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San Francisco Chronicle
5 days ago
- Sport
- San Francisco Chronicle
This Date in Baseball - Willie Mays goes hitless in his MLB debut
May 25 1906 — Jesse Tannehill's 3-0 victory over the Chicago White Sox snapped a 20-game losing streak — 19 at home — for the Boston Red Sox. 1935 — Babe Ruth, winding up his career with the Boston Braves, hit three homers and a single at Pittsburgh, but the Pirates won 11-7. Ruth connected once off Red Lucas and twice off Guy Bush. 1941 — Boston's Ted Williams raised his batting average over .400 for the first time during the season. Williams finished the season batting. 406. 1951 — Willie Mays, a highly touted rookie for the Giants, went 0-for-5 in his debut against the Philadelphia Phillies. 1982 — Ferguson Jenkins became the seventh pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters in the Chicago Cubs' 2-1 loss at San Diego. Jenkins reached the milestone by striking out Garry Templeton in the third inning. 2001 — Kerry Wood of the Chicago Cubs allowed one hit and struck out 14 in a 1-0 win over the Brewers. Wood took a no-hit bid into the seventh before giving up a leadoff single to Mark Loretta. 2001 — Hideo Nomo of the Boston Red Sox tossed a one-hitter and struck out 14 in a 4-0 win over Toronto. Nomo faced one batter over the minimum of 27, giving up a leadoff double in the fourth to Shannon Stewart. 2002 — Shawn Green of the Los Angeles Dodgers homered twice in a 10-5 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks, setting a major league record with seven homers in his last three games. 2005 — The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 2-1, in 12 innings, as manager Tony La Russa wins his 823rd game with the Cardinals, passing Whitey Herzog for second place on the franchise list. La Russa is 218 victories behind Cardinals leader Red Schoendienst. 2009 — Jim Thome passes Mike Schmidt for 13th on the all-time home run list, as the White Sox thump the Angels, 17-3. 2009 — Cleveland rallied from a 10-0 deficit in the fourth as Victor Martinez's two-out, two-run single in the ninth capped a seven-run inning and lifted the Indians to an 11-10 victory over Tampa Bay. The Indians became the first team in the majors to win after trailing by 10 runs since the Texas Rangers rallied to beat the Detroit Tigers 16-15 on May 8, 2004. 2011 — Andruw Jones hit a pair of two-run homers, Mark Teixeira also hit a two-run shot and Mariano Rivera made a milestone appearance in New York's 7-3 victory over Toronto. Rivera pitched the ninth inning in a non-save situation, the 1,000th game he's played for the Yankees. The 11-time All-Star closer became the first player in major league history to reach the plateau for one team and the 15th to make it overall. Jones homered in the second inning and Teixeira in the third off Jo-Jo Reyes, who matched a major league record by making his 28th consecutive start without a win. 2011 — Infielder Wilson Valdez wound up as the winning pitcher when the Philadelphia Phillies needed 19 innings to outlast the Cincinnati Reds 5-4. Valdez threw a hitless 19th inning in his first professional pitching appearance. He became the first position player to become a winning pitcher since Colorado catcher Brent Mayne on Aug. 22, 2000. 2012 — Nelson Cruz hit a grand slam and tied his career high with eight RBIs, Josh Hamilton hit his 19th home run of the season and the Texas Rangers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 14-3. Cruz's grand slam came in the seventh inning and gave Texas a 14-1 lead. He also had a three-run double in the first and an RBI single in the sixth. 2013 — Angel Pagan became the first San Francisco player to end a game with an inside-the-park homer, connecting with a runner aboard in the bottom of the 10th inning to give the Giants a 6-5 victory over Colorado. The last major leaguer to hit an inside-the-park home run that ended a game was Rey Sanchez for Tampa Bay on June 11, 2004 — also in a 10-inning victory over Colorado. 2014 — Josh Beckett of the Dodgers records the first no-hitter of the year by blanking the Phillies, 6-0. It is the first no-hitter by a Dodgers pitcher since Hideo Nomo pitched one in 1996, and the first nine-inning no-hitter by an opposing pitcher in Philadelphia since Bill Stoneman of the Montreal Expos back in 1969. 2019 — The Padres set a franchise record with 7 homers in a 19-4 win over the Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre. Wil Myers and Hunter Renfroe hit two each while Austin Hedges blasts a grand slam off Edwin Jackson. Cal Quantrill is the beneficiary of this power display as he records his first career victory a short distance from his hometown of Port Hope, ON, while another local boy, Josh Naylor from Mississauga, ON, collects his first three big league hits for the Padres in the game. 2021 — By working home plate in a game between the Cardinals and White Sox, Joe West sets a new career record with 5,376 games as an umpire, passing Bill Klem, whose last game was in 1941. 2022 — Anaheim City Council votes unanimously to cancel the sale of Angel Stadium and surrounding land to Los Angeles Angels owner Arte Moreno, following the resignation of Mayor Bill Sidhu on corruption charges a few days earlier. The $350 million sale had been agreed in December 2019 but not yet finalized, and was at the center of an FBI investigation that led to accusations that Sidhu had provided insider information to the team and in return demanded kickbacks in the form of campaign contributions. The city councillors are now no longer convinced that the proposed deal reflects the city's best interests, and are willing to risk a breach of contract lawsuit from Moreno in order to examine a potential deal again, starting from scratch.
