From nationalpastime.com:
May 24, 1936 "At Shibe Park, second baseman Tony Lazzeri becomes the first major league player to hit two grand slams in the same game when the Yankees annihilate the A's, 25-2. The bases-full homers enable the future member of the Hall of Fame to establish a new American League record with 11 RBIs."
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Salt Lake City's History Minute - Hall of Fame Baseballer Tony Lazzeri
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAsKp13Vyas
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May 24, 1936: Tony Lazzeri’s two grand slams and 11 RBIs
https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/may-...s-and-11-rbis/
Excerpts from the sabr.org article:
"Approximately 8,000 fans paid to enter Shibe Park on Sunday, May 24, 1936, to see the seventh-place Philadelphia Athletics take on the first-place New York Yankees. George Turbeville took the mound for Philadelphia against the Yankees’ Monte Pearson."
"The Athletics scored the first two runs of the game, in the bottom half of the first inning and then were shut out for the rest of the game. New York did the rest, hammering out 19 hits, taking advantage of 16 bases on balls, and scoring 25 runs. The Yankees scored five times in the second and fourth innings and six times in the fifth and eighth innings, adding one run in the sixth and two in the seventh for good measure. The opening sentence of the New York Times’ account of the game the next day summed up the story: “Tony Lazzeri hammered his way to baseball fame today with an exhibition of batting unparalleled in American League history as he set the pace in the Yankees’ crushing 25-2 victory over the Athletics at Shibe Park.”
"Lazzeri’s line in the box score showed a career day: 5 at-bats, 4 runs, 4 hits, 2 putouts, 1 assist, 0 errors. What had to be read under the line scores shows that Lazzeri had a triple and three home runs and he knocked in 11 runs. And he was batting eighth. He bested Jimmie Foxx’s previous American League mark of 9 RBIs in a single game. Foxx set that record in 1933 with a double, triple, and home run. The National League record of 12 RBIs in a game was set by St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Jim Bottomley on September 16, 1924. Another Cardinal, Mark Whiten, tied the NL record by knocking in 12 runs on September 7, 1993. Lazzeri’s AL record still stood as of 2014."
"...one hit was a second-inning grand slam by Lazzeri."
"Lazzeri hit a second grand slam in the fifth inning..."
"With two grand slams in one game Lazzeri “created” a new baseball record; he was the first major leaguer to accomplish the feat."
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Tony Lazzeri
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/tony-lazzeri/
Excerpts from the sabr.org article:
"The New York Yankees took an interest in the young slugger. At that time the Salt Lake City club had a working arrangement with the Chicago Cubs. Knowing that Lazzeri had epileptic episodes off the field, the Cubs were afraid to buy him. The Cincinnati Reds also passed him up, and Garry Hermann, owner of the Reds, wrote to Yankee owner Jacob Ruppert and told him why his club had not bought Lazzeri."
"As it turned out, Lazzeri’s epilepsy never affected him on the playing field. The public never knew he had the disorder."
"Ed Barrow purchased Lazzeri’s contract from Salt Lake City in the fall of 1925 for players Frank Zoeller and Mack Hillis and $50,000, a considerable amount of money at that time. Subsequently, Lazzeri signed a contract with the Yankees for $5,000 on March 30, 1926, and reported to Spring Training at St. Petersburg, Florida. Lazzeri was 22 years old."
"As the first great ballplayer of Italian heritage to play in New York, the Italian-American fans in New York and elsewhere took great pride in Lazzeri. Because of him, thousands of people of Italian descent were introduced to baseball for the first time, and they came back again and again."
"..assessment of Lazzeri was that he was an extremely gifted ball player; one of the best of his era. A look back at his career with the Yankees showed that Tony Lazzeri helped the Yankees capture six American League pennants and five World Championships. During his twelve years with the Yankees, Lazzeri batted .293 with 1784 hits, 327 doubles, 115 triples, 169 home runs, and 1157 RBIs."
"Lazzeri always loved being a Yankee. In 1945 he told sportswriter Bob Considine: “Around New York I used to hear that expression, ‘Once a Dodger, always a Dodger.’ But how about, ‘Once a Yankee, always a Yankee?’ ” There never was anything better than that. You never get over it.”
"A year later on August 6, 1946, after returning home from a short vacation out of town, Mrs. Lazzeri found her husband slumped on the landing of their home in San Francisco, California. Sadly, the former Yankee infielder had died alone of a heart attack at the age of 42."
"Tony Lazzeri was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1991."
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Tony Lazzeri
https://baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/lazzeri-tony
Excerpt from the baseballhall.org article:
""(Tony) not only was a great ballplayer, he was a great man. He was a leader. He was like a manager on the field." – Frankie Crosetti"
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Tony Lazzeri gets inducted into Cooperstown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNWI-odJnpU
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Two Grand Slams in One Game
https://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/feats11.shtml
Excerpts from the www.baseball-almanac.com article:
"Many good hitters have hit two or more home runs in a game, but grand slams? On May 24, 1936, Tony Lazzeri of the New York Yankees did just that, clearing the bases twice for the first time ever in the Major Leagues. Since then, only twelve other players have achieved this feat, making this one of the most amazing and elite hitting feats in the game."
"What makes this feat so wonderful, is that it is a team effort. One man may end up with all the glory (and RBIs), but without his teammates getting on, he just has two solo home runs. However, each player who achieved this feat deserves his place in history, as he has overcome the pressure not once but twice in one day to lead his team to victory."
