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Events in Sport

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1839-06-12 - 1st baseball game played in America
1845-09-23 - 1st baseball team, NY Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code
1846-06-19 - 1st baseball game (Cartwright Rules)-NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1
1848-09-18 - Baseball rules 1st baseman can tag base for out instead of runner
1851-06-03 - 1st baseball uniforms worn, NY Knickerbockers wear straw hat, white shirt & blue long trousers
1857-03-07 - Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs
1858-07-20 - Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents) (NY beats Bkln 22-18)
1859-05-31 - Phila A's organize to play "town ball" became baseball 20 years later
1859-07-01 - 1st intercollegiate baseball game, Amherst beats Williams 66-32
1860-02-22 - Organized baseball played in SF for 1st time
1862-05-15 - Union Grounds, Brooklyn, 1st baseball enclosure, opens
1862-10-14 - Baseballer James Creighton ruptures bladder hitting HR, dies 10/18
1862-12-25 - 40,000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC
1866-07-23 - Cincinnati Baseball club (Red Stockings) forms
1868-11-26 - 1st baseball game played in enclosed field in SF, at 25th & Folsom
1869-03-15 - Cincinnati Red Stockings become the 1st pro baseball team
1869-04-17 - 1st pro baseball games-Cin Reds 24, Cin amateurs 15
1869-05-16 - Cincinnati Reds play their 1st baseball game, win 41-7
1870-11-27 - NY Times dubs baseball "The National Game"
1871-10-30 - Phila Athletics beat Chicago for 1st Natl Association baseball pennant
1874-02-27 - Baseball 1st played in England, at Lord's Cricket Grounds
1874-03-02 - Baseball batter's box is officially adopted
1874-07-30 - 1st baseball teams to play outside US, Boston-Phila in British Isles
1875-05-12 - 1st recorded shutout in pro baseball, Chicago 1, St Louis 0
1876-02-02 - Baseball's National League forms with teams in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, St Louis
1876-02-03 - Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods co, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, & football
1876-04-01 - 1st official NL baseball game (Boston-6, Phila-5)
1876-04-22 - Phila Nationals Wes Fisler scores baseball's 1st run
1876-07-15 - Baseball's 1st no-hitter, St Louis' George W Bradley no-hits Hartford
1877-02-20 - International Association (minor baseball league) organizes
1877-04-12 - Catcher's mask 1st used in a baseball game
1878-05-08 - 1st unassisted triple play in organized baseball, by Paul Hines
1879-01-02 - Northwestern League (minor baseball league) organized, Rockford, Ill
1879-10-01 - Cincinnati Enquirer publishes 1st report on baseball reserve clause
1882-09-25 - 1st baseball doubleheader (Providence & Worcester)
1883-05-01 - Baseball returns to Phila, 1st NL game since 1876
1883-05-23 - Baseball game between one-armed & one-legged players
1883-06-02 - 1st night baseball under lights, Ft Wayne Indiana
1883-06-16 - 1st baseball "Ladies' Day" (NY Gothams beat Cleve Spiders 5-2)
1884-10-22 - Sporting Life announces that both pennant winners will meet in 3 game series Oct 23-25 at Polo Grounds NYC to determine baseball champion
1885-10-17 - Baseball sets all players salaries at $1,000-$2,000 for 1885 season
1885-10-22 - John Ward & several teammates secretly form Brotherhood of Prof Base Ball Players, 1st baseball union
1887-02-20 - 1st Minor League baseball association organizes (Pittsburgh)
1888-10-20 - Chicago & All America baseball teams play exhibition in Auckland, NZ
1888-12-25 - 1st indoor baseball game played at fairgrounds in Philadelphia
