Highlighted entries:
1974
Ray Kroc, fast-food entrepreneur (McDonalds), buys the Padres for $12 million.
You deserve a team today! So, get up and on your way! To the Padres!
1945
The Yankees are sold by the Ruppert estate to Larry MacPhail, Dan Topping, and Del Webb for $2.8 million. For that price the trio obtains 400 players, 266 of them in military service, Yankee Stadium, parks in Newark and Kansas City, and leases on other minor league ballparks. Jake Ruppert, who died in 1939, paid more than the new purchase price for the ground on which Yankee Stadium was built in 1923.
$2.8 million for the Yankees? That was a deal.
1895
Cap Anson notes that "nobody likes to see a play made with the aid of gloves." He is of the opinion that only catchers should be permitted the luxury of wearing gloves.
Now, that is old school.
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