IN THE NEWS: Powel Crosley, Jr. exercises his 2-year option and buys controlling interest in the Cincinnati Reds.
Detroit collects 25 hits off three White Sox pitchers to win 217.
The Athletics send veteran pitcher Bill Dietrich to Washington for the waiver price. He'll be there three weeks before the Senators waive him to the White Sox on July 20.
IN THE NEWS: Cleveland OF Bruce Campbell, recently returned from a bout with spinal meningitis, goes 6-for-6 in the first game of a doubleheader. He singles in his first AB in the nightcap. The Indians sweep two, winning 146 and 42.
IN THE NEWS: In the first of two games with the A's, Boston explodes for 11 runs in the 2nd inning to ease home 162. The Sox ease up on the nitecap to win, 82. The Mackmen have now lost 12 straight.
IN THE NEWS: The National League, having lost the first three All-Star Games, wins 43 at Boston's National League Park with four different Cub players (Galan, Herman, Hartnett, and Demaree) scoring runs. After Dizzy Dean and Carl Hubbell each pitch scoreless 3-inning stints, Curt Davis is hammered by the American League, including Lou Gehrig's home run, but Lon Warneke shuts the door. Meanwhile, the NL is helped by Joe DiMaggio's loose fielding and error and Augie Galan's home run. DiMag is the first rookie to play in an All-Star game. NL plays its starting lineup except for two late-inning pinch hitters. Local favorite and 3-time starter Wally Berger doesn't appear. Missing from the NL roster are Dolph Camilli and Buck Jordan, co-leaders at .348, as well as the eventual batting champ Paul Waner.
IN THE NEWS: The temperature is 106 in Central Park, the hottest July nine on record in New York as the Indians take on the Yankees at the Stadium. The temperature at the park is 102. The Yanks score four in the 1st inning, but Cleveland comes back to score 11 runs on 15 hits, including five homers, to win 114. Hal Trosky, Roy Weatherly and Joe Vosmik all homer in the 2nd frame to tie the ML record. Trosky hits another homer to tie for the American League lead with 23. Lou Gehrig and Earl Averill also homer.
IN THE NEWS: Philadelphia's Chuck Klein hits four home runs in five at bats in a 10-inning game at Forbes Field. His final home run, on the first pitch in the 10th, helps beat the Pirates 96, and makes a winner out of Bucky Walters. Except for his three-run homer off Jim Weaver in the 1st, all of homers are solo flights. At 36, Klein is the oldest player ever to hit four homers in a game, and the first National Leaguer in the 20th century to do so.
The Yankees roll to an easy victory over the Indians, as Red Ruffing takes the shutout, 180. Lloyd Brown, the first of three pitchers, is the loser. Lou Gehrig has a pair of homers to take over the American League lead with 23.
Bobo Newsom pitches one-hit ball in blanking the Tigers, 50. The lone hit off the Washington pitcher is Jack Burns' 3rd-inning grounder that both the first baseman and 2nd baseman go after. 2B Kuhel stops the ball but no one covers the bag.
IN THE NEWS: The Giants lose 54 in Pittsburgh as Carl Hubbell, in relief, walks in the winning run. The loss leaves New York eleven games behind the front-running Cubs. New York wins the 2nd game, 144 as Bill Terry, hobbled with a knee injury, bangs out a single, double and triple. The win sparks a Giants' surge that will see them win 39 of their next 47 games.
IN THE NEWS: At Cincinnati, Phillies starter Joe Bowman gives up his first hit of the game, a lead off triple in the 9th inning to Kiki Cuyler, and then is relieved by Claude Passeau, who retires the next three batters. The Phils win 40.
IN THE NEWS: Bill Lee wins a 10 duel from Carl Hubbell, as the Cubs move into first place. It is the last game the Giant ace will lose in 1936; he will win his next 16 decisions.
IN THE NEWS: Pitcher Roger Wolff, in his debut with Oklahoma City (Texas League) holds Galveston hitless and runless for nine innings but loses on two hits in the 10th.
