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10/7/1925: Walter Johnson was magnificent, giving up just 5 hits & a BB while K’ing 10 & leading the Senators to a 4-1 win over the #Pirates in game 1. Traynor’s HR didn’t matter. Meadows had just one bad inning, the 5th, giving up 3 1Bs to load the bases & then a 2-run 1B by Sam Rice. #WorldSeries

10/7/1925: The defending pennant-winning #NewYork Giants had a great 1st half, but lost the lead to the #Pirates for good on Aug 2 when they started a 6 game slide. #Pittsburgh never faulted after that. 95 is their most wins since they won the #WorldSeries in 1909. Game one of the WS starts today.

10/7/1925: The #Athletics fell out of 1st on Aug 20 & then went on a 12 game losing streak allowing the #Senators to coast to their 2nd pennant in a row. We #Yankees posted our worst record in the Ruth era & the #RedSox had their worst season since '06. DC looks to defend their crown starting today.

10/6/1925: 2 days ago the Evening World invited me, #golfer Leon Diegel, #angler Edwin Harkins, #archer Paul Crouch to compete in 9 holes of an odd kind of #golf at the Belleclaire course in #Queens. I won w/32 throws; then came Diegel w/33 strokes, Crouch w/33 arrows & Harkins w/45 casts. #Yankees

10/6/1925: This year Bob Meusel became the 2nd Yankee to have 30 HRs in a season & just the 6th Major Leaguer ever (Ruth, Tillie Walker, Ken Williams, Rogers Hornsby, Ken Williams, Cy Williams). He, Ruth & I mark the 1st time 3 teammates have hit 20 in a season. Hornsby led all us all w/39. #Yankees

10/5/1925: Hornsby hit .400 & Heilmann went 6 for 9 on his last day to win the '25 batting crowns. 3rd time Rajah's hit .400 (joining Ty Cobb & Ed Delahanty). In fact, from '21 to '25 Hornsby has hit .402! Al Simmons (only 23) finished with 253 hits! #Tigers #Cardinals #Althietics

10/4/1925: Today in #StLouis, fans got their $s worth. They saw Heilmann go 6 for 9 for the day win the batting crown & during gm 2, down 11-5 after 6, they saw George Sisler come into shut down the #Tigers for 2 inn. Not to be outdone, Ty Cobb came into pitch a 1-2-3 inning before darkness fell.

10/3/1925: A season’s final inning for the ages. Groves on the mound in relief. 1 out. Down 1 run. Paschal 2Bs. Speedy Durocher PRs. Combs 1Bs him in & gets to 2B. On Koenig’s ground out to 2B, Combs gets to 3rd but keeps running home to score! P.S. Meusel & Ruth both HRed. #Yankees 9 #Athletics 8.

10/2/1925: The #Athletics trounced us 10-0. Baumgartner’s given us trouble all year & today was the worst of it. Shut us out on 6 H. I’m now 0-9 against him. Dykes made 5 H on just 5 pitched balls, including a 3B & HR. Huggins gave the new kid Durocher a chance to hit today. Leo flew to RF. #Yankees

9/28/1925 (gm 2): Ruth (HR & 2B) & I (2 2Bs) knocked Dauss out after 5, but #Tigers reliever Doyle shut us down after that & swatted 2 HRs off Shields; so it was tied 6-6 in the bottom of the 9th. That's when Doyle BBed (not consecutively) Combs, Ruth (on purpose), me & Schang to lose it. #Yankees

9/28/1925 (gm 1): Hoyt was in command til the 7th when (w/the bases full) Blue rifled a terrific liner which rolled to the wall for a HR. Then in the 8th Wingo 2Bed w/the bases loaded & that was that. Holloway was mostly unhittable, save for Ruth's RBI 1B & HR. & I had 18 POs! #Tigers 6, #Yankees 2

9/27/1925 (gm2): Stoner & Pennock had themselves a nice little duel going, but bc the 1st game went so long, darkness fell & a tie was declared, 1-1. We got our run on a Shanks SF; they got theirs on Heilmann's HR, who's batting .387, 2 pts behind Speaker w/just a week left to play. #Tigers #Yankees

9/27/1925 (gm1): Jones was sent packing early today as #Detriot scored 6 off him in the 4th on nothing but 1Bs. Braxton did a nice job in long relief, but when Johnson came in the 9th, it looked like batting practice all over again. Ruth & Meusel both HRed, but for naught. #Tigers 10, #Yankees 5.

9/26/1925: Shocker, who kept the #Tigers guessing all day, took a Heilmann liner to the leg in the 8th so Hoyt came in to finish the job. Won it 3-1. My HR in the 2nd landed on the other side of the exit gate! We're now the 1st team ever to have 3 players with 20 HRs (me, Meusel & Ruth). #Yankees

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[ed. note: this was the 1st time in history a walk-off grand slam was hit when 3 runs down. It has since happened 30 more times, most recently by Stanton on Sept 9, 2022. The most dramatic was probably Jason Giambi's in the bottom of the 14th, on May 17, 2002. #Yankees]

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9/24/1925: Every boy's dream: Down by 3 in the bottom of the 10th, Pipp, Combs & Koenig load the bases & it's Ruth's turn to bat. He wallops one into the RF bleachers! Fans flood the field. Ruth fights his way thru the cheering mob to touch home. Never seen anything like it. #Yankees 6, #WhiteSox 5.

