IN THE NEWS: The St. Petersburg Pelicans get home runs from Lamar Johnson and Steve Kemp and rout the West Palm Beach Tropics 12–4 to win the first-ever championship of the Senior Professional Baseball Association.
IN THE NEWS: ML owners refuse to open the spring training camps without a new Basic Agreement with the Players' Association, beginning a lockout that will last 32 days and postpone the start of the regular season by one week.
IN THE NEWS: Former Red Sox slugger Tony Conigliaro dies of pneumonia and kidney failure at the age of 45. Conigliaro was the youngest ML player ever to reach 100 career home runs and then was nearly blinded by a 1967 beaning.
IN THE NEWS: For the 2nd time in three years, the Special Veterans Committee fails to elect a single player to the Hall of Fame in its annual balloting.