1906 in baseball

Champions

World Series: Chicago White Sox over Chicago Cubs (4–2)

Inter-league playoff: Chicago (AL) declined challenge by New York Giants.

Events

May 8 – Philadelphia Athletics manager Connie Mack needed a substitute outfielder in the sixth inning of a game against the Boston Pilgrims and called on pitcher Chief Bender to fill in. Bender hit two home runs, both inside the park.

July 4 – Mordecai Brown of the Chicago Cubs defeats Lefty Leifield of the Pittsburgh Pirates 1-0, in the first game of a doubleheader, in which both pitchers throw a 1-hitter. Leifield collects the Pirates only hit off Brown and loses his own bid for a no-hitter by giving up a single in the 9th inning that ends up scoring the only run of the game.

July 20 – Mal Eason tosses a no hitter for the Brooklyn Superbas, as they defeat the St. Louis Cardinals, 2-0.

August 1 – Brooklyn Superbas pitcher Harry McIntire would not allow a hit to the Pittsburgh Pirates through 10 innings, only to allow a single with two outs in the 11th inning. McIntire would allow three more hits before the Pirates outlasted the Superbas, 1-0, in 13 innings.

August 3 – At Sportsman's Park, Long Tom Hughes of the Washington Senators and Fred Glade of the St. Louis Browns entered the 10th inning with a scoreless tie, until Hughes decided the game with a solo home run to a 1–0 victory, becoming the first pitcher in major league history to pitch a shutout and hit a home run which accounted for the only run in the game.

September 1 – The Philadelphia A's Jack Coombs and the Boston Pilgrims' Joe Harris each pitch all 24 innings of the A's 4–1 victory over the Pilgrims at Boston's Huntingdon Avenue Grounds. Coombs and Harris still hold the American League record. The major league record is held by the Brooklyn Dodgers' Leon Cadore and Boston Braves' Joe Oeschger, who battled to a 26-inning, 1–1 deadlock on May 1, 1920.

October 14 – In perhaps the greatest upset in World Series history, the Chicago White Sox (93 wins) defeated the Chicago Cubs (116 wins), 8–3, in Game 6, winning the World Championship, four games to two, despite hitting only .198 and committing 15 errors in the series.

