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Offline AndyMacFAIL

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Re: Pale Hose History
« Reply #4575 on: February 18, 2018, 12:37:18 am »

    On February 18 in Baseball History...


    1909 - The Boston Red Sox trade Cy Young, who won 21 games at age 41 in 1908, to the Cleveland Naps for pitchers Charlie Chech and Jack Ryan and $12,500.

    1922 - Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his federal judgeship, claiming the two jobs (judge and commissioner of baseball) take up too much time.

    1943 -  New York entrepreneur William D. Cox purchases the bankrupt Phillies from the National League. The 33 year-old new owner will be banned from baseball in November by commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis when he admits to making some "sentimental" bets on his team during the season.

    1944 - Just one day after playing in a high school basketball game, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall signs a contract with the Reds. The not so old "Ol' Left-hander" becomes the youngest player ever to appear in a big league game, tossing 2/3 of an inning for Cincinnati in June, 49 days before his sixteenth birthday.

    1954 - In their first major trade since moving from St. Louis, the Orioles, formerly known as the Browns, exchange outfielders with the Senators sending Roy Sievers to Washington for Gil Coan. Sievers will spend five solid seasons in the nation’s capital, making the All-Star squad twice, and, Conan, playing less than two seasons in Baltimore, compiles a .266 batting average with three home runs playing in 155 games.

    1960 - Walter O'Malley completes the purchase of land just north of downtown Los Angeles as the site of a new ballpark for his transplanted Brooklyn club. The Dodger owner paid a reported $494,000 for the property at Chavez Ravine, believed to be worth $92,000 at the time.

    1967 - During a special softball exhibition game, pitcher Eddie Feigner strikes six consecutive major leaguers. The victims include Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Brooks Robinson, Harmon Killebrew, Roberto Clemente and Maury Wills.

    1998 - Long time baseball announcer Harry Caray dies at the age of 84 after suffering a heart attack four days earlier while having Valentine’s Day dinner with his wife, Dutchie. The colorful "Mayor of Rush Street" started his career in 1945 with the Cardinals and also did play-by-play for the A’s, White Sox, and the Cubs during his 52 years in the broadcast booth.

    1999 - The Blue Jays trade Roger Clemens to the Yankees for David Wells, Graeme Lloyd, and Homer Bush.

    2005 - After five months of captivity in a Venezuelan jungle surrounded by explosives to keep her from escaping, Ugueth Urbina’s mother, Maura Villarreal, is rescued during a daring eight-hour police raid. The kidnappers had demanded $6 million ransom from the Tigers’ relief pitcher for his mom’s freedom.

    2008 - The New York Mets signed Jose Valentin as a free agent.

    2009 - After considering to play for Atlanta, a location which is closer to his family, Ken Griffey Jr. agrees to a one-year deal with the Seattle Mariners. The 39-year old outfielder joins a list of superstars, Babe Ruth (Boston), Willie Mays (New York), and Hank Aaron (Milwaukee), to choose the city where they played with their first team as the place to end their major league career.

    2009 - At 11:25 a.m., the last remaining piece of Shea Stadium, the ramp to section 5, is demolished marking the end of the New York ballpark where the Mets played for 44 years. The space will become a parking lot for the team’s new home, the $800-million Citi Field, which will open in April.


    2010 - The Florida Marlins signed Mike MacDougal as a free agent.

    2011 - The Orioles officially announce the signing of Vladimir Guerrero after the 36-year-old passed his physical. The team's new everyday designated hitter, who batted .300 with 29 homers and 115 RBIs with the American League Champion Rangers last season, agrees to a one-year, $8 million deal to play in Baltimore.

    2011 - In the first game of the season, Garrett Wittels goes 0-for-4 against Southeastern Louisiana, leaving the Florida International University junior two games short of Robin Ventura's Division 1 record of hitting in 58 consecutive games established by the former major leaguer in 1987. The overall NCAA mark is 60 straight games set by Damian Costantino playing for Division III Salve Regina from 2001-03.




    Baseball Birthdays on February 18...


    1856 - Whitney, Frank
    1860 - Fennelly, Frank
    1864 - Shaffer, John
    1864 - Twitchell, Larry
    1865 - Winkelman, George
    1871 - Knepper, Charlie
    1875 - Thornton, Walter
    1878 - Bernard, Curt
    1879 - Leroy, Louis
    1880 - Hale, Dad
    1887 - Coleman, Curt
    1889 - Mogridge, George

    1891 - Smith, Sherry
    1891 - Zabel, Zip
    1892 - Gallagher, John
    1897 - Betts, Huck
    1915 - Gordon, Joe
    1915 - Flick, Lew
    1922 - Tipton, Joe

    1922 - Brovia, Joe
    1925 - Lutz, Joe
    1927 - Arroyo, Luis
    1927 - Wehmeier, Herm
    1929 - Neeman, Cal
    1930 - House, Frank
    1938 - Mota, Manny
    1939 - Maxvill, Dal
    1939 - Hickman, Jesse
    1939 - Miller, Bob

    1941 - Marentette, Leo
    1949 - Mayberry, John
    1949 - Morales, Jerry
    1950 - Kison, Bruce
    1952 - Hill, Marc

    1958 - Ramirez, Rafael
    1960 - Fallon, Bob

    1962 - Childress, Rocky
    1963 - Freeman, La Vel
    1963 - McKnight, Jeff
    1964 - Tapani, Kevin

    1967 - Turner, Matt
    1967 - Valentin, John
    1968 - Abbott, Kyle
    1970 - Green, Tyler
    1973 - Estes, Shawn
    1974 - Carroll, Jamey
    1975 - Moeller, Chad
    1980 - Young, Walter
    1981 - Rios, Alex

    1981 - Serrano, Alex
    1984 - Bogusevic, Brian
    1990 - Colon, Joseph
    1990 - Gregorius, Mariekson



    Baseball Deaths on February 18...


    1905 - Poorman, Tom
    1906 - Ingraham, Charlie
    1911 - Briggs, Buttons
    1917 - Fisher, Charles
    1925 - Dougherty, Charlie
    1935 - DeMontreville, Gene
    1941 - Connelly, Tom
    1944 - Pernoll, Hub
    1945 - Munyan, John
    1949 - O'Toole, Marty
    1960 - Schemanske, Fred
    1966 - McManus, Marty
    1967 - Miller, Ralph
    1968 - Egan, Ben
    1971 - Hostetler, Chuck
    1977 - Zackert, George
    1978 - Hamlin, Luke
    1980 - Hesselbacher, George
    1980 - Stone, Dick
    1994 - Clemensen, Bill
    1997 - Knickerbocker, Austin
    1998 - Caray, Harry

    2000 - Hoerst, Lefty
    2001 - Wensloff, Butch
    2001 - Mathews, Eddie
    2007 - Reynolds, Danny

    2009 - Flowers, Ben
    2010 - Chakales, Bob
    2010 - Kibler, John
    2011 - Gilmore, Len
    2011 - Jacobs, Spook
    2011 - Lewis, Buddy
    2014 - Greene, Al
    2016 - Davenport, Jim


          



     



     



                 






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Re: Pale Hose History
« Reply #4576 on: February 19, 2018, 12:24:24 am »

    On February 19 in Baseball History...


    1935 - Lou Gehrig signs a one-year deal with the Yankees for $30,000. Last season, the All-star first baseman hit .363 with 49 homers and led the American League with 165 RBIs.

    1942 - Unable to find relief from migraine headaches, Indian first baseman Hal Trosky retires from baseball.

    1946 - Danny Gardella becomes the first major league player to jump to the Mexican League. The outfielder goes south of the border lured by a salary of $10,000, more than double the amount offered by the Giants.

    1953 - After being hit by enemy fire during a Korean combat mission, Ted Williams safely crash lands his Panther jet.

    1970 - Effective April 1st, Tiger pitcher Denny McLain is suspended for three months by Commissioner Kuhn for his alleged connection with bookmakers.

    1977 - The Rangers purchase Paul Lindblad from Oakland for $400,000. The left-handed reliever will appeared in 42 games for Texas this season posting a 4-5 record with an ERA of 4.20.

    1983 - Fernando Valenzuela becomes the first player to be awarded $1,000,000 via the arbitration process. The 22-year old Mexican southpaw has compiled a career record of 34-20 during his three years with the Dodgers.

    1987 - After signing a contract as a free agent with the A's less than a month ago, Vida Blue unexpectedly retires from baseball.

    2002 - The 37-year-old Jose Canseco (.258, 16, 49) signs a minor league contract with the lame duck Expos. The 17-year veteran, who was the 1985 American League Rookie of the Year in 1985 and its 1986 MVP, is 38 homers shy of the coveted 500 mark.

    2008 - In a deal which includes a club option worth $10 million, sophomore Ian Kinsler (.286, 14, 55) signs a five-year, $22 million contract with the Rangers. With the signing of the 24-year-old second baseman and last season's contract extension for All-Star shortstop Michael Young Texas has locked up the middle of their infield through 2013.

    2009 - Despite his poor performance last season, the Braves give Jeff Francoeur (.239, 11, 71) a big raise over his previous salary of $460,000 agreeing to a one-year contract worth $3,375,000 with the outfielder. The deal, a compromise between their two offers, comes just hours prior to a scheduled salary arbitration hearing in Arizona.

    2010 - The Nationals finalize a $2 million, one-year deal, that includes the opportunity to earn up to $3 million in performance-based bonuses, with former Yankee pitcher Chien-Ming Wang (1-6, 9.64 ERA). The 29-year old right-hander, who hasn't been the same since injuring his foot running the bases in a 2008 interleague game against Houston, underwent shoulder surgery last July and is not expected to pitch in the first few months of the season.

    2011 - The New York Yankees signed Andy Sisco as a free agent.

    2012 - At the Bell Centre, Canadiens mascot Youppi! wears his jersey with the Expos colors in place of his usual bleu-blanc-rouge (blue, white, and red) to honor the memory of former major league catcher Gary Carter, who died this week as the result of a brain tumor. The 57 year-old Hall of Famer, the only player enshrined as an Expo, and Youppi! played key roles for the National League team before the franchise left Montreal to move to Washington, D.C. in 2005.


    2014 - Avoiding arbitration, Homer Bailey (11-12, 3.49) and the Reds agree to a $105 million, six-year deal, including a $25 million mutual option for 2020. The 27-year-old starter from Texas, the author of two major league no-hitters, will continue to be part of Cincinnati’s young rotation that includes Johnny Cueto, Mat Latos, Mike Leake and southpaw Tony Cingrani, who are all under the age of 30.

    2015 - The Los Angeles Dodgers signed David Aardsma as a free agent.

    2016 - The Atlanta Braves signed Carlos Torres as a free agent.

    2016 - The Anaheim Angels signed Javy Guerra as a free agent.




    Baseball Birthdays on February 19...


    1853 - Miller, George
    1855 - Morrill, John
    1864 - Cote, Henry
    1868 - Campfield, Sal
    1876 - Marshall, Joe
    1883 - Curtis, Harry
    1889 - Herrell, Walt
    1890 - Chappell, Larry

    1892 - Wyckoff, Weldon
    1894 - Cox, Ernie

    1898 - Clanton, Uke
    1900 - Kane, John

    1900 - Roettger, Oscar
    1912 - Siebert, Dick
    1914 - Sperry, Stan
    1917 - Earley, Tom
    1917 - Aleno, Chuck
    1923 - Sullivan, Russ
    1932 - Taussig, Don
    1935 - Nixon, Russ
    1938 - Sadowski, Bob
    1939 - Moore, Jackie
    1939 - Weaver, Jim
    1940 - Kelso, Bill
    1943 - Cosman, Jim
    1943 - Hopkins, Gail

    1944 - Zachary, Chris
    1952 - Cheadle, Dave
    1957 - Stewart, Dave
    1959 - Burke, Tim
    1959 - Atherton, Keith
    1962 - Espinoza, Alvaro
    1965 - Rosenthal, Wayne
    1967 - Kessinger, Keith
    1971 - Batista, Miguel
    1974 - Diaz, Juan
    1982 - Stewart, Chris

    1983 - Kilby, Brad
    1985 - Otero, Danny
    1986 - Schwimer, Michael
    1987 - Reddick, Josh
    1988 - Chapman, Kevin
    1989 - Castillo, Fabio
    1993 - Mengden, Daniel



    Baseball Deaths on February 19...


    1888 - Taylor, Live Oak
    1915 - Moolic, George
    1927 - Keifer, Katie
    1947 - Warner, Hooks
    1948 - Groom, Bob
    1956 - Demmitt, Ray

    1957 - Munson, Red
    1961 - Sell, Epp
    1961 - Smith, Red
    1961 - Loudell, Art
    1969 - White, Doc

    1972 - Thompson, Fuller
    1974 - Miller, Frank

    1977 - Gonzalez, Mike
    1978 - Mallonee, Ben
    1978 - Paine, Phil
    1981 - Barnes, Sam
    1983 - Colman, Frank
    1984 - Shores, Bill

    2006 - Abernathie, Bill
    2010 - Cisar, George
    2015 - Woods, Gary

    2017 - MacPherson, Harry


      





 


 


     



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Re: Pale Hose History
« Reply #4577 on: February 20, 2018, 12:12:36 am »

    On February 20 in Baseball History...


    1903 - Nick Young remains N.L. president when A.G. Spalding bows out of the battle.

    1923 - Christy Mathewson becomes president of the Boston Braves after buying the club for $300,000 with New York attorney Judge Emil Fuchs and Bostonian James McDonough. The deal does not include Braves Field, which still belongs to James Gaffney. There are also 85 minority stockholders.

    1929 - The Red Sox announce they will play Sunday games (allowed for the first time in Boston) at Braves Field, because Fenway Park is located too close to a church.

    1943 - Phil Wrigley and Branch Rickey charter the All-American Girls Softball League. The league will operate around the Chicago area and is formed as a sports backup in case the government shuts down major league baseball. The league will later change its name and switch to hardball with a pitching distance of 40 feet and bases 68 feet apart.

    1953 -  Pledging not to move the team from St. Louis, beer baron August A. Busch convinces the Board of Directors of Anheuser-Busch to purchase the Cardinals for $3.75 million.

    1958 - The Los Angeles Coliseum Commission approves a two-year pact for use of its facility by the Dodgers.

    1963 - After leading the Giants to the pennant the previous season, Willie Mays becomes the highest paid player signing a $100,000 contract.

    1963 - The Cubs officially put an end to their radical approach in using multiple field bosses during the course of the season when they hire Bob Kennedy as their only manager. With the "College of Coaches" system disbanded, the club will post an 82-80 record under their lone skipper.

    1980 - The era of 'Billy Ball' begins in Oakland when Billy Martin is hired as the manager of the A's for $125,000. During his three-year tenure in the dugout, the fiery skipper will compile a 215-218 record and will win a division title as the first half leader in the AL West of the 1981 strike-shortened season.

    1984 - Pedro Guerrero becomes the highest paid Dodger when he signs a five-year, seven million dollar contract to play in Los Angeles.

    1992 - After Homer Simpson and his co-workers qualify the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant's softball team for the league final, Mr. Montgomery Burns, the owner of the facility, hires nine professional MLB players, to win a $1 million bet with his Shelbyville rival. Although he hits nine home runs, the southpaw-swinging Darryl Strawberry, the only major leaguer to actual participate in the game, after Roger Clemens, Wade Boggs, Ken Griffey Jr., Steve Sax, Ozzie Smith, José Canseco, Don Mattingly, and Mike Scioscia are all sidelined after being involved in a series of bizarre pre-game accidents, will be replaced by Homer in the last inning, because Burns wants a righty to face the opponent’s left-hander.


    2008 - "My, oh my”, Mariners broadcaster Dave Niehaus is going into the Baseball Hall of Fame. On his 73rd birthday, the veteran announcer learns he is the recipient of the 2008 Ford C. Frick Award for broadcast excellence.

    2009 - Tom Glavine, with the most wins among active pitchers, agrees to a one-year, $1 million deal to stay with the Braves. The 42-year-old southpaw, who underwent surgery for a torn ligament in his left elbow, posted a 2-4 record with a 5.54 ERA in 13 starts for Atlanta before being shut down for the season last August.

    2009 - Baltimore inks Brian Roberts to a four-year contract extension reported to be worth $40 million. Along with Nick Markakis, who recently signed a six-year, $66 million deal, the 31-year-old talented second basemen becomes the second home-grown Oriole player within a month to agree to a long term deal to stay with the last-place club.

    2009 - Avoiding arbitration, the Nationals and Ryan Zimmerman (.283, 14, 51) agree to a one-year, $3.3 million contract. The 24-year-old third baseman is Washington’s all-time leader in almost every offensive category, including homers, RBI, runs, and hits, as well as contests played, since the franchise relocated from Montreal four seasons ago.

    2012 - The Texas Rangers signed Neal Cotts as a free agent.

    2012 - The Oakland Athletics signed Manny Ramirez as a free agent.



    Baseball Birthdays on February 20...


    1858 - Toy, Jim
    1862 - Raymond, Harry
    1864 - Stine, Harry
    1866 - Pickett, John
    1873 - O'Brien, Tom
    1873 - Babb, Charlie
    1874 - Bennett, Pug
    1875 - Rafter, Jack
    1876 - Samuls, Ike
    1887 - Brown, Boardwalk
    1888 - Magner, Stubby
    1890 - Turner, Tink
    1890 - Rice, Sam
    1890 - Davenport, Dave
    1894 - Sutherland, Suds
    1896 - Ruel, Muddy

    1897 - O'Neill, Harry
    1900 - Williamson, Al

    1912 - Wistert, Whitey
    1913 - Henrich, Tommy
    1917 - Bolling, Jack
    1920 - Gustine, Frankie
    1920 - Valdes, Roy
    1921 - Robinson, Jack
    1922 - Reeder, Bill
    1922 - Wilson, Jim

    1924 - Yvars, Sal
    1928 - Face, Roy
    1936 - Hawkins, Wynn
    1941 - Wright, Clyde
    1947 - Buskey, Tom
    1957 - Figueroa, Jesus
    1958 - Snyder, Brian
    1959 - Gullickson, Bill
    1963 - Lombardi, Phil
    1965 - Faries, Paul
    1965 - Menendez, Tony
    1966 - Lilliquist, Derek
    1967 - Knudsen, Kurt
    1972 - Spencer, Shane
    1974 - Fordham, Tom

    1975 - McDonald, Donzell
    1975 - Estrella, Leo
    1975 - Hernandez, Livan
    1980 - Langerhans, Ryan
    1982 - Hirsh, Jason
    1983 - Morales, Jose
    1983 - Nava, Daniel
    1983 - Verlander, Justin
    1984 - McCann, Brian
    1985 - Pestano, Vinnie
    1985 - Ryan Sweeney

    1986 - Borbon, Julio
    1988 - Patton, Spencer
    1991 - Farmer, Buck
    1991 - Nash, Telvin
    1992 - Field, Johnny (Hunnie's son)

    1993 - Profar, Jurickson
    1994 - Severino, Luis



    Baseball Deaths on February 20...


    1903 - Dwight, Al
    1909 - Hatfield, John
    1925 - Mansell, John
    1934 - Mappes, George
    1944 - Wilhelm, Harry
    1945 - Heard, Charlie
    1949 - Baker, Norm
    1951 - Shay, Marty
    1954 - McMahon, Sadie
    1957 - Leverett, Dixie

    1959 - Pierson, William
    1960 - Leitner, Dummy

    1961 - Krueger, Otto
    1963 - Hinchman, Bill
    1971 - Porter, Irv
    1974 - Christian, Bob

    1984 - Matthewson, Dale
    1985 - Johnson, Syl
    1986 - Rice, Bob
    1988 - O'Farrell, Bob
    1990 - Garriott, Cecil
    1999 - Rossi, Joe
    1999 - Rogers, Buck
    2001 - Rigney, Bill
    2007 - Malloy, Bob
    2007 - Wise, Casey
    2013 - Wilson, Neil
    2016 - Collins, Kevin


                       


                   








                   


                       



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Re: Pale Hose History
« Reply #4578 on: February 21, 2018, 12:01:04 am »

    On February 21 in Baseball History...


    1931 - The Chicago White Sox and the New York Giants become the first major league teams to meet in a night game. They collect 23 hits in a 10-inning exhibition game played at Buffs Stadium in Houston.


    1931 - The Dodgers arrive in Cuba to start a series of five inter-squad games.

    1945 - Due to wartime travel restrictions, baseball decides to cancel the All-Star game. It is the only time the Midsummer Classic will not be played since the game's inception in 1933.

    1951 - The South Carolina House introduces a resolution urging that Shoeless Joe Jackson, who was banished from baseball because of his part in the Black Sox Scandal of 1919, be reinstated.


    1957 - Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley trades minor league franchises with Phil Wrigley of the Cubs. Brooklyn gives up its Ft. Worth club (Texas League) in return for the Los Angeles Angels (Pacific Coast League). In a year's time, Brooklyn will be without a team and Los Angeles will be a major league city.

    1966 - Emmett Ashford becomes the first black to be a major league umpire when he is hired by the American League. 'Ash', known for his flashy style in the PCL, will spend five years in the bigs, working the 1967 All-Star game and the 1970 World Series, before reaching the mandatory retirement age of 56.

    1968 - The first-ever collective basic agreement is signed by the players and owners. The CBA increases the minimum salary to $10,000 and introduces a formal grievance procedure.

    1969 - Ted Williams returns to baseball full-time, signing a five-year contract to manage the Washington Senators.

