1952 — Hoyt Wilhelm of the Giants hit a home run at the Polo Grounds in his first major league at-bat. He was the winner, too, and pitched 1,070 games in the majors — but never hit another homer.

1945 — Albert B. “Happy” Chandler, junior Senator from Kentucky, is elected baseball commissioner by a unanimous vote of the major league club owners. Chandler is elected to a seven-year term and ...

Nolan Schanuel leads the Angels with a .281 batting average, and has three doubles, a triple, two home runs, six walks and seven RBI. Logan O’Hoppe is 13-for-33 with three home runs and four RBI over ...

From Dan Woike: JJ Redick had validated Austin Reaves all season, publicly and privately praising the Lakers guard as a key ...

Quick Thoughts: The Athletics selected Max Muncy (No. 25), Zack Gelof (No. 60) and Mason Miller (No. 97) with their top three ...

In 1954, the barriers that separated the world of TV and movies began to blur when the hit television crime drama Dragnet, ...