Boston’s Vic Wertz’s 2nd career grand slam, off Don Newcombe, as a pinch hitter ties the record set by Bill Skowron in 1957. Ted Williams hits his 516th home run in a 10 – 7 Boston win over Cleveland.

With two outs in the bottom of the ninth, Glen Hobbie concludes his pitching duel with Vinegar Bend Mizell in dramatic fashion by launching Mizell’s first pitch into the left field bleachers – barely: “A great roar went up from the 11,701 fans when Hobbie connected,” reports Les Biederman of the Pittsburgh Press, “and they were hoping the ball would carry to the bleachers. It went down the line and as Gino Cimoli watched, the ball barely got over the left-field railing into home-run territory.” Hobbie has had the Bucs off-balance all afternoon, striking out nine, six of them looking. Pittsburgh’s only run comes on Roberto Clemente’s 1st-inning RBI single, but Ernie Banks ties it with one swing leading off the bottom of the second. Clemente’s most memorable cut of the game comes later, in the 8th: even though he doesn’t make contact, the handle of his bat breaks off.

During a dull game, Vin Scully, the play-by-play voice of the Dodgers, knowing that many fans in the stands follow the game on transistor radios, asks his listeners to help him surprise third base umpire Frank Secory. His ballpark audience responds when the veteran broadcaster tells them, “Let’s have some fun. As soon as the inning is over, I’ll count to three, and on three everybody yell, ‘Happy birthday, Frank!'”.

1960 – In the 28th year of the Negro Leagues East-West Game, the last game at Chicago’s Comiskey Park was played before approximately 5,000 spectators and almost no media coverage. The West squad beat the East 8-4. The game would be played for two more years in other cities before ending.