This date in baseball

1933 Mickey Cochrane of the Philadelphia A’s hit for the cycle, the second of his career, in a 16-3 victory over the New York Yankees.

1938 The Brooklyn Dodgers and the St. Louis Cardinals used a yellow baseball in the first game of a doubleheader as an experiment. The two teams went back to the white ball in the second game as the Dodgers swept the doubleheader 6-2 and 9-3.

1940 Joe Cronin of the Boston Red Sox hit for the cycle in a 12-9 victory over the Detroit Tigers.

1959 Bill Bruton of Milwaukee hit three triples, including two with the bases-loaded, to lead the Braves to an 115 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in the nightcap of a doubleheader.

1979 New York Yankees captain Thurman Munson died in the crash of his private plane while practicing takeoffs and landings in Canton, Ohio. 1987 Kevin Seitzer went 6 for 6, hit 2 home runs and drove in 7 runs to pace a 20-hit Kansas City attack as the Royals beat the Boston Red Sox 13-5.

1987 Eric Davis led off the bottom of the 11th inning with his 30th home run of the season to give the Cincinnati Reds a 5-4 victory over the San Francisco Giants. Davis’ home run made him the seventh — and earliest player in major league history — with 30 home runs and 30 steals in the same season.

1998 The Cuban national team claimed its 22nd gold medal at the World Baseball Championships, beating South Korea 7-1 and extending its winning streak at the event to 41 games since 1986.

2007 Jermaine Dye homered twice and doubled twice, including a go-ahead drive that led the Chicago White Sox to a 13-9 victory over the New York Yankees. 2009 Melky Cabrera became the first Yankees player in 14 years to hit for the cycle, leading New York to an 8-5 victory over the Chicago White Sox. Cabrera hit a three-run home run in the second to give the Yankees a 3-0 lead, doubled in the fourth, had an RBI single in the fifth, and completed it with a triple in the ninth.

2010 Travis Snider hit two of an AL record-tying six doubles in a seven-run fifth inning to give the Toronto Blue Jays an a 8-6 victory over the New York Yankees. Snider began the barrage of doubles with a leadoff hit against A.J. Burnett (North Little Rock, Central Arkansas Christian) and finished it with a drive off Sergio Mitre. In between, Fred Lewis, Jose Bautista, Vernon Wells and Aaron Hill all doubled off Burnett. 2011 New York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira set a major league record when he homered from both sides of the plate in a 6-0 victory over the Chicago White Sox. It was the 12th time the switch-hitting Teixeira has homered from both sides in a game, breaking a tie with Eddie Murray and Chili Davis.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY Paul DeJong, 25.