- Sep 4 New York Yankees clinch their 3rd straight AL pennant; beat the Red Sox, 6-3; earliest date in baseball history a team has captured a flag
US Men's Tennis Open
Sep 7 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: 1939 champion Bobby Riggs beats Frank Kovacs 5-7, 6-1, 6-3, 6-3
- Sep 7 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Sarah Palfrey Cooke beats fellow American Pauline Betz Addie 7-5, 6-2; sweeps all 3 women's titles
Sports History
Sep 17 Cards' Stan Musial makes his major league debut, going 2-for-4
Ted Williams Best Year
Sep 28 Ted Williams ended the baseball season with .406 batting avg
- Sep 29 Million jam downtown Brooklyn to cheer NL champ Dodgers in a parade
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