IN THE NEWS: At Pittsburgh, the Giants lose the opener, 54, when reliever Carl Hubbell walks in the winning run. With the loss the Giants are 11 games in back of the leading Cubs. New York rebounds in game 2, winning 144 behind Bill Terry. Terry, playing on an injured knee, collects a single, double and triple. The Giants will win 39 of their next 47 games.
Cincinnati plays the first Ladies Night game, beating Brooklyn 53.
After an absence of several weeks, manager Mickey Cochrane rejoins the Tigers in New York, as they split a doubleheader with the Yankees. The Tigers take the opener, 51, then lose 74, as New York maintains its 9-game lead. Cochrane will suffer a relapse and coach Del Baker will take over on the 21st.
IN THE NEWS: Braves C Al Lopez reaches first three times on errors, the 3rd player to do so. It is little help though as the Cubs edge the Braves, 10, in 10 innings. Lon Warneke is the winner over hard luck Ben Cantwell.
The Reds call of their game with the Dodgers because of intense heat.
IN THE NEWS: Carl Hubbell starts his winning streak, beating Pittsburgh 60. The Giants hit a National League record tying four triples in the first inning: Joe Moore, Mel Ott, and Hank Leiber hit them in succession, and Eddie Mayo adds one later in the inning to equal the ML record.
Yankees Red Rolfe, Lou Gehrig, and Bill Dickey hit 3rd-inning home runs against Detroit to tie the American League record, since topped. New York rolls, 94, dropping the Bengals to 4th place. Goose Goslin has a pair of homers for Detroit.
IN THE NEWS: The Chicago White Sox and Philadelphia A's set an American League record for most runs scored by two teams, as the White Sox win 2114 in the nitecap. Chicago OF Rip Radcliff ties an AL record with six hits (4 singles and two doubles) in seven at bats in the 9-inning game. The Sox also won the opener, 74.
IN THE NEWS: After winning their 9th straight, 112, the Indians lose to the Senators in the nitecap, 96. Young Bob Feller makes his ML debut in relief pitching the 8th inning of game 2, giving up no hits, walking two, and fanning one.
The White Sox continue to pound the A's pitching, winning their second straight doubleheader, 115 and 82.
IN THE NEWS: In an exhibition game in Pittsburgh, former Yankee Waite Hoyt stops his old teammates, 72. Lou Gehrig's 6th inning homer is the first score for New York. Ted Kleinhaus is cuffed in his eight innings. While Hoyt wins, another old pitcher loses as the Pirates hand Guy Bush his release. The Bees will sign him.
IN THE NEWS: Cardinals slugger Joe Medwick has 10 hits in succession to equal the National League record. He had seven hits in his last seven times at bat in a doubleheader on the 19th, and he hits safely in his first three today. He is finally stopped by the Giants Carl Hubbell. The Giants break a 11 tie on Dick Bartell's homer in the 10th off Dizzy Dean to win, 21.
Mickey Cochrane has a relapse, and Del Baker again takes charge of the Tigers. Detroit takes a pair from the visiting A's, winning 80 behind Tommy Bridges, and 98, as Schoolboy Rowe wins in relief. The Tigers score a pair in the 8th inning when, with the bases loaded, Mickey Owen hits into a double play. Goslin scores the tying run and Walker, who reaches 3rd on the play, scores when 1B Chubby Dean is caught napping.
IN THE NEWS: The White Sox edge the Nationals, 76, for their 17th win in 21 games. Vern Kennedy wins his 9th straight when he drives home the winner with an 8th-inning double against Bobo Newsom. Luke Appling is 2-for-4 to keep his Al-leading batting average at .382.
Before a paying crowd of 1,932 at Ebbets Field, Joe Stripp bangs a 9th-inning double to give the Dodgers a 65 win over the Cubs.
IN THE NEWS: In the A's 1512 win over the Indians, Philadelphia A's C Frankie Hayes equals a major-league record with four doubles, the last coming in the 9th with the bases loaded. Reliever Harry Kelley is the winner, despite he and Doyle giving up 18 hits. Veteran pitcher George Uhle, recently added to the Indians roster hits a homer, but is replaced by Lloyd Brown.
