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1950
03 - Red Sox set record scoring 29 runs against the Browns
08 Gil Hodges is the first modern major leaguer to hit 4 HR' in a game
11 - Branch Rickey signs 5 year contract with the Pirates
1951
01 - Sporting News #1 Men of the Year - Phil Rizzuto - Manager Red Rolfe - Executive George Weiss
1952
01 - Sporting News #1 Men of the Year - Stan Musial - Manager Leo Durocher - Executive George Weiss
1953
03 - League owners approve the transfer of the Boston Braves to Milwaukee
09 - Cubs purchase Ernie Banks from Monarchs for between $25k and 35K
11 - Buzzi Bavasi hires Walter (Smokey) Alston as Dodgers' manager
1954
04 - Sacrifice fly rule re-instated
06 - Baltimore catcher Clint Courtney caught using an illegal bat with a nail in the end.
06 - Warren Giles state that he is convinced the Jackie Robinson did not intend to throw his bat into the stands in Milwaukee, 2 injured people sued but settled out of court.
07 - Joe Adcock hits 4 HR at Ebbets Field
12 - Owners reject proposal to reduce 25 man roster to 23
- Owners reject players request to increase minimum wage from $6,000 to $7,200
- AL to draw up "dry run schedules" for a 10 team league
- Major League teams will give $35,000 - $50,000 to help minor league teams in organization
- Commission Frick favors 3rd league for expansion
- 20 second clock to be used by 3rd base umpire to speed up game
- catcher must stay in box for intentional walks
- laminated bats approved
12 - Dodgers sign Sandy Koufax to a Bonus contract for $20,000
- Ralph Kiner's request for a 40% pay cut from the Indians put on hold by Commissioner Frick due to rule of maximum of 25% allowed for teams to cut a player's salary
- Branch Rickey turns 73
- LA County Board has $9.3 million set aside for new stadium
- SF passes a $5.0 million bond for new stadium
- Willie Mays only MVP award winner in first full season
- Yogi Berra wins 2nd MVP award
- Hank Greenberg pushing for inter-league play
- Cincinnati post a $63,000 profit after 4 years of losses
- If Elston Howard makes Yankees roster - he won't be able to play exhibition game in Birmingham
- Dodgers cancel Birmingham pre-season game due to racial policy
- Casey Stengel set AL record by using 262 pinch hitters in 1954
- Reds tie NL record with 194 double plays - the their one triple play cost them the record
- Pirates draft Roberto Clemente for $4,000 from Dodgers Montreal team
- No tied games this year - first time since 1925
- Indians 2.78 era AL best since record keeping started in 1930
1955
03 - Bobby Avila is last holdout, signs with Indians for $27,500 plus bonus opportunity of $2,000
- Chicago group headed by John W. Clark buys Yankee Stadium
- Florida built 3 new parks, Clearwater, Miami and Jacksonville to keep "spring training" teams
- 37 years old Phil RIzzuto denies reports that he is a step slower
- KC Atheltics advanced ticket sales at 430,000, 120,000 ahead of last year's total
04 - Johnny Pesky's career ends when Baltimore gives him an unconditional release
- Bob Feller, AL player rep, and Robin Roberts, NL player rep, present a plan to major league baseball to establish an employment service where each team would have a program to help their players get winter work in their cities
- Cubs' Manager Stanley Hack complains that we now have a 3 hour game because of the shortened strike zone
- Cardinals' Vic Raschi, and his $85,000 contract, put on waivers
- After poor start by Cardinals' pitchers, Cards are talking about extending Spring Training for pitchers
05 - Visiting clubs average $0.30 per admission
- Yankees' Gerald Coleman breaks collarbone at home plate collision
- Giants' manager, Ray Katt uses 7 batting orders in first 10 games
- Cardinal manager, Eddie Stanky, introduces a new shift - while intentionally walling Hank Aaron and Eddie Mathews with a man on 3rd, he brought Stan Musial in from 1st to 10' from the plate in order to protect from the batter reaching out an dropping the ball down
- White Sox manager, Frank Lane, calls KC's new ballpark a "rock pile" very poor condition after new construction
- Hank Greenberg, Cleveland GM, condemns the suggestion that the plate should be enlarged and the spitball returned. "They (fans) want to see more action.
- The Kansas City location is causing travel problems. Yankees skip a Saturday game to make sure they can make the Detroit game on Sunday. Washington had to leave a Tiger game with 2 outs in the 8th to make a train for KC.
- White Sox GM, Frank Lane, "Absence of Ted Williams will cost the AL $500,000 if he doesn't return"
- New catchers box - 43" - old catcher box 16'
- In the Tigers first 13 victories they only used 1 reliever
06 - Ford Frick wants to make Spitter a legal pitch
- Quaker Oats puts 20,000,000 tickets in ready to eat cereal boxes, entitling children o 12 and under to see a ball game with a paying adult.
