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This Day in Baseball History - NYYFans.com Forum
1999
? Joe DiMaggio, baseball's "Greatest Living Player," dies at the age of 84 following a long illness.
1998
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Yankees trade IF Andy Fox to the Diamondbacks in exchange for P Marty Janzen and Todd Erdos.
1966
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The Hall of Fame Special Veterans Committee waives election rules and inducts Casey Stengel, recently retired manager of the Mets.
1930
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Babe Ruth signs a 2-year contract for $160,000 with New York.
At $80,000 per year, he is the highest paid player of all time.
When it is pointed out he is earning more money than the President of the United States, Ruth observes: "I had a better year than he did." Ed Barrow, Yankee GM, assures posterity, "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth."
1918
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The Yankees buy 1B George Burns, 37, from Detroit, then swap him to the A's for another veteran Ping Bodie, 30.
Burns will replace Stuffy McInnis, the last of the "$100,000 infield," who went to the Red Sox in January.
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It's hard to believe that it's already four years since Joe D left us!
I wonder how many more books about the real DiMaggio are in the works?
I already read a few of them and wonder when the story of his life will be made into a motion picture.
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I hope what Barrow meant was that nobody would ever get paid more than Ruth while Ruth was still playing.
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1961 The Yankees announce the team will be leaving its spring training home in St.
Petersburg to move to Fort Lauderdale by 1963.
The Yankee owners also encourage new yet unnamed National League New York franchise to play its home games at the Polo Grounds and not to consider Yankee Stadium.
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1999
? Yankees manager Joe Torre is diagnosed with prostate cancer.
While he is undergoing treatment, the team will be run by coach Don Zimmer.
Http://www.pubdim.net/baseballlibrar...ay/MARCH10.stm
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March 10 is also the birthday of Steve Howe, six years in Pinstripes, and seven suspensions.
He went 3-0 with 15 saves in the strike-shortened '94 season.
YANKEE BASEBALL!!!
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Quote: : one
It's hard to believe that it's already four years since Joe D left us!
I wonder how many more books about the real DiMaggio are in the works?
I already read a few of them and wonder when the story of his life will be made into a motion picture.
That is hard to believe.
It seems like just yesterday that he died.
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2002
Thrown out stealing.
The Yankees release OF Ruben Rivera for stealing Derek Jeter's mitt out of his locker, and selling it on the black market for $2,500.
There are rumors that Rivera also took other memorabilia items, such as things belonging to Roger Clemens, but Clemens denies it.
Rivera had been signed to a one year contract for $1 million.
2001
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The Yankees formally announce the signing of Cuban defector Andy Morales, a third baseman, to a 4-year contract.
Morales will wash out and be waived from his minor league team by July.
The Yanks will try and sidestep his contract with proof that his listed age of 26 years is really 29
1974
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With Hank Aaron needing only one home run to tie Babe Ruth's career record (714), Atlanta plans to save the event for a home audience by benching him on the road.
Commissioner Kuhn plans otherwise, ordering the Braves to start Aaron in at least two of the team's three season-opening games in Cincinnati.
1958
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Starting this season, American League batters will be required to wear batting helmets.
1956
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At Al Lang Field in St.
Petersburg, there are no maybes about it as Mickey Mantle hits a Grapefruit League pitch from Larry Jackson over the left field wall into the bay.
The Yanks top the Cards 4?3.
Musial contends, "no home run has ever cleared my head by as much as long as I can remember." He'll hit another at Al Lang Field on March 20th off Bob Mave to that also lands in the water.
Mantle will clock a 500-foot shot in Miami on the 24th against the Dodgers.
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Former Pirate, Yankee, etc., starting pitcher Dock Ellis was born March 11, 1945.
The Yanks had a blockbuster day on December 11, 1975 when they acquired Dock, pitcher Ken Brett, and 2B Willie Randolph from the Pirates for P Doc Medich;
And OF Mickey Rivers and P Ed Figueroa from the Angels for OF Bobby Bonds.
Dock would go 17-8 in 1976 and win an ALCS game, and then was traded for Mike Torrez the next year.
(Mike would do well for the Yanks in 1977, and lose game No.
163 to them in the 1978 season, a la Bucky Dent).
And a bonus: Dock threw a no-hitter for the Pirates, and later claimed he was under the influence of a hallucinogen (Boomer-like?
The more things change...).
Ellis also once started a game by hitting the first three guys, later admitting it was to get the team motivated, and also done "under the influence."
