» August 3, 1977: Baltimore rookie 1B Eddie Murray homers from both sides of the plate in a 10-inning 8–6 win over Oakland.

» November 21, 1977: The Orioles Eddie Murray is named American League Rookie of the Year. Murray garners 12 1/2 points to beat out runner-up Mitchell Page of Oakland, who polled nine 1/2 votes.

» May 12, 1978: In a 9–3 loss to the Rangers, Orioles outfielder Al Bumbry breaks his leg sliding into 2B. Except for five pinch hitting appearances in September, he is out for the year. Eddie Murray drives in all the O's runs while Juan Beniquez has four hits and three RBIs for Texas.

» April 28, 1979: Eddie Murray hits his first career grand slam to give the Orioles a 6–4 win over the White Sox.

» May 8, 1979: Consecutive home runs by Eddie Murray, Lee May, and Gary Roenicke in the 6th power the Orioles to an 8–2 win over Oakland. Murray has now hit in 19 straight games.

» August 15, 1979: Eddie Murray, no gazelle, surprises the White Sox with a 12th-inning steal of home to give the Mike Flanagan and the Orioles a 2–1 win.

» August 29, 1979: Eddie Murray drives in all the Baltimore runs during a 7–4 win in the 2nd game of a doubleheader with the Twins. Murray belts three consecutive home runs—2 righthanded, one lefthanded. Scott McGregor gives the Birds a win in game 1, allowing eight hits in winning, 4–0.

» September 3, 1979: The Orioles win a pair from Toronto, 2–1 in 11 innings, and 5–1. Eddie Murray provides the game-winning hit in the bottom of the 11th. Tippy Martinez (9–2) is the winner. Mike Flanagan is the winner in the nitecap, the major's first 20-game winner this year.

» October 4, 1979: Baltimore takes a 9–1 lead in the LCS game, but the Angels score seven runs in the last four innings only to fall short 9–8. Eddie Murray drives in four runs for the Orioles.

» June 11, 1980: In a 7–4 win over the Phillies, San Francisco rookie Rich Murray hits his 1st ML home run, off Randy Lerch. Rich will hit three more and, combined with his brother Eddie Murray's career total of 504, will place them number one on the list of brother combos. Five Murray brothers play pro ball.

» September 14, 1980: Eddie Murray hits three home runs, but Baltimore loses to Toronto 4–3 in 13 innings to fall five games behind the first-place Yankees in the American League East.

» October 16, 1983: Eddie Murray slams a pair of home runs and Scott McGregor pitches a 5-hitter as the Orioles beat the Phillies 5–0 and win the World Series 4–1. Baltimore catcher Rick Dempsey, who hit .385 with four doubles and a home run, is the Series MVP.

» November 15, 1983: Cal Ripken is named MVP of the American League, edging Orioles teammate Eddie Murray. Ripken hit .318 and led the league in hits (211) and runs (111) while playing every inning of every game, and is the first player ever to win the Rookie of the Year and MVP Awards in consecutive seasons.

» November 27, 1984: The 1984 American League Gold Glove team is announced, and it is made up of the same nine players as the 1983 team: catcher Lance Parrish, 1B Eddie Murray, 2B Lou Whitaker, 3B Buddy Bell, SS Alan Trammell, outfielders Dwight Evans, Dave Winfield, and Dwayne Murphy, and pitcher Ron Guidry.

» April 8, 1985: At the opener in Baltimore, Texas starter Charlie Hough is lifted in the 6th despite giving up no hits. Hough walked 4 in a row -- 8 altogether -- and C Don Slaught had allowed another run to score on a passed ball. Hough's replacement Dave Rozema only allows 2 hits. Unfortunately, one of the hits is a 2-run HR in the 8th by Eddie Murray to snap a 2–2 tie. Don Aase is the winner.

» September 16, 1985: Detroit's Nelson Simmons hits a home run from each side of the plate, the first Tiger to do so. But the Orioles answer with six homers of their own in overpowering the Tigers, 14–7. Cal Ripken hit is 2nd homer of the game in the 8th, and Eddie Murray and Fred Lynn followed with successive homers. The three straight ties a Birds record.