- Mickey Mantle gets on base 15 times in a row.
- Walter O’Malley, on Brooklyn’s projected new park? “It’s in the works”.
- The Redlegs have out-homered their competition 846 – 690 over the last six years.
- NBC’ vice-president says July 12th All Star Game from Milwaukee will be in color.
07 - Red Sox and Braves play in Cooperstown at the 14th annual Hall of Fame game.
- Joe DiMaggio inducted into the Hall
- Due to abuse of disabled list Frick requires medical proof
08 - Dodgers seeking new ballpark in Flatbush
12 - Ford Frick recommends a "Pitcher of the Year" award, pitchers would not be eligible for MVP
- NL set record with 1,263 homers
1956
01 - Sporting News Men of the Year - Duke Snider - Manager - Walt Alston - Executive Walter O'Malley
03 - Cy Young award for pitchers being debated
04 - Frank Umont, the first umpire to wear glasses
1957
07 - Roberto Clemente homers snaps Brooks Lawrences' 13 game winning streak
10 - Walter O'Malley announces that the Dodgers are going to Los Angeles
- Thousands welcome O'Malley in Los Angeles
1958
02 - Mantle's contract increased from $65,000 to $75.000
- Roy Sievers signs with Senators for $37,000 - largest salary in Senators ' history
03 - Players must agreed to contract or salary can be set my management
- Payrolls range from $500,000 to $700,00
- Baltimore signs Dave Nicholson , a high school kid, for $100,000 under bonus rule
11 - Bill Shea announces that a committee that he heads was starting a third major league
1959
09 - Dodger's beat Milwaukee in a 3 game play-off in front of only 18,297 Milwaukee fans to win the pennant
07 - Pumpsie Green pinch hits for Vic Wertz, Boston Red Sox are the last team to integrate
1960
01 - Sporting News Men of the Year - Bill Mazeroski - Manager - Danny Murtaugh - Executive - Branch Rickey
07 - Continental League co-opted when NL voted to expand to 10 teams
09 - MLB promised the four new franchises to ownership groups from the Continental League
- Ted Williams hit HR in his last at bat in majors in front of 10,545 at Fenway Park
1961
01 - "After 60 years as an eight-club circuit, the American League will operate with 10 clubs in 1961"
- The Sporting News - Jan. 4, 1961
1962
01 - Sporting News #1 Men of the year - Roger Maris - Manager Ralph Houk - Executive Dan Topping
1950
03 - Red Sox set record scoring 29 runs against the Browns
08 Gil Hodges is the first modern major leaguer to hit 4 HR' in a game
11 - Branch Rickey signs 5 year contract with the Pirates
1951
01 - Sporting News #1 Men of the Year - Phil Rizzuto - Manager Red Rolfe - Executive George Weiss
1952
01 - Sporting News #1 Men of the Year - Stan Musial - Manager Leo Durocher - Executive George Weiss
1953
03 - League owners approve the transfer of the Boston Braves to Milwaukee
09 - Cubs purchase Ernie Banks from Monarchs for between $25k and 35K
11 - Buzzi Bavasi hires Walter (Smokey) Alston as Dodgers' manager
1954
04 - Sacrifice fly rule re-instated
06 - Baltimore catcher Clint Courtney caught using an illegal bat with a nail in the end.
06 - Warren Giles state that he is convinced the Jackie Robinson did not intend to throw his bat into the stands in Milwaukee, 2 injured people sued but settled out of court.
