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

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September

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October

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Sources

1900s-1940s[]

  • 1949 - The San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League complete an Asian tour which includes five games in Japan. One of the Japanese games draws over 100,000 fans to watch the visiting team managed by Lefty O'Doul.

1950s-1960s[]

  • 1960 - After operating the team in the nation's capital ever since Clark Griffith took over as manager of the club in 1912, Calvin Griffith, president of the Washington Senators, makes decision to move his club to the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. In a move designed to get a jump on the National League in the expansion race, the American League announces that it will expand by two teams and approves the move of the Senators. The new AL teams will play in Los Angeles and in Washington, D.C., as all teams will play a 162-game schedule, with 18 games against each opponent.

1970s[]

  • 1979 - Commissioner Bowie Kuhn notifies Hall of Famer Willie Mays that if he accepts a position with Bally Manufacturing Corporation, owner of several gambling casinos, he must disassociate himself from major league baseball. Mays, a part-time coach and goodwill ambassador for the Mets, will relinquish his duties upon accepting Bally's job offer.

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1990s[]

2000s[]

  • 2002 - The Giants appeared destined to win their first World Series since 1954, when pitcher Russ Ortiz, tossing a 5–0 shutout, strikes out Garret Anderson to begin the seventh inning. But scoring six times in the 7th and 8th innings of Game Six, the Angels' rallied from five runs down to stage the biggest comeback in Series history for a team facing elimination and beat the Giants, 6–5, forcing a Game Seven.

Births[]

  • 1859 - Frank Selee, Hall of Fame manager (d. 1909)
  • 1866 - Kid Gleason, infielder (d. 1933)
  • 1889 - Tommy Griffith, outfielder (d. 1967)
  • 1918 - Snuffy Stirnweiss, All-Star infielder (d. 1958)
  • 1936 - Elio Chacón, infielder (d. 1992)
  • 1948 - Toby Harrah, All-Star infielder and manager
  • 1949 - Steve Rogers, All-Star pitcher
  • 1949 - Mike Hargrove, All-Star infielder and manager
  • 1950 - Wayne Garland, pitcher
  • 1951 - Steve Ontiveros, infielder
  • 1961 - Gus Polidor, infielder (d. 1995)
  • 1965 - Gil Heredia, pitcher
  • 1969 - Mark Sweeney, outfielder
  • 1972 - Armando Almanza, pitcher
  • 1974 - Marty McLeary, pitcher
  • 1978 - Jaime Cerda, pitcher
  • 1983 - Francisco Liriano, pitcher

Deaths[]

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