This Day In Baseball History: September 12th (Yaz’ 3,000th Hit)

Red Sox HOFer Carl Yastrzemski singled off NY Yankees pitcher Jim Beattie to secure his 3000th career hit on this day in 1979 In 1914, NY Yankees shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh, just twenty-three years of age, replaced Frank Chance to become the youngest manager in MLB history… he went 10-10 and was replaced for the start of the next season. In 1930, Brooklyn catcher Al Lopez hit a fly ball that bounced into the bleachers at Ebbets Field… it was MLB’s last recorded bounce home run. The National League declared that they would follow the American League’s lead — henceforth such hit would be a double (the ‘junior circuit’ had made the rule change after the 1929 season). In 1947, Ralph Kiner of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit two home runs — his seventh and eighth in the last four games — to set a Major League record. In 1962, Tom Cheney of the Washington Senators set a record by fanning twenty-one Baltimore Orioles in a 16-inning, 2-1 vic...