In Detroit, the Red Sox pound 14 hits in beating the Tigers, 12 – 9. Shortstop Joe Cronin is 4 for 5 and hits for the cycle, the 5th in Sox history. Cronin cycled in 1929, not the first player to cycle twice, but the first to do it a decade apart. His 8th-inning homer, off Archie McKain, follows a Doc Cramer triple and ices it for the Sox. Boston also gets homers from Dom DiMaggio and catcher Jimmie Foxx, his 23rd. Ted Williams, pinch-hitting in the 4th, draws a walk. Jack Wilson beats Tom Seats, with both pitching in relief.

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In Detroit, the Red Sox pound 14 hits in beating the Tigers, 12 – 9. Shortstop Joe Cronin is 4 for 5 and hits for the cycle, the 5th in Sox history. Cronin cycled in 1929, not the first player to cycle twice, but the first to do it a decade apart. His 8th-inning homer, off Archie McKain, follows a Doc Cramer triple and ices it for the Sox. Boston also gets homers from Dom DiMaggio and catcher Jimmie Foxx, his 23rd. Ted Williams, pinch-hitting in the 4th, draws a walk. Jack Wilson beats Tom Seats, with both pitching in relief.

In the ninth inning of New York’s 7-2 loss to Detroit, Joe DiMaggio makes one of the most memorable catches in Yankee Stadium history when he grabs a Hank Greenberg drive 455 feet from home plate. The 24 year-old center fielder, who seldom displays emotion, is so thrilled with the amazing catch he enthusiastically heads toward the dugout, forgetting there is still a man on base with only two outs, a rare mental error for the ‘Yankee Clipper’.

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In the ninth inning of New York’s 7-2 loss to Detroit, Joe DiMaggio makes one of the most memorable catches in Yankee Stadium history when he grabs a Hank Greenberg drive 455 feet from home plate. The 24 year-old center fielder, who seldom displays emotion, is so thrilled with the amazing catch he enthusiastically heads toward the dugout, forgetting there is still a man on base with only two outs, a rare mental error for the ‘Yankee Clipper’.

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.

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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.

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At Comiskey Park, the White Sox overcome deficits of 9-1 in the fifth and 11-3 in the seventh inning to defeat the Red Sox in extra innings

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At Comiskey Park, the White Sox overcome deficits of 9-1 in the fifth and 11-3 in the seventh inning to defeat the Red Sox in extra innings, 12-11. With two outs in the 12th inning, Jack Hayes’s single plates Larry Rosenthal, who had doubled earlier in the frame, to give the Pale Hose an incredible come-from-behind victory in the second game of their twin bill sweep over Boston.

Phillies 1B Dolph Camilli makes three errors in the 1st inning, a major-league record. He will lead the National League in fielding, however, in 1937.

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Phillies 1B Dolph Camilli makes three errors in the 1st inning, a major-league record. He will lead the National League in fielding, however, in 1937.

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Mickey Cochrane of the Philadelphia Athletics hits for the cycle

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  Special Memory or Event? Want to have some fun? Advertise your business? Dedicate this page On August 2, 1933, Mickey Cochrane of the Philadelphia Athletics hits for the cycle in a 16-3 rout of the New York Yankees. It marks the second time that the Hall of Fame catcher has hit for the cycle…

The Red Sox and the third-place Yankees split a Sunday doubleheader before a record crowd of 40,000, played at Braves Field because of religious restrictions involving Fenway Park. Former Boston P Red Ruffing wins the first game, 4 – 1, and ex-New Yorker Wilcy Moore blanks his former mates, 1 – 0, in the nightcap. Moore allows just three singles in topping George Pipgras. The Yanks will go 308 games before being shut out again.

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The Red Sox and the third-place Yankees split a Sunday doubleheader before a record crowd of 40,000, played at Braves Field because of religious restrictions involving Fenway Park. Former Boston P Red Ruffing wins the first game, 4 – 1, and ex-New Yorker Wilcy Moore blanks his former mates, 1 – 0, in the nightcap. Moore allows just three singles in topping George Pipgras. The Yanks will go 308 games before being shut out again.