» May 9, 1987: Eddie Murray homers from each side of the plate for the 2nd consecutive game, a ML first. Murray's four home runs in two days help the Orioles to 7–6 and 15–6 wins over the White Sox. Yesterday, Murray took righty Jose DeLeon and lefty Ray Searage deep; today it is Joel McKeon (LHP) and Bob James (RHP).

» July 31, 1987: Eddie Murray hits his 299th and 300th career home runs to lead Baltimore to an 8–4 win over Texas.

» September 12, 1988: Baltimore's Eddie Murray collects his 2,000th career hit in a 6–1 loss to Boston, and Atlanta's Dale Murphy drives in his 1,000th career run in a 5–4 loss to Los Angeles.

» December 4, 1988: The Orioles trade veteran 1B Eddie Murray to the Dodgers for pitchers Ken Howell and Brian Holton and infield prospect Juan Bell.

» April 10, 1989: Eddie Murray hits his first National League home run, a grand slam in the top of the 9th inning that leads the Dodgers to a 7–4 win over the Giants. It is Murray's 15th career grand slam.

» August 23, 1989: Rick Dempsey homers off Dennis Martinez in the top of the 22nd inning to break up a scoreless tie and give the Dodgers a 1–0 win over the Expos. The game features one thumbing -- the umps toss the Expos mascot Youppi in the 11th for annoying Tommy Lasorda -- and he then returns in the 13th wearing pajamas. He carries a pillow and sleeps on the home dugout roof, where the umps have restricted him. In the 16th, Larry Walker apparently scores the game-winner, but the Dodgers appeal -- with two umps in the tunnel -- and get it. Eddie Murray in the 18th moves the 2B ump and slams a drive that Walker makes a phantom catch off the padding in RF. Fans stand for three "seventh-inning stretches" during the major-league record (in time, and for a 1–0 game) six hours: 14 minute game. Other club records are set and several ML records are noted: most innings (22) without a walk by the Expos tops the Pirates (who used one pitcher) against the Giants, July 17, 1914.

» April 18, 1990: In a 6–2 win at San Francisco, Dodger 1B Eddie Murray homers from both sides of the plate, the first major leaguer to pull the feat in both leagues. Murray has done it eight times in the American League. Hubie Brooks adds a home run for LA and Mike Morgan takes the win.

» June 9, 1990: Dodger Eddie Murray homers from each side of the plate for the 10th time in his career (the 2nd time in 1990) to tie Mickey Mantle's ML record. The Dodgers beat the Padres 5–4 in 11 innings.

» October 3, 1990: Eddie Murray is 2-for-3 in the Dodgers' 7–3 loss to San Diego. Murray ends the season with a .330 batting average, the highest in the majors, but he wins no title.

» June 16, 1991: 17th The Orioles defeat the Twins, 6-5, putting a halt to Minnesota's 15-game club-record winning streak—the longest in the majors since 1977. Seven of the wins came against Cleveland. During the streak, which began June 1, the Twins go from 5th to leading by 1/2 game. Baltimore's Cal Ripken Jr. records his 6th consecutive multi-hit game by going 2-4 in the contest. The last player to perform the feat was Baltimore's Eddie Murray in 1980.

» July 26, 1991: Against the Dodgers, Montreal's Mark Gardner pitches a no-hitter for nine innings before Lenny Harris beats out an infield single in the 10th. The Dodgers get two more hits, including an RBI single by Darryl Strawberry, to plate the only run of the contest. After a 2-out walk in the 1st to Eddie Murray, Gardner retires 19 in a row. The Expos manage only two hits themselves against the combined efforts of Orel Hershiser, Kevin Gross, and Jay Howell. Gardner is the 11th pitcher to lose a no-hitter after nine innings; the last being Jim Maloney, on June 14, 1965, and the first pitcher to hurl nine no-hit innings against the Dodgers since Johnny Vander Meer, in 1938.

» September 16, 1991: Bonehead baserunning almost costs the Dodgers a win over the Reds. With one out in the 11th, and the score 3–3, L.A. has Jose Offerman on 3B, with Brett Butler on 1B. When Lenny Harris hits a ground ball, Offerman tries to score but fails to touch the plate and is tagged out on the throw. Harris is called out for passing Butler, who inexplicably stands watching the play. But the Dodgers rally with three runs in the 12th to win, 6–5. Eddie Murray hits his 1st triple of the year and Eric Karros has his 1st ML hit, a double, before Joey Hamilton's game winning single. L.A. sets a NL-record in the four 1/2 hour marathon by using 27 player, including nine pitchers. The Reds use 19.

