On May 23, 1926, Chicago Cubs slugger Hack Wilson became the first player to hit a home run that struck the center-field scoreboard at Wrigley Field. The towering, ground-level blast powered the Cubs to a 14-8 rout of the Boston Braves.
The scoreboard stood at ground level in center field at the time, before being moved to the left-field corner and eventually atop the newly-built bleachers in 1937. And in a bizarre twist of history, Wilson and several teammates were arrested later that same evening in a police raid of a Prohibition-era speakeasy while trying to escape through a rear window.
Hack Wilson was posthumously enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, in 1979, after a Major League career where he hit .307 with 244 home runs and 1,063 RBIs over 12 seasons.
