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1997
Dodger owner Peter O'Malley announces plans to sell the team, which has been controlled by his family since 1950. The club is expected to command a record price.
FOX bought the Dodgers for somewhere between $311 million and $350 million.
Also in 1997
Former Atlanta knuckleballer Phil Niekro is elected to the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Niekro receives 80.34% of the vote. Former Dodger hurler Don Sutton falls nine votes short of election.
The 2007 class for Cooperstown should be announced any day now.
1942
Bob Feller, winner of 76 games for the Indians in three previous seasons, follows Hank Greenberg into the military. Feller, saying "I've always wanted to be on the winning side," enlists in the Navy and reports to Norfolk, VA, for duty.
There is a joke about playing for the Cleveland Indians in here somewhere, but I won't make it in deference to Feller's service in WWII.
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