BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1863 Joe Gunson
1864 Willie Murphy
1864 Charlie Hilsey
1865 Farmer Weaver
1865 Dan Shannon
1868 Mike Smith
1870 Rudy Kling
1877 Ed Taylor
1877 Peaches Graham
1878 Homer Smoot
1878 Pete Loos
1881 Gavvy Cravath
1885 Danny Moeller
1886 Cy Slapnicka
1893 Ray Kremer
1895 Frank Parkinson
1902 Johnny Moore
1909 Chile Gomez
1911 Sig Broskie
1918 Lou Lucier
1923 Barney Koch
1926 Johnny Logan
1928 Jim Lemon
1931 Stan Pitula
1932 Jack Meyer
1938 Sam Bowens
1942 Danny Coombs
1943 Lee May
1943 Bruce Howard
1944 George Scott
1947 Pat Bourque
1949 Jim Geddes
1953 Bo Diaz
1956 Mike Darr
1956 Ron Johnson
1966 Mike Remlinger
1967 Jerry Brooks
1969 Chris Turner
1976 Joel Peralta
1979 Mark Buehrle
1981 Tony Pena
1981 Anderson Garcia
1984 Jon Link
1988 Dellin Betances
1993 Art Warren
1995 Isiah Kiner-Falefa
OBITUARIES:
1916 Frank Graves
1917 Art Weaver
1928 Jake Kafora
1929 Denny Williams
1935 John Flynn
1948 Dutch Meier
1952 Steve Sundra
1958 Harry Kelley
1969 Oris Hockett
1972 Red Bird
1976 Walter Murphy
1993 Tim Crews
1994 Roger Wolff
2002 Minnie Rojas
2007 Ed Bailey
2013 Virgil Trucks
2016 Joe Garagiola
YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE!!!
1963 Steve Dalkowski, perhaps the hardest thrower in baseball history (at least until Nolan Ryan, but many believe Dalkowski is still at the top of the list), feels a pop in his elbow during a spring training game against the Yankees. That pop ruins his career and he never makes the majors.
Jim Elliot, “Unearned Run Wins For Birds,” March 23, 1963: 15, 19.
“Dalkowski Idled By Lame Elbow,” Salisbury Daily Times, April 4, 1963: 19.
TRANSACTION WIRE:
1942 Cleveland signs free agent pitcher Mel Harder.
1977 The White Sox send Clay Carroll to St. Louis for Lerrin LaGrow.
1998 The Yankees sign undrafted free agent Orlando Hernandez.
2004 Chicago resigns free agent Greg Maddux. Tampa signs Fred McGriff.
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