Highlighted entries:
1995
Baseball owners vote 28-0 to admit two new teams -- the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and the Arizona Diamondbacks -- for the 1998 season. Each team will pay an expansion fee of $130 million.
What owner would have turned down his share of $260 million dollars?
1981
Free agent Carlton Fisk agrees to a contract with the Chicago White Sox.
This was weird in 1981. It's still weird today.
1897
Cleveland signs Holy Cross star Louis Sockalexis to a contract. Sockalexis, a full-blooded Penobscot Indian, soon earns the admiration of Spiders fans with his phenomenal all-around skills. Before long, baseball fans start referring to the Cleveland team as the "Indians." Although Sockalexis will only play parts of three seasons due to acute alcoholism, the nickname will be revived in 1915 and become the club's official name.
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