Boston Fans Source & Resource for Baseball History

Celebrating 154 Consecutive Seasons of Professional Baseball in Boston!

Boston Fans Source & Resource for Baseball History

Celebrating 153 Consecutive Seasons of Professional Baseball in Boston!

This Day in History: 2000-05-01

May 1, 1920: The Boston Braves and Brooklyn Robins played to a 1-1 tie at Braves Field before a crowd estimated at 4,000, when the game was called for darkness after 26 innings; this is still the major league record for most innings and both pitchers, Leon Cadore for the Robbins, and the Braves Joe Oeschger, pitched every inning of the 5 hours & 50 minutes game.

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