    1974 - Tom Seaver becomes the highest-paid pitcher in baseball history when he signs a contract for $172,000 per season to hurl for the Mets. 'Tom Terrrific' has posted a 135-76 record during his seven years in New York.

    1985 - Tim Raines is awarded a $1.2 million salary for 1985 by arbitrator John Roberts. This is the largest award to date through the process. The 25-year-old Raines hit .309 for the Expos in 1984 and led all players with 75 stolen bases.

    1986 - In defiance of the Reds' policy, Rollie Fingers refuses to cut off his trademark handlebar mustache and retires from baseball. The future Hall of Fame reliever, who leaves the game with 341 saves, had been offered a contract by Cincinnati's skipper Pete Rose after being released by the Brewers at the end of last season

    1989 - Reds manager Pete Rose meets with Commissioner Peter Ueberroth and Commissioner-elect Bart Giamatti to explain the allegations concerning his gambling habits. Major League Major League Baseball will launch a full investigation into the matter next month which will lead to “Charlie Hustle’s” permanent ban from the game in August.

    2000 - Denying the acquisition of Ken Griffey, Jr. as the reason, the Reds announce the team has dropped its ban on earrings. Players have worn them in the clubhouse, but weren't allowed on the field with them.

    2006 - Gene Elston is selected by the National Baseball Hall of Fame to receive the Ford C. Frick Award. During his 47-years in the broadcast booth, the former Astros announcer brought a no-nonsense approach to reporting the happenings on the diamond.

    2007 - The Detroit Tigers signed Timo Perez as a free agent.

    2008 - Ryan Howard, who made $900,000 last season, gets a substantial raise by winning his salary arbitration case against the Phillies. The 28-year old first baseman is awarded $10 million, tying Alfonso Soriano, who had sought $12 million and lost, for the highest amount ever given to a player in the process.

    2008 - The Chicago Cubs signed Alex Cintron as a free agent.

    2008 - The Cincinnati Reds signed Josh Fogg as a free agent.

    2008 - The Chicago White Sox signed Tomo Ohka as a free agent.


    2009 - In a decision which team general manager Neal Huntington calls easy, the Pirates pick up John Russell’s contract option for this season. The sophomore skipper went 67-95 in his first season with the last-place Bucs.

    2009 - The Minnesota Twins signed Joe Crede as a free agent.

    2010 - The Chicago White Sox released Freddie Bynum.


    2012 - The New York Yankees signed Eric Chavez as a free agent.

    2012 - The Cleveland Indians signed Cristian Guzman as a free agent.

    2012 - The New York Yankees signed Raul Ibanez as a free agent.



    Baseball Birthdays on February 21...


    1867 - Meekin, Jouett
    1870 - Duzen, Bill
    1875 - Taylor, Dummy
    1876 - Titus, John
    1879 - Smith, Ed
    1880 - Hughes, Joe
    1880 - Wright, Lucky
    1886 - Remneas, Alex
    1890 - Beck, George
    1893 - Plitt, Norman
    1893 - Williams, Marsh
    1896 - Moore, Ferdie
    1896 - McCabe, Dick

    1896 - Gross, Turkey
    1907 - Hansen, Snipe
    1914 - Gray, Milt
    1924 - Hittle, Lloyd
    1936 - Savage, Ted
    1940 - Gallagher, Doug
    1942 - Newman, Fred
    1943 - Foy, Joe
    1943 - Billingham, Jack
    1945 - Shopay, Tom
    1947 - Walters, Charlie
    1947 - Ley, Terry
    1948 - Slayback, Bill
    1953 - Lysander, Rick
    1958 - Trammell, Alan
    1961 - Skinner, Joel

    1963 - Olander, Jim
    1965 - Azocar, Oscar
    1971 - Schmidt, Jeff
    1975 - Berger, Brandon
    1977 - Hutchinson, Chad
    1978 - Reyes, Rene
    1981 - Greenberg, Adam
    1981 - Wada, Tsuyoshi
    1982 - Bellorin, Edwin
    1983 - Gutierrez, Franklin
    1988 - Lyons, Tyler
    1990 - Goldberg, Brad

    1991 - Travis, Devon
    1992 - Merritt, Ryan



    Baseball Deaths on February 21...


    1901 - Driscoll, Dennis
    1914 - Vaughn, Farmer
    1918 - Fogarty, John
    1927 - Rockenfield, Ike
    1932 - Peters, John
    1934 - Roxburgh, Jim
    1934 - Adkins, Doc
    1938 - Merritt, George
    1940 - Taber, John
    1941 - Corridon, Frank
    1944 - Enzenroth, Jack
    1945 - Radford, Paul
    1946 - Cunningham, Bill
    1948 - Ray, Irv
    1953 - Freeman, Buck
    1969 - Murphy, Eddie

    1970 - Carey, Tom
    1970 - Shaute, Joe
    1972 - Hensiek, Phil
    1973 - Campbell, Gilly
    1975 - Filipowicz, Steve
    1978 - Parks, Slicker
    1982 - Shearer, Ray
    1989 - Ross, Chet
    1999 - Mizell, Vinegar Bend
    1999 - Gill, George
    2002 - Faul, Bill
    2003 - Peters, Rusty
    2006 - Freeman, Mark
    2007 - Jones, Sherman
    2010 - Strickland, George
    2014 - Maestri, Hector
    2014 - O"Brien, Eddie


         









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Re: Pale Hose History
« Reply #4579 on: February 22, 2018, 12:18:55 am »

    On February 22 in Baseball History...


    1880 - George Wright signs a contract with the Boston Red Caps which he states allows him not to travel with the team on western road trips, but just participate in games played in New England and Troy. The arrangement will allow the shortstop to devote more time to his sporting goods business.

    1889 - Italy's King Humbert is among the fans who witness the Chicagos beat the All-Americans, 3-2, outside of Rome at the Villia Borghesi. Originally billed as the Spalding’s Australian Baseball Tour is expanded to include contests in Europe much to the surprise of the captive players aboard ship en route to the Land Down Under.

    1934 - George Lee Anderson is born in Bridgewater, South Dakota. He will earn the nickname Sparky, play 152 games for the Phillies in 1959, and never play another major league game. He will, however, win 2,194 games and capture world championships in both the N.L. and A.L. as manager of the Cincinnati Reds and Detroit Tigers.

    1936 - As part of the Washington D.C. Sesquicentennial celebration, Senator legend Walter Johnson throws a baseball to the far side of the Rapahannock River. The event is designed to duplicate George Washington's alleged toss of a silver dollar across the Potomac River.

    1938 - After college, Texas Christian football All-American Sammy Baugh signs a contract with the Cardinals. 'Slingin' Sammy', who will experience little playing time as a backup to starting shortstop Marty Marion, will leave the minor leagues to become the quarterback for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League.

    1957 - Walter O'Malley says the Dodgers may play 10 exhibition games in California in 1958.

    1980 - Billy Martin signs to manage the Athletics after another stormy partial season managing the Yankees.

    2005 - San Diego broadcaster Jerry Coleman is selected as the recipient of the Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award. The 80-year old play-by-play man, who was the MVP of the 1950 World Series, has spent 41 years in the booth working for the Yankees, Angels and Padres.

    2005 - Tom Umberg, a California state assemblyman, introduces legislation which would require pro franchises to use disclaimers if they do not play the majority of home games in the location used in their name. With his`Truth in Sports Advertising Act', the Anaheim Democratic is trying prevent the local team from changing its name to Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

    2006 - The Dodgers announce the team has extended the contract of Vin Scully through 2008. The Hall of Fame broadcaster, considered by many to be the best announcer in baseball history, is beginning his 57th year, believed to be the longest tenure of any on-air individual in sports history, in the Dodger organization.

    2008 - Although he loses his request for $12.5 million, Francisco Rodriguez (2.81, 40 saves) is awarded $10 million tying Alfonso Soriano (Nationals) and Ryan Howard (Phillies) for the most money ever awarded in a salary arbitration case. The 26-year-old Angels closer leads the majors for saves during the last three seasons with a total of 132.

    2008 - The Mets, who had not gone to arbitration with a player in 16 years, come out on the short end of the hearing when southpaw Oliver Perez (15-10, 3.56) gets a favorable decision in his case from arbitrators Steven Wolf, Robert Bailey and Elizabeth Neumeier. The southpaw will be paid $6.5 million this season rather than the club's offer of $4,725,000.

    2009 - The Los Angeles Dodgers signed Orlando Hudson as a free agent.

    2010 - Johnny Damon and the Tigers agree to an $8 million, one-year deal. The 36-year-old left-swinging outfielder, who hit .282 with 24 homers for the World Champion Yankees last season, will bat lead off for Detroit, who missed their chance for the postseason by losing a one-game tiebreaker to Minnesota.

    2012 - The New York Yankees signed David Aardsma as a free agent.

    2013 - The San Francisco Giants traded Conor Gillaspie to Chicago White Sox in exchange for Jeff Soptic.

    2016 - The Chicago White Sox signed Jimmy Rollins as a free agent.




    Baseball Birthdays on February 22...


    1864 - McGinnis, Jumbo
    1865 - Silch, Ed
    1868 - Davies, George
    1868 - Camp, Lew
    1870 - Tebeau, Charles
    1874 - McFadden, Barney
    1878 - Moran, Charlie
    1884 - Radebaugh, Roy
    1884 - Ball, Jim
    1891 - Mitchell, Clarence
    1892 - Waldbauer, Doc
    1894 - Hall, Bill
    1894 - Grubbs, Tom
    1895 - Graham, Roy

    1895 - DeFate, Tony
    1895 - Monroe, Ed
    1900 - Spencer, Roy
    1901 - Jessee, Dan
    1907 - Hopkins, Marty
    1907 - Dugan, Dan

    1909 - Bramhall, Art
    1911 - Baker, Bill
    1918 - Sullivan, Jackie
    1919 - Lucadello, Johnny
    1920 - Drews, Karl
    1922 - Genovese, George
    1922 - Zak, Frankie
    1925 - Wilson, Bob
    1929 - Peete, Charlie
    1929 - Duren, Ryne
    1930 - Luttrell, Lyle
    1931 - Nichols, Chet
    1934 - Anderson, Sparky
    1939 - Barber, Steve
    1948 - Christensen, Bruce
    1948 - Griffin, Tom
    1948 - Rogodzinski, Mike
    1956 - Lefebvre, Joe
    1963 - Wakamatsu, Don

    1965 - Yelding, Eric
    1968 - Sasaki, Kazuhiro
    1972 - Halama, John
    1973 - Johnson, Russ
    1973 - Heiserman, Rick
    1977 - Putz, J.J.

    1979 - Colyer, Steve
    1980 - Martinez, Ramon
    1982 - Johnson, Kelly
    1982 - Mendez, Adalberto
    1983 - Duensing, Brian
    1983 - Fisher, Carlos
    1983 - Kotchman, Casey
    1983 - Lopez, Arturo
    1987 - Field, Tommy
    1987 - Peguero, Carlos
    1988 - Gale, Rocky
    1989 - Bassitt, Chris

    1992 - Machado, Dixon
    1992 - McCarthy, Kevin
    1992 - Shipley, Braden
    1995 - Marquez, German



    Baseball Deaths on February 22...


    1890 - Blair, Bill
    1892 - Rowen, Ed
    1901 - Kinslow, Tom
    1922 - Hogan, George
    1935 - Williams, Marsh
    1938 - Hackett, Mert
    1939 - Morrissey, Frank
    1954 - Wilson, Chief
    1957 - Begley, Jim
    1959 - Hill, Hunter
    1962 - Speraw, Paul
    1964 - Butler, Kid
    1964 - Samuels, Ike
    1965 - Huber, Clarence
    1967 - Tost, Lou
    1981 - High, Andy
    1984 - Lutz, Red
    1991 - Pattison, Jimmy
    2001 - Davis, Bob
    2004 - Seminick, Andy
    2005 - Huffman, Ben
    2013 - Ramirez, Mario
    2018 - Hamilton, Jack



               





         










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« Reply #4580 on: February 23, 2018, 12:19:08 am »

    On February 23 in Baseball History...


    1921 - Rabbit Maranville is traded by Brooklyn to the Pirates for Billy Southworth, Fred Nicholson, Walter Barbare, and $15,000 in cash. The future Hall of Fame shortstop will spend four of his 19 major league seasons playing for the Bucs providing excellent defense for the team while compiling a .283 batting average.

    1934 - Brooklyn coach Casey Stengel, signs a two-year deal to manage the Dodgers, replacing skipper Max Carey, who guided the sixth-place club to a 65-88 record last season. During the rookie's skipper three-year tenure with the team, the Brooks will finish 43 games under .500.

    1960 - Twenty-eight months after the Dodgers play their last game in Brooklyn, the demolition of Ebbets Field finally begins. The National Anthem is sung by pop singer Lucy Monroe, and a wheel-chair bound Roy Campanella, the team's former catcher, is given an urn of dirt from behind home plate.

    1964 - Charlie Finley gives in to A.L. pressure and signs a four-year lease with the municipal government to keep the A's in Kansas City. Finley wanted two years. His exasperated A.L. colleagues voted 9-1 that KC's offer was reasonable.

    1976 - Major league owners announce that spring training will not open until a new labor contract is agreed upon.

    1986 - Although he loses his arbitration case, Boston third baseman Wade Boggs receives the largest amount ($1.35 million) ever awarded by this process. Last season's AL batting champ had sought $1.85 million, but arbitrator Thomas Roberts rules in favor of the Red Sox, resulting in a drop of a half-million dollars for the infielder.

    1987 - Three days into spring training, Dick Howser's attempted comeback after undergoing brain tumor surgery comes to an end when the frail-looking Royals manager finds he is physically too weak to continue. Third base coach Billy Gardner replaces the ill skipper, who will die three months later at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City.

    1988 - A committee of Chicago aldermen, facing the loss of the 1990 All-Star game and possible post-season games, allow the Cubs to play 18 night games at Wrigley Field, the last major league ballpark to be illuminated. In 1942, team owner P.K. Wrigley had planned to be among the first to install lights, but the idea was abandoned when the materials were needed for the war effort.

    1990 - Although the owners drop their arbitration and minimum salary proposals, spring training camps remain closed. Baseball's seventh work stoppage in baseball will last 32 days resulting in Opening Day being moved back a week and the over-all season extended by three days in order to accommodate the 162-game schedule.

    1997 - Ira Berkow’s front page story about Larry Doby appears in the Sunday New York Times. The article spurs much interest about the first black to play in the American League and many believe leads to the outfielder’s election to the Hall of Fame the following year.

    2000 - Cubs manager Don Baylor names four captains including first baseman Mark Grace, right fielder Sammy Sosa, pitcher Kevin Tapani and reliever Rick Aguilera. The quartet will be the Cubs' first captains since the 1960s and early 1970s when Ron Santo held the position.

    2006 - Complaining about the lack of support from local baseball officials, Roberto Kelly resigns as manager of Panama's team in the World Baseball Classic. The Giants spring training instructor believes some players were held back from participating in the WBC so they would play in the Panamanian championships.

    2012 - Avoiding a 50-game suspension, Ryan Braun becomes the first major league player to successfully challenge the results of a positive test. The panel that heard the appeal voted 2-1 in favor of the 28 year-old Brewer outfielder because the test collector kept the urine sample at home and stored it in his refrigerator for two days before sending the specimen to a Montreal laboratory for analysis.

    2012 - The Colorado Rockies signed Royce Ring as a free agent.

    2013 - The Pittsburgh Pirates signed Jose Contreras as a free agent.

    2013 - Jason Bay, who mutually agreed to terminate his contract with the Mets in November after three years of futility in New York, clouts a two-run homer in his first at-bat of spring training in the Mariners' 8-6 exhibition victory over the Padres. The likable, but oft injured outfielder signed with Seattle in the off-season for $1 million, a far cry from the four-year, $66-million free-agent deal he inked when he left Boston for the Big Apple in 2009.

    2016 -     Jose Reyes becomes the first player disciplined under baseball’s new domestic violence policy when he is placed on paid leave until the completion of criminal proceedings, stemming from his arrest following an argument with his wife at a Hawaiian resort in late October. The 32-year-old All-Star shortstop, who pleaded not guilty to a charge of abuse of a family member, will not report to spring training with the Rockies.

    2016 - At a news conference at Borough Hall in Queens, the Mets announce the team will host an LGBT Pride Night on August 13 at Citi Field, featuring discounted seating for the game against the Padres and a free postgame concert. A portion of the proceeds from each ticket sold at Mets.com/pride for the event, which is expected to attract more than 5,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender fans, will benefit the LGBT Network, a non-profit organization, and its Safe Schools Initiative working to stop bullying in Long Island and Queens.

   


    Baseball Birthdays on February 23...


    1874 - Lauder, Billy
    1877 - Thatcher, Grant
    1877 - Hulswitt, Rudy
    1887 - Lowdermilk, Lou
    1890 - Gooch, Lee
    1890 - Black, John
    1893 - O'Neill, Jim
    1894 - Rodriguez, Jose
    1896 - Sanberg, Gus
    1903 - Johnson, Roy
    1905 - Barnhart, Les
    1908 - Boken, Bob
    1914 - Tresh, Mike

    1914 - Myers, Lynn
    1916 - Kearse, Eddie
    1918 - Layne, Hillis
    1918 - Carlin, Jim
    1924 - Haugstad, Phil
    1929 - Howard, Elston
    1932 - Bolger, Jim
    1941 - Lund, Gordy
    1941 - Hunt, Ron
    1944 - Shaw, Don
    1946 - Boswell, Ken
    1953 - Kuhaulua, Fred
    1957 - Anderson, Jim
    1958 - Agosto, Juan

    1958 - Shelby, John
    1959 - Vargas, Eddie
    1961 - Smith, Mike
    1961 - Morris, John
    1963 - Bonilla, Bobby

    1969 - Charles, Frank
    1972 - White, Rondell
    1973 - Boyd, Jason
    1975 - Maurer, David
    1976 - Elarton, Scott
    1978 - Prokopec, Luke
    1979 - Aguila, Chris
    1983 - Gonzalez, Edgar
    1986 - Murphy, J.R.
    1989 - Rosario, Wilin
    1990 - Decker, Jeff



    Baseball Deaths on February 23...


    1922 - Dillhoefer, Pickles
    1926 - Church, Hi
    1928 - Ridgway, Jack
    1937 - Preston, Walt
    1944 - Bauer, Al
    1947 - Brickley, George
    1955 - Tozer, Bill
    1956 - Loos, Pete
    1961 - Crockett, Davey
    1968 - Schreiber, Hank
    1969 - Swift, Bill
    1969 - Hargrave, Bubbles
    1981 - Brown, Myrl
    1988 - Donohue, Pete
    1993 - Hutcheson, Joe
    1996 - Goldsberry, Gordon

    1998 - Stoviak, Ray
    2009 - Tepsic, Joe
    2015 - King. Jim





     









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« Reply #4581 on: February 24, 2018, 12:11:15 am »

    On February 24 in Baseball History...


    1917 - The Red Sox sell Smokey Joe Wood, his arm dead at 26, to Cleveland for $15,000. He will become an outfielder after one last, losing start on the mound, and play five more years.

    1926 - Southpaw Eddie Plank, winner of 326 games with a 2.35 career ERA, dies at 50 in his native Gettysburg, Pa.

    1943 - The Texas League announces it will quit for the duration of World War II. The Cardinals, with 260 farm players in the service, will reduce farm clubs from 22 to six. Only nine minor leagues will start the 1943 season. Advertisements for players appear in The Sporting News.

    1948 - The White Sox trade Ed Lopat to the Yankees for Aaron Robinson, Bill Wight and Fred Bradley.


    1966 - University of Southern California pitcher Tom Seaver is signed by the Braves. The deal will later be voided, and the USC stand-out will be selected by the Mets in a special draft.

    1977 - The Oakland A’s trade Ron Fairly to the Toronto Blue Jays for minor leaguer Mike Weathers and cash. The Macon, Georgia native, who played with the Montreal Expos from 1969 to 1974, becomes the first major leaguer to appear with both Canadian teams.

    1986 - Padre manager Dick Williams resigns and will be replaced by Steve Boros.

    1990 - At the age of 45, former Red Sox fan favorite Tony Conigliaro dies of pneumonia and kidney failure. Hitting 32 home runs in 1965 at the age of 20, the Revere, MA native becomes the youngest player ever to lead the American League in home runs.

    2002 - The Montreal Expos released Lyle Mouton.

    2003 - In the wake of Steve Belcher's death, Commissioner Bud Selig bans the use of ephedra in the minor leagues. Players on the current 40-man major league rosters, which would have included the 23-year old Oriole pitcher who died last week, are not prohibited to use the substance because as union members they are already covered by the drug-testing rules of the new collective bargaining agreement, which bans only drugs of abuse and certain illegal steroids.

    2008 - The Boston Red Sox signed Bartolo Colon as a free agent.

    2010 - A Kansas man, who sat six rows behind the third-base dugout, files a lawsuit against the Royals as a result being hit in the eye by a hot dog thrown by Sluggerrr, the team’s mascot. The suit is seeking $25,000 in damages for injuries caused by the flying frank which includes a detached retina and the development of cataracts in the left eye.

    2014 - The Baltimore Orioles signed Nelson Cruz as a free agent.

    2014 - The Pittsburgh Pirates claimed Brent Morel from the Toronto Blue Jays on waivers.

    2017 - The Washington Nationals signed Matt Wieters as a free agent.



    Baseball Birthdays on February 24...


