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MARCH 1951
1951 Teams
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IN THE NEWS :St. Louis Browns seek a $600,000 loan to help them stay in St. Louis.
IN THE NEWS :
FBI director J. Edgar Hoover reports that he declined the post of baseball commissioner.
IN THE NEWS :Happy Chandler loses his fight to stay in office by a 9-7 vote.
IN THE NEWS :Fred Hutchinson asks that players be allowed a say in choosing the new commissioner.
IN THE NEWS :Dale Long makes his first appearance as a catcher in an exhibition game against San Diego.
IN THE NEWS :Brooklyn Dodgers sign a 21-year lease with the city of Vero Beach, FL, for use of their spring training facilities there.
IN THE NEWS :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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