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The following are the events that happened world-wide throughout the sport of baseball.

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  • 1915 - At the Polo Grounds, Babe Ruth and the well-traveled Boston Red Sox beat the New York Yankees, 7–1. It was the last stop on a 29-day road trip for the Red Sox. Ruth allowed five hits and hit his second major league career home run, a three-run shot off Jack Warhop in the second inning. After his homer, Ruth received two intentional walks. He ended up kicking the bench and breaking his toe, sidelining him for two weeks.

1920s[]

  • 1928:
    • St. Mary's College football star Larry Bettencourt started at third base for the St. Louis Browns. A future member of the College Football Hall of Fame, Bettencourt was an All-American center who will later play for the Green Bay Packers. The $6,000 bonus he received was a record for a major league rookie just out of school.
    • Les Bell of the Boston Braves collected 15 total bases with three home runs and a triple, but Boston lose to the Cincinnati Reds, 20–12.

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  • 1937 - National League President Ford Frick suspended Dizzy Dean for refusing to retract statements made after a balk call in the May 19th game, which led to an on-field brawl. Dean forced a meeting with the press at which he denied the statements, and his suspension was lifted a few days later.

1940s[]

  • 1941 - Lou Gehrig died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at the age of 37 in New York. From that time on, the illness was known primarily as Lou Gehrig's Disease. Gehrig had seen his major league record of 2,130 consecutive games end because of the disease. It was on this day exactly 16 years ago he broke into the Yankees starting line-up.
  • 1942 - Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox enlisted as a Naval Aviator. Williams will finish the season with his team as will many other players who enlisted or await draft, which moved slowly despite the early discouragements of the war. Other American League regulars of 1941 enlisted in the military service included Johnny Berardino, Sam Chapman, Bob Feller, Joe Grace, Buddy Lewis, Pat Mullin, Johnny Rigney, Johnny Sturm and Cecil Travis.

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  • 1959 - A swarm of gnats delayed the game between the Baltimore Orioles and Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park. After a half-hour interruption, the Chicago grounds crew disposed of the gnats by using a smoke bomb attached to a postgame fireworks display. The Orioles eventually defeated the White Sox, 3–2.

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  • 1999 - In the first-year player's draft, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays selected North Carolina State University prep star Josh Hamilton as their top pick. It was the first time since 1993, when Alex Rodríguez was selected, that a high school player has been chosen first.

2000s[]

  • 2001 - At Miller Park, the red-hot Chicago Cubs extended their winning streak to 12 games, beating the Milwaukee Brewers, 10–4. Matt Stairs hit a three-run home run, while Sammy Sosa and Rondell White added two-run homers, all off Paul Rigdon. Kevin Tapani was the winning pitcher. It is the longest winning streak for the Cubs since they won 15 games in 1936. The streak will finish tomorrow.
  • 2005 - The New York Yankees were swept by the team with the worst record in the majors (16-37), falling 5–2 to the Kansas City Royals for their first five-game losing streak in more than two years. Kansas City pitchers allowed just six runs in the series. It was the third time in their storied history the Yankees had been swept in three games by the team with the worst record in major league. The other times were in 2000, by the Detroit Tigers, and 1937 by the Philadelphia Athletics. The Royals had gone 78 series without sweeping anyone, the longest drought in the majors since the Phillies went 79 series without a sweep from 1996-97.

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