2000
» The Yankees sign free agent C Joe Oliver to a contract.
1997
» The Royals acquire 1B Jeff Conine from the Marlins in exchange for P Blaine Mull.
1995
» The Marlins sign free agent OF Devon White to a 3-year contract worth $9.9 million.
1993
» The Giants sign free agent P Mark Portugal to a 3-year contract.
1990
» Veteran P Mike Boddicker (17-8 with Boston) signs as a free agent with the Royals, while Danny Jackson signs with the Cubs. Tom Browning re-signs with the Reds.
1989
» Giants Kevin Mitchell, who led the big leagues with 47 home runs and 125 RBI, wins the National League MVP Award.
1983
» Darryl Strawberry becomes the first non-Dodger since 1978 to win the National League Rookie of the Year Award. Strawberry hit .257 for the Mets with 26 home runs and 74 RBI and also stole 19 bases.
The Mariners trade reliever Bill Caudill and a player to be named later (minor leaguer Darrel Akerfelds) to the A's for catcher Bob Kearney and pitcher Dave Beard.
1980
» Ending weeks of speculation that he would be fired despite having led the Yankees to 103 wins last season, manager Dick Howser "resigns" and is immediately replaced by GM Gene Michael.
1978
» Brave Bob Horner edges Padre Ozzie Smith to win the National League Rookie of the Year Award. Horner batted .266 with 23 home runs in just 323 at bats.
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.
1973
» Pete Rose wins the NL MVP in a controversial vote, edging out Willie Stargell. Rose led the league with 230 hits and won his 3rd batting crown with a .338 mark. Stargell led with 44 home runs, 119 RBI, and a .646 slugging average while batting .299.
1972
» Boston's Carlton Fisk is the unanimous choice for American League Rookie of the Year, the first time this has happened. The catcher hit 22 home runs and led the AL East with a .293 average. Jon Matlack of the Mets is named the National League Rookie of the Year.
The Cubs trade Bill North to the A's for pitcher Bob Locker.
1970
» TSN announces Gold Glove selections. White Sox SS Luis Aparicio wins the 9th and final honor of his career, while Mets OF Tommie Agee becomes the first non pitcher to win it in each league. Aparicio has now won a gold glove in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.
1968
» Cincinnati trades SS Leo Cardenas to the Twins for P Jim Merritt.
1967
» Cleveland acquires OF Tommy Harper from the Reds for 1B Fred Whitfield and P George Culver.
1962
» Pittsburgh trades 1B Dick Stuart and P Jack Lamabe to Boston for P Don Schwall and C Jim Pagliaroni.
1960
» Bob Scheffing signs to manage the Tigers after the job is turned down by Casey Stengel.
1959
» In the first inter-league trade, the Cubs send 1B Jim Marshall and P Dave Hillman to the Red Sox for 1B Dick Gernert.
1956
» Don Newcombe, who won the 1949 Rookie of the Year Award, wins the National League MVP and the first-ever Cy Young Award.
1955
» In an obvious power struggle for control, the principal founding father of Little League, Carl Stotz, sues the organization for breach of contract. The suit will be settled out of court.
1952
» Dodgers P Joe Black, who had a record of 15-4, is voted National League Rookie of the Year.
1949
» Bill Veeck sells the Indians for $2.2 million to
a local syndicate headed by Ellis Ryan. Hank Greenberg
will be general manager.
1934
» The Cards send 16-game winner Tex Carleton to the Cubs for pitchers Bud Tinning, Dick Ward and cash. Carleton will win 11 in Chicago while Tinning and Ward will help little.
1933
» Chuck Klein, who won the Triple Crown with the Phillies, is sold to the Chicago Cubs for $125,000 and veterans Mark Koenig, Harvey Hendrick, and rookie Ted Kleinhans. Hendrick will play one year in Philley, while the other two quickly go to the Reds. Klein, who also led the National League in total bases, hits, slugging, doubles, was second in runs, and 4th in steals, is the only player to be traded after a Triple Crown season. He will have two solid years at Wrigley before returning to the Phils.
1928
» The Cardinals sign Billy Southworth as manager; Bill McKechnie goes down to Rochester (IL).
1911
» Hal Chase resigns as manager of the Highlanders after a 6th-place finish. He will stay as a player until traded during the 1913 season. Harry Wolverton replaces him.
1900
» Given a 10-year contract to control the Baltimore franchise, John McGraw says he intends to be in baseball a long time, and wants to lease grounds in Baltimore where he can stay. He'll be in baseball 32 more years, but not in Baltimore. Nick Young says the National League wishes success to the American League, but does not consider it a major league.
In New York, national guardsmen are playing an active schedule of indoor baseball at the New York Armory. The games between regiments teams are widely covered in the press.
1893
» Ban Johnson is named president, secretary, and treasurer of the recently reorganized Western League. Under Johnson's leadership the Western League will prosper.
1889
» The National League issues its reply to the PL manifesto. Claiming that the League saved baseball in 1876 and that under the reserve rules players' salaries had "more than trebled," the NL denounces the Brotherhood movement as "the efforts of certain overpaid players to again control [baseball] for their own aggrandizement. . . to its ultimate dishonor and disintegration."
1888
» Cleveland is formally admitted to the National League to replace Detroit, creating a vacancy in the AA.
1887
» The St. Louis Browns announce a trade with the Athletics that ships Bill Gleason and Curt Welch to Philadelphia for Fred Mann, Chippy McGarr, and Jocko Milligan, plus $3,000. This is the first of a number of trades or sales, mostly to Brooklyn.