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|  | Today in Baseball History ... 11/3
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Today in Baseball History - November 3rd
"Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is." – Bob Feller
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for a more comprehensive “today in Baseball History” see http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/November_3
1918 Future Hall of Famer Bob Feller is born in Van Meter, Iowa. Feller makes his major league debut as a 17-year-old pitcher in 1936, and will win 266 games over an 18-year career, despite missing parts of four seasons while serving in World War II.
1926 Ty Cobb resigns as Tigers manager and announces his retirement from the game. Umpire and former Tigers infielder George Moriarty replaces him. Moriarty is the first man to hold baseball's four principal jobs: player, umpire, scout, and manager.
1934 Although Lou Gehrig wins the Triple Crown with 49 home runs, 165 RBI, and a .363 average, Mickey Cochrane, with two home runs, 76 RBI, and a.320 average, is named American League Most Valuable Player. Dizzy Dean, with a 30-7 record, is chosen as National League Most Valuable Player.
1942 Ted Williams is the Triple Crown winner in the major leagues, but the writers select second baseman Joe Gordon by 21 votes as American League Most Valuable Player. Gordon of the New York Yankees leads the American League with 95 strikeouts, the most ground balls hit into double plays (22), and the most errors at his position (28). Pitcher Mort Cooper gets the Most Valuable Player honor in the National League.
1953 The Rules Committee re-establishes the sacrifice fly ruling which credits a batter with a RBI who flies out driving in a run without charging the hitter with a time at bat. The rule had been dropped in 1939.
1960 Vern Law, who was 20-9 with 18 complete games for the National League champion Pirates, is voted Cy Young Award winner. Warren Spahn finishes second.
1964 Philadelphia voters approve $25 million bond issue to build a new sport stadium. Due cost overruns, a 1967 measure is needed to authorized an additional $13 million making Veteran Stadiums most expensive ballparks with a final cost of $50 million.
1965 In a winter league game, A's pitcher Lew Krausse strikes out a record 21 Lara batters as he tosses a one-hitter for Caracas.
1965 In an unanimous vote, Dodger southpaw Sandy Koufax (26-8, 2.04, 382) is named the Cy Young Award winner.
1967 Boston's Jim Lonborg, who was 22-9 with 246 strikeouts for the American League champions, is named American League Cy Young Award winner.
1968 Long time Cardinal announcer Harry Caray is struck by a car on a rain-slicked night in St. Louis. The popular personality, who will be ticketed for crossing in the middle of the street, suffers fractures in both legs, a broken and dislocated shoulder, as well as facial lacerations.
1970 Bob Gibson wins the National League Cy Young Award by a 118-51 margin over Gaylord Perry of the Giants. Gibson posted a 23-7 record for the Cardinals.
1970 Curt Flood is traded by the Phillies to the Senators for three minor leaguers.
1979 The AL and NL all-star teams depart on an exhibition tour of Japan. The National League squad will take four of seven from the American League counterparts, but the teams will combine to split a pair of games with the Japanese all-stars.
1981 Brewers reliever Rollie Fingers (28 saves, 1.04 ERA) wins the American League Cy Young Award, collecting 22 of 28 possible first-place votes. The other six go to Oakland's Steve McCatty.
1982 Pete Vuckovich becomes Milwaukee's second consecutive American League Cy Young Award winner, edging Jim Palmer. Vuckovich (18-6 with a 3.34 ERA for the Brewers) has the highest winning percentage in the majors over the past two seasons.
1987 Oakland first baseman Mark McGwire, who hit forty-nine home runs, wins the American League Rookie of the Year Award. McGwire is the second player to win that league's award unanimously (Carlton Fisk was the first in 1972).
1989 Lou Piniella is named manager of the Reds, replacing the banned Pete Rose.
1992 The Reds trade Paul O'Neill and Joe DeBerry, a minor leaguer, to the Yankees for Roberto Kelly. The deal works well for the Bronx Bombers as the popular outfielder will become a team leaderplaying an important in four World Series championships before he retires prior to the the 2002 season.
1997 Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra is the sixth player to be the unanimous choice for American League Rookie of the Year. Garciaparra, twenty-four, led the American League in hits (209), triples (11), and multi-hit games (68), while also setting the American League rookie record with a 30-game hitting streak.
1999 In a nine-player deal, the Rangers trade super star Juan Gonzalez along with pitcher Danny Patterson and catcher Greg Zaun to the Tigers for pitchers Justin Thompson, Alan Webb and Francisco Cordero, outfielder Gabe Kapler, catcher Bill Haselman and infielder Frank Catalanotto.
