1904 - White Sox lefty Doc White, pitches his 5th shutout in 18 days.
1926 - Robin Roberts, pitcher (Phillies, Won 28 in 1952) is born.
1927 - Babe Ruth hits record setting 60th HR (off Tom Zachary).
1934 - Babe Ruth's final game as a Yankee, goes 0 for 3.
1934 - Babe Ruth's final game as a Yankee, goes 0 for 3.
1939 - First televised College Football game (Fordham vs Waynesburg at NYC).
1939 - White Sox reliever Clint Brown sets record of 61st relief appearance.
1947 - Yanks beat Dodgers 5-3-largest WS crowd 73,365-1st WS televised.
1939 - White Sox reliever Clint Brown sets record of 61st relief appearance.
1947 - Yanks beat Dodgers 5-3-largest WS crowd 73,365-1st WS televised.
1956 - White Sox Jim Derrington, 16, is youngest to start a game (he loses).
1968 - AL & NL umpires form a new Association of Major League Umpires.
1973 - Mel Gray begins NFL streak of 121 consecutive game receptions.
1978 - Major Indoor Soccer League grants 1st 6 franchises to Cincinnati.
1984 - California Angels Michael Witt is 11th to pitch a perfect baseball game.
1984 - Bowie Kuhn ends career as Baseball Commissioner.
1984 - California Angel Mike Witt, pitches a perfect game over Texas Rangers, 1-0.
1984 - NY Yankee Don Mattingly wins AL batting crown with .343 avg.
1984 - Bowie Kuhn ends career as Baseball Commissioner.
1984 - California Angel Mike Witt, pitches a perfect game over Texas Rangers, 1-0.
1984 - NY Yankee Don Mattingly wins AL batting crown with .343 avg.
1989 - Nolan Ryan's perfect game broken in 8th, but gets his 300th strikeout.
1990 - Chicago White Sox beat Seattle 2-1 in last game at Comiskey Park.
1997 - Yankees Tim Raines, Derek Jeter & Paul O'Neill are 1st to hit
3 consecutively homers in post season (Yanks beat Indians 8-6).
1998 - Dan Quisenberry, baseball pitcher (b. 1953) was diagnosed with
grade IV astrocytoma in January of 1998, a highly malignant form of
brain cancer. He died 8 months later in Leawood, Kansas
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