1889-06-22 - Louisville Colonels set ML baseball record with 26th consecutive loss
1889-10-24 - Softball rules adopted by Mid Winter Indoor Baseball League
1889-11-04 - Players League begins, declaring independence from baseball's NL
1890-08-06 - Denton True "Cy" Young pitches and wins his 1st major league baseball game
1890-09-01 - 1st baseball tripleheader-Boston vs Pittsburgh
1890-09-29 - 1st pro baseball game, NY Metropolitans beat Washington Nationals 4-2 in 5 innings at Polo Grounds in NYC
1892-04-17 - 1st Sunday NL baseball game, Reds beat Cards 5-1
1892-04-29 - Charlie Reilly is baseball's 1st pinch hitter
1892-06-07 - John J Doyle of Clev Spiders is 1st to pinch hit in a baseball game
1894-05-16 - Fire in Boston destroys baseball stadium & 170 other buildings
1894-05-30 - Bobby Lowe is 1st to hit 4 HRs in 1 baseball game
1897-06-29 - Chicago beats Louisville 36-7 (baseball)
1900-07-08 - 1st night baseball, league game (Zanesville at Grand Rapids)
1900-11-13 - Baltimore Orioles (now NY Yankees) enter baseball's American League
1901-01-24 - 1st games played in baseball's American League
1901-04-25 - In last of 9th, Detroit Tigers, trailing by 13-4, score 10 runs to win one of greatest comebacks in baseball (1st game in Detroit)
1901-09-05 - National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues forms
1901-09-19 - 11 baseball games canceled due to funeral of Pres William McKinley
1902-06-15 - Minor League's most lopsided baseball game: Corsicana 51; Texarkana 3 Justin Clark of Corsicana, Tx minors hits 8 home runs in 1 game
1902-11-21 - Baseball's Phila Athletics & Phillies form pro football teams, joining Pitts Stars in 1st attempt at a National Football League
1903-01-09 - 2 NYers buy Baltimore baseball franchise for $18,000 & moved it to NY
1903-01-09 - Baseball's National & American Leagues make peace
1903-10-01 - 1st baseball World Series, Pittsburgh Pirates vs Boston Pilgrims (Red Sox)
1904-09-09 - Boston Herald again refers to NY baseball club as Yankees, when it reports "Yankees take 2," Yankee name not official till 1913
1905-01-16 - Baseball outfielder Frank Huelsman completes eighth transaction in 8 months
1905-05-17 - Waseda U of Tokyo defeats LA High School 5-3 in baseball
1907-12-30 - Abraham Mills' commission declares Abner Doubleday invented baseball
1908-04-02 - Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday
1908-08-24 - NY Giants scores shown on electric diamonds known as "Compton's Baseball Bulletin" at Madison Square Garden
1908-10-14 - Baseball Writers Association of America, forms
1908-11-22 - 1st US-Japanese baseball game Reach All-Americans defeat Waseda U, 5-0
1909-03-31 - Baseball rules players who jump contracts are suspended for 5 years
Versatile Athlete Jim Thorpe 1909-06-16 - Jim Thorpe makes his pro baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount (ECL) with 4-2 win, this will cause him to forfeit his Olympic medals
1909-07-08 - 1st pro baseball game (Minor League) played under lights
1909-07-30 - John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League
1909-08-31 - A J Reach Co patents cork-centered baseball
1909-09-18 - Largest paid baseball attendance (35,409), A's beat Tigers, 2-0 in Det
1909-12-15 - Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League
1910-04-15 - Taft is 1st pres to throw out a 1st ball at a baseball game
1910-08-27 - Using 20, 137,000 candlepower arc lights, 2 amateur baseball teams play a night game at White Sox Park
1910-10-20 - 1st appearance of cork centered baseball in World Series
1911-04-04 - Hugh Chalmers, automaker, suggests idea of baseball MVP