May 24, 1936 "At Shibe Park, second baseman Tony Lazzeri becomes the first major league player to hit two grand slams in the same game when the Yankees annihilate the A's, 25-2. The bases-full homers enable the future member of the Hall of Fame to establish a new American League record with 11 RBIs."
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Salt Lake City's History Minute - Hall of Fame Baseballer Tony Lazzeri
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAsKp13Vyas
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May 24, 1936: Tony Lazzeri’s two grand slams and 11 RBIs
https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/may-...s-and-11-rbis/
Excerpts from the sabr.org article:
"Approximately 8,000 fans paid to enter Shibe Park on Sunday, May 24, 1936, to see the seventh-place Philadelphia Athletics take on the first-place New York Yankees. George Turbeville took the mound for Philadelphia against the Yankees’ Monte Pearson."
"The Athletics scored the first two runs of the game, in the bottom half of the first inning and then were shut out for the rest of the game. New York did the rest, hammering out 19 hits, taking advantage of 16 bases on balls, and scoring 25 runs. The Yankees scored five times in the second and fourth innings and six times in the fifth and eighth innings, adding one run in the sixth and two in the seventh for good measure. The opening sentence of the New York Times’ account of the game the next day summed up the story: “Tony Lazzeri hammered his way to baseball fame today with an exhibition of batting unparalleled in American League history as he set the pace in the Yankees’ crushing 25-2 victory over the Athletics at Shibe Park.”
"Lazzeri’s line in the box score showed a career day: 5 at-bats, 4 runs, 4 hits, 2 putouts, 1 assist, 0 errors. What had to be read under the line scores shows that Lazzeri had a triple and three home runs and he knocked in 11 runs. And he was batting eighth. He bested Jimmie Foxx’s previous American League mark of 9 RBIs in a single game. Foxx set that record in 1933 with a double, triple, and home run. The National League record of 12 RBIs in a game was set by St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Jim Bottomley on September 16, 1924. Another Cardinal, Mark Whiten, tied the NL record by knocking in 12 runs on September 7, 1993. Lazzeri’s AL record still stood as of 2014."
"...one hit was a second-inning grand slam by Lazzeri."
"Lazzeri hit a second grand slam in the fifth inning..."
"With two grand slams in one game Lazzeri “created” a new baseball record; he was the first major leaguer to accomplish the feat."
======================================================
Tony Lazzeri
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/tony-lazzeri/
Excerpts from the sabr.org article:
"The New York Yankees took an interest in the young slugger. At that time the Salt Lake City club had a working arrangement with the Chicago Cubs. Knowing that Lazzeri had epileptic episodes off the field, the Cubs were afraid to buy him. The Cincinnati Reds also passed him up, and Garry Hermann, owner of the Reds, wrote to Yankee owner Jacob Ruppert and told him why his club had not bought Lazzeri."
"As it turned out, Lazzeri’s epilepsy never affected him on the playing field. The public never knew he had the disorder."
"Ed Barrow purchased Lazzeri’s contract from Salt Lake City in the fall of 1925 for players Frank Zoeller and Mack Hillis and $50,000, a considerable amount of money at that time. Subsequently, Lazzeri signed a contract with the Yankees for $5,000 on March 30, 1926, and reported to Spring Training at St. Petersburg, Florida. Lazzeri was 22 years old."
"As the first great ballplayer of Italian heritage to play in New York, the Italian-American fans in New York and elsewhere took great pride in Lazzeri. Because of him, thousands of people of Italian descent were introduced to baseball for the first time, and they came back again and again."
"..assessment of Lazzeri was that he was an extremely gifted ball player; one of the best of his era. A look back at his career with the Yankees showed that Tony Lazzeri helped the Yankees capture six American League pennants and five World Championships. During his twelve years with the Yankees, Lazzeri batted .293 with 1784 hits, 327 doubles, 115 triples, 169 home runs, and 1157 RBIs."
"Lazzeri always loved being a Yankee. In 1945 he told sportswriter Bob Considine: “Around New York I used to hear that expression, ‘Once a Dodger, always a Dodger.’ But how about, ‘Once a Yankee, always a Yankee?’ ” There never was anything better than that. You never get over it.”
"A year later on August 6, 1946, after returning home from a short vacation out of town, Mrs. Lazzeri found her husband slumped on the landing of their home in San Francisco, California. Sadly, the former Yankee infielder had died alone of a heart attack at the age of 42."
"Tony Lazzeri was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1991."
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Tony Lazzeri
https://baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/lazzeri-tony
Excerpt from the baseballhall.org article:
""(Tony) not only was a great ballplayer, he was a great man. He was a leader. He was like a manager on the field." – Frankie Crosetti"
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Tony Lazzeri gets inducted into Cooperstown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNWI-odJnpU
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Two Grand Slams in One Game
https://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/feats11.shtml
Excerpts from the www.baseball-almanac.com article:
"Many good hitters have hit two or more home runs in a game, but grand slams? On May 24, 1936, Tony Lazzeri of the New York Yankees did just that, clearing the bases twice for the first time ever in the Major Leagues. Since then, only twelve other players have achieved this feat, making this one of the most amazing and elite hitting feats in the game."
"What makes this feat so wonderful, is that it is a team effort. One man may end up with all the glory (and RBIs), but without his teammates getting on, he just has two solo home runs. However, each player who achieved this feat deserves his place in history, as he has overcome the pressure not once but twice in one day to lead his team to victory."