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BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1847 Oscar Bielaski
1855 William Coon
1867 Bill Collver
1874 Billy Kinloch

Peter Morris wrote Kinloch’s SABR bio and it’s got one amazing story about his only game in the major leagues with St. Louis in 1895. Kinloch played third base, played a pretty good game and got a hit off Adonis Terry. That said, playing third base in the majors was WAY harder than in the minors and he knew he didn’t really belong. So, he told the Browns that he was done and he should be released back to the Denver semi-pro team on which he was playing before joining the Browns. Then, he stopped playing third base and moved to the outfield…

Kinloch was Walter Kinloch when signed… He wasn’t around long enough to fix it in the papers. But, he got around. Born in Rhode Island, played as far west as Denver and in the deep south, and finished his life in New York where he was buried in Calvary Cemetery in Woodside.

1884 Mysterious Walker
1890 John Sullivan
1892 Bill Stumpf
1892 Butler White
1897 Gus Ketchum
1897 Bill Lamar
1904 Frank Sigafoos
1905 Joe Samuels
1906 Shanty Hogan
1913 Bucky Jacobs
1914 Boyd Perry
1915 Bill Brandt
1918 Ed Klieman
1923 Jim Hughes
1927 Bernie Creger
1927 Owen Friend
1927 Bienvenido Rodriguez
1929 Pidge Browne
1937 Dave Thies
1939 Tommy Davis
1942 Len Church
1944 Manny Sanguillen
1946 Al Fitzmorris
1946 Rickey Clark
1947 Bill Plummer
1949 Don Durham
1952 Fernando Arroyo
1957 Luis Leal
1963 Shawon Dunston

I got to edit his SABR bio (written by Thomas J. Brown, Jr.) in part because the people running the Bio Project knew I was tight with his story… Fantastic arm – likely the hardest thrower on the Cubs, and that includes the entire pitching staff. He had mad range and a bat that was streaky. He didn’t walk much, but he had some power and his batting averages were usually pretty good by the end of the season. Who out there remembers the Shawon-o-Meter?

1965 Tim McIntosh
1966 Roger Smithberg
1970 Rick DeHart
1976 Mike Darr
1978 Cristian Guzman
1978 Jeff Bajenaru
1979 Matt Palmer
1982 Aaron Hill
1984 Warner Madrigal
1986 Carlos Monasterios
1987 Carlos Carrasco
1987 Michael Brady
1992 Bobby Wahl
1992 Jimmy Yacabonis
1993 Frankie Montas
1995 Anthony Kay
1995 Chadwick Tromp
1996 J. P. Martinez
2002 Masyn Winn

OBITUARIES:

1897  Andy Allison

Best as I can tell, Allison died of alcohol poisoning – his NY State death certificate said “Acute Alcoholism contributing to cardiac paralysis” – but that same certificate says he died March 24, 1897.

1921  Tom Vickery

Died after a long illness in the Burlington County Hospital in Mount Holly, New Jersey.

1925  Harry Raymond
1925  Tom Evers
1930  Bill Fagan
1933  Bob Black
1934  Pea Ridge Day
1936  William McLaughlin
1943  Joe Daly
1946  George Wheeler
1953  Harry Truby
1960  Mack Stewart
1967  Pat Parker
1969  Everett Booe
1969  Pinky Higgins
1975  Joe Medwick
1976  Heinie Scheer
1978  Fritz Coumbe
1981 Lamar Potter
1982  Ollie Sax
1984  Bob Rothel
1988  Edd Roush
2003  Harry Eisenstat
2007 Tommy Johnson
2008 Roy Foster
2013 Joe Burt Scott
2017 Jose Zardon
2018 Larry Miller

YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE!!!

1966 The Dodgers and Astros play an exhibition game in the Astrodome on Astroturf – the first game played on a synthetic grass (carpet?) field.

TRANSACTION WIRE:

1936  Cincinnati trades Jim Bottomley to the Browns for Johnny Burnett.

1958  San Francisco sells Don Mueller to the White Sox.

1959  Detroit trades Tito Francona to Cleveland for Larry Doby.

1974  The Yankees sells Ed Farmer to Philadelphia.

1982  The White Sox send Ross Baumgarten and Butch Edge to Pittsburgh for Vance Law and Ernie Camacho.