Joe Page spent most of his career as a pretty good major league reliever. He even finished high in MVP voting in two separate years with the Yankees, in 1947 and 1949. On July 10, 1947, he was a hero for the Yankees in two different ways.
The Yankees were in the midst of what would be a 19-game winning streak when they took on the St. Louis Browns on the road on July 10th. At this point, they had won eight games in a row, beating the Red Sox once and sweeping the Senators and the Athletics.