| 2006 On July 30, 2006, the largest Induction Class in Hall of Fame history is honored in Cooperstown. Reliever Bruce Sutter is inducted along with 17 elected by a special commission on pre-Negro leagues and Negro leagues baseball. The 17 are Ray Brown, Willard Brown, Andy Cooper, Frank Grant, Pete Hill, Biz Mackey, Effa Manley, Jose Mendez, Alex Pompez, Cumberland Posey, Louis Santop, Mule Suttles, Ben Taylor, Cristobal Torriente, Sol White, J.L. Wilkinson, and Jud Wilson. |
| 1990 On July 30, 1990, Commissioner Fay Vincent places New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner on the "permanently ineligible" list. "The Boss" is suspended for his association with gambler Howie Spira. |
| 1987 On July 30, 1987, the Cleveland Indians trade future Hall of Famer Steve Carlton to the Minnesota Twins for a player to be named later. Carlton will lose five of six decisions with the Twins and will be left off the team's post-season roster. |
| 1983 On July 30, 1983, the Atlanta Braves remove mascot "Chief Noc-a-homa" and his teepee from left field to make room for more seating at Atlanta's Fulton County Stadium. The Braves will lose 19 of their next 21 games before restoring the mascot and teepee. |
| 1980 On July 30, 1980, J.R. Richard of the Houston Astros suffers a stroke while working out at the Astrodome. Doctors perform surgery to remove a blood clot from behind his right collarbone. Although Richard will return to pitch in the major leagues, he will never regain his previous dominance. |
| 1978 On July 30, 1978, the Montreal Expos bombard the Atlanta Braves, 19-0, as Larry Parrish hits home runs in three consecutive innings. Andre Dawson adds a pair of home runs - both in the same inning. The Expos finish the game with a major league record 58 total bases and tie a National League record with eight home runs. |
| 1974 On July 30, 1974, Jim Bibby of the Texas Rangers pitches a no-hitter against the World Champion Oakland A's. Bibby strikes out 13 A's in forging a 6-0 victory. Jeff Burroughs, who will win the American League's MVP Award, hits a grand slam to support Bibby. |
| 1970 On July 30, 1970, Bruce Kison of Waterbury hits seven Pittsfield batters with pitchers before being removed in the sixth inning. Kison, a Pittsburgh Pirates farmhand, will make his major league debut the following season. |
| 1959 On July 30, 1959, Willie McCovey makes his major league debut for the San Francisco Giants. The young slugger faces another future Hall of Famer -Robin Roberts of the Philadelphia Phillies - and goes 4-for-4 with two triples. McCovey's impressive debut helps the Giants to a 7-2 win over the Phillies. |
| 1933 On July 30, 1933, Dizzy Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals sets a modern day major league record (since surpassed) by striking out 17 batters. The future Hall of Famer allows only six hits in defeating the Chicago Cubs, 8-2. |
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Cardenas mastered baseball; now, life is a different story
Ex-Reds shortstop left Cuba for greener American pastures, but when accolades ended, his troubles were just beginning
By John Erardi
The Cincinnati Enquirer
CLEVES - On a sparkling blue day, air crisp and not a cloud in the sky, former Reds All-Star shortstop Leo Cardenas awaits. He is seated at a corner table in the back of the Cleves Drive-in, a West Side restaurant famous for its fried chicken and apple-cranberry pie.
It is the afternoon of Game 3 of the World Series - the Giants vs. Angels - at Pacific Bell Park in San Francisco.
Cardenas, a four-time all-league selection in his nine years as a Red (1960-68), played with the Angels toward the end of his career.
Today, however, he is here to talk not about the Angels or the World Series, but about the restoration of his reputation, which has taken some hits in the past five years.
The interview was arranged when scout Charlie Knotts, a friend of Leo's, called to say Cardenas was having some problems with the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Cardenas, who came to this country in 1956 as a 16-year-old kid with only a couple of dollars in his pocket and even less English in his head, never got around to establishing his citizenship, despite twice being married to American women. Every American has learned, somewhere in a civics class, that when a foreign-born person marries an American, he or she can become a citizen. But one still has to apply.
