4/05/2021 Casey Stengel Hits Inside-The Park Homerun

 Welcome To Today In Yankees History

by Kenny Rogers

Yankees (1-2) won 7-0 now 2-2

4/05/2021 Today In Yankees History

1913

In an exhibition game against the Yankees, 25,000 fans watch the Dodgers play their first game in Ebbets Field. Brooklyn beats New York, 3-2, with Casey Stengel hitting the park's first home run, an inside-the-parker. Brooklyn's Ebbets Field (1913) Library of Congress - George Grantham Bain Collection

1925

Babe Ruth collapses at a railroad station in Asheville, North Carolina. The "bellyache heard round the world," so dubbed when a writer suggests that a hot dog and soda binge caused the illness, will require hospitalization and an operation, keeping the Yankees slugger out of the lineup for seven weeks. (Ed. Note: The Yankee slugger returns to the lineup on June 1, the same day Lou Gehrig begins his historic consecutive-game streak)

1934	Babe Ruth, sponsored by Quaker Oats, agrees to do a weekly show on NBC radio. The Sultan of Swat's broadcast salary for the 13-week series will be $4000 more than his reported Yankee contract of $35,000.