» November 27, 1991: The Mets sign free agent 1B Eddie Murray to a 2-year, $7.5 million contract.

» May 3, 1992: Eddie Murray of the Mets hits his 400th career home run in NY's 7–0 win over the Braves. David Cone hurls the 5–hit shutout.

» June 6, 1992: Eddie Murray drives home two runs in the Mets 15–1 win over the Pirates. It gives him 1,510 career RBIs, the most ever by a switch-hitter, passing Mickey Mantle (1,509).

» December 2, 1993: The Indians sign free agent 1B Eddie Murray.

» April 21, 1994: Cleveland 1B Eddie Murray smacks home runs from both sides of the plate in the Indians' 10-6 win over the Twins. It is the 11th time that he has performed the feat, breaking the record previously held by Mickey Mantle.

» May 7, 1995: The Indians pound out 26 hits in their 17-inning, 10-9 victory over the Twins. Eddie Murray drives home five runs as four players get four hits each in the contest.

» June 30, 1995: Cleveland's Eddie Murray singles in the 6th inning against Minnesota 's Mike Trombley for his 3,000th career hit, just the 20th player to reach the mark. The visiting Indians beat the Twins, 4-1.

» September 17, 1995: San Diego whips the Cubs, 11–3, as Ken Caminiti homers from both sides of the plate for the 2nd game in a row, tying a ML record. Only Eddie Murray (May 8, 9, 1987) has done that.

» October 14, 1995: Cleveland evens the ALCS at 2 games apiece with a 7-0 win behind Ken Hill. Eddie Murray and Jim Thome homer for the Indians, and Orel Hershiser gets his 3rd victory of the postseason.

» October 24, 1995: An 11th-inning single by Eddie Murray gives the Indians a 7-6 win in Game 3 of the WS. Jose Mesa notches the victory with 3 shutout innings of relief. Fred McGriff and Ryan Klesko homer for Atlanta.

» May 17, 1996: Manny Ramirez hits a grand slam, off Gil Heredia (1–3), as the Indians score six runs in the 7th inning to outslug the Rangers, 12–10. Cleveland's Eddie Murray and Texas SS Kevin Elster each have four hits: Elster has two homers and two doubles to drive in and score four runs. Murray's two RBI moves him into 10th place on the all-time list with 1,840.

» May 28, 1996: Cal Ripken powers three homers, good for eight RBI, to lead the Orioles to a 12–8 win over Seattle. Ripken hits a pair of two-run homers and a grand slam, tying him with Eddie Murray as the O's career home run leader with 333. Brother Billy Ripken also homers in the same inning with Cal, and Brady Anderson (19), Rafael Palmeiro, and Ken Griffey, Jr. (18) add homers as both teams total 24 hits.

» June 22, 1996: In Cleveland, Ruben Sierra homers from both sides of the plate as the Yankees beat the Indians, 11–9. One of Sierra's home runs comes in the 9-run 6th inning. Albert Belle, back from a 2-game suspension, is 3-for-5 with a homer, and Eddie Murray adds his 488th home run for the Tribe. The game takes 4:10.

» July 21, 1996: The Orioles trade P Kent Mercker to the Indians in exchange for DH Eddie Murray. Murray returns to the Flock needing just eight homers to reach 500.

» July 22, 1996: The Indians spoil Eddie Murray's return to Baltimore by beating the Orioles, 9–5. Murray gets a standing O from the crowd and on his 3rd at bat belts a home run, the 493rd of his career.

» August 8, 1996: Eddie Murray's 494th homer moves him ahead of Lou Gehrig to 15th place on the all time list. The 2-run homer in the 6th inning breaks a tie as Baltimore beats the Brewers, 6–4.

» August 10, 1996: Eddie Murray blasts his 18th career grand slam, highliting an 8-run 9th inning, as Baltimore beats the White Sox, 13–4. Murray's slam ties him for 2nd place with Willie McCovey.