And - as with much in his life, except for that 35-year stretch that involved baseball - Cardenas simply never got around to it.
Cardenas is proud and personable, but at times his temper has gotten him into trouble. He was a terrific baseball player who still loves talking about the game - his brown eyes twinkle at the mere mention of it. But by the admission of his best friend, Cardenas was never the sharpest knife in the drawer. He is also not the most responsible.
Not a good combination.
"You're a thickhead!" Knotts hollers out to his friend of 18 years. "You heard me, Chico! You're a thickhead."
Cardenas, 62, smiles and nods. He knows.
He has been beset by marital-related financial problems made worse by having to pay the $7,000 medical bills of a man whose arm he broke in a fight four years ago (for which he spent three months in jail for felonious assault, although he claimed self-defense) and the $5,000 property bills for the damage he did to a car last year when he was an uninsured motorist.
He says most of his $2,800 monthly net pension from Major League Baseball is eaten up by these costs, leaving him only a few hundred dollars a month for living expenses, including rent. He lives with his son, Mario, who, along with Knotts, helps support Cardenas.
Cardenas' warmth is his greatest gift. He is an easy man to like. Cardenas enjoyed a 16-year big-league career, and he provided for his eight children.
"I'm a survivor," he said.
And what is his motivation for wanting to do this story, knowing it wouldn't be an altogether flattering portrait, given his life after baseball?
"I want to restore my good name, my reputation," he says. "I want to tell you my story."
Leonardo Lazaro Cardenas was the sixth of 15 children born to Rafael and Roberta Cardenas in Matanzas, Cuba, located 40 miles from Havana.
One of Matanzas' best ballplayers was Sandy Amoros, eight years older than Cardenas and an idol for the boy. Cardenas was 10 when Amoros first made it to the big leagues with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1950.
Cardenas' first baseball glove came at age 10 - a well-worn, long-fingered model, far too big for Leo's hands but a treasure nonetheless, because it had come from Amoros, who at the time was in the Dodgers' farm system.
There was nothing Leo loved as much as he loved baseball. He wrote notes to his teachers, saying he had to leave school early to practice baseball. This earned him a still-memorable spanking from his father, who held the note in his left hand as he swatted Leo's behind with his right.
So precocious was Cardenas, he had to add a year to his birth certificate so he could sign with the Reds in 1956 at age "17," even though he was only 16.
The Reds were big on the island in the 1950s, having forged connections with Cuban baseball men Bobby Maduro, Reggie Otero, Tony Pacheco (who later signed Tony Perez) and Preston Gomez.
In the spring of '56, the Reds flew Cardenas to Douglas, Ga., where he attended a camp with fellow Cuban-born signees Mike Cuellar, Tony Gonzales and Cookie Rojas, each of whom later made it big with other teams.
Cardenas was given a $500 signing bonus and sent to Tucson, Ariz. He spent 1957 and 1958 in Savannah, Ga., and 1959 with the Havana Sugar Kings, an independently owned team the Reds stocked with prospects.
"When I was a boy growing up, that was my dream - to play for the Sugar Kings," Cardenas said.
In mid-1960, the Sugar Kings were moved to Jersey City, N.J., which is where Cardenas was when the Reds called him up. The great Reds shortstop, Roy McMillan, had broken a finger.
"My first day in the big leagues, I watched from shortstop as my new roommate - Don Newcombe - threw a pitch and broke the kneecap of the Cubs' Ernie Banks," Cardenas recalls. "I remembered thinking, `Man, they play for keeps up here.'"
In the early 1960s, former Reds pitcher Jim O'Toole recalls, the badly slumping Cardenas told then-Reds manager Fred Hutchinson: "I want to fly home; I quit." The Reds, Cardenas figured, would pay his plane fare home.
"Hutch told Leo, `If you're not in uniform and on the bench in 15 minutes, you'll be out of here today. And we won't be paying for anything,'" O'Toole said.
In 10 minutes, Cardenas was on the bench and in uniform.
