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BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1853 Dan Collins
1859 Joe Visner
1863 Jack Heinzman
1878 Alfred Joseph (Cy) Ferry
1878 Clarence Veasey (Slats) Jordan
1884 Alan Storke
1887 Charlie Eakle
1889 Al Bergman
1890 Frank Gibson
1890 Willie Adams
1891 Doug Baird
1894 Mike Loan
1895 Jelly Gardner
1897 Harold Dennis (Chick) Gagnon
1897 John Stephens
1898 Bill Clarkson
1905 Marty Lang
1906 John Smith
1907 Walter Murphy
1907 Josh Billings
1907 Whit Wyatt
1911 Dick Lanahan
1911 Alphonse Dunn
1915 Harry Chozen
1916 Charley Davidson
1919 Bill Ayers
1924 Jerry Scala
1927 Tom Kirk
1928 Perry Currin
1928 Thornton Kipper
1930 Dick Hall
1933 Jerry Casale
1935 Dave Wickersham
1938 Alex George
1944 Gary Sutherland
1944 Gene Rounsaville
1948 Carlos Lopez
1949 Mike Schmidt
1951 Doug Konieczny
1954 Len Matuszek
1955 Bob Veselic
1962 Don Schulze
1965 Dan Rohrmeier
1974 Radhames Dykhoff
1976 Bo Hart
1976 Jason Phillips
1977 Vicente Padilla
1978 Jon Rauch
1979 Jon Garland
1981 Mike Esposito
1984 John Lannan
1985 Pedro Ciriaco
1986 Matt Shoemaker
1986 Vin Mazzaro
1987 Grant Green
1987 David Hale
1989 Mike Miller
1990 Cameron Perkins
1994 Luis Guillorme
1994 Pedro Pavano
1994 Alex Call
1999 Adrian Del Castillo
1999 Mitchell Parker
1999 Angel Zerpa
2000 Simeon Woods Richardson

OBITUARIES:

1911 William Sullivan

Sullivan appeared in a single game for the St, Louis Maroons of the Union Association in 1884 – winning the decision after six innings of work (and moving to right field so another pitcher could finish the game).  (Box Score, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, May 30, 1884: 3.)

Sullivan got cellulitis in his leg and the resulting infection turned into blood poisoning (septicemia), which killed him.  The baseball player who worked as a laborer after his career ended died having never married.  (St. Louis, MO Death Records)

1927 Ben Hunt

Benjamin Franklin Hunt died of complications associated with tuberculosis at his home in Greybull, WY, leaving behind a wife and daughter.  (Wyoming Death Records)

1929 John Gochnaur
1938 Cy Ferry
1939 Sweetbread Bailey

Cancer of the pituitary gland took Bailey to the next league.

1941 Monte Pfeffer
1942 Charlie Jaeger
1943 Willie Hudson
1945 Lou Nordyke
1946 Eddie Tiemeyer
1946 Grady Orange
1955 Fred Walden
1958 Joe Berry
1959 Lefty Hopper
1960 Jim Eschen
1962 Stan Sperry
1962 Johnny Scalzi
1963 Andy Coakley
1964 Jud McLaughlin
1965 Tink Riviere
1967 Frank Barnes
1970 Herman Bell
1981 Al Bool
1986 Chuck Sheerin
1992 Hal Smith
1996 Bruce Konopka
1996 Garland Lawing
1997 Alex Konikowski
2001 Dick Rozek
2003 Red Barbary
2006 Craig Kusick
2006 Joe Koppe
2013 Gates Brown
2014 Bienvenido Rodriguez
2014 Earl Smith

YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE!!!

1905 Boston’s Bill Dinneen tops the White Sox, 2 – 0, without allowing a hit. Dinneen later became an umpire and remains the only person to both throw a no-hitter and work the plate as an umpire for a no-hitter in MLB history.

1951 Bill Sharman – the basketball star – was a Dodger farmhand called up to the big leagues when he got tossed for yelling at the umpires from the bench. Sharman never appeared in a major league game, but he got tossed from one…

1973 By striking out 16 batters over 11 innings against Minnesota, Nolan Ryan’s 383rd strike out of the season sets the new record, passing Sandy Koufax’s old record.

2020 DJ LeMahieu bats .362 to win the American League batting crown, having won the same title in the National League in 2019 for Colorado.  He becomes the first player to win crowns in both leagues.

TRANSACTION WIRE:

1892 The Giants purchased Willie Keeler from Binghamton of the Eastern League for $800.

1943 The Athletics purchased George Kell, Lew Flick, and Woody Wheaton from Lancaster of the Interstate League.

1986 Atlanta signs amateur free agent catcher Eddie Perez.