The Red Sox tally 20 hits to crush the Tigers, 183, scoring all their runs in two big innings. The Sox score six in the 2nd to drive Tommy Bridges from the mound, then tally 12 more in the 5th: it is the 2nd time this month that the Red Sox have score more than 10 runs in an inning. Doc Cramer has four Boston hits, while three others have three hits. Lefty Grove gives up nine hits in the easy win.
The Cubs pound out 19 hits to beat the Phils, 174, and extend their lead over the Cardinals to three games. Curt Davis is the winner, holding his former teammates to six safeties. Three of the Philley hits come in the 9th when they score three runs on Bashore's single and consecutive homers by Chuck Klein and Dolph Camilli. The Cubs are led by homers from Augie Galan and Ethan Allen as they chase Bucky Walters with four runs in the 3rd, and add another nine off Sy Johnson in three innings.
IN THE NEWS: Umpire Bill Summers is forced out the game after he hit in the groin by a pop bottle thrown from an unruly crowd of 50,000 at Comiskey Park. The crowd is upset with a out call at 1B on Ray Radcliff in the 8th of the nitecap. Judge Landis, on hand to watch the game, offers a $5,000 reward over the PA system for the culprit, but only draws more boos. The deluge of pop bottles finally abates when Jimmy Dykes pleads through the field amplifier. The Yanks sweep a pair from the Sox, winning 123 and 118 in 11 innings. Lou Gehrig hits his 29th with two aboard to start New York's scoring in the opener. DiMaggio and Lazzeri add round trippers to make it easy for Johnny Broaca. Sugar Cain is the losing pitcher. In the nitecap, Gehrig adds another homer, while Zeke Bonura homers and drives home four runs for the Sox. DiMaggio has one hit, a triple. The sweep increases New York's lead to nine 1/2 games.
The Tigers strand 14 runners and lose to Boston and Wes Ferrell, 103. The Tigers have 13 hits included Goose Goslin with 3-for-3. Jimmy Foxx hits his 28th homer of the year in Boston's 5-run 8th, then hits another in the 9th, to pin the loss on Eldon Auker.
Before a paid attendance of 41,596 in Bostonthe largest crowd in the National League since 1930the Cards and Bees split. The Bees take the opener, 43, on Wally Berger's two run homer in the 8th inning off Jess Haines. The nitecap is knotted at 22 in the 7th, when the Cards unload five runs. Joe Medwick leads off the frame with a homer, Johnny Mize doubles, and Virgil Davis homers to knock out Ben Cantwell. After two more reach base, Dizzy Dean drives them both home to ensure his 16th win of the year. Dean a run-scoring triple in the 3rd as well.
The Giants score three runs in the bottom of the 9th to beat the Reds, 54. Helping the victory is a 4th inning triple play started when LF Hank Lieber makes a brilliant catch near the left CF wall.
IN THE NEWS: Under rainy conditions at Ebbets Field, the Dodgers thrill a crowd of 485 by routing Cy Blanton and beating the Pirates for the 3rd straight time, 63. Fred Frankhouse has only one bad inningthe 3rd in which the Bucs make all their runs on six hitsin winning his 6th against eight losses. Frankhouse has five assists while SS Frey has none.
The A's knock out Vern Kennedy and then break an 88 tie with seven runs in the 9th to win, 158. Russ Evans in the loser to Harry Kelley. The A's collect 25 hits including five by Lou Finney.
In an exhibition game against a semipro shoe company, Paul Dean is hammered for six hits and four runs in four innings. The Cards then rally with Flint Rhem and Pepper Martin on the mound to win, 85. a tearful Dean threatens to quit after the rout.
IN THE NEWS: In the 6th inning of a 166 Yankee win in Detroit, the Tiger's Goose Goslin drives a ball in the gap in right center. Right fielder DiMaggio and CF Myril Hoag, in for a slumping Powell, sprint for the ball and collide, the ball bounding by for an inside-the -park homer. Both players are knocked unconscious but appear unhurt: Dimag stays in though Hoag is replaced. He'll play tomorrow and collect a single, then collapse in his hotel room on the 30th with a brain clot. Hoag will be operated on successfully at Harper Hospital and will be out the rest of the season, but he'll return to play six more years. New York wins the game on 20 hits, scoring four runs in each of the first two innings, and three apiece in the 4th and 5th. Lou Gehrig's two doubles, single and number 31 with two aboard pace the visitors. Tommy Bridges is the loser while Johnny Murphy, who relieves Monte Pearson in the 4th, is credited with the win. Selkirk adds a homer for the Yankees, who have now hit 122.
