July 11, 1968, the Baltimore Orioles name future Hall of Famer Earl Weaver their manager. Weaver, a lifetime minor league player who had been serving as the team’s first base coach, replaces the fired Hank Bauer. The Birds defeat the Washington Senators, 2 - 0, on Dave McNally's two-hitter. Baltimore will win 11 of its first 15 games under Weaver.

Weaver managed the Orioles for 17 years, including 15 in a row, using the philosophy of "if you play for one run, that's all you get." Throughout his career, Weaver managed for the three-run homer and solid pitching to hold that lead, and liked to use extensive data on past performance to help make decisions, philosophies adopted by his second baseman and managerial protégé Davey Johnson. Weaver also liked to bait umpires, and was thrown out of almost 100 games (including a rare World Series ejection in Game Four of the 1969 Series) and suspended at least four times. In 1985, he was ejected from both ends of a doubleheader.

A minor-league second baseman, Weaver never played in the major leagues, toiling in the Cardinal and Pirate organizations from 1948 through 1957 when he became a manager in the Orioles system. He managed in the minors until he was brought in to replace O's skipper Hank Bauer midway through 1968. The next season, he led the Orioles to 109 wins, at the time tied for the third most victories in AL history. But his heavily favored team, featuring such future Hall of Famers as Jim Palmer, Brooks Robinson, and Frank Robinson, ran into the Miracle Mets in the World Series, where they suffered a stunning five-game loss. The Orioles won 108 games in 1970, this time taking the Fall Classic in a five-game romp over the Reds, thanks largely to Brooks Robinson's brilliant series at the plate and at third base. In 1971, Weaver and the Orioles won their third straight pennant, but dropped the World Series in a seven-game setback at the hands the Pirates. Many critics blamed Weaver for the loss, since he had refused to bench injured first baseman Boog Powell, who hit only .111 in the Series. Powell had fractured his wrist in August, aggravated the injury when he was struck on the wrist by a pitch, and was visibly in pain at each at-bat in the Series.

The Orioles traded Frank Robinson to the Dodgers after the 1971 season, and subsequently failed to make the post-season for the first time in four years. Weaver managed his club to two more divisional championships in 1973 and 1974, mainly on the strength of a superb pitching staff, but lost to the A's in both league championship series. He often had trouble communicating with his players, and was constantly at odds with Palmer. Weaver won his last pennant in 1979 when the Orioles won 102 games, but again was victimized by Pittsburgh in the Series, losing a seven-game heartbreaker after leading three-games-to-one. The next season his Orioles suffered heartbreak of a different sort when they tallied 100 victories but finished second in the AL East to the Yankees. He retired after 1982, when Baltimore staged a memorable September comeback to tie Milwaukee for the division lead on the penultimate day of the season only to lose 10-2 to the Brewers before a sellout crowd at Memorial Stadium in the season finale.

Weaver came back to manage the Orioles midway through the 1985 season (taking over for Joe Altobelli, Weaver for the second time in his career replaced an Orioles' manager who had won a World Championship just two years prior). In 1986, he suffered his first-ever losing season, winning just 73 games, and retired for good. Weaver won 100 games five times, and his .583 winning percentage ranks among the best in baseball history. In 1996 he was elected to the Hall of Fame.

Though often gruff, Weaver was more than capable of holding his own in a battle of wits. One day in spring training, while berating former umpire Ron Luciano for inaccuracies in his recent book of memoirs, he told Luciano, "Like it says in Hamlet, Ron, 'This above all else: to thine own self be true.'" When Miami Herald writer Edwin Pope reported the story the next day with Weaver saying "Like Horatio says in Hamlet...", Weaver sought out Pope and yelled, "Edwin, if Polonius didn't fucking say it, I've lived the last 35 years of my life backwards."

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Who is the only native of the state of Utah to become a major league manager?

Hint: #1 He oversaw the major league efforts of four Cy Young Award winners, four Rookies of the Year, seven MVPs and seven players who are now in the Hall of Fame as well as those of the first Japanese-born player to play in the majors.

Hint: #2 He was one baseball’s most infamous sign stealers.

July 11, 1914, 19-year-old - Babe Ruth makes his major league debut with the Boston Red Sox against the Cleveland Naps. Ruth pitches 7 innings, gives up 3 runs and 8 hits, he records the win as the starting pitcher when he leaves for a pinch-hitter Duffy Lewis in the bottom of the seventh. Lewis singled and scored the winning run   Dutch Leonard strikes out four of the six batters he faces in relief. The final score of the game, 4-3. 

