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    1967 The Mets obtain Art Shamsky from the Reds in exchange for infielder Bob Johnson, who will play only 16 games for his new team before being traded to Atlanta. New York's newest outfielder will hit 42 home runs playing part-time during his four seasons with the team.
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    1977 Hall of Fame skipper Bucky Harris, who compiled a 2158- 2219 (.493) record with five teams during his 29 years in the dugout, dies on his 81st birthday in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1924, the 27-year-old 'Boy Wonder' became the Senators player-manager, winning a World Championship with Washington in his first year at the helm.

    1983 Reliever Jesse Orosco garners four votes for the National League Most Valuable Player Award, ending a six-year drought that no Mets player received a single nod for the honor. The last time a writer cast an MVP vote for a New York National Leaguer was on the 1976 ballot when the writers gave Tom Seaver was given consideration.
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    1983 Dale Murphy (.302, 36, 121) joins Ernie Banks (1958-59), Joe Morgan (1975-76), and Mike Schmidt (1980-81) as one of the four National Leaguers who has won the MVP award in consecutive seasons. The soft-spoken Braves' outfielder receives 21 of the 24 votes cast by the writers.
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    1990 Darryl Strawberry, the Mets all-time home run leader (252), ends his eight-year turbulent tenure with New York. The slugging right fielder signs a five-year free-agent deal with his hometown Dodgers.
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    1999 The U.S. House of Representatives passes H. Res. 269, honoring former White Sox star 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson. U.S. Representative Jim DeMint (R-SC) drafted the resolution to pay tribute to the Greenville legend, banned from professional baseball due to his involvement in the 1919 Black Sox scandal, and prohibited the outfielder from becoming a member of the Hall of Fame.
    H.Res. 269 (106th): Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Joseph Jefferson “Shoeless Joe” Jackson should be appropriately honored for his outstanding baseball accomplishments.
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    2000 Jerry Manuel is selected by the BBWAA as the American League Manager of the Year. The White Sox skipper led his club to their first playoff appearance in seven years despite having the 21st lowest payroll of the 30 major league teams.
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    2004 Jason Bay (.282, 26, 82) becomes the first Pirates player and the first Canadian to win the National League Rookie of the Year. The 26-year-old British Columbia native married his college girlfriend, Kristen, two days ago.
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    2004 Receiving 27 of 28 first-place votes, Bobby Crosby (.239, 22, 64) wins the American League Rookie of the Year Award. The Oakland shortstop, who is the son of former big leaguer infielder Ed Crosby, joins Harry Byrd (1952), Jose Canseco (1986), Mark McGwire (1987), Walt Weiss (1988), and Ben Grieve (1998) as the sixth A's freshman to be honored by the BBWAA.
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    2005 Joining Dean Chance, Bartolo Colon becomes the second Angels' pitcher, the first in 41 years, to win the Cy Young Award. The 32-year-old Halo hurler from the Dominican Republic, who led the American League with 21 victories, is the only player listed on every ballot.
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    2007 In front of 7,000 fans at Straub Park, Tampa Bay announces the name change from the Devil Rays to the Rays, after considering 'Aces,' 'Bandits,' 'Cannons,' 'Dukes,' 'Stripes,' and the 'Nine,' the personal favorite of club owner Stuart Sternberg, as other monikers. The team also reveals uniforms featuring the colors of Columbia blue, Navy blue, and gold with a yellow sunburst logo, replacing the 11-year-old franchise's original hues of green and blue and its logo of a cartilaginous fish.

    2008 Former Boston players Bill Lee, Mo Vaughn, Mike Greenwell, Wes Ferrell, Frank Sullivan, Everett Scott, former scout George Digby, and former executive Ed Kenney Sr. are inducted into the team's Hall of Fame. The team also recognizes Ted Williams' homer in his last at-bat and Curt Schilling's performance (bloody sock) in Game 6 of the 2004 ALCS for their special significance in Red Sox history.
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    2008 The Brewers hire Willie Randolph as a bench coach to work with the team's new manager, Ken Macha. The 54-year-old former Mets manager compiled a 302-253 record during his three-plus years in New York before being dismissed in June.

    2010 Jhonny Peralta and the Tigers come to terms on an $11.25 million, two-year contract keeping the shortstop in Detroit. The agreement solidifies the left side of the team's infield for the next couple of years with the re-signing of third baseman Brandon Inge to a similar deal three weeks ago.

