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The Giants' Pablo Sandoval stole third base in the top of the second against the Reds this past Monday. Then, in the same game, he hit a three-run homer. Two innings after that, he was called to the mound. Yep, bullpen used up, Panda was called to pitch. He pitched a scoreless inning.

Stolen base, homer, scoreless inning pitched.

The last time it happened was Giants vs Reds, in May of 1905.:eek:

114 years.

:devil:

This Day In Sports History

July 4, 1939

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Fans, for the past two weeks, you've been reading about a bad break. [pause] Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been in ballparks for 17 years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.

When you look around, wouldn't you consider it a privilege to associate yourself with such fine-looking men as are standing in uniform in this ballpark today? Sure, I'm lucky. Who wouldn't consider it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder of baseball's greatest empire, Ed Barrow? To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins? Then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology, the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy? Sure, I'm lucky.

When the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat, and vice versa, sends you a gift – that's something. When everybody down to the groundskeepers and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies – that's something. When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter – that's something. When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body – it's a blessing. When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed – that's the finest I know.

So I close in saying that I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for. – Thank you.

~Lou Gehrig

Pernell "Sweet Pea" Whitaker died July 14. Pound-for-pound one of the world's greatest boxers.

He was crossing the street in Virginia Beach, VA when he was struck by a car.

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Pernell Whitaker was 55.

Lost another age mate. Its hard to drive 55.

This Day in History - Sports Edition

1974 – Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John.

Former NFL coach Sam Wyche died. Liver cancer, I believe.

Wyche developed the no-huddle-offense while coaching for Cincinnati.

Aw, no more sad Eli face

Is it true Brady and Manning are lovers?

Idk, but neither one of them looks like they know where they are half the time.