    1873 - Dolan, Joe
    1874 - Wagner, Honus
    1874 - Lucid, Con
    1875 - Beville, Monte
    1877 - Osteen, Champ
    1881 - Lindsay, Bill
    1882 - Raymond, Bugs
    1887 - Hilly, Pat
    1892 - Cooper, Wilbur
    1896 - Bagwell, Bill
    1899 - Pittinger, Pinky
    1905 - Nelson, Lynn
    1907 - Seeds, Bob
    1907 - Grace, Earl
    1909 - Struss, Steamboat
    1910 - Sington, Fred
    1911 - Lipscomb, Nig
    1911 - Oulliber, Johnny
    1919 - Wilber, Del
    1928 - Phillips, Bubba

    1945 - Moore, Gary
    1951 - Ortenzio, Frank
    1953 - Sember, Mike
    1953 - Riccelli, Frank
    1954 - Edwards, Dave
    1956 - Murray, Eddie
    1959 - Kelly, Bryan
    1960 - Esasky, Nick
    1963 - Carrillo, Matias
    1966 - Arocha, Rene
    1966 - Brewer, Rod
    1973 - Clapp, Stubby
    1974 - Lowell, Mike
    1976 - Keisler, Randy
    1977 - Arroyo, Bronson
    1978 - Wise, Dewayne

    1978 - Torrealba, Steve
    1979 - Esposito, Brian
    1979 - Tankersley, Dennis
    1981 - Bowen, Rob
    1982 - Blackburn, Nick
    1982 - Durbin, J.D.
    1982 - Molina, Gustavo

    1987 - Luetge, Lucas
    1988 - Parmelee, Chris
    1989 - Rojas, Miguel
    1990 - Coats, Jason

    1990 - De La Rosa, Eury
    1991 - Pérez, Yefri
    1993 - Stephenson, Robert
    1995 - Sisco, Chance
   



    Baseball Deaths on February 24...


    1915 - Hall, Marc
    1915 - Terry, Adonis
    1926 - Plank, Eddie
    1927 - Bennett, Charlie
    1935 - Moffett, Joe
    1947 - Glassco¢k, Jack
    1949 - Scheffler, Ted
    1953 - Metz, Lenny
    1957 - Reisigl, Bugs
    1960 - Clanton, Uke
    1962 - Bishop, Max
    1964 - Baldwin, Henry
    1967 - Propst, Jake
    1976 - Selph, Carey
    1977 - Madrid, Sal
    1989 - Adams, Sparky
    1990 - Conigliaro, Tony
    1991 - Munson, Joe
    1994 - McKnight, Jim
    1995 - Williams, Woody
    1999 - Wittig, Johnnie
    2012 - Mathews, Terry
    2012 - Ward, Jay
    2016 - Einhorn, Eddie



       


 







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« Reply #4582 on: February 25, 2018, 12:05:16 am »

    On February 25 in Baseball History...


    1933 - Four days after turning thirty years old and acquiring a very generous inheritance from his step-father, Tom Yawkey purchases the Red Sox from Robert Quinn for $1.2 million. The acquisition of the Boston American League franchise, which lasts for 44 years, the longest by a sole owner in baseball history, is prompted by former school classmate and Hall of Fame infielder Eddie Collins, who will serve as the team's general manager until 1947.

    1934 - At the age of 60, John McGraw dies at New Rochelle Hospital, two weeks after entering the facility with optimistic reports about his recovery. The renowned Giants skipper, known as 'Little Napolean' due to his style and stature, won ten pennants and three world championships during his 30 years as the team's manager.

    1957 - The U.S. Supreme Court decides 6-3 that baseball is the only professional sport exempt from antitrust laws. The issue arises when pro football seeks similar protection from the laws.

    1965 - The MLB owners refuse to raise the minimum salary requested by the players to $7,000 from the current $6,000, a level that is only $500 more since the first minimum salary was established 18 years ago. In 1968, thanks to the first-ever collective bargaining agreement in professional sport, the amount will be raised to $10,000, setting the tone for more rapid increases in the coming years.

    1969 - Baseball avoids the first work stoppage in its history when the owners agree to increase their contribution to the newly revised pension plan, which changes the players ability to qualify from five years to four with the minimum age being lowered from fifty to forty-five to receive benefits. Other improvements include the players agreeing to collect $5.45 million per year, retroactive to 1959, as well as a percentage of the revenue generated by televised games.

    1972 - Due to a salary impasse, the Cardinals trade 20-game winner Steve Carlton (20-9) to the last place Phillies for Rick Wise (17-14), who learns of the trade when Eddie Ferenz, the team's traveling secretary, knocks on the all-star hurler's condo door in Clearwater Beach early in the morning to inform the stunned pitcher of the spring training transaction. 'Lefty' will post a 27-10 record for Philadelphia and will win the National League Cy Young Award.

    1973 - The spring training lockout ends when the players' union and the owners reach a three-year agreement. The new collective bargaining agreement establishes salary arbitration for players with two or more years of major league service, raises the minimum salary to $15‚000 and includes the new “10 and 5″ trade rule‚ that allows a player with ten years in the major leagues‚ in which the last five are with his current team‚ to block any trade involving him.

    1981 - The Executive Board of the Players' Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29 if the issue of free-agent compensation remains unresolved. That deadline will be extended briefly, however, when the Players Association's unfair labor practices complaint is heard by the National Labor Relations Board.

    1987 - Commissioner Ueberroth bans former Cy Young Award winner LaMarr Hoyt from major league baseball for the 1987 season due to multiple drug-related incidents during the past year. The penalty will be reduced to sixty days, and the Padres will be ordered to reinstate the right-hander by an arbitrator.

    1993 - Resembling a marlin with arms and legs, 'Billy' is introduced as the mascot of the new National League franchise in Miami. Owner Wayne Huizenga selects the name partly because a dolphin is from the species of fish known as "billfish", and it was different from typical baseball mascot names like Smasher.

    1994 - After a long campaign by Yankee fans, including owner George Steinbrenner, the Veterans Committee elects Phil Rizzuto to the Hall of Fame, along with posthumous selection of Leo Durocher. The former infielder and current television broadcaster's enshrinement, that causes much debate given the borderline career stats, became especially important to his supporters when Pee Wee Reese, a similar-styled shortstop of the rival crosstown Brooklyn Dodgers was inducted 1984.

    2002 - Diamondbacks' third baseman Matt Williams breaks a bone in his left leg during the morning workout. Arizona will not issue a timetable for the return of the 36-year-old veteran.

    2002 - The 84-year-old Hall of Fame broadcaster, Ernie Harwell, announces this season will be his last as the Tigers' radio play-by-play announcer. During his 62-year career behind the mike, the winner of the 1981 Ford Frick Award for baseball broadcasting excellence had worked for the Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants and Baltimore Orioles before moving to Detroit.

    2003 - Blue Jays' World Series hero Joe Carter is selected for a June induction into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. Pete Rose, who played 95 games for the Expos and collected his 4000th hit with Montreal, was one of the 46 nominees considered, but was not chosen by 75 per cent of the voters.

    2005 - After winning an auction for its one-day naming rights, Kerry Konrad originally planned to change the Fleet Center's name to honor Yankee captain Derek Jeter, but agrees to rename the Boston arena as the 'Jimmy Fund Center'. The New York fan's change of heart is prompted by a friend’s offer of an additional $6,275 for the childhood cancer charity, bringing the total amount to $8,600, reflecting the 86 years between Red Sox World Championships.

    2008 - Terry Francona signs a three-year contract extension that runs through 2011, and includes team options for 2012 and 2013, to continue as manager of the Red Sox. After an eighty-six year drought, the BoSox skipper has led the club to a pair of World Series titles in four seasons at the helm.

    2010 - The Rangers void Khalil Greene’s contract announcing the reason for the action is a private matter, and is being done in the best interest of the ballplayer. The 30-year old utility infielder, who missed 49 games with the Cardinals last season because of social anxiety, was unable to report to spring training last week as a result of his unidentified problem.

    2012 - On their Twitter account, the Mets send out an image of the patch the team will wear this season in memory of Gary Carter, who died earlier in the month of brain cancer at the age of 57. The black oval will feature the nickname of the former New York catcher, Kid, and his number 8.


    2013 - The Toronto Blue Jays claimed Lars Anderson from Chicago White Sox on waivers.


    2015 - The Arizona Diamondbacks signed Erick Threets as a free agent.

    2016 - The players' union and MLB agree to a slide rule in the aftermath of Ruben Tejada's broken leg during the NLDS. The new policy, the direct result of Chase Utley attempt to break up a double play that injured the Mets infielder, will be reviewable and will continue to allow contact to be permissible with the fielder, but the runner cannot change his path to disrupt the play deliberately.



    Baseball Birthdays on February 25...


    1854 - Cogswell, Ed
    1856 - Britt, Jim
    1863 - Allen, Hezekiah
    1872 - McHale, Bob
    1875 - Kling, Johnny
    1883 - Hannifin, Jack
    1884 - Bescher, Bob
    1889 - Morey, Dave
    1889 - Rieger, Elmer
    1893 - Slattery, Phil
    1897 - Vines, Bob
    1899 - Rees, Stan
    1900 - Burns, Joe
    1900 - Gillespie, Duke
    1908 - Hollingsworth, Al
    1911 - Weir, Roy
    1912 - Hayes, Jim
    1915 - Weatherly, Roy
    1918 - Diehl, George
    1919 - Irvin, Monte
    1921 - Pafko, Andy
    1924 - Lohrke, Jack
    1931 - Dunn, Jim
    1934 - Schaive, Johnny
    1936 - Reinsdorf, Jerry

    1939 - Lemaster, Denny
    1940 - Cater, Danny
    1940 - Santo, Ron

    1941 - Vineyard, Dave
    1947 - Szotkiewicz, Ken
    1951 - Cedeno, Cesar
    1954 - Brenly, Bob
    1956 - Lynch, Ed
    1956 - Hickey, Kevin

    1959 - Dayley, Ken
    1961 - Kiecker, Dana
    1963 - Arndt, Larry
    1963 - O'Neill, Paul
    1963 - McKeon, Joel
    1964 - Rowland, Rich
    1968 - Hulse, David
    1969 - Flener, Huck
    1969 - Norman, Les
    1974 - Stewart, Shannon
    1979 - Labandeira, Josh
    1983 - Marshall, Jay

    1985 - Paul, Xavier
    1986 - Cordier, Erik
    1987 - Irwin, Phillip
    1987 - Rodriguez, Henry
    1987 - Werner, Andrew
    1988 - Adco¢k, Nathan
    1988 - Mullee, Conor
    1990 - Pena, Flex
    1992 - Soler, Jorge
    1993 - Fedde, Erick
   



    Baseball Deaths on February 25...


    1898 - Power, Tom
    1899 - Wetzel, Shorty
    1916 - Allison, Art
    1926 - Hess, Otto
    1934 - McGraw, John
    1937 - Darby, George
    1944 - Knowlton, Bill
    1955 - Kamp, Ike
    1956 - Lewis, Jack
    1962 - Turner, Tink
    1963 - Hughes, Bill
    1966 - Braxton, Garland
    1969 - Wrightstone, Russ
    1981 - McCrea, Frank
    1986 - Susce, George
    1997 - Abrams, Cal
    1998 - Gallagher, Joe
    1999 - Huckleberry, Earl
    2000 - Rikard, Culley
    2001 - Mott, Bitsy
    2005 - Colosi, Nick
    2005 - LeJohn, Don
    2008 - Wise, Roy
    2012 - Cheadle, Dave


















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« Reply #4583 on: February 26, 2018, 12:18:36 am »

    On February 26 in Baseball History...


    1935 -  Babe Ruth is granted his release by the Yankees giving the aging superstar an opportunity to play for the Braves. The 39-year old outfielder hit 659 home runs and batted .349 during his 15-year tenure with New York.

    1943 - The Phillies hire future Hall of Famer Bucky Harris to manage the club. The veteran skipper, who compiles a 39-54 record, will be fired at the end of July by new owner Bill Cox and replaced by Freddie Fitzsimmons.

    1952 - Don Newcombe, who posted a 56-28 record his first three years with the Dodgers, will miss the next two seasons when he is sworn into the Army to serve in the Korean War. The 26-year old right-hander struggles upon his return in 1954, but returns to form the following season with a 20-5 record helping the team to capture their only world championship while playing in Brooklyn.

    1957 - The Giants trade right-hander Hoyt Wilhelm to the Cardinals for their former all-star first baseman/outfielder Whitey Lockman. The knuckleballer will win only one of five decisions for the Redbirds before being selected off waivers by Cleveland in September, and New York's newest infielder will spend two seasons with his old club hitting .246 in 225 games over that span.

    1989 - The $12 million breach-of-contract suit brought against Wade Boggs by Margo Adams is thrown out by a California court. The former Miss Anaheim claimed the Red Sox third baseman had promised her a salary and expenses during their four-year association.

    1991 - Bill Veeck, the colorful owner of the Browns, Indians and White Sox (twice) and Yankees great Tony Lazzeri are elected to the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee.


    1992 - Red Sox owner Jean Yawkey dies at the age of 83 after suffering a stroke. Her interest in the team will passed into the JRY Trust, headed by the club's CEO John Harrington, who will sell the team to John Henry and a group of investors in 2002.

    2004 - With hundreds of on-lookers, including a man covered in ivy, singing Take Me Out to the Ball Game, the foul ball made famous by Steve Bartman in the 2003 NLCS playoffs is blown up at Harry Caray's restaurant in Chicago. The infamous ball's demise is executed by Cubs' die-hard fan Michael Lantieri, an Oscar Award winner who has worked on similar special effects in the movies Jurassic Park and Back to the Future.


    2005 - Atlanta Braves’ hurler Mike Hampton and his wife offer a $25,000 reward for the safe return of Jessica Marie Lunsford. The nine-year old, who disappeared from her Florida bedroom four days ago, is in the same grade with one of the Hamptons' two sons at Homosassa Elementary School.

    2006 - Frustrated with the latest comments from former employee Frank Thomas, Chicago White Sox general manager Kenny Williams responds by calling his former superstar selfish as well as being an idiot. The former MVP, who signed with the A's in January, has been very vocal about feeling unappreciated and mistreated by Chicago after spending 16 years with the organization.


    2009 - Tim Lincecum (18-5, 2.62) signs a $650,000, one-year deal with the Giants. The 24-year-old right-hander was the National League Cy Young Award in last season, fanning a big league-leading 265 batters while yielding 182 hits in 227 innings.

    2014 - The Chicago White Sox claimed Maikel Cleto from the Kansas City Royals on waivers.




    Baseball Birthdays on February 26...


    1856 - Decker, Frank
    1863 - Sixsmith, Ed
    1864 - LaRoque, Sam
    1874 - Banks, Bill
    1881 - Leary, Frank
    1887 - Alexander, Grover
    1891 - Hammond, Jack
    1892 - Weaver, Harry
    1896 - Collins, Rip
    1898 - Thompson, Lee

    1898 - Callaway, Frank
    1905 - Nelson, Emmett
    1906 - Graves, Joe
    1907 - Malis, Cy
    1911 - Starr, Bill
    1915 - Bowers, Stew
    1915 - Conroy, Bill
    1915 - Roe, Preacher
    1917 - Grodzicki, Johnny
    1920 - Gardella, Danny
    1922 - Biras, Steve
    1930 - Janowicz, Vic
    1930 - Negray, Ron
    1933 - Blanchard, Johnny
    1934 - Lee, Don
    1941 - Kopacz, George
    1944 - Secrist, Don

    1945 - Hertz, Steve
    1950 - Brohamer, Jack

    1952 - Kinney, Dennis
    1954 - Yurak, Jeff
    1958 - Miller, Darrell
    1958 - Hegman, Bob
    1962 - Gruber, Kelly
    1967 - Howard, David
    1967 - Service, Scott
    1968 - Snow, J.T.
    1971 - Perez, Danny
    1971 - Luke, Matt
    1977 - Towers, Josh
    1980 - Majewski, Gary

    1983 - Martinez, Joe
    1983 - Rodriguez, Francisco
    1984 - Reyes, Jose
    1988 - Ackley, Dustin
    1988 - Rondon, Hector
    1991 - Plawecki, Kevin
    1996 - Urena, Richard



    Baseball Deaths on February 26...


    1913 - Drissel, Mike
    1929 - Moroney, Jim
    1937 - Lush, Ernie
    1938 - Jones, Tex

    1940 - Broderick, Matt
    1961 - Smith, Happy
    1967 - Yantz, George
    1967 - Heath, Tommy
    1970 - Bankston, Everett
    1977 - Welchonce, Harry
    1978 - Gillenwater, Claral

    1979 - Thompson, Forrest
    1982 - Miller, Bill
    1984 - Kuhel, Joe

    1985 - Uhle, George
    1988 - Oliver, Tom
    1991 - Zinn, Jimmy
    2006 - Adams, Ace
    2011 - Goossen, Greg
    2017 - Garver, Ned



         


         


                     




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« Reply #4584 on: February 27, 2018, 12:03:08 am »

    On February 27 in Baseball History...


    1901 - The N.L. Rules Committee decrees that all fouls are to count as strikes, except after two strikes. To cut the cost of lost foul balls, the committee urges that batsmen who foul off good strikes are to be disciplined. Other new rules: catchers must play within 10 feet of the batter, a ball will be called if the pitcher does not throw to a ready and waiting batter within 20 seconds, and players using indecent or improper language will be banished by the umpire. A ball will be called when a batter is hit by a pitch.

    1908 - The sacrifice fly rule is adopted. No time at bat is charged if a run scores after the catch of a fly ball. The rule will be repealed in 1931, then reinstated (or changed) several times before gaining permanent acceptance in 1954.

    1912 - The Yankees announce they will begin wearing pinstripes on their uniforms. It will take a few seasons (April 22, 1915) before the vertical lines becomes a reality.

    1948 - Pirates legendary third baseman Pie Traynor and left-hander Herb Pennock are elected by the BBWAA to the Hall of Fame. The Pittsburgh infielder spent his entire 17-year career in the Steel City compiling a .320 lifetime batting average, and the 'Knight Of Kennett Square' posted a .590 win-loss percentage during his 22 seasons in the majors, including a 162-90 stint for the Yankees from 1923-1933.

    1973 - White Sox slugger Dick Allen signs a three-year contract for an estimated $250,000 per year, making him the highest-paid player in major league history.


    1984 - San Francisco trades pitcher Fred Breining and Max Venable to the Expos for Al Oliver. In August, the Giants will trade the veteran first baseman along with Renie Martin to the Phillies for Kelly Downs and George Riley.

    1985 - Toby Harrah is traded by the Yankees to Texas for outfielder Billy Sample and a player to be named later. The 36-year old veteran infielder, an original Ranger, will become the club's manager for one year in 1992.

    1988 - The Orioles trade third baseman Ray Knight to Detroit for pitcher Mark Thurmond. The 1986 World Series MVP, after playing primarily as the Tigers' first baseman and DH, will retire at the end of the season after batting only .217.

    1989 - John Olerud, a Blue Jay selection in the draft, undergoes brain surgery for the removal of an aneurysm. The Washington State University left-handed first baseman had collapsed on January 11 after a workout.

    1990 - The Special Veterans Committee fails to elect a single player to the Hall of Fame for the second time in three years

    2003 - The new Veterans Hall of Fame selection committee, made up of mostly Hall of Famers, fail to select any of the 41 players, executives and umpires being considered. Gil Hodges is 11 votes shy of 75 percent needed for induction receiving 50 votes of 81 votes cast (61.7%).

    2006 - In spring training intra-squad action, Koby Clemens goes deep off a 43-year old non-roster pitcher, who was given special permission to train with the Astros. In his next at-bat, the 19-year old minor leaguer gets brushed back with an inside fastball by the 300-game winner, his dad, Roger.

    2006 - Effa Manley is among the 17 significant historical figures from the Negro Leagues to be selected by a special committee for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. The former Newark Eagles executive, known as the Boss, will become the first woman to be enshrined in Cooperstown.

    2008 - The White Sox wear Northern Illinois University baseball caps in their spring training opening game to honor the victims of a shooting rampage on the school's campus earlier this month. After the contest, the players autograph the hats which will be auctioned off at NIU to benefit a scholarship fund set up in memory of the five students who were killed in the attack.



    2014 - The Chicago White Sox sold Jake Elmore to Oakland Athletics.


    2016 - The Houston Astros signed Neal Cotts as a free agent.



    Baseball Birthdays on February 27...


    1858 - Ardner, Joe
    1869 - Earl, Howard
    1877 - Goodwin, Art
    1881 - Moser, Walter
    1882 - McGovern, Art
    1894 - Cone, Bob
    1896 - Koenigsmark, Will
    1896 - Perkins, Cy
    1899 - McNulty, Pat
    1902 - Hutson, Roy
    1904 - Teachout, Bud
    1904 - Fullis, Chick
    1906 - Herrmann, Leroy
    1916 - Hanski, Don

    1917 - Melton, Rube
    1920 - Ryan, Connie

    1928 - Delis, Juan
    1933 - Taylor, Sammy
    1936 - Killeen, Evans
    1937 - Warwick, Carl
    1949 - Wockenfuss, John
    1952 - Cruz, Henry
    1953 - Hassey, Ron

    1962 - Cadaret, Greg
    1966 - Smith, Pete
    1966 - Howard, Chris
    1968 - Stairs, Matt
    1969 - Banks, Willie
    1974 - Politte, Cliff

    1977 - Monroe, Craig
    1980 - Hattig, John
    1984 - Diaz, Jumbo
    1984 - Mathieson, Scott
    1984 - Sanchez, Anibal
    1984 - Span, Denard
    1986 - Gallardo, Yovani
    1986 - Parr, James
    1990 - Morgan, Adam
    1990 - Triunfel, Carlos
    1995 - Michalczewski, Trey

    1996 - Barreto, Franklin



    Baseball Deaths on February 27...


