4/24 Through the 1940s: Freddie Walkoff, Reb No-No, Hans Atones, Fred's 1st, Openers, Game Days; HBD Bob, Dixie, Pete & Jim
- 1863 – 1B Jim Field was born in Philadelphia. He started out as a 20-year-old for Columbus in 1883, and joined the Alleghenys for the 1885 campaign when they bought the Buckeye roster. He started at first for Pittsburgh, but was released in July after hitting .239 and was claimed by Baltimore. Field spent five years in the big leagues (four in the AA) and bounced around the minors, mostly in the Eastern League, for another 15 seasons before his final hurrah in 1900.
- 1889 – The Alleghenys took the Home Opener with a see-saw 8-5 win over the Chicago White Stockings at Recreation Park in front of 3,000 rooters. Pud Galvin took the hill, and found himself in a 3-0 hole in the first, with a couple of costly errors and a wild pitch. The Allies tied it in the sixth on the strength of a Fred Dunlap double and two-run single by Fred Carroll; the Windy City came right back to score a pair and regain the lead, again aided by some shoddy fielding. Pittsburgh put it away in the seventh, launching a barrage of singles that led to five runs and a lead they wouldn’t relinquish. The Alleghenys had 12 hits on the day, led by Carroll with three knocks while Dunlap and Jake Beckley banged two hits apiece. Galvin went the distance, winning the first of 23 games on the year. The club would only win 61 times, finishing fifth and going through three managers.
- 1891 – Fred Carroll hit the first home run by a Pirate – formally, the Pittsburgh Nationals – in Exposition Park III (they played the year before in nearby Recreation Park as the Alleghenys (Jocko Fields of the Burghers was credited with the first pro home run there on June 10th, 1890), as the Bucs defeated the Chicago Colts, 11-8. They had unofficially become the Pirates in the off season in the out-of-town media when they “pirated” Lou Bierbauer from the Philadelphia A’s.
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| Fred Carroll – Longa Art card |
- 1891 – Pete Falsey was born in New Haven, Connecticut. Pete’s only MLB stint was three games in 1914 with the Pirates; he went 0-for-1 with a whiff as a pinch hitter and got into two more games as a pinch runner during his two-week stay. The little lefty (5’6”, 132 lbs) joined the Bucs as a 23-year-old after playing for Yale, and following his Bucco visit, his baseball trail disappears; he doesn’t even show a position played in any of his MLB bios.
- 1903 – Honus Wagner was having one of those days in the field, booting three balls (he had a busy afternoon at shortstop; Hans also cleanly handled 10 other chances) that helped the Cards head into the ninth with a 7-6 lead at Exposition Park. But there was no adverse carryover with his bat. He tripled in the ninth and scored the tying run on a Kitty Bransfield single. Then with two away in the eleventh, Wagner walked, stole second and Kitty again chased him home with the game winner, a single to left. The Dutchman posted four hits, posting two triples along with two RBI, four runs scored, and three stolen bases to put on a one-man show for the 3,013 Bucco rooters.
- 1915 – Pittsburgh Rebel southpaw Frank Allen tossed a 2-0 no-hitter (four walks, four fans) against the St. Louis Terriers at Handlan’s Park in the last year of the Federal League, the short-lived (1913-15) major league “outlaw” option to the National and American Leagues. Terrier hurler Bob Groom kept it a tight game that was scoreless until the seventh when Ed Konetchy’s lead-off triple came home. The Rebs added an insurance run in the ninth on Rebel Oakes’ sac fly that plated Mike Mowrey. Allen went on to pitch a couple more seasons for the NL Boston Braves before calling it a career after the 1917 campaign. The Federal League was absorbed by the NL & AL, and a suit the FL filed eventually led to the still existent ruling that exempted baseball from antitrust laws.
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| Dixie Howell – photo via Find-A-Grave |
- 1920 – C Homer “Dixie” Howell was born in Louisville, Kentucky. The journeyman backstop began his MLB career as a Pirate in 1947 after being part of the Kirby Higbe deal and hit .276, but was later lost to the Cincinnati Reds as a Rule 5 pick. He spent 1949-56 as a back-up catcher for the Reds and then the Brooklyn Dodgers. Dixie doodles: He was one of three Dixie Howells to play MLB ball, and he & pitcher Millard “Dixie” Howell, also from Kentucky, were same-name teammates on the 1949 Cincinnati squad.
- 1934 – The Bucs rallied to defeat the Gashouse Gang from St. Louis 5-4 at Forbes Field in their home opener. Behind 4-2 going into the ninth, Freddie Lindstrom homered over the LF wall with two aboard to lift the Pirates to victory over the future NL champs. Leon Chagnon got the win in relief of Heinie Meine. Tommy Thevenow added two hits and chased home a pair of runs for the Pirates.
- 1948 – 1B Bob Beall was born in Portland, Oregon. After being named high school “Baseball Player of the Year” for Oregon in 1966 and earning All-PAC honors at Oregon State, Bob spent three years with the Atlanta Braves and bowed out of the majors in 1980 after a three-game stand in Pittsburgh, going 0-for-3 as a pinch hitter. He was sent to his hometown AAA Portland Beavers as a player-coach, then retired in 1981 and began working for Nike.
Source: https://oldbucs.blogspot.com/2026/04/424-through-1940s-freddie-walkoff-reb.html
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