A 1–1 tie in 26 innings was played by the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston
Braves on May 1, 1920, at Braves Field in Boston, still the most
innings played in a Major League Baseball (MLB) game. Leon Cadore of
Brooklyn and Joe Oeschger of Boston each pitched 26 innings, also a one-
game record. Brooklyn scored its only run in the fifth inning, as did
Boston in the sixth, and, though both teams threatened to score again
several times, the game remained deadlocked. With darkness starting to
fall and no artificial lighting, the umpires called a halt after the
26th inning. Other records included Charlie Pick's 11 at bats in a game
without a base hit and first baseman Walter Holke's 42 putouts. There
have been claims that the long pitching appearances ruined the arms of
Oeschger and Cadore; this was not so as both pitched several more years
in MLB and Oeschger won 20 games in 1921. Their shared record of 26
innings pitched in an MLB game has been repeatedly cited as one that
will never be broken.
Read more:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Dodgers_1,_Boston_Braves_1_%2826_innings%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1911:
An earthquake registering 7.7 Mw destroyed Almaty in Russian
Turkestan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1911_Kebin_earthquake>
1938:
The American health charity March of Dimes was founded as the
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to help raise money for
polio research.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_Dimes>
1961:
All 25 people on board Aero Flight 311 died in Finland's worst
civilian air accident when the aircraft crashed near Kvevlax.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_Flight_311>
2009:
The cryptocurrency network of bitcoin was created when Satoshi
Nakamoto mined the first block of the chain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
exoteric:
1. Of a doctrine, information, etc.: suitable to be imparted to the
public without secrecy or other reservations.
2. (by extension) Of a person: not part of an enlightened inner circle;
not privy to esoteric knowledge.
3. Capable of being fully or readily comprehended by the public;
accessible; also, having an obvious application.
4. (archaic)
5. External.
6. (rare) Having wide currency; popular, prevalent.
7. A person who is not part of an enlightened inner circle, and not
privy to esoteric knowledge; an outsider, an uninitiate.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/exoteric>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Diseases of the mind are more common and more pernicious than
diseases of the body.
--Cicero
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cicero>