Boston Braves win the National League pennant.

The Braves beat the New York Giants 3-2 at Braves Field to clinch the team’s first pennant since 1914. The team is led by pitchers Warren Spahn and Johnny Sain, which, during the season prompts the Boston Post ran a poem by sports editor Gerald Hern that contained the lines, “First we’ll use Spahn, then we’ll use Sain./ Then an off day, followed by rain./Back will come Spahn, followed by Sain./And followed, we hope, by two days of rain.”