111 Years Ago Today: The First Game Is Played At Ebbets Field! [IMG]
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2011 Nine different pitchers each contribute a hitless inning apiece when the High Desert Mavericks (Adelanto, California) no-hit the local...
2009 Jordan Schafer becomes the tenth Braves' player in franchise history and the 99th overall to hit a home run in his first major league...
2004 "This, I’m going to remember for the rest of my life. I’m going to live with this. Opening Day, a walk-off home run - it doesn’t get any...
1997 At Olympic Stadium, the Rockies set a franchise record with seven home runs, including three by Larry Walker, pulled from the game in the...
1993 William Jefferson Clinton becomes the first U.S. president to successfully throw the season's first pitch from the pitcher's mound....
1983 On Opening Day, Tom Seaver, making his first appearance with the Mets since 1977, combines with Doug Sisk to blank the Phillies at Shea...
1972 The Expos trade a stunned All-Star right fielder Rusty Staub to the Mets for outfielder Ken Singleton and infielders Tim Foli and Mike...
1957 The Phillies trade five players, Ron Negray, Tim Harkness, Elmer Valo, Mel Geho, and Ben Flowers (the player to be named later), sending...
This Day in Baseball History April 5th 1913 In an exhibition game against the Yankees, 25,000 fans watch the Dodgers play their first game in...
April 5 BASEBALL BIRTHDAYS ************************************** 1938 Ron Hansen shortstop (MLB All Star 1960, 60²; AL Rookie of the Year 1960;...
Dick Allen presented `72 MVP Award, Comiskey by baseball writer Ed Munzel, Sox VP Stu Holcomb [IMG]
2017 Stephen Piscotty's dangerous journey around the base paths ends when he crosses the plate in the bottom of the fifth inning, scoring the...
2012 Joey Votto and the Reds agree to the longest guaranteed contract in major league history, a $251.5 million, 12-year deal. Second, only to...
2007 Tuffy Rhodes becomes the first non-Japanese player in Nippon Pro Baseball history to drive in a thousand runs. Only two of the 28 players...
2003 At Cincinnati's new Great American Ball Park, Sammy Sosa becomes the first Latin American player and the 18th to hit 500 career home runs....
1998 En route to shattering the single-season mark for home runs, Mark McGwire homers in his fourth consecutive game to tie Willie Mays' 1971...
