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 minut [...]

April 30, 1952: On "Ted Williams Day" before 24,764 fans at Fenway Park, Teddy Ballgame, who is leaving after the game to rejoin the Marines for combat duty, homers in his last at-bat to give the Red Sox a 5-3 win; Williams, who waved his cap to fans in all sections of the park, lost most of five seasons to the military, and later homered in his last at-bat [...]

April 29, 1986: Pitcher Roger Clemens establishes a major league record by striking out 20 Seattle Mariners in a game won by the Red Sox at Fenway Park before a crowd of only 13,414; Clemens, who would go on to win the American League MVP and Cy Young Award after going 24-4 for the season and leading the Red Sox to the World Series, threw 138 pitches, 97 for [...]

April 28, 1929: A crowd of over 22,000 watched the Red Sox lose to 7-3 to the Philadelphia Athletics at Braves Field in the first professional game ever played on a Sunday in Boston; the Blue Laws had prevented the teams from playing on Sunday until a 1928 voter's referendum, but the Red Sox were forced to play at Braves Field due to Fenway's proximity to a [...]

April 27, 1944: Braves right-handed knucleball pitcher Jim Tobin, who had held the Phillies to one-hit four days earlier, throws a no-hitter in a 2-0 win over the Brooklyn Dodgers in a game witnessed by a "crowd" of only 1,357, who "stormed the field to congratulate Tobin; Tobin, who won 72 games during his six seasons with the Braves, also homered to help h [...]