BB On this Date ~ Events & Birthdays #2

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 gunfire results in the arrest of his five alleged abductors.

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1982 California Angels Fred Lynn, Don Baylor, Reggie Jackson, and Rod Carew
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Nothing more sad than an abandoned baseball stadium.
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November Baseball Birthdays 11/10

1896 Jimmy Dykes infielder (MLB All Star 1933-34 Chicago White Sox; World Series 1929-30 Philadelphia A's) and manager (Chicago White Sox, 1934-46), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1976)


1930 Gene Conley pitcher (4 x MLB All Star; Boston/Milwaukee Braves, Philadelphia Phillies) and basketball forward (NBA C'ship


1934 Norm Cash 1st baseman (5 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1968; AL batting champion 1961; Detroit Tigers), born in Eldorado, Texas (d. 1986)


1955 Jack Clark (MLB All-Star 1978, 79, 85, 87; Silver Slugger Award 1985, 87; SF Giants, St. Louis Cardinals), born in New Brighton, Pennsylvania


1964 Keith Lockhart infielder (KC Royals), born in Whittier, California

1964 Kenny Rogers pitcher (perfect game 1994), born in Savannah, Georgia


1971 Butch Huskey infielder (NY Mets), born in Anadarko, Oklahoma

1971 Jennifer McFalls softball infielder (Olympic gold 1996), born in Arlington, Texas


1972 Shawn Green outfielder (Toronto Blue Jays), born in Des Plaines, Illinois

1977 Matt Cepicky born in St. Louis, Missouri

1981 Tony Blanco (Washington Nationals), born in San Juan de la Maguana, Dominican Republic

 

This Day in BaseballHistory November 10th​

1919 Former major league right-hander Clark Griffith, who owns 19% of the Senators, becomes a club owner when he joins forces with Philadelphia grain broker William Richardson, who purchased 40% of the franchise. The two quickly agree, allowing Griffith to vote for Richardson's shares, assuring his election as the team president.

1948 The White Sox acquire left-hander Billy Pierce and $10,000 from the Tigers for All-Star catcher Aaron Robinson. The 21-year-old southpaw will win 186 games for Chicago during his 13-year tenure with the Windy City club, while the All-Star backstop will play less than three seasons in the Motor City.

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1950 Amidst much public protest, the Indians fire their popular player-manager Lou Boudreau, who had spent 12 years with the Tribe, including the last nine as the team's skipper. After compiling a modest .529 winning percentage (728-649), the surprised Harvey, Illinois native, will be replaced by Indianapolis minor league manager Al Lopez.

1950 Seventeen months after nearly being mortally wounded by an obsessed fan's rifle shot to the chest, Eddie Waitkus is named the Comeback Player of the Year by the Associated Press. The Phillies' infielder hit .284 this season and remains one of the best fielding first basemen in the league.

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1961 In addition to purchasing 100,000 tickets to the new National League's team games, the Rheingold Brewery agrees to pay six million dollars for the radio and television rights to 126 Mets games per year for five years. The largest deal of its kind is approximately double the cost of the franchise and all its first-season players.

1964 The Braves sign a twenty-five-year lease to play in the newly constructed Atlanta Stadium and continue to play there until the team moves next door to Turner Field in 1997. The ballpark, officially known as Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium in 1975, will affectionately be called the 'Launching Pad,' reflecting the ease that players hit home runs due to the location being 1,000 feet above sea level on the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.

1965 Giants outfielder Willie Mays is named the National League's Most Valuable Player, receiving 224 of the writers' votes, compared to 177 for Dodger southpaw Sandy Koufax, the winner of 26 games with an ERA of 2.04, while striking out 382 batters to establish a modern major-league mark. The 34-year-old San Francisco slugger batted .312, led the circuit with 52 home runs, and collected 112 RBI for his second-place club.

