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This Day In Baseball History: March 14th
By Administrator | March 14, 2008
In 1954, in an exhibition game against the Red Sox, Hank Aaron made his first start with the Braves… he got three hits, the first of which was a home run that, legend has it, was hit so hard that it caused Ted Williams to run out of the Boston locker room to see who could make that sound by hitting a baseball.
In 1956, Satchel Paige signed with the Birmingham Black Barons (Negro League) at age 50 to both play and manage.
In 1961, the Mets lured former Yankees general manager George Weiss out of retirement to become the club’s first president.
In 1995, the National Labor Relations Board announced it would charge major league baseball owners with two counts of unfair labor practices.
In 2003, Brewers’ TV/radio play-by-play announcer Bob Uecker was chosen for induction into the broadcasters’ wing of the Hall of Fame as the recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award.
Born Today: Kirby Puckett (1961)
Topics: MLB History |
