, the Dodgers become the first team in major league history to attract more than two million fans at home and two million on the road. 1991 - Lou Gehrig's 1938 Yankees road uniform brings $220,000 at a memorabilia auction in San Francisco, CA, becoming the most expensive non-card sports memorabilia item ever sold. A Honus Wagner card goes for $125,500 while an autographed Gehrig"
Multiple decades feature notable baseball milestones, including dominant pitching performances and decisive shutouts. Teams swept consecutive doubleheaders and one franchise played nine straight doubleheaders, setting a major league record. Pitchers recorded streaks of victories, two-hitters, and late-inning saves while a veteran sought but did not reach a 200th win. Baseball redefined a no-hit game to require nine or more innings, removing previously listed games from the no-hit ledger. Attendance milestones included very low single-game turnout and a team surpassing two million fans both home and away. A 1938 Yankees road uniform sold for a record price at auction.
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