Associated Press
5 days ago
- Sport
- Associated Press
This Date in Baseball - Willie Mays goes hitless in his MLB debut
May 25 1906 — Jesse Tannehill's 3-0 victory over the Chicago White Sox snapped a 20-game losing streak — 19 at home — for the Boston Red Sox. 1935 — Babe Ruth, winding up his career with the Boston Braves, hit three homers and a single at Pittsburgh, but the Pirates won 11-7. Ruth connected once off Red Lucas and twice off Guy Bush. 1941 — Boston's Ted Williams raised his batting average over .400 for the first time during the season. Williams finished the season batting. 406. 1951 — Willie Mays, a highly touted rookie for the Giants, went 0-for-5 in his debut against the Philadelphia Phillies. 1982 — Ferguson Jenkins became the seventh pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters in the Chicago Cubs' 2-1 loss at San Diego. Jenkins reached the milestone by striking out Garry Templeton in the third inning. 2001 — Kerry Wood of the Chicago Cubs allowed one hit and struck out 14 in a 1-0 win over the Brewers. Wood took a no-hit bid into the seventh before giving up a leadoff single to Mark Loretta. 2001 — Hideo Nomo of the Boston Red Sox tossed a one-hitter and struck out 14 in a 4-0 win over Toronto. Nomo faced one batter over the minimum of 27, giving up a leadoff double in the fourth to Shannon Stewart. 2002 — Shawn Green of the Los Angeles Dodgers homered twice in a 10-5 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks, setting a major league record with seven homers in his last three games. 2005 — The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 2-1, in 12 innings, as manager Tony La Russa wins his 823rd game with the Cardinals, passing Whitey Herzog for second place on the franchise list. La Russa is 218 victories behind Cardinals leader Red Schoendienst. 2009 — Jim Thome passes Mike Schmidt for 13th on the all-time home run list, as the White Sox thump the Angels, 17-3. 2009 — Cleveland rallied from a 10-0 deficit in the fourth as Victor Martinez's two-out, two-run single in the ninth capped a seven-run inning and lifted the Indians to an 11-10 victory over Tampa Bay. The Indians became the first team in the majors to win after trailing by 10 runs since the Texas Rangers rallied to beat the Detroit Tigers 16-15 on May 8, 2004. 2011 — Andruw Jones hit a pair of two-run homers, Mark Teixeira also hit a two-run shot and Mariano Rivera made a milestone appearance in New York's 7-3 victory over Toronto. Rivera pitched the ninth inning in a non-save situation, the 1,000th game he's played for the Yankees. The 11-time All-Star closer became the first player in major league history to reach the plateau for one team and the 15th to make it overall. Jones homered in the second inning and Teixeira in the third off Jo-Jo Reyes, who matched a major league record by making his 28th consecutive start without a win. 2011 — Infielder Wilson Valdez wound up as the winning pitcher when the Philadelphia Phillies needed 19 innings to outlast the Cincinnati Reds 5-4. Valdez threw a hitless 19th inning in his first professional pitching appearance. He became the first position player to become a winning pitcher since Colorado catcher Brent Mayne on Aug. 22, 2000. 2012 — Nelson Cruz hit a grand slam and tied his career high with eight RBIs, Josh Hamilton hit his 19th home run of the season and the Texas Rangers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 14-3. Cruz's grand slam came in the seventh inning and gave Texas a 14-1 lead. He also had a three-run double in the first and an RBI single in the sixth. 2013 — Angel Pagan became the first San Francisco player to end a game with an inside-the-park homer, connecting with a runner aboard in the bottom of the 10th inning to give the Giants a 6-5 victory over Colorado. The last major leaguer to hit an inside-the-park home run that ended a game was Rey Sanchez for Tampa Bay on June 11, 2004 — also in a 10-inning victory over Colorado. 2014 — Josh Beckett of the Dodgers records the first no-hitter of the year by blanking the Phillies, 6-0. It is the first no-hitter by a Dodgers pitcher since Hideo Nomo pitched one in 1996, and the first nine-inning no-hitter by an opposing pitcher in Philadelphia since Bill Stoneman of the Montreal Expos back in 1969. 2019 — The Padres set a franchise record with 7 homers in a 19-4 win over the Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre. Wil Myers and Hunter Renfroe hit two each while Austin Hedges blasts a grand slam off Edwin Jackson. Cal Quantrill is the beneficiary of this power display as he records his first career victory a short distance from his hometown of Port Hope, ON, while another local boy, Josh Naylor from Mississauga, ON, collects his first three big league hits for the Padres in the game. 2021 — By working home plate in a game between the Cardinals and White Sox, Joe West sets a new career record with 5,376 games as an umpire, passing Bill Klem, whose last game was in 1941. 