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This Day in the Old Ball Game

Every date on the calendar hides a handful of baseball stories — a debut, a duster, a called shot, a heartbreak. We draw them into one strip, every single morning.

This Day in the Old Ball Game comic strip for September 2: four panels depicting two teams of Boston department store clerks playing the first baseball game under artificial light on a hotel lawn near Nantasket Beach in 1880; 41-year-old Senators coach Nick Altrock jogging out a home run past a Philadelphia first baseman turned pitcher in the closing doubleheader of the war-shortened 1918 season; Milt Pappas losing a perfect game at Wrigley Field on a full-count pinch-hit walk to Larry Stahl and finishing the no-hitter anyway in 1972; and Mike Greenwell driving in all nine Boston runs against Seattle at the Kingdome in 1996.
Today's Strip · September 2

The Night the Lights Came On

A game nobody could see, a home run nobody earned, a perfect game nobody allowed, and nine runs nobody else drove in.

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