Baseball History for November 14th

<— NOV 13 NOV 15 —>

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1860 John Munyan
1864 Otto Schomberg
1867 Sam Gillen
1876 Harry Howell
1881 Jim Wallace
1881 Fred Carisch
1884 Gene Cocreham
1885 Jack Lelivelt
1893 Joe Leonard
1896 Eugene Anthony (Red) Sheridan
1898 Claude Willoughby
1902 Gil Paulsen
1929 Jim Piersall
1932 Marty Kutyna
1937 Jim Brewer
1938 Johnnie Seale
1941 Darrell Sutherland
1943 Danny Lazar
1953 Kim Andrew
1954 Willie Hernandez
1962 Steve Peters
1966 Curt Schilling
1967 Paul Wagner
1968 Kent Bottenfield
1973 Ruben Rivera
1976 Tim Hamulack
1978 Xavier Nady
1980 Sean Tracey
1982 Angel Castro
1982 Fu-Te Ni
1983 Guillermo Moscoso
1983 Clete Thomas
1989 Freddy Galvis
1990 Yasmany Tomas
1990 Sam Selman
1991 Joely Rodriguez
1992 Daniel Castro
1992 Akeel Morris
1993 Francisco Lindor

OBITUARIES:

1905 John Connor
1915 Art McGovern
1919 Vince Dailey
1922 Doc Oberlander
1924 Joe Quest
1928 Herb Juul
1929 Joe McGinnity
1932 Boss Schmidt
1937 Jack O’Connor
1938 Les Nunamaker
1940 George Clark
1942 Scrappy Carroll
1947 Jack Hoey
1947 Stub Smith
1949 Artie Clarke
1950 Jack McAleese
1956 Ed Hilley
1958 Jack Owens
1962 Dick Hoblitzell
1963 Ski Melillo
1965 Dixie Walker
1968 Bill Sherdel
1969 Curt Roberts
1973 Gene Bailey
1975 Garland Buckeye
1976 Fred Baczewski
1985 Luke Nelson
1985 Oscar Harstad
1987 Hod Lisenbee
1996 Jim Baxes
2000 Len Gabrielson
2004 Jesse Gonder
2006 Pete Suder
2010 Hal Bamberger
2012 Gail Harris

YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE!!!

1961 John Fetzer buys out the estate of the late Fred Knorr to gain complete ownership of the Detroit Tigers.

1986 Fred Wilpon and Nelson Doubleday purchase the Mets from the Doubleday Publishing company for $80.75 million.

TRANSACTION WIRE:

1894 Boston purchases Jimmy Collins from Buffalo of the Eastern League for $500.

1895 Boston acquires Billy Hamilton from the Phillies for the low price of Billy Nash…

1929 Boston sends Art Delaney and George Harper and cash to Los Angeles of the PCL for Wally Berger.

1955 The Giants signed amateur outfielder Felipe Alou.

1969 Cincinnati signs amateur pitcher Joaquin Andujar.

1973 The Cubs give up on Larry Gura and send him to the Rangers for Mike Paul.

2003 Minnesota sends A. J. Pierzynski and spending money to the Giants for Joe Nathan, Francisco Liriano, and Boof Bonser.

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