Todays in Browns History - September

9/1/1919 - George Sisler hits a walk off home run in the bottom of the 11th inning to put the Browns over the Indians, 4-3

9/2/1914 - Del Pratt is ejected from the game stopping his consecutive game mark. He played in 699 of 700 games

9/3/1949 - Browns plate two in the top of the ninth to beat Feller and the Indians, 4-3

9/4/1922 - George Sisler scores seven runs in a Double Header vs Cleveland, vaulting the Browns up .5 game into first place

9/5/1953 - Dick Kokos hits a game winning, 12-inning HR to lead the Browns to a 1-0 over Detroit 

9/6/1925 - Browns score nine unanswered runs, as they comeback from a 4-0 deficit to the White Sox

9/7/1915 - Jim Park earns first MLB win in a complete game victory over Cleveland in 11 inning

9/8/1929 - George Blaeholder duels the Red Sox into the night, game called after the 10th inning due to darkness

9/9/1922 - Baby Doll Jacobson hit three triples, driving in four RBIs, while scoring two runs in a 16-0 drilling of the Tigers.

9/10/1935 - Browns come back from three runs down to win in Extras

9/11/1951 - Browns steal a double header from the first place Yankees in New York

9/12/1936 - Browns sweep a double header for the Boston Red Sox which includes nine runs and 20 hits.

9/13/1945 - Potter leads the Browns with complete game victory and two hits, as St. Louis beats the BoSox, 2-1

9/14/1915 - Jim Park goes seven innings, as the Browns thump Philadelphia pitching

9/15/1927 - Browns Milt Gaston and  Red Sox Slim Harriss duel in a classic pitchers match up as the Browns win 2-1

9/16/1909 - The Browns would see two rookie pitchers to start, and pitch complete games, in both ends of a double header. This may be the only time in MLB history that a team started rookies that both pitch complete games in a double header.

9/17/1922 - Ken Williams out slugs Babe Ruth and the Yankees

9/18/1935 - Browns bats come alive for a five run, eight inning rally over the Yanks

9/19/1920 - Dixie Davis shuts down Babe Ruth and the Yankees, while taking advantage of New York miscues

9/20/1951 - The Browns would score three unanswered runs late against the Washington Nationals as Satchel Paige closes out the game, 4-3.

9/21/1944 - With great pitching and a powerful offense, the Browns enjoy a complete game victory over the Washington Nationals

9/22/1953 - The Final St. Louis Browns Win, 7-3 victory over the Detroit Tigers

9/23/1937 - Browns score eight unanswered runs in the St. Louis 9-5 victory of the DiMaggio, Gehrig and the Yankees.

9/24/1921 - Dixie Davis pitches TWO complete gams in the same double header, shutting out the Red Sox in the second game.

9/25/1917 - Lowdermilk wins his second straight game in his return to the Browns Staff with a 4-2 victory over the Athletics

9/26/1926 - The Browns and Yankees sent a "Time" record  in completing a double header. The 'twin bill' took just two hours and seven minutes, with the Browns winning both games.

9/27/1953 - The Browns would fall in their last game as a franchise in St. Louis. 2-1 to the Chicago White Sox

9/28/1947 - Dizzy Dean marches out of the broadcasters booth and shuts down the Detroit Tigers

9/29/1944 - Browns sweep the Yankees in a double header, moving into a first place tie with two games remaining

9/30/1944 - Denny Galehouse pitches a gem vs Yankees, 2-0, must win to clinch American League Pennant

9/1/1919 - Browns keep pace with the Indians into extra innings, until George Sisler walks them off, 4-3.

9/2/1914 - The Browns survived a hitting duel with the Boston Red Sox, out scoring them 9-6.

9/3/1949 - In a classic pitcher duel,  RHP Cliff Fannin would out work Cleveland's legendary Bob Feller in the Browns' 4-3 victory 4-3

9/4/1922 - In the best single day of the season, the Browns pounded the White Sox for 22 runs on 30 hits as they take two from Chicago

9/5/1953- In an amazing pitchers duel, Browns Bob Turley hurls a complete game, extra inning shutout of the Tigers, 1-0.

9/6/1915 - Rookie RHP Jim Park would pitch the game of his career, as he goes the distance in an 11-innning complete game win over Cleveland, 4-1.

