1923 – Babe Ruth is the unanimous choice of the American League committee of baseball writers for the MVP award.

1922 – The American League reinstates the MVP award, last given in 1914, appointing a committee of one writer from each city, headed by I.E. Sanborn of the Chicago Tribune. As a player-manager, Ty Cobb is not eligible, and the trophy goes to George Sisler. The National League will pick up the idea two years later.

1920 – First-place Cleveland routs the Red Sox, 12 – 1, and have a day off before meeting the 2nd-place White Sox, winners of their last six games.

1919 – The Cubs beat the Braves, 3 – 0, in 58 minutes. It takes the Robins 55 minutes to beat the Reds, 3 – 1. Slim Sallee throws 65 pitches, topping Christy Mathewson’s 69-pitch complete game. One week later the Giants will close the season beating the Phils, 6 – 1, in a record 51 minutes.

1917 – In Boston, the White Sox clinch the pennant with a 2 – 1 win in 10 innings. Pinch-hitting in the bottom of the 10th, Babe Ruth grounds into a game-ending double play.

1916 – Tris Speaker goes 4 for 6 and drives in a run as Cleveland edges Washington and Walter Johnson, 3 – 2.

1914 – The White Sox score in the 4th inning on a Walter Johnson wild pitch, one of four that Johnson uncorks in the game. But he strikes out 12 batters in 13 innings as the Nats finally break through against Chicago’s Red Faber for a 6 – 1 win. The record book gives Johnson all four wild pitches in the 4th inning, but it appears that Eddie Collins, who opened with a single, stole 2nd and advanced on a grounder to 3rd, scored the Pale Hose’s only tally on a just one wild pitch.

1912 – Boston 3B Larry Gardner breaks his finger and will be out the rest of the season. He is expected to play in the World Series.

In St. Louis, Hooks Wiltse wins the opener to extend the Giants’ win streak to 12 games. The Cards stop the skein in game two with an 8 – 7 win.