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AndyMacFAIL:
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
AndyMacFAIL:
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
AndyMacFAIL:
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
AndyMacFAIL:
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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib8s3Ozgccc
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
AndyMacFAIL:
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
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