    2010 ESPN announces Jon Miller and Joe Morgan will no longer do Sunday Night Baseball, ending the pair's 21-year tenure behind the mike. Network executive vice president Norby Williamson thanked the Hall of Famers for their outstanding body of work but did not name any replacements.
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    2012 The Orioles announced the hiring of Dan Duquette as their executive vice president for baseball operations, replacing Andy MacPhail. The 53-year-old former Red Sox general manager (1994-2002), who inked a three-year deal with the Birds, takes over a franchise that has suffered through 14 successive losing seasons
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    On November 8 in Baseball History...
      • 1934 - Ford Frick, National League publicity director, is named league president. He will eventually become commissioner.
      • 1950 - The Baseball Writers Association of America announces that slugging first baseman Walt Dropo of the Boston Red Sox is the Rookie of the Year in the American League. Dropo led the league with 144 RBI.
      • 1951 - Catcher Yogi Berra of the Yankees wins the first of his three Most Valuable Player awards.
      • 1961 - With only one Cy Young Award given for the two leagues, Whitey Ford, the American League leader in wins and innings, gets the honor ahead of Warren Spahn, who led the National League with 21 wins and a 3.02 ERA.
      • 1966 - Triple Crown winner Frank Robinson of the Orioles is the unanimous choice as American League Most Valuable Player. He is the first player to win the award in both leagues.
      • 1989 - Cubs outfielder Jerome Walton wins the National League Rookie of the Year Award, collecting 22 of 24 first-place votes to defeat teammate Dwight Smith. They are the first National League teammates to finish 1-2 in the voting since the Phillies' Jack Sanford and Ed Bouchee in 1957.
      • 1990 - Free-agent slugger Darryl Strawberry signs a five-year contract with his hometown Dodgers, formally ending his eight-year stay with the Mets. He is the all-time home run leader for the Mets with 252.
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    1925 Bill Bruton outfielder (NL stolen bases leader 1953-55 Milwaukee Braves), born in Penola, Alabama (d. 1995)
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    1931 Whitey Herzog manager (HOF St Louis Cardinals), born in New Athens, Illinois
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    1935 Bob Gibson Hall of Fame pitcher (NL Cy Young Award 1968, 70; NL MVP 1968; 9 x MLB All Star; St. Louis Cardinals), born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 2020)
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    1969 Ángel Miranda pitcher, 1993-97 (Milwaukee Brewers), born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico
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    1970 Chad Ogea pitcher (Cleveland Indians), born in Lake Charles, Louisiana
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    1970 Melanie Roche, Australian softball pitcher (Olympic bronze 1996), born in Bankstown, New South Wales
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    1973 Fred Lindberg, Australian baseball pitcher (Olympics 1996), born in Sydney, New South Wales Australia

    1979 Adam Dunn player, born in Houston, Texas

    1984 Joel Zumayal player, born in Chula Vista, California
     
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    FROM MLB's This Day in Baseball History+
    1950 After twenty-one years with the club, Luke Appling is released by the White Sox, allowing him to become the manager of the Memphis Chicks of the South Atlantic League. The 43-year-old future Hall of Fame infielder, known as 'Old Aches and Pains' to his teammates, compiled a lifetime batting average of .310 during his two-plus decades with Chicago.
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    1953 In a case involving Yankee minor leaguer George Toolson, who refused his demotion from Triple-A to Double-A, the U.S. Supreme Court, voting 7-2, reaffirms its earlier position baseball is a sport and not a business. This decision exempts baseball from antitrust laws, a collection of federal and state government mandates that regulate the conduct and organization of corporations enacted to promote fair competition.

    1981 Edward Bennett Williams proposes constructing a new downtown ballpark named Babe Ruth Stadium within walking distance of the Harborplace development in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. At Memorial Stadium in 1988, the Orioles owner, who will never attend another game due to cancer, hears Governor Schaefer announce his team and the Maryland Stadium Authority have agreed on a new downtown facility to be ready for the 1992 season. : The stadium will be known as Oriole Park at Camden Yards, reflecting the venue's proximity to B&O Railroad's Camden Station building, which the HOK Sport architects integrated into the project's design. -LP.)
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    1982 Brewers' shortstop Robin Yount (.331, 29, 114) wins the American League MVP unanimously. The 26-year-old future Hall of Famer (1999) captures all 27 first-place votes, easily distancing runners-up Eddie Murray and Doug DeCinces.
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    1983 University of Alabama's first baseman Dave Magadan wins the Golden Spike Award as the country's top amateur player. The Tampa (FL) native, selected by the Mets in the second round of the June draft, hit .535 in NCAA play for the CWS runner-up Crimson Tide.
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    2000 The BBWAA selects Dusty Baker, who posted the best record in baseball this season, as the National League Manager of the Year. The 51-year-old skipper, who guided the Giants to a 97-65 record, joins Tony La Russa (White Sox '83 and A's '88 and '92) as the award's only three-time winner.
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    2001 After exercising Omar Daal's $4.5 million contract option for 2002 yesterday, the Phillies trade him to the Dodgers for minor league pitchers Eric Junge and Jesus Cordero. Philadelphia acquired the right-hander along with Travis Lee, Nelson Figueroa, and Vicente Padilla in the 2000 deal, which sent Curt Schilling to the Diamondbacks.

