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1957

Before their departure to play on the West Coast for next season, the Dodgers and Giants face one another for the final time in New York. The Jints beat the Bums at the Polo Grounds, 3-2, to finish the intense 68 year-old storied rivalry with a 656-606 advantage over Brooklyn in the battle between the boroughs.

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1963

Dodger ace Sandy Koufax tosses a four-hitter, blanking St. Louis at Sportsman's Park, 4-0. The southpaw's scoreless effort establishes a National League record for shutouts thrown by lefties in a season with 11, five shy of Grover Cleveland Alexander's major league mark set in 1916 with the Phillies.

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1964

Thanks to the efforts of Charlie Finley (seen below wearing a wig), the Beatles, who had planned for a day of rest in New Orleans on the only free date scheduled during their American tour, play a concert in Kansas City's Municipal Stadium. The group's manager Brian Epstein, who had initially turned down the A's owner's offers of $50,000 and $100,000 to have the lads from Liverpool perform in the City of Fountains, agrees on $150,000, about six times the going rate, enabling the Fab Four to earn $4,838 per minute, the largest sum ever paid for a musical concert.<center> </center>

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1976

Indians player-manager Frank Robinson, in his final major league at-bat, strokes a pinch-hit single in a 4-3 loss to Baltimore at Cleveland Stadium. The 41 year-old future Hall of Famer ends his 21-year playing career with a batting average of .294 and 586 home runs, the fourth-best in baseball history at the time of his retirement.

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Hall of Fame
2x MVP
Rookie of the Year
Triple Crown
14x All-Star
2x World Series
Gold Glove
WS MVP
Batting Title
AS MVP
ML PoY
Mgr of the year

 

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1985.................

1985 World Series
Kansas City Royals over St. Louis Cardinals (4-3)

WS MVP: Bret Saberhagen

Year	Age	Tm	Salary	SrvTm	Sources	Notes/Other Sources
1985	21	Kansas City Royals	$150,000	?	3/3/86 TSN and 1985 USA Today survey	Scully, Business of MLB, p. 163: $160,000

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1966

The smallest crowd in the 46 year-old history of Chicago's Wrigley Field watches the Cubs beat Cincinnati, 9-3. The 530 fans in attendance at the ballpark for the Wednesday afternoon contest see Billy Williams and Aldolfo Philips go deep in a game that takes only two hours and twenty-four minutes to complete. www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHC/1966.shtml Record: 59-103, Finished 10th in National League (Schedule and Results) Pythagorean W-L: 64-98, 644 Runs, 809 Runs Allowed Manager: Leo Durocher (59-103) General Manager: John Holland Ballpark: Wrigley Field Attendance: 635,891 (10th of 10)

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1970	Oakland southpaw Vida Blue, in his eighth major league start, becomes the 11th rookie to throw a no-hitter. The A's 21 year-old freshman, who will become the AL MVP and Cy Young Award winner next season, beats the Twins at Oakland Coliseum, 6-0.

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and he was a switch hitter.........

 

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Eddie Matz
ESPN Senior Writer

Chalk up another milestone for Max Scherzer. The Nats ace whiffed Marlins rookie Austin Dean for his 300th strikeout. Scherzer becomes the 17th pitcher since 1900 to rack up 300 K's in a season, and the fifth since 2000, joining Randy Johnson, Curt Schilling, Clayton Kershaw, and Chris Sale. He's also a lock to lead his league in punchouts for a fourth straight season. In the divisional era, only Johnson and Nolan Ryan have done that

 

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1955	Al Kaline, at the age of 20, becomes the youngest player to win a batting title, finishing his sophomore season with a .340 average. Ty Cobb was one day older than the Tiger outfielder when he claimed the crown, batting .350 in 1907, also playing for Detroit.

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imagine your first job is to report to the Detroit Tigers ..It's 1953 and you are 18 years old ..

and for the next 22 years you will play baseball for the same franchise in the same city ..........

Earning the Nickname "Mr. Tiger."

