The Yankees beat California, 5 – 2, behind Mel Stottlemyre, who is helped by Gene Michael in the 9th. With the score tied, Michael pulls the hidden ball trick on Angel pinch runner Jarvis Tatum. The Yanks score three in the 10th to win.

In the team’s biggest shutout victory ever, Baltimore routs the White Sox, 17 – 0, as Jim Hardin wins over Billy Wynne. Hardin allows just two hits while the Birds bang out 20, good for 39 total bases. Frank Robinson drives in five runs and hits a pair of homers.

1967 – In a last-inning loss by the Pirates to the last-place Astros, Roberto Clemente undresses Astros catcher John Bateman. Les Biederman of the Pittsburgh Press documents their 1st-inning encounter: “Rusty Staub tried in vain to make a pick-up of Clemente’s pop single. The ball eluded Staub and Joe Morgan had to chase it so coach Alex Grammas gave Clemente the green light. Chuck Harrison relayed to John Bateman but Clemente hit him hard, knocked the ball loose and touched the plate with the second run.” By the time of his next encounter with the shell-shocked young receiver, Clemente has apparently been apprised of the fact that baseball is in fact not a contact sport; the one-time prospective Olympian reaches back into his track and field repertoire and executes a Willie Mays-like manoeuver: “Clemente beat out a high hopper with one gone in the 6th, took third on Bill Mazeroski’s single and showed the fans how to run the bases after Manny Mota bounced to Harrison. Bateman had the ball to tag Clemente but Clemente waited until Bateman made his move, then jumped over him and touched home plate with his hand.”

Six weeks after the team plays their first game in the Peach State, the Wisconsin Supreme Court overrules a lower court decision by a narrow vote of 4-3, ruling that the state doesn’t have the jurisdiction to keep the Braves from moving to Atlanta. Due to the close vote, the state of Wisconsin decides to appeal the majority’s decision to the United States Supreme Court.