Baseball History for September 14th

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BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1852 Henry Luff
1853 Jake Goodman
1865 George Aloysius (Doc) Leitner
1869 Charles Augustus (Kid) Nichols
1879 Jack Dunleavy
1882 Phil Cooney
1882 Thomas Francis (Bunny) Madden
1884 Andy O’Connor
1884 Willie Hogan
1888 Artemus Ward (Nick) Allen
1888 Emil Henry (Reggie) Richter
1908 John Bottarini
1912 George Peacock (Icehouse) Wilson
1917 John Douglas
1924 Jerry Coleman
1927 Darius Dutton (Dave) Hillman
1927 Jim Fanning
1931 Don Williams
1933 Fred Green
1934 Melvin Gray (Bob) Perry
1936 Stan Williams
1938 Frank Carpin
1945 Curtis Brown
1947 Harry Parker
1957 Tim Wallach
1957 Jerry Don Gleaton
1965 Troy Neel
1966 Mike Draper
1969 Mike Durant
1972 David Bell
1973 Joe Winkelsas
1974 Chad Bradford
1975 George Lombard
1981 Cody Clark
1983 John Hester
1984 Robert Mosebach
1984 Josh Outman
1985 Brandon Hicks
1985 Delmon Young
1989 Francisco Arcia
1990 Derek Law
1990 Cody Anderson
1991 Gregory Polanco
1993 Andrew Vasquez
1994 John King

OBITUARIES:

1900 Ed Knouff
1907 Jack Wentz
1908 Ike Van Zandt
1914 Jim McDonald
1930 Jim McCauley
1932 Henry Jackson
1940 Andy Knox
1943 Bill Murray
1949 Billy Martin
1950 Billy Ging
1951 Wally Roettger
1959 Bill Upham
1967 Walt Bond
1968 Hans Lobert
1969 Jackie Tavener
1970 Jimmie Long
1970 Sam Lanford
1971 Bill Holden
1973 Rene Monteagudo
1973 Sloppy Thurston
1977 Beau Bell
1984 Jimmy Pofahl
1984 Edgar Barnhart
1993 Bill Atwood
2000 George Myatt
2002 Eddie Shokes
2002 Jim McKee
2016 Dick Adams
2018 Phil Clark
2019 Tom Waddell

YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE!

1923 First baseman George Burns completes an unassisted triple play. The Red Sox fielder snags a liner, tagged the runner coming from first, and outran a base runner back to second base.

1990 Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey Jr. hit back to back homers off of Angels pitcher Kirk McCaskill.

2008 The Astros, relocated due to a hurricane, lose a home game in Milwaukee to the Cubs as Carlos Zambrano throws a no-hitter.

TRANSACTION WIRE:

1970 Oakland sent Jim “Mudcat” Grant to the Pirates for Angel Mangual.

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