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BIRTHDAYS
1911 Calvin Griffith team owner (Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins 1955-84), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1999)

1911 Walter Alston Hall of Fame manager (World Series 1955, 59, 63, 65; Brooklyn/LA Dodgers), born in Venice, Ohio (d. 1984)


1912 Cookie Lavagetto third baseman, manager and coach (MLB All Star 1938-41; Brooklyn Dodgers; Washington Senators), born in Oakland, California (d. 1990)


1917 Marty Marion shortstop and manager (MLB All-Star 1943–50; NL MVP 1944; St. Louis Cardinals), born in Richburg, South Carolina (d. 2011)


1948 George Foster left fielder (MLB All Star 1976-79, 81; NL MVP 1977; Cincinnati Reds), born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama


1966 Larry Walker HOF right fielder (NL MVP 1997; NL batting champion 1998, 99, 2001; 5 x MLB All Star; 7 x Gold Glove; Montreal Expos, Colorado Rockies), born in Maple Ridge, British Columbia


1967 Reggie Sanders outfielder, 1991-2007, All-Star 1995; World Series 2001 (Cincinnati Reds, Arizona Diamondbacks, and 6 other teams), born in Florence, South Carolina


1992 Javier Báez (MLB All Star 2018-19; Chicago Cubs), born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico

 

FROM MLB's This Day in Baseball History+​

1953 The Senators trade Jackie Jensen to the Red Sox for 18-game-winner Maury McDermott and outfielder Tom Umphlett. The Californian 'Golden Boy' will win the American League Most Valuable Player award playing for Boston in 1958, but his promising career ends a few years later due to his fear of flying.

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1954 The Yankees and Orioles complete the largest trade in major league history when 17 players, including Don Larsen, Gene Woodling, and Bob Turley, change teams. The first phase of the transaction began November 18th and will conclude today after the major league draft.

1955 Virgil Trucks returns to the Tigers in a trade for White Sox third baseman Bubba Phillips. The 38-year-old right-handed 'Fire's fastball has lost its blaze, and the right-hander will post a 6-5 record in his one-year return engagement with Detroit.

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1956 Reds outfielder Frank Robinson, who was not on the team's roster in spring training, is unanimously elected by the BBWAA as the National League Rookie of the Year. The 21-year-old freshman, the circuit's starting All-Star left fielder, hit 38 home runs, tying Wally Berger's 1930 record for the most trippers by a first-year player.

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1956 Future Hall of Famer Luis Aparicio is selected as the American League Rookie of the Year, beating out Indian right fielder Rocky Colavito and Oriole outfielder/first baseman Tito Francona. The 22-year-old White Sox shortstop led the American League with 21 stolen bases.

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1961 Red Sox freshman hurler Don Schwall is selected as the American League Rookie of the Year. The 25-year-old right-hander, who managed to get on the All-Star team despite making his big league debut on May 21st, compiled a 15-7 record for a sixth-place team that finished ten games under .500.

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1964 The Colt .45's become officially known as the Astros, an appropriate name given the team's proximity to Houston's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Due to a dispute with the firearm company, a three-year-old expansion franchise needed to change the club's name.

1965 The Pirates trade catcher Ozzie Virgil and pitcher Joe Gibbon to the Giants for outfielder Matty Alou. The 26-year-old Dominican flycatcher, who hit a meager .231 with San Francisco last year, will capture the National League batting crown next season with a .342 batting average.

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1965 The A's get Joe Rudi, lost as a first-year waiver pick to the Indians in May, back from the Tribe, trading Jim Landis and Jim Rittwage to Cleveland for the return of the 19-year-old highly-touted prospect, along with backup catcher Phil Roof. The future Gold Glove left fielder will play a key role in world championship teams during the early '70s in Oakland.

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1966 The Dodgers trade a stunned and heartbroken Maury Wills, the NL’s 1962 MVP, to the Pirates for Bob Bailey and Gene Michael. The base-stealing shortstop will return to LA in 1969 when dealt by the expansion Expos for Ron Fairly and Paul Popovich.

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1970 The White Sox trade Luis Aparicio to the Red Sox in exchange for infielders Mike Andrews and Luis Alvarado. Boston's acquisition of the future Hall of Fame shortstop shifts All-Star Rico Petrocelli, with his consent, from short to third base.

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1970 The Orioles acquire Pat Dobson, along with Tom Dukes, from the Padres for Fred Beene (returned to San Diego in May), Enzo Hernandez, Tom Phoebus, and Al Severinsen. The right-hander joins Jim Palmer, Dave McNally, and Mike Cuellar in Baltimore's "Four Leaf Clover" pitching staff, the first rotation in more than 50 years to have four 20-game winners.

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1971 The Cubs announce Ernie Banks will serve as a coach next season, ending the infielder's 19-year major league Hall of Fame career. 'Mr. Cub', the team's first black player, won back-to-back MVP awards in 1958-59, and in 1999 was named to Major League Baseball's All-Century Team.

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1983 "You're sitting behind home and first. We'll be between first and third." - LOU WHITAKER, telling Magnum, along with double-play partner Alan Trammell, where they'll be sitting at tomorrow's Tigers game. Playing themselves, Alan Trammell and Lou Whitaker make a cameo appearance on the hit show Magnum PI. After the private detective, portrayed by Tom Sellack, complains at a bar about missing the homestand's last game, the team's double-play tandem, who he doesn't recognize, gives him a business card, which are tickets for the sold-out game.

