1869 - Cincinnati Reds play their 1st baseball game, win 41-7
1902 - 2 deaf-mutes face each other for 1st time as Dummy Hoy leads off for the Reds against Dummy Taylor of the Giants, Reds win 5-3
1927 - New York Yankee Bob Meusel steals 2nd, 3rd & home
1932 - Yankees 4th straight shutout to equal record set by Cleveland & Boston
1933 - Cecil Travis becomes 1st player to get 5 hits in his 1st game
1939 - 1st AL night game, Philadelphia Shribe Park (Indians 8, Athletics 3 in 10)
1953 - Phillies Curt Simmons gives up a single, then retires next 27 in a row
1954 - Ted Williams gets 8 hits in 1st game (DH) since breaking collarbone
1957 - Yankees involved in Copacabana Incident, leads to Billy Martin trade
1965 - Baltimore Oriole Jim Palmer's pitching debut, beats Yankees 7-5 & homers
1972 - Greg Luzinski's 500' HR hits Liberty Bell monument in Philadelphia Vet
1979 - NL approves Astros sales from Ford Motors to John J McMullen for $19M
1981 - Houston Astro Craig Reynolds hits 3 triples beating Cubs 6-1
1984 - Phillie pitcher Steve Carlton hits a grand slam homer
1984 - Mackay pays $218,718 for 44,166 tickets to keep Twins in Minnesota. Twins sell 51,863 tickets but only 6,346 fans show up for the game
1996 - Sammy Sosa is 1st Chicago Cub to hit 2 HRS in 1 inning
1997 - Atlanta Braves beat St Louis Cardinals, 1-0 in 13 innings
1997 - Expos trailing San Francisco Giants by 9 runs comeback to win 14-13
1997 - St Louis Cardinals Gary Gaetti records his 2,000th hits