This date in baseball

LITTLE ROCK — 1941 Pete Reiser’s home run and Whitlow Wyatt’s five-hitter helped Brooklyn beat the Boston Braves 6-0 and clinch the Dodgers’ first pennant in 21 years.

1956 Sal Maglie of the Brooklyn Dodgers pitched a 5-0 no-hitter against the Philadelphia Phillies.

1960 The New York Yankees clinched Manager Casey Stengel’s 10th and last American League pennant with a 4-3 victory over Boston.

1965 Satchel Paige, at 60, became the oldest player in the majors, taking the mound for Kansas City and pitching three scoreless innings against the Boston Red Sox. He gave up one hit, to Carl Yastrzemski.

1979 The California Angels won their first AL West title, beating Kansas City 4-1 behind pitcher Frank Tanana.

1984 Rusty Staub of the New York Mets became the second player to hit home runs as a teenager and past his 40th birthday. Ty Cobb was the other.

1987 San Diego’s Benito Santiago set a modern major league record for rookies by hitting safely in his 27th consecutive game in a 5-3 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

1989 Wade Boggs went 4 for 5 forhis seventh consecutive 200-hit season and Dwight Evans became the only major leaguer with 20 home runs in each of the past nine years as the Boston Red Sox won 7-4 over New York.

1998 The New York Yankees set the AL record for victories with their 112th, beating Tampa Bay 6-1 to break the victory mark held by the 1954 Cleveland Indians.

2001 Richie Sexson and Jeromy Burnitz became the first teammates to hit three home runs apiece in a game as Milwaukee defeated Arizona 9-4.

2003 Carlos Delgado became the sixth player to homer in four consecutive at-bats in one game as Toronto beat Tampa Bay 10-8. He became the 98th player to reach 300 career home runs with a threerun shot in the first inning.

2007 Prince Fielder, at 23 years, 139 days old, became the youngest major league player to hit 50 home runs in a season, connecting twice in Milwaukee’s 9-1 rout of St. Louis. Fielder and his father, Cecil, became the only father-son tandem with 50-home run seasons. The elder Fielder hit 51 with the Detroit Tigers in 1990.