<< Yesterday | This Day in Indians History |
Tomorrow>> |
3 Fact(s) Found
1980 | The Yankees break the American League regular-season attendance record when 35,879 fans watch the team beat the Tigers, 2-1, in the season finale, bringing the final total to 2,627,417. The 1948 Indians set the mark when 2,620,627 fans turned turnstiles to watch their Tribe capture the Junior Circuit's pennant. |
1980 | In a duel between two 19-game winners on the last day of the season, Scott McGregor enters the 20-win circle for the first and only time when he bests Len Barker in the Orioles' 7-1 victory over the Indians. The Cleveland right-hander, who gives up six runs in five innings to finish the campaign with a 19-12 record, will never again come close to being a 20-game winner. |
2009 | The Indians, with six games left on the schedule, announce they have dismissed Eric Wedge, their manager for the past seven years. The Cleveland skipper, whose firing was no surprise, asks to remain in the dugout to manage the fifth-place Tribe for the remainder of the season. |
3 Fact(s) Found