9/24/1925: Braxton, who pitched great ball in #Springfield all summer, won his debut w/us yesterday, 7-6, w/a lot of grit & w/a lot of help from poor #WhiteSox fielding. Although #Chicago banged 10 hits off Braxton, Lyons suffered 6 unearned runs, highlighted by Ruth's 3-run 2B in the 5th. #Yankees

9/22/1925: The #WhiteSox won the nightcap, 4-2, behind some solid pitching by Blankenship. Johnson was equally as good, but just not as lucky. #Chicago scored one of their runs off an error by Ruth & another off a GIDP. In the 6th inning, Meusel hit his 2nd HR of the day & 31st of the year! #Yankees

9/22/1925 (gm1): Hoyt didn't have it today, but we hit Thurston & Kerr so hard, it didn't matter. Paschal hit 2 circuit clouts (each time w/me & Meusel on base) & Meusel had a 2-RBI 3B & a solo shot to keep the #WhiteSox at bay. #Chicago couldn't capitalize on their 14 H & 5 BBs. #Yankees win 11-6.

9/20/1925: Joe Bush shut us out, 5-0, on just 4 hits, bringing his season totals against us to 4-1, 3.58. He also ended Combs’ 17-game hitting streak, the longest for us #Yankees this year. My 2B in the 9th was my first hit off him in 13 tries. As for Pennock, #StLouis scorched him for 15 hits. Blah

9/19/1925 (gm2): We had this one til the 9th when Wingard 3Bed in 2 & Sisler 1Bed in Wingard. But! in the last of the 9th Ruth 1Bed in Koenig & Meusel 2Bed Ruth to 3rd! Down by one w/2 out, runners on 2nd & 3rd.....I grounded out to end the game. Lost 4-3. I'm 22 for my last 101. #Yankees #StLouis

9/19/1925 (gm1): Already down 5-1, we gave up 3 in the 8th, highlighted by Johnson’s throw to an empty base, a balk & a PB. That made our 4 runs in the 9th (RBI-1Bs by Combs, Ruth & Meusel) quite trivial. My slump continues; 0-5 today w/a K & a GIDP to kill a potential rally. #StLouis 9, #Yankees 6.

9/18/1925: Won our 5th in a row, 4-2, our longest streak of the year. Hoyt, the merry mortician of Flatbush, made one mistake, McManus’s HR. Meanwhile, Giard BBed 9 & gave up HRs to Ruth (20) & Meusel (29). Since Aug 15, Hoyt's pitched 65.2 IP w/a 1.64 ERA. I'm 5 for my last 35 AB. #Yankees #StLouis

[ed. note: Hank Johnson remains today (9/17/2025) the youngest of #Yankees pitchers to throw a 9 inning shutout. Younger than Whitey Ford, Tom Morgan, and Ralph Terry. #OTD]

9/17/1925: Thru today, here are the 10 youngest MLB pitchers to throw a 9 inning shut out. Johnson has joined some impressive company. #Yankees

9/17/1925: Just like Shocker yesterday, Johnson let just 1 #Cleveland runner get as far as 3rd. Hank became the 4th youngest pitcher in MLB history to toss a 9 inn. shutout. Paschal (10th) & I (19th) HRed & Ruth had 2 RBI ground outs as we coasted to a 5-0 W. We're 2 games out of 6th place! #Yankees

9/16/1925: Pennock had to go into extras in the nightcap b/c Koenig’s 6th inn. bobble led to 3 runs. But Mark made up for it in the 10th, leading off w/a BB & going to 2B on Ruth’s bunt. This set the table for Meusel, who cracked Speece’s 1st pitch into the gap for the win. #Yankees 4, #Cleveland 3.

9/16/1925 (gm1): Shocker made it look easy today, letting a #Cleveland runner get to 3rd but once & notching his 26th career shutout. He’s only given up 6 runs in his last 4 starts. Paschal’s bases loaded 3B in the 5th sent Buckeye packing. Ben’s got his avg. up to .369. We won it 8-0. #Yankees

9/14/1925: Jones had a #nohitter two years ago vs. #Philadelphia & he had another one going today til the 6th. He wound up w/a 2-hitter. Koenig was the offensive hero w/2 RBIs (the 1st of his career) & we beat the #Athletics 3-1. I'm in a terrible slump. Just one hit in my last 18 ABs. #Yankees

9/13/1925: It’s tough to win when you follow a BB w/a GIDP, which is what we did in the 2nd (by Ward), 6th (by me), & 7th (by Koenig). We even led the 8th (Combs) & 9th (Paschal) off w/2Bs but couldn’t score. Wingfield had us guessing all day. We wasted Hoyt’s gem of a game. #RedSox 2, #Yankees 1.