Highlighted entries without comment today:
1987
Catfish Hunter and Billy Williams are elected to the Hall of Fame by the BBWAA.
1976
Ted Turner completes the purchase of 100 percent of the Atlanta Braves.
1928
Alfred J. Reach, founder of the A.J. Reach sporting goods firm, dies at 87. Before 1860, he became the first ballplayer to receive a regular salary when he signed as a catcher with the Philadelphia Athletics for $25 a week.
1919
John McGraw, Charles A. Stoneham, and Tammany politician Judge Francis X. McQuade buy controlling interest in the Giants from the John Brush estate. Having drawn just 265,000 fans in 1918, the club is sold at a bargain price. The 3 will spend many days in courtrooms fighting among themselves, and fending off government charges about Stoneham's business practices.
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