1987 Former Indian outfielder Brett Butler signs a two-year, $1.8 million free-agent deal with the Giants. The 31-year-old leadoff hitter, who will play a vital role when San Francisco captures the NL pennant in 1989, replaces Chili Davis, who signed with the Angels, as the team's centerfielder.

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1989 Mark Langston reaches an agreement with the Angels on a five-year contract worth $16 million, making the left-handed pitcher the latest highest-paid player in baseball history. The 29-year-old free agent, who had a combined 16-14 record with the Mariners and Expos last season, rejected Montreal's three-year, $9 million offer last summer that would have made him the first major leaguer to have averaged $3 million a season.

 

1998 The Mets sign 31-year-old Gold Glove third baseman Robin Ventura (.263, 21, 91) to a four-year, 32 million dollar free-agent deal. The former White Sox infielder joins two-time Gold Glove shortstop Rey Ordonez, Edgardo Alfonzo, shifted from the hot corner to second, and first baseman John Olerud to make up one of the best fielding infields in history, according to Sports Illustrated.

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1998 Due to the acquisition of All-Star backstop Mike Piazza, the Mets deal fan favorite Todd Hundley, along with right-hander Arnold Gooch, to the Dodgers for outfielder Roger Cedeno and catcher Charles Johnson. New York then sends Johnson to Baltimore to obtain closer Armando Benitez.

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1998 Orioles' first baseman Rafael Palmeiro, bypassing his agent and making the deal himself, signs a $45 million, five-year contract with the Rangers. The 33-year-old All-Star corner infielder, who turned down a more substantial offer from Baltimore, returns to Texas, the team he left five seasons ago to join the Birds.

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2000 Turk Wendell, who wears uniform number 99, agrees to a three-year deal worth $9,999,999.99 with the Mets. The New York reliever had asked that his pact include an option year in which he would play for free, but that plan was unworkable because baseball's collective bargaining agreement sets a $200,000 minimum salary.

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2011 The Red Sox introduce Bobby Valentine as the team's new manager at a news conference covered by approximately 100 members of the media, many of them from the New York papers and broadcast outlets. Boston announces the 61-year-old skipper, who hasn't managed in the big leagues since fired by the Mets in 2002, has agreed to a two-year deal, having options for 2014 and 2015.

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On December 1 in Baseball History...

• • 1942 - At major league meetings in Chicago, World War II travel restrictions are the order of the day. Owners decide to restrict travel to a three-trip schedule rather than the customary four. Spring training in 1943 will be limited to locations north of the Potomac or Ohio rivers and east of the Mississippi.
    
  • 1953 - The Red Sox trade for hard-hitting Jackie Jensen, sending Maury McDermott and Tom Umphlett to Washington. Jensen will average 25 home runs a year for his seven seasons in Fenway, lead the AL in RBI three times, and win the MVP award in 1958. A fear of flying will end his career prematurely.
    
  • 1956 - Cincinnati slugger Frank Robinson is unanimously voted the NL Rookie of the Year. White Sox shortstop Luis Aparicio is voted AL Rookie of the Year with 22 points, beating out Baltimore's Tito Francona and Rocky Colavito of the Indians.
    
  • 1964 - The Houston club officially changes its name from the Colt 45s to the Astros.
    
  • 1967 - Pacific Northwest Sports, Inc. is awarded one of the two AL expansion franchise. The team will play in Seattle.
    
  • 1971 - The Cubs release Ernie Banks and sign him as a coach. Mr. Cub finishes his playing career with 512 home runs and 1,636 RBI.

Baseball Birthdays on December 1...

• • 1844 - Wood, Jimmy
  • 1863 - McKeough, Dave
  • 1868 - Fox, Paddy
  • 1870 - Raub, Tommy
  • 1877 - Broderick, Matt
  • 1882 - Reulbach, Ed
  • 1884 - Moore, Charley
  • 1889 - Mitchell, Willie
  • 1891 - O'Connor, Johnny
  • 1892 - Sturgis, Dean
  • 1892 - Dickerson, George
  • 1894 - Alten, Ernie
  • 1895 - Miller, Jake
  • 1898 - High, Charlie
  • 1900 - Barnes, Eppie
  • 1901 - Cvengros, Mike
  • 1901 - Coleman, Ed
  • 1902 - Badgro, Red
  • 1905 - Dear, Buddy
  • 1908 - Munns, Les
  • 1911 - Barnes, Junie
  • 1911 - Alston, Walter
  • 1912 - Lavagetto, Cookie
  • 1917 - Marion, Marty
  • 1918 - Sloat, Lefty
  • 1919 - Wojey, Pete
  • 1921 - Ripple, Charlie
  • 1921 - Savage, Bob
  • 1922 - Lerchen, George
  • 1925 - Jordan, Niles
  • 1925 - Cal McLish
  • 1929 - Escalera, Nino
  • 1940 - Perkins, Cecil
  • 1944 - Ray, Jim
  • 1948 - Foster, George
  • 1952 - Warthen, Dan
  • 1954 - Schatzeder, Dan
  • 1956 - Filer, Tom
  • 1961 - Winningham, Herm
  • 1962 - Jones, Tim
  • 1963 - Harris, Greg
  • 1965 - Tackett, Jeff
  • 1965 - Machado, Julio
  • 1966 - McMichael, Greg
  • 1966 - Walker, Larry
  • 1967 - Sanders, Reggie
  • 1970 - Rueter, Kirk

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