Earl Averill raps his 18th and 19th homers of the year, off Earl Whitehill, as Cleveland beats the Senators, 64. Lloyd Brown is the winner, allowing 11 hits. Hal Trosky extends his hitting streak to 22 games, while Cleveland's Roy Weatherly sets an American League rookie record by hitting in his 20th consecutive game.
Dolph Camilli's 9th inning homer, his second of the game, caps a 4-run rally as the Phillies top the visiting Cubs, 53. Reliever Larry French, who replaces Roy Henshaw in the 9th, loses after he gives up a single to Johnny Moore off the RF wall to tie, K's Chuck Klein and serves up the dinger to Dolph.
Bill Dietrich makes his 1st start for the White Sox since being picked up on waivers and Chicago makes it easy with a 196 win over Philadelphia. Dietrich helps with four singles.
IN THE NEWS: Vern Kennedy wins his 10th in a row, pitching the White Sox to a win over the A's, 74. Bob Kennedy connects off Kennedy for his 16th homer of the year, while Gordon "Dusty" Rhodes is handed one of his American League-high twenty losses. Hod Lisenbee, signed yesterday, is effective in relief of Rhodes.
Kiki Cuyler of the Reds has eight straight hitsall singlesduring a doubleheader split with the Phils. The Reds win the opener, 50, behind Bill Hallahan, then lose, 54 to veteran Ray Benge, making his first start for the Quakers since being acquired on waivers from the Bees.
The Boston Red Sox, led by owner Tom Yawkey and accompanied by AL President Will Harridge, fly from St. Louis to Chicago aboard one plane. Five players elect to take the train. In 1934, the Reds flew from Cincinnati to Chicago, but divided the players among three planes. Some of the Reds still chose to take the train.
The Yankees, with Jake Powell back in CF for the injured Hoag, drop a 54 decision to Detroit. On August 1st, Powell will go to LF, with DiMaggio playing CF for the first time. Selkirk will return to RF. The Yanks loses today when Charlie Gehringer ties the match with a two-run homer in the 8th. Bill Dickey allows a ball to get by him in the 10th and Burns scores the winner. Schoolboy Rowe pitches 10 innings for the win over Johnny Broaca.
At Brooklyn, the Cardinals Jim Winford tosses a 4-hitter in stopping Stengel's men, 70. The Cards climb to within a game of the top as the Cubs lose. After the game, at Mama Leone's on W 48th Street, baseball writers give a birthday dinner to Casey Stengel.
Buffalo pitcher Bill Harris tosses his 2nd no hitter in the International League, stopping Newark.
At the funeral of Charles Knapp, president of the Baltimore Orioles as well as the International League, Warren Giles is named interim league president. Giles is the president of the Rochester Red Wings. With Knapp's death, Mrs. Jack Dunn, majority owner of the Orioles, assumes the role of team president.
IN THE NEWS: Behind Lefty Grove and Jimmy Foxx, the visiting Red Sox top the White Sox, 73. Grove wins his 13th on seven hits, while Double X bangs his 30th homer, a triple and double. Boston sub Moe Berg adds a triple, double, and single off Ted Lyons.
At the Polo Grounds, the Giants manage just four hits off Chicago's Larry French and lose, 31. The Terrymen's only tally is a homer by Hank Lieber. The loss leaves the front-running Cubs a game ahead of the Cards.
Led by Lou Gehrig, who clouts his 33rd homer, the Yankees down the Indians, 117, at League Park. The loss snaps the Tribe's five-game win streak, and leaves the Yankees eight 1/2 games ahead of Cleveland. Gehrig and Red Rolfe clout homers in the 5th to chase Mel Harder, but the Indians answer with three doubles by Earl Averill and a homer by Hal Trosky. Hadley, with relief from Johnny Murphy, hangs on for his 9th win.
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