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1978 "Sparky Lyle went from Cy Young to Sayonara." - GRAIG NETTLES, commenting on the trade that sent Yankee teammate Sparky Lyle to the Rangers. In a trade involving ten players, the Yankees swap southpaw Sparky Lyle, the 1977 Cy Young Award recipient, and $400,000 to the Rangers for 19-year-old Dave Righetti. Their teenage lefty, who will toss a July 4th no-hitter in 1983, spends 11 seasons with the Bronx Bombers, compiling a 74-61 (.548) record and saving 224 games for the team.

Sparky Lyle Dave Righetti

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1987 In the closest voting in the history of the National League Cy Young Award, Phillies' closer Steve Bedrosian narrowly edges Cubs right-hander Rick Sutcliffe by two points (57-55) to cop the prestigious pitching prize. 'Bedrock' is the third reliever in the National League, joining Mike Marshall (Dodgers, 1974) and Bruce Sutter (Cubs, 1979) in accomplishing the feat.

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1988 Dodgers' hurler Orel Hershiser (23-8, 2.26) becomes the ninth pitcher in National League history to win the Cy Young Award unanimously when he receives all twenty-four first-place votes from the sportswriters. The 29-year-old right-hander, known as the 'Bulldog' to his teammates, becomes the only player to win the Cy Young Award, the NLCS MVP Award, and the World Series MVP Award in the same season.

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2003 Dontrelle Willis (14-6, 3.30), the only player in either league to be listed on every ballot, wins the National League Rookie of the Year award. The 21-year-old Marlins starter is named first on 17 of the 32 ballots cast by the writers, with Brewer outfielder Scott Podsednik (8) and Diamondback right-hander Brandon Webb (7) receiving the other first-place votes.

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2004 The Red Sox induct Bill Carrigan, skipper of the 1915-16 World Series champion teams, infielders Billy Goodman (1947-57) and Pete Runnels (1958-62), southpaw Bruce Hurst (1980-88), Pawtucket Red Sox owner Ben Mondor, and former GM Haywood Sullivan into the team's Hall of Fame. Also enshrined for their contributions are Cooperstown Hall of Famers Wade Boggs (1982-92), Jimmy Collins (1901-07), and right-hander Dennis Eckersley (1978-84).

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2004 After piloting the third-place Rangers (89-73) to an 18-game improvement from the previous season, Buck Showalter wins his second American League Manager of the Year Award. The former Yankee manager also copped the honor in 1994, guiding the Bronx Bombers to a first-place finish in the strike-shorten season with a 70-43 (.619) record.

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2004 The BBWAA selects Bobby Cox as the National League Manager of the Year. Although the team loses Greg Maddux, Gary Sheffield, Javy Lopez, and Vinny Castilla to free agency, the Braves (96-58) still capture their 13th straight and unexpected division flag.

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2005 The Baseball Writers' Association of America elects Chris Carpenter (21-5, 2.83)as the National League's Cy Young Award winner. The Cardinal right-hander, sidelined with injuries during the past two seasons, outpoints Marlins southpaw Dontrelle Willis (22-10, 2.63), becoming the first Redbird to cop the honor since the selection of Bob Gibson in 1970.

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2006 In the offseason's first big move, the Tigers trade three talented pitching prospects, Humberto Sanchez, Kevin Whelan, and Anthony Claggett, to the Yankees for Gary Sheffield. The deal, which includes a two-year, $28 million contract extension through 2009, reunites the outfield slugger with his 1997 World Series champion Marlins general manager (Dave Dombrowski) and field manager (Jim Leyland).

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2008 Evan Longoria (.272, 27, 85), the unanimous choice of the BBWAA with all 28 first-place votes, wins the American League Rookie of the Year award. The Rays' 23-year-old slugging third baseman becomes the first player in the franchise's 11-year history to win a major postseason award.

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2008 Cubs' freshman Geovany Soto (.285, 23, 86), garnering 31 of 32 first-place votes, wins the National League Rookie of the Year award. The 25-year-old catcher becomes the first backstop selected since Mike Piazza won the freshman honor while playing for the Dodgers in 1993.