YANKEE BASEBALL!!!
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1937
? Lou Gehrig agrees to $38,000, plus a $750 bonus for signing.
He'll play his first game March 20 driving in two runs as the Yanks beat the Bees, 5?3.
1915
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In an infamous exhibition at Daytona Beach, Brooklyn manager Wilbert Robinson is set to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane flying at an altitude of 525 feet.
Aviatrix Ruth Law supposedly forgets to bring a baseball aloft and instead drops a grapefruit which splatters all over Robbie.
Outfielder Casey Stengel is the assumed culprit of the switch.
http://www.pubdim.net/baseballlibrar...logy/today.stm
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1885
? A lower court in NY decides that playing baseball on Sunday is a crime.
This decision will be overturned, but it will be appealed.
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Hard to believe its been 4 years since The Yankee Clipper died.
It seemed like yesterday.
I guess time flys.
Since 2 World Series wins and 1 loss and a no show
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1932
? In St. Petersburg, Babe Ruth signs a one-year contract for $75,000.
Http://www.pubdim.net/baseballlibrar...logy/today.stm
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1988
? Newly acquired Yankee Jack Clark tears a tendon in his calf while hitting a home run in a spring training game against the Orioles and will miss the start of the regular season.
1969
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St. Louis trades 1B Orlando Cepeda to Atlanta for C/1B Joe Torre.
Torre will knock in 100 RBIs in each of the next three seasons topping it off with the MVP Award in 1971.
1946
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In Daytona Beach, the Dodgers take the field against their minor-league farm team, the Montreal Royals.
With Jackie Robinson in the lineup for Montreal, the game marks the first appearance of an integrated team in organized baseball in this century.
More than forty years later, the field will be renamed Jackie Robinson Ballpark.
1936
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Much-heralded rookie Joe DiMaggio makes his spring debut with the Yankees, getting four hits, including a triple.
The day is marred when the Cardinals win 8?7
1921
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The Yankees, training in Shreveport, LA, journey to Lake Charles to play a game against the Cardinals, based in Orange, Texas.
The game was proclaimed "Ruth-Hornsby Day," but the Rajah hits only a single while the Babe lofts a home run over the short RF fence.
The Yanks win 14?5.
1919
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The Red Sox, minus holdouts Carl Mays and Babe Ruth, sail from New York aboard the S.S.
Arapahoe. The trip to spring training is stormy and most of the players will be seasick.
Ruth will sign on the 21st in New York and leave the night for Florida.
Mays, unsigned will join Ruth and the Sox in Tampa.
1886
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The Sporting News, the weekly that will become "The Baseball Paper of the World," publishes its first issue.
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1985
? Commissioner Ueberroth reinstates Hall of Famers Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle, who had been banned from association with organized baseball by Bowie Kuhn due to their employment by Atlantic City casinos.
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March 18 is also the day that Bernard Malamud, author of The Natural, passed away, in 1986.
It is a good book, but not at all uplifting, in the end, like the movie.
And in 1989, a group of investors led by a man named Bush, who is getting a lot of ink in the Just Conversation board, purchased the Texas Rangers.
It was apparently a good thing to build sports venues on the taxpayers' nickel back in those days.
YANKEE BASEBALL!!!
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This "Bush" you speak of is he the one that traded Sammy Sosa?
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2001
? The Yankees reobtain 3B prospect Drew Henson, along with OF Michael Coleman, from the Reds for hot prospect OF Wily Mo Pena and cash.
Henson agrees to a 6-year $17 million dollar contract that calls for him to leave the University of Michigan football program and to bypass the NFL.
The 21-year-old Henson, a QB, had been projected as a #1 draft choice.
Henson will break his hand in April and be out of action till June 14.
1977
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Mark Fidrych, the 1976 Rookie of the Year, rips the cartilage in his left knee and will undergo surgery in ten days.
The injury will effectively end the fabled career of the Bird.
1957
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Television Age reports that the major leagues will get $9.3 million for TV-radio rights in 1957.
1954
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Roy Campanella, in attempting to break up a DP in an exhibition game against the Yankees, catches his spikes and chips the bone in his left hand.
Though he hits two homers on Opening Day, he will have surgery in early May for the bone chips, returning May 30.
As noted by Bill Deane, TSN will surmise that the injury started earlier than the sliding mishap, occurring when Campy was hit on the hand in the 1953 World Series.