    1906 - Peltz, John
    1926 - Clymer, Otis
    1928 - Schulz, Walt
    1934 - Shannon, Frank
    1947 - Cottrell, Ensign
    1947 - Calhoun, Jack
    1953 - Wolfe, Barney
    1959 - Fitzgerald, Howie
    1963 - Schegg, Lefty
    1964 - Smith, Tony
    1978 - Lipscomb, Nig
    1990 - Freiburger, Vern
    1996 - Janowicz, Vic
    2002 - Potter, Dykes
    2011 - Snider, Duke
    2016 - Spicer, Bob

                       


     


     




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« Reply #4585 on: February 28, 2018, 12:44:51 am »

    On February 28 in Baseball History...


    1903 - A syndicate headed by Pittsburgh owner Barney Dreyfuss and James Potter buys the Phillies from John Rogers and A. J. Reach for $170,000. It will be another seven years before ownership interest in more than one team is prohibited.

    1931 - Ban Johnson dies after a long illness. He had created the A.L. and was its dynamic, dictatorial leader until subdued by the advent of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who took office as the first commissioner in January 1921.

    1966 - Refusing to report to spring training, Dodger pitchers Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale begin their joint holdout asking for a $1 million, three-year contract, to be divided equally between them. The deal, equivalent to an annual salary of $167,000 for each hurler, will make them the best paid players in baseball, easily surpassing Willie Mays's $125,000 yearly paycheck with the Giants.

    1975 - The Mets purchase slugger Dave Kingman from the Giants. The 26-year old first baseman/outfielder was drafted by San Francisco as the team’s first pick in the initial round of the secondary phase of the 1970 amateur draft.

    1985 - Rick Reuschel signs as a free-agent with the Pirates and spends the first two months in the minors. After being called up in May, 'Big Daddy' wins 14 games and the Comeback Player of the Year Award.

    1986 -  In baseball's sternest disciplinary move since the Black Sox were banished for life, Commissioner Peter Ueberroth gives seven players who were admitted drug users a choice of a year's suspension without pay or heavy fines and career-long drug testing, along with 100 hours of drug-related community service. Joaquin Andujar, Jeffrey Leonard, Enos Cabell, Keith Hernandez, Dave Parker, Dale Berra, and Lonnie Smith will be fined 10 percent of their annual salaries, while 14 other players will receive lesser penalties for their involvement with illegal drugs.

    1989 - Red Schoendienst, who spent 19 years in the major leagues and managed the Cardinals to a world championship in 1967, and, Al Barlick, a 29-year veteran umpire, best known for his booming voice, are elected to the Hall of Fame by the veterans committee. The pair will be inducted along with Johnny Bench and Carl Yastrzemski, who were selected by BBWWA last month.

    1990 - After meeting for more than five hours and taking three ballots, veterans committee, for the second time in three years, does not select a player for induction to the Hall of Fame. Phil Rizzuto, Nellie Fox, Richie Ashburn, Leo Durocher, Joe Gordon, Tony Lazzeri, Cecil Travis, Carl Mays, Vic Willis, Hal Newhouser, and umpire Bill McGowan were the finalists who each did not receive the 11 votes required for election from the 14 members present at the annual meeting.

    2000 - Yankee outfielder/DH Darryl Strawberry is suspended for one year after testing positive for coc@ine last month. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig does not make any provision for an early return from the suspension based on good behavior.

    2005 - The Detroit Tigers signed Dewayne Wise as a free agent.

    2005 - Right-hander Jake Peavy (15-6, 2.27) and the Padres agree to the terms of a four-year deal with the team holding an option for a fifth year. The 23-year old right-hander, who led the majors with the lowest ERA, opted to sign now rather to take a chance in his first year of salary arbitration eligibility after the season.

    2016 - The Cleveland Indians signed Juan Uribe as a free agent.



    Baseball Birthdays on February 28...


    1867 - Easton, Jack
    1872 - McAuliffe, Gene
    1875 - Gillpatrick, George
    1879 - Martin, Frank
    1881 - Turner, Terry
    1881 - McCormick, Moose
    1885 - Walsh, Tom
    1886 - Humphrey, Al
    1887 - Fautsch, Joe

    1893 - Mayer, Sam
    1896 - Ezzell, Homer
    1898 - Miller, Jake

    1899 - Stoner, Lil
    1900 - Wood, Doc
    1906 - Baker, Al
    1907 - Daglia, Pete

    1909 - Bertrand, Lefty
    1909 - Hilcher, Whitey
    1912 - Filley, Marc
    1916 - Krist, Howie
    1928 - Kokos, Dick
    1929 - Albrecht, Ed
    1930 - Samford, Ron
    1930 - Malzone, Frank
    1930 - Nichols, Dolan
    1933 - Kern, Bill
    1947 - Perez, Marty
    1948 - Wiley, Mark
    1948 - Kremmel, Jim
    1951 - Spencer, Tom

    1951 - Wohlford, Jim
    1951 - Linares, Rufino
    1952 - Alvarez, Orlando
    1954 - Poloni, John
    1958 - Williams, Dallas
    1968 - Milchin, Mike
    1975 - Stone, Ricky
    1975 - Moreno, Juan
    1978 - Reith, Brian   
    1981 - Bannister, Brian
    1983 - Hulett, Tug
    1983 - Niemann, Jeff
    1983 - Oeltjen, Trent
    1987 - Thompson, Aaron
    1988 - Chapman, Aroldis
    1989 - Soto, Neftali
    1992 - Goodrum, Niko
 


 
    Baseball Deaths on February 28...


    1894 - McNabb, Edgar
    1914 - Sladen, Art
    1917 - Nicholson, Parson
    1922 - Walker, Walt
    1934 - Irwin, John
    1935 - Schafer, Harry
    1941 - Collins, Wilson
    1945 - Stephens, Clarence
    1947 - Fisher, Newt
    1958 - Smoyer, Henry
    1963 - Rixey, Eppa
    1971 - Chiozza, Lou
    1972 - Trout, Dizzy
    1973 - Simon, Syl
    1982 - Sherid, Roy
    1988 - Kuenn, Harvey
    1995 - Millies, Wally
    1997 - Munns, Les
    1999 - Robinson, Kenny
    2003 - Fridley, Jim
    2009 - Atkins, James
    2009 - Sturdivant, Tom
    2011 - Cary, Scott
    2013 - Davalillo. Yo-Yo
    2013 - Mullen, Moon
    2015 - Johnson, Alex


                   









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« Reply #4586 on: March 01, 2018, 12:01:46 am »

    On March 1 in Baseball History...


    1903 - The rules committee sets the height of the pitcher mound (box) to a maximum of fifteen inches.

    1909 - The Pirates begin construction of a new stadium near Schenley Park near the Oakland section of Pittsburgh. The state-of-the-art stadium was named Forbes Field in honor of a pre-Revolutionary British general.

    1942 - Owners decide not to allow furloughed players in the military to play for their clubs if based near a game site.

    1947 - In anticipation of the signing of the first black players, Bill Veeck, a resident of Phoenix, sets up a spring training camp there for the Cleveland Indians. Arizona is chosen because of its relatively tolerant racial climate. During the season, Veeck will sign the A.L.'s first black player, Larry Doby, who will train at the Arizona camp. The Giants also set up camp in Arizona, while the Dodgers move their training camp from Florida to Havana, Cuba.

    1949 - In an effort to get a rental increase from their Sportsman's Park's tenants, the Browns move to evict the Cardinals. The Redbirds accuse the owners of breaking the lease, and as the season approaches it is uncertain where the National League team will play its home games.

    1954 - On the first day of spring training, Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams breaks his collarbone. The Boston superstar will miss the first four weeks of the season.

    1961 - Six weeks after leaving the Oval Office, former President Dwight Eisenhower jokes with the Angel players prior to an intra-squad game. Ike will sit in the dugout with the newly established expansion team during its five-inning scrimmage.

    1967 - Commissioner General William Eckert approves the BBWAA's plan to select a Cy Young Award recipient from both the National League and American League. The honor, which was initiated in 1956, had been given to just one pitcher in the major leagues each season, a position strongly supported by former commissioner Ford Frick.

    1969 - Citing "I can't hit when I need to", Mickey Mantle announces his retirement thus ending his fabled Hall of Fame career. The oft-injured Yankee slugger ranks third, behind Babe Ruth and Willie Mays, on the All-time home run list with 536 round-trippers, and finishes his 18-year stay in the majors with a .298 batting average.

    1987 - Charlie Kerfeld and the Astros finally agree on a one-year deal worth $110,037.37 and 37 boxes of orange Jello. The Houston reliever, who wears number 37, insisted he earn more than teammate right-hander Jim DeShaies' $110,000 salary and wanted the gelatin for future pranks.

    1988 - For the first time since 1956, the Special Veterans Committee does not elect anyone to the Hall of Fame. Phil Rizzuto, Leo Durocher, Joe Gordon, and Gil Hodges are among the candidates passed over.

    1993 - Two and half years after accepting a life-long ban from being involved in the day-to-day operation with the team, Yankee owner George Steinbrenner is reinstated. 'The Boss' had been exiled from baseball by commissioner Fay Vincent in 1990 for hiring Howie Spira, a known g@mbler, to snoop into the life of star outfielder, Dave Winfield.

    1994 - Former banker Leonard Coleman is elected National League president replacing Bill White. He had been executive director for Major League Baseball market development.

    1995 - In an evening exhibition contest played in Tempe, the Angels, using replacement players, beat the Arizona State University Sun Devils squad, 13-5. It is the first time since 1912, that replacement players have been used in a major league game, and only time the team has worn big league uniforms.

    2005 - Deciding not to file as a free agent at the end of the season, Tim Hudson (12-6, 3.53) agrees to a four-year, $47-million, contract extension with his new team, the Braves. The 29-year-old right-hander, who was acquired in a trade with Oakland in the off-season, grew up near Atlanta and rooted for the local team as a youngster.

    2005 - Construction for an additional 1,790 bleacher seats at Wrigley Field will begin at the end of the season and will be completed in time for Opening Day 2006. A deal is reached for the expansion when the Cubs agree to pay the city $3.1 million prior to the start of work and by contributing funds for a local school park and a $400,000 traffic signal system near the ballpark.

    2007 - The New York Mets signed Sandy Alomar as a free agent.

    2007 - The Cincinnati Reds signed Dustin Hermanson as a free agent.

    2009 - Insisting there was no wrongdoing on his part, Jim Bowden resigns as the general manager of the Nationals. The Washington GM is part of a federal probe investigating scouts and executives for accepting kickbacks from baseball bonuses intended for players signed in Latin America.

    2012 - After spending 15 seasons with Boston, Jason Varitek, ninth on the all-time list with 1,546 games played in a Red Sox uniform, announces his retirement, leaving only Carl Yastrzemski (23), Ted Williams (19), and Jim Rice (16) with longer tenures with the team without playing for another franchise. The venerable catcher, who served as the BoSox captain for past seven seasons, is the only major leaguer to have played in the Little League World Series, the College World Series, the World Series, the Olympics, and the World Baseball Classic.

    2012 - Yadier Molina signs a five-year extension with the Cardinals worth $75 million, an agreement that will keep the gold glove catcher with the world champions through 2017. This new contract, which takes effect next season, includes a mutual $15 million option that could add an another year to the deal.

    2013 - The Cincinnati Reds signed Mark Prior as a free agent.

    2015 - The Toronto Blue Jays signed Dayán Viciedo as a free agent.

    2016 - The Detroit Tigers signed Lucas Harrell as a free agent.



    Baseball Birthdays on March 1...


    1852 - Hines, Paul
    1853 - Somerville, Ed
    1860 - Sullivan, Tom
    1864 - Vaughn, Farmer
    1864 - Yaik, Henry
    1871 - Boone, George
    1881 - Shaw, Al
    1883 - Pickett, Charlie
    1885 - Webb, Lefty
    1888 - Baker, Howard
    1892 - Elsh, Roy

    1897 - Jones, Howie
    1899 - Padgett, Ernie
    1905 - Beckman, Jim
    1915 - Strincevich, Nick
    1917 - Pearson, Ike

    1917 - Johnson, Rankin
    1918 - Wyse, Hank
    1921 - Fox, Howie
    1921 - Rosso, Frank
    1924 - Thompson, Tim
    1925 - Usher, Bob
    1928 - Hamric, Bert
    1932 - Zanni, Dom

    1940 - Brown, Larry
    1944 - Klimkowski, Ron
    1944 - Fuller, Vern
    1945 - Panther, Jim
    1952 - Davis, Bob
    1953 - Holly, Jeff
    1957 - Ray, Johnny
    1962 - Gardner, Mark
    1963 - Castillo, Tony

    1963 - Rodriguez, Rich
    1969 - Creek, Doug
    1972 - Hurst, Jimmy

    1972 - Daal, Omar
    1976 - Castro, Ramon

    1978 - Harvey, Ken
    1978 - Keller, Kris
    1979 - Barnwell, Chris
    1980 - Hoffpauir, Micah
    1983 - Hawksworth, Blake
    1988 - Cahill, Trevor
    1990 - Skipworth, Kyle
    1990 - Valdez, Jose
    1991 - Mantiply, Joe
    1992 - Concepcion, Gerardo
    1992 - Crichton, Stefan
    1993 - Conforto, Michael



    Baseball Deaths on March 1...


    1919 - McClure, Hal
    1919 - Fouser, Bill
    1920 - Jordan, Harry
    1929 - Foster, Ed
    1937 - Fuller, Nig
    1937 - Vaughn, Roy
    1941 - Wingo, Ivey
    1942 - Delaney, Bill
    1954 - Gudat, Marv
    1956 - Miller, Walt
    1956 - Heusser, Ed
    1961 - Malloy, Alex
    1962 - Janvrin, Hal
    1963 - Meusel, Irish
    1965 - Van Robays, Maurice
    1974 - Doyle, Larry
    1976 - Foster, Rube
    1980 - Watwood, Johnny

    1980 - Jorgens, Art
    1985 - Banks, George
    1988 - Marquez, Luis
    1990 - Crespi, Creepy
    1994 - Tipton, Joe

    1997 - Kennedy, Monte
    2005 - Mavis, Bob
    2006 - Poole, Ray
    2014 - Layton, Les
    2015 - McKnight, Jeff
    2015 - Miñoso, Saturnino Orestes "Minnie"






 


                     


                 


                 






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« Reply #4587 on: March 02, 2018, 12:19:26 am »

    On March 2 in Baseball History...


    1874 - At the fourth meeting of the Professional Association in Boston, the batter's box is officially adopted. It is also decided that expulsion will be the penalty for any player betting on his own team and any player betting on any other team will forfeit his pay.

    1901 - Jimmy Collins, Connie Mack's choice as the best all-time third baseman, switches leagues but not cities. Collins leaves Boston's N.L. club to manage the A.L.'s new Boston Somersets. The N.L. Beaneaters will also lose outfielder Hugh Duffy, who becomes manager of Milwaukee's new A.L. entry, and catcher Billy Sullivan, who signs with the Chicago White Stockings.

    1918 - The Yankees purchase first baseman George Burns from the Detroit Tigers and immediately trade him to the Philadelphia Athletics for outfielder Ping Bodie.

    1927 - Babe Ruth becomes the highest paid player in major league history when the Yankees announce the Bambino will earn $70,000 per season for the next three years. The historic deal is struck when the 'Sultan of Swat', who had asked for $100,000, meets Colonel Jacob Ruppert, the club's owner at the Ruppert Brewery in the Yorkville section of Manhattan.

    1966 - Commissioner William Eckert, citing a rule that prohibits clubs from signing players during their collegiate season, voids the Braves' contract with USC standout Tom Seaver, who had signed with Atlanta for a $50,000 bonus a week earlier. The Mets will be awarded the future Hall of Famer signing rights in a lottery that includes the Phillies and Indians, who also were willing to match the Braves' terms.

    1989 - At a photo session, Mets' outfielder Darryl Strawberry throws a punch at Keith Hernandez, the team's first baseman. The scuffle started over comments about salaries and results with the Straw walking out of camp.

    1992 - The highest-paid player tag now belongs to Ryne Sandberg. Ryno signs a four-year contract extension worth 7.1 million dollars per season.

    1995 - The Reds and Indians make the first-ever trade of replacement players. Barbaro Garbey and four others go to the Reds in return for 'future considerations'.

    2001 - Rusty Greer, now the Rangers' new leadoff hitter due to the A-Rod deal, signs a $21.8 million, three-year contract extension with Texas. The .307 career hitting outfielder could make as much $36 million with incentives and options.

    2005 - Wearing their regular-season home uniforms instead of the traditional batting-practice spring training jerseys, the Nationals in their first game ever beat the Mets in the exhibition opener at Space Coast Stadium in Viera, Florida, 5-3. The first and last games the Expos played, before moving from Montreal to Washington to become the Nats, were also against Mets.

    2005 - In a Capitol Rotunda ceremony, with legislators from both the House and Senate and baseball commissioner Bud Selig in attendance, President George W. Bush awards the nation’s highest honor, the Congressional Gold Medal, posthumously to Jackie Robinson's widow. Rachel, the widow of the courageous ball player, accepts the award for her late husband who died in 1972.

    2005 - With hundreds of Red Sox Nation citizens in attendance on the south lawn, President George W. Bush praises the team spirit and winning style of the 2004 World Champions during a White House ceremony. Fall Classic hero and Bush supporter Curt Schilling gives the former owner of the Texas Rangers a white baseball jersey emblazoned with the forty-third Chief Executive’s name and the number 43.

    2007 - Michael Young signs an $80 million, five-year contract extension offered by the Rangers. The deal, which keeps the three-time All-Star shortstop with Texas through the 2013 season, is the second-largest in franchise history, eclipsed only by the $252 million, 10-year deal Alex Rodriguez free-agent signing in December 2000.

    2007 - In Atlanta, five Bluffton University baseball players and the driver and his wife are killed in a chartered bus accident at Interstate 75 and Northside Drive. The players, Zach Arend, David Betts, Scott Harmon, Cody Holp, and Tyler Williams, were en route to Sarasota, Florida, to play a twin bill with Eastern Mennonite University before heading to participate in the Gene Cusic Classic in Fort Myers.

    2012 - In the first change to the MLB playoff structure since the 1995 season, when wild-card teams were first introduced, a new one-game, wild-card round will be added in each league between the teams with the best records who are not division winners. The new post-season system, which would have allowed the Red Sox and the Braves to avoid their historic collaspes last season, increases the reward of a winning a division title, but opens the door of the possibility of a third-place team winning the World Series.

    2017 - The Chicago White Sox signed Jake Dunning as a free agent.




    Baseball Birthdays on March 2...


    1855 - Ward, Jim
    1865 - Virtue, Jake
    1879 - Robitaille, Chick
    1880 - Hoffman, Danny
    1891 - Fischer, William
    1894 - Myers, Elmer
    1898 - Wheeler, Rip
    1899 - Stueland, George
    1901 - Weis, Butch
    1902 - Berg, Moe

    1903 - Mills, Art
    1906 - Powers, Mike
    1907 - English, Woody
    1907 - Knott, Jack

    1909 - Ott, Mel
    1910 - Armbrust, Orville
    1912 - Adams, Ace
    1912 - Warren, Bennie
    1913 - Cooper, Mort
    1915 - Barna, Babe
    1916 - Rocco, Mickey
    1917 - Konstanty, Jim
    1918 - Colman, Frank
    1921 - Starr, Dick
    1924 - Abrams, Cal

    1926 - Taylor, Joe
    1932 - Fernandez, Chico
    1936 - Brady, Jim
    1936 - Schwall, Don
    1947 - Nettles, Jim
    1950 - Broberg, Pete
    1951 - Johnson, Mike
    1953 - Wolfe, Larry
    1953 - Tobik, Dave
    1958 - Stember, Jeff
    1960 - Woodard, Mike

    1962 - Steinbach, Terry
    1964 - Layana, Tim
    1965 - Gant, Ron
    1966 - Gomez, Leo
    1974 - Sanders, Anthony
    1977 - Gibbons, Jay
    1978 - Sandberg, Jared
    1983 - Perkins, Glen
    1985 - Norris, Bud
    1985 - Wood, Brandon
    1990 - Rodriguez, Wilking
    1991 - Franklin, Nick
    1992 - Hernandez, Ariel
    1995 - Andujar, Miguel



    Baseball Deaths on March 2...


    1895 - Camp, Kid
    1896 - Connolly, Red
    1905 - Wiedman, Stump
    1918 - Kaiserling, George
    1929 - Smith, Tom
    1938 - Prince, Walter
    1939 - McFarlan, Alex
    1940 - Kilroy, Matt
    1943 - Gardner, Earle
    1947 - Metivier, Dewey
    1951 - Comorosky, Adam
    1956 - Merkle, Fred
    1957 - Hafner, Frank
    1960 - Camnitz, Howie
    1964 - Vaughn, Fred
    1965 - Ostendorf, Fred
    1968 - Slattery, Phil
    1971 - Podgajny, Johnny
    1975 - Metha, Scat
    1979 - Alexander, Dale
    1994 - Sutcliffe, Butch
    1995 - Moore, Ray

    1998 - Castleman, Slick
    2000 - Robinson, Jack
    2000 - Musser, Danny
    2003 - Decker, Joe
    2005 - Mahler, Rick
    2007 - Labine, Clem
    2013 - Borland, Tom





     


         




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« Reply #4588 on: March 03, 2018, 12:04:48 am »

    On March 3 in Baseball History...


