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: 2000-07-22

July 22, 1960: Ted Williams homers to help the Red Sox to a 6-4 win over the Cleveland Indians at Fenway Park; but the bigger story is that Ted stole a base to become the first MLB player to steal a base in each of four decades, a feat later matched by Rickey Henderson and Tim Raines for the record, Ted Williams stole 17 bases during his 19-year MLB career.

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