In 1964, in the seventh inning of the second-to-last game of the regular season, with the Reds leading 3-0 and within six outs of taking over first place in the National League in a three-team race, Phillies pitcher Chris Short threw a pitch that hit Cardenas in the back. Cardenas - bat in hand - headed toward the mound but was restrained by Phillies catcher Clay Dalrymple.
"Leo woke up a dead ballclub when he did that," said O'Toole, who pitched that day. "That just isn't something you did. You had to be smarter than that."
In the eighth inning of that game, Cardenas and second baseman Pete Rose inadvertently let an easy popup drop between them. O'Toole felt it was Cardenas' ball; manager Dick Sisler agreed. The play triggered the Phillies' winning rally, and the Reds were all but through. After the game, O'Toole went after Cardenas, who defended himself by reaching for the closest object - an ice pick. A teammate was able to wrest it away from him.
After four All-Star seasons in five years, Cardenas was traded to the Minnesota Twins because Reds general manager Bob Howsam believed Cardenas' range had diminished, and the Reds needed pitching. All Cardenas did in Minnesota in 1969 was play in 160 games and tie a 63-year-old American League record for most putouts by a shortstop. He played in 160 games the next year, too, helping the Twins make the playoffs each time. In 1971, Cardenas made his fifth All-Star team. In 1972, his salary topped out at $75,000 - big bucks back then.
Cardenas' final year was 1975, when he hit .235 in 102 at-bats for the Texas Rangers.
"Baseball wasn't easy - there were a lot of bumps and bruises - trying to stay in the lineup every day," says Cardenas, raising his left pant leg to reveal the 15-stitch scar left by the take-out slide of the Cubs' Adolfo Phillips at Wrigley Field. "I didn't come out. I wrapped it up and went back in. It's something I learned from Frank Robinson: Don't let anybody take your job.
"As a player, you show up, work hard. The club takes care of most everything else."
Left unsaid, but as obvious as that 15-inch scar, is that when Cardenas' playing career ended, he couldn't handle real life.
"He grew up with a dirt floor, no electricity, sleeping six kids to a bed in a three-room house," is the way Knotts puts it. "Money doesn't mean to Chico what you think it would. If he has it, he spends it. Money doesn't mean anything to Chico Cardenas."
Over the past 25 years, Cardenas has surfaced occasionally in the public eye: a newspaper feature here and there; a segment on local TV now and then. Cincinnatians would hear "Leo's molding hoses at Milacron," or "Leo's pumping gas in Bond Hill" or "Leo's cutting grass" somewhere.
Why hadn't Cardenas been able to parlay a 16-year major-league career into more? After all, didn't he say he had a 12th-grade education? (Yes, but it turned out not to be true. Just add up the numbers. He was playing ball in the States at 16; how old was he when he started school? "Three," answered Cardenas, his eyes twinkling.)
Four years ago, he took his most public hit, a front-page story titled "The Shame of Leo Cardenas," which detailed his being sentenced in Hamilton Common Pleas Court to three months in jail and five years' probation for felonious assault - which included his breaking out the windows of a car that his wife and a co-worker were sitting in, as they talked and ate lunch in Blue Ash.
When the co-worker of Cardenas' wife fled to the Blue Ash police station, Cardenas hit him in the arm with the bat and broke the man's arm. (Cardenas told the Enquirer last week it was self-defense. But there was no mention of self-defense in the court story or the Blue Ash police report.)
And, so, there you have it: a bat and an ice pick in 1964; a bat in 1998. Self-defense, Cardenas repeats. Otherwise, no connection.
But one has to wonder. Both bat incidents related to matters of the heart. Somebody had crossed Cardenas. He took matters into his own hands.
"Charlie, you would have done the same thing," Cardenas tells Knotts, in speaking about the second incident.
"No, Chico, I wouldn't have done the same thing," Knotts tells him. "That is the difference between you and me, and almost everybody else. You are a good man, Chico, but you are a thickhead."
