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The following are the events that happened world-wide throughout the sport of baseball.

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1800s[]

  • 1885 - The Brooklyn Grays signs several players from the defunct Cleveland Blues club, inking Pete Hotaling, Bill Phillips, John Harkins, George Pinkney, Germany Smith, and Bill Krieg.
  • 1890 - Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, and three other labor leaders pledge support for the Players League at a league meeting in Philadelphia.

1900s-1950s[]

  • 1905 - It seems simple enough on paper: the Boston Red Sox buy outfielder George Stone from the Washington Senators; the St. Louis Browns reclaim Frank Huelsman from Washington, where he had been on loan, and send him along with Jesse Burkett to Boston for Stone. Boston then sends Huelsman back to Washington in payment for Stone. This is Huelsman's fourth trade in eight months and his playing for four American League teams in one season will not be matched until Paul Lehner does it in 1951.
  • 1917 - The Cubs send Jimmy Lavender and $5,000 to the Phillies for Al Demaree, who will send to the Giants in July.
  • 1952 - The U.S. Standardization Board clears the way for Stan Musial to get a salary increase to $85,000. Prior to this relaxation of the rules, there was a wage freeze in effect due to the Korean War. Under the new rules, a team is free to raise individual salaries, as long as they do not exceed a complicated formula, based on total team salaries for any one year, from 1946-1950, plus 10 percent.

1960s-1970s[]

  • 1960 - In a benefit basketball game in Pittsburgh, the Steelers football club edge the Pirates baseball team in overtime, 22–20. Shortstop Dick Groat, a Duke University hoop standout, scores 14 points for the Pirates.
  • 1970 - Gold Glove outfielder Curt Flood files a lawsuit challenging the reserve clause, which binds major league players to teams perpetually. Flood had been traded by the St. Louis Cardinals to the Philadelphia Phillies in September 1969, but refused to report to the Phillies. Flood contends that the reserve clause violates antitrust laws. Flood will lose the suit but the judge will suggest changes to the reserve system.

1980s-1990s[]

  • 1996:
    • MLB executive council approves a history-making first: interleague play for the 1997 season. The Players Association will eventually give its approval, enabling geographic rivals like the New York Mets and Yankees, Chicago Cubs and White Sox, and Los Angeles Angels and Dodgers to play each other during the regular season.
    • The San Francisco Giants signed much acclaimed amateur free agent Osvaldo Fernández. The Cuban National squad’s All-Star pitcher, who defected as his club played Team USA in Tennessee, will post a disappointing 10-17 record during two seasons with the Giants.

2000s[]

  • 2003:
    • The owners establish the minimum age of 14 for bat boys. The change from not having any age requirement was prompted by a near collision at home plate during Game Five of the World Series involving 4-year old bat boy Darren Baker, the son of Giants manager Dusty Baker.
    • Gary Carter becomes the first player, to wear a Montréal Expos hat on his plaque when he is inducted into the Hall of Fame in July at Cooperstown. Although the former Montreal catcher had expressed his desire to go in with a Mets logo, the team he is employed by and was part of its 1986 World Series championship, the Hall of Fame makes the final decision.
    • Trying to restore a competitive edge to the MLB All-Star Game, the owners unanimously approved the winning league of the Mid-Summer classic will have home-field advantage during the World Series. Approval is needed by the players to change the current rotation between the two leagues which was put in place since its inception of the World Series in 1993.

Births[]

Deaths[]

  • 1965 - Jimmy Williams, infielder (b. 1876)
  • 1977 - Baby Doll Jacobson, outfielder (b. 1890)
  • 1985 - Ken Chase, pitcher (b. 1913)
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