07 - Joe Adcock hits 4 HR at Ebbets Field
12 - Owners reject proposal to reduce 25 man roster to 23
- Owners reject players request to increase minimum wage from $6,000 to $7,200
- AL to draw up "dry run schedules" for a 10 team league
- Major League teams will give $35,000 - $50,000 to help minor league teams in organization
- Commission Frick favors 3rd league for expansion
- 20 second clock to be used by 3rd base umpire to speed up game
- catcher must stay in box for intentional walks
- laminated bats approved
12 - Dodgers sign Sandy Koufax to a Bonus contract for $20,000
- Ralph Kiner's request for a 40% pay cut from the Indians put on hold by Commissioner Frick due to rule of maximum of 25% allowed for teams to cut a player's salary
- Branch Rickey turns 73
- LA County Board has $9.3 million set aside for new stadium
- SF passes a $5.0 million bond for new stadium
- Willie Mays only MVP award winner in first full season
- Yogi Berra wins 2nd MVP award
- Hank Greenberg pushing for inter-league play
- Cincinnati post a $63,000 profit after 4 years of losses
- If Elston Howard makes Yankees roster - he won't be able to play exhibition game in Birmingham
- Dodgers cancel Birmingham pre-season game due to racial policy
- Casey Stengel set AL record by using 262 pinch hitters in 1954
- Reds tie NL record with 194 double plays - the their one triple play cost them the record
- Pirates draft Roberto Clemente for $4,000 from Dodgers Montreal team
- No tied games this year - first time since 1925
- Indians 2.78 era AL best since record keeping started in 1930
1955
03 - Bobby Avila is last holdout, signs with Indians for $27,500 plus bonus opportunity of $2,000
- Chicago group headed by John W. Clark buys Yankee Stadium
- Florida built 3 new parks, Clearwater, Miami and Jacksonville to keep "spring training" teams
- 37 years old Phil RIzzuto denies reports that he is a step slower
- KC Atheltics advanced ticket sales at 430,000, 120,000 ahead of last year's total
04 - Johnny Pesky's career ends when Baltimore gives him an unconditional release
- Bob Feller, AL player rep, and Robin Roberts, NL player rep, present a plan to major league baseball to establish an employment service where each team would have a program to help their players get winter work in their cities
- Cubs' Manager Stanley Hack complains that we now have a 3 hour game because of the shortened strike zone
- Cardinals' Vic Raschi, and his $85,000 contract, put on waivers
- After poor start by Cardinals' pitchers, Cards are talking about extending Spring Training for pitchers
05 - Visiting clubs average $0.30 per admission
- Yankees' Gerald Coleman breaks collarbone at home plate collision
- Giants' manager, Ray Katt uses 7 batting orders in first 10 games
- Cardinal manager, Eddie Stanky, introduces a new shift - while intentionally walling Hank Aaron and Eddie Mathews with a man on 3rd, he brought Stan Musial in from 1st to 10' from the plate in order to protect from the batter reaching out an dropping the ball down
- White Sox manager, Frank Lane, calls KC's new ballpark a "rock pile" very poor condition after new construction
- Hank Greenberg, Cleveland GM, condemns the suggestion that the plate should be enlarged and the spitball returned. "They (fans) want to see more action.
- The Kansas City location is causing travel problems. Yankees skip a Saturday game to make sure they can make the Detroit game on Sunday. Washington had to leave a Tiger game with 2 outs in the 8th to make a train for KC.
- White Sox GM, Frank Lane, "Absence of Ted Williams will cost the AL $500,000 if he doesn't return"
- New catchers box - 43" - old catcher box 16'
- In the Tigers first 13 victories they only used 1 reliever
06 - Ford Frick wants to make Spitter a legal pitch
- Quaker Oats puts 20,000,000 tickets in ready to eat cereal boxes, entitling children o 12 and under to see a ball game with a paying adult.
- Mickey Mantle gets on base 15 times in a row.
- Walter O’Malley, on Brooklyn’s projected new park? “It’s in the works”.
- The Redlegs have out-homered their competition 846 – 690 over the last six years.
- NBC’ vice-president says July 12th All Star Game from Milwaukee will be in color.
07 - Red Sox and Braves play in Cooperstown at the 14th annual Hall of Fame game.
- Joe DiMaggio inducted into the Hall
- Due to abuse of disabled list Frick requires medical proof
08 - Dodgers seeking new ballpark in Flatbush
12 - Ford Frick recommends a "Pitcher of the Year" award, pitchers would not be eligible for MVP
- NL set record with 1,263 homers
1956
01 - Sporting News Men of the Year - Duke Snider - Manager - Walt Alston - Executive Walter O'Malley
03 - Cy Young award for pitchers being debated
04 - Frank Umont, the first umpire to wear glasses
1957
07 - Roberto Clemente homers snaps Brooks Lawrences' 13 game winning streak
10 - Walter O'Malley announces that the Dodgers are going to Los Angeles
- Thousands welcome O'Malley in Los Angeles
1958
02 - Mantle's contract increased from $65,000 to $75.000
- Roy Sievers signs with Senators for $37,000 - largest salary in Senators ' history
03 - Players must agreed to contract or salary can be set my management
- Payrolls range from $500,000 to $700,00
- Baltimore signs Dave Nicholson , a high school kid, for $100,000 under bonus rule
11 - Bill Shea announces that a committee that he heads was starting a third major league
1959
09 - Dodger's beat Milwaukee in a 3 game play-off in front of only 18,297 Milwaukee fans to win the pennant
07 - Pumpsie Green pinch hits for Vic Wertz, Boston Red Sox are the last team to integrate
1960
01 - Sporting News Men of the Year - Bill Mazeroski - Manager - Danny Murtaugh - Executive - Branch Rickey
07 - Continental League co-opted when NL voted to expand to 10 teams
09 - MLB promised the four new franchises to ownership groups from the Continental League
- Ted Williams hit HR in his last at bat in majors in front of 10,545 at Fenway Park
1961
01 - "After 60 years as an eight-club circuit, the American League will operate with 10 clubs in 1961"
- The Sporting News - Jan. 4, 1961
1962
01 - Sporting News #1 Men of the year - Roger Maris - Manager Ralph Houk - Executive Dan Topping