    1953 - The Boston Braves, owners of the Milwaukee minor league franchise, block the Browns' attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee. Lou Perini, Braves owner, invokes his territorial privilege, stating he has not been offered enough for the rights.

    1956 - In an effort to keep the Giants in New York, Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new 110,000-seat stadium over the New York Central railroad tracks, on a 470,000-foot site stretching from 60th to 72nd streets on Manhattan's West Side. The estimated cost of $75M for the stadium eventually dooms the project and will be a major factor in Horace Stoneham's decision to move to San Francisco.

    1959 -The winning entry in the Giants’ Name-the-Park contest is Candlestick Park, reflecting the shape of the the rocks found in the area known as Candlestick Point. The ballpark, initially called Bay View Stadium, will be the first stadium to be built entirely of reinforced concrete.

    1967 - The White Sox are given permission to use a partial designated hitter in spring training. With the home club's permission, each team will be allowed to use a designated pinch-hitter twice in the same game.

    1969 - The Washington Post reports the Global League has failed to reach an agreement with any television network. The lack of a TV deal appears to have derailed the reality of the proposed third major league coming into existence.

    1984 - Peter Ueberroth is elected baseball's sixth commissioner, replacing Bowie Kuhn as the major league's top executive. The former L.A. Olympic president will take office on October 1 and will receive compensation of $450,000, an amount that is nearly double his predecessor's salary.

    1987 - Danny Kaye, the original owner of the Mariners along with his partner Lester Smith from 1977 to 1981, dies of heart failure. The 74-year old entertainer was a life-long fan of the Dodgers, recording a hit tune entitled The D-O-D-G-E-R-S Song which detailed a fictitious encounter with the rivals Giants during the actual 1962 pennant race.


    1987 - Ray Dandridge, a legendary third baseman from the Negro Leagues, is the only player elected to the Hall of Fame by the Special Veterans Committee.

    1988 - Upset by a practical joke played by teammate Jesse Orosco, Dodger slugger Kirk Gibson walks out of camp for a day. The southpaw reliever had put eyeblack on Gibson's cap.

    1997 - In a controversial deal, the Yankees sign a 10-year contract with Adidas. The licensing agreement with the popular sportswear company puts team owner George Steinbrenner at odds with the baseball establishment.

    1998 - Larry Doby, the A.L.'s first black player, is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame along with former A.L. President Lee MacPhail. Also chosen by the Veterans Committee are Negro League pitcher Bullet Joe Rogan and turn-of-the-century shortstop Gorgeous George Davis.


    2006 - In the opening game of the inaugural World Baseball Classic, South Korean hurlers Jae-Weong Seo and Chan Ho Park combine to blank Taiwan, 2-0. The first game of the 16-nation tournament is played before a disappointing crowd of only 5,193 fans at Tokyo Dome.

    2008 - Noah Lowry throws 24 pitches before a batter takes a swing in the Giants' 6-4 loss to Texas. The 28-year old right-hander, who goes through the order once without an official at-bat being recorded, a combination of walks and sacrifice flies, issues nine base-on-balls to the first 12 Rangers he faces.

    2012 - The Padres sign Cameron Maybin to a five-year contract extension. The new undisclosed deal for the 24-year old outfielder has been widely reported to be worth $25 million for five years with an another $7 million possible an option year in 2017.

    2015 - During five exhibition contests played in Arizona and Florida, baseball introduces its new pace of play initiatives designed to make the games shorter in duration. The new rules, which will be broken in slowly before players begin to be penalized, includes having batters keeping one foot in the batter’s box after taking a pitch, and the use of a clock to make innings start more punctually.

    2015 - The Chicago White Sox released Tony Campana.


    2016 - The San Diego Padres signed Matt Thornton as a free agent.

    2016 - Experts announce they have verified the legitimacy of seven identical Ty Cobb cards from the printing period of 1909 to 1911, bringing the total number of the rare card known to exist to 22. The cards, which have a picture of the 'Georgia Peach' on the front, with the words 'Ty Cobb – King of the smoking tobacco world' on the back, were found in a paper bag mixed in with trash by relatives, who were cleaning the dilapidated house that belonged to their great-grandfather.


    2017 - The Chicago White Sox released Brett Lawrie.

 



    Baseball Birthdays on March 3...


    1858 - Wheeler, Harry
    1858 - Cline, Monk
    1858 - Gross, Emil
    1859 - Kelly, John
    1860 - Ward, John
    1862 - Schoeneck, Jumbo
    1872 - Keeler, Willie
    1879 - Phelps, Ed
    1880 - Koukalik, Joe
    1884 - Knotts, Joe
    1886 - Channell, Les
    1888 - Bues, Art
    1895 - Jaeger, Joe
    1907 - Tennant, Jim
    1910 - Brenzel, Bill
    1912 - Epps, Aubrey
    1916 - Kalfass, Bill
    1918 - Hoffman, Bill
    1918 - Thompson, Forrest
    1919 - Souchock, Steve

    1920 - Adkins, Dick
    1921 - Nichols, Roy
    1923 - Martin, Barney
    1925 - Eyrich, George
    1934 - Locke, Bobby
    1942 - Dennis, Don
    1942 - Garibaldi, Bob
    1943 - Sukla, Ed
    1943 - Schaal, Paul
    1949 - Jefferson, Jesse

    1955 - Wright, Jim
    1956 - Sherrill, Dennis
    1957 - Barnes, Skeeter
    1960 - Cary, Chuck

    1960 - Heaton, Neal
    1961 - Wotus, Ron
    1965 - Heffernan, Bert
    1965 - Sager, A.J.
    1966 - de la Rosa, Francisco
    1968 - Radinsky, Scott

    1968 - Munoz, Bobby
    1970 - Morgan, Kevin
    1971 - Oliva, Jose
    1972 - Romano, Mike
    1976 - Treanor, Matt
    1978 - Diaz, Matt
    1979 - Julio, Jorge
    1979 - Nelson, John
    1983 - Dlugach, Brent
    1986 - Farris, Eric
    1994 - Herrera, Dilson
    1994 - Rondon, Jose



    Baseball Deaths on March 3...


    1894 - Williamson, Ned
    1901 - Snyder, Charles
    1913 - Fee, Jack
    1923 - Hemp, Ducky
    1923 - Clarke, Harry
    1932 - Morris, Ed
    1934 - O'Rourke, Mike
    1941 - Parker, Doc
    1942 - O'Connor, Dan
    1942 - Fauver, Clay
    1943 - Whaley, Bill
    1946 - Cady, Hick
    1951 - Bickham, Dan
    1953 - Milan, Clyde
    1964 - Scott, Lefty
    1970 - McAllester, Bill
    1977 - Overmire, Stubby
    1980 - Priddy, Jerry
    1983 - Poindexter, Jennings
    1986 - Castner, Paul

    1997 - Davis, Harry
    1997 - Jurges, Billy
    2007 - Oliver, Gene
    2010 - Bertaina, Frank
    2010 - Small, Hank
    2012 - Hittle, Lloyd
    2012 - Obradovich, Jim
    2018 - Raydon, Curt





          


   



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« Reply #4589 on: March 04, 2018, 12:01:30 am »

    On March 4 in Baseball History...


    1907 - A judgment of $52,000 is awarded to the Baltimore club from Brooklyn. When Baltimore left the N.L. in 1903, Brooklyn agreed to pay $40,000 for the franchise but never did. The award includes interest.

    1912 - With the shanties torn down and the garbage pits filled in the Pigtown section in Brooklyn, Charles Ebbets breaks ground for his team’s new ballpark. The Dodgers new home will be named for its owner after a reporter at the ceremony suggested the idea to Charley.

    1913 - The Yankees become the first team to train outside of the United States when they start spring training in Bermuda. The team's island ballpark in Hamilton is a converted cricket field, and most of their competition is provided by the Skeeters, a local team from New Jersey.

    1919 - Giants' manager John McGraw sells Slim Sallee to the Reds, but the team will buy the southpaw back next year. During his five seasons with New York, 'Scatter' compiles a 42-23 (.646) record along with an ERA of 2.26.

    1921 - Twelve-year Red Sox veteran outfielder Harry Hooper is traded to the White Sox for outfielder Nemo Leibold and Shano Collins.


    1948 - Stan Musial ends his hold out signing a contract for $31,000 with the Cardinals.

    1976 - Due to the intervention of San Francisco mayor George Moscone, the Giants will stay in the City by the Bay. In a last minute deal, the Stoneham family sells the team to Bob Lurie and Bud Herseth for $8 million instead of the Labbat's Brewery which had planned to move the Giants to Canada.

    1984 - The Special Veterans Committee selecst two outstanding defensive players, Pee Wee Reese (.269 - 16 seasons with Dodgers) and Rick Ferrell (.281 - 18 seasons w/Browns, Red Sox and Senators) to be members of Baseball's Hall of Fame.

    1995 - The Chicago White Sox signed Todd Rizzo as a free agent


    2004 - Commissioner Bud Selig announces major league baseball will celebrate "Jackie Robinson Day" in every ballpark on April 15, the anniversary of the debut of the first black player in the major leagues. Jackie's number (42) was retired for all time in a ceremony at Shea Stadium in April of 1997 to mark the 50th anniversary of Robinson's achievement.

    2004 - The Chicago White Sox released Robert Person.


    2004 - Chris Singleton contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates voided.

    2006 - Prior to the exhibition game scheduled to be played at Legends Field in Tampa, the Yankees, using a sign outside the park, apologize to the fans for the absence of Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Johnny Damon and Bernie Williams due to the World Baseball Classic. in August 2004, George Steinbrenner had abstained when the owners approved the World Cup styled tournament at the urging of baseball commissioner Bud Selig.

    2008 - Replacing the $3,925,000, one-year contract signed in January, Brad Hawpe and the Rockies agree to a $17,425,000, three-year deal. The Colorado right fielder becomes the team's fourth young player of the National League champs to receive a long term deal from the club.

    2012 - A swarm of bees, that moved down the right field line and settle near the Giants' dugout behind first base causes two sections of fans to be evacuated and results in a 41-minute delay of the Giants' split squad game against the Diamondbacks. The Salt River Fields grounds crew uses a combination of lemonade and cotton candy obtained from the concession stand to lure the buzzing insects away from fans and players.

    2012 - The Baltimore Orioles signed Miguel Gonzalez as a free agent.

    2014 - The Baltimore Orioles signed Johan Santana as a free agent.



    Baseball Birthdays on March 4...


    1856 - Cross, Clarence
    1861 - Wolstenholme, Abe
    1862 - Gunning, Tom
    1863 - Delaney, Bill
    1863 - McCauley, Al
    1863 - Wentz, Jack
    1864 - Bellman, Jack
    1870 - Whitrock, Bill
    1874 - Korwan, Jim
    1876 - Hickman, Charlie
    1880 - Herring, Lefty
    1883 - Spencer, Chet
    1884 - Murray, Red
    1887 - Herbert, Fred
    1888 - Pfeffer, Jeff
    1890 - Tyree, Earl
    1890 - Enzmann, Johnny
    1891 - Vance, Dazzy
    1891 - Acosta, Jose

    1895 - Baker, Jesse
    1897 - O'Doul, Lefty
    1897 - Brady, Neal
    1899 - Kemner, Dutch
    1902 - McCann, Emmett
    1913 - Hart, Bill
    1915 - Rebel, Art
    1917 - McCullough, Clyde
    1918 - Queen, Mel
    1919 - Mueller, Les
    1924 - Brittin, Jack
    1926 - Michaels, Cass

    1933 - Easton, John
    1936 - Johnson, Bob
    1939 - Fisher, Jack

    1946 - Frisella, Danny
    1947 - Miller, Bruce
    1948 - Grieve, Tom
    1948 - Lee, Leron
    1951 - Perlozzo, Sam
    1954 - Wagner, Mark
    1958 - Gray, Lorenzo

    1959 - Brown, Mike
    1960 - Dedmon, Jeff
    1964 - Lampkin, Tom
    1966 - Mota, Andy
    1968 - Hunter, Brian
    1968 - Carrara, Giovanni
    1969 - Giovanola, Ed
    1969 - Tinsley, Lee
    1970 - Dettmer, John
    1970 - Stevens, Dave
    1972 - Aven, Bruce
    1973 - Barber, Brian
    1976 - Bocachica, Hiram
    1980 - Hannahan, Jack
    1983 - Romo, Sergio
    1985 - Luebke,  Cory
    1985 - McKenry, Michael
    1987 - Cortes, Dan
    1988 - De Paula, Jose
    1988 - Strausborger, Ryan
    1989 - De La Rosa, Rubby
    1990 - Rodriguez, Richard
    1992 - Castellanos, Nick



    Baseball Deaths on March 4...


    1886 - Lee, Tom
    1916 - Wolstenholme, Abe
    1917 - Dowie, Joe
    1918 - Ury, Lon
    1925 - Ward, John
    1938 - Taylor, Jack
    1942 - Hammond, Jack
    1955 - Reisling, Doc
    1956 - Kelliher, Frank
    1962 - Mogridge, George
    1963 - Cortazzo, Jess

    1966 - Niemes, Jack
    1968 - Reilley, Duke
    1972 - Clark, Watty
    1974 - Sweetland, Les
    1983 - Davis, Kiddo
    1992 - Rosenthal, Larry

    1993 - Antonello, Bill
    1994 - Brower, Louis
    2012 - Mincher, Don
    2014 - Kress, Chuck

    2015 - Shea, Steve


         


           


                 
   

     








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« Reply #4590 on: March 05, 2018, 12:14:34 am »

    On March 5 in Baseball History...


    1922 - Babe Ruth signs a three-year contract with the Yankees for $52,000 per season, the unheard sum of $1,000 a week. In November, Yankees owner Colonel Jacob Ruppert has the "Bambino' agree to a contract addendum which limits the slugger's outrageous off-field behavior, including the excessive consumption of alcohol and late-night carousing.

    1936 - The Cardinals, without the holdout Dean brothers, lose to the Cuban All-Stars in Cuba. Luis Tiant Sr., the dad of a future major league pitcher, is the starting pitcher for the home team.

    1958 - Trying to beat a 12:30 am curfew Duke Snider, Johnny Podres and Don Zimmer suffer minor injuries in an auto mishap in Vero Beach. With prior crashes involving Roy Campanella and Jim Gilliam, the car accident is the third involving the Dodgers within the last two months.

    1962 - Gene Freese suffers a severely fractured ankle in the team's first intrasquad game that will keep him out of action until mid-August. The Reds' third baseman, who played an important role in Cincinnati's National League championship last season, will never regain the form he displayed during the pennant drive.

    1964 - Atlanta's Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr. claims to have a verbal agreement with a major league team which promises to move to the Peach State if a stadium is ready by next year. The next day the Board of Alderman approves a $15-million stadium.

    1966 - Marvin Miller, assistant to the President of United Steelworkers, is elected as the first full-time executive director of the Major League Players' Association by the player representatives.

    1972 - Jim Fregosi, obtained by the Mets from the Angels in the off-season for Nolan Ryan, breaks his right thumb during a spring training workout. The all-star infielder will suffer through an agonizing season batting only .232 in 101 games, after being touted as the team's solution to its revolving door at third base.

    1973 - Yankee teammates Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich announce they have traded families including their wives, children and even the dogs. The swap, that began last Fall, will work well for Peterson, who will become married to his best friend's former wife with whom he will have four children, than it does for Kekich, whose relationship with Marilyn Peterson is short-lived.

    1982 - Needing just three wins to reach 300 career victories, 43-year old Gaylord Perry signs a one-year free-agent contract with Seattle. The 'Ancient Mariner' will reach the milestone in May when he goes the distance to beat New York at the Kingdome, 7-3.

    1986 - The Braves and Brewers swap backstops with Atlanta acquiring Ted Simmons from Milwaukee in exchange for Rick Cerone and a pair of minor leaguers, David Clay and Flavio Alfaro. The offensively talented Simmons will spend three years with his new club before retiring after the 1988 season with a life-time .285 batting average.

    1996 - Fiery manager Earl Weaver, who had a .583 winning percentage in 17 seasons as manager of the Orioles, and Jim Bunning, who won 100 games and pitched no-hitters in both leagues, are elected into the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee. Also chosen are turn-of-the-century manager Ned Hanlon and Negro Leagues pitcher Bill Foster.

    2002 - Joining Phil Cavarretta (1954 Cubs) and Alvin Dark (1978 Padres), Red Sox skipper Joe Kerrigan becomes the third manager to be fired during spring training. The team's former pitching coach, who guided the club to a 17-26 record after taking over for Jimy Williams last August, had signed a multi-year contract to be Boston's field boss with then-GM Dan Duquette, but was not favored by the new ownership that took control last month.

    2003 - Although not agreeing to ban ephedra, a memo is sent to all major leaguers by the players' union strongly recommending players "be extremely reluctant to use any products" containing the substance. The diet supplement, which is available without a prescription, has been linked to the spring training death of Orioles' pitcher, Steve Belcher.

    2005 - A new ownership group, headed by real estate tycoon Lewis N. Wolff and businessman John J. Fisher, takes control of the A’s, after purchasing the franchise from Steve Schott and Ken Hoffman. Oakland's four-year playoff streak, fueled by Billy Beane's “Moneyball" approach, had come to an end in 2004, and the former owners were anxious to sell the club they bought from the estate of Walter A. Haas, Jr. in 1995.

    2008 - The Chicago White Sox signed Dewayne Wise as a free agent.


    2013 - The Washington Nationals released Will Ohman.



    Baseball Birthdays on March 5...


    1860 - Thompson, Sam
    1882 - Robinson, Rabbit
    1888 - Northrop, Jake
    1889 - Tesreau, Jeff
    1891 - Alexander, Walt
    1896 - Hungling, Bernie
    1897 - Blue, Lu

    1897 - Pertica, Bill
    1897 - Barnes, Virgil
    1898 - Grevell, Bill
    1903 - Autry, Chick
    1904 - Rosenberg, Lou

    1911 - Browne, Earl
    1912 - Gleeson, Jim
    1912 - Errickson, Dick
    1915 - Bradford, Vic
    1915 - Shuman, Harry
    1915 - Ferens, Stan
    1919 - Savage, Don
    1921 - Valo, Elmer
    1924 - Garcia, Ramon
    1930 - Crandall, Del
    1936 - Davis, Jacke
    1938 - Elliot, Larry
    1941 - Roof, Phil

    1945 - Bakenhaster, Dave
    1946 - Rohr, Les
    1947 - Tekulve, Kent
    1950 - Bird, Doug
    1952 - Squires, Mike

    1955 - Burke, Steve
    1957 - Ujdur, Jerry
    1959 - Rincon, Andy
    1961 - Ontiveros, Steve
    1966 - Brown, Kevin
    1971 - Lesher, Brian
    1971 - Hammonds, Jeffrey
    1971 - Fonville, Chad

    1971 - Hunter, Brian
    1971 - Mercedes, Jose
    1973 - Franklin, Ryan
    1973 - Crespo, Felipe
    1975 - Nunez, Vladimir
    1976 - Clark, Doug
    1976 - Konerko, Paul
    1977 - MacDougal, Mike

    1978 - Hessman, Mike
    1981 - Bueno, Francisley
    1985 - Mills, Brad
    1988 - Benson, Joe
    1988 - Gomez, Hector
    1989 - Robles, Mauricio
    1990 - Hoes, L. J.
    1992 - Lively, Ben
    1993 - Schwarber, Kyle



    Baseball Deaths on March 5...


    1897 - Foutz, Dave
    1901 - Skinner, Alexander
    1912 - Keener, Harry
    1915 - Donnelly, Jim
    1920 - Farmer, Alex
    1928 - McQuaid, Mart
    1929 - Hardie, Lou
    1942 - Wetzel, Dutch
    1950 - Norton, Effie
    1956 - Ogrodowski, Bruce
    1956 - Berger, Joe

    1963 - Lorenzen, Lefty
    1965 - Martin, Pepper
    1980 - Fleming, Les
    1995 - Hughes, Roy
    2001 - Thomas, Leo

    2002 - Smith, Clay

                     


   


         


         


     




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« Reply #4591 on: March 06, 2018, 12:15:30 am »

    On March 6 in Baseball History...


    1884 - High winds tear off the roof of the Polo Grounds’ grandstands, but the ballpark will be ready the Gothams' National League home opener on May 1. The team, who will become known as the Giants, will win the first dozen games they play on the Southeast Diamond of the facility.

    1906 - Rookie owner Charles W. Murphy puts the last pieces of a Cubs dynasty in place, trading rookie infielder Hans Lobert and lefthander Jake Weimer to the Cincinnati Reds for third baseman Harry Steinfeldt. Not a heavy hitter, Steinfeldt completes the Tinker-Evers-Chance infield with more than adequate defense.

    1907 - Phillies' owner A.J. Reach and John Rogers are acquitted of damages resulting from the 1903 National League Park disaster. A balcony had collapsed at the Broad Street and Lehigh Avenue ballpark killing 12 and leaving 232 fans injured.

    1922 - Babe Ruth becomes the highest paid player in history when he inks a three-year deal with the Yankees worth $52,000, more than three times as much as teammate Home Run Baker, the second best paid major leaguer. The 'Sultan of Swat' will be worthy of his contract, hitting 122 home runs and earning MVP honors in team's first World Championship season in 1923.

