1928 – Massachusetts voters approve Sunday baseball in Boston, provided Braves Field is more than 1,000 feet from a church. This leaves Pennsylvania as the only state without Sunday baseball in the major leagues.
1960 – Warren Spahn finishes second in Cy Young, voting against Vern Law, who finished 20-9 with 18 complete games for the National League champion Pittsburgh Pirates.
2020 – Max Fried wins the first of three consecutive Gold Glove awards.
1926 – Ty Cobb resigns as Detroit Tigers manager after leading his team to a 79-75 record and a sixth-place finish. Umpire and former Tigers infielder George Moriarty replaces him. Moriarty is the first man to hold baseball’s four main jobs: player, umpire, scout and manager. Cobb will sign a player contract with the Philadelphia Athletics and hit .357 during the 1927 season.
1934 – Athletics catcher Mickey Cochrane is named MVP of the American League over Lou Gehrig who won the Triple Crown with a .363 average, 49 home runs and 165 RBI.
1942 – Joe Gordon is named American League MVP over Ted Williams, who won the triple crown by hitting .356 with 36 home runs and 137 RBI.
1953 – The Baseball Rules Committee reinstates the 1939 sacrifice fly rule, which says a sacrifice fly is not counted as a strike.
1964 – Philadelphia voters approve a $25 million bond issue to build a new stadium. In 1967 the project will need another $13 million. Veterans Stadium is one of the most expensive ballparks to date with a final cost of $50 million.
1968 – St. Louis Cardinals broadcaster Harry Caray is hit by a car while crossing a street in St. Louis, and he suffers two broken legs, a broken shoulder and a broken nose.
1987 – Mark McGwire is named American League Rookie of the Year after hitting 49 home runs.
1989 – Lou Piniella is named manager of the Cincinnati Redsreplacing the banned Pete Rose.
1991 – Houston Astros first baseman Jeff Bagwell is named National League Rookie of the Year, becoming the first Houston player to win the award. Bagwell hit .294 with a team-leading 15 home runs and 82 RBI. His 82 walks also led the Astros. Bagwell was picked in the fourth round of the 1989 amateur draft by the Boston RedSoxthen traded for relief pitcher Larry Andersen in the stretch drive of 1990.
1992 – The New York Yankees acquire outfielder Paul O’Neill from the Reds in exchange for outfielder Roberto Kelly.
2014- The Cubs introduce new manager Joe Maddon at a press conference. The former Rays skipper is in an optimistic mood and says he believes the last-place club can make a play-off run next season.
2015 – The Nationals hire Dusty Baker as their manager, less than a week after telling Bud Black he had the job but not making him a competitive salary offer.
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