Two baseball teams played a night match at White Sox Party using three 100-foot towers lit with 12 electric lamps.
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Jim 'Catfish' Hunter of the Oakland Athletics pitched the ninth perfect game, defeating the Minnesota Twins (4-0).
San Francisco Giants outfielder, Willie Mays, broke the record for home runs.
The Cincinnati Red Stockings played their first game, winning with 45-9 against the Great Westerns of Cincinnati.
American baseball catcher Wilbert Robinson tried to claim a record by catching a ball dropped from a plane 525 feet above him.
Boston Red Sox player Ted Williams was fined $250 for spitting on fans.