9/7/1925 - The Browns offense drives in nine runs in the final three innings of the game leading to a 9-4 victory. 

9/8/1929 - In a classic pitcher duel, Browns RHP George Blaeholder and Red Sox RHP Milt Gaston would both pitch scoreless games until the darkness forced the game to be called.

9/9/1922 - The St. Louis Browns demolished the Detroit Tigers pitching staff, with six batters recording at least three hits, including a total of nine extra base hits. 

9/10/1935 - Harlond Clift and Ray Pepper supply the pop as the Browns walk off the Indians, 6-5, in extra innings

9/11/1951 - The Browns would collect 18 hits in the double header sweep of the New York Yankees

9/12/1936 - In front of the home crowd at Sportsman's Park, the Browns take a double header from the Boston Red Sox, 6-4 and 3-2. 

9/13/1945 - With an error leading to the game winning run in the ninth inning, Nels potter earns his 14th win as the Browns beat the Red Sox, 2-1. 

9/14/1915 - Browns RHP Jim Park would command seven innings, as the Browns offense drives 12 hits in the 12-4 thumping.

9/15/1927 - Browns RHP Milt Gaston shuts down the Red Sox offense as the St. Louis edges the Red Sox, 2-1.

9/16/1909 - Browns split a double header with the Washington Nationals while starting two rookie pitchers in the twin bill.

9/17/1922 - Behind a complete game by LHP Hub Pruett, the Browns offense drives 12 hits off Yankee pitching in the 5-1 Browns victory.

9/18/1935 - In the first game of a double header in Yankee stadium, the Browns score five on a future Hall of Famer on the way to a 7-4 win

9/19/1920 - Browns take advantage of 14 hits off New York pitching, including four doubles as the Browns romp, 6-1

9/20/1951 - The Browns would score three unanswered runs late against the Washington Nationals as Satchel Paige closes out the game, 4-3.

9/21/1944 - The Browns clobbered Washington pitching with 15 hits, including four doubles leading to a 9-4 thumping of the Nationals

9/22/1953 - In what would be the final win in the history of the St. Louis Browns, Satchel Paige and Don Larsen take care of the Detroit batters, while 1B Ed Mickelson and CF Johnny Groth lead the Browns offense in the 7-3 decision.

9/23/1937 - The Browns light up the scoreboard late late, as RHP Bill Trotter pitches a complete game victory over the World Champion Yankees, 9-5. 

9/24/1921 - In what can only be described as one of the most incredible pitching days in the history of baseball, Browns RHP Dixie Davis pitches both games of a double header vs Boston, giving up just two runs in 18 innings

9/25/1917 - The Browns would score four runs in the fourth inning to comeback and beat the Philadelphia Athletics, 4-2.

9/26/1926 -There are so many amazing storylines out of this double header, played in just 2:07, that cannot be forgotten

9/27/1953 - This the last game in the history of the St. Louis Browns.  In front of just 3,174 fans at Sportsman's Park, the Browns would be closed out by the Chicago White Sox in 11 innings, 2-1

9/28/1947 - In one of the best single game stories to come out of Browns history, Dizzy Dean would pitch four innings of the final game.

9/29/1944 - Browns started the day a game behind Detroit, with four games remaining. Then sweep the New York Yankees moving into a tie atop the American League. 

9/30/1944 - Entering the game tied with the Detroit Tigers for first place in the American League, the Browns' RHP Denny Galehouse would shutout the Yankees en route to a 2-0 victory. 

SEPTEMBER 2

• 1905 - LHP Harry Albies
• 1910 - Catcher Joe Crisp
• 1937 - 2B Red Barkley, RHP George Hennessey
• 1945 - RHP Cliff Fannin
• 1951 - SS Bud Thomas

SEPTEMBER 3

• 1937 - CF Eddie Silber,                    PH Tom Cafego 

SEPTEMBER 4

• 1913 - LHP Hal Schwenk

SEPTEMBER 5

• 1919 - RHP Hal Haid 
• 1931 - OF Buck Stanton

SEPTEMBER 6

• 1910 - 2B Joe McDonald
• 1911 - 1B Joe Kutina
• 1913 - RF Walt Meinkert
• 1931 - RHP Bob Cooney
• 1941 - LHP Hooks Iott
• 1951 - RHP Duke Merkell

