This date in baseball

1904 Jesse Tannehill of the Boston Red Sox pitched a no-hitter, beating the Chicago White Sox 6-0. 1920 Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman died from a beaning by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees on Aug. 16. This was the only on-field fatality in major league history.

1933 Earl Averill of the Cleveland Indians hit for the cycle in a 15-4 rout of the Philadelphia Athletics. 1933 New York’s Lou Gehrig played in his 1,308th consecutive game to break Everett Scott’s record of 1,307. Gehrig’s single and triple didn’t prevent the last-place St. Louis Browns from beating the Yankees 7-6 in 10 innings at Sportsman’s Park.

1944 Johnny Lindell of the New York Yankees hit four consecutive doubles in a 10-3 victory over the Cleveland Indians.

1963 Jim Hickman became the first New York Met to hit for cycle in a 7-3 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. Hickman got the cycle in his first four times up in single, double, triple, home run order. 1980 George Brett went 4-for-4, raising his batting average to .401, in an 8-3 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. Brett drove in five runs and extended his hitting streak to 29 consecutive games.

1980 Al Oliver of Texas hit four home runs one in the opener and three in the nightcap as the Rangers swept a doubleheader from the Detroit Tigers, 9-3 and 12-6. Oliver also had a double and triple in the opener, giving him 21 total bases which tied the American League record for a doubleheader.