1st

When Indianapolis scores 3 runs in the top of the 8th inning to take a 4-2 lead at Washington, Senator C Connie Mack suddenly complains of a sore finger. The ensuing delay lasts until darkness and forces the game's end, the score reverting to a 7-inning 2-1 Senator victory.

3rd

Both the New York Giants (NL) and St. Louis Browns (AA) clinch their respective pennants today.

4th

Ed Crane of the Giants strikes out 4 consecutive batters in the 5th inning, one reaching on a missed 3rd strike. Crane finishes with a one-hit 1-0 victory over rookie John Tener of the Colts.

7th

Silver King notches his 45th win of the season, 10 more than any other pitcher will get this year. The 20-year-old righthander will also finish leading the ML in games pitched (66), innings (586), complete games (64), and ERA (1.64).

11th

New York P Bill George bats leadoff, goes 3-for-6, and pitches a 3-hitter to beat Indianapolis 13-0.

13th

The NL season closes on a prosperous note. The Giants finish with a season attendance of 305,000, a league record.

14th

The story breaks that Detroit is selling its players and dropping out of the NL. The Cleveland AA club will join the league and get any leftover players.

16th

The 10-game World Series opens in New York with the Giants and Tim Keefe edging the Browns and Silver King 2-1. Each hurler allows only 3 hits.

17th

The Browns even the series when Icebox Chamberlain blanks the Giants 3-0 on 6 hits.

18th

In game 3, Keefe beats King 4-2 thanks to 3 costly errors by St. Louis C Jack Boyle.

19th

The series moves to Brooklyn, where the Giants win 6-3 behind the battery of Cannonball Crane and Willard Brown.

20th

The largest crowd of the series, 9,124, sees a dramatic 6-4 Giant victory at the Polo Grounds. Trailing 4-1 in the bottom of the 8th, New York scores 5 times, the go-ahead run scoring as 2 St. Louis fielders collide under a pop fly.

22nd

With a 12-5 win in Philadelphia, the Giants take a commanding 5-games-to-1 lead in the World Series.

24th

In St. Louis, the Browns stay alive in the WS with a 4-run 8th-inning rally that beats the Giants 7-5. Bill White's 2-run single caps the comeback.

25th

The Giants clinch New York's first World Championship 6 games to 2 by trouncing the Browns 11-3. Tim Keefe gets his 4th win of the series.

27th

The WS ends with St. Louis getting its 2nd "consolation" victory in a row. Tip O'Neill, who was just 5-for-29 in the first 8 games, hits a bases-loaded HR in today's 18-7 romp after having won yesterday's 14-11 contest with a 3-run HR in the 10th inning.