team:New York Yankees
Bob Meusel's broken foot shakes the Yankees, the New York Daily News defends Miller Huggins, blasts Phillies owner Bill Baker, revisits baseball's funniest prank, and recaps a busy day around both major leagues.
team:Brooklyn Robins
Brooklyn's ownership future appeared set for change as Humbert J. Fugazy moved toward purchasing the Ebbets interest, while the Robins swept Boston with dramatic ninth-inning rallies and Babe Ruth inspired another memorable Paul Gallico column.
team:New York Yankees
The Yankees' 16-game winning streak came to an abrupt end as Lefty Grove and the Athletics swept a Philadelphia doubleheader. Plus, Paul Gallico reflects on the glory and heartbreak of life on the pitching mound.
team:New York Yankees
Babe Ruth predicts another Yankees pennant as New York pushes its winning streak to sixteen games, while John McGraw prepares for Christy Mathewson Day and the Robins split a doubleheader in Philadelphia during a packed day of baseball news from May 1926.
team:New York Yankees
Tony Lazzeri’s first-inning hit and Urban Shocker’s steady pitching carried the Yankees to their 13th straight victory over the Red Sox, while the injury-riddled Giants welcomed a cold-weather postponement before facing the Robins again at the Polo Grounds.
player:Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth belts two more home runs in a Yankees slugfest with Cleveland while the Giants crush the Cardinals behind Virgil Barnes and lose Travis Jackson to another painful knee injury.
player:Flint Rhem
Playing a nineteen inning ball game is duck soup compared to this business of trying to tell the reading public in so many words how it happened and why.