Matamoros won on this day 49 to 32. The game was advertised as the "Border Championship."
* A black baseball player (still alive) who lives in the Rio Grande Valley was the first player to break the Little League color line.
Local baseball historian and college professor Rene Torres will be the opening speaker at the Smithsonian Institution's Main Street Traveling Exhibition Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America to be held Thursday, July 26, at the UTRGV University Library, in Edinburg.
Torres will bedazzle the audience with tidbits, lore, and much more. For more information, call 956-665-2726.