1936
Joe DiMaggio runs his spring training record to 12-for-20, in an 11?2 Yankee victory over the newly named Boston Bees.
Before the next game is played, the prize rookie is left unattended with his foot in a diathermy machine.
The resulting burn ends his spring training and delays his ML debut until May
http://www.pubdim.net/baseballlibrar...logy/today.stm
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1972
? In what ranks as one of New York's best trades, they send 1B/OF Danny Cater to the Red Sox for relief P Sparky Lyle.
In seven years with the Yanks, Lyle will post a 57-40 record with 141 saves and a 2.41 ERA, win a Cy Young Award, and help the team to three World Series.
The deal is completed when the Yanks toss in SS Mario Guerrero.
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Quote: :
and help the team to three World Series.
From '72-'78, Lyle's only Yankee years, the team was in and won the WS twice, not 3x ('77-'78):
http://www.baseballreference.com/l/lylesp01.shtml
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Quote: : Yankee
From '72-'78, Lyle's only Yankee years, the team was in and won the WS twice, not 3x ('77-'78):
http://www.baseballreference.com/l/lylesp01.shtml The Reds made Billy Martin cry in 1976.
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Quote: : 2001
? The Yankees reobtain 3B prospect Drew Henson, along with OF Michael Coleman, from the Reds for hot prospect OF Wily Mo Pena and cash.
Henson agrees to a 6-year $17 million dollar contract that calls for him to leave the University of Michigan football program and to bypass the NFL.
The 21-year-old Henson, a QB, had been projected as a #1 draft choice.
Henson will break his hand in April and be out of action till June 14.
worst move Henson ever made he shoulda refused and gone back to Michigan
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1951
? In an exhibition game at USC, Mickey Mantle propels a homer estimated at 654 to 660 feet.
The shot clears Bovard Field and then goes the width of a practice football field before landing.
Mantle has two homers, a bases loaded triple, and drives in seven runs as the Yankees flunk the collegians, 15?1.
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2001
? The Yankees trade 36-year-old Glenallen Hill, who hit .297 with 29 homers last season, to the Angels for minor-league OF Darren Blakely.
Hill, taking the place of the just-released Canseco, will go 9-for-66, spend five weeks on the DL, and get his release June 1.
1986
? The Yankees and Red Sox swap designated hitters: Mike Easler goes to New York for Don Baylor.
Four days before his 47th birthday, the Yankees waive pitcher Phil Niekro.
He will be signed by the Indians on April 3rd.
1985
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The April 1st issue of Sports Illustrated contains a fictitious article about a Mets pitching prospect named Sidd Finch, whose fastball has been timed at 168 MPH.
Author George Plimpton offers bogus Quote: s from real-life members of the Mets, as well as several staged photos, and fools readers nationwide
http://www.pubdim.net/baseballlibrar...logy/today.stm
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1984
? The Yankees trade new author and veteran 3B Graig Nettles to the Padres for rookie P Dennis Rasmussen and a minor leaguer to be named later.
Nettles's controversial book Balls, in which he criticizes Steinbrenner, will be not be officially published until April 30th, but the bound books available now make his days in pinstripes numbered.
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2001
? The Yankees defeat the Royals, 7-3, as Roger Clemens records five strikeouts and ties (or beats) Walter Johnson as the all-time leader in strikeouts in AL history with 3,509.
According to Total Baseball, Clemens has 3,509 but the Elias Sports Bureau has him with one fewer.
The extra strikeout was first discovered in the early 1990s by John Schwartz and it came on September 12, 1907.
The Rocket makes it moot in his next outing.
Former Yankees OF Darryl Strawberry is arrested at a Tampa hospital on a violation of a probation warrant.
He has been missing for four days after leaving his drug treatment center on Thursday.
1997
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Paced by Tino Martinez, who belts homers in each of his first three at bats, the visiting Yankees rout the Mariners, 16?2.
Martinez's shots, all off starter Scott Sanders, come with the bases empty, one on and two on;
In three of his final four times at bat, the bases are full, but Tino fails to connect for his 4th dinger, singling once and walking with the bases loaded.
Martinez, who also had a single, drives home seven runs and scores 5.
1972
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Mets manager Gil Hodges dies of a heart attack at West Palm Beach, Florida, two days shy of his 48th birthday.
Yogi Berra is named manager.
1931
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Miss Jackie Mitchell, a 17-year-old gate attraction for Joe Engel's Chattanooga Lookouts (Southern Association), pitches against the New York Yankees in an exhibition game in Chattanooga.
