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

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1900s-1940s[]

  • 1920 - Owners unanimously elect Kenesaw Mountain Landis chairman for seven years. The owners’ action comes in direct response to the Black Sox scandal, which threatens the integrity of the game. Landis accepts, but only as sole commissioner with final authority over the players and owners, while remaining a federal judge (with his $7,500 federal salary deducted from the baseball salary of $50,000).
  • 1936 - Following the death of Phil Ball, wealthy owner of the St. Louis Browns, his estate sells the team to a syndicate headed by Donald L. Barnes and William O. DeWitt. As the new owners of Sportsman's Park, they announce their intention to install lights and bring night baseball to the American League.
  • 1939:
    • The youngest of the three DiMaggio brothers, Dom DiMaggio, is bought for $40,000 by the Boston Red Sox from San Francisco team (PCL).
    • In Japanese baseball, pitcher Victor Starffin wins his 42nd game in a 96-game season, leading the Yomiuri Giants to the pennant, and setting a post-1900 world record for season victories that will be equaled by Kazuhisa Inao in 1961 but never broken. Born in Russia, Starffin moved to Asahikawa, Hokkaido at a young age, and was picked as part of the national baseball team for an exhibition game against the United States in 1934. From 1936 though 1955 he won 303 games, the first in Japanese baseball to top the 300 mark. Except for Sadaharu Oh, who was born in China, Starffin is the only non-Japanese player in the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.
  • 1940 - Unwilling to yield to the players' demands during the season, Cleveland Indians owner Alva Bradley finally fires manager Oscar Vitt and replaces him with Roger Peckinpaugh. It is Peckinpaugh's second time as Cleveland's field boss.

1950s-1960s[]

1970s-1980s[]

1990s[]

  • 1992 - Arbitrator George Nicolau overturns the suspension of Yankees pitcher Steve Howe for being too severe. The pitcher is resigned by the team.
  • 1999 - In the Intercontinental Cup baseball tourney in Sydney, Australia, Cuban pitcher Ciro Licea shuts out Team USA, 7–0, striking out 13 batters. Team USA will play for the bronze medal against either Australia or Japan while Cuba, with its second win against the Americans in the tournament, will play the winner of that game for the gold medal.

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Births[]

  • 1858 - Bill Gleason, infielder (d. 1932)
  • 1868 - Jack Ryan, catcher (d. 1952)
  • 1876 - Ed Killian, pitcher (d. 1928)
  • 1891 - Carl Mays, pitcher (d. 1971)
  • 1936 - Joe Hoerner, All-Star pitcher (d. 1996)
  • 1941 - Dámaso Blanco, infielder
  • 1950 - Bruce Bochte, All-Star infielder
  • 1956 - Jody Davis, All-Star catcher
  • 1960 - Donnie Hill, infielder
  • 1961 - Greg Gagne, infielder
  • 1962 - Jeff Reed, catcher
  • 1964 - Gary Thurman, outfielder
  • 1968 - Randy Knorr, catcher
  • 1968 - Sammy Sosa, All-Star outfielder
  • 1972 - Homer Bush, infielder
  • 1978 - Aaron Heilman, pitcher

Deaths[]

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