2022 — Anaheim City Council votes unanimously to cancel the sale of Angel Stadium and surrounding land to Los Angeles Angels owner Arte Moreno, following the resignation of Mayor Bill Sidhu on corruption charges a few days earlier. The $350 million sale had been agreed in December 2019 but not yet finalized, and was at the center of an FBI investigation that led to accusations that Sidhu had provided insider information to the team and in return demanded kickbacks in the form of campaign contributions. The city councillors are now no longer convinced that the proposed deal reflects the city's best interests, and are willing to risk a breach of contract lawsuit from Moreno in order to examine a potential deal again, starting from scratch. _____
Yahoo
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The first theme park in RI opened almost 200 years ago. Here's its story
As the weather gets warmer, it's almost time to return outdoors to some of your favorite summer attractions, including beaches, festivals and theme parks. While it might be custom today to travel outside of Rhode Island and over to Massachusetts for a day at the amusement park, nearly 200 years ago, the state was home to one of the oldest theme parks in the country. Though closed now, Rocky Point Amusement Park was one of the state's biggest attractions during its near 150-year run. Here's the story of the oldest theme park in Rhode Island: how it started, where it went and what remains of Rocky Point today. Rocky Point Amusement Park dates back to the 1840s, when steamboat captain William Winslow purchased the park's property and started hosting picnics there. Various owners throughout the following decades added attractions, including a baseball field where Babe Ruth once played and a ballroom that hosted performers like Janis Joplin. Meals also continued to draw crowds to Rocky Point, which became known for its clambakes at the Shore Dinner Hall. Rocky Point grew into a success as an amusement park in the 1950s-60s, with popular rides including a Ferris wheel, the Corkscrew Loop Roller Coaster, the Log Flume and the Castle of Terror. However, throughout the 1980s, attendance at the park declined, and financial struggles pushed Rocky Point Amusement Park to close in 1994. The following years saw rides sold and demolished, leaving nothing but scattered parts and memories in the Warwick lot. Today, the old grounds of Rhode Island's first theme park stand as Rocky Point State Park, a 120-acre park that offers hiking, fishing, biking, picnicking, birding and more. While the former amusement rides have been removed, some structures still remain on the grounds for exploration, along with plaques explaining the old rides. Rocky Point Amusement Park is free to visit daily from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. The park is located at 1 Rocky Point Ave., Warwick. This article originally appeared on The Providence Journal: What was the first theme park in RI? It closed in the 90s
Associated Press
19-05-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
This Date in Baseball - Barry Bonds ties Babe Ruth for 2nd place on the career home run list
May 20 1919 — Babe Ruth won a game on the mound and at the plate. He hit his first career grand slam as the Boston Red Sox beat the St. Louis Browns 6-4. 1925 — The Cleveland Indians scored six runs in the last of the ninth to beat the New York Yankees 10-9. Tris Speaker scored the winning run from first on a single. 1932 — Paul Waner of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit four doubles in one game. 1941 — Lefty Grove of the Boston Red Sox won his 20th consecutive game at home, the longest home park streak in the major leagues. Boston beat the Detroit Tigers, 4-2. 1947 — The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Boston Braves 4-3 in a game that featured 22 hits — all singles. The Pirates had 12 singles, the Braves 10. 1948 — Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees hits for the cycle and collects six RBI in a 13 - 2 victory over the Chicago White Sox. DiMaggio hits two home runs, a triple, a double and a single, and narrowly misses another extra-base hit when Chicago left fielder Ralph Hodgin makes a spectacular catch at the wall. 1953 — In the 13th game of the season, the Milwaukee Braves surpassed their 1952 attendance of 281,278, when they were in Boston. 1959 — The Detroit Tigers beat the Yankees, 13-6, to place New York in last place for the first time in 19 years. 1962 — Chicago Cubs rookie Ken Hubbs had eight singles in eight trips to the plate. The Cubs swept the Philadelphia Phillies, 6-4 and 11-2. 