Babe Ruth waves wildly at 2 pitches and watches a 3rd strike go by.
Lou Gehrig gallantly times his 3 swings to miss the ball, but unsmiling Tony Lazzeri, after first trying to bunt, walks and Miss Mitchell leaves the game.
The final score is 14-4 Yankees.
In 1933 Mitchell will pitch for the House of David team.
1908
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After a 2-year investigation, the Mills Committee, formed on the recommendation of Al Spalding and headed by the former NL president A.G.
Mills, declares that baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, NY in 1839.
Overwhelming evidence to the contrary is ignored, but the designation makes James Fenimore Cooper's town the most likely site for a Hall of Fame and museum when these establishments are conceived some 30 years later.
http://www.pubdim.net/baseballlibrar...logy/today.stm
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1996- Derek Jeter hits his first major league home run
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It's also the birthday of four members of the Hall, pitcher Don Sutton, (1945), White Sox infielder Luke Appling (1907), umpire Al Barlick (1915), and manager Hughie Jennings (1869).
There are only 200-some members so having four born on one of 365 days is quite a thing.
YANKEE BASEBALL!!!
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2001
? Paul O'Neill hits a 1st inning home run, off Dan Reichert, for the only run in the Yankees' 1-0 win over the Orioles.
Mike Mussina (7.2 IP) is the winner.
It is only the 2nd time in team history that the Yankees win a 1-0 game with a 1st inning home run.
Previously, it was done in 1941, with the home run by Phil Rizzuto.
1995
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The Yankees obtain P John Wetteland from the Expos in exchange for minor league OF Fernando Seguignol, a player to be named, and cash considerations.
1988
? Before 55,802 at Yankee Stadium, the Yankees score six runs off Frank Viola in five innings to top the Twins, 8?0.
Rick Rhoden allows three hits in nine innings for the win.
Roberto Kelly and Willie Randolph each have three hits, while Mike Pagliarulo and Rickey Henderson belt homers.
1982
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Forty-three-year-old Jim Kaat pitches one inning for the Cardinals in a season-opening 14?3 rout of the Astros, setting a new major-league record for pitchers by playing in his 24th consecutive season.
1979
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At Yankee Stadium, 52,719 see Milwaukee jump on Ron Guidry for four runs in the 6th inning and beat New York 5?1.
It's the most runs the Cy Young winner has allowed since 1977.
The Yanks get singles from their first three hitters, but manage to score just one run in the first off Mike Caldwell.
1977
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The White Sox trade SS Bucky Dent to the Yankees for OF Oscar Gamble, and minor league pitchers LaMarr Hoyt and Bob Polinsky, and an estimated $200,000.
Gamble will have a fine season in Chicago and Hoyt will blossom into the ace of the White Sox staff in the early 1980's.
1934
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Three Cincinnati radio stations will broadcast 85 Reds games.
Red Barber is hired by Crosley-owned WSAI.
Babe Ruth is to be sponsored by Quaker Oats to do three 15-minute broadcasts a week over NBC.
The total of $39,000 for 13 weeks is $4,000 more than Ruth's baseball salary.
1925
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Babe Ruth collapses in the railroad station in Asheville, NC, and winds up in a New York hospital.
He'll undergo an operation for an ulcer on April 17th and will be in bed till May 26th.
1915
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In the final match of a 3-game series against the Memphis Turtles (Southern Association), the Red Sox win 10?5 to sweep.
Babe Ruth pitches the final five innings in relief.
The Sox are traveling north from their spring training camp in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
1913
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An exhibition game with the newly christened Yankees opens Ebbets Field;
25,000 are on hand to watch Nap Rucker beat the American Leaguers, 3?2.
The first home run is hit by Brooklyn's Casey Stengel, who legs out an inside-the-parker in the 1st.
Jake Daubert legs out another round tripper in the 2nd.
The Yanks suffer a loss when Zack Wheat spikes starting SS Claud Derrick on his throwing hand.
Derrick will play just seven games before New York ships him to Sacramento (PCL).
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1930
? Babe Ruth signs a 2-year contract for $160,000 with New York.
At $80,000 per year, he is the highest paid player of all time.
When it is pointed out he is earning more money than the President of the United States, Ruth observes: "I had a better year than he did." Ed Barrow, Yankee GM, assures posterity, "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth."
Take this, do inflation on that price over 70 years.
He'd be making A LOT more than A-Rod...
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