team:New York Yankees
Bob Meusel recovered from a costly misplay to lift the Yankees, Jess Petty dominated the Cubs with his arm and bat, and the Pirates stunned the Giants with a decisive ninth-inning rally in a packed day of baseball on June 20, 1926.
publication:New York Daily News
The Giants edged Cincinnati behind Jimmy Ring, the Yankees beat St. Louis without Babe Ruth as Tony Lazzeri homered, Jim Bottomley powered the Cardinals past Brooklyn, and Grover Cleveland Alexander was suspended by the Cubs in a busy day across baseball on June 16, 1926.
player:George Kelly
George Kelly slugged two home runs and drove in five runs as the Giants defeated Philadelphia, while rain halted both the Yankees and Robins and Ebbets Field prepared for a massive outdoor boxing card.
publication:New York Daily News
The Giants dropped their third straight in Cincinnati after a disastrous eighth inning, while Babe Ruth’s Yankees sat idle in the rain and Brooklyn lost a lucrative one-day stand to the weather. Baseball writers of May 1926 captured panic, frustration, and pennant-race tension coast to coast.