1978 — Willie Stargell hit a 535-foot homer off Montreal's Wayne Twitchell — the longest home run in Montreal's Olympic Stadium — to highlight the Pirates' 6-0 victory. It was also Stargell's 407th career homer, tying him with Duke Snider on the career list. 1983 — Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Steve Carlton passes Walter Johnson to move into second place on the all-time strikeout list. Carlton's four strikeouts put him at 3,511, just 10 behind Nolan Ryan of the Houston Astros. 1984 — Boston's Roger Clemens earned his first major league victory. The Red Sox beat the Minnesota Twins, 5-4. 1988 — Mike Schmidt belts the 535th home run of his career during 1st inning at San Diego, CA off Padres starting pitcher Andy Hawkins, moving Schmidt past Jimmie Foxx into sole possession of 8th place on the all-time home run list. 1991 — Jeff Reardon got his 300th save and Steve Lyons and Jack Clark homered as the Boston Red Sox beat the Milwaukee Brewers 3-0. 1999 — Robin Ventura became the first major leaguer to hit grand slams in both games of a doubleheader, leading the New York Mets to a sweep over Milwaukee, 11-10 and 10-1. He had two slams in a game for the Chicago White Sox on Sept. 4, 1995. 2001 — Barry Bonds hit two homers in the San Francisco Giants' 11-6 loss to the Atlanta Braves, giving him a total of five in two games, becoming the 23rd player in history to do so. 2006 — Barry Bonds tied Babe Ruth for second place on the career home run list during San Francisco's 4-2, 10-inning victory over the Oakland Athletics. 2009 — Boston center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury tied a major league record with 12 putouts by an outfielder in a nine-inning game, previously done by Earl Clark of the Boston Braves in 1929 and Lyman Bostock of the Minnesota Twins in 1977. He accomplished the feat in the Red Sox's 8-3 win over Toronto. 2009 — Nick Swisher, Robinson Cano and Melky Cabrera hit consecutive home runs for the New York Yankees in an 11-4 victory over Baltimore. All three solo shots to right field came in the second inning off Orioles starter Jeremy Guthrie — with two strikes. 2011 — The Chicago Cubs make their first visit to Fenway Park since the 1918 World Series. 2018 — Rookie Jordan Hicks of the Cardinals ties Aroldis Chapman's record for the fastest pitch ever recorded by pumping a couple of fastballs at 105 mph while facing Odubel Herrera of the Phillies. The first one goes for a ball, and Herrera manages to foul off the second before striking out on a pitched timed at 103.7 mph. _____
Forbes
16-05-2025
- Business
- Forbes
10 ‘High-Dollar Mindsets' To Land A Dream Job And Six-Figure Salary
Regardless of the career you seek, here are ten golden "high-dollar mindsets" that lead to giant ... More success and huge incomes. Simone Biles has it. LeBron James has it, too. So does Patrick Mahomes and Zinedine Zidane. But one of the world's greatest baseball players of all-time also showed arguably the best 'high-dollar mindsets' when he said, 'Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.' You may have heard of him: Babe Ruth. And he wasn't referring to just money, but a winning frame of mind that earns you the high dollars. What if there was a science-backed way for you to achieve your dream job, plus a big salary? And what if you could use that roadmap to make that happen? Well, there is, and you don't have to be an athlete to develop the 10 'high dollar mindsets.' Top C-suite executives have them, as do some people with side hustles earning extra income or many workers in all sectors. Regardless of your profession, the mindsets you bring with you determines how far you climb the career ladder and how much money you make. That's the promise of a new book. Psychologist Josh Davis and attorney Greg Prosmushkin have written The Difference That Makes the Difference (out July 8th). The information is grounded in peer-reviewed scientific research and offers a clear, practical roadmap for creating change—not just in yourself, but in your work, relationships and leadership. 'Let's say you want to get a better salary or a better paying job. Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) can help," the authors propose. 'It teaches that a small shift in how we process information--think, believe or feel--can create outsized changes in outcomes.' They point out that it starts with clarity. You need to know where you're going to get there or create a 'well-formed outcome.' Davis and Prosmushkin stress that you can rarely hit a target by accident. It all starts by setting a goal that feels realistic to you. 