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2010 The A's acquire David DeJesus from the Royals for right-hander Vin Mazzaro and minor league southpaw prospect Justin Marks. The 30-year-old corner outfielder missed the last two months of the season due to surgery on his right thumb.

2010 For the first time since the glory days of the 'Big Red Machine,' Cincinnati lands more than one Gold Glove winner, with third baseman Scott Rolen, second baseman Brandon Phillips, and pitcher Bronson Arroyo all recognized for their fielding prowess. Starting in 1974, for four consecutive seasons, the managers and coaches routinely selected catcher Johnny Bench, second baseman Joe Morgan, shortstop Dave Concepcion, and center fielder Cesar Geronimo as the top defensive players in their positions.

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2010 At the age of 75, legendary Mariners broadcaster Dave Niehaus, best known for trademark calls of "My Oh My" and "It will fly away," dies at his home after suffering a heart attack. The 2008 Ford C. Frick Award recipient and Seattle's only representative in the National Baseball Hall of Fame called all but 101 of the 5,385 games for 34 seasons that the team has played, including the first pitch in franchise history thrown by Diego Segui in 1977.

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2012 The Nationals announce Davey Johnson will return for one more season as the team's manager. The 69-year-old skipper, who led Washington to their first NL East title with a franchise-high 98 victories, will become a consultant for the club in 2014.

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2012 R.A. Dickey receives the 21st annual Rotary Club of Denver's Branch Rickey Award, an honor given to just one of the 30 nominees selected from each major league team for their humanitarian service off the field. Before the start of the season, the Mets' 38-year-old knuckleballer climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, helping to raise more than $100,000 to support the Bombay Teen organization in their effort to rescue young women from forced prostitution in India.

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2014 Jose Abreu (.317, 36, 107), receiving all 30 first-place votes cast by the BBWAA, is unanimously named the American League Rookie of the Year. The 27-year-old first baseman joins Ozzie Guillen (1985), Ron Kittle (1983), Tommie Agee (1966), Gary Peters (1963), and Luis Aparicio (1956) as the sixth White Sox player to win the prestigious freshman award since its inception in 1947.

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2020 Baseball Writers' Association of America select Kevin Cash as the AL's Manager of the Year after he guided the Rays to a first-place finish in the East, compiling the circuit's best record (40-20) in the COVID-shortened season. The 42-year-old skipper, in his sixth season in Tampa, led the franchise to its second World Series appearance, knocking off the Yankees and Astros out of the playoffs before losing the Fall Classic in six games to the Dodgers.

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2020 The Baseball Writers' Association of America unanimously selects Mariners' center fielder Kyle Lewis as the American League's Rookie of the Year. The 25-year-old, Seattle's first-round pick in 2016, led the team in batting average (.262), on-base percentage (.364), and homers (11) in the covid-shorten sixty-game season.

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2020 The writers, casting 14 of 30 first-place votes, select Brewers right-handed reliever Devin Williams as the National League's Rookie of the Year, with infielders Alec Bohm of the Phillies and the Padres' Jake Cronenworth tied for second place for the freshman honor. The 26-year-old Missourian, the second-round draft pick by Milwaukee in 2013, posted a 0.33 ERA, allowed four runs (one earned), and gave up eight hits while striking out 53 of the 100 batters he faced in 27 innings he pitched.

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2020 The writers select Don Mattingly as the National League's Manager of the Year after he guides Miami to their first playoff appearance since the team won the World Series in 2003. Joining Jack McKeon (2003) and Joe Girardi (2006), the 59-year-old veteran skipper becomes the third Marlins skipper to receive the honor and the fifth person to win both an MVP award (1985) and named Manager of the Year

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Pittsburgh #Pirates legend Roberto Clemente served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve (1958-64)
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Los Angeles #Dodgers relief pitcher Mike Marshall picks off Oakland #Athletics "designated runner" Herb Washington during Game 2 of the 1974 World Series at Dodger Stadium
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