This Day in Baseball - The Daily Rewind
Tom Hannon
This podcast is for the baseball fan with a curious mind. We bring you one event from each day in the calendar and go well beyond the box score. Our stories are brief and fun and come with some surprises.
- 11 minutes 3 secondsApril 10 - FISK changes his Sox
On March 18, 1981 Future Hall of Famer Carlton Fisk, signs a contract with the Chicago White Sox after then GM Hayward Sullivan made an apparent clerical error mailing the contract out late in December of 1980.
He makes the season debut in 1981 vs the Boston Red Sox in fenway and in a scene out of the movies he slugs a 3 run homer in the 8th to give the White Sox a lead they would not relinquish.
Here is the story.
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10 April 2026, 9:30 am - 12 minutes 51 secondsApril 9 - FERNANDOMANIA
April 9, 1981 Fernando Valenzuela was forced to start opening day for the Dodgers as Jerry Reuss injured himself 24 hours before the game.
Fernando would unleash the second greatest pitching streak in baseball history and turn the Dodger fan base upside down with is incredible performance.
As Vin Scully would say it was like a religious experience to see what he did.
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9 April 2026, 8:00 am - 41 minutes 45 secondsApril 8 - I Had A Hammer How Hank Aaron rose above it all and Joe Carter Walks it off!
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8 April 2026, 8:00 am - 12 minutes 54 secondsApril 7 - The Stat that created a position The Save
The role of a closer was not an officially role until the term Save came into play officially in 1969. Bill Singer of the Los Angeles Dodgers was the first to register a save when he pitched 3 nearly perfect games to open the 69 season at Crosley Field in Cincinnati.
The actually stat was created by Jerome Holtzman after he got frustrated watched Elroy Face receive so much credit after his 18-1 season. He felt Face was far better in 1958 and the existing stats had no true way to capture it.
Thus the save was born and he was paid a bonus by the Sporting News to calculate the stat unofficially from 1960 - 1969.
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7 April 2026, 8:00 am - 14 minutes 6 secondsApril 6 - The DH officially debuts after 86 years of debate
April 6 1973 - Ron Bloomberg comes to the plate for the New York Yankees as the first officially DH in Fenway Park. It may surprise you though to know the DH debate was started all the way back in 1887 by Al Spaulding and the vote to have a DH narrowly failed and again it nearly took hold in 1928.
Here is the story behind the story!
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6 April 2026, 8:00 am - 10 minutes 36 secondsApril 5 - Charlie Ebbets builds Ebbets Field (encore)
On April 5, 1913 Charlie Ebbets dream comes true as we opens Ebbets Field.
Our Podcast details how the land was bought Disney style, lost they keys to the front gate and how a future hall of famer hits a foul pop that lends to a Highlander bumping his head on a base drum.
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5 April 2026, 9:45 am - 13 minutes 4 secondsApril 4 1994 - A New Era is born in Cleveland as The Jake opens (encore)
Over the past 93 seasons, the Cleveland Indians had finished first just 3 times. Going to 3 World Series and winning 2. On average they finished over 18 games out of first place.
On April 4, 1994 The Jake opened and despite the first 7 innings when they were no hit, a new era was born and the Indians will go on to be one of the most successful regular season teams the last 20+ seasons.
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4 April 2026, 9:45 am - 37 minutes 18 secondsTom Seaver Picks a name out of the hat and Cal becomes Ironman
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3 April 2026, 9:45 am - 18 minutes 7 secondsApril 2 1976 - Future Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson is traded to Baltimore in 6 player deal
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2 April 2026, 9:45 am - 35 minutes 36 secondsApril 1 - The eccentric Hall of Famer Rube Waddell
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1 April 2026, 9:45 am - 15 minutes 46 secondsMarch 31 - Scoop Oliver and Pete Rose
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