IN THE NEWS: Chicago White Sox 1B Joe Cunningham is sidelined until Labor Day after fracturing his right collarbone in a collision with Angels 1B Charlie Dees. The Sox are a 1/2 game ahead of New York. Cunningham, who hit .295 last year with 101 walks, will never be the same player after the injury.
The Braves make their first appearance in Boston since moving in 1953, losing a 53 exhibition game to the Red Sox. The game is for the benefit of the Jimmy Fund.
IN THE NEWS: Oriole ace Steve Barber tops New York, 31. Mickey Mantle accounts for the only New York score with an opposite field homer into the RF bleachers.
IN THE NEWS: Mickey Mantle fractures a bone in his left foot and suffers ligament and cartilage damage to the left knee running into the chain link fence at Baltimore chasing down a Brooks Robinson drive. The Mick will be out for 61 games. Whitey Ford beats Milt Pappas 43, as the Yankees return to first place.
IN THE NEWS: With the bases loaded and one out in the 12th, Cubs reliever Lindy McDaniel picks Willie Mays off 2B and then strikes out Ed Bailey. McDaniel then hits a leadoff home run in the bottom of the 10th, off reliever Billy Pierce, to win 32. It was Lindy's first hit of the season. Chicago moves into a 3-way, first-place tie with St. Louis and San Francisco, its first taste of the lead since May 1958.
IN THE NEWS: The Colt 45s beat the Giants 30 in the major leagues' first Sunday night game. The exception is made because of Houston's oppressive daytime heat.
Catcher Tim McCarver of the Cards hits an inside-the-park grand slam against the Mets to give St. Louis an 87 win.
The Phils score five runs in the 9th inning on homers by Don Demeter, Jim Lemon and Johnny Callison to tie the Reds 77. Philadelphia scores again in the 10th inning to win 87.
Ernie Banks bangs solo homers off Sandy Koufax, in the 2nd and the 5th at Wrigley, and the Cubs kayo the ace with six earned runs in five 2/3 innings. But Sandy gets no decision as the Dodgers outslug the Cubs, 118. Larry Sherry is the winner over Cubs ace Dick Ellsworth, who has his worst outing of the year.
IN THE NEWS: Rookie OF Vic Davalillo, batting .304, suffers a broken arm when hit by a Hank Aguirre pitch in Cleveland's 126 win against the Tigers.
The White Sox Dave Nicholson ties the major-league record with seven strikeouts in a doubleheader split with the Angels. Chicago wins 31, then loses 50.
IN THE NEWS: Cleveland wins a 19-inning, 32 game two win over the Senators as Willie Kirkland blast two extra-inning homers. in the 11th and 19th. He matches Vern Stephens' major-league record as the second ML player to accomplish the feat. The 19 innings matches the longest game ever played in Cleveland.
IN THE NEWS: St. Louis trades C/1B Gene Oliver and minor league P Bob Sadowski to the Braves for P Lew Burdette. In 13 seasons with the Braves, Burdette and Warren Spahn won 443 games between them.
Al Downing's 92 win against Detroit puts the Yankees in first place.
Juan Marichal becomes the first Giants P to hurl a no-hitter since Carl Hubbell (on May 8, 1929), and the first Latin American to toss one in the ML. Eighth-inning doubles by Jim Davenport and Chuck Hiller provide the only score in the Giants 10 win at Candlestick.
Ernie Banks, with 15 home runs up till now, will hit just three after this date. He is diagnosed with sub clinical mumps, a disease that stays in his blood and leaves him rundown and sick.
IN THE NEWS: Gates Brown becomes the American League's 11th player to hit a home run in his first at bat. Brown's blow is a pinch-hit blast in the 5th against Boston's Bob Heffner at Fenway in a 92 Tiger loss.
IN THE NEWS: Larry Jackson allows just four Houston hits, and Billy Williams cracks two homers and a double, as the Cubs win, 50. Former Cub Dick Drott is the loser.
IN THE NEWS: Dropping a 40 shutout to Bob Purkey in the first of two games at Cincinnati, the Colt 45s tie a major-league record with their 4th straight shutout loss. Houston finally breaks a 40-inning scoreless drought in the 2nd inning of the nightcap, but still loses 81.
Jimmy Piersall of the New York Mets hits the 100th home run of his ML careerand his only one in the National Leagueand celebrates by running around the bases backwards. Dallas Green of the Phillies, who gave up the home run, is not amused. Neither is Commissioner Ford Frick, who is in the stands. Nor are the Mets who will hand Jimmy his walking papers in a few days.
A ML fielding record is set by Boston's 1B Dick Stuart as "Dr. Strange Glove" handles three first-inning grounders and tosses to P Bob Heffner for putouts. Stuart's teammates and Fenway fans give him a standing ovation. The Yankees beat the Sox 80. Heffner is just the second pitcher to have three putouts in an inning: Bosox Jim Bagby (1940) is the other. Rick Reuschel in 1975 will be the next to record three POs.
IN THE NEWS: Detroit's Norm Cash achieves a rarity by playing an entire game at 1B without a chance, as the Twins win 106.
The Phillie Ray Culp (10-5) beats the Pirates 134, but CF Tony Gonzalez's streak of 205 straight errorless games ends with a 7th-inning muff. Johnny Callison hits for the cycle for the only time in his career. Callison adds a walk and a throw from RF to catcher Dalrymple in the 4th that nips a runner. Dalrymple homers in the 8th.
Chicago's Ray Herbert allows five Yankee singles to beat the Yankees, 60, and give the Sox a virtual tie for 1st. The Sox assault youthful pitching star Jim Bouton (10-3) for all their runs in the first five innings.
A meager crowd of 6,497 fans at Fenway see one of park's great catches. Cleveland OF Al Luplow races full tilt for Dick Williams's drive to right-CF, reaches over the fence, and gloves the ball while flipping over the barrier into the bullpen. Cleveland wins, 64.
IN THE NEWS: At Los Angeles, the Braves Warren Spahn beats Don Drysdale, three-hitting the Dodgers, 1-0. It was the first time Spahn had beaten the Dodgers on their home grounds since Aug. 21, 1948 (15 years). He'd lost 14 straight: nine at Ebbets; four at Memorial Coliseum; and one at Chavez Ravine.
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