'If you're making $15 an hour, it's highly unlikely to increase twenty-fold overnight. But an executive making $150,000 a year should not have too much of a challenge seeing herself making two or three times that amount,' they state. 'Once you have a realistic goal and you understand better what matters to the decision-maker, then it's time to focus your efforts where they need to be,' Davis and Prosmushkin explain. 'Recognize what is and is not in your control. A well-formed outcome is in your control. Getting lucrative pay or a better job are not in your control. When a goal is not in our control we often give up or struggle unnecessarily. We sense that it is impossible for us to determine our own success, and so experience internal resistance.' Here's the paradox, according to the authors. If you loosen your grip on the need to land the job or salary and focus instead on what is in your control that will help you get there, you're more likely to stick with it until you get there. They insist that it's in your control to ensure that you consider what's important to the people ready to hire you. And it's in your control to help them understand why you're an excellent choice to help them achieve what's important to them. Neuroscientists assert that we're hard-wired to overestimate threats and underestimate possibilities. No wonder it's difficult to believe that we can actually achieve what we seek. But you don't have to be a card-carrying optimist to realize that misfortunes are rarely as bad as the brain registers them. You can flip the neuroscientists' slogan and underestimate threats and overestimate possibilities with the same tried-and-true strategies that highly successful people use to navigate obstacles. Here is the flip side of ten limited perspectives that get in your way of landing the job and salary you desire. Many highly-successful people have used these 'high dollar mindsets' to win in their respective domains: Every loss contains a gain if you look for it. 'I have to pay more taxes this year than ever before' becomes 'I made more money this year than I've ever made.' It's important to think this way, but if you voice it too much, other people might think it sounds Pollyanna--ish. But as long as it benefits you, that's what matters most. Make it a habit to focus on the good news wrapped around bad news. Ask, 'How can I make this situation work to my advantage? Can I find something positive in it? What can I manage or overcome in this instance?' Studies show that 80% of companies claim that when employees have a growth mindset, it directly drives profits. Think of a setback as a lesson to grow from instead of a failure to endure. Ask what you can learn from difficult outcomes or failures and use them as stepping-stones instead of roadblocks. When threatened, your brain is designed to constrict and target the threat like the zoom lens of a camera. While this targeting can keep you safe from life-and-death situations, it limits your ability to see the bigger picture. Expand your outlook with a wide-angle lens that steers you beyond doom and gloom to bigger possibilities. Take small risks in a new situation instead of predicting negative outcomes before giving them a try. 'I won't go to the party because I'm afraid I won't know anyone' becomes 'If I go to the party, I might make a new friend.' Don't let one bad experience rule your whole outlook: 'I didn't get the promotion, so I'll never reach my career goals' becomes 'I didn't get the promotion, but there are more steps I can take to reach my career goals.' You'll feel more empowered to cope with life's curve balls when you step away from the problem and brainstorm a wide range of possibilities. Neuroscientists say high-performance self-talk enables you to regulate an internal emotional reaction to an upsetting external event—as if it's happening to someone else. After a big letdown, underscore your triumphs and high-five your 'tallcomings' instead of bludgeoning yourself with your 'shortcomings.' Give yourself a fist pump when you reach a milestone or accomplishment. Optimism is contagious. When you surround yourself with optimistic people, positivism rubs off. Failure is neither personal nor final. Envision letdowns as temporary and know that you can overcome them. Every time you get up and brush yourself off one more time than you fall, you succeed. Perseverance increases the likelihood of propelling you to the top of the leader board. Building the mindset and skills you need require an unlimited vision--believing in yourself, communicating your value and being resilient in your pursuit of a job or lucrative salary. 'You can use Babe Ruth's wisdom in your pursuits by stacking your 'high-dollar' deck and allowing setbacks to bring you closer to your goals. So keep swinging with that those 'high-dollar mindsets" until you hit your dreams out of the park.
