IN THE NEWS: The Cardinals outlast the Reds 8-6 in an 18-inning first game of a double bill in Cincinnati. Dizzy Dean and Tony Frietas duel for 17 innings.
Bill Terry is the top vote-getter in the All-Star balloting. Babe Ruth leads all AL outfielders.
IN THE NEWS: When Dodgers manager Casey Stengel comes out to the mound to remove P Boom Boom Beck from the game in Philadelphia's Baker Bowl, the frustrated Beck turns and fires the ball at the tin wall in RF. Dodgers OF Hack Wilson, not paying attention to the happenings, hears the ball, hurries to retrieve it, and fires a strike to 2B to prevent the imaginary runner from advancing.
After the finish of the holiday doubleheaders by all the teams, the Giants, by winning two from the Braves at the Polo Grounds, have a clear lead. They are 3 1/2 games ahead of the Cubs and 4 1/2 in front of the Cardinals.
The AL race has seesawed between the Yankees and Detroit with New York only one game ahead. The improved Red Sox are 6 1/2 behind, and Washington, last year's winner, seven back and dropping fast.
Satchel Paige pitches a 4–0 no-hitter against the Negro League Homestead Grays in Pittsburgh, with only a walk and an error spoiling a perfect game. Paige then comes in relief in game 2 and is tagged with the loss. In his next start, Satch will shut out the host Chicago American Giants 5–0 in 10 innings on July 8. In Paige's autobiography, he erroneously recalls that he threw the no-hitter in Pittsburgh, then drove to Chicago and beat the Giants on the same day, but researcher Dave Marasco corrected Satch's story.
IN THE NEWS: Lou Gehrig hits an inside-the-park grand slam, as the Yankees beat the Senators 8-3. It is his 4th of the season and 17th overall, passing Babe Ruth's
career total. Gehrig will eventually set a career record of 23 grand slams. Gehrig now has 321 career HRS to Ruth's 698.
IN THE NEWS: The second annual All-Star Game produces Carl Hubbell's amazing feat of striking out five future Hall of Famers in a row. Off to a shaky start with two on base in the first inning, Hubbell uses his screwball to fan Ruth, Gehrig, and Foxx. He adds Al Simmons and Joe Cronin to start the second. After three scoreless innings he leaves with the NL ahead 4-0. The AL rallies, scoring nine runs off Warneke, Mungo, and Dean, while Mel Harder pitches five shutout innings in relief of Red Ruffing to hold the lead. Frisch and Medwick hit HRs. Earl Averill's three RBI are decisive for the AL 9-7 victory.
IN THE NEWS: Schoolboy Rowe fans 11 Yankees in a 4-2 win that puts the Tigers back in first place.
Chuck Klein is out of the Cubs lineup because of injuries as they beat the Braves 7-4. He is batting .331 with 19 HRs and 65 RBI, but will miss much of the second half and never again will return to the high level of performance previously shown.
IN THE NEWS: Babe Ruth hits his 700th HR to win the game at Detroit's Navin Field and put the Yankees back in first place. Lou Gehrig has a lumbago seizure and is helped off the field.
Lon Warneke, Cubs mound ace, intentionally walks a batter in the seventh to load the bases and bring up the Giants P Roy Parmelee. He hits a grand slam for a 5-3 win.
NL President William Heydler upholds the Cards protest of a loss to the Cubs on July 2. The game will be resumed from the point at which umpire Klem waited too long to call an infield fly and be played prior to a scheduled July 31st game.
IN THE NEWS: Twenty-two players hit safely in the Cleveland 15-14 win over New York. Babe Ruth is hit in the leg by the ball and will be out for 10 days. It is the second time an injury has sidelined him this season.
IN THE NEWS: Dazzy Vance's last hurrah? He wins the last complete game he will ever pitch and notches his 2,000th strikeout to beat the Braves 4-2 for the Cardinals.
IN THE NEWS: Yankee CF Earle Combs crashes into the wall at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis and suffers a fractured skull. New York calls up George Selkirk but learns he broke his arm the same day playing for Newark.
IN THE NEWS: When the Cards and the Cubs resume playing the protested game of July 2 at Wrigley Field, Chicago still wins. The final score this time is 7-1 instead of 7-4.