» August 30, 1996: Eddie Murray clouts his 499th homer and newly acquired Pete Incaviglia adds a grand slam as the Orioles beat the Mariners, 5–2. The O's are four back of the Yankees, down from 12 games on July 29.

» September 6, 1996: The O's Eddie Murray hits his 500th career home run, and his 21st of the year, off Felipe Lira of the Tigers in Detroit's 5-4, 12-inning win. He becomes the 15th player to reach the magic number. He also becomes just the 3rd player with 500 home runs and 3,000 hits, joining Willie Mays and Hank Aaron.

» October 13, 1996: The Yankees defeat the Orioles, 6-4, giving them the American League pennant. The victors score all of their runs in the 3rd inning, which features home runs by Jim Leyritz, Cecil Fielder, and Darryl Strawberry. Scott Erickson gives the three homers in one inning, a first in the LCS. Bobby Bonilla, Todd Zeile, and Eddie Murray homer for the losers.

» December 18, 1996: Eddie Murray takes his Hall of Fame bat to the Anaheim Angels, agreeing to a one-year contract.

» May 13, 1997: Eddie Murray gets two hits in Anaheim's 8-7 win over the White Sox. The game is the 3,000th of Murray's career, making him only the 6th player in history to reach that mark. Pete Rose, Carl Yastrzemski, Hank Aaron, Ty Cobb, and Stan Musial are the others.

» August 13, 1997: The Angels trade pitchers Ryan Hancock and Steven Agosto and a player to be named to the Padres for OF Rickey Henderson. To make room for the future Hall of Famer, the Angels release another future HOFer, Eddie Murray. Murray will sign with the Dodgers.

» September 18, 1997: At San Francisco, Brian Johnson homers in the 12th inning to give the Giants a 6–5 win over the Dodgers and a tie for the lead in the National League West. Rod Beck gives up three singles in the 10th, but K's Todd Zeile and gets Eddie Murray on a DP.

» June 7, 1998: Hall of Fame 1B Eddie Murray has his uniform retired by the Baltimore Orioles in a ceremony at Camden Yards.

» November 13, 1998: Babe Ruth hits new heights today: $126,500. That is the price paid for the ball he hit in 1923 for the first home run in Yankee Stadium. Mark Scala found the Ruth ball two years ago in the attic of his grandmother's house. The bid was $110,000 and the total price includes the auction house's 15 percent commission. Two year ago, the ball Eddie Murray hit for his 500th home run was sold for what one day could be $500,000. Michael Lasky, the founder of the Psychic Friends Network, paid $280,000 that was put in an annuity to be paid over 20 years. With interest, the annuity will be worth about $500,000, according to a spokesman for Lasky, who also operates as syndicated handicapper Mike Warren. The previous record for an auctioned baseball was $93,500 for the ball that went through Bill Buckner's legs in the 1986 World Series. That ball was bought by actor Charlie Sheen in 1992. Other auctioned items include: the bat Pete Rose used for his 4,191st hit, which tied Ty Cobb's career record, was sold by an unidentified Rose associate for $21,096; an autographed ball from President Franklin Roosevelt that he used to throw out the ceremonial first pitch before the 1941 season opener at Griffith Stadium sold for $17,255, and a personal check signed Henry Louis Lou Gehrig sold for $15,306.

» September 4, 2000: In the Red Sox win over the Mariners, 5-1, Carl Everett of the Sox became only the sixth major-league switch-hitter to drive in 100 runs in both leagues when he knocked in his 100th ribbie of the year. Everett drove in 108 runs for the Houston Astros last season. The other five 100-100 switches were Ted Simmons, Ken Singleton, Eddie Murray, Bobby Bonilla and J.T. Snow. Pedro Martinez is the big star, striking out 11 in eight innings to go 7–0 over the M's. Jamie Moyer loses his 6th in a row, though not his fault as a routine fly ball by Jose Offerman to Mike Cameron becomes a 3-run triple when the center fielder stumbles. Prior to the game, Boston retires Hall of Fame C Carlton Fisk's uniform No. 27.

» May 8, 2001: The Devil Rays edge the Orioles, 4-3, as Tampa Bay's Fred McGriff joins Mark McGwire, Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, Eddie Murray, and Reggie Jackson as the only players to homer off 300 different pitchers in their career. McGriff's solo in the 8th snaps a 3–3 tie.