Events in Sport
- 1900-04-26 Newly renamed American League opener in Cleveland draws 6,500 (still as a minor league, was Western League)
- 1901-09-05 National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, better known as Minor League Baseball is formed at the Leland Hotel in Chicago
- 1902-06-15 Minor League's most lopsided baseball game: Corsicana 51; Texarkana 3 Justin Clark of Corsicana, Texas minors hits 8 home runs in 1 game
- 1909-06-19 1st baseball game, an exhibition between local Elks lodge teams, played under lights in Cincinnati, Ohio
Contract of Interest
1914-07-09 Boston Red Sox purchase future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth's contract from minor league Baltimore Orioles
Commissioner Frees Cardinals
1938-03-23 MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis frees 74 St Louis Cardinals minor league players from their contracts
Bill Terry
1942-11-30 Bill Terry resigns as supervisor of NY Giants minor league system
- 1944-07-03 Oriole Park, then a minor league baseball stadium burns down in Baltimore; cause, speculated discarded cigarette
Sports History
1945-10-30 Branch Rickey signs Jackie Robinson to a contract with the Montreal Royals, the top minor league affiliate of the Brooklyn Dodgers
- 1952-04-28 St Louis Browns lend 2 black minor leaguers to Hankyu Braves of Japan
- 1953-03-03 Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block St Louis Browns attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee
Sports History
1956-08-07 51-year-old Satchel Paige (Miami Marlins) wins a game before the largest crowd in minor league history, 57,000 at Miami’s Orange Bowl; International League: Marlins 6-2 v Columbus Jets
- 1957-02-21 Dodgers (Fort Worth) & Cubs (LA) "trade" minor league franchises
- 1957-12-28 CBS states it won't broadcast baseball where minor league games are on
- 1959-11-11 Seals Stadium, a minor league baseball park and temporary home of MLB Giants) in San Francisco, California demolished
- 1962-12-01 Classifications in minor league baseball are overhauled; Eastern and South Atlantic leagues are promoted from Class-A to Class-AA; classes B, C and D are abolished with those leagues being promoted to Class-A
- 1969-04-01 Seattle Pilots trade little-known minor league outfielder Lou Piniella to KC Royals for 2 prospects; hits .282 with 11 HRs & 68 RBI to win AL Rookie of the Year; becomes leading MLB manager
- 1981-08-29 Phillies minor leaguer Jeff Stone steals pro baseball record 121st base en route to 122 (Spartanburg (South Atlantic League))
- 1987-04-03 MLB Chicago Cubs trade Dennis Eckersley to Oakland A's for 3 minor league players
- 1987-06-24 Minor League Salt Lake City Trappers begin pro baseball record 29 consecutive win streak
- 1987-08-31 The Great Potato Incident: Minor league Williamsport Bills catcher Dave Bresnahan attempts to lure an opposing baserunner off third base using a potato carved to look like a baseball. Umpire calls runner safe, and the catcher is fined $50 and released by the team [1] [2]
- 1989-02-10 Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, St Louis
- 1992-06-16 Colorado Rockies 1st minor league team's (Bend Oregon in Class A) game
Baseball Trade
1993-07-31 Toronto Blue Jays obtain future Baseball Hall of Fame OF Rickey Henderson from Oakland in exchange for minor leaguers Steve Karsay and Jose Herrera
- 1998-02-06 Twins trade Chuck Knoblauch to NY Yankees for $3M & 4 minor leaguers
Birthdays in Sport
- 1946-10-10 Pete Mahvolich, Canadian ice hockey center (Stanley Cup 1971, 73, 76, 77 Montreal Canadiens; Canada Cup 1976), born in Timmins, Ontario
Weddings in Sport
Tommy Lasorda
1950-04-14 American minor league pitcher and future Dodgers' manager Tommy Lasorda (22) weds Joan Miller in South Carolina
