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The 1906 Major League baseball season began on April 12, 1906. The regular season ended on October 7, with the Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox as regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The postseason began with Game 1 of the third modern World Series on October 9 and ended with Game 6 on October 14 ...
May 8 – Philadelphia Athletics manager Connie Mack needed a substitute outfielder in the sixth inning of a game against the Boston Americans and called on pitcher Chief Bender to fill in. Bender hit two home runs, both inside the park. May 17 – Ty Cobb hits a bunt to break up the no hitter being thrown by A's pitcher Rube Waddell. The A's ...
Samuel Luther Thompson (March 5, 1860 – November 7, 1922), nicknamed "Big Sam", was an American professional baseball player from 1884 to 1898 and with a brief comeback in 1906. At 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m), the Indiana native was one of the larger players of his day and was known for his prominent handlebar mustache.
The 1906 White Sox team became known as the Hitless Wonders, having won the American League pennant despite posting the lowest team batting average (.230) in the league. [1] [2] The team had been in fourth place by the end of July, 7½ games behind the defending champion Philadelphia Athletics, when they went on a 19-game winning streak that drove them into first place. [1]
In the 1906 World Series (ultimately won in six games by the Chicago White Sox), Reulbach shone in Game 2 at South Side Park, giving up only one hit, a seventh-inning single to Jiggs Donahue. This rare World Series low-hit game was matched by fellow Cubs pitcher Claude Passeau in 1945 when he threw just the second one-hitter in Series history ...
Pitched a no-hitter on May 1, 1906 John Charles Lush (October 8, 1885 – November 18, 1946), was a professional baseball player who was a pitcher in the Major Leagues from 1904 to 1910. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies .
Lloyd James Waner (March 16, 1906 – July 22, 1982), nicknamed "Little Poison", was a Major League Baseball (MLB) center fielder.His small stature at 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) and 132 lb (60 kg) [1] made him one of the smallest players of his era.
Charles W. Ingraham (April 8, 1860 – February 18, 1906) was a catcher in Major League Baseball for the 1883 Baltimore Orioles of the American Association. He appeared in one game for the Orioles on July 4, 1883 and recorded one hit in four at bats.