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

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  • 1945 - The St. Louis Cardinals traded ace pitcher Mort Cooper to the Boston Braves in exchange for pitcher Red Barrett and $60,000 in cash. Cooper, a 20-game winner for the last three seasons, had bolted the Cardinals on two occasions because of a salary dispute.


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  • 1978 - The American League approved the transfer of the Boston Red Sox to a group headed by Jean R. Yawkey, Buddy LeRoux, and Haywood Sullivan. The purchase price was estimated at $15 million. Sullivan had a seven-year career as a catcher for the Red Sox and Kansas City Royals, while LeRoux was the Boston trainer for eight years.

1980s[]

  • 1980 - Five hours after the midnight deadline, MLB players and owners averted a strike by announcing a new four-year basic agreement. The new deal raised the minimum salary from $21,000 to $30,000 and increased the clubs' contributions to the players' pension fund, but the major issue of free agent compensation remained unresolved.

1990s[]


  • 1995 - Pitchers Kevin Foster of the Chicago Cubs and Marvin Freeman of the Colorado Rockies each hit home runs off each other in a 7–6 Chicago victory at Coors Field. Foster and Freeman became just the tenth duo in the 20th century to hit and throw homers against each other.

2000s[]

  • 2002 - At Miller Park, Shawn Green of the Los Angeles Dodgers became the 14th man in major league history to hit four home runs in a game and also set a big league record with 19 total bases. Green hit 6-for-6, scored six runs (both Dodgers records), and had seven RBI in a 16–3 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers. Green is the second player this year to hit four home runs in a game. He also surpassed Joe Adcock's former mark of 18 total bases, set in 1954. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, six players have produced 17 or more total bases in a game, with the last being Mike Schmidt in 1976. Green also is the first major league player to collect six hits while hitting four homers, and his four homers plus a double tied the National League mark for extra base hits. The Dodgers hit eight homers in the game, another franchise record. Before today's power display, Green had gone 0-for-15, and had been benched on May 18.
Ramón Hernández of the Baltimore Orioles hit 3-for-5 with two home runs, including a three-run shot and a grand slam, in the Orioles 14–4 victory over Seattle.
Carlos Beltrán hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the 16th that gave the Mets a 9-8 victory over Philadelphia. The game lasted 5 hours, 22 minutes, had 522 pitches and was the longest for the Mets since 1995.
Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his major-league leading 23rd home run in the Cardinals 8–5 victory over San Francisco.

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