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October 10th, 2009, 06:21 AM
10/10/25:
Washington Senators outfielder Sam Rice will play 20 years in the majors (19 with the Sens), amass 2,987 base hits (over 200 in a season six times) and compile a .322 lifetime average, but he’ll be largely remembered for a catch he makes in today’s third game of the 1925 World Series against the Pirates. With Washington leading 4-3 and two outs in the eighth inning, Rice makes a leaping catch of Earl Smith’s deep drive and tumbles into some temporary bleachers. The Pirates insist he doesn’t cleanly catch the ball but instead gets it back from a friendly fan, but umpire Cy Rigler calls Smith out and the Senators win this game, 4-3. Even when Pittsburgh eventually wins the Series in seven games, the controversy won’t die down. Rice will leave a letter, to be opened upon his death in 1974, attesting it was a clean catch.
B I R T H D A Y S
Gus Williams b. 1953
Norm Nixon b. 1955
Brett Favre b. 1969
Pat Burrell b. 1976
Troy Tulowitzki b. 1984
Washington Senators outfielder Sam Rice will play 20 years in the majors (19 with the Sens), amass 2,987 base hits (over 200 in a season six times) and compile a .322 lifetime average, but he’ll be largely remembered for a catch he makes in today’s third game of the 1925 World Series against the Pirates. With Washington leading 4-3 and two outs in the eighth inning, Rice makes a leaping catch of Earl Smith’s deep drive and tumbles into some temporary bleachers. The Pirates insist he doesn’t cleanly catch the ball but instead gets it back from a friendly fan, but umpire Cy Rigler calls Smith out and the Senators win this game, 4-3. Even when Pittsburgh eventually wins the Series in seven games, the controversy won’t die down. Rice will leave a letter, to be opened upon his death in 1974, attesting it was a clean catch.
B I R T H D A Y S
Gus Williams b. 1953
Norm Nixon b. 1955
Brett Favre b. 1969
Pat Burrell b. 1976
Troy Tulowitzki b. 1984