The energizer Fox

Nellie Fox, in the midst of a 2-for-33 slump and an arduous 19-game road trip, plays his 274th straight game 68 years ago today in a 2-1 loss at Baltimore.

The streak ends the next day as Chicago White Sox manager Marty Marion gives a day off to the pride of Pennsylvania's Franklin County.

The White Sox, who dust off Bobby Adams to replace Fox at second base, lose that game to the Orioles 8-1 before Marion reinserts Fox into the lineup the next day in 1955, beginning another streak of 798 consecutive games played by the future Hall of Famer.