IN THE NEWS: At Laughery club house, near Rising Sun, Indiana, the National Baseball Commission adopts a rule that bars World Series winners from playing post-season exhibition games. This obscure rule will lead to a direct confrontation between Babe Ruth and Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis in 1921.
IN THE NEWS: Bobby Wallace, the era's outstanding American League SS, is named manager of the Browns. But St. Louis will finish last, and he will be an infielder again by June 1912.