Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 237, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1916 — LONGEST GAMES IN BASEBALL [ARTICLE]

LONGEST GAMES IN BASEBALL

Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of Two Remarkable Contests—Three-I League Holds Record. This year'marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of two of the - longest games ever played by professional baseball clubs. On May 16, 1891, Tacoma and Seattle clubs of the Pacific Northwest league played 22 chapters before Tacoma finally triumphed by a score of 6 to 5. Donahue pitched the entire 22 innings for Tacoma, and finally won out, although Seattle used two pitchers. The following July a new record was set up in a game between Fargo and Grand Forks, played at Devil’s Lake, N. D. Neither side scored in 25 innings. This stood as the record until 1909, when Burns of Decatur and Clark of Bloomington, in the Three-I league, fought a pitchers’ battle for 26 innings, Decatur winning 2 to 1. The major league record, 24 innings, was established at Boston in 1906, in a game between the Athletics and Red Sox. The Philadelphians won 4 to 1. The National league’s longest game, 21 innings, was between the Giants and the Pirates at Pittsburgh in 1914, New YOrk winning 3 to 1. The longest game last year was between Burlington and Keokuk, Central Association, neither club scoring in 22 innings.