The Quiet Icon of Murderers Row - Heartfelt History™

The Quiet Icon of Murderers Row

On May 24, 1936, Tony Lazzeri of the New York Yankees became the first major league player to hit two grand slams in one single game, and his eleven RBIs that day remain an American League record. The extraordinary layer to Lazzeri’s historic performance is that he achieved his legendary career while managing epilepsy in an era when the condition was heavily stigmatized. Team officials and some teammates were aware of his condition, but it was kept from the public, and Lazzeri quietly endured the risks, relying on those around him to look out for him while becoming a backbone of the famous Murderers Row lineup. On the day of his record-setting game, he actually batted eighth in the lineup, making his explosive eleven-RBI outburst from the bottom of the order an even more astonishing and unmatched feat in baseball history.

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