Carl Hubbell is forced to leave the mound in a 5 – 3 loss to the Dodgers when he experiences sharp elbow pains in his pitching arm.

When Detroit’s Billy Rogell walks his first time up, it is his seventh consecutive base on balls, a new American League record.

1938 – The Senators release Wes Ferrell‚ who despite struggling with shoulder problems‚ leads the Nats staff with a 13-8 record. Clark Griffith‚ who has had differences with Ferrell over money‚ says Wes wasn’t helping the club. The Yankees will sign him in two days.

Cincinnati has only one assist in a game with the Dodgers, tying the major-league record held by four clubs.

Former American League P George Pipgras joins the league’s umpiring staff.

Forty-year-old Browns P Fred “Cactus” Johnson wins his first major-league game since 1923. He won 252 minor leagues games in his career.

Bright yellow baseballs designed by Frederick Rah, who believes the visibility of the dandelion-hue sphere will help players avoid getting hit by a pitch, are used in the first game of a doubleheader. The one-game experiment draws mixed reactions and the Dodgers complete their sweep of the twin bill from the Cardinals, 6-2 and 9-3, using the traditional white ball in the nightcap.

Al Munro Elias, founder of the Elias Sports Bureau and for many years the official statistician of the National League and International League, dies in New York City at age 67.