1970

July 1 - Braves spoils the opening of Riverfront Stadium - defeating the Reds - Hank Aaron hit a 2 run HR in the 1st - Denny McLain returns to Detroit after his 3 month gambling suspension - hasn't been allowed to pitch to professional hitters during suspension - Bob Gibson wins his 9th consecutive game - Padres snap a 7 game losing streak against Gaylord Perry

July 2 - Joe Niekro goes 8 1/3 before Horace Clark got the Yankees only hit, Detroit wins 5-0 - Expos have their 5th straight win with the help of John Bateman's grand slam and his 7 rbi's - after ending a 12 game losing streak, the Cubs have 3 double headers in the next 6 days - Boston's Gary Peters throws his 2nd consecutive shut-out

July 3 - Angles' Clyde Wright tosses a no-hitter against the Athletics, first in AL this year

July 4 - Tom Timmerman, after being recalled to the Tigers from the minors, gets his 9th save in the last 11 appearances - Roberto Clemente hits 2 HR against the Cubs, his 2nd consecutive 2 HR game - A's Catfish Hunter is the AL's first 13 game winner

July 8 - Earl Weaver picks 3 Baltimore starters for his AL All-Star squad - Gil Hodges only picks Tom Seaver from his Mets to the NL All-Star squad - Denny McLain testified in his bankruptcy hearing, has $400,000 in debts and no assets

July 9 - Brooks Robinson and Tony Oliva were added to the AL All-Star squad to complete the 28 man roster - Roberto Clemente has to decline the NL All-Star position due to a stiff neck - Matty Alou was chose in his spot - Yanks' Dalton Jones hits a grand slam but was only credited with a single because he passed Don Wert on the basepaths - John McHale becomes president of the Expos

July 10 - Tony Conigliaro charged Fred Lasher after being hit in the arm, he kicked Lasher who later needed a tetnus shot because of spike marks and punched him in the nose - Billy Conigliaro also hit Lasher, it was a HR

July 14 - All-Star game - NL defeats AL 5-4 in 12 innings - Rose scores winning run from 2nd base with a single by Jim Hickman - Rose and Ray Fosse collision at the plate on the winning run will put Rose and Fosse out for a couple of days - 74-year-old Casey Stengel puts 44-year-old Warren Spahn on waivers - Spahn offered to go to bull-pen but was rejected - currently Spahn is tied for 6th place with 360 wins

July 15 - Morgana fines $25.00 for trying to kiss Johnny Bench during the All-Star game - NBC estimates that a record audience for the All-Star game was over 50 million

July 16 - Pirates open Three Rivers Stadium today - Dick Williams and Eddie Stanky tesitfy the National Labor Relations Board that umpires Al Salerno and Bill Valentine were "very capable" and "very competent" - both were fired by AL President Joe Cronin for "never at any time competent" - Earl Wilson was sold to the Padres for $20,000 by the Tigers - Charges against Ron Santo were dropped, he was accused of throwing a beer vendor against a wall and trying to hit him in Wrigley Field

July 17 - People from Dallas insist that the Cleveland franchise is coming - Pirates' ground crew brings in new clay to create a batter box more suited to Roberto Clemente - Army bound, Billy Conigliaro drives in 3 runs to give the Bosox their 4th straight win

July 18 - NBC televised a computerize baseball game between the 1942 Cardinals and the 1955 Dodgers - Cardinals win 3-2 - Wilie Mays hits #3,000 - Jim Perry wins #14, tops in the AL

July 19 - Angels fly into New York Rudy May and Tom Murphy, in the middle of 2 weeks military training, both recorded wins - Earl Weaver gets another ejection - Met's Joe Foy has 3 errors and 5 RBI's

July 23 - Orioles get 20th straight win over Kansas City, close to the major league record set by the Yankees who beat the St. Louis Browns 21 straight games

July 24 - ChiSox' Bill Melton ties a major league record by striking out 7 times in a double-header

July 25 - Johnny Bench hits his 30th HR helping the Reds put the Cardinals in last place - Ron Fairly's grand slam helps move the Expos out of last place