"1923 : Paul Strand, RF for Salt Lake City (Pacific Coast League), makes his 290th hit, a pro baseball record. He will play in 194 games, make 325 hits, including 66 doubles, 13 triples, and 43 home runs, for a .394 BA, with 180 runs and 187 RBI. He also has 612 total chances in the OF. Strand, 30, had come up to the Boston Braves as a pitcher in 1913 and was 6-2 for the 1914 pennant winners, mostly in relief. The Athletics will pay a reported $100,000 (which Connie Mack later says was really $40,000) for him, but he will hit just .228."
"1938: Brothers Lloyd and Paul Waner of the Pirates hit consecutive homers off Cliff Melton in the fifth inning at the Polo Grounds. Pirates P Jim Tobin puts Mel Ott in the record book, hitting him with a pitch three times. Tobin wins 7-2. The Waners' feat marks the first time in major league history that brothers have gone deep back-to-back; the next time will come on April 23, 2013, courtesy of B.J. and Justin Upton of the Atlanta Braves."
In 1915 the Cubs beat the Braves 1-0 behind Phil Douglas, and won another 1-0 game the following day in 12 innings. In 1923 Paul Strand of Salt Lake City set a pro record with his 290th hit and finished with 325 hits, a .394 average, and prolific extra-base totals before a costly Athletics purchase preceded his major-league decline. In 1938 Lloyd and Paul Waner hit consecutive homers, the first brothers to do so. In 1959 Maury Wills went 5-for-5 while the Giants routed Warren Spahn. In 1961 Sandy Koufax set a lefty NL strikeout mark. In 1967 Jimmy Wynn hit three homers in one game for the Astros. In 1971 Larry Yount injured his shoulder on his first warm-up pitch and never pitched again in the majors.
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