Red Sox author and historian Bill Nowlin has a new book out, Day by Day with the Boston Red Sox, which catalogues over 6,500 notable events, transactions, and birthdates in team history. This thread will periodically highlight entries from the book, or whatever anyone wants to share for a specific date (perhaps from your own experieces as a fan).

For today's date, March 14, the book has five events, four birthdays, and one death.

One notable event on this date came in 1911:

"Red Sox minor league catcher Pinch Thomas was out sightseeing in San Francisco. A little after midnight, he was set upon by a 'crowd of thugs and beaten into insensibility.' It was thought he would lose the sight of one eye and confined to bed for a long time. In fact, he made his major league debut with the Red Sox on April 12 and played for 10 seasons in the big leagues."

Very cool idea.

Among today's six events, three transactions and three deaths is one birthday: born 3/15/79 Kevin Youkilis.

Happy 27th Youuuuuk!!!

On this date in 1967, the Red Sox scored 10 runs in the ninth inning to beat the Mets 23-18 in St. Petersburg.

Today is also the first anniversary of the passing of a great pitcher: Dick Radatz. R.I.P. Monster.

He was a great Red Sox pitcher, for a few years, and had Mickey Mantle's number more than anyone else.

Very cool idea! Wish I'd thought of it.

From today's Day by Day with the Boston Red Sox entries:

1991: "The Red Sox were considering moving their spring training site from Winter Haven to Ft. Myers, Florida. ...the city council was prepared to build a $15 to $20 million complex for the Red Sox to help renew an area where "until police initiated recent sweeps...had been the scene of the cities worst drug and prostitution problems."

Happy 35th birthday, Bill Mueller.

Among the nine events listed in Day by Day for March 19:

1996: Vaughan Eshelman burned his hands putting out a fire in his hotel room. In Eshelman's words: "I'd never felt pain like that. It felt like my bones were on fire."

1997: The first coke bottle was unveiled over the Green Monster.

Among today's transactions, Luis Alicea was acquired on waivers in 1996.

From the March 20 entries:

1947: "John Michael Paveskovich petitioned Probate Court in Salem, Massachusetts to legaly change his surname and that of his wife Ruth to Pesky."

From Day by Day's March 22 entries:

1972: Traded Sparky Lyle to New York for Danny Cater and a PTBLN (Mario Guerrero).

1974: Carl Yastrzemski is named captain of the Red Sox.

Among today's birthdays:

Ramon Martinez, Billy Goodman, Dick Ellsworth

From the March 23 entries:

1991: "...Debbie Boggs pulled their Ford Explorer out of the parking lot -- and Wade fell out of the car. He had bruises on his elbow and ankle and the elbow bruises were in a 'tire tread pattern, as if a tire ran over his right elbow,' reported the Boston Globe's Nick Cafardo."

Birthdays for today include: George "Boomer" Scott and Bo Diaz

Happy 48th birthday Bruce Hurst.

Also born 3/24:

1872 - Kip Selbach
1891 - Ernie Shore
1912 - Jud McLaughlin
1937 - Bob Tillman

Passings:

1921 - Larry McLean
1999 - Birdie Tebbetts
2002 - Mace Brown

March 25 transactions:

1984: Red Sox acquired Bill Buckner for Dennis Eckersley and Mike Brumley

Born 3/25:

1919 - Bill Evans
1930 - Rudy Minarcin
1933 - Nelson Chittum
1948 - Mike Nagy

Passed 3/25:

1958 - Al Shaw
1981 - Red Morgan

From Day by Day's March 26 transactions:

1974: Released Louis Aparicio, Orlando Cepeda and Bobby Bolin.

1977: Released Rico Petrocelli

Born on March 27:

1950: Lynn McGlothen
1972: Creighton Gubanich

Also born 3/27:

1897 - Joe Lucey

Passings:

1975 - Oscar Fuhr
1995 - Chet Nichols
2004 - Bob Cremins

From Day by Day's March 28 entries:

1907: Outfielder Chick Stahl commits suicide. (34 years old, Stahl hit .305 in 10 big league seasons.)

1986: Acquired Don Baylor from the Yankees in exchange for Mike Easler.

From the March 29 entries:

1915: "Ban Johnson's argument that spring training camps should be done away with and players should report in shape was the subject of much discussion at the Sox camp. Tom Murnane wrote that indeed they should report in shape, given their very large salaries..."

Tranasactions:

1975: Traded Danny Cater to the St. Louis Cardinals for Danny Godby.

2005: Acquired Mike Myers from the St. Louis Cardinals for Carlos de la Cruz and Kevin Ool. Myers was being reaquired; he had been on the 2004 World Championship team.

