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3/23
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BIRTHDAYS
1920 Tetsuharu Kawakami baseball player and coach

1927 Johnny Logan, Endicott, NY, MLB shortstop (Boston and Milwaukee Braves), (d. 2013)

1943 Lee May "The Big Bopper"1st baseman, born in Birmingham, Alabama (d. 2017)

1944 George Scott, MLB first baseman, 1966-79 (Boston Red Sox, Milwaukee Brewers, and 2 other teams), born in Greenville, Mississippi, (d. 2013)

1953 Bo Diaz, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1990)
1966 Mike Remlinger, MLB pitcher (Cincinnati Reds), born in Middletown, New York
1976 Joel Peralta relief pitcher, 2005-16 (Kansas City Royals, Tampa Bay Rays, and six other teams), born in Bonao, Dominican Republic

1979 Mark Buehrle baseball player
1981 Tony Peña, Jr., Dominican baseball player

 

FROM MLB's This Day in Baseball History+​

1938 Commissioner Landis releases seventy-four Cardinal minor leaguers from a total of six teams, with their owners fined $2,176 for their non-compliance to the rules. The Redbirds controlled the players in two clubs in each of the three Class D leagues in 1936 and each of four Class D leagues in 1937.
1951 Brooklyn signs a 21-year lease with the City of Vero Beach to use an abandoned naval base as their spring training facility, which will become known as Dodgertown. The site will be the team's Grapefruit League home through the 2008 season, with exhibition games played at the 6,000-seat Holiman Stadium.
1959 The Cardinals trade Sam Jones to the Giants for first baseman/outfielder Bill White and third baseman Ray Jablonski. The right-hander, called Toothpick Sam by his teammates, will be the runner-up for the Cy Young Award this season, posting a 21-15 record and an ERA of 2.83 for San Francisco.

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1962 The Phillies trade third baseman Andy Carey and second baseman Lou Vassie to the White Sox for right-hander Cal McLish, a 36 year-old Oklahoman who will post an 11-5 record for the seventh-place cb. Chicago then trades Carey, who will retire at the end of the season after appearing in 53 games, to the Dodgers for infielders Ramon Conde and Jim Koranda, who play in a total of 14 major league games.

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1963 On the day he is fitted for his big-league Orioles uniform, 23-year-old Steve Dalkowski, pitching in an exhibition against the Yankees, feels something pop in his left elbow, losing feeling in his hand while facing Bobby Richardson. The fireballer from New Britain, Connecticut, who once struck out 24 batters in a minor league game, will never appear in the major leagues.
1973 The Cardinals play three Cruz brothers, Cirilo, Hector, and Jose, all nine innings in the outfield during the team's 9-2 spring training victory over New York at Al Lang Field. The trio of Puerto Rican siblings, who personally outscore the Mets, bat first, second, and third in the Redbird's lineup, making all three outs in the first and eighth frames.

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1978 The Mets deal an unhappy 33 year-old Bud Harrelson, who lost his starting job when the team obtained Tim Foli from the Giants, to Philadelphia for approximately $50,000, and minor-league call-up Freddie Andrews, an infielder who will never play another game in the major leagues. As an 11-year veteran, the fan-favorite shortstop could have vetoed the trade but chooses to go to Philadelphia to play for a contending team, where he will back up Larry Bowa.

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1990 The FBI arrest Howard Spira, once an unpaid publicist with the Winfield Foundation who approached George Steinbrenner and received $40,000 to dig up dirt on the outfielder, is arrested after trying to extort money from the Yankees owner. In July, Commissioner Fay Vincent will ban the Boss from playing any role in the team's day-to-day operations for thirty months upon learning about the arrangement with the Bronx professional gambler.

 

2009 Thanks to Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki's two-out, two-run single in the top of the 10th inning, Japan defeats South Korea, 5-3, to win its second consecutive World Baseball Classic title. South Korea, the reigning Olympic champion, had tied the game 3-3 in the bottom of the ninth on Lee Bum-ho's two-out RBI single off Japanese closer Yu Darvish in front of an enthusiastic crowd of 54,846 at Dodger Stadium.

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2009 The Miami-Dade County commissioners approve the final documents necessary to move forward on the Marlins' new 37,000-seat home, planned to be located on the present grounds of Miami's Orange Bowl. The long-anticipated retractable-roof ballpark will become a reality in 2012, with the team breaking ground this July.
2019 After acquiring Paul Goldschmidt in an offseason trade with the Diamondbacks, the Cardinals sign him to a five-year (2020-24) contract extension. The National League All-Star first baseman's contract, reportedly worth $130 million, is the largest in club history, surpassing seven-year, $120 million deal for left fielder Matt Holliday before the 2010 season.

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On March 23 in Baseball History...
1900 - John McGraw, Wilbert Robinson, and infielder Bill Wagon-Tongue Keister are sold by Brooklyn to St. Louis for $15,000. McGraw and Robby refuse to report.
1938 - Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis frees 74 Cardinals minor leaguers, among them Pete Reiser, in yet another attempt to halt the farm system cover-up. Dodgers General Manager Larry McPhail makes a pact with Branch Rickey to take the as-yet unknown Reiser and swap him back in the future, but the young outfielder's ability is too great to hide.
1951 - The Brooklyn Dodgers sign a 21-year lease with the city of Vero Beach, Florida, for use of their spring training facilities there.
1962 - William DeWitt buys the Reds from the Crosley Foundation for $4.625 million.
Baseball Birthdays on March 23...
1863 - Gunson, Joe
1864 - Hilsey, Charlie
1864 - Murphy, Willie
1865 - Weaver, Farmer
1865 - Shannon, Dan
1868 - Smith, Elmer
1870 - Kling, Rudy
1877 - Taylor, Ed
1877 - Graham, Peaches
1878 - Loos, Pete
1878 - Smoot, Homer
1881 - Cravath, Gavvy
1885 - Moeller, Danny
1886 - Slapnicka, Cy
1886 - Wares, Buzzy
1893 - Kremer, Ray
1895 - Parkinson, Frank
1902 - Moore, Johnny
1911 - Broskie, Sig
1918 - Lucier, Lou
1923 - Koch, Barney
1927 - Logan, Johnny
1928 - Lemon, Jim

1931 - Pitula, Stan
1932 - Meyer, Jack
1939 - Bowens, Sam
1942 - Coombs, Danny
1943 - Howard, Bruce
1943 - May, Lee
1944 - Scott, George
1947 - Bourque, Pat
1949 - Geddes, Jim
1953 - Diaz, Bo
1956 - Darr, Mike
1956 - Johnson, Ron
1966 - Remlinger, Mike
1967 - Brooks, Jerry
1969 - Turner, Chris
1976 - Ortiz, Ramon
1979 - Buehrle, Mark
1979 - Colome, Jesus

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