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

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July

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August

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September

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October

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November

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Sources

1800s[]

  • 1888 - In Chicago, 350 fans brave the weather to watch a baseball game on ice at Lincoln Park. Second baseman Fred Pfeffer, of the Chicago White Stockings, plays wearing a top hat. After two hours and five innings of play, the game is called. The Spaldings defeat the North-Siders, 7–6.
  • 1890 - In the first of many lawsuits filed against Players League members by their former teams, a judge refuses to grant an injunction against John Ward, president of the Brotherhood. His decision, echoed frequently by other judges, states that the "want of fairness and mutuality" in the standard National League contract, specifically the clauses relating to the reserve rule, "[is] apparent."
  • 1893:
    • It is announced that Frank Bancroft (*) is spending the remainder of the off-season serving as the manager of the Linda Gardner's Mastodon Minstrels. Bancroft is credited to introduce baseball to Cuba in 1879 when he took a touring team to the Caribbean.
    • The New York Clipper states that "an attempt will be made to change the rules so as to compel outfielders to discard baseball gloves."

1900s[]

  • 1907 - In an effort to reduce playing-date conflicts between their leagues, presidents Harry Pulliam (NL) and Ban Johnson (AL) meet to plan schedules. Conflicting dates are reduced to 27.

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  • 1953 - St. Louis Cardinals owner Fred Saigh is found guilty of income tax evasion and is sentenced to a fifteen-month jail term. He plans to sell the club. Cardinals Vice President W. Walsingham, Jr., is the acting president until Saigh can divest himself of his stock.

1960s[]

  • 1961 - The International League Board of Directors vote to move the Montreal franchise to Syracuse, New York.
  • 1964 - Cincinnati Reds center fielder Vada Pinson is cleared of assault charges stemming from a September 5, 1963, incident when Cincinnati sportswriter Earl Lawson does not pursue charges further.

1970s[]

1980s[]

  • 1980 - Hank Aaron refuses an award from Commissioner Bowie Kuhn honoring him for hitting his 715th home run. Aaron charges that baseball's treatment of retired black ballplayers falls far short of what is needed.

1990s[]

2000s[]

  • 2002 - The Rangers continue to shore up their pitching staff by signing free agent Ismael Valdéz to a one-year contract.
  • 2005 - Recently traded first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz, who caught and kept the ball used to make the last out giving the Boston Red Sox their first World Championship in 86 years drought, will lend his souvenir to his former club. The historic horsehide, which Boston claims belongs to the team, will be encased within a plaque and will become part of the victory tour which includes World Series trophy.

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