1928 – Voters in Massachusetts approve Sunday baseball in Boston, provided that Braves Field is more than 1,000 feet from a church. This leaves Pennsylvania as the only state with no Sunday baseball in the major leagues.

1960 – Warren Spahn finishes second in Cy Young voting to Vern Law, who finished 20-9 with 18 complete games for the National League champion Pittsburgh Pirates.

2020 – Max Fried wins the first of three consecutive Gold Glove awards.

1926 – Ty Cobb resigns as Detroit Tigers manager after leading his team to a record of 79-75 and a sixth-place finish. Umpire and former Tigers infielder George Moriarty replaces him. Moriarty is the first man to hold baseball’s four principal jobs: player, umpire, scout and manager. Cobb will sign a playing contract with the Philadelphia A

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