Cardenas and Knotts met in 1984. Knotts was coaching JTM's baseball team at Three Rivers Park on the West Side. Cardenas' son, Leo Jr., was on the team. One day, Knotts saw a man, a wide smile on his face, come loping down the hill.
"Hey, you're Leo Cardenas!" Knotts exclaimed. "Just don't stand there, Leo! Get over there at third base and help me coach this team."
Later, Knotts got JTM to pay Cardenas $200 a game. Knotts knew Cardenas needed it. This was the equivalent of former big-league manager Billy Martin shaking Cardenas' hand and leaving a hundred-dollar bill in it. Martin knew what Knotts knew.
"Don't worry about me, Charlie," Cardenas once told his friend. "I have had all the honey."
He meant it literally. Between games of doubleheaders, Cardenas would swig honey and suck on a lemon.
"The fruit I can understand," Knotts told Cardenas. "The honey is good as a sweetener, but a whole jar of it? Honey is sugar, Leo. And that much sugar isn't good for a man."
And, yet, Cardenas kept eating the honey. In a way, he still does.
He has the joy, the twinkle, the spring in his step. Too often, though, he won't listen to reason. But by almost every account - from his friends, his former teammates, his 18-year-old son, Mario - Chico Cardenas is a swell guy. He has a heart of gold.
Cardenas hopes to get his green card next week. He is scheduled to go to court in December, this time for a probation violation, he says. He has fallen behind on paying the restitution in the bat incident of four years ago. He says he will get current and stay out of jail.
"I can't talk about the case, because it's open and pending," said Cardenas' attorney, Marina Marinakis. "All I can tell you is he's a nice guy. A very nice guy."
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Melky lideró paliza de Azulejos sobre Medias Rojas
BOSTON -- El dominicano Melky Cabrera conectó dos cuadrangulares, uno de cada lado del plato, y remolcó cinco carreras, mientras que R.A. Dickey admitió sólo tres imparables en siete innings y los Azulejos de Toronto apalearon el lunes 14-1 a los Medias Rojas de Boston.
Los Azulejos ganaron por sexta ocasión en siete partidos, mientras que los Medias Rojas perdieron un día después de haber roto una racha de cinco derrotas que comenzó en Toronto con tres reveses.
Cabrera jonroneó hacia el bullpen de Boston en el jardín derecho después que su compatriota José Reyes abrió el encuentro tramitando un pasaporte. Cabrera puso la pizarra 9-0 en la sexta con un bambinazo de tres carreras hacia el jardín izquierdo, para sumar 14 jonrones en la temporada.
Ryan Goins pegó cuatro hits y produjo cuatro carreras para Toronto.
Dickey (9-10) ponchó a 10, permitió una carrera y regaló un boleto para llevarse su tercer triunfo en 10 aperturas. Pero contra los Medias Rojas lleva foja de 3-0 con 21 ponches y dos boletos esta temporada.
Clay Buchholz (5-7) dejó el partido después de permitir que los primeros tres bateadores se embasaran en la sexta y admitiera una carrera en un doble de Goins.
Por los Azulejos, los dominicanos Reyes de 2-0, con una carrera anotada; Cabrera, de 4-2, con tres anotadas y cinco remolcadas; José Bautista, de 5-2, con una anotada; y Juan Francisco de 3-0, con una anotada.
Por los Medias Rojas, el dominicano David Ortiz de 3-1, con una carrera empujada. El puertorriqueño Christian Vásquez de 1-0.
Worley y Piratas pintaron de blanco a los Gigantes
SAN FRANCISCO, California --Vance Worley lanzó un partido de cuatro hits, para la primera blanqueada de su carrera; y los Piratas de Pittsburgh atacaron temprano al abridor Madison Bumgarner en una victoria de 5-0 sobre los Gigantes de San Francisco.
Worley (4-1) ponchó a tres y regaló una solitaria base. Su único juego completo previo fue una victoria de 7-2 sobre los Gigantes el 26 de julio del 2011 en Filadelfia.
Cuatro jugadores empujaron una carrera ante Bumgarner (12-8) en el primer episodio, y Josh Harrison bateó su séptimo jonrón del año en el segundo, para proveer toda la producción de Pittsburgh.
