Baseball History -- February 4

Complete entry for February 4 is at BaseballLibrary.com is HERE.

Highlighted entries:

1990
The St. Petersburg Pelicans get home runs from Lamar Johnson and Steve Kemp

and rout the West Palm Beach Tropics 12–4 to win the first-ever championship of the Senior Professional Baseball Association.

Lamar Johnson is a member of the Appleton Baseball Hall of Fame.

1969
Attorney Bowie Kuhn is a compromise choice for commissioner of baseball and is elected on a pro-tem basis.

Fifteen years later the compromise left office.

1893
The first recorded version of "Casey at the Bat," as sung by Russell Hunting, hits the music charts. DeWolf Hopper's more famous version will not be released until October 1906.

The first version that I remember was Disney's Casey at the Bat. Then, the sequel Casey Bats Again. Now, since it's Disney, there is no way that YouTube could have this. So, I'll have to go with this Rocky and Bullwinkle version.

What? You thought Jay Ward would let Bullwinkle hit a home run?