This Day In Baseball
History: May 24, 1935
It was on this date in 1935 that
the first night game in the history of Major League Baseball was played at
Crossley Field in Cincinnati. The hometown Reds were hosting the Philadelphia
Phillies. The first game under the lights had been scheduled to be played the
previous evening, but rain had spoiled that plan. During the opening
ceremonies, United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressed a button at
the White House that (symbolically only) turned on the lights in Cincinnati.
The game was played in front of
20,422 fans and was finished in a remarkable one hour and thirty-five minutes
(keep in mind there were no TV commercials to lengthen the time between innings
back then.) Joe Bowman started on the mound for the Phillies while the Reds
countered with Paul Derringer, who would pitch a complete game.
The Reds won the game by a score
of 2-1, scoring a run in the first and one in the fourth, while Philly picked
up theirs in the fifth.
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