Born on this date:

1867: Cy Young
1889: Squanto Wilson
1966: Eric Gunderson

Among the entries for March 30:

1920: "Former Sox play Harry Lord (1907-1910) found his South Portland, Maine grocery store burglarized. Several cases of raisons and prunes were stolen."

Transactions:

1971: Obtained Duane Josephson and Danny Murphy from the White Sox for Vincente Romo and Tony Muser.

1978: Obtained Dennis Eckersley and Fred Kendall from the Indians in exchange for Rick Wise, Mike Paxson, Ted Cox, and Bo Diaz.

2005: Traded Byung-Hyun Kim to the Colorado Rockies for Chris Narveson and cash.

Born on this date:

1950: Grady Little

3/31

Birthdays:
1884 - Frank Truesdale
1918 - Marv Grissom
1975 - Ryan Rupe
1977 - Jamie Brown

April 2 from Day by Day with the Boston Red Sox:

1987: Released Jim Corsi

Born on this date:

1937: Dick Radatz
1945: Reggie Smith
1959: Al Nipper
1968: Curt Leskanic

Others born on 4/2:

1919 - Earl Johnson
1924 - Bobby Avila
1960 - Tom Barrett

Passings:

1947 - Charlie Jones
1992 - Dib Williams

From today's entries:

2001: In his first start for the Red Sox, Hideo Nomo pitched a no-hitter against the Baltimore Orioles in Camden Yards, winning 3-0.

1975: Mario Guerrero is traded by the Red Sox to the Cardinals for a player to be named later. On July 4, the Cardinals send Jim Willoughby to the Red Sox to complete the trade.

Among those born on this date:

1888: Tris Speaker
1937: Gary Geiger

From the 4/6 Day by Day entries:

1973: "The first use of a designated hitter in major league baseball was when Yankee Ron Blomberg stepped to the plate in this day's game at Fenway Park...The Sox DH is Orlando Cepeda."

1972: "Opening day 1972 is postponed due to a player's strike..."

Born on this date:

1943: Marty Pattin
1971: Lou Merloni
1978: Blaine Neale

And as a result, all teams lost 6-7 games off of their 162-game schedules. Only 155-156 games were played and there were no make-up games.

And the Red Sox finished ONE-HALF GAME behind the Tigers in the AL East, with the Tigers having played one extra game and finishing 86-70 to the Red Sox' 85-70.

I'm still mad. And I was only six!

By coincidence, the Red Sox and Tigers played each other to close that season, and the matter was discussed prior to the three-game series. As the team winning the series would finish with a better record, it was decided no make-up game would be played -- in a sense the teams were treating it like a best of three playoff. Detroit won the first two to clinch, and we won the meaningless final game.

That's cool...but isn't it April 6th??

Born 4/6:

1943 - Marty Pattin
1971 - Lou Merloni
1978 - Blaine Neal

Passings:

1979 - Rudy Kallio, Al Evans
1998 - John Wyatt
2004 - Lou Berberet

From the April 7 Day by Day entries:

1986: "Dwight Evans...hit the first pitch of the 1986 season for a home run off of Jack Morris. The Tigers won the game 6-5."

Born on this date:

1918: Bobby Doerr

Busy day in Red Sox history; Day by Day has 15 entries for April 9 (34 if you count birthdays, deaths, debuts and transactions). Here are a few:

1996: "The Sox, coming off a horrid 1-5 opening road trip, are forced to postpone their home opener due to snow."

1973: "Orlando Cepeda's walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth beats the Yankees 4-3. It's the first hit ever recorded for a Red Sox designated hitter."

1916: Traded Tris Speaker to the Cleveland Indians for Sad Sam Jones, Fred "Pinch" Thomas, and $55,000 cash."

4/10

Birthdays:

1883 - Tex Pruiett
1895 - Bob McGraw
1898 - Tom Jenkins
1946 - Bob Watson
1963 - Jeff Gray

Boxscore:
Mo Vaughn hits a walk-off grand slam off of Paul Spoljaric to complete a seven run ninth inning comeback against the Mariners. Sox win, 9-7.

HOO-ah! Your children have a good chance to play for the Sox if they're born on April 11...

Birthdays:

1875 - Ossee Schreckengost
1876 - Win Kellum
1893 - Hal Deviney
1964 - Bret Saberhagen
1972 - Jason Varitek, Bobby Jones
1974 - Trot Nixon
1978 - Josh Hancock

Passings:

1942 - Norm McNeil
1950 - Dick McCabe
1970 - Joe Heving
1973 - Clarence Blethen

Events:

1959 - Herbert E. Tucker, president of the Boston NAACP, seeks a probe of the Red Sox for alleged discrimination when the team farms out its only black ball player, Pumpsie Green. Tucker cites a 12-year history of discrimination toward blacks.