2000 After being turned down by Yankees third base coach Willie Randolph and their own third base coach, Ron Oester, because of below market contract offers, the Reds hire Bob Boone as manager replacing Jack McKeon. The former catcher and present special assistant to general manager Jim Bowden had a 181-206 record as manager of the Royals.
2001 In Game 6, the Diamondbacks get 21 hits in the first six innings against the Yankees to set a record for hits in a World Series game. The previous record of 20 was established by the 1921 Giants (Game 3 vs Yankees) and the 1946 Cardinals (Game 4 vs Red Sox).
2003 ESPN analyst Bobby Valentine will return to Japan to manage the Chiba Lotte Marines, the club which fired himafter a solid second-place finish in 1995. The former Mets and Ranger skipper signs a three-year deal with an option for two more years worth for an estimated $6.4 million.
2005 SBC announces the San Francisco home of Giants will getting its third name in three years. The corporation will adopt the better known AT&T brand for its identity as the result of the likely merger of the two companies planned for later this year.
2006 In an effort to bring America's national pastime to a country which has a population of over 1.3 billion potential fans, MLB officials announce an office will be opened in China to help promote the game. The possibility of the sport playing a regular-season opener in Beijing is raised by Bob DuPuy, baseball's chief operating officer.
2008 Ruben Amaro Jr., the team's assistant GM for decade, is named to replace Pat Gillick as the general manager of the recently crowned World Champion Phillies. The former bat boy signs a three-year deal to run the club five days after Philadelphia beat Tampa Bay in the Fall Classic to win its second title in franchise history.
2008 The Brewers exercise its $10 million option on Mike Cameron (.243 ,25, 70). The 35-year old three-time Gold Glove outfielder committed only in error in 119 starts for the Brew Crew last season.
Baseball Birthdays on November 3...
1856 - McCormick, Jim
1860 - Trumbull, Ed
1863 - Hanna, John
1866 - Staley, Harry
1871 - Hayner, John
1875 - Geier, Phil
1876 - Rockenfield, Ike
1878 - Clarkson, Walter
1881 - Baldwin, O.F.
1881 - Hickey, Jack
1885 - Lennox, Ed
1886 - Southwick, Clyde
1886 - Fisher, Bob
1890 - Kopf, Larry
1895 - Willson, Kid
1895 - Walkup, Jim
1898 - Summa, Homer
1908 - Phillips, Red
1911 - Keane, Johnny
1917 - Gilmore, Len
1917 - Hodkey, Eli
1918 - Feller, Bob - HOF MLB player 1936-1956, link to Bob’s lifetime stats http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/fellebo01.shtml , link to Bob’s HOF bio & plaque http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers/detail.jsp?playerId=114055
1919 - Jorgensen, Spider
1921 - Flager, Wally
1927 - Richards, Fred
1936 - Robinson, Earl
1936 - Herrscher, Rick
1945 - Holtzman, Ken
1945 - Johnson, Jim
1946 - Hill, Garry
1946 - Heintzelman, Tom
1948 - Kreuger, Rick
1951 - Evans, Dwight
1953 - Herndon, Larry
1953 - Thompson, Bobby
1955 - Corey, Mark
1956 - Welch, Bob
1962 - Corbett, Sherman
1963 - Christopher, Mike
1968 - Quantrill, Paul
1969 - Robinson, Kenny
1971 - Young, Danny
1971 - Lawton, Matt
1972 - Benitez, Armando
1978 - Martinez, Anastacio
1984 - Herrera, Jonathan
Baseball Deaths on November 3...
1892 - Smith, Edgar
1925 - Frock, Sam
1938 - Dorsey, Jerry
1938 - Scott, Milt
1945 - Smith, Elmer
1946 - Taylor, Ben
1951 - Hovlik, Joe
1952 - Smith, Frank
1953 - Chapman, John
1955 - Merritt, John
1956 - Jones, John
1958 - Sand, Heinie
1958 - Eubank, John
1960 - Wallace, Bobby - HOF MLB player 1894-1918, link to Bobby’s lifetime stats http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wallabo01.shtml , link to Bobby’s lifetime managerial record http://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/wallabo01.shtml , link to Bobby’s HOF bio & plaque http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers/detail.jsp?playerId=123864
1961 - Maguire, Freddie
1968 - Stephens, Vern
1970 - Kellett, Red
1972 - Voyles, Phil
1974 - Wood, Doc
1976 - Brazill, Frank
1981 - Jurisich, Al
1982 - Fisher, Ray
1986 - Middleton, John
1990 - Russell, Jack
1992 - Berger, Boze
1992 - Van Cuyk, Chris
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