    2002 Dusty Baker signs a four-year deal to pilot the Cubs, leaving the Giants after guiding the club to a pennant this season. The three-time National League Manager of the Year compiled an 840-715 record during his ten-year tenure with San Francisco.
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    2004 "You want the truth. You can't handle the truth. The truth of this situation is an extremely talented bunch of guys who want to look at all directions except where they should really look and kind of make excuses for what happened. At the end of the day, boys, don't tell me how rough the water is, you bring in the ship." - STEVE STONE, Cubs veteran broadcaster criticizing the team for making excuses during an October interview on WGN radio. Hoping to fill the void created by Steve Stone's resignation, the Cubs hire former Diamondback manager and current Fox television analyst Bob Brenly to broadcast games on WGN. After spending twenty years in the broadcast booth, Stone left Chicago after his on-air comments concerning the team's swoon in the wild-card race angered manager Dusty Baker and some players.

    2004 After coming out of retirement to pitch for his hometown team, Roger Clemens (18-4, 218, 2.98)becomes the oldest hurler to win the Cy Young Award. The 42-year-old 'Rocket' has received the honor a record seven times and becomes the first to win the award with four different teams: Red Sox (1986-87, 1991), Blue Jays (1997-98), Yankees (2001), and the Astros (2004).
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    2005 After leading a very young Braves team to the East Division title, Bobby Cox is named the National League's Manager of the Year. The well-respected field boss becomes the first skipper in either league to win the award in consecutive years.
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    2005 After delivering his annual address to major league general managers, Bud Selig tells reporters he favors revised congressional legislation that would suspend players for a half-season for using steroids. Also, while admitting the postseason umpiring calls need more scrutiny, the commissioner continued to state his opposition to using instant replay for baseball.

    2005 Ozzie Guillen is selected as the American League's Manager of the Year after guiding his team to a World Championship. The White Sox skipper joins his former field boss Bobby Cox, the NL's selection, as a recipient of the honor this season.
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    2008 Participants in a team-sponsored high school program aimed at helping Bronx youths pursue careers in architecture, engineering, and construction, along with a few players, remove rain-soaked dirt from the former Yankee Stadium and bring it across the street to the site of the team's new $1.3-billion field. The soil removed during the ceremony from the 'House that Ruth Built' and the new stadium's dirt becomes a mixture applied around home plate and the pitcher's rubber.

    2011 Kidnappers take Wilson Ramos at gunpoint from his Santa Ines home in Venezuela. After being held captive for two days, the 24-year-old Nationals' catcher will be rescued unscathed after the police exchange heavy gun
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    On November 9 in Baseball History...
      • 1937 - St. Louis Cardinals Triple Crown winner Joe Medwick is named National League Most Valuable Player by the Baseball Writers.
      • 1950 - The Associated Press chooses Phillies skipper Eddie Sawyer as Manager of the Year.
      • 1953 - The U.S. Supreme Court decides 7-2 that baseball is a sport and not a business and therefore not subject to antitrust laws.
      • 1976 - Oakland releases Billy Williams, ending his Hall of Fame career with 2,711 hits, 426 home runs, 1,475 RBI, and a .290 average.
      • 1977 - Reds outfielder George Foster wins the National League Most Valuable Player Award. Foster batted.320 and led the league in home runs (52), RBI (149), runs (124), total bases (388), and slugging percentage (.631).
      • 1982 - Robin Yount, who hit .331 for Milwaukee and led the league in hits (210), doubles (46), and slugging percentage (.578), is a unanimous choice as American League Most Valuable Player.
      • 1993 - Giants outfielder Barry Bonds is voted the National League Most Valuable Player for the third time in four years. He joins Stan Musial, Roy Campanella, and Mike Schmidt as the National League's only three-time MVPs. In 1993, his first year in San Francisco, Bonds reached career highs with a .336 average, 46 home runs, 129 runs, and 123 RBI to help the Giants to 103 wins, although the team missed the National League West title by one game.
      • 1998 - Chicago pitcher Kerry Wood was voted the National League Rookie of the Year after going 13-6 with a 3.40 ERA and helping the Cubs to the playoffs.


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