SEPTEMBER 7

• 1911 - RHP Ed Hawk  
• 1952 - CF Jack Crawford

SEPTEMBER 8 

• 1910 - SS Red Corriden
• 1911 - LHP Roy Brown
• 1916 - PH Ray Kennedy

SEPTEMBER 9

• 1910 - 2B Bert Graham, RHP Red Nelson
• 1935 - UTIL Mel Mazzera

SEPTEMBER 10

• 1910 - CF Hub Northen, RHP Alex Malloy, RHP Roy Mitchell
• 1940 - 1B Jerry Witte, CF Paul Lehner

SEPTEMBER 11

• 1907 - RHP Bill Bailey
• 1919 - 3B Joe Schepner
• 1924 - Verdo Elmore

SEPTEMBER 12

• 1946 - LHP Chet Johnson

SEPTEMBER 13

• 1910 - LF Burt Shotton, RF Walt Devoy, C Bill Killefer, LHP Chuck Rose
• 1911 - RHP Mack Allison
• 1915 - RHP Tom Phillips
• 1941 - SS Vern Stephens

SEPTEMER 14

• 1915 - SS Shorty Dee
• 1920 - LF Lyman Lamb
• 1927 - RHP Jim Wright
• 1951 - LF Bob Nieman

SEPTEMBER 15

• 1912 - 3B  Harry Shanley
• 1913 - 2B Clyde Wares
• 1920 - RF Earl Pruess, PH Dutch Wetzel, 3B Paul Speraw

SEPTEMBER 16

• 1907 - RHP Bill McGill
• 1909 - RHP Phil Stremmel, RHP Jack Gilligan
• 1911 - RHP Elmer Brown
• 1915 - RHP Pete Sims
• 1941 - 1B Chuck Stevens

SEPTEMBER 17

• 1909 - RHP Bill McCorry
• 1913 - PH George Tomer
• 1914 - RHP Allan Sothoron, PH Dutch Schirick, CF Tim Bowden, 3B Ed Hemingway, RF Bob Clemens
• 1923 - RHP George Grant
• 1930 - 1B Jack Burns, SS Jim Levey
• 1940 - PH Fuzz White

SEPTEMBER 18

• 1903 - RF Pinky Swander, RHP Cy Morgan, 2B Benny Bowcock
• 1909 - RHP Ed Kusel
• 1912 - 1B Ed Miller
• 1919 - RHP Elam Vangilder
• 1930 - PH Lin Storti, PH Jack Crouch

SEPTEMBER 19

• 1924 - RHP Bill Lasley

SEPTEMBER 20

• 1915 - RHP Johnny Tillman
• 1919 - LHP Bill Bayne
• 1939 - RHP Loy Hanning
• 1940 - RHP Maury Newlin

SEPTEMBER 21

• 1904 - PH Harry Vahrenhorst
• 1928 - C Ike Danning
• 1946 - RHP Ray Shore

SEPTEMBER 22

• 1913 - RF Tod Sloan
• 1924 - RHP "Boom Boom" Beck
• 1934 - Jim Walkup

SEPTEMBER 23

• 1905 - Catcher Charlie Gibson
• 1924 - RHP Edgar Barnhardt, 3B Pat Burke

SEPTEMBER 24

• 1910 - RHP Ray Boyd
• 1912 - C Frank Crossin
• 1914 - C George Hale
• 1920 - C Johnnie Heving
• 1927 - SS Red Kress
• 1938 - INF Johnny Lucadello, RF Joe Grace

SEPTEMBER 25

• 1911- 2B Allie Moulton
• 1920 - RHP Ray Richmond, 3B Marty McManus
• 1944 - LF Babe Martin
• 1953 - CF Jim Pisoni

SEPTEMBER 27

• 1943 - RHP Al LaMacchia, PR Hnk Schmulbach
• 1944 - PH Len Schulte

SEPTEMBER 28

• 1937 - C Sam Harshany
• 1938 - SS Sig Gryska

SEPTEMBER 28

• 1951 - RHP Bob Turley

SEPTEMBER 30

• 1910 - 3B Ray Jensen
• 1923 - PH Bill Muzeur
• 1927 - 1B Wes Sturdy
• 1937 - RHP Bob Muncrief