Highlighted entries:
1997
For the negotiating rights to Hideki Irabu the Yankees offer the Padres a choice of one from a list of players: Brian Boehringer, David Weathers, Chris Cumberland, Andy Fox, and Matt Luke. Also, one player from a list of five minor leaguers, plus $3 million. The Padres are talking to several other teams beside the Yankees.
Hideki IRABU!?!?! Yep. It's funnier when George Costanza's father says it.
1956
In an effort to keep the Giants in New York, Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new 110,000-seat stadium over the New York Central railroad tracks, on a 470,000-foot site stretching from 60th to 72nd streets on Manhattan's West Side. The estimated cost of $75 million for the stadium eventually dooms the project and will be a major factor in Horace Stoneham's decision to move to San Francisco.
110,00 seats? The heck was he thinking?
1953
The Boston Braves, who own the Milwaukee minor league franchise, block the Browns' attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee. Lou Perini, Braves owner, invokes his territorial privilege, stating he has not been offered enough.
The Milwaukee Browns? That never would have sounded right.
1889
Bobby Mathews goes to court to try and collect $600 that he claims is owed to him by the Athletics for his services as a "coacher" in 1888. If he collects, it will make him the first paid coach in history.
How did "coacher" never catch on?
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