1901: The New York Giants set a major league record with 31 hits in beating Cincinnati 25-13 on June 9. Al Selbach of the Giants went 6-for-7 with two doubles and four singles and scored four runs.
1906: Boston snapped a 19-game losing streak by beating the St. Louis Cardinals 6-3.
1935: The St. Louis Cardinals became the 10th team in major league history to score a run in every inning in a 13-2 win over the Chicago Cubs.
1946: Commissioner Happy Chandler imposed five-year suspensions on players who jumped to the Mexican League and three-year suspensions for those who broke the reserve clause.
1946: The New York Giants’ Mel Ott became the first manager to be ejected in both ends of a doubleheader. The Pittsburgh Pirates won both games, 2-1 and 5-1.
1963: Playing the first Sunday night game in major league history because of excessive heat during the day, the Houston Colt .45s handed the San Francisco Giants their seventh straight loss in Houston, 3-0. Turk Farrell and Skinny Brown pitched the shutout.
1966: Rich Rollins, Zoilo Versalles, Tony Oliva, Don Mincher and Harmon Killebrew homered in the seventh inning for the Minnesota Twins in a 9-4 victory over the Kansas City Athletics.
1979: California’s Nolan Ryan struck out 16 as the Angels beat the Detroit Tigers 9-1. It was the 21st time in his career he struck out 15.
