BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1865 Ollie Smith
1874 Tom McCreery
1876 Mordecai (Three Finger) Brown
1883 Walt Miller
1887 Fred Snodgrass
1890 Carl Sawyer
1892 Michael Driscoll
1893 Lloyd Christenbury
1894 Tim McCabe
1896 Bob O’Farrell
1897 Tom Lovelace
1898 Herb Welch
1905 Mike Meola
1913 Al Brazle
1915 Sam Nahem
1916 Ralph McLeod
1919 Jack Niemes
1930 Joe Koppe
1931 Don Leppert
1933 Ossie Alvarez
1937 Walt Bond
1938 Vic Roznovsky
1943 Sandy Alomar
1943 Bryshear Bennett (Brock) Davis
1945 Gary Taylor
1945 Al Gallagher
1946 Warren Bogle
1948 Lorenzo (Rimp) Lanier
1956 German Barranca
1960 Mark Davis
1961 Tim Belcher
1962 Oswaldo Peraza
1964 Mike Perez
1965 Dave Haas
1965 Mike Gardiner
1965 Wade Taylor
1966 Dave Veres
1969 Lance Dickson
1972 Marc Newfield
1972 Keith Foulke
1972 Joe McEwing
1975 Horacio Estrada
1976 Jeff Austin
1976 Michael Young
1976 Jason Shiell
1977 Randy Ruiz
1977 Mario Ramos
1980 Rajai Davis
1980 Jose Bautista
1982 J. A. Happ
1984 Travis Schlichting
1984 James McDonald
1984 Josh Tomlin
1986 Daniel Descalso
1987 John Holdzkom
1989 Cory Mazzoni
1989 Carson Smith
1990 Tyler Matzek
1990 Jordan Lyles
1991 Jimmy Cordero
1992 Sam Tuivailala
1994 Anthony Santander
2020 Brandon Bailey
OBITUARIES:
1897 Ollie Caylor
1911 Marshall King
1915 Russ McKelvy
1925 Jack Carney
1928 Harry DeMiller
1935 Walt Doan
1936 Jack Jones
1939 Red Downs
1949 Bill Steele
1950 Lefty Gervais
1951 Emil Haberer
1954 Hugh Duffy
1959 Bunny Hearn
1960 Ed McCreery
1964 Grover Hartley
1967 Art Garibaldi
1975 Hod Kibbie
1982 George Bradley
1984 Del Lundgren
1986 George Pipgras
1988 Bill Burgo
1992 Atley Donald
1993 John Kerr
1999 Ray Katt
2001 Hugh Mulcahy
2001 Joe Murray
2005 Bob Carpenter
2005 Ron Mrozinski
2008 Lou Stringer
2014 Frank Barnes
2014 Ed Keegan
2016 Joe Kirrene
YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE!!!
1964 His health failing, Fred Hutchinson retires from the Reds. The successful manager would die of lung cancer in about three weeks.
1972 Three pinch hit singles in the bottom of the ninth inning, the last by Angel Manual, give the Oakland As a 3 – 2 win over the Reds in game four of the World Series.
1981 Rick Monday’s ninth inning homer finishes off the Expos to win the pennant for the Dodgers.
2004 Curt Schilling, and his bloody sock – the result of a procedure meant to stabilize a dislocated tendon in his ankle, helps Boston beat the Yankees, 4 – 2, in game six of the ALCS.
2019 Jose Altuve crushes a homer off of Aroldis Chapman to beat the Yankees and win the AL pennant for Houston. (And then the baseball authorities got involved…)
TRANSACTION WIRE:
1927 Washington sends Earl McNeely and Dick Coffman to the Browns for Milt Gaston and Sad Sam Jones.
1949 The Athletics send Nellie Fox to the White Sox for Joe Tipton. Oops.
1959 Baltimore sends two players to be named later and cash to the Dodgers for Jim Gentile.
1965 The Mets send a player to be named later (Tom Parsons) and cash to Houston for Jerry Grote.
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