Foxx's Huge Home Run
May 14 Boston's Jimmie Foxx HR goes over Comiskey Park's left field roof
- May 20 Soccer team HZVV forms in Hoogeveen
- May 24 1st night game at St Louis Sportsman Park (Indians 3, Browns 2)
- May 24 NY Giants swat Boston Bees, 8-1, in 1st night game at Polo Grounds, NYC
- May 29 Adolf Kiefer swims world record 100 yards backstroke (58.8 sec)
- May 30 Indianapolis 500: Wilbur Shaw drives same Maserati 8CTF he had driven to victory in 1939; first driver in the history to win at Indy in consecutive years