1916 - The World Champion Boston Red Sox suffer an embarrassing 1–0 loss to Boston College.

Box score:
1992 - The Sox beat the Indians 5-3 on Tim Naehring's home run in the 19th inning.

4/12

Birthdays:
1881 - Harry Ostdiek
1887 - Sam Agnew
1895 - Sammy Vick
1909 - Eric McNair
1912 - Jack Wilson
1922 - Bill Wight
1943 - Vicente Romo
1964 - Mike Macfarlane

Passings:
1966 - Joe Harris
1970 - Red Shannon
1990 - Johnny Reder

Boxscores:
1994 - Scott Cooper hits for the cycle as the Sox beat the Royals 22-11.

1992 and 1992 - In a doubleheader with the Indians, Matt Young loses an 8 inning no-hitter 2-1 in the first game while Roger Clemens wins a 3-0 two-hitter in the second game. The two hits in a doubleheader for the Indians sets a new record for twinbill futility.

Events:
1916 - The Sox trade Tris Speaker to Cleveland (retrosheet.org lists 4/12 as the trade date, not 4/8 as in Bill Nowlin's book...I have no idea which is correct)

4/13

Birthdays:
1879 - Jake Stahl
1885 - Vean Gregg
1966 - Wes Chamberlain

Passings:
1967 - Herb Welch

Boxscore:
1963 - Rookie Dave Morehead shuts out the Senators in his first career start.

Events:
1992 - Wil Cordero becomes the first player to homer off of the Coke bottle above the Green Monster. Speaking of whom, Wally the Green Monster makes his Fenway debut as mascot.

April 14 selections from Bill Nowlin's Day by Day with the Boston Red Sox:

1967: "In his major league debut, rookie Billy Rohr sustains a no-hitter, against the Yankees in New York, for 8 and two third innings..."

1942: "Johnny Pesky made his major league debut with a single and triple in the Fenway home opener..."

1929: "The Boston Braves shut out the Red Sox at Braves Field, 4-0, in the first Sunday baseball game ever played in the city of Boston. The exhibition game drew over 5,000 fans..."

Born on this date:

1935: Joe Keough
1947: Joe Lahoud
1956: Bobby Sprowl
1969: Brad Pennington
1970: Steve Avery

April 15 from Bill Nowlin's Day by Day:

Transactions:

1935: Signed free agent Moe Berg
1988: Signed free agent Rick Cerone

Born on this date:

1897: Walt Lynch
1945: Ted Sizemore

Red Sox debut (out of over 40 listed):

2004: Phil Seibel
1985: Steve Lyons
1972: Danny Cater, Tommy Harper
1947: Sam Mele
1921: Pinky Pittinger
1918: Amos Strunk, Stuffy McInnis
1915: Carl Mays

Paul Montella adds this in his Baseball Today column for April 15:

1993 -- Andre Dawson became the 25th player to hit 400 home runs as the Boston Red Sox beat the Cleveland Indians 4-3.

April 16:

1990: Red Sox lose 18-0 to Milwaukee at Fenway Park. The Brewers had 20 hits, but no home runs.

1945: The Red Sox give tryouts to Jackie Robinson, Sam Jethroe and Marvin Williams, but claim not to see adequate talent in any of the three.



Born on this date:

1892: Dutch Leonard
1940: Gary Roggenburk
1942: Jim Lonborg
1944: Bob Montgomery
1955: Rick Jones

4/17:

No birthdays!

Passings:
1946 - Jack Quinn

Boxscores:
1998 - At Boston, the Sox pinch run OF Damon Buford in the 9th, then hide him in the infield in the 10th against the Indians. He starts the 10th at 2B, then switches to 3B after Manny Ramirez singles. John Valentin goes to 2B. An out later they switch back, then switch again after another out. The Tribe fails to score and Boston wins in the 10th, 3–2.

4/18

Birthdays:
1887 - Bill Rodgers
1888 - Duffy Lewis
1899 - Bill Bayne
1917 - Ty LaForest, Nick Polly
1970 - Rico Brogna

Passings:
1953 - Harry Niles
1957 - Bill Sweeney
1983 - Woody Rich

Boxscore:
1981 - Pawtucket and Rochester play the longest game in baseball history.

