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Podcast: Classic Baseball Daily Highlights
Episode: September 12 - Yaz Collects 3000 hit
Description: September 12, 1911 - In a game billed as a pitchers' duel, Boston's Cy Young and the Giants' Christy Mathewson face each other for the first time before 10,000, Boston's largest crowd of the year. Young gives up three homers and nine runsin less than three innings. With a 9 - 0 Giants lead, John McGraw lifts Mathewson, who pitched just two innings, preferring to save his ace for the pennant race against Chicago and Philadelphia. This would end up being the only time the two pitchers ever face each other. The Giants coast to an 11–2 win.September 12, 1979 - Carl Yastrzemski, an eighteen time All-Star, an...