A three-home-run performance by Manny Jimenez carried Kansas City into a 6-6 tie with Baltimore on Independence Day in 1964. But before anyone could throw a pitch in extra innings, an agreement made long before first pitch abruptly ended the contest.

🕵️ Inside The Original Newspaper Coverage you’ll learn:

  • The agreement that changed the game's ending.

  • Why the box score survived anyway

  • The Baltimore milestone Jimenez quietly reached.

  • The pennant race ripple few fans noticed.

🕵️ Replay Today: July 4, 1966

Travel back 60 years ago to the day, and experience baseball as fans saw it that day with one original newspaper page featuring:

  • pitchers’ day at the plate is so “grand” it sets a record

  • pitcher considers it a debt repaid

  • fireworks at Candlestick Park started a day early

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