Highlighted entries:
1994
Atlanta OF Ron Gant breaks his right leg in a motorbike accident a week after signing the largest single-season contract in history.
Whoops!
1982
Minor league C Angel Rodriguez, who played for the Pirates' Alexandria club (Carolina League) last season, is suspended from organized baseball for one year for telling opposing Latin American batters what pitches were coming. Rodriguez had been suspended by the Pirates last season after being caught in the act during an August 19th game against Lynchburg.
It's funny in Bull Durham. It's not a good idea in real life.
1934
Powel Crosley, local millionaire, heads a syndicate that buys just over half the stock in the Cincinnati Reds from Sidney Weil. No price is announced. Crosley, owner of a 500,000 watt radio station, is on the board of the Central Trust Bank, and it is the bank that had loaned money to Sidney Weil and his syndicate to buy the Reds. Weil was in the process of raising money to pay off the bank when Crosley's purchase takes place. The Reds' home park will be renamed Crosley Field.
Is this a conflict of interest? I can't tell.
1900
Rival forces fight for control of the Union Park ball grounds in Baltimore. John McGraw's men camp around a fire at 3B. Ned Hanlon, his former manager in Baltimore in the 1890s, now manager of Brooklyn and still president of the Baltimore club in the National League, has forces camped around 1B.
Wasn't this in Gangs of New York?
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