Kaline finished his career with 3,007 hits, 498 doubles, 75 triples, 399 home runs, 1,622 runs scored, and 1,583 run batted in, while batting .297. What makes his numbers even more impressive is the fact that he missed 594 games in his career, the vast majority due to injury?the equivalent of two-and-a-half seasons. With a career .987 fielding percentage, he was also one of the best fielders of his time, with 10 Gold Gloves to prove it. In a 2001 Sporting News article, both Ernie Harwell and Yogi Berra declared that Kaline had the best arm in the outfield ever.

In 1976, Kaline began a second career as a color commentator on Tigers television broadcasts. In 1980, Al Kaline was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame alongside Duke Snider, Chuck Klein, and Tom Yawkey. Kaline thanked his family for their support, then said:

?If there is one accomplishment of which I am particularly proud, it is that I have always served baseball to the best of my ability, never have I deliberately done anything to discredit the game, the Tigers, or my family. By far, being inducted into the Hall of Fame is the proudest moment of my life.?

Kaline spent more time as a broadcaster?25 years?than as a Tigers player. He also participated as a spring training instructor, even teaching a young Kirk Gibson about playing the outfield. In 2001, Kaline left the broadcast booth to become a special adviser to Tigers owner Mike Illitch. In 2003, new General Manager David Dombrowski named Kaline and his former teammate Willie Horton as special assistants to the general manager. Because of the broadcasting and special assignments, Al Kaline has been associated with the Tigers for more than 50 years. For that, some people know him as Mr. Tiger. Others still refer to him simply as Number Six.
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1961

At Yankee Stadium, Roger Maris ties Babe Ruth's 34 year-old single-season record with his 60th home run of the year, a high drive down the right-field line off on a curveball thrown by Orioles right-hander Jack Fisher. The Bronx Bomber outfielder's accomplishment comes in the 159th game of the newly expanded season, which at the time keeps Ruth the single-season home run leader according to an edict made by baseball commissioner Ford Frick, who ruled for the mark to be shared or broken the historic round-tripper had to come in the first 154 games of the season.<center><iframe width="225" height="169" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/cCZPGUzxNls" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></center>

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1971

Joining Oriole teammates Dave McNally, Mike Cuellar, and Pat Dobson, Jim Palmer records his 20th victory of the season when he blanks the Tribe at Cleveland Stadium, 5-0. The right-hander's victory makes Baltimore the second team in major league history, along with the 1920 Chicago White Sox, to have four 20-game winners on its staff.

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My ball. All 4 signed on it. Not many of these around.

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damn damn damn ..

you lucky you know what.............:00hour:00hour:00hour:00hour:00hour:00hour:00hour

 

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Gonna be my grandson?s ball one day. Something to remember granddad by.

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Gonna be my grandson?s ball one day. Something to remember granddad by.

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you continue to take care of yourself and you and he are going to do many wonderful things ..

 

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2013

Derek Jeter and Andy Pettitte, with two out in the ninth inning, emerge from the dugout to take out legendary closer Mariano Rivera, giving the sold-out crowd at Yankee Stadium one last chance to cheer their beloved reliever. The unexpected visit to the mound, the brainchild of manager Joe Girardi, who asked permission from the umpires to implement the unorthodox move, triggers an emotional encounter between the remaining Core Four teammates that renders Mo speechless as he weeps from the adulation of his friends and fans.<center><iframe width="224" height="126" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_voxdzu2bvY?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></center>

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1951

Bill Sharman, recently called up from Fort Worth, is one of 15 Dodgers who are ejected by umpire Frank Dascoli for bench jockeying after a close call at home plate. The future basketball Hall of Famer will never play in the big leagues, and thus he will become the only player to be ejected from a major league game without ever appearing in one.

 

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1963
At Colt Stadium, Colt .45s skipper Harry Craft starts an all rookie team which includes future stars such as Joe Morgan, Rusty Staub, Jimmy Wynn, and Jerry Grote. The freshman team, whose average age is 19-years and 4 months old, loses to the Mets, 10-3, with 17 year-old starting pitcher Jay Dahl making his only major league appearance.