From the desk: WHERE THE EAGLES LEARNED TO FLY
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On this day, Monday, June 17, 1935, in a Negro National League game, the Brooklyn Eagles fall to the Homestead Grays at Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Brooklyn jumps out to a 1-0 lead in the first and takes a two-run lead in the top half of the second. But the Grays knot the game in the bottom half of the frame. The teams then traded runs in the third. Homestead takes their first lead with two runs in the fifth, then scores the game's pivotal run in the home eighth, as Brooklyn tallies single runs in the eighth and ninth innings but falls one tally short.
Eagles starter Will Jackman allows six runs (five earned) on ten hits and two walks with one strikeout in a losing effort. Homestead right-hander Joe "Baby Face" Strong yields three runs on five hits and three walks with four strikeouts through five innings. In relief of Strong, C.D. Mosley surrenders two runs on four hits and one walk with two strikeouts for the win.
For Homestead, first baseman Buck Leonard goes 4 for 4 with three doubles, a home run, two runs batted in, three runs scored, and a stolen base, left fielder Vic Harris is 2 for 4 with a double, one run batted in, and a run scored, and center fielder Ray Brown goes 1 for 3 with a double, stolen base, and a run batted in. Starter Joe Strong also helps his own cause with a hit and two runs batted in
Second basemen Harry Williams homers for Brooklyn. Catcher Leon Ruffin leads the Eagles with three hits and two runs scored. First baseman George Giles goes 2 for 5 with a double, triple, and run scored. Third baseman Javier Perez also doubles and drives in a run. Leon Day played right field and went hitless in four at-bats.
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