Por los Piratas, el dominicano Gregory Polanco de 3-1, una empujada.
Por los Gigantes, los venezolanos Pablo Sandoval de 3-2 y Gregor Blanco de 3-1.
Today in Baseball History: July 29th
| 1996 On July 29, 1996, future Hall of Famer Tommy Lasorda announces that he is retiring as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The 68-year-old Lasorda, who had suffered a heart attack earlier in the year, will become a team vice-president. |
| 1983 On July 29, 1983, Steve Garvey's National League record playing streak of 1,207 consecutive games comes to an end. The San Diego Padres' first baseman is unable to play due to a dislocated thumb. |
| 1973 On July 29, 1973, Wilbur Wood earns his 20th victory, as the Chicago White Sox beat the Twins, 8-6. Using Wood in a three-man rotation, White Sox manager Chuck Tanner often uses the hurler on only two days rest. Wood will win only four more games over the balance of the season. |
| 1969 On July 29, 1969, Giants slugger Willie McCovey hit his 300th career homer. The homer came in a 4-2 win at Wrigley Field against the Cubs. "Stretch" hit 521 homers in his Hall of Fame career. |
| 1968 On July 29, 1968, Washington Senators shortstop Ron Hansen turns an unassisted triple play - the eighth in the game's history and the first in 41 years. With runners on first and second, Cleveland's Joe Azcue hits a line drive to Hansen, who makes the catch before retiring the two runners. Three days later, the Senators will trade Hansen to the Chicago White Sox for utility infielder Tim Cullen. |
| 1958 On July 29, 1958, Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox blasts his 17th career grand slam. The home run places Williams in a second-place tie with Babe Ruth on the all-time grand slam list. |
| 1915 On July 29, 1915, 41-year-old Honus Wagner becomes the oldest player in the history of the modern era to hit a grand slam. Wagner's home run, an inside-the-park shot, helps Pittsburgh to an 8-2 victory over Brooklyn. Wagner's record will stand until 1985, when 42-year-old Tony Perez belts a grand slam. |
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Navarro ayuda a Toronto a llevarse serie en N.Y.
NUEVA YORK -- Dioner Navarro empujó la carrera de la victoria al conectar un sencillo con dos outs en la parte alta del noveno inning, y los Azulejos de Toronto supieron reaccionar luego de malograr tres ventajas al vencer el domingo 5-2 a los Yanquis de Nueva York para llevarse su primera victoria en una serie en el Bronx en casi dos años.
Al día siguiente de romper una racha de 17 derrotas seguidas en el Yankee Stadium, Toronto fue por más el domingo.
José Bautista se embasó en jugada de escogencia ante David Robertson (1-3), luego se robó la intemedia sin que hiciera el tiro y anotó tras la línea de Navarro's por el central.
La última vez que Toronto ganó una serie en la casa de los Yanquis fue entre el 27 y 29 de agosto de 2012. Con la victoria, los Azulejos se marchan con un juego de ventaja sobre los Yanquis por el segundo wild card de la Liga Americana.
Aaron Sánchez (1-0) toleró un hit remolcador a Carlos Beltrán, que empató el juego.
Juan Francisco sacudió un jonrón ante Shane Greene al abrir el quinto para darle a Toronto la ventaja 2-0.
Pero Chase Headley conectó su primer jonrón los Yanquis ante J.A. Happ. Dos pitcheos despué,Francisco Cervelli sacudió su primer jonrones en 15 meses para igualar transitoriamente la pizarrra.
Por los Azulejos, los dominicanos José Reyes de 5-2, una anotada; Melky Cabrera de 5-2; José Bautista de 4-0, una anotada y remolcada; y Juan Francisco de 4-1, con anotada y remolcada. El venezolano Dioner Navarro de 5.1, una impulsada.
Por los Yanquis, el puertorriqueño Carlos Beltrán de 3-1, una impulsada. El venezolano Francisco Cervelli de 4-1, una anotada y remolcada.
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