1911-10-14 - Largest baseball crowd ever 38,281 (Polo Grounds) see Giants beat A's, 2-1 (gate is record $77,379)
1912-03-15 - Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins
1912-04-09 - 1st exhibition baseball game at Fenway Park (Red Sox vs Harvard)
1912-05-19 - AL Pres Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will be banned from baseball
1913-12-09 - John K Tener becomes president of baseball's National League
1914-02-01 - NY Giants & Chic White Sox play an exhibition baseball game in Egypt
Baseball Great Babe Ruth 1914-07-12 - Babe Ruth makes his baseball debut, pitches for Red Sox
1915-03-13 - Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit
1915-12-22 - Federal Baseball League disolved
1915-12-22 - Organized baseball & Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati
1916-06-18 - Yanks score in every inning but 8th to beat Indians 19-3 in baseball
1916-09-04 - Christy Mathewson & Mordecai Brown final baseball game
1916-12-02 - Baseballers who are injured now get full pay for duration of contract

Birthdays in Sport

Results 1 - 100 of 327

1819-01-26 - Abner Doubleday, Union general-major/inventor (baseball) [or Jun 26]
1819-06-26 - Abner Doubleday, Mjr Gen (Union)/inventor (baseball) [or 1/26]
1824-10-06 - Henry Chadwick, baseball pioneer, developed 1st rule book
1837-12-26 - Morgan Bulkeley, American politician and baseball commissioner (d. 1922)
1862-12-22 - Connie Mack, East Brookfield, Massachusetts, HOF baseball executive/manager (Phila A's 1900-1950), (d. 1956)
1864-01-06 - Ban Johnson, Norwalk Ct, baseball founder (American League)
1865-02-23 - Barney Dreyfuss, baseball owner (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1866-11-20 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge/1st commissioner of baseball
1868-05-10 - Ed Barrow, American baseball manager (d. 1953)
1870-12-31 - Thomas Connolly, baseball's major league umpire for 50 years
1871-03-19 - Joseph McGinnity, Rock Island Ill, baseball pitcher (NY Giants)
Baseball Legend Connie Mack (1862-12-22) 1874-02-22 - Bill Klem, American baseball umpire (d. 1951)
1874-06-05 - Jack Chesbro, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees - won 41 in 1904)
1878-05-14 - James L. Wilkinson, American baseball executive (d. 1964)
1880-07-27 - Joseph Tinker, baseball Hall of Famer, 1/3 of fame double play combo
1880-08-12 - Christy Mathewson, HOF baseball pitcher (Won 37 in 1908)
1881-06-29 - Harry Frazee, American baseball team owner (d. 1929)
1881-12-20 - Branch Rickey, baseball executive (Dodgers)
1881-12-25 - Joseph V McCarthy, baseball manager (NY Yankees)
1883-05-05 - Charles Bender, only American Indian in baseball's Hall of Fame
1887-02-26 - Grover Cleveland Alexander, HOF baseball pitcher (Phillies, Cubs)
1887-04-21 - Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager (d. 1978)
1887-05-02 - Edward Collins, NY, Hall of Fame baseball infielder (White Sox, A's)
1888-03-04 - Jeff Pfeffer, American professional baseball pitcher (d. 1972)
1888-04-04 - Tris Speaker, baseball great, hit more doubles than Pete Rose
1888-12-20 - Fred Merkle, American baseball figure (d. 1958)
1889-10-25 - Smoky Joe Wood, American baseball pitcher (d. 1985)
1890-05-14 - Alex Pompez, American baseball executive (d. 1974)
1890-07-30 - Casey Stengel, baseball manager (Yankees (1949-60)/NY Met's 1st)
1894-08-03 - Harry Heilmann, SF Cal, baseball hall of famer outfielder (Detroit)
1894-12-19 - Ford C Frick, baseball commissioner (1951-65)
Baseball Great Babe Ruth (1895-02-06) 1895-02-06 - George Herman (Babe) Ruth, Baltimore, Maryland, baseball great (NY Yankees)
1896-05-28 - Warren Giles, baseball's National League president
