--- Rube Waddell of PittsburghStrikes out an NL season-high 12 in a 2–1 win over the Cubs . He will lead the league with 130 strikeouts and a 2.37 ERA .
1911 - Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers and Wildfire Schulte of the Chicago Cubs win the newly established Chalmers Awards, which go to the league’s Most Valuable Players . Cobb batted .420 with an American League -leading 127 RBI , while Schulte led the National League with 21 Home Run s and 107 RBI. Using a point system—8 for a first-place vote, seven for second, and so on—the eight voting writers give Cobb the maximum 64 points. Winners receive Chalmers automobiles.
1915 - At Fenway Park , an unprecedented 42,300 are on hand for game three and see another 1–1 duel, which is decided in the ninth when Duffy LewisSingles home Harry Hooper for a 2–1 hometown win. Dutch LeonardWalks none, yields three hits, and sets down the last 20 Phillies to face him.
--- Boston Red SoxShortstopRico Petrocelli hit a pair of Home Run s, highlighting an 8–4 win over the St. Louis Cardinals in the sixth game of the World Series. The Red Sox win forces a seventh and deciding game, which the Cardinals will win...