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1992
Baseball holds the expansion draft to stock the rosters of the National League's two new teams, the Florida Marlins and Colorado Rockies. A total of 72 players are chosen. P David Nied is the 1st pick of the Rockies, while OF Nigel Wilson is selected 1st by the Marlins. The Fish take Jose Martinez with #2, while the Rocks pick vet Charlie Hayes. The best picks for Florida are #4 Trevor Hoffman, eventually packaged for Gary Sheffield; #11 Jeff Conine, who will hit 81 homers in four years; and #18 Cris Carpenter, later dealt to Texas for Robb Nen. For Colorado, they will find gold with #6 Eric Young, #10 Joe Girardi, #16 Vinny Castilla, and #18 Armando Reynoso. Picks #13 and 14 are good ones -- Andy Ashby, Brad Ausmus and Doug Bochtler -— but they'll all go to the Padres in 1993 in an ill-fated deal for pricey vet pitchers Bruce Hurst and Greg Harris.
Complete Marlins list is HERE. Brewer fans might get a kick out of the 14th pick, Chuck Carr. Why? Because Chucky Carr takes his hacks on 2-0!
Complete Rockies list is HERE. Rattler fans will get a kick out of the 34th pick, our own pitching coach Lance Painter.
1979
On a flight to Austin, TX, Daniel Okrent sketches out the first draft of rules for what would become Rotisserie League Baseball. Had the friends he was seeing not ignored these rules, the Rotisserie League would have been called Pit League, after the Austin barbecue joint where Okrent first unveiled them. Two weeks later in New York, he pitches the idea to a more receptive group with whom Okrent lunched monthly at La Rotisserie Francaise.
I think fantasy baseball would have caught on more quickly over Pit League Baseball.
1959
William Shea of the Continental League shows sketches of the proposed stadium in New York City with its transparent retractable roof.
If I know my 50's science fiction, that stadium would have looked like something out of Rocky Jones, Space Ranger. And it would have be so. freaking. cool. For about ten minutes.
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