    1923 - The Cardinals announce players will wear numbers on their uniforms. The digits will correspond to the player's place in the batting order.

    1938 - The Phillies trade first baseman Dolph Camilli to the Dodgers for utility player Eddie Morgan and $45,000. The heavy-hitting infielder will spend six seasons in Brooklyn, having his best year in 1941 when he wins the National League MVP after leading the circuit in home runs and RBIs.

    1945 - In some of the fiercest fighting of World War II, Harry O'Neill is killed in the battle for Iwo Jima. In 1939, the fallen Marine played one game in the major leagues appearing with the A's as a catcher.

    1948 - The Braves acquire All-Star second baseman Eddie Stanky from the Dodgers for Bama Rowell and $60,000. The hard-nosed infielder will play a pivotal role in Boston's National League championship this season.

    1951 - Charlie Brown, who made his debut in Charles Schultz’s Peanut comic strip in last October, appears in his first baseball game. The perennial loser, who served as his team's pitcher and manager, usually fielded the following lineup: first baseman - Shermy, second baseman - Linus, third baseman - Pig-pen, shortstop - Snoopy, right fielder - Lucy, center fielder -Patty, left fielder -Violet, and catcher - Schroeder.


    1962 - St. Louis voters approve a bond issue that will fund the improvements necessary to build a new downtown stadium for the Cardinals.

    1971 - Joe Cronin, the AL president, gives into A's owner Charlie Finley's request to allow three balls, rather than four, to constitute a base on balls during an exhibition game against the Brewers. The experiment, designed to add offense and speed up the game, proves to be tedious for both teams when 19 walks are issued as well as six homers being drilled during the 13-9 spring training victory for Oakland.

    1973 - In a spring training game against the Pirates, Larry Hisle becomes the first designated hitter in major league history. The contention that the new American League rule will add more offense to the game is proven when the Twins' DH hits two homers and drives in seven runs.

    1976 - Prior to the return of natural grass that will be in place for Opening Day, approximately a thousand people show up at Comiskey Park to get a piece of the 18,000 square feet of artificial turf covering the infield. New White Sox owner Bill Veeck, sensing a lack of public interest during the work stoppage, decided to stage the promotion to spark interest in the upcoming season, reminding fans, "when you go to the ballpark, you are entitled to the smell of freshly cut grass".


    1985 - The Special Veterans Committee elects Enos Slaughter and Arky Vaughan to the Hall of Fame. Slaughter batted .300 over 19 seasons. His base running skills were legendary, despite just 71 career steals. Vaughan batted .300 or better 12 times in 14 seasons, including 1935, when he led the N.L. in batting average, slugging, and on-base percentage with the Pirates.

    1987 - Free agent Andre Dawson signs a blank contract to join the Cubs. The former player for the Expos will win the National League MVP making him a bargain at $500,000, the amount Chicago decided to pay the All-Star outfielder.

    2001 - The 1960 World Series hero, former Pirate second baseman Bill Mazeroski, is elected by the Veterans' Committee into the Hall of Fame along with Hilton Smith, a pitching standout with the Kansas City Monarchs.

    2005 - Making her debut with John Sterling on WCBS-AM (880), the radio flagship of the Yankees, Suzyn Waldman becomes the first woman in big league history to be a full-time color commentator. The former radio-talk host on WFAN, the first all-sports radio station in the country, was also the first female to broadcast on a nationally baseball telecast as well as the first to provide local TV (Yankees) major league play-by-play.

    2006 - The Chicago White Sox signed Hideo Nomo as a free agent.


    2009 - The Oakland Athletics signed Orlando Cabrera as a free agent.

    2013 - The Pittsburgh Pirates released Aaron Poreda.

    2016 -  The Chicago White Sox signed Austin Jackson as a free agent.




    Baseball Birthdays on March 6...


    1863 - Coleman, John
    1869 - Mauck, Hal
    1871 - Gatins, Frank
    1878 - McMakin, John
    1878 - Husting, Bert
    1886 - Sweeney, Bill
    1891 - Fletcher, Frank
    1891 - Garrett, Clarence
    1892 - Mohart, George
    1892 - Davies, Chick
    1897 - Brady, Cliff
    1898 - Hansen, Roy
    1900 - Grove, Lefty
    1915 - Swift, Bob
    1915 - Gray, Pete
    1917 - Cress, Walker
    1924 - Mierkowicz, Ed
    1924 - Podbielan, Bud
    1933 - Abernathy, Ted
    1939 - Rojas, Cookie
    1940 - Stargell, Willie
    1952 - Rodriguez, Eduardo
    1953 - Hannahs, Gerry
    1959 - Best, Karl
    1960 - Behenna, Rick
    1966 - Telford, Anthony
    1966 - Hall, Joe

    1970 - Stahoviak, Scott
    1971 - Salkeld, Roger
    1973 - Adams, Terry
    1973 - Duran, Roberto
    1974 - Alvarez, Gabe
    1974 - Lofton, James
    1975 - Ramos, Edgar
    1977 - Thames, Marcus
    1979 - Barmes, Clint
    1979 - Bedard, Erik
    1982 - Martinez, Cristhian
    1986 - Arrieta, Jake
    1986 - Cervelli, Francisco
    1986 - Detwiler, Ross
    1988 - Martin, Leonys
    1995 - Paredes, Eduardo



    Baseball Deaths on March 6...


    1899 - Santry, Edward
    1910 - Critchley, Morrie
    1912 - Finlayson, Pembroke
    1919 - Demarais, Fred
    1936 - Lee, Watty
    1938 - Lutzke, Rube
    1940 - Locke, Marshall
    1943 - Collins, Jimmy
    1945 - O'Neill, Harry
    1946 - Thomas, Claude
    1953 - Pruiett, Tex
    1965 - Austin, Jimmy
    1965 - Schang, Wally
    1967 - Castino, Vince

    1970 - Adams, Bob
    1972 - Jok, Stan

    1979 - Wasem, Link
    1981 - Lefler, Wade
    1988 - Ricketts, Dick
    1988 - Legett, Lou
    1990 - Sewell, Joe
    1993 - Stumpf, George

    1998 - Barrett, Frank
    2003 - Kreitner, Mickey
    2005 - Gardella, Danny
    2006 - Puckett, Kirby
    2008 - Donahue, Deacon
    2009 - Rodriguez, Eduardo
    2010 - Roland, Jim
    2018 - Stroughter, Steve


     









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    On March 7 in Baseball History...


    1903 - In the first trade under the A.L./N.L. peace treaty, the Giants send their 1902 part-time manager Heinie Smith to Detroit for second baseman Kid Gleason, who is immediately moved to Philadelphia, where he will end a 20-year playing career.

    1914 - In the last inning of an intrasquad exhibition game of the International League’s Baltimore Orioles, the recently-signed George Herman Ruth Jr. hits his first professional home run, a 400 foot shot at the Cape Fear Fairgrounds in Fayetteville. A state marker claims the famous moniker 'Babe' was given to the 19 year-old during his stay in this North Carolina city when his teammates teased him about being adopted by the team's manager Jack Dunn, who legally became the parent of St. Mary’s Industrial School to keep him on the club.


    1923 - The New England American Legion appeals to Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis to discontinue morning games on Memorial Day. The request is turned down.

    1924 - Reds manager Pat Moran dies of Bright's Disease and is replaced within minutes by coach Jack Hendricks. Moran had become ill on March 1 on a train to spring training in Orlando, Florida, but did not see a physician for three days. By then, his liver and kidneys had all but ceased to function.

    1941 - Believed to be the first time that players don protective headgear, Pee Wee Reese and Ducky Medwick wear plastic inserts inside their caps during a spring exhibition game. The Dodger teammates had both missed weeks of playing time after being beaned by a pitch during the 1940 season.

    1955 - Commissioner Ford Frick announces he favors the legalization of the spitter.
   
    1956 - Still seeking workman's compensation coverage, the players accept the owners' position on the World Series television deal and the proposed minimum salary structure.

    1979 - The Special Veterans Committee selects former center fielder Hack Wilson, who compiled a .307 batting average playing mostly for the Giants and the Cubs during his 12-year major league career, for the Hall of Fame. The committee also choses former National League president Warren Giles, who spent 18 years in the post, for induction in Cooperstown this summer.

    1995 - The Veterans Committee selects former players Richie Ashburn‚ Vic Willis‚ and Leon Day, and past president of the National League, William Hulbert, for induction to the Hall of Fame. Day, a Negro League right hander, who played in Baltimore with the Black Sox and the Elite Giants and with the Brooklyn and Newark Eagles, will be dead of a heart attack in less than a week after hearing the good news.

    2001 - Bud Selig upholds the January 14 Blue Jay and White Sox trade which sent Toronto pitchers David Wells and Matt DeWitt to the White Sox in exchange for pitchers Mike Sirotka, Kevin Beirne and Mike Williams and outfielder Brian Simmons. Although, upon further medical examinations, Mike Sirotka was determined to be 'damaged goods' prior to the deal, the commissioner used a 'buyers beware' policy stating the individual club must take responsibility for the information originally used in making the transaction.


    2006 - In their World Baseball Classic debut, Team USA blanks Mexico, 2-0. Home runs by Derrek Lee and Chipper Jones along with Jake Peavy and bevy of relievers combining to throw a four-hitter prove to be the difference as the United States defeats their neighbors from south of the border.

    2008 - With a two-out RBI single in the ninth inning off reliever Colter Bean, Danny Sandoval spoils the Braves' bid for a spring training combined no-hitter. Atlanta uses seven hurlers beating the Indians at Winter Haven 4-1.

    2008 - The Cape Cod Times reports MLB has threatened to withhold their annual grant from from the Cape Cod League if the six teams in the 10-team circuit sharing nicknames with big league, such as the Chatham Athletics, do not purchase all future uniforms and souvenir merchandise from licensed vendors, a more expensive option. The deadline has been extended until March 21, to give league officials more time to resolve the issue.

    2014 - The Kansas City Royals released Brad Penny.



    Baseball Birthdays on March 7...


    1879 - Clark, Ginger
    1881 - Sellers, Rube
    1881 - Scanlan, Doc
    1881 - Fallon, Charlie
    1884 - Willett, Ed
    1888 - Griner, Dan
    1890 - Danforth, Dave

    1891 - Wisterzil, Tex
    1894 - Gleich, Frank
    1894 - Jacobson, Merwin
    1901 - Loftus, Dick
    1910 - Archer, Fred
    1910 - McFarland, Howie
    1914 - Gallagher, Joe
    1915 - Campbell, Soup
    1915 - Reninger, Jim
    1919 - Walsh, Junior
    1921 - Fusselman, Les
    1925 - Holloman, Bobo
    1929 - Wilson, Red

    1930 - Acker, Tom
    1931 - Rand, Dick
    1933 - Bouchee, Ed
    1936 - Cisco, Galen
    1941 - Clark, Glen
    1947 - Howarth, Jim
    1950 - Richard, J.R.
    1951 - Burroughs, Jeff
    1953 - Stein, Randy
    1954 - Armstrong, Mike
    1954 - Nyman, Nyls

    1958 - Hall, Albert
    1960 - Carter, Joe
    1962 - Cano, Jose
    1962 - Gonzalez, German
    1963 - Miller, Keith
    1964 - Edwards, Wayne

    1965 - Armstrong, Jack
    1966 - Gozzo, Mauro
    1968 - Boucher, Denis
    1968 - Kent, Jeff
    1980 - Munter, Scott
    1983 - Casilla, Santiago
    1983 - Macias, Drew
    1983 - Tankersley, Taylor
    1987 - Carreno Joel
    1988 - Ladendorf, Tyler
    1994 - Labourt, Jairo

   



    Baseball Deaths on March 7...


    1892 - O'Neill, Fred
    1902 - Galvin, Pud
    1912 - Amole, Doc
    1916 - Donovan, Fred
    1924 - Moran, Pat
    1932 - Carrick, Bill
    1936 - Rogers, Tom
    1937 - Baldwin, Lady
    1940 - Johnston, Johnny
    1941 - Wetzel, Buzz
    1947 - McGarvey, Dan
    1950 - Brown, Joe

    1953 - Wilson, Tom
    1956 - Des Jardien, Shorty
    1959 - Glaiser, John
    1967 - Shealy, Al
    1975 - Benes, Joe
    1978 - Bilko, Steve
    1981 - Wanninger, Pee-Wee
    1986 - Moore, Jimmy

    1994 - Hofferth, Stew
    2000 - Sanford, Jack
    2002 - Haslin, Mickey
    2003 - Libke, Al
    2007 - Mailho, Emil
    2011 - Dezelan, Frank
    2013 - Martin, Ray
    2013 - Striker, Jake

    2013 - Thomas, Carl
    2016 - Kraly, Steve



           


         


 







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« Reply #4593 on: March 08, 2018, 12:21:44 am »

    On March 8 in Baseball History...


    1900 - In New York, the N.L. meets, voting to shrink to eight teams. They pay the Baltimore owners $30,000 for their franchise, with Charles Ebbets and Ned Hanlon reserving the right to sell the players. Cleveland, Louisville, and Washington receive $10,000 each, with Louisville owner Barney Dreyfuss sending most of his players to his Pittsburgh team. The circuit will remain the same until the Boston Braves move to Milwaukee in 1953.

    1913 - The Federal League is organized as a six-team outlaw circuit and elects John T. Powers president. It will play 120 games at a level equivalent to the lower minor leagues, but will enhance its status considerably in 1914 to challenge the major leagues.

    1923 - Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis allows former Giants left-handed pitcher Rube Benton to return to the N.L.. Benton had admitted prior knowledge of the 1919 World Series fix, but he remained in baseball, winning 22 for St. Paul (American Association). N.L. President John Heydler disagrees with Landis, calling Benton undesirable, but does not stop the Reds from signing him. Benton, 35, will be 14-10 for the second-place Reds.

    1930 - Babe Ruth signs a two-year contract for $160,000 with New York. At $80,000 per year, he is the highest paid player of all time as of 1930.

    1941 - Losing Pitcher' Hugh Mulcahy of the Phillies becomes the first major league player to be drafted into the Armed Forces. The newest member of the 101st Artillery at Cape Cod's Camp Edwards had lost 22 games last season and 20 in 1938 to lead the National League in defeats both years.

    1946 - The first spring training game ever to be played in Arizona takes place at Tucson’s Hi Corbett Field. The Indians, behind the pitching of Bob Lemon, beat the Giants, 3-1, in the inaugural Cactus League contest.

    1947 - In Havana's new stadium delCerro, the Yankees beat the Dodgers, 1-0 on Snuffy Stirnweiss's tenth inning single, which is the Bronx Bombers' only hit.

    1966 - Prior to an intrasquad contest in St. Petersburg in a pregame ceremony, the Mets announce former manager Casey Stengel had been elected to the Hall of Fame. The 75-year old 'Old Perfessor' benefitted from a new rule by the Baseball Writers Committee on Veterans that makes any manager, umpire or executive past the age of 65 eligible to be elected to the Hall of Fame six months after retiring, bypassing the traditional five-year wait rule for players.

    1985 - Dave Stieb, the ace of the Toronto staff for the past five seasons, signs an 11-year contract that could be worth up to $25 million with deferred payments and incentives. He would pitch only another six full seasons.

    2001 - In a press release, the Orioles announce Albert Belle, "has been found to be totally disabled and unable to perform as a Major League baseball player," due to a degenerative right hip. The Orioles will place the 34-year old outfielder on the 60-day disabled list, thus beginning the process which conforms to the procedure set forth by Major League Baseball in the case of a totally disabling and permanent injury to a player.

    2006 - A Canadian team made up mostly of minor leaguers stuns the baseball world by beating a highly-favored Team USA in the first round of the WBC, 8-6. Thanks to center fielder Adam Stern, who hits an inside-the-park homer, collects four RBIs and makes a pair of sensational catches, and 21-year old southpaw Adam Loewen, who gives up three hits and keeps the American all-stars scoreless for 3 2-3 innings, the Canadians post their biggest victory in its national history of baseball.

    2008 - In hopes of a more lucrative deal in the future, Ryan Zimmerman inks a new one-year contract to play infield with the Nationals. After he homers and drives in four runs during a 12-10 split-squad victory over the Astros, the third baseman agrees to a $465,000 deal, slightly improving his present salary.

    2011 - Kim Ng is named by MLB as the senior Vice-President of its baseball operations, making her the highest-ranking woman in the major leagues. The Dodger Assistant General Manager, a post she held since 2001, will report to Joe Torre, who had managed in LA during the last three years of her tenure.

    2013 - Allen Craig (.307, 22, 92) and the Cardinals agree to a $31 million, five-year deal valued at $43 million over six seasons. The 28 year-old first baseman played a key role in the 2011 St. Louis World Championship, contributing three go-ahead RBIs, including a clutch eighth-inning line drive in Game 6 that sparked the start of an unforgettable Redbirds' rally.

    2016 - A meeting today (3/08) at 3:08 p.m at Clemens Field, named after Samuel Clemens which has .308 gate and a 308 right-field foul pole, a .309 suite, and a monument depicting a .309 batting average, will help solve a mystery surrounding a not so well-known resident, Jake Beckley. The purpose of the gathering is to determine which number should be used to commemorate the Hall of Fame outfielder's batting average, .308 as listed by Baseball-Reference.com and many other resources or the .309, engraved on his plaque at Cooperstown.


    2017  - "When Moses Fleetwood Walker walked onto a field in Toledo, he did more than play a game. He was more than just an athlete. He did more than throw, catch, or hit. That day and every day he played he started a conversation." - CRAIG BROWN, an adjunct professor at Kent State University.

By a vote of 93-1, the Ohio House passes Bill 59, setting aside October 7 each year in honor of Moses Fleetwood Walker, the first-openly African American to play under contract in the major leagues. In 1884, the bare-handed backstop caught for the American Association’s Toledo Blue Stockings, until a rib injury and the team’s excessive payroll led to his release late in the season.



    Baseball Birthdays on March 8...


    1857 - Annis, Bill
    1869 - Hughey, Jim
    1875 - Brush, Bob
    1879 - Clarke, Josh
    1882 - Lord, Harry
    1891 - O'Mara, Ollie
    1893 - Francis, Ray
    1895 - Bentley, Jack
    1896 - Clarke, Lefty
    1898 - Bedgood, Phil
    1909 - Fox, Pete
    1912 - Mueller, Ray
    1917 - Salkeld, Bill
    1922 - Furillo, Carl
    1922 - Gionfriddo, Al
    1924 - Atwell, Toby
    1926 - Teed, Dick
    1930 - Grim, Bob
    1934 - Hunter, Willard
    1934 - Breeding, Marv
    1937 - Small, Jim
    1939 - Bouton, Jim
    1942 - Allen, Dick

    1942 - Gerberman, George
    1948 - Staton, Joe
    1949 - Jimenez, Juan
    1953 - Rice, Jim
    1953 - Werner, Don
    1954 - Remmerswaal, Win
    1955 - Nastu, Philip
    1957 - Stoddard, Bob
    1957 - Butcher, John
    1958 - Capra, Nick
    1960 - Hagen, Kevin
    1961 - Salas, Mark

    1964 - McCullers, Lance
    1967 - Johnston, Joel
    1968 - Dougherty, Jim
    1973 - Thompson, Justin
    1973 - Lukasiewicz, Mark
    1975 - Peña, Jesús

    1976 - Encarnacion, Juan
    1976 - Freel, Ryan
    1982 - Stansberry, Craig
    1983 - Lambert, Chris
    1983 - Worrell, Mark
    1988 - Pham, Tommy
    1993 - Bautista, Rafael



    Baseball Deaths on March 8...


    1924 - Allen, Myron
    1926 - Armstrong, Howard
    1939 - Stratton, Scott
    1971 - Sigman, Tripp
    1974 - Pratt, Frank
    1977 - Benton, Sid
    1978 - Smith, Red
    1981 - Claset, Gowell
    1984 - Cunningham, Bruce
    1985 - Todd, Al
    1989 - Coogan, Dale
    1992 - Edwards, Sherman
    1996 - Nicholson, Bill
    1999 - DiMaggio, Joe
    2002 - Sepkowski, Ted
    2003 - McGowan, Mickey
    2007 - Martinez, Marty
    2007 - Vukovich, John
    2008 - Alvarez, Ossie
    2009 - Wolfe, Ed
    2014 - Bulling, Bud





         



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« Reply #4594 on: March 09, 2018, 12:07:29 am »

    On March 9 in Baseball History...


    1897 - Cleveland signs Holy Cross star Chief Sockalexis to a contract. Sockalexis, a full-blooded Penobscot Indian, soon earns the admiration of Spiders supporters because of his outstanding all-around skill. Before long, baseball fans start referring to the Cleveland team as the Indians. Sockalexis plays only three years with the team because of acute alcoholism, but the nickname Indians will be revived in 1915 to become the club's official name.

    1922 - Rogers Hornsby, coveted by John McGraw of the Giants, signs a three-year contract with Cardinals' owner Sam Breadon. The 25 year-old second baseman, who will hit .404 over the three-year span of the deal, agrees to a salary of $18‚500 per season, making him the highest paid player in National League history.

    1936 - Babe Ruth turns down an offer by Reds general manager Larry MacPhail to make a comeback as a player. Ruth, who retired in June 1935, is inclined to accept the offer at first, but after talking it over with his wife, Claire, he says he has put on too much weight and is concerned about injuries to his legs if he returns as a player.

    1943 - The Dodgers trade first baseman Babe Dahlgren to the Phillies for outfielder Lloyd Waner and infielder Al Glossop. Philadephia's new 31 year-old infielder will enjoy an all-star season during his only year in the City of Brotherly Love, hitting a solid .287 for the seventh-place team.

