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Al Campanis scouting report Robert Clemente (18 yrs old)
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BIRTHDAYS
1866 Jack Boyle baseball player (d. 1913)

1926 Billy Goodman infielder (MLB All-Star 1949, 53; AL batting champion 1950), born in Concord, North Carolina (d. 1984)

1952 Bob Costas sportscaster and talk show host, born in Queens, New York
1963 Rich Monteleone, pitcher (California Angels), born in Tampa, Florida

1966 Sean Berry infielder (Houston Astros), born in Santa Monica, California

1968 Ramón Martínez, pitcher (LA Dodgers), born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

1979 Juan Uribe born in Sabana Grande de Palenque, Dominican Republic

 

FROM MLB's This Day in Baseball History+​

1939 The 20-year-old injury-plagued Pete Reiser homers in his first at-bat during the Dodgers' second game of spring training, beginning a streak of ten consecutive hits. 'Pistol Pete,' one of 74 minor-leaguer free-agents when Commissioner Landis ruled the Cardinals signed too many players to play on multiple teams in the same leagues, hits .301 in 38 games with the Elmira Pioneers, the team's Eastern League Single-A affiliate.

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1962 In the first meeting between the two New York clubs, the Mets defeated the World Champion Yankees in a spring training game with a dramatic walk-off 4-3 victory at Al Lang Field. Casey Stengel, the former skipper of the Bronx Bombers, now the expansion team's manager, clearly wanting to beat his old club, calls upon veteran Richie Ashburn, who delivers a ninth-inning pinch-hit single for the Amazins'.

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1962 Roger Maris declines to pose with Mets coach Rogers Hornsby because the veteran had criticized him in the recently published autobiography, My Wars with Baseball. In the book, the 65-year-old Hall of Famer dismisses the Yankees slugger as a mediocre hitter who couldn't bat .400 even with all of his averages added up.

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1972 The Yankees trade first baseman Danny Cater to the Red Sox for lefty reliever Albert Walter Lyle. Over the next seven years, Sparky will pitch in 420 games in relief with a 57-40 record and a 2.41 ERA, notching 141 saves as he helps the Bronx Bombers to appear in three World Series.

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1986 The Yankees announce Britt Burns, an 18-game winner with the White Sox last season, will miss the entire season due to a degenerative hip condition. The 26-year-old southpaw will never throw another major league pitch, ending his eight-year career, played entirely with Chicago, with a 70-60 (.538) won-loss record.

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2002 After a miserable spring trying to make the Dodgers as a bench player, 38 year-old Dante Bichette (.299, 274, 1,141) announces his retirement. The four-time affable All-Star, who played with the Angels, Brewers, Rockies, Reds, and Red Sox during his 14-year major league career, will have a brief stint as the Rockies' batting coach in 2009.

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2005 Giants' slugger Barry Bonds, 11 home runs shy of passing Babe Ruth on the all-time list, indicates he may not play this season. The 40-year-old National League MVP, who has had two knee operations and implicated in the sport's steroids scandal, cites being physically and mentally "done," and blames the media for much of his unhappiness.

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2010 With the same pen he used to sign his rookie contract in 2001, Twins catcher Joe Mauer (.365, 28, 96) signs a $184 million, eight-year contract extension, keeping him with the small-market team through 2018. Last year, the 26-year-old backstop, after starting the season on the DL as a result of back surgery the previous year, captured his third batting crown and was named the American League's Most Valuable Player.

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2016 In a game attended by Barack Obama, the first sitting United States president on Cuban soil since 1928, the Rays beat the Cuban National team, 4-1, marking the first time in 17 years a major league team has visited the island nation. In 1999 at Havana's Estadio, the Orioles edge the home team, 3-2, thanks to a Harold Baines' eventual game-winning hit in the 11th inning.

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On March 22 in Baseball History...

• • 1962 - A former Giant, requesting anonymity, reveals that Bobby Thomson's home run in the 1951 playoffs against the Dodgers was helped by a sign-stealing clubhouse spy. The spying is claimed to have gone on for the last three months of the season. Thomson and former manager Leo Durocher vehemently deny that any help was received, but a source close to the team confirms the spy operation.
  • 1972 - The Yankees trade first baseman-outfielder Danny Cater to the Red Sox for relief pitcher Sparky Lyle. In seven years with the Yanks, Lyle will post a 57-40 record with 141 saves and a 2.41 ERA, win a Cy Young award, and help the team to three World Series appearances.
  • 1990 - Major league umpires announce that they will boycott exhibition games to protest not having been consulted in the revision of the regular season schedule after the lockout. They will return to work on April 1.
  • 1993 - Cleveland pitcher Steve Olin is killed instantly and new teammate Tim Crews dies several hours later as a result of a boating accident at Little Lake Nellie in Clermont, Florida. Bob Ojeda is seriously injured as well, but he will survive and make a comeback in the major leagues. Olin and Crews are the first active major league players to die in an accident since Thurman Munson of the Yankees died in a plane crash in 1979.

Baseball Birthdays on March 22...

• • 1854 - Allen, Myron
  • 1856 - McClellan, Bill
  • 1866 - Boyle, Jack
  • 1867 - Reeder, Nick
  • 1868 - Fuller, Ed
  • 1869 - Bausewine, George
  • 1882 - Sebring, Jimmy
  • 1884 - Chappelle, Bill
  • 1889 - Shafer, Tillie
  • 1892 - Wendell, Lew
  • 1896 - Holmes, Chick
  • 1898 - Urban, Luke
  • 1906 - Tremper, Overton
  • 1906 - Solters, Moose
  • 1906 - Owen, Marv
  • 1907 - Scalzi, Johnny
  • 1909 - Cole, Ed
  • 1913 - Steinbacher, Hank
  • 1915 - Branch, Norm
  • 1918 - Miles, Carl
  • 1918 - Butland, Bill
  • 1921 - Crowe, George
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  • 1926 - Goodman, Billy
  • 1927 - Stuffel, Paul
  • 1928 - Schramka, Paul
  • 1932 - Schroll, Al
  • 1935 - Oliver, Gene
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  • 1940 - Ellsworth, Dick
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  • 1948 - Velazquez, Carlos
  • 1948 - Brown, Jake
  • 1949 - Wilshusen, Terry
  • 1952 - Bane, Eddie
  • 1952 - Rasmussen, Eric
  • 1953 - Boitano, Dan
  • 1960 - Sinatro, Matt
  • 1960 - Bradley, Scott
  • 1963 - Monteleone, Rich
  • 1965 - Hill, Glenallen
  • 1966 - Berry, Sean
  • 1968 - Martinez, Ramon
  • 1972 - Lidle, Cory
  • 1973 - Rodriguez, Nerio
  • 1974 - Phillips, Jason

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