May 27, 1981 Lenny Randle of the Seattle Mariners tries to blow a ground ball into foul territory. After initially calling the ball foul, home plate umpire Larry McCoy reverses his call and awards Amos Otis of the Kansas City Royals with a controversial infield single. Randle’s explanation that he was merely yelling at the ball not to stay fair is initially convincing until Royals’ manager Jim Frey complains.

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May 27, 1962 Detroit Tigers at New York Yankees Game 1

May 27, 1962 Detroit Tigers at New York Yankees Game 2

May 27, 1962 New York Mets at San Francisco Giants

This Week in Baseball May 27, 1989

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Who was the first native of the state of Alabama elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame?

Hint: #1 He was once ejected from a World Series game for “snapping” an umpire's bow tie?

Hint: #2 He once had four straight seasons of exactly thirty-six walks each and in the fifth year had thirty-five.

Hint: #3 His career batting average is better than those of, for example, Joe DiMaggio, Cool Papa Bell and Rod Carew.

May 27, 1941 Play is halted in the seventh inning of the Braves-Giants game at the Polo Grounds so the crowd of 17,009 and players can listen to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's radio address over the stadium's P.A. system. After FDR announces the Proclamation of an Unlimited National Emergency, the tied 1-1 contest is resumed after a 45-minute delay. Listen to FDR

May 27, 1959 National League President Warren Giles rules that the final score of the near perfect game thrown by the Pittsburgh Pirates’ Harvey Haddix should be 1-0, and not 3-0. Giles says that when Joe Adcock passed Hank Aaron on the bases after hitting a home run, both runners should have been called out, thereby nullifying the second and third runs. Listen to Giles with Leo

May 27, 1968  San Diego and Montreal are awarded NL expansion teams for 1969 and Dallasites were quick to blame Houston's Judge Roy Hofheinz for the snub. Montreal doesn't even have a minor league team at the time. One Dallas paper prints a picture of the judge with a bullseye over it. The Astros celebrate by clubbing the Dodgers, 10-1. Dallas-Ft. Worth would get the old Washington Senators team in 1972. The San Diego Padres, led by Dodgers GM Buzzie Bavasi, are helped by Walter O'Malley. O'Malley publicly: "We could only pick two cities and I'm glad San Diego was one." Privately: "I’m voting for Buzzie, not the city of San Diego.”

May 27, 1983 New York Yankee Dave Winfield grabs Oakland A's catcher Mike Heath by the throat as they fought in front of the mound when Winfield objected to a knock down pitch by Mike Norris in the 1st inning at Yankee stadium. Heath prevented Winfield from heading for the mound and pitcher Norris. Both benches cleared during the fight with Winfield being ejected from the game

May 27, 1986 "It's the spookiest thing I've ever seen. Hey, when you build a building on the ocean, what do you expect? You expect fog. They should blame themselves for building it on the ocean." - Oil Can Boyd, after a game at Cleveland Stadium, located on the shore of Lake Erie, is postponed due to fog in the 6th inning. Watch the ending

May 27, 1987 At Fenway Park Cleveland Indians starter Phil Niekro pitches a complete game but loses to Roger Clemens and the Red Sox 1-0 and also becomes just the 3rd player in history to make 700 career starts and he joins Cy Young and Don Sutton on the list. The Red Sox-only run was scored by Jim Rice scores on a Bill Buckner sacrifice fly in the 5th inning.

May 27, 2019 Bill Buckner passes away at age 69 from Lewy Body Dementia. He played 22 years in the majors for five different teams. He was with the Los Angeles Dodgers, who drafted him in the second round of the 1968 amateur draft, and the Chicago Cubs for eight seasons each before joining the Red Sox. Listen to Bill Buckner 1980

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