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NOW BATTING: Baseball’s first designated hitter stepped up to the plate on this day in 1973 when Ron Blomberg of the N.Y. Yankees squared off against Luis Tiant of the Boston Red Sox.

History took a bow early, the offense wasted no time clicking from there and the Red Sox battered the Cardinals, 13-9.