1939 – The National League announces that for the first time in the 20th century, games will be transferred from one city to another. The Dodgers’ doubleheader in Philadelphia will be moved to Brooklyn in an effort to top one million paid attendance.

September call-up Elmer Gedeon collects all three of his major league hits of his five-game career in the Senators’ 10-9 victory over the Indians at Griffith Stadium. The Washington starting center fielder is the first of two major leaguers to be killed in World War II when his plane was shot down over France in 1944.

Ted Williams hits a home run off Thornton Lee, one of 31 homers he will hit in his rookie season. Williams will homer off Thornton’s son, Don Lee, 21 years later.

The Dodgers pull within one game of the 3rd-place Cubs, taking two at Wrigley Field. A yellow-dyed ball is used in the first game.

American League President Will Harridge overturns umpire Cal Hubbard’s decision to award the Yankees with 9-0 forfeited victory over the Red Sox, ordering the contest to be replayed from the seventh inning. The Red Sox fans, protesting the deliberate outs New York was making to take advantage of the 6:30 Sunday curfew, had thrown a barrage of garbage onto the playing field which made it impossible to continue the Fenway Park contest.

1939 – After Labor Day games, the Reds lead the Cards by 4 games. In the American League, the Yankees are 14 ½ ahead.