Ruth will go on to appear in 4 games, starting 3 and had a record of 2-1. Ruth stuck out in his first plate appearance and will have only have 10 plate appearances for the 1914 season going 2-10 with a double. His first hit came during his 3rd start a complete game victory vs New York. 

July 11, 1939 at Yankee Stadium 20 year-old Cleveland Indians fireballer Bob Feller steals the show at Yankee Stadium when he hurls 3.2 scoreless innings. The Yankee dominated lineup delivers all 3 runs in a 3-1 AL Victory.

Cincinnati OF Ival Goodman fractures his shoulder diving for a ball. Listen to the game

July 11, 1944 at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the home of the NL's Pittsburgh Pirates. In the All Star Game the National League defeating the American League 7–1.

Played during World War II, receipts from the game were distributed to a fund that provided baseball equipment to members of the armed services The American League scored in the second inning on a single by Hank Borowy, its pitcher, but never scored again. The National League got four runs in the fifth inning, led by Bill Nicholson's pinch-hit double. Whitey Kurowski knocked in two more runs with a double in the seventh. A sacrifice fly by Stan Musial in the eighth inning closed out the scoring. Ken Raffensberger was the winning pitcher for the Nationals. Phil Cavaretta sets an All-Star Game record by reaching base five consecutive times. The 27 year-old Cub first baseman's triple, single, and three walks

July 11, 1944 All Star Game National League at American League Radio Broadcast

July 11, 1950, network television broadcasts an All-Star Game for the first time in history and it is also the first-ever extra-inning All-Star Game.

Making a leaping, off-the-wall catch of a Ralph Kiner drive in the 1st inning, Ted Williams fractures his left elbow in the All-Star Game at Chicago. Remaining in the game, he puts the American League ahead, 3 – 2, with an RBI single. Kiner’s 9th-inning home run ties the game, and Red Schoendienst’s blast against Ted Gray in the 14th wins it. Williams later states he was never the same after this injury. It’s a game of firsts – the first extra-inning All-Star Game, the first time the NL wins at an AL park, and the first All-Star Game shown on national television.

July 11, 1960 In the first of this year's two All-Star Games, Pittsburgh's Bob Friend notches his second win in the National League's last three with 3 innings of one-hit, shutout ball. Friend's performance plus home runs by Ernie Banks and Del Crandall – not to mention perennial All-Star luminary, Willie Mays, falling just a few feet shy of the cycle – pace the Senior Circuit to a 5 - 3 decision over its junior counterpart at Kansas City's Municipal Stadium. Albeit not affecting the game's outcome, a somewhat splashy All-Star debut is made by Friend's teammate, Roberto Clemente, if only on the wrong end of a circus catch. As readers nationwide will be shown and told by the Associated Press, Clemente's sole at-bat results in a singularly loud out: "Many a batsman has 'made his mark' on the KC left field wall (note numerous dents), but the AL's Jim Lemon pulled a spectacular catch to prevent Roberto Clemente's long smash from adding another 'scar' in the 9th inning of Monday's All-Star game."

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July 10, 1960 New York Yankees at Boston Red Sox

July 7, 1960 Howie Goss, the surprise power hitter of the Pacific Coast League baseball season, attributes his success to a regular diet of food-supplement pills. The big he's 6-foot 3-inches and weighs 200 pounds Vancouver outfielders from Wewoka, Okla., trace his batting rejuvenation to July. 1959, when he was introduced to the energy building pellets by Walt Deland, athletic trainer at the University of Utah. Deland is a booster for special diets, vitamins, and energy pills. Goss, about to be shipped from the Salt Lake City team of the PCL to Gastonia, N. C., of the South Atlantic league because of weak hitting, decided to give the pills a try. He Finished Fast At Gastonia. He improved gradually and, by the end of the season, was hitting the ball well. His average for the last month was He continued the pill treatment through the winter, and when he joined the Vancouver Mounties this spring, he hit six home runs in seven games before going into a slump. He bounced back, however, and when he hit an 11th-inning home run to give his team a victory over Spokane, he again was on his way. Up to June 20, he had hit 13 runs in seven games before going into a slump. He bounced back, however, and when he hit an Ilth-inning home run to give his team a victory over Spokane, he again was on his way. Up to June 20, he had hit 13 home runs, good enough for a fourth-place tie with Seattle's Joe Taylor, and was batting .290. So enthused was he over the pills that he began to preach the pill gospel up and down the league, with the result that all the teams except Portland now use the diet supplement. "The pills really have helped me," he declares. "At first I So enthused was he over the pills that he began to preach the pill gospel up and down the league, with the result that all the teams except Portland now use the diet supplement. "The pills really have helped me," he declares. "At first Iwas a bit skeptical, so I went to a library and read up them. I learned a lot of the importance of diet. "The fast pace of today's life makes it almost impossible to get a properly balanced diet, and that's why pills are the answer, especially for professional athletes. "The pills have a wheat base and contain all the minerals and vitamins the body needs. I take two a day, one in the morning and the other at night. "Even my wife takes them and she, too, has found a terrific improvement in her physical condition. We both have more energy, feel more alert mentally," Goss signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates as a pitcher in 1953. He was wild, once walking 15 batters in five innings, so he was shifted to the outfield. Eyes Major Leagues His be season was 1955 when he hit .306, including 36 doubles and 11 triples for Salinas of the class C California league and was chosen all-star centerfielder. Now, rejuvenated by the' pills, he has dreams of making it as a major leaguer. "With a bit of luck, regular playing and the pills I can still become a good major league player." he enthuses. was chosen all-star centerfielder. Now, rejuvenated by the pills, he has dreams of making it as a major leaguer. "With a bit of luck, regular playing and the pills I can still become a good major league player." he enthuses.