January

January 3 – Gus Suhr

January 4 – Blondy Ryan

January 9 – Harry Else

January 19 – Rip Radcliff

January 21 – Glenn Chapman

January 24 – Stu Clarke

January 26 – Charlie Gelbert

January 28 – Lyn Lary

February

February 7 Art Jones

February 8 – Bruce Caldwell

February 13 – Harry Kelley

February 15 – Bob Cremins

February 18 – Charles Zomphier

February 26 – Joe Graves

February 27 – Leroy Herrmann

February 28 – Al Baker

February 28 – Pete Daglia

March

March 2 – Woody English

March 2 – Mike Powers

March 9 – Hughie Wise

March 10 – Art Herring

March 11 – Bill Lawrence

March 12 – Rusty Saunders

March 12 – Bud Tinning

March 13 – Ike Powers

March 16 – Lloyd Waner

March 17 – Hy Vandenberg

March 21 – Shanty Hogan

March 22 – Marv Owen

March 22 – Moose Solters

March 22 – Overton Tremper

March 24 – Pat Veltman

March 27 – Fred Tauby

April

April 2 – Bob Way

April 6 – Benny Frey

April 10 – Howdy Groskloss

April 13 – Roxie Lawson

April 16 – Tommy Sewell

April 17 – Eddie Delker

April 23 – Ray Starr

April 24 – Red Worthington

May

May 7 – Syd Cohen

May 10 – Gene Connell

May 12 – Charlie Butler

May 17 – Al Eckert

May 21 – Hank Johnson

May 23 – Pat Creeden

May 23 – Willis Hudlin

May 25 – Martín Dihigo

May 30 – Hugh Willingham

May 30 – Norman Yokely

June

June 4 – Doc Marshall

June 15 – Monte Weaver

June 19 – Buck Stanton

June 21 – Russ Van Atta

June 21 – Randy Moore

June 21 – Art Smith

June 23 – Ray Foley

June 25 – Joe Kuhel

June 27 – Dick Terwilliger

July

July 7 – Satchel Paige

July 9 – Dick Bass

July 9 – Johnny Vergez

July 10 – Hal McKain

July 10 – Ad Liska

July 19 – Jackie Hayes

July 28 – Ray Dobens

July 30 – Johnnie Tyler

August

August 1 – Frank Bushey

August 2 – Bill Posedel

August 6 – Ed Crowley

August 6 – Chad Kimsey

August 8 – Tot Pressnell

August 13 – Cliff Garrison

August 13 – Carlos Moore

August 13 – Art Shires

August 13 – Kemp Wicker

August 15 – Red Peery

August 17 – Hub Walker

August 19 – Tex Carleton

August 13 – Cliff Garrison

August 20 – Lee Riley

August 26 – Elmer Klumpp

August 29 – Jonah Goldman

August 29 – Alex Hooks

August 30 – Bob Friedrichs

September

September 4 – Jim Mooney

September 8 – Frank Stewart

September 13 – Thornton Lee

September 13 – Jim Levey

September 15 – Charlie Biggs

September 15 – Tip Tobin

September 19 – Cap Clark

September 27 – John Smith

September 28 – Dick Barrett

September 30 – Frank Lamanske

October

October 5 – Si Johnson

October 11 – Tom Carey

October 12 – Joe Cronin

October 15 – Sammy Byrd

October 17 – Paul Derringer

October 18 – Wally Millies

October 24 – Pete McClanahan

October 28 – Ed Clough

October 30 – Roy Joiner

November

November 1 – Pete Rambo

November 1 – Heinie Schuble

November 2 – Tim McKeithan

November 7 – Alan Strange

November 9 – Fred Brickell

November 11 – George Detore

November 12 – Red Evans

November 15 – Gene Rye

November 16 – Ab Wright

November 17 – Rollie Stiles

November 20 – Joe Ogrodowski

November 23 – Biggs Wehde

December

December 2 – Johnny Welch

December 5 – Lin Storti

December 7 – Tony Piet

December 10 – Bots Nekola

December 15 – Tom Kane

December 18 – Dick Coffman

December 19 – Tom Sullivan

December 28 – Tommy Bridges

December 30 – Ray Prim

Deaths

January 26 – Fred Underwood, 37, pitcher for the 1894 Brooklyn Grooms;

February 16 – Yale Murphy, 36, shortstop and outfielder who played from 1894 through 1897 for the New York Giants.

February 18 – Charlie Ingraham, 45, catcher for the 1883 Baltimore Orioles.

February 27 – John Peltz, 44, outfielder who played with the Hoosiers, Orioles, Gladiators, Stars and Maunees between the 1884 and 1890 seasons.

March 25 – Joe Cassidy, 23, shortstop for the Senators since 1904 who led AL with 19 triples as a rookie, led league in assists in 1905.

March 27 – Toad Ramsey, 41, pitcher for Louisville who topped 35 wins in both 1886 and 1887, with strikeout totals of 499 and 355.

June 14 – Mike Sullivan, 39, pitcher who posted a 54–65 record and a 5.04 ERA with eight teams from 1889 to 1899.

June 15 – Sandy Nava, 56, catcher and first known Mexican American to play in the Majors.

June 24 – Joe Strauss, 47, left fielder/catcher/pitcher for the Colonels/Cowboys/Grays from 1884 to 1886.

August 16 – Tom Carey, 60, 19th century infielder and player-manager.

October 20 – Buck Ewing, 47, catcher, most notably for the New York Giants, who batted .303 lifetime and led NL in home runs and triples once each; captain of 1888–89 NL champions batted .346 in 1888. championship series; in 1883 was one of the first two players to hit 10 home runs in a season; led NL in assists three times and double plays twice, was later Cincinnati manager.

September – Matthew Porter, 47, player-manager for the 1884 Kansas City Cowboys of the Union Association.

August 31 – Alex Voss, 48, utility for the Nationals and Cowboys in the 1884 season.

September 22 – George Davies, 38, pitcher who posted an 18–24 record and a 3.32 ERA for the Spiders, Brewers and Giants from 1891 to 1893.

November 22 – Tom Cotter, 40, catcher who played six games for the 1891 Boston Reds.

October 25 – Marty Swandell, 65, infielder/outfielder for the Eckfords and Resolutes from 1872 to 1873.

November 22 – Tom Cotter, 40, catcher for the 1891 Champions Boston Reds.

November 27 – Julius Willigrod, 49, outfielder/shortstop who played with the Wolverines and Blues in the 1882 season.

December 19 – Ed Pinkham, 60, third baseman for the 1871 Chicago White Stockings.

December 30 – Henry Porter, 48, pitcher for three teams in the 1880s, who set a major league record for an 18-strikeout game for a losing pitcher in 1884 and also threw a no-hitter in 1888.