– 1916: Philadelphia’s “Bullet” Joe Bush pitched a no-hitter in the Athletics’ 5-0 victory over the Cleveland Indians.
– 1934: Detroit’s Schoolboy Rowe won his 16th consecutive game with a 4-2 victory over the Washington Senators. Rowe singled in the winning run in the ninth inning.
– 1939: The first major league baseball game was televised as NBC-TV brought its cameras to Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field for a doubleheader with the Reds.
– 1947: Brooklyn pitcher Dan Bankhead hit a home run in his first major league plate appearance, but didn’t fare well on the mound. In 3 1-3 innings of relief, he gave up 10 hits and six earned runs to the Pirates, who won 16-3.
– 1951: The WHITE SOX defeated the New York Yankees 3-2 in game one of a doubleheader on Nellie’s Fox’s two-out double in the ninth. A crowd of 43,593 were on hand at Comiskey Park. In the nightcap, the WHITE SOX rallied from an 8-1 deficit after seven innings to cut the gap before falling to the Yankees 8-6 for a split. The split left the Yankees one game behind the Indians.
– 1961: Roger Maris hit his 51st homer of the year against the Kansas City Athletics. The 51 homers was the most ever by a player at that point in the season.
– 1987: Milwaukee’s Paul Molitor went 0-for-4, ending his 39-game streak, and the Brewers beat the Cleveland Indians 1-0 in 10 innings on pinch-hitter Rick Manning’s RBI single. Manning delivered with Molitor waiting in the on-deck circle for a possible fifth at-bat.
