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BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1856 Martin Powell
1861 Pat Scanlon
1862 Charlie Geggus
1866 Harry Lyons
1866 Larry McKeon
1868 Frank Dwyer
1874 Bill Carney
1875 Dorsey Riddlemoser
1879 John Walsh
1881 Raymond (Chappy) Charles
1882 Jimmy Sebring
1886 Michael Timothy (Jimmy) Walsh
1887 Clyde Milan
1891 Howard Zell (Polly) McLarry
1900 Russ Miller
1901 Denver Grigsby
1909 Emil John (Dutch) Leonard
1910 Jimmie Crutchfield
1911 Clarence Locke
1912 Lester Lockett
1913 James Walter (Buster) Maynard
1914 Cliff Blackmon
1914 Clemente Carreras
1915 Chris Hartje
1919 Bill Evans
1920 Sam Lowry
1922 Jim Hamilton
1922 Jeep McClain
1922 Billy Bowers
1930 Rudy Minarcin
1932 Woodie Held
1932 Walt Craddock
1933 Nelson Chittum
1938 Alan Koch
1944 Jim Britton
1945 Jim Ellis
1948 Mike Nagy
1955 Lee Mazzilli
1962 Jeff Kunkel
1965 Jerry Kutzler
1966 Tom Glavine
1967 Brian Barnes
1969 Paul Menhart
1969 Dan Wilson
1969 Travis Fryman
1969 Erik Schullstrom
1969 Eric Helfand
1969 Scott Sanders
1972 Howard Battle
1975 Miguel Mejia
1975 Adrian Hernandez
1977 Brett Jodie
1980 Neal Cotts
1987 Hyun-jin Ryu
1987 Kirby Yates
1990 Erisbel Arruebarrena
1991 Mike Zunino
1993 Phil Maton
1996 Tucker Davidson
1996 Scott Hurst
2002 Pete Crow-Armstrong

OBITUARIES:

1897 Bill Quarles

William H. Quarles was a young pitcher who was given opportunties with the Washington Nationals and Boston. When not pitching he ran a saloon in his native Petersburg, where he lived and worked when not playing ball. Like Will Collver on the previous date’s obituary list, Quarles went to a hospital for surgery and, when complete, returned home. Something went wrong, however.

“[Quarles] died suddenly at his home in this city this afternoon from the effects of a delicate surgical operation…”

“Pitched for the Boston Team,” Boston Globe, March 26, 1897: 2.

1904 Harry Arundel
1906 Joe Cassidy
1912 Harry Keener
1921 Harry Arndt
1924 Terry Connell
1928 Homer Smoot
1929 Roy Meeker
1930 Bill Krieg
1933 Tom Donovan
1936 Art Hagan

Arthur Charles Hagan was a Providence native, born and died there some 73 years and 8 days apart. In 1883, Philadelphia chose to give Hagan a tryout and he pitched against a very good New York club and, though nervous, held his own in a loss. And that happened 13 more times. He one a single game that year, was dropped, and pitched twice more for Buffalo. He wasn’t horrible, but he lost those starts, too.

Hoping his tired arm would come back after such a rough season, Buffalo brought him back for 1884. (There were three leagues – so, you know, there were jobs.) Anyway – Hagen won one of three starts in 1884 and was just HAMMERED. 53 hits in 26 innings, 38 runs (though only 17 were earned) and somehow got one win in there. Anyway, it’s not often you see someone with a 90% loss rate, but Hagen was 2- 18 in his career.

Hagen was involved in real estate after his baseball career ended. According to his death certificate, a heart attack caused, in part, by his failing kidneys and whatever ailments add up over 73 years caused Hagen to advance to the next league. He is buried next to his wife, the former Mary Murphy, at Saint Ann Cemetery in Cranston, Rhode Island.

“Sports of the Field,” Philadelphia Enquirer, July 2, 1883: 2.
“Arthur F. Hagen,” Buffalo Evening Republic, March 18, 1884: 4.

1938 Al Burris
1939 Tiny Chaplin
1941 Eddie Hickey
1946 Hack Schumann
1949 Jim Riley
1950 Pussy Tebeau
1951 Dan Daub
1951 Eddie Collins
1953 Tim Griesenbeck
1956 Steel Arm Johnny Taylor
1958 Clarence Kraft
1958 Al Shaw
1966 Bill Morrisette
1971 Fireman Anderson
1981 Red Morgan
1985 Curt Barclay
1985 Joe Wood
1986 George Grant
1987 Alvin Gipson
1999 Cal Ripken
2005 Frank Zupo
2009 Johnny Blanchard
2013 Lou Sleater
2015 Bill Slayback
2017 Jack Faszholz
2019 Jerry Schypinski
2020 Bob Lee
2021 Bobby Brown
2021 Joe Cunningham
2021 Tom Hilgendorf
2021 Randy Tate

YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE!

2008 In what was then the earliest major league opening day, the Red Sox beat Oakland in Tokyo. Manny Ramirez doubles in the tenth to drive in the winning run.

TRANSACTION WIRE:

1959 St. Louis sends Sam Jones and Don Choate to the Giants for Bill White and Ray Jablonski.

1981 Atlanta sends Gary Matthews to the Phillies for pitcher Bob Walk.

1982 Toronto gets Rance Mulliniks from Kansas City for Phil Huffman.

1997 Atlanta sends Marquis Grissom and David Justice to Cleveland for Kenny Lofton and Alan Embree.

1999 After being released by Cleveland, Orel Hershiser signs with the Mets. Hershiser, now 40, would go 13 – 12 with a 4.58 ERA, winning his 200th game along the way.