On November 9 in Baseball History... 1937 - St. Louis Cardinals Triple Crown winner Joe Medwick is named National League Most Valuable Player by the Baseball Writers.
1950 - After twenty-one years with the club, Luke Appling is released by the White Sox allowing him to become the manager of the Memphis Chicks of the South Atlantic League. 1950 - The Associated Press chooses Phillies skipper Eddie Sawyer as Manager of the Year.
1953 - Reaffirming its earlier position, the United States Supreme Court rules, 7-2, baseball is a sport and not a business. This decision exempts baseball from anti-trusts laws.
1976 - Oakland releases Billy Williams, ending his Hall of Fame career with 2,711 hits, 426 home runs, 1,475 RBI, and a .290 average.
1977 - Reds outfielder George Foster wins the National League Most Valuable Player Award. Foster batted.320 and led the league in home runs (52), RBI (149), runs (124), total bases (388), and slugging percentage (.631).
1982 - Robin Yount, who hit .331 for Milwaukee and led the league in hits (210), doubles (46), and slugging percentage (.578), is a unanimous choice as American League Most Valuable Player.
1983 - University of Alabama's first baseman Dave Magadan wins the Golden Spike Award as the United States top amateur player. The Tampa, Florida native hit .535 in NCAA play.
1993 - Giants outfielder Barry Bonds is voted the National League Most Valuable Player for the third time in four years. He joins Stan Musial, Roy Campanella, and Mike Schmidt as the National League's only three-time MVPs. In 1993, his first year in San Francisco, Bonds reached career highs with a .336 average, 46 home runs, 129 runs, and 123 RBI to help the Giants to 103 wins, although the team missed the National League West title by one game.
1998 - Chicago pitcher Kerry Wood was voted the National League Rookie of the Year after going 13-6 with a 3.40 ERA and helping the Cubs to the playoffs.
2000 - After posting the best record in baseball this season, Giant manager Dusty Baker is named by the BBWAA as the National League Manager of the Year. He joins Tony LaRussa (White Sox '83 and A's '88 and '92) as the only three-time winner of the award.
2001 - After exercising Omar Daal's $4.5 million contract option for 2002 yesterday, the Phillies trade the right hander to the Dodgers for minor league pitchers Eric Junge and Jesus Cordero. Philadelphia acquired Daal along with Travis Lee, Nelson Figueroa and Vicente Padilla in the 2000 deal which sent Curt Schilling to the Diamondbacks.
2002 - After a decade as the skipper in San Francisco, Dusty Baker signs a four years deal to pilot the Cubs. The three-time NL Manager of the Year compiled a 840-715 record during his ten-year tenure with the Giants.
2004 - Hoping to fill the void created by Steve Stone’s resignation, the Cubs hire former Diamondback manager and current Fox television analyst Bob Brenly to broadcast games on WGN. After spending twenty years in the broadcast booth, Stone left Chicago after his on-air comments concerning the team’s swoon in the wild card race angered manager Dusty Baker and some of the players.
2004 - After coming out of retirement to pitch for his home town team, Roger Clemens (18-4, 218, 2.98) becomes the oldest hurler to win the Cy Young Award. The 42-year old ‘Rocket’ has received the honor a record seven times and becomes the first to win the award with four different teams; Red Sox (1986-87, 1991), Blue Jays (1997-98), Yankees (2001) and the Astros (2004).
2005 - After his annual address to major league general managers, Bud Selig tells reporters he favors revised congressional legislation that would suspend players for a half-season for using steroids. Also the commissioner, while admitting the postseason umpiring calls need to be examined, continued to state his opposition to use instant replay for baseball.
2005 - Ozzie Guillen is selected as the American League's manager of the Year after guiding his team to a World Championship. The White Sox skipper joins his former field boss Bobby Cox, the NL's selection, as a recipient of the honor this season. 2005 - After leading a very young Braves team to the East Division title, Bobby Cox is named the National League's Manager of the Year. The well-respected field boss becomes the first skipper, in either league, ever to win the award in consecutive years.
2008 - Participants in a team-sponsored high school program aimed at helping Bronx youths pursue careers in architecture, engineering and construction, along with a few players remove rain-soaked dirt from the former Yankee Stadium and bring it across the street to the team's new $1.3 billion field. The soil is then mixed with the new stadium's dirt around home plate and pitcher’s rubber which were also removed from the former site during the ceremony.
2011 - In his native Venezuela, Wilson Ramos is kidnapped by gunpoint from his Santa Ines home. The 24-year old Nationals' catcher, after being held captive for two days, will be rescued unscathed after the exchange of heavy gun fire by the police results in the arrest of his five alleged abductors.
2011 - The Chicago White Sox signed Jose Quintana as a free agent.
Baseball Birthdays on November 9... 1857 - Breitenstein, Alonzo
1858 - Wood, George
1859 - Kearns, Tom
1865 - Crooks, Jack
1868 - Phillips, Bill
1885 - Moore, Gene
1886 - Maddox, Nick
1888 - McGarr, Jim
1897 - Hendrick, Harvey
1897 - Gooch, Johnny
1899 - Abrams, George
1902 - Kelly, Mike
1906 - Brickell, Fred
1908 - Schalk, Roy 1911 - Linke, Ed
1915 - McCoy, Benny
1916 - Lanfranconi, Walt
1917 - Neighbors, Bob
1919 - Priddy, Jerry
1920 - Whitman, Dick
1920 - Spragins, Homer
1920 - Mueller, Bill
1923 - Sepkowski, Ted
1925 - Bruton, Bill
1929 - Plarski, Don
1931 - Herzog, Whitey
1932 - Grob, Connie
1933 - Witt, George
1935 - Gibson, Bob
1940 - Loun, Don
1944 - Severinsen, Al
1952 - Williams, Rick
1952 - Wehrmeister, Dave
1954 - Greene, Al
1955 - Cox, Jeff 1958 - Higuera, Teddy
1962 - James, Dion
1964 - Mmahat, Kevin
1968 - Carter, Andy
1969 - Miranda, Angel
1970 - Ogea, Chad
1971 - Sauerbeck, Scott
1971 - Nunnally, Jon
1974 - D'Amico, Jeff
1974 - Rosado, Jose
1974 - Graterol, Beiker
1977 - Bergeron, Peter
1978 - Self, Todd
1978 - Standridge, Jason
1979 - Bush, David
1979 - Dunn, Adam 1981 - James, Chuck
1983 - Barnette, Tony
1984 - Zumaya, Joel
1988 - Casali, Curt
1988 - Neal, Zach
1991 - Knapp, Andrew
1992 - Bird, Greg
Baseball Deaths on November 9... 1887 - Riley, Billy
1890 - Lillie, Jim
1895 - Joyce, George
1914 - Green, Danny
1915 - Johnson, Otis
1931 - Fulmer, Chris
1934 - Grey, Reddy
1935 - DeVogt, Rex
1936 - Stimson, Carl
1936 - Stellberger, Bill
1941 - Worden, Fred
1956 - Hunter, Lem
1958 - Meinert, Walt
1960 - Nixon, Al
1970 - Maple, Howard
1971 - Dreesen, Bill
1976 - Culloton, Bud
1977 - Haney, Fred
1977 - Ogden, Jack
1978 - Gerkin, Steve
1987 - Cihocki, Ed
1988 - Weiland, Bob
2006 - Del Savio, Garton
2011 - McCoy, Benny
2014 - Moore, Kelvin
2015 - Hanson, Tommy
2016 - Nixon, Russ