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This Day In Baseball History: December 25th (Billy Martin Dies In Auto Accident)
By Administrator | December 25, 2009
In 1862, a crowd of 40,000 watched two teams of imprisoned Union Army soldiers play baseball at the Confederate prison camp at Hilton Head, South Carolina.
In 1888, at the Philadelphia State Fairground Building, the Downtowners beat the Uptowners in the first indoor baseball game ever played, 6-1.
In 1940, South Side Park, the first home of the Chicago White Sox, burned down.
In 1989, Billy Martin, 61, died in a one-car automobile accident near his home in Binghamton, NY.
In 2001, Hideki Matsui became the highest-paid player in Japanese baseball history when he signed a one-year, $4.7 million contract to play for the Yomiuri Giants… the contract surpassed the $4 million salary paid to Ichiro Suzuki by the Orix Blue Wave in 2000.
Born Today: Nellie Fox (1927), Jack Hamilton (1938), Rickey Henderson (1958)
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