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.
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.
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.