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.

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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

_____________________________ 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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