Highlighted entries:
1980
Ending weeks of speculation that he would be fired despite having led the Yankees to 103 wins last season, manager Dick Howser "resigns" and is immediately replaced by GM Gene Michael.
Hey, he lost to the Royals in the ALCS. What did Howser expect in New York?
1960
Bob Scheffing signs to manage the Tigers after the job is turned down by Casey Stengel.
Instead, Casey waited around for a couple of years and took the Mets job.
1959
In the first inter-league trade, the Cubs send 1B Jim Marshall and P Dave Hillman to the Red Sox for 1B Dick Gernert.
Somehow, it seems appropriate that the first inter-league trade would be between the Cubs and the Red Sox.
1900
Given a 10-year contract to control the Baltimore franchise, John McGraw says he intends to be in baseball a long time, and wants to lease grounds in Baltimore where he can stay. He'll be in baseball 32 more years, but not in Baltimore. Nick Young says the National League wishes success to the American League, but does not consider it a major league.
Jon McGraw. What a guy. Managerial record HERE. Wikipedia page is HERE. BaseballLibrary page is HERE. Highlights from that one:
[As a player] McGraw was notorious for blocking, tripping, or otherwise obstructing the baserunners while the lone umpire watched the flight of the ball. Some say his shenanigans prompted the stationing of additional umpires on the basepaths.
Why didn't McGraw complete the ten-year contract?
In 1901 he became player-manager of the new American League's Baltimore franchise, but after frequent run-ins with league president Ban Johnson, a man as intractable as himself, he jumped in mid-1902 to the NL's New York Giants.
McGraw hated Johnson so much that when the Giants won the 1904 NL pennant, he refused to let the Giants play the AL Champions in what would have been the second World Series.
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