Detroit’s Tommy Bridges tosses a one-hitter in topping the Senators‚ 3 – 1. Joe Kuhel’s homer is the only Washington safety. It is the first time in the American League that a pitcher has allowed a home run in a one-hitter.
The first All-Star Game is announced for July 6th at Comiskey Park. It will be played as part of the Chicago World’s Fair celebration and is sponsored by the Chicago Tribune. Fans will pick the players.
The major leagues advance the cut-down date a month, limiting rosters to 23 players today instead of June 15th.
The Red Sox sell Earl Webb to the White Sox.
Highly touted prospect Schoolboy Rowe makes his major league debut with a six-hit shutout in Detroit’s 3 – 0 win over Chicago, all three runs driven in by rookie outfielder Pete Fox.
Prior to a pre-season contest in New York, (and exactly one week before Schoolboy Rowe’s official major league debut), the highly touted Tigers pitching prospect launches a batting practice bomb into the Polo Grounds’ center-field bleachers, a feat never before performed since the stadium’s 1923 reconfiguration. It will be more than 15 years—July 18, 1948, to be precise—before Rowe’s feat is finally matched in the course of a game, by Negro Leaguer Luke Easter, and roughly 20—i.e. April 29, 1953—before the first major league version, courtesy of Joe Adcock.
1932 – Donie Bush, pennant-winning manager of the American Association Minneapolis Millers, is named to manage the Cincinnati Reds.
1932 – In the Pacific Coast League, Tony Freitas of the Sacramento Solons pitches the first night game no-hitter, stopping the Oakland Oaks, 2 – 0, in nine innings.
The Yankees win their 12th consecutive World Series game and sweep the Fall Classic for the third time. The Bronx Bombers bang out 19 hits, clubbing the Cubs at Wrigley Field, 13-6.
Jimmie Foxx hits his 2nd grand slam in three days, giving him 57 homers for the season, but the A’s lose in the 10th to Washington, 8 – 7.
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