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July 11, 1961, San Francisco Giants pitcher Stu Miller is literally blown off the mound during the All-Star Game at Candlestick Park. In the ninth inning, high winds cause the 165-pound Miller to lose his balance. Umpires call a balk, allowing the runners, Al Kaline and Roger Maris into scoring position. The AL will tie the game on an error by Ken Boyer. Ironically the AL will take the lead in the top of the 10th when Boyer again makes an error on a ground ball hit by Al Kaline.

The NL will score 2 in the bottom of the 10th to pull out the victory.

Although kept in the park by the aforementioned wind, all-star sophomore Roberto Clemente has a huge game, tripling and scoring the game’s first run, driving in the second with a sacrifice fly, driving Mickey Mantle to the centerfield fence, and delivering the walk-off single, off knuckleballer Hoyt Wilhelm. The game-winning rally is comprised solely of contributions by the National League’s four premier outfielders, in order of appearance: Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Frank Robinson and Clemente.

July 11, 1961 American League All Star at National League All Star 

July 11, 1967, Tony Perez of the Cincinnati Reds hits a 15th inning home run against Jim “Catfish” Hunter of the Kansas City A’s, ending the longest All-Star Game in history. Perez’ dramatic blast gives the National League a 2-1 victory

The Astros have many firsts - Jim Wynn becomes the first Houston player to get a hit in the All-Star Game . He singles in the ninth against Al Downing but does not score. Rusty Staub singles off Catfish Hunter in the 11th but also doesn’t score. Mike Cuellar, the third Astro All-Star, pitches two shutout innings

July 11, 1967 American League All Star at National League All Star 

July 11, 1971 Tony Conigliaro, who had gone 0 for 8 with five strikeouts for the Angels during their 20-inning loss two days earlier, calls a five A.M. press conference to announce his retirement. Later tests will show that the sight in his left eye, injured in a 1967 beaning, has deteriorated.

July 11, 1978 At Jack Murphy Stadium, Steve Garvey becomes the first two-time MVP in All-Star history. The Dodgers first baseman's game-tying, two-run single and a triple help the National League beat the American League, 7 - 3. Vida Blue starts for the NL, the first pitcher to start for both leagues. Blue also started in 1971 and 1975 for the American League.

July 11, 1985, Nolan Ryan of the Houston Astros becomes the first pitcher in history to record 4,000 strikeouts. Ryan notches the milestone when he fans New York Mets outfielder Danny Heep on three pitches in the sixth inning.

Ryan finishes with 11 strikeouts in seven innings but gets no decision. Kevin Bass homers in the frame to give the Astros a 3-1 lead but miscues later let the Mets tie it. Bill Doran’s fifth hit of the game, in the 12th, scores Dickie Thon for a 4-3 Houston victory.

More games: 1971 Red Sox vs Yankees, 1979 Pirates vs Astros and 1986 Braves vs Mets

July 11, 1989, Bo Jackson hits a leadoff Ruthian blast to center field and Wade Boggs lead off the bottom of the 1st inning with back-to-back home runs off Rick Reuschel to spark the American League to a 5 - 3 win in the All-Star Game at Anaheim Stadium. Jackson earns MVP honors, will join Willie Mays as the second player to hit a home run and steal a base in an All-Star Game, the American League beats the NL's best players, 5-3, at Anaheim Stadium. During the first inning of the Mid-Summer Classic, former U.S. President and one-time baseball announcer Ronald Reagan joins Vin Scully in the NBC broadcast booth.

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