2000
» Braves SS Rafael Furcal wins the NL Rookie of the Year award.
Sandy Alderson, executive vice president of baseball operations in the commissioner's office announces that baseball will try to bring back the high strike next season.
1997
» Tampa Bay hires Larry Rothschild, former Florida Marlins' pitching coach, as its first ever manager.
The Yankees trade P Kenny Rogers to the Athletics in exchange for a player to be named.
1995
» Baseball signs a $1.7 billion, 5-year deal with Fox, NBC, ESPN, and Liberty Media.
Former P Mitch Williams is cleared of rape charges filed against him by a Kentucky woman in February 1994.
1990
» Cleveland's Sandy Alomar Jr. wins the American League Rookie of the Year Award unanimously, joining Carlton Fisk and Mark McGwire as the only players to do so.
1989
» Baltimore's Gregg Olson becomes the first relief pitcher to win the American League Rookie of the Year Award.
1988
» Art Howe, who played for Houston from 1976-83, is named manager of the Astros, while Jim Lefebvre is named manager of the Mariners.
1979
» Reliever Bruce Sutter, who had a 2.23 ERA and saved 37 of the Cubs' 80 victories, wins the NL Cy Young Award by a 72-66 margin over the Astros Joe Niekro.
1978
» Boston's Jim Rice outpoints New York's Ron Guidry, 353-291, to win the American League MVP Award. Rice led the league in hits (213), triples (15), home runs (46), RBI (139), and slugging (.600), and became the first AL player to accumulate 400 total bases in a season since Joe DiMaggio in 1937.
1973
» The Cubs trade 2B Glenn Beckert and a minor league player to the Padres for OF Jerry Morales.
1967
» Orlando Cepeda of the Cards is the first unanimous selection as National League MVP.
1964
» With their home attendance below 800,000 for the past two seasons, the National League orders the Braves to stay in Milwaukee in 1965, but permits a move to Atlanta in 1966.
1963
» C Elston Howard becomes the first black ever voted American League MVP. New York's Howard tops Detroit's Al Kaline 248 to 148.
1957
» The AP poll names Phillies P Jack Sanford its National League Rookie of the Year with 16 votes, beating out teammate 1B Ed Bouchee.
1951
» Representative Emanuel Celler's committee issues financial data from 1945-49 that differs with Walter O'Malley's numbers. According to Celler, the Dodgers made a profit of 2.364 million dollars from 1945-49; the Dodgers' "loss" of $129,318 in 1950 included a $167,000 loss due to the promotion of the Brooklyn Dodgers professional football team. In his continuing investigation into antitrust violations, Celler says that evidence in his committee suggests altering the reserve clause in that it does limit players.
1938
» Fred Haney is signed to manage the St. Louis Browns.
1928
» The Cubs get Rogers Hornsby from the financially strapped Braves in exchange for $200,000, IF Fred Maguire, P Percy Jones, C Lou Legett, former A's P Harry Seibold, and P Bruce Cunningham. Braves owner-president Emil Fuchs also decides to be his own manager. He'll be the last manager with no pro playing experience until Ted Turner's one game, in the 1970s. Under Fuchs, the Barves will finish 56-98, good for last place.
1927
» Bill McKechnie, who had been a coach, replaces Bob O'Farrell as St. Louis Cardinals manager, and Burt Shotton moves up from Syracuse (IL) to manage the Phils.
1922
» The Phils fire manager Kaiser Wilhelm. Veteran SS Art Fletcher succeeds him.
Morgan G. Bulkeley, first president of the National League and later governor of Connecticut and U.S. senator, dies. As president of the Hartford club, he presided over the NL's first meeting and headed the league for one year.
1889
» The Brotherhood and its backers meet to begin preliminary work on the organization of a Players' League. The players believe "that the game can be played more fairly and its business conducted more intelligently under a plan which excludes everything arbitrary and un-American."