1896-11-08 - Bucky Harris, baseball manager (Phillies, Yankees)
1896-12-27 - Arch Ward, sportswriter (proposed baseball's all-star game)
1898-07-14 - A. B. "Happy" Chandler, American politician and baseball commissioner (d. 1991)
1899-03-28 - August Anheuser Busch, Jr., brewing magnate and American baseball executive (d. 1989)
1899-11-11 - Harold "Pie" Traynor, Baseball Hall of Fame 3rd baseman (Pirates)
1900-03-06 - Robert "Lefty" Grove, baseball pitcher (300 game winner)
1900-10-16 - [Leon] Goose Goslin, baseball hall of famer (AL bat champ 1928)
1900-10-31 - Carl Hubbard, Missouri, baseball & football Hall of Famer
1902-05-22 - Al Simmons, Milwaukee, American baseball outfielder (A's), lifetime batting avg of .334 (d. 1956)
1903-02-21 - Thomas Yawkey, baseball owner (Boston Red Sox)
1903-04-06 - Mickey Cochrane, Baseball Hall of Fame catcher (.320 avg)
1903-10-09 - Walter O'Malley, baseball team owner (Dodgers)
1904-02-29 - John "Pepper" Martin, baseballer (NL stolen base leader 1933,34,36)
1905-05-31 - Roy Peaches Davis, baseball pitcher
1905-10-12 - Rick Ferrell, Baseball Hall of Fame catcher
1906-07-07 - [Leroy] Satchel Paige, baseball pitcher, never look back
1906-07-27 - Leo Durocher, Mass, baseball manager (Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants)
1906-10-12 - Joe Cronin, baseball (Pirates, Red Sox, Senators, MVP 1930, AL Pres)
1907-10-22 - Jimmy Foxx, baseball HR hitter (534, Detroit Tigers)
1908-11-26 - Lefty Gomez, baseball pitcher
1909-03-25 - Dutch (Emil) Leonard, baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox, 1.01 ERA 1914)
1910-10-12 - Bob Sheppard, American baseball announcer
1911-01-16 - Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean, HOF baseball pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1911-12-01 - Walter Alston, baseball manager (Dodgers)
1911-12-01 - Calvin Griffith, Canadian-born baseball executive (d. 1999)
1914-02-09 - Bill "Rhymes with Wreck" Veeck, baseball club owner
1915-04-19 - Harry Craft, baseball manager
1917-10-08 - Danny Murtaugh, baseball manager (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1917-10-25 - Lee MacPhail, American baseball manager and league executive
1918-01-25 - Ernie Harwell, American baseball sportscaster
1918-01-29 - William Rigney, baseball manager (SF Giants)
1918-02-12 - Dominic DiMaggio, baseball outfielder (Boston Red Sox)
1918-02-22 - Charles O Finley, baseball team owner (Oakland A's)
1918-02-26 - Edwin Charles "Preacher" Roe, baseball pitcher (Bkln Dodgers)
1919-02-25 - Monty Irvin, baseball hall of famer (NY Giants)
1919-08-09 - Ralph Houk, baseball manager (Yankees, Tigers)
1920-01-06 - Early Wynn, Hartford Ala, baseball Hall of famer (pitcher)
1920-03-01 - Harry Caray, baseball announcer (Chicago Cubs)
1922-05-11 - Nestor Chylak, American baseball umpire (d. 1992)
1923-02-02 - Al "Red" Schoendienst, baseball manager/2nd baseman (St Louis Cards)
1924-12-13 - Larry Doby, 1st black in baseball's AL (Cleve Indians)
1925-09-18 - Harvey Haddix, baseball pitcher (pitched perfect game into 12th)
1926-10-28 - Bowie Kuhn, baseball commissioner (1969-1984)
1927-01-22 - Lou Creekmur, Baseball Hall-of-Famer
1927-02-06 - Smokey Burgess, baseball catcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1927-03-19 - Richie Ashburn, baseball infielder (Philadelphia Phillies)/sportscaster
Baseball Manager Tom Lasorda (1927-09-22) 1927-09-22 - Tom Lasorda [Thomas], Norristown, Pennsylvania, baseball manager (LA Dodgers)
1927-11-29 - Vin[ce] Scully, sportscaster (NBC Baseball Game of the Week)
1927-12-29 - Jim Simpson, Wash DC, sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball)
