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| Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger, 26-August-1922 |
100 years ago today, on 25-August-1922, the Philadelphia Phillies played the Chicago Cubs at what is now called Wrigley Field. The Cubs won 26-23. The two teams set some records. The game still holds the record for the most runs scored in a game (49).
The Callaghan who batted three times in the fourth inning was Cubs outfielder Marty Callaghan. He had two hits and a strikeout.
Record sharks today succeeded in digging nearly a half-dozen new marks
from the mass of figures thirty-three Chicago and Philadelphia National
League players compounded yesterday at Chicago, when for three hours and
one minute they ran themselves breathless amassing fifty-one hits of assorted
varieties and forty-nine tallies, twenty-six for the home club and twenty-three
for the Phillies.
The bases were filled by the Phils when Chicago's fifth pitcher fanned the last batter, leaving stranded the potential scorers one solid hit would have sent in for a record, baseball experts say never would have been equaled.
The fifty-one hits, forty-nine runs, eleven Cub hits in one inning, fourteen Cub scores in one inning and Callaghan's three appearances at bat in one inning, all were recent performances, the first two new ones for the book. The last three only equaled previous records.
Total times at bat, ninety-nine for both teams, came within one of tying a thirty-year-old mark.
Twenty-one bases on balls lacked three of tying the record, credited to Chicago and New York in the morning game May 30, 1897. Twelve two-base hits yesterday were two fewer than the record made by Chicago and Buffalo July 3, 1883.
Thirty-two years ago in the old Players' League, Brooklyn and Buffalo amassed forty-four runs. June 9, 1901, New York and Cincinnati together accounted for forty-nine hits, excelled by yesterday's performance. Fifty-three hits were made once, April 30, 1887, in a St. Louis-Cleveland, American Association game, but at that time bases on balls were counted as hits.
PHILLIES AND CUBS
SHATTER RECORDS
Half Dozen New Marks Established in History-Making
Game at Chicago
The bases were filled by the Phils when Chicago's fifth pitcher fanned the last batter, leaving stranded the potential scorers one solid hit would have sent in for a record, baseball experts say never would have been equaled.
The fifty-one hits, forty-nine runs, eleven Cub hits in one inning, fourteen Cub scores in one inning and Callaghan's three appearances at bat in one inning, all were recent performances, the first two new ones for the book. The last three only equaled previous records.
Total times at bat, ninety-nine for both teams, came within one of tying a thirty-year-old mark.
Twenty-one bases on balls lacked three of tying the record, credited to Chicago and New York in the morning game May 30, 1897. Twelve two-base hits yesterday were two fewer than the record made by Chicago and Buffalo July 3, 1883.
Thirty-two years ago in the old Players' League, Brooklyn and Buffalo amassed forty-four runs. June 9, 1901, New York and Cincinnati together accounted for forty-nine hits, excelled by yesterday's performance. Fifty-three hits were made once, April 30, 1887, in a St. Louis-Cleveland, American Association game, but at that time bases on balls were counted as hits.
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| Philadelphia Inquirer, 26-August-1922 |
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