IN THE NEWS: The Yankees win their 14th straight, beating the Red Sox, 31 behind three pitchers. Jim Coates (133) is the winner. Nichols is the loser for the Bosox, while Tracy Stallard, in relief, fans Roger Maris. Maris's next at bat against Stallard will be a momentous one a year from now.
The Cubs score a pair of unearned runs in the 14th to defeat the Dodgers, 108, in a four hour: 54 minute marathon. Future Hall of Famer Billy Williams hits his first ML homer, off the Dodgers' Stan Williams, in the 9th. Zimmer also homers for Chicago as the win goes to Glen Hobbie (1620).
IN THE NEWS: Washington drops a 21 decision to Baltimore in the last game ever played by the original-franchise Senators. Pedro Ramos takes the loss for Washington. The O's clinch 2nd place.
Dale Long hits a 2-run homer in the 9th to give the Yankees an 87 win over Boston. The Yankees go into the World Series with a 15-game win streak, the most ever.
IN THE NEWS: The Yankees head into the World Series with a 15-game winning streak, the 8th longest streak in the American League this century, after Dale Long's 2-run 9th-inning home run gives them an 87 win over the Red Sox. New York's 193 home runs are an AL record, three better than the 1956 Yanks. RBI leader Roger Maris drives in three runs, but falls one home run short of Mickey Mantle's league-high 40.
Joe Gordon (26-31) resigns as manager of the Tigers, blaming interference by from club president Bill DeWitt. Gordon will be named manager of the KC Athletics, replacing Bob Elliott.
IN THE NEWS: In a portent of things to come, Bill Mazeroski's 2-run 5th-inning home run off Jim Coates is the difference as Pittsburgh beats New York 64 in its first World Series win since 1925. Roy Face survives a 2-run 9th-inning Elston Howard home run to preserve Vern Law's victory.
IN THE NEWS: Mickey Mantle's two home runs highlight New York's 163 victory at Forbes Field, evening the World Series. A 7-run 6th inning overwhelms Pittsburgh.
IN THE NEWS: Bombing continues in the Bronx in Game 3. Yankee Bobby Richardson's six RBI, including a grand slam off reliever Clem Labine in a 6-run first inning, and Whitey Ford's 4-hitter give the Yanks a 100 win and a 2-1 World Series lead, spoiling Pittsburgh manager Danny Murtaugh's 43rd birthday.
IN THE NEWS: Vern Law wins again, thanks to his own RBI single and Bill Virdon's 2-run hit. Roy Face retires the final eight batters in order. Pittsburgh's 32 win evens the World Series.
IN THE NEWS: Bill Mazeroski stars again. His 2-run double stakes Harvey Haddix to a 30 lead. Roy Face is called on once more for another hitless effort to preserve a 52 win and 3-2 World Series lead for the surprising Pirates.
IN THE NEWS: Radio-television executive John Fetzer buys a controlling interest of the Tigers, giving one man control of the team for the first time since Walter Briggs died in 1952. He offers club president Bill DeWitt a job as his assistant.
IN THE NEWS: Whitey Ford preserves the Yankees hopes with a 7-hit shutout at Pittsburgh. Bob Friend is bombed again as New York coasts 120. Bobby Richardson's two run-scoring triples give him a World Series record of 12 RBI.
IN THE NEWS: In a 99 tie, Bill Mazeroski leads off the last of the 9th and hits what is arguably the most dramatic home run in Series history, off Ralph Terry, to give Pittsburgh a 109 win and the World Championship. An oddity in this game: it is the only World Series game this century with no strikeouts recorded. Despite Maz's heroics, Bobby Richardson is the Series MVP, as the Yanks outscore the Bucs, 52 to 27.
IN THE NEWS: The National League votes to admit Houston and New York to the league in 1962, the first structural change since 1900, and to go to a 10-team league.
IN THE NEWS: Instituting a mandatory retirement age of 65, New York Yankee co-owners Dan Topping and Del Webb relieve Casey Stengel (1,149-696) as manager. Stengel: "I wasn't retiredthey fired me."
IN THE NEWS: The San Francisco Giants lose to their Tokyo counterparts 10 in the first of a 16-game exhibition series. They lose again 21 to the Japan All-Stars the next day, but finish the series with 11 wins, four losses, and one tie.
IN THE NEWS: The Houston Colts announce that the team has hired Gabe Paul as GM. Paul will clash with majority owner Roy Hofheinz and will leave the following spring for Cleveland.
IN THE NEWS: Trying to jump ahead of the National League, the American League admits Los Angeles and Minneapolis to the league with plans to have the new clubs begin competition in 1961 in the new 10-team league. Calvin Griffith is given permission to move the existing Washington Senators franchise to Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN. League president Joe Cronin says the AL will play a 162-game schedule, with 18 games against each opponent. The National League will balk, saying the two expansions are not analogous and that the AL was not invited to move into LA.
IN THE NEWS: The Giants trade IF Andre Rodgers to the Braves for SS Alvin Dark, then sign Dark to a 2-year contract as manager. Dark does not plan to be a playing manager.
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