    1946 - Ted Williams is offered $500,000 to play in the Mexican League. He stays in the U.S. and captures the A.L. MVP while leading the Red Sox to the pennant.

    1960 - Returning to his Palm Beach home after watching his A's play a spring training intra-squad game, Arnold Johnson is found by police semi-conscious and slumped behind the wheel of his car. The 53 year-old club owner will die early tomorrow morning as the result of suffering cerebral hemorrhage.

    1961 - The Yankees announce the team will be leaving its spring training home in St. Petersburg to move to Fort Lauderdale by 1963. The Yankee owners also encourage the new yet unnamed National League New York franchise to play its home games at the Polo Grounds and not to consider Yankee Stadium.

    1963 - Songwriters Ruth Roberts and Bill Katz introduced the official Met theme song, Meet the Mets, to the public. The tune will be modernized in 1984 adding Long Island, New Jersey, Brooklyn, Queens, Uptown and Down, to the team's East side, West side geographical realm.


    1972 - Players on the White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike, if necessary, during negotiations between players and owners. The dispute centers around health and pension benefits for players. This is the first of a series of landmark team votes.

    1979 - Commissioner Bowie Kuhn issues a notice to all clubs urging that all reporters, regardless of sex, be treated equally in the matter of access to locker rooms.

    1994 - After being hit in the groin by an errant pickoff throw from teammate Mitch Williams that breaks his protective cup, John Kruk will be diagnosed with testicular cancer. The Phillies first baseman/outfielder will make a full recovery after surgery.

    1995 - With a vote of 28-0, the major league owners admit two new teams, the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The teams will be assigned leagues in January of 1997.

    1996 - The Chicago White Sox signed Brian Schmack as a non-drafted free agent.


    2005 - Current and former big league players as well as baseball executives are issued subpoenas to appear on March 17 by the House Committee on Government Reform. The eleven ‘invitees’ to the congressional hearing on steroid use include Sandy Alderson, Jose Canseco, Donald Fehr, Jason Giambi, Rob Manfred, Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro, Curt Schilling, Sammy Sosa, Frank Thomas, and Kevin Towers.


    2006 - At Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan a "Down with Fidel" sign, seen by millions of television viewers -- including those watching the WBC contest in Cuba, creates an international incident. A Cuban official attending the game confronts the male sign-holder, but Puerto Rican police quickly intercede, taking Angel Iglesias to a nearby police station where the vice president of Cuba's National Institute of Sports is reminded that Puerto Ricans enjoy the right to freedom of speech.

    2009 - Alex Rodriguez undergoes an 80-minute arthroscopic surgical procedure to repair torn cartilage in his right hip. The Yankees third baseman, who will need a more extensive operation in the offseason, expects to return to the lineup in May.

    2010 - Amidst much hoopla, Stephen Strasburg throws two scoreless innings against Detroit in his much anticipated first exhibition start for the Nationals this spring. The former San Diego State right-hander, the recipient of the Golden Spikes award as best amateur baseball player in the nation, was selected as the number one overall pick in last year’s draft, signing a record $15.1 million, four-year deal with Washington.

    2011 - Luis Salazar is airlifted to Orlando Regional Medical Center after being struck in the face by a foul line drive hit by Brian McCann while standing in the dugout in the first inning of a Braves' exhibition game in Lake Buena Vista. The 54-year-old minor league manager sustains a concussion and will lose his left eye as a result of the injury.

    2014 - Barry Bonds returns to the Giants as a special spring training instructor for the young Giants' hitters, a role the organization believes will be of benefit to the club for years to come. The much-maligned former superstar, who played in his last major league game in 2007, has a ten-year personal services contract with San Francisco, which has yet to commence. 

    2017 - Kris Bryant (.292, 39, 102), who made $652K in his rookie year, becomes the highest-paid second-year player when he comes to terms with the World Champion Cubs on a contract reportedly worth $1.05 million. The Chicago third baseman’s deal surpasses the previous record major league record of one million dollars, given to sophomore outfielder Mike Trout in 2014 by the Angels.

    2017 - "Major League Baseball’s greatest responsibility is to ensure that today’s youth become active participants in our game as players and fans. The ‘MLB Little League Classic’ exemplifies our entire sport’s commitment to building a stronger connection between young people and the National Pastime" - ROB MANFRED, Commissioner of Baseball.

Major League Baseball announces the first "MLB Little League Classic" will be played between Cardinals and Pirates on August 20 at Williamsport’s BB&T Ballpark, the second-oldest minor league ballpark in the United States which was formerly known as Bowman Field when it opened 1926. The regular season game, originally scheduled to be played at PNC Park, will take place in conjunction with the Little League World Series that will be taking place in nearby Howard J. Lamade Stadium.



    Baseball Birthdays on March 9...


    1861 - Atkinson, Al
    1869 - Quinlan, Frank
    1869 - McPherson, John
    1872 - Delahanty, Tom
    1875 - Bliss, Elmer
    1877 - Pearson, Alex
    1882 - Compton, Jack
    1890 - Mapel, Rolla
    1890 - Davis, George
    1893 - Williams, Lefty

    1893 - Southworth, Billy
    1895 - Kane, Frank
    1896 - Yarrison, Rube
    1897 - Dawson, Joe
    1906 - Wise, Hughie
    1908 - Hoag, Myril
    1912 - Vaughan, Arky
    1916 - Rich, Woody
    1918 - Alderson, Dale
    1927 - Jensen, Jackie
    1930 - Raines, Larry
    1932 - Kline, Ron
    1934 - Landis, Jim

    1942 - Campaneris, Bert
    1944 - Acosta, Ed
    1948 - Curtis, John
    1948 - Neumeier, Dan
    1948 - Chaney, Darrel
    1950 - Ault, Doug
    1959 - Babitt, Shooty
    1963 - Mulholland, Terry
    1965 - Santiago, Benito
    1967 - Horsman, Vince
    1973 - Boone, Aaron
    1973 - Nitkowski, C.J.
    1974 - Franklin, Wayne
    1975 - Sasser, Rob
    1977 - Leone, Justin
    1978 - Neu, Mike
    1979 - Hill, Koyie
    1981 - Rapada, Clay
    1983 - Aybar, Willy
    1984 - Johnson, Elliot
    1984 - Stammen, Craig
    1985 - Boc0ck, Brian
    1985 - Litsch, Jesse
    1987 - Hudson, Daniel

    1988 - Roberts, Ken
    1995 - Burdi, Zack




    Baseball Deaths on March 9...


    1890 - Goodman, Jake
    1899 - McGunnigle, Bill
    1917 - Snyder, Cooney
    1934 - Dugdale, Dan
    1946 - Nagle, Tom
    1958 - Roach, Skel
    1959 - Wilson, Fin
    1959 - Flinn, Don
    1966 - Robinson, Aaron
    1966 - Steele, Elmer
    1967 - Meyer, Jack
    1968 - Callahan, Jim
    1974 - Quick, Hal
    1977 - Merena, Spike
    1978 - Doran, Bill
    1980 - Baker, Tom
    1983 - Manda, Carl
    1984 - Blackburn, Charlie
    1987 - Bonura, Zeke

    1990 - Vedder, Lou
    1991 - Hardin, Jim
    1994 - Fletcher, Elbie
    2010 - Davis, Willie
    2011 - McNamara, Bob
    2012 - Wendelstedt, Harry
    2017 - Hands, Bill


             


   


               




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« Reply #4595 on: March 10, 2018, 12:00:43 am »

    On March 10 in Baseball History...


    1941 - The Dodgers announce their players will begin to wear helmets when batting. The use of the safety headgear will not become mandatory in the National League until 1954 and the AL will follow suit four years later.

    1951 - F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover reports that he has declined the post of baseball commissioner. California Governor Earl Warren had earlier turned down the post.

    1959 - Dorothy Comiskey Rigney, granddaughter of the Old Roman, Charles Comiskey, sells her 54 percent ownership in the White Sox to Bill Veeck's syndicate for $2.7 million. Brother Chuck fails in his attempt to match or improve the bid. Comiskey control of the franchise ends after 60 years.


    1962 - Because it does not allow black guests, the Phillies leave Jack Tar Harrison Hotel and move to Rocky Point Motel, 20 miles outside Clearwater, Florida.

    1963 - Rookie Pete Rose plays his first spring training game, and goes two for two against the White Sox.


    1967 - ed Davidson, a southpaw specialist who had five wins and four saves for the Reds last season, is gunned down in an alley as he leaves a local restaurant, telling police his estranged wife shot him once in the abdomen and twice in the chest. The charge against Mary Ruth Davidson will be dismissed when her husband, who will return to the team in June, but without his same effectiveness, fails to appear in court on two occasions.

    1982 - Travis Jackson and Happy Chandler are elected to the Hall of Fame by the Special Veterans Committee. Jackson hit .291 in 15 seasons as the New York Giants shortstop in the 1920s and 1930s, while Chandler was baseball's second commissioner. He oversaw and encouraged the dismantling of the color barrier in 1947.

    1983 - Walter Alston, who managed the Dodgers to four world championships, and George Kell, who hit .306 over 15 major league seasons, are elected to the Hall of Fame by the Special Veterans Committee.

    1986 - Ernie Lombardi, the N.L. MVP in 1938, and Bobby Doerr, a nine-time A.L. All-Star, are elected to the Hall of Fame by the Special Veterans Committee.

    1992 - The Pirates trade pitcher Neal Heaton (3-3, 4.33) to the Royals for outfielder Kirk Gibson (.236, 16 HR, 18 SB).

    1993 - Sherry Davis becomes the first woman major league public address announcer when she is hired by the Giants to work at Candlestick Park.

    1995 - Former Chicago Bull superstar Michael Jordan, citing labor unrest as the reason, announces that he is leaving the White Sox organization to return to the Chicago Bulls. In his only season in professional baseball, the future NBA Hall of Famer batted .202, hit three home runs, drove in 51 runs, stole 30 bases, and made 11 errors playing the outfield for the Double-A Birmingham Barons last season.


    2004 - When asked by Senator John McCain to renegotiate the major league baseball's contract in regard to the use of controlled substances, Donald Fehr refuses to comply. Although the union boss condemns the use of steroids, he believes the players oppose random drug testing as a violation of privacy, an argument countered by the Arizona republican as unacceptable and he promised congressional action if the status quo remains in place.

    2005 - Singling off Brad Thompson in a Cardinal intrasquad game, former pitching prospect Rick Ankiel goes 1-for-2 in his debut as a position player. Historic wildness and injuries ended the 25 year-old's once very promising career on the mound.

    2006 - Jhonny Peralta (.292, 24 ,78) agrees to a $13 million, five-year deal which includes a club option for 2011. In his first full season, the Indians shortstop established himself as one of the top offensive players for his position.

    2006 - Shairon Martis throws the first-ever no-hitter in WBC history as the Netherlands routs Panama, 10-0. The 19-year-old Dutch hurler threw exactly 65 pitches, which is the Classic's pitch limit, to accomplish the historic deed in a game which was called after seven innings because of the mercy rule, a 10 run lead after seven innings.

    2008 - The New York Yankees signed Jose Quintana as a free agent.

    2009 - At Puerto Rico’s Hiram Bithorn Stadium, the Netherlands WBC team, made up of mostly unknown players, upsets a heavily-favored Dominican Republic club for the second time in four days to advance to the next round of the World Baseball Classic. The Dominicans, considered to be an odds-on favorite, with a roster filled with major league All-Stars including David Ortiz (Red Sox), Hanley Ramirez (Marlins), and Miguel Tejada (Astros), are eliminated in the first round of the 16-team tournament.

    2010 - Nomar Garciaparra signs a ceremonial one-day contract with Boston six years after rejecting a four-year, $60 million offer from the team that resulted in an acrimonious trade to the Cubs in 2004. The former Rookie of the Year and American League batting champion, who used the occasion to announce his retirement ending a 14-year major league career with a .313 batting average, gets his wish to leave the game in a Red Sox uniform when he throws out the ceremonial first pitch to former teammate Jason Varitek, prior to the exhibition game against Tampa Bay.

    2010 - Justin Upton (.300, 26, 86) and the Diamondbacks come to terms on a $51.25 million, six-year contract, the second-largest deal in franchise history being slightly less than Randy Johnson's $52.4 million pact in 1999. The 22-year old outfielder, who was the team's No. 1 pick in the 2005 draft, was selected to last season's National League All-Star squad.

    2014 - The Chicago White Sox sold Zach Stewart to the Atlanta Braves.


    2017 - The Tampa Bay Rays signed Jason Coats as a free agent.



    Baseball Birthdays on March 10...


    1852 - Fisher, Charles
    1862 - Lytle, Dad
    1867 - Shea, Mike
    1868 - Whistler, Lew
    1868 - Conovar, Ted
    1869 - Bird, Frank
    1870 - Goodall, Herb
    1871 - Kelty, John
    1877 - Lundbom, Jack
    1877 - Godwin, John
    1880 - Nagle, Judge
    1882 - Cermak, Ed
    1883 - Liebhardt, Glenn
    1889 - Mercer, Jack
    1890 - Fahrer, Pete
    1892 - Huhn, Emil
    1893 - Curry, Jim
    1894 - Johnson, Fred
    1894 - Wieneke, Jack
    1895 - Propst, Jake
    1897 - Ennis, Russ
    1898 - Loftus, Frank
    1906 - Herring, Art
    1921 - Atkins, James
    1921 - Elder, George
    1921 - Blatnik, Johnny
    1924 - Perkovich, John
    1925 - Limmer, Lou
    1929 - Thomas, Bud
    1932 - Martin, Paul
    1934 - Mackenzie, Ken
    1939 - Heath, Bill
    1942 - Hilgendorf, Tom
    1944 - Campbell, Joe
    1944 - Briggs, Johnny
    1947 - Fast, Darcy
    1948 - Twitchell, Wayne
    1958 - Howe, Steve
    1961 - Birkbeck, Mike
    1963 - Cangelosi, John

    1966 - Timlin, Mike
    1971 - Williams, Shad
    1971 - Hughes, Bobby
    1972 - Stanifer, Rob
    1977 - Redman, Tike
    1977 - Davis, Ben

    1983 - Murphy, Donnie
    1983 - Shell, Steven
    1984 - Bates, Aaron
    1987 - Leesman, Charlie

    1988 - Hunter, Cedric
    1989 - Holt, Tyler
    1989 - Viciedo, Dayán




    Baseball Deaths on March 10...


    1897 - Blogg, Wes
    1911 - McFadden, Guy
    1918 - McCormick, Jim
    1920 - Briggs, Charlie
    1941 - Hazleton, Doc
    1944 - Howley, Dan
    1948 - Brown, Stub
    1954 - Textor, George
    1955 - Adams, Rick
    1956 - Hofman, Solly
    1957 - Mayer, Erskine
    1958 - Williams, Earl
    1960 - Holmes, Jim
    1964 - Shanabrook, Warren
    1967 - Orr, Billy
    1969 - Rosenfeld, Max
    1971 - James, Bill
    1972 - Cunningham, George
    1984 - McGhee, Bill
    1985 - Nieman, Bob
    1994 - Brenneman, Jim
    1998 - Walczak, Ed
    2005 - Hadley, Kent
    2007 - Lopatka, Art
    2007 - Sturgeon, Bobby
    2009 - Pactwa, Joe


         


         




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    1901 - The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that Baltimore manager John McGraw has signed a Cherokee Indian named Tokohoma. It is really black second baseman Charlie Grant, who McGraw is trying to pass off as an Indian, but the ruse does not work.

    1933 - During an exhibition game in L.A., a significant earthquake sends the Cubs and Giants scurrying to second base until the tremors stop.

    1933 - After a six year absence, Rogers Hornsby returns to the Cardinals as a player. The 'Rajah' was fired as the Cubs' manager last August.

    1953 - Braves' owner Lou Perini proposes a ban on any major league franchise shift to an existing minor league city until October 1st. Boston, who owns the Milwaukee minor league franchise‚ had invoked its territorial privilege last week to block the Browns' attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee.

    1953 - The Dodgers defeat the A's, 4-2, in the first game played in Holman Stadium, their Grapefruit League ballpark at the team's spring training complex in Vero Beach, better known as Dodgertown. Fifty-five years later Carl Erskine, the game's starting pitcher, will return to play the national anthem on his harmonica as an 81-year old at the club's last game at the storied facility.

    1957 - Representative Emanuel Celler, whose congressional committee is investigating baseball, calls Commissioner Ford Frick a czar. The New York congressman takes exception when the baseball boss cautions the major league owners about commenting on the recent decision by the Supreme Court concerning pro football coming under antitrust rules.

    1958 - American League batters this season will be required to wear batting helmets. The safety head gear has been mandatory in the National League since 1954.

    1961 - At Palm Springs, former president Dwight Eisenhower is a no-show at the Angels' first-ever exhibition game, an 8-3 victory over the Cubs. Ike had been scheduled to throw out the ceremonial first pitch, but decided to go fishing instead.

    1974 - With Hank Aaron needing only one home run to tie Babe Ruth's career record (714), Atlanta plans to save the event for a home audience by benching him on the road. Commissioner Bowie Kuhn plans otherwise, ordering the Braves to start Aaron in at least two of the team's three season-opening games in Cincinnati.

    1981 - Johnny Mize and Rube Foster are elected to the Hall of Fame by the Special Veterans Committee. Mize hit .312 with 359 home runs in 15 major-league seasons for the Cardinals and Giants, while Foster was a star Negro League pitcher, manager, and Negro League organizer in the first quarter of the 20th century.

    1988 - Citing health issues, California Angels manager Gene Mauch takes a leave of absence and is replaced by Cookie Rojas. The Halos' skipper will officially announce his retirement in two weeks, leaving the game with a managerial record of 1,902 wins and 2,037 losses during his 26-year tenure in the dugout with the Phillies, Expos, Twins and California.

    2001 - Preston Wilson signs a $32 million five-year contract with Florida. The 26-year old Marlin center fielder, the franchise's first 30-30 player, was obtained from the Mets in the Mike Piazza deal in 1998.

    2002 - The Red Sox replace Joe Kerrigan, who was fired last week, with Grady Little, who will manage the team for two years compiling a 188-136 (.580) record and making one appearance in the postseason as the AL wild card. The once-popular skipper's contract will not be renewed for 2004 after he becomes the target of fans' angst as a result of not pulling out starter Pedro Martinez with a three-run lead in the eighth inning of Game 7 of the ALCS, a contest Boston will eventually lose in the eleventh on Aaron Boone's walk-off home run.

    2004 - The first contest played at Petco Park, the Padres' new home, establishes the record for the best attended game in college baseball history when 40,106 fans watch Tony Gwynn's San Diego State Aztecs beat the University of Hawaii, 4-0. The previous mark of 27,673 was established in 2002 when state rivals LSU and Tulane met in the Superdome in New Orleans.

    2006 - First baseman Nick Johnson (.289, 15, 74) and the Nationals agree to a $16.5 million, three-year contract extension. The 27-year old first baseman, who signed a $3.2 million, one-year deal in January to avoid arbitration, has often been injured since making his big league debut with the Yankees five years ago.

    2008 - The Chicago Cubs released Shingo Takatsu.

    2009 - The Washington Nationals signed Kip Wells as a free agent.

    2010 - Todd Helton and the Rockies agree to a $9.9 million, two-year contract extension that takes the first baseman through the 2013 season. The 38-year old fan favorite, who has played his entire career in Colorado, hit .325, 15 home runs, and drove in 86 runs last season after undergoing back surgery in September of 2008.

    2015 - The Boston Red Sox signed Yoan Moncada as a non-drafted free agent.



    Baseball Birthdays on March 11...


    1854 - Lawlor, Mike
    1859 - O'Neil, Ed
    1869 - Colliflower, Harry
    1870 - McFarland, Herm
    1874 - Frank, Fred
    1874 - Swaim, Cy
    1877 - Gibson, Norwood
    1878 - Pounds, Bill
    1879 - Stewart, Joe
    1885 - Dunn, Joe
    1886 - Link, Fred
    1900 - Pence, Rusty
    1903 - Ruble, Art
    1903 - Ross, Buster
    1905 - Mellana, Joe
    1906 - Lawrence, Bill
    1911 - Bucher, Jim
    1918 - Fernandes, Ed

    1933 - Spring, Jack
    1945 - Ellis, Dock
    1948 - Geronimo, Cesar
    1955 - Landreth, Larry
    1958 - Ray, Larry
    1959 - Bradley, Phil

    1959 - Hensley, Chuck
    1961 - Oelkers, Bryan
    1966 - Reed, Steve
    1967 - Hosey, Dwayne
    1968 - Finnvold, Gar
    1970 - Castellano, Pedro
    1971 - Lee, Sang-Hoon
    1971 - Henderson, Rod
    1972 - Torres, Salomon
    1974 - Abreu, Bobby
    1976 - Teut, Nate
    1978 - Reese, Kevin
    1980 - Burke, Chris
    1980 - Hill, Rich
    1980 - Uggla, Dan
    1982 - Anderson, Brian
    1984 - Mata, Frank
    1986 - Hefner, Jeremy
    1988 - Baez, Pedro
    1988 - Belnome, Vince
    1990 - Rua, Ryan



    Baseball Deaths on March 11...


