This Date in Baseball-Week Ahead, Oct. 28-Nov. 3

Nov. 1

1916 - New York theater owner and producer Harry H. Frazee bought the Boston Red Sox for $675,000.

1938 - Ernie Lombardi of Cincinnati won the National League MVP award. Lombardi led the league in batting with a .342 mark.

1951 - Brooklyn's Roy Campanella won the first of three National League MVP awards. The Dodger catcher hit .325 with 33 homers and 108 RBIs.

1966 - Sandy Koufax of Los Angeles became the first three-time winner of the Cy Young Award. This was the last year there was one selection from both leagues.

1968 - Detroit's Denny McLain, the last 30-game winner in major league history, was the unanimous winner of the American League Cy Young award.

1978 - New York's Ron Guidry, 25-3, was the unanimous winner of the American League Cy Young award. Guidry led the league in shutouts (9) and ERA (1.79).

1979 - Edward Bennett Williams purchased the Baltimore Orioles for $12.3 million.

2001 - Scott Brosius hit a game-tying two-run homer with two out in the ninth inning and Alfonso Soriano singled home the winning run in the 12th inning to give New York a 3-2 victory over Arizona and a 3-2 lead in the World Series.

2006 - Reliever Guillermo Mota was suspended for 50 games after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance, becoming the third player penalized this year for violating Major League Baseball's toughened drug policy.

2010 - The San Franciso Giants beat the Texas Rangers 3-1 in a tense Game 5 to bring a World Series title to the city by the Bay for the first time.

2015 - The Kansas City Royals won their first World Series crown since 1985, rallying in the ninth inning when Eric Hosmer scrambled home to tie it and then breaking away in the 12th to beat the New York Mets 7-2 in Game 5. In the 12th, pinch-hitter Christian Colon delivered a tiebreaking single in his first appearance of this postseason. Lorenzo Cain added a three-run double.

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Nov. 2

1913 - St. Louis Browns manager George Stovall became the first to jump to the Federal League, signing to manage Kansas City.

1934 - William Heydler resigned as NL president because of poor health.

1937 - Detroit second baseman Charlie Gehringer, who led the American League in batting with a .371 average, was the league's most valuable player.

1938 - Jimmie Foxx of the Boston Red Sox won his third American League MVP award. Foxx hit 50 homers and drove in 175 runs while batting .349 with 139 runs scored. He won in 1932 and 1933 with the Philadelphia A's.

1950 - Philadelphia's Jim Konstanty became the first pitcher in eight years to win the National League MVP award.

1960 - Roger Maris beat teammate Mickey Mantle by three votes, 225-222, to win the second closest American League MVP vote. The closest MVP race occurred in 1947, when Joe DiMaggio edged Ted Williams by a single vote.

1971 - Baltimore's Pat Dobson pitched a 2-0 no-hitter against the Yomiuri Giants. It was the first no-hitter in Japanese-American exhibition history.

1972 - Steve Carlton, a 27-game winner for the last-place 59-97 Philadelphia Phillies, was the unanimous winner of the National League Cy Young award winner. Carlton went 27-10 with a 1.97 ERA and accounted for 46 percent of the team's wins.

1974 - The Atlanta Braves traded Hank Aaron to the Milwaukee Brewers for outfielder Dave May.

2009 - Chase Utley hit two home runs to raise his World Series total to a record-tying five, Cliff Lee won again and the Philadelphia Phillies staved off elimination with an 8-6 victory over the New York Yankees in Game 5. Utley hit a go-ahead, three-run homer in the first off A.J. Burnett and added a solo shot in the seventh. He joined Reggie Jackson as the only players to hit five home runs in a single World Series.

2016 - The Chicago Cubs beat the Cleveland Indians, 8-7 in Game 7 at Progressice Field in Cleveland to win their first WS title in 108 years.

2021 - The Atlanta Braves won their 4th World Series title in franchise history with a 7-0 win over the Houston Astros. The Braves win the series 4 games to 2.

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Nov. 3

1926 - Ty Cobb resigned as Detroit manager and announced his retirement from baseball.

1934 - Mickey Cochrane of Detroit beat Triple Crown winner Lou Gehrig (.363 average, 49 HRs, 165 RBIs) for the American League MVP award. Dizzy Dean of St. Louis, with a 30-7 record, was named NL MVP.

1942 - Red Sox outfield Ted Williams wins the AL Triple Crown (.356 average, 36 HRs, 137 RBIs) but NY Yankees pitcher Joe Gordon wins the AL MVP.

1953 - The sacrifice fly rule was reinstated. A sac fly would not be charged as an at-bat.

1953 - Despite winning the Triple Crown, Boston's Ted Williams finished second in American League Most Valuable voting, 21 votes behind New York Yankee second baseman Joe Gordon.

1965 - Sandy Koufax of Los Angeles won the Cy Young award with a unanimous vote. Koufax went 26-8 with a 2.04 ERA and a record 382 strikeouts.

1970 - Bob Gibson of St. Louis won the National League Cy Young Award. The Cardinals pitcher finished with a 23-7 record.

1981 - Rollie Fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers won the American League Cy Young award. Fingers, the first reliever to win the AL award, had 28 saves and a 1.04 ERA and collected 22 of 28 first-place votes.

1987 - Oakland's Mark McGwire won the American League Rookie of the Year unanimously. McGwire set a rookie record with 49 home runs.

2006 - Pitcher Greg Maddux won his 16th Gold Glove, tying the record shared by pitcher Jim Kaat and third baseman Brooks Robinson.