4/19

Birthdays:
1892 - Dave Black, Chick Shorten
1894 - John Donahue
1909 - Bucky Walters
1935 - John Wyatt, Don Gile
1948 - Rick Miller
1960 - Frank Viola
1961 - Spike Owen
1974 - Jose Cruz, Jr.

Passings:
1934 - Charlie Hickman
1995 - Jack Wilson

Boxscore:
1994 - Mo Vaughn and Tim Naehring hit back-to-back home runs twice, as the Sox pound the A's 13-5.

Events:
1969 - Boston trades last year's 1B Ken Harrelson and pitchers Dick Ellsworth and Juan Pizarro to Cleveland for pitchers Sonny Siebert and Vincente Romo and C Joe Azcue.

Also on this day in Red Sox history, Curt Schilling improved his record to 4-0 as the Red Sox continued to have a well-pitched April -- a harbinger of things to come, as the BoSox would go on to win their second World Series in three years.

Let us not forget that little bit of Sox history.

4/20

Birthdays:
1869 - Tommy Dowd
1876 - Charlie Hemphill
1880 - Charlie Smith
1929 - Harry Agganis
1954 - Mike O'Berry
1960 - Randy Kutcher

Passings:
1958 - Chet Nourse
1991 - Bucky Walters
1992 - Pat Creeden

Boxscore:
1939 - The Red Sox debut Ted Williams in the opener in New York, delayed two days because of rain. After striking out twice, Williams collects a double off Red Ruffing, who wins 2–0. Gehrig makes an error, goes hitless, and lines into two double plays in the only game featuring the two great sluggers. Other notables in what will become a historic box score include Joe DiMaggio, Bill Dickey, Jimmie Foxx, Joe Cronin, Bobby Doerr, Red Rolfe, and losing pitcher Lefty Grove.

1912 - The Boston Red Sox christen Fenway Park with a 7–6, 11-inning win over the New York Yankees.

Events:
2001 - A new musical, "The Curse of the Bambino," opens in Boston. Written by David Kruh with music and lyrics by Stephen Bergman, the comedy is staged as a Greek tragedy complete with a Greek chorus composed of four fans.

4/21

Birthdays:
1887 - Joe McCarthy
1937 - Gary Peters
1966 - Chris Donnels
1973 - Kevin Brown
1975 - Carlos Castillo

Passings:
1980 - Ray Dobens
2002 - Sam Dente

Boxscore:
2004 - Doug Mirabelli says "Ted Lilly? Who is Ted Lilly?", homering in consecutive innings off of the left hander. Sox win, 4-2.

4/22

Birthdays:
1881 - Neal Ball
1918 - Mickey Vernon

Passings:
1966 - Lou Finney

Boxscore:
1961 - Pumpsie Green beats the White Sox with an 11th inning home run.

Events:
1931 - Babe Ruth collides with Charlie Berry, Red Sox catcher and former pro football player, while trying to score on a sacrifice fly. Ruth is carried off the field at Fenway Park and taken to a hospital.

Also born on this date:

1959: Terry Francona

From Day by Day:

Born on this date:

1898 - Fred Haney
1903 - John Wilson
1943 - Lew Krause
1944 - Ken Tatum

From 1942: Bobby Doerr handled 15 chances at second base and was 3-for-4 at the plate, helping the Red Sox beat the Yankees 4-2.

From 1924: Major League debut of first baseman Phil Todt. Todt had 8,676 putouts in his eight seasons with the Red Sox, more than any other Boston first baseman.

From Day by Day for April 26:

1912: "When Fenway Park was opened, some writers said no one would ever hit a ball over the tall green wall in left field. In the fifth game played at Fenway, first baseman Hugh "Corns" Bradley hit one over and out. It was the second, and last, home run of his career."

1901: "First game ever for the franchise...the Boston Americans play their first game ever, losing to Baltimore, in Baltimore, 10-6" note: The losing pitcher was Win Kellum, who was from Waterford, Ontario, Canada.

Transactions:

1995: Signed free agent Tim Wakefield

Born on this date:

1887: Jack Barry
1888: Ray Caldwell
1888: Olaf Henriksen
1902: Steve Slayton
1903: Dale Alexander
1922: Sam Dente
1969: Ricky Trlicek
1982: Alexandro Machado

May 1:

1979: "...Leaving a club record 18 men left on base in nine innings, in Oakland...the Sox lost 7-5. The Sox left the bases loaded in the fourth, fifth, sixth, and ninth."

1929: "...Philadelphia manhandled the Red Sox 24-6."

Born on this date:

1863: Frank Foreman
1919: Al Zarilla