    1892 - O'Brien, Darby
    1893 - Dow, Clarence
    1919 - Poole, Ed
    1922 - Gerhardt, Joe
    1930 - Barr, Bob
    1935 - Rooks, George
    1941 - Schwert, Pi
    1944 - Duzen, Bill
    1946 - McDonald, Ed
    1949 - McNair, Eric
    1950 - Gallagher, William
    1952 - Daglia, Pete
    1953 - Menefee, Jock
    1953 - Toney, Fred
    1954 - Bradley, Bill
    1959 - Gearin, Dinty
    1963 - Ray, Farmer
    1963 - Judge, Joe
    1970 - Kerksieck, Bill
    1971 - Barfoot, Clyde
    1972 - Wheat, Zack
    1973 - Schmidt, Pete
    1975 - Clarke, Lefty
    1976 - Gardner, Larry
    1980 - Klopp, Stan
    1981 - Gonzales, Vince
    1987 - Lucas, Fred
    1987 - Nekola, Bots
    1988 - Daney, Art
    1990 - Schalk, Roy

    1995 - Manno, Don
    2002 - Cowens, Al
    2003 - Cohen, Alta
    2012 - Andrews, Hub



           




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« Reply #4597 on: March 12, 2018, 12:00:40 am »

    On March 12 in Baseball History...


    1894 - Pittsburgh issues free season tickets for ladies, good for Tuesday and Friday games.

    1901 - Ground is broken for Boston's first American League ballpark, the Huntington Avenue Grounds.

    1903 - The New York Highlanders (later the Yankees) are officially approved as members of the American League.

    1951 - Commissioner Happy Chandler loses his fight to stay in office by a 9-7 vote.

    1971 - The Cubs' catcher Randy Hundley suffers a badly sprained knee and will play only nine games this season. In 1968, the venerable backstop caught 160 games for Chicago.

    1980 - National League outfielder Chuck Klein, who compiled a .320 batting average during his 17-year career, and former Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey are elected into the Hall of Fame. Yawkey is the first person to be selected who was not first a player, manager or general manager.

    1982 - Ballantine Books publishes the first of seven annual Bill James Abstracts, bringing the author into the national spotlight for his statistical insight into the game. The sabermetrician, whose first self-published efforts were written while working the night shift as a security guard at the Stokely-Van Camp's pork and beans cannery, introduces baseball fans to new ways of measuring a player's ability using stats such as such Runs Created.

    1991 - Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Palmer's attempted comeback at the age of 45 comes to an end when the newly elected Hall of Famer tears a hamstring during spring training.

    2001 - Richard Hidalgo signs the third-richest contract in Astro history with a four-year $32 million, deal with the club. The outfielder's pact is less than teammate's Jeff Bagwell's $85 million (5 years), and Craig Biggio's $33 million (4 years).

    2003 - The second exhibition season bench-clearing brawl this week occurs when a raging Mike Piazza, after being hit by a pitch, charges the mound in pursuit of Guillermo Mota, who makes it to the dugout without being caught. The incident may be a follow-up to a similar event last spring when a shoving match between the two players resulted when the Mets' All-Star catcher waited for Mota and grabbed the Dodger reliever by the jersey as he was coming off the field in the eighth inning of the game.

    2006 - Over 15,000 Twins fans attend a memorial service at the Metrodome to pay their final respects to Kirby Puckett, who died unexpectedly, at the age of 45, after suffering a stroke last week. During the heart-felt ceremony, former teammates and fellow Hall of Famer Cal Ripken lighten the mood by sharing humorous anecdotes about the beloved Minnesota outfielder with the crowd.



    2008 - The benches clear in a rare spring training brawl when Shelley Duncan slides into second base, with his spikes aimed at Rays infielder Akinori Iwamura after being thrown out by a wide margin. The incident was precipitated by Tampa Bay’s aggressive play four days ago which resulted in a home-plate collision which injured Yankee catcher Francisco Cervelli.

    2010 - In the opener of a scheduled three-game exhibition series in Taiwan, the Dodgers are defeated by an All-Star squad from the Chinese Professional League (CPBL) at Taipei's Tienmu Baseball Stadium, 5-3. The road trip is the team's second journey to the Chinese island, having finished with one win and two losses during a trio of spring training games in 1993.

    2015 - Will Ferrell, hoping to raise awareness of organizations trying to cure cancer, plays nine different positions while appearing for ten teams in five Cactus League exhibitation games in Arizona. The comedian's effort, which will be detailed in an upcoming HBO documentary, is severely criticized by former NFL coach and broadcasting legend John Madden, who calls the stunt disrespectful and insulting to the game of baseball.


    2016 - The Seattle Mariners claimed Rob Brantly from the Chicago White Sox on waivers.



 
    Baseball Birthdays on March 12...


    1857 - Locke, Marshall
    1860 - Walker, Walt
    1865 - Knell, Phil
    1865 - Moolic, George
    1866 - Lyons, Denny
    1870 - Hulen, Billy
    1874 - Curley, Doc
    1880 - Towne, Babe

    1882 - Schneiberg, Frank
    1882 - Beall, Johnny

    1884 - Hynes, Pat
    1884 - McAvoy, George
    1885 - Criss, Dode
    1885 - Johnson, Charlie
    1886 - Boucher, Medric
    1887 - Doane, Walt
    1887 - Mattick, Wally

    1891 - Little, Jack
    1892 - Maisel, George
    1892 - James, Bill
    1893 - Engel, Joe
    1893 - Gaston, Alex
    1906 - Tinning, Bud
    1906 - Saunders, Rusty
    1908 - Barr, Bob
    1908 - Pool, Harlin
    1914 - Huber, Otto
    1916 - Monteagudo, Rene
    1930 - Law, Vern
    1931 - Oertel, Chuck
    1936 - Barker, Ray
    1939 - Callison, Johnny

    1942 - Wynn, Jimmy
    1944 - Moock, Joe
    1945 - Pina, Horacio
    1945 - O'Riley, Don
    1947 - Butler, Bill
    1948 - Garrett, Greg
    1948 - Watkins, Bob
    1954 - Rothschild, Larry
    1955 - Jones, Ruppert
    1956 - Murphy, Dale
    1962 - Strawberry, Darryl
    1965 - Gilbert, Shawn
    1965 - Finley, Steve
    1966 - Ignasiak, Mike
    1971 - Hansell, Greg
    1971 - Mondesi, Raul
    1972 - Arias, George
    1973 - Lee, David
    1974 - Dingman, Craig
    1979 - Williams, Dave
    1981 - Majewski, Val
    1981 - Muniz, Carlos
    1982 - Miner, Zach
    1982 - Spidale, Mike

    1984 - Arredondo, Jose
    1984 - Del la cruz, Eulogio
    1985 - Walters, P. J.
    1986 - Butler, Joey
    1989 - Hill, Taylor
    1993 - Lindgren, Jacob



    Baseball Deaths on March 12...


    1907 - Hynes, Pat
    1908 - Ketchum, Fred
    1911 - Nicholls, Simon
    1930 - Powell, Jack
    1942 - Conway, Owen
    1945 - Mertes, Sam

    1957 - Niehaus, Dick
    1962 - Beck, Fred
    1972 - Levsen, Dutch
    1973 - Frisch, Frankie
    1973 - Altenburg, Jesse
    1974 - Boucher, Medric
    1975 - Lanahan, Dick
    1978 - Anderson, Ferrell
    1978 - McCarthy, Alex
    1978 - Moore, Gene
    1982 - Andrus, Bill
    1983 - Hall, Bob
    1986 - Hanc0ck, Fred

    1994 - Coleman, Gordy
    2001 - Reeder, Bill
    2002 - Gromek, Steve
    2006 - Metzig, William

    2007 - Larker, Norm
    2011 - Page, Mitchell
    2014 - Kenney, Art
    2015 - Anderson, Bob
    2016 - Whitby, Bill

             


                     


           


           




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« Reply #4598 on: March 13, 2018, 12:19:17 am »

    On March 13 in Baseball History...


    1917 - After hearing that Gabby Street had caught a ball dropped off the Washington Monument, Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson bragged that he could catch a ball dropped from an airplane, even though he was in his mid-50s and well above his playing weight. But Casey Stengel substituted a grapefruit for the baseball. Robinson circled unsteadily under the descending spheroid and actually got a glove on it before it splattered across his chest. Robinson felt the ooze, thought it was blood, and screamed that he was dying until he tasted the juice. He later conceded that he probably would have been killed if a real baseball had been dropped from the plane.

    1943 - The major leagues approve an official ball, the insides of which will be made from reclaimed cork and balata, materials not needed in the war effort. Officials insist the ball will have the resiliency of the 1939 ball, but the players will express with dismay that they cannot drive the new ball and point out the dearth of runs and homers in 1942 even with the old ball.

    1944 - It's True, Cy Young's middle name is not Tucumseh, as generally accepted, but the middle initial T really stands for True.

    1953 - Braves' owner Lou Perini announces he will seek permission from the National League to move his franchise from Boston to Milwaukee. The day will become known as 'Black Friday' in Beantown.

    1954 - During an exhibition game against the Yankees, recently acquired Brave Bobby Thomson breaks his ankle in three places and will be sidelined until July 14. The '51 National League playoff hero is replaced by a promising prospect named Hank Aaron.

    1960 - The White Sox become the first major league team to feature players' names on the backs of their uniforms. The monikered jerseys, an innovation brought forward by team owner Bill Veeck, will make it easier for viewers watching the games on television to identify the players.


    1979 - The Tigers and Mets swap relievers with Detroit sending Ed Glynn to the Big Apple in exchange for Mardie Cornejo, who after posting a 4-2 record as a rookie lat season will never play in another major league game. In contrast, the latest addition to the New York bullpen will make 84 appearances compiling an ERA of 3.53 during the two years with his new club.

    1986 - In a Royal pre-season game, Hal McRae (age 39) and his son Brian (age 18) play together against the Phillies. Kansas City manager Dick Howser refers to the event as the 'Big Mac Attack'.

    1997 - In their first ever minor league spring training game, the Rays defeated Philadelphia, 6-0. John Kaufman, Tom Bergan, Matt Williams, and Jamie Ybarra combine to throw a no-hitter in the exhibition contest against the major league team.

    2001 - Throwing 22 strikes out of 29 pitches over two innings of shutout ball in his surprise start against the Mets at Roger Dean Stadium, Rick Ankiel makes his first appearance since the 2000 playoffs in which he loss his control throwing seven wild pitches in three postseason appearances.

    2006 - Three pitches into the top of the seventh inning, the stadium lights at Tradition Field partially fail. With fifty percent of the lights not functioning, the exhibition game is ended, after a 15-minute delay, with the Mets leading the Nationals, 10-4.

    2008 - Joining the ranks of Garth Brooks and Tom Selleck as celebrities who have appeared in an spring exhibition game, Billy Crystal strikes out in the first inning as the Yankees' leadoff batter. The comedian, who sign a one-day contract with the Bronx Bombers, wears the number sixty in honor of his 60th birthday which is tomorrow.

    2008 - The pitching-poor Cardinals bolster their rotation by agreeing to a preliminary one-year deal with Kyle Lohse (9-12, 4.62). The 29-year old right-hander, who pitched the Reds and Phillies last season, will make $4.25 million hurling for the Redbirds.

    2009 - Pat Burrell takes out ads in two of Philadelphia’s largest newspapers to thank Phillies fans for their support during his nine years with the team. The 32-year old slugging outfielder signed a free-agent deal in the off-season with the Rays, the club the Phils beat in last season’s World Series.

    2011 - Jackie Robinson's former apartment in Montreal is remembered with the placement of a plaque by the U.S. government as a tribute to the Canadian city for their exemplary treatment of the future Hall of Fame infielder. The season before he broke the color barrier, the Dodger farmhand led the hometown Royals to the 1946 International League championship with a .349 batting average and earned the circuit's Most Valuable Player for his outstanding performance with the team

    2013 - The Detroit Tigers released Brennan Boesch.




    Baseball Birthdays on March 13...


    1862 - McGuckin, Joe
    1865 - Bartson, Charlie
    1868 - Gilbert, Bill
    1875 - McFarland, Chappie
    1877 - Flood, Tim
    1879 - Eason, Mal
    1879 - Kelly, John
    1882 - Glaze, Ralph
    1885 - Block, Bruno

    1886 - Baker, Frank
    1889 - Smith, Wally
    1889 - Lynn, Byrd

    1892 - Gharrity, Patsy
    1892 - Gaw, Chippy
    1895 - Erickson, Eric
    1897 - Malone, Lew
    1899 - Brannan, Otis
    1906 - Powers, Ike
    1909 - Kimberlin, Harry
    1915 - Clarkson, Buzz
    1917 - Walsh, Joe
    1918 - Pellagrini, Eddie
    1920 - Biscan, Frank
    1921 - Rossi, Joe
    1922 - Mapes, Cliff
    1925 - Martin, Ray
    1928 - Greenwood, Bob
    1931 - Bessent, Don
    1931 - Pascual, Carlos
    1936 - Miles, Don
    1939 - Luplow, Al
    1940 - Kolb, Gary
    1942 - Staehle, Marv

    1948 - Barber, Steve
    1949 - O'Toole, Dennis

    1954 - Bass, Randy
    1954 - Leach, Terry

    1957 - Walker, Duane
    1959 - Aguayo, Luis
    1962 - Lee, Terry
    1962 - Funk, Tom
    1963 - Duncan, Mariano
    1964 - Clark, Will
    1970 - Fabregas, Jorge
    1971 - Sullivan, Scott

    1973 - Veras, Dario
    1979 - Santana, Johan
    1980 - Gettis, Byron
    1981 - Aviles, Mike
    1988 - Rogers, Jason
    1989 - Leon, Sandy
    1990 - Oberg, Scott
    1991 - Banuelos, Manny
    1991 - Butler, Eddie
    1991 - Leiter, Jr.; Mark



    Baseball Deaths on March 13...


    1885 - Dehlman, Herman
    1919 - Toy, Jim
    1928 - Wheelock, Bobby
    1929 - Magee, Sherry
    1932 - Strang, Sammy
    1934 - Jones, Fielder

    1938 - Ellis, Rube
    1940 - Flagstead, Ira
    1942 - Steere, Gene
    1950 - Young, George
    1951 - Hughes, Joe
    1955 - Vernon, Joe
    1955 - Sweeney, Buck
    1961 - Pauxtis, Si
    1961 - Berry, Joe
    1964 - Allison, Mack
    1975 - Marion, Red
    1976 - Pasek, Johnny

    1979 - Steen, Bill
    1983 - Anderson, Bill
    1986 - Warner, Jack
    1987 - Osborne, Wayne
    1994 - Freitas, Tony
    1994 - Rosar, Buddy
    1996 - West, Dick
    1999 - Peterman, Bill
    2000 - Bright, Harry
    2005 - House, Frank
    2013 - Detweiler, Ducky
    2015 - Rosen, Al



     


 


 


     


 




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    On March 14 in Baseball History...


    1932 - Catcher Ernie Lombardi comes to the Reds along with outfielder Babe Herman and third baseman Wally Gilbert, while infielders Joe Stripp and Tony Cuccinello and catcher Clyde Sukeforth are sent to the Dodgers. Herman bats .324 in one season in Cincinnati following the trade (he will later return to the club for two seasons), but Lombardi makes the trade a steal. Lombardi bats .311 in 10 seasons in Cincinnati, winning a batting title and MVP Award in 1938.

    1953 - Joseph Darst vows to fight losing the hometown Browns to Baltimore. The St. Louis mayor's efforts will be not be enough to prevent the franchise shifting cities when the team shareholders drop their suit against Bill Veeck and approve the move to the east coast after learning the club will be bankrupt if it stays put.

    1954 - Hank Aaron, filling in for Bobby Thomson who broke his ankle yesterday, starts his first game wearing a Braves uniform. The 20 year-old from Mobile, Alabama makes such an impression when he collects three hits, including a home run, in the spring training game against Boston that the club offers him a major league contract.

    1961 - The Mets lure former Yankee general manager George Weiss out of retirement to become the club's first president. The iron-fisted executive had been the Yankees' general manager from 1947 to 1960.

    1993 - The Reds announce the St. Bernard owned by Reds president Marge Schott is being prohibited access to the Riverfront Stadium field for the season. The edict to ban Schottzie 02 comes from the MLB's Executive Council, who have received numerous complaints from the players about dogs running on the field.

    1995 - The players' union makes it clear that the strike will not be settled if replacement players are used in regular season games‚ and if results are not voided. The NLRB also announces it will be charging MLB owners with two counts of unfair labor practices.

    2003 - Able to maintain the organization's "long standing philosophy", which lets Cablevision customers choose whether or not to receive paid programming'', the cable giant agrees to a one-year interim deal to offer YES Network to New York Yankees fans for a fee ending a bitter and costly yearlong feud. The arrangement makes YES a premium channel instead of a basic cable channel which the new network had previously mandated and would have made every subscriber pay for the channel regardless of the viewer's choice.

    2003 - Vladimir Guerrero is suspended for three regular-season games and Marlin starter Brad Penny for five due to igniting an exhibition game bench-clearing brawl earlier in the week. After being hit in the chest by the Marlins' starter's first inning pitch, the Expo All-star outfielder, with his bat in his left hand swung his right fist around Matt Treanor, the Florida catcher trying to restrain him, missing Penny, who retaliated with a punch which also missed its mark.

    2003 - The Brewers' TV/radio play-by-play announcer, Bob Uecker is chosen for induction into the broadcasters' wing of the Hall of Fame as the recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award. The 68-year-old former back-up catcher, who joined the Milwaukee broadcast crew in 1971, is best known for the humor he has brought to the game through his starring role in the cult movie Major League and the beer commercial in which the phrase 'Must be in the front row!' has become a familiar cry in ballparks around the country.

    2003 - Dependent on passing a physical, free agent Kenny Lofton agrees to a one-year pact to play with the Pirates this season. The 35-year-old leadoff man would most likely start in center moving Brian Giles to left field with left fielder Reggie Sanders going to right.

    2006 - Terry Francona agrees a two-year contract extension keeping the skipper at the helm through 2008. The Red Sox manager replaced Grady Little in December 2003 and promptly brought Boston to its first World Championship in 86 years.

    2006 - Washington D.C. officials unveil the designs for a new home for the Nationals scheduled to be opened in 2008. The glass-and-steel 41,000-seat ballpark will feature pale stone chosen to complement the well-known skyline of the nation's capital.

    2006 - Avoiding a trial scheduled to begin on opening day, Major League Baseball settles a lawsuit with an Atlanta-based company that claimed it owned the trademark rights to the name Washington Nationals. Bygone Sports LLC was sued by MLB who asked the court to declare that the trademark for the name Nationals does not belong to the company because its sole purpose in filing the September 2002 trademark application was to capitalize on the renaming of the team that was recently shifted from Montreal to Washington.

    2008 - Randy Wolf, the Padres’ new left-hander starter, struggles in a 6-2 spring training loss to the Brewers in Peoria, Arizonia. The pitcher's brother, Jim, isn't much help as the home plate umpire, an occurrence which isn’t allowed during a regular-season game and is the only time it has ever happened, as the San Diego hurler gives up three runs in four innings.

    2014 - The Kansas City Royals signed Ramon Troncoso as a free agent.


    Baseball Birthdays on March 14...


    1849 - Nelson, Candy
    1855 - Holbert, Bill
    1857 - Moffett, Sam
    1860 - O'Brien, Billy
    1864 - Gilman, Pit
    1865 - Sexton, Tom
    1867 - Meek, Dad
    1869 - Rhines, Billy
    1871 - Conroy, Ben
    1875 - Murdoch, Wilbur
    1878 - Rementer, Butch
    1881 - Polchow, Lou
    1884 - Daley, Jud
    1886 - DeVoy, Walt
    1888 - Pernoll, Hub
    1891 - Gregg, Dave
    1894 - Layden, Gene
    1897 - Hitt, Bruce
    1900 - McManus, Marty
    1905 - Rothrock, Jack
    1914 - Marion, Red
    1918 - Carter, Arnold
    1921 - Kennedy, Bill
    1928 - Smith, Earl
    1942 - Raudman, Bob
    1944 - Miller, John
    1946 - Law, Ron
    1947 - Strahler, Mike
    1950 - McKay, Dave
    1953 - Ireland, Tim
    1956 - Wynegar, Butch
    1957 - Lake, Steve
    1957 - Waller, Ty
    1960 - Willard, Jerry

    1961 - Puckett, Kirby
    1963 - Rochford, Mike
    1965 - Brown, Kevin
    1969 - Leach, Jalal
    1970 - Gates, Brent
    1973 - Dodd, Robert
    1979 - Nunez, Jose
    1981 - Jenks, Bobby

    1984 - Bierd, Randor
    1985 - Hill, Steven
    1987 - Hardy, Blaine
    1988 - Stinson, Joshua
    1989 - Gonzalez, Marwin



    Baseball Deaths on March 14...


    1910 - Hines, Mike
    1922 - Hoffman, Danny
    1928 - Hudson, Nat
    1937 - Kling, Rudy
    1943 - Smith, Earl
    1956 - Styles, Lena
    1963 - Harris, Charlie
    1966 - Magee, Lee
    1967 - Hunter, Eddie
    1968 - Carpenter, Paul
    1969 - Zimmerman, Heinie
    1970 - Levey, Jim
    1975 - Baker, Tracy
    1978 - Greenfield, Kent
    1980 - Wickland, Al
    1984 - Enzmann, Johnny
    1988 - Terry, Zeb

    1992 - Liebhardt, Glenn
    1995 - Letchas, Charlie
    2003 - Gionfriddo, Al
    2003 - Shoop, Ron
    2017 - Bruce, Bob


     







 

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