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April 15 - President Roosevelt opens the baseball season in Washington - 16 teams were
in action in front of 200,000 fans - Joe DiMaggio drives in a run with a triple in the 1st inning - Yankees defeated the Senators
3-0
April 16 - Indians' pitcher, Happy Milnar shuts out the White Sox 6-0 - World Champion Reds are shut-down
again by the Cardinals - Dodgers commit 4 errors, giving the game to the Giants - Browns' Elden Auker 4 hits the Tigers
for the win - NKE
April 18 - Hank Greenberg declared 1-A and will be drafted May 7 - World Champion Red are
0-4
April 19 - Boston Bees will be sold next week, Ford Frick in Boston for consultation - Stengel to remain as
manager
April 20 - White Sox - Bees game called due to cold weather - NL teams averaged 15 runs, 25 hits and 4
errors in today's games - Only 1 pitcher lasted 9 innings (Red Ruffing) in the majors when the Yankees beat the A's
19-5
April 21 - Giants' Mel Ott hits his 4th HR, winning over the Dodgers 7-6 - Washington Senators stopped
the Red Sox' 5 game winning streak - Yankees defeat the Athletics 14-4, Joe DiMaggio hit a HR, double and 2 singles -
NKE
April 22 - Bob Feller warned pitch stealers today to stop stealing his signs or half the clubs "will be
in the hospital" - Struggling since his back-to-back no-hitters, Johnny Vander Meer may be on his way back - shutting
out the Cub 1-0
- Phillies break a 6 game losing streak in 14 innings
April 23 - Bucky Walters shut-out gives
the Reds a 4 game winning steak - Phil Rizutto wins the game for the Yankees against the Red Sox with a 2 run hr in the 11th
April 29 - Indians hold onto the AL lead with their 5th straight win - Dodgers lead in the NL
April 30
- Tigers got out of their hitting slump, knock out 18 hits to defeat the Red Sox 12-8
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May 1 - Cardinals %
points ahead of the Dodgers in the NL - White Sox hold lead over the Indians in the AL - Johnny Van Der Meer pitched a shut-out
against the Dodgers giving the Reds a 3-0 victory
May 6 - Hank Greenberg, baseball's highest salary player,
hits a 2 run HR in his farewell game for the Tigers - Cards winning streak stopped at 10 games - Indians winning streak
stopped at 11 games
May 7 - Larry McPhail and 2 John Hopkins doctors apply for a patent on Brooklyn's new safety
cap - Card's manager Billy Southworth switched out pitchers 4 times for 6 batters in 2 innings but Dodger still win 4-3
- Reds' Eddie Joost set a major league record for a shortstop by handling 19 fielding chances and Bucky Walters throws
a shut-out
May 8 - Hank Greenberg inducted into the Army - Dodgers beat the Cards in 12 innings, they have
won 13 out of 15 during this home stand
May 13 - Feller goes 10 innings, beating the Yankees 2-1, record is 6-2
- Dodgers win puts the Reds in the 2nd division - Reds' Secretary Gabe Paul says he got a shiner when he hit himself receiver
of his office phone
May 14 - Dizzy Dean asked to be put on voluntary retired list, the great pitcher who is now
30 years old has only won 16 games in the last 3 season
May 15 - Cleveland's
31 year old pitcher Mel Harder has started the year 4-0, defeating the Yankees who have lost 4 in a row - Red Sox manager,
Joe Cronin hits a grand slam to defeat the Indians 10-7 - Tigers lose their 6th game since Hank Greenberg departed for the
Army - the World Champion Reds' General Manager, Warren Giles, now in the 2nd division, gave a $35,000 check to Branch
Rickey of the Cardinal left fielder, Ernie Koy - Reported today that Dizzy Dean was paid $259,937 over 11 years - this year,
as a Cub, he was paid $100,000 for pitching 1 inning - he is now on the coaching staff
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June 2 - Dodgers nip
the collapsing Cardinals 3-2 to climb into 1st place - ChiSox have a 1 game leader over the Indians - despite 12 errors in
the last week - Mel Ott hits his 400th HR leading the Giants to a 3-2 victory over Cincinnati
July 1 - Iowa farm boy, Bob Feller has passed the
half way mark to 30 wins - feat has been accomplished since Dizzy Dean in 1934 - his Achilles Heal appears to be Sportsman's
Park in St. Louis - the Browns has sent him to the showers twice - Boston's Jimmie Foxx was named to the All-Star team
- he has been named to every team since the first in 1933
July 8 - Ted Williams hits a 9th inning HR to drive in
2 men on base with 2 outs giving the AL the All-Star game - AL's 6th victory in the last 9 All-Star games - NL's Del
Baker said that Williams knew it was gone and stood at home plate and clappe until it hits the stands - Neither Bob Feller
of the NL and Whit Wyatt of the AL were scored on in the first 3 innings before they had to be pulled
Aug 1 - Redbirds maintain
their 2 game lead over the Dodgers after losing 9-5 - Yankes take a double header from the Tigers - DiMaggio hits his 25th
HR - extends his new hitting streak to 14 games - now he is 70 out of 71 games - Philadelphia A's defeat the ChiSox to
take 4th place - first time in years that the A's have been in the first division this late in the year - Ted Williams
is batting .409
Sept 1 - Yankees lead AL by 19 1/2 games - Cards
lead the Dodgers by 2 percentage points - Card's Lou Warneke no-hit the Reds yesterday
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