BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1838 Bill Yeatman
1852 Charlie Fisher
1860 Mike Sullivan
1862 Edward Benson (Dad) Lytle
1867 Mike Shea
1868 Theodore Conover
1868 Lew Whistler
1869 Frank Bird
1871 John Kelty
1873 Gene DeMontreville
1877 Jack Lundbom
1877 John Godwin
1880 Walter Harold (Judge) Nagle
1883 Glenn Liebhardt
1886 Jim Curry
1889 Jack Mercer
1890 Pete Fahrer
1892 Emil Huhn
1894 Fred Johnson
1894 Jack Wieneke
1895 Jake Propst
1897 Russ Ennis
1898 Frank Loftus
1906 Art Herring
1908 Herman Duncan
1910 Red Howard
1911 Preacher Henry
1911 Roosevelt Tate
1914 Leo Sanders
1917 Tommy Johnson
1921 George Elder
1921 James Atkins
1921 Johnny Blatnik
1924 John Perkovich
1925 Lou Limmer
1929 John Tillman (Bud) Thomas
1934 Ken MacKenzie
1939 Bill Heath
1942 Tom Hilgendorf
1944 John Briggs
1944 Joe Campbell
1947 Darcy Fast
1948 Wayne Twitchell
1958 Steve Howe
1961 Mike Birkbeck
1963 John Cangelosi
1966 Mike Timlin
1971 Shad Williams
1971 Bobby Hughes
1972 Rob Stanifer
1977 Ben Davis
1977 Tike Redman
1983 Donnie Murphy
1983 Steven Shell
1984 Aaron Bates
1987 Charles Leesman
1988 Cedric Hunter
1989 Tyler Holt
1989 Dayan Viciedo
1995 Josh VanMeter
1998 Luis Castillo
OBITUARIES:
1897 Wes Blogg
1911 Guy McFadden
1918 Jim McCormick
1920 Charlie Briggs
1941 Doc Hazelton
1944 Dan Howley
1948 Stub Brown
1954 George Textor
1955 Rick Adams
1956 Solly Hofman
1957 Erskine Mayer
1958 Earl Williams
1960 Jim Holmes
1964 Warren Shanabrook
1967 Billy Orr
1969 Max Rosenfeld
1971 Bill James
1972 George Cunningham
1975 Johnny Markham
1984 Bill McGhee
1985 Bob Nieman
1985 Bill Cooper
1994 Jim Brenneman
1998 Ed Walczak
1998 Alonzo Hicks
2000 Charlie Biot
2005 Kent Hadley
2007 Bobby Sturgeon
2007 Art Lopatka
2009 Joe Pactwa
YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE!!!
1967 Reds lefty Ted Davidson is shot while leaving a restaurant. He claims his estranged wife, Mary Ruth, was the shooter. The charges were dismissed as Ted never appeared in court.
1993 Sherry Davis becomes the first full-time female public address announcer in the majors when she takes on the role with the Giants.
TRANSACTION WIRE:
1900 St. Louis purchases John McGraw, Wilbert Robinson and Bill Keister from Brooklyn for $19,000.
1975 The Yankees signed amateur free agent infielder Damaso Garcia.
1992 Pittsburgh trades Neal Heaton to Kansas City for Kirk Gibson.
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