1928-02-20 - Elroy Face, baseball pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1928-05-16 - Billy Martin, baseball 2nd baseman/manager (NY Yankees, Oakland A's)
1930-08-18 - Carl Barger, Lewistown Pa, baseball pres (Pittsburgh Pirates, Fla Marlins)
1931-01-17 - Don Zimmer, American baseball coach
1931-05-06 - Willie Mays, Westfield Alabama, baseball centerfielder (Giants, NY Mets), "Say Hey Kid" (660 HRs, MVP 1954)
1931-11-09 - Whitey Herzog, baseball manager (St Louis Cardinals)
1932-10-02 - Maury Wills, baseball shortstop (LA Dodgers, NL MVP 1962)
1934-02-22 - George "Sparky" Anderson, SD, baseball manager (Reds, Tigers)
1934-07-30 - Bud Selig, owner (Milwaukee Brewers)/acting baseball commissioner
1934-08-04 - Dallas Green, baseball manager (Phillies, Yankees)
1934-08-18 - Roberto Clemente, US baseball outfielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1934-09-07 - Bill Giles, Rochester NY, baseball owner (Philadelphia Phillies)
1934-12-09 - Al Kaline, Baltimore Md, baseball outfielder (Detroit Tigers)
1935-12-17 - Cal Ripken Sr, baseball manager (Balt Orioles)
1936-08-28 - Don Denkinger, American baseball umpire
1936-09-14 - Stan Williams, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees, LA Dodgers)
1937-06-28 - Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (d. 1995)
1937-09-02 - Peter Ueberroth, organized LA Olympics (1984)/baseball commissioner

Deaths in Sport

Results 1 - 78 of 78

1893-01-26 - Abner Doubleday, credit with inventing baseball, dies on 74th birthday
1908-04-20 - Henry Chadwick, sports reporter (baseball), dies at 85
1913-06-05 - Chris von der Ahe, baseball pioneer (b. 1851)
1914-04-01 - Rube Waddell, baseballer, dies at 37 of TB
1927-10-22 - Ross Youngs, Hall of Fame baseballer, dies of Bright's disease at 30
1929-11-14 - Joseph McGinnity, baseball pitcher (NY Giants), dies at 58
1931-02-28 - Ban Johnson, created (baseball's AL), dies after a long illness
1931-03-22 - Ban Johnson, founder of baseball's American League, dies at 67
1931-10-26 - Charles Comiskey, baseball team owner (b. 1859)
1934-08-08 - Wilbert Robinson, baseball manager (Bkln Dodgers), dies
1944-11-25 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge/baseball commisioner, dies at 78
Baseball Great Babe Ruth (1948-08-16) 1948-08-16 - Babe Ruth, Baseball legend (NY Yankees), dies in NY at 53
1951-07-09 - Harry Heilmann, baseball hall of famer outfielder (Det), dies at 56
1951-12-05 - "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, of baseball's black sox scandal, dies
1954-11-26 - Bill Doak, former Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1891)
1956-02-08 - Connie Mack, baseball manager (Phila A's, 1901-50), dies at 93
1956-03-02 - Fred Merkle, American baseball figure (b. 1888)
1958-11-21 - Mel Ott, NY Giant baseball star (1926-1947), dies at 49
1959-05-26 - Ed Walsh, baseball pitcher (1.82 ERA), dies at 78
1961-07-17 - Ty Cobb, baseball great (Det Tigers), dies of cancer at 74
1961-08-28 - Thomas Connolly, 1st baseball umpire elected to hall of fame, dies
1962-03-04 - George Mogridge, Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1889)
1962-06-28 - Mickey Cochrane, Baseball Hall of Fame catcher, dies at 59
1965-12-09 - Branch Rickey, American baseball executive (b. 1884)
1967-07-21 - Jimmy Foxx, baseball hall of famer (Det Tigers/534 HRs), dies at 59
1968-04-19 - Tommy Bridges, US baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers), dies at 61
Baseball Legend Connie Mack (1956-02-08) 1968-06-15 - Samuel Earl "Wahoo Sam" Crawford, baseball pitcher, dies at 88
1969-01-24 - Tom Zachary, baseball pitcher (Wash Senators), dies at 72
