player:Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth smashed his eleventh home run of 1926 to lift the Yankees over Cleveland in a tight pitching duel, while the National League pennant race grew even tighter as the Robins and Pirates battled through rain and the Giants fell to Cincinnati. Vintage newspaper coverage from May 15, 1926.
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.
publication:Sporting News
John McGraw signs a new Giants contract as The Sporting News dives into 1926 baseball rumors, pennant races, Ty Cobb’s Tigers, Lefty Grove’s rise, Red Lucas, and major league chatter coast to coast.
team:Pittsburgh Pirates
All the Pirates had to do yesterday in order to break a deadlock which existed between them and their Philadelphia opponents was to take a few pokes at the pellet, lean back and idle along to an 11-1 victory.
team:St. Louis Cardinals
Table of Contents 1. Pinch Hurling of Haines Enables Cards to Down Giants Again, 6–5 2. Browns Present Washington with Victory, 6–5, in Opening Contest 3. ATHLETICS WIN 8TH STRAIGHT, BEAT SOX, 6–2 4. BUCS POUND 3 PHIL PITCHERS TO WIN, 11 TO 1 Pinch Hurling of
team:Boston Braves
## Featured in This Morning’s Edition - Pirates Vanquish Tailenders 3-2 - Reflections of a Happy Day at Forbes Field - Champtown Chatter - The Post — Most News — Keep Post-Ed Pirates Vanquish Tailenders 3-2 and Ascend to Sixth Position Swat by Meadows Decides Own Game and Beats Braves Bespectacled Hurler Holds
team:Boston Braves
Champtown Chatter By Edward F. Balinger - Pittsburgh Post May 5, 1926 HARD TO UNDERSTAND. To cross the street a man will risk his neck, Although in no more hurry than a toad. And yet, we wonder why the blooming heck A poor old chicken runs across the road. HARD TO
team:Cincinnati Reds
PIRATES SMOTHER REDS UNDER 13-4 SCORE Glenn Wright Leads Bucco Attack With Two Homers Corsairs Bunch Blows for Eight Runs in Eighth Inning. MEADOWS EFFECTIVE By CHARLES J. DOYLE. Wright Stars at Bat. ’Twas no fault of Glenn that he didn’t have a couple of four-sackers on
Team:New York Giants
The Sporting News Roundup: April 29, 1926 Two weeks into the 1926 major league season, the baseball world was already being turned upside down. Favorites stumbled, contenders emerged, and The Sporting News captured the early-season chaos from St. Louis, Chicago, New York, Boston and beyond. First Two Weeks Finds
team:Chicago Cubs
COOPER AND PIERCY ROUTED AS CHAMPS FIND BATTING EYE Moore Aggravates Old Injury and Is Replaced by Rhyne; Cuyler Leads Attack With Three Hits; Oldham Rushes to Meadows’ Relief as Cubs Threaten in Seventh. WRIGHT AND BARNHART STAY IN TO SHAKE OFF HITTING SLUMP By EDWARD F. BALINGER, Baseball Editor,
team:Pittsburgh Pirates
By EDWARD F. BALINGER. ENCOURAGING. The Pirates awakened and wielded their sticks, They socked the old pill on its smeller; By flogging the Cubs to the tune of eight-six Our Champs have escaped from the cellar. CHICAGO, April 26.—After wringing the necks of the hard-boiled Cardinals, getting
team:New York Yankees
YANKS AND GIANTS AHEAD AS SECOND WEEK’S PLAY ENDS Race This Year Recalls Memories of Pennant Chases of 1921-22-23. By FRANK GETTY, United News Staff Correspondent. NEW YORK, April 25.—The big league pennant races are assuming an aspect reminiscent of the days of 1921-22-23,