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The following are the events that happened world-wide throughout the sport of baseball.

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1800s[]

  • 1886 - The Executive Council of the Brotherhood of Professional Base Ball Players (*), formed the previous year, meets and chooses officers. Monte Ward is re-elected president, Dan Brouthers vice president, and Tim Keefe secretary-treasurer.
  • 1889 - The Joint Rules Committee of the National League and the American Association makes only minor changes in the playing rules, the most important of which is to allow two substitutes per team, up from one in 1889.
  • 1891 - The National League meets and dismisses the charges of collusion and game throwing against the eastern clubs brought by the Chicago Cubs, thereby formally giving the Boston Beaneaters the pennant. The league also plans its strategy for conquering the association by consolidating the four strongest American Association clubs into a 12-team league for next year.
  • 1899 - Chicago Orphans star outfielder Bill Lange returns to San Francisco and vows he will never appear on the diamond again. He is only 28 and hit .325 this season.

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  • 1903 - Jimmy Collins signs a contract to [[manager (baseball)|manage the Pilgrims for three years. They will be called the Pilgrims, then the Red Sox during his tenure.

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  • 1996 - John Smoltz, who won a major league-high 24 games for the Atlanta Braves, wins the National League Cy Young Award in a runaway. Smoltz, the NL leader in strikeouts (276), innings pitched (253.2), and winning percentage (.750), receives 26 of 28 first-place votes. Kevin Brown of the Florida Marlins, the major-league ERA leader (1.89), receives the other two first-place votes. Since 1991, five of the six Cy Young winners have been Braves.
    • Milwaukee Brewers owner Bud Selig meets with Don Fehr, the players' labor leader, in a futile attempt to convince Fehr to accept the owners' demands. With the deadline for an agreement at midnight on the 14th, there is virtually no hope that the two sides will agree. If the two sides reach the deadline without an agreement, the interleague schedule for next year will be wiped out, and a traditional schedule followed.

2000s[]

  • 2005 - John Shelby was hired by the Pittsburgh Pirates as a first base and outfield coach, becoming the third member of Jim Tracy's staff with the Los Angeles Dodgers to join him in Pittsburgh. Shelby, like pitching coach Jim Colborn and bench coach Jim Lett, was a member of Tracy's staff in Los Angeles. Shelby is a former MLB outfielder who played for the Orioles, Dodgers and Tigers, and was a Dodgers coach for eight seasons, six of them as first base coach. He had been on the Dodgers' coaching staff since 1998 after previously managing four seasons in the organization's farm system.

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Deaths[]

  • 1928 - Oyster Burns, outfielder (b. 1864)
  • 1996 - Luman Harris, player and manager (b. 1915)
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