1970-01-14 - John J "Johnny" Murphy, US baseball pitcher (NY Yankees), dies at 61
1976-12-02 - Danny Murtaugh, baseball manager (Pittsburgh Pirates), dies at 59
1977-04-12 - Philip K Wrigley, baseball owner (Chicago Cubs), dies at 82
1978-01-13 - Joseph V McCarthy, baseball manager (NY Yankees), dies at 96
1978-04-08 - Ford C Frick, baseball commissioner, dies at 83
1980-06-01 - [Richard] Rube Marquard, US baseball pitcher, dies at 90
1981-10-04 - Freddie Lindstrom, Major League Baseball Hall of famer (b. 1905)
1982-02-17 - Nestor Chylak, American baseball umpire (b. 1922)
1982-06-08 - [Leroy] Satchel Paige, US baseball pitcher, dies at 75
1984-10-01 - Walter Alston, Baseball manager (LA Dodgers), dies at 72
1985-06-10 - Bob Prince, sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball), dies at 68
1985-12-06 - Burleigh Grimes, US baseball pitcher, dies at 92
1986-01-02 - Bill Veeck, American baseball executive (b. 1914)
1987-11-16 - Jim Brewer, Major League Baseball relief pitcher (b. 1937)
1989-09-01 - A Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commissioner, dies of heart attack at 51
1989-09-02 - A Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commisioner, dies at 51
1989-09-29 - A A Busch Jr, brewer/baseball owner (St Louis Cards), dies at 90
1990-01-07 - Horace Stoneham, baseball owner (Giants), dies at 86
1991-01-07 - Joe Hicks, baseball coach, dies of cancer at 64
1991-03-07 - James "Cool Papa" Bell, American baseball league great, dies at 87
1991-06-15 - Happy Chandler, American politician and Commissioner of Baseball (b. 1898)
1991-10-07 - Leo Durocher, baseball coach/manager (Dodgers, Giants), dies at 86
1992-06-04 - Carl Stotz, founder (baseball's little league), dies at 82
1992-11-10 - Chuck Connors, US NBA/baseballer/actor (Boston Celtics), dies at 71
1992-12-09 - Carl Barger, baseball pres (Pittsburgh Pirates, Fla Marlins), dies at 62
1993-04-21 - Hal Schumacher, baseball pitcher, dies at 82
1993-04-22 - Mark Koenig, baseball shortstop (NY Yankees), dies at 88
1993-09-20 - Loan Volkerijk, Dutch baseball coach (ADO), dies at 65
1993-11-12 - Bill Dickey, HOF baseball catcher (NY Yankees, 1928-46), dies at 86
1994-01-10 - Charles "Chub" Feeney, baseball pres (National League), dies at 72
1995-01-18 - Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (b. 1937)
1995-04-28 - Peaches Roy Davis, baseball pitcher, dies at 89
1995-08-03 - Harry Craft, baseball manager, dies at 80
1995-08-13 - Mickey Mantle, baseball great (NY Yankees), dies of cancer at 63
1996-02-19 - Charles O Finley, baseball owner (Oakland A's), dies at 76
1996-04-01 - John McSherry, American baseball umpire (b. 1944)
1996-04-17 - Michele Carew, daughter of baseball great Rod, dies of Leukemia at 18
1998-06-21 - Al Campanis, American baseball executive (b. 1916)
1999-03-25 - Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball manager (b. 1936)
2002-06-18 - Jack Buck, American baseball announcer (b. 1924)
2002-07-05 - Ted Williams, baseball hall of famer and last player to bat over.400 in a single season (Boston Red Sox) dies at 84
2004-03-02 - Marge Schott, American baseball team owner (b. 1928)
2005-03-27 - Bob Casey, American baseball announcer (b. 1925)
2006-10-11 - Cory Lidle, American baseball pitcher (b. 1972)
2006-11-07 - Johnny Sain, American baseball pitcher (b. 1917)
2006-12-31 - George Sisler, Jr., baseball executive (b. 1917)
2007-02-04 - Steve Barber, American baseball pitcher (b. 1938)
2007-03-15 - Bowie Kuhn, American commissioner of baseball (b. 1926)
2008-12-19 - Dock Ellis, American baseball pitcher (b. 1945)
2010-01-05 - Rory Markas, Angels baseball announcer (b.1955)