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Podcast: Classic Baseball Daily Highlights
Episode: August 12 - Mickey Mantle sets switch hitting mark
Description: August 12, 1912 three men attack Ty Cobb on his way to the Detroit rail station. Cobb sustains a cut on his shoulder but catches one of his attackers and pistol-whips him. To no one’s surprise, Cobb then travels to Syracuse and gets two hits in an exhibition game.There was no joy in Mudville on August 12th, 1940 as Ernest Lawrence Thayer, author of "Casey at the Bat", dies in Santa Barbara, CA at age 77.Cleveland and Detroit square off to decide ownership of the division lead. In a duel between the two aces‚ Bob Feller tops...