November 14
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Events[edit]
- 1887 - The Cleveland Blues of the American Association announce a new uniform design featuring dark blue stripes and piping. The new suit will inspire the nickname "Spiders" because of the web-like pattern.
- 1900 - The National League rejects the American League as an equal, declaring it an outlaw league outside of the National Agreement, thus inaugurating a state of war. This follows the AL's announcement two days ago that it has made arrangements to go into Washington, DC, Baltimore and Philadelphia. Two weeks later the American Association makes it a three-way battle, but that third circuit will remain a minor league.
- 1929 - Former pitching star Joe McGinnity dies at the age of 58. McGinnity, nicknamed "Iron Man", posted 246 wins in only ten major league seasons. He will enter the Hall of Fame in 1946.
- 1936 - Fumito Horio of Hankyu hits three triples in a game, a Nippon Pro Baseball record. Horio does it in three consecutive innings.
- 1946 - Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox wins his first American League Most Valuable Player Award. Williams had hit .406 and led the league in home runs in 1941, but had lost the MVP race to Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees. He won the Triple Crown a year later, but lost the MVP to Joe Gordon of the New York Yankees. This time, Williams beats out Detroit Tigers ace pitcher Hal Newhouser, a two-time winner of the MVP award who finishes second in the balloting
- 1956 - The Pittsburgh Pirates say the franchise may have to move unless a new municipal stadium is built to replace Forbes Field.
- 1957 - Milwaukee Braves outfielder Hank Aaron is named National League Most Valuable Player with 239 votes. Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals is a close second with 230, and his teammate Red Schoendienst finishes third with 221.
- 1961 - John Fetzer's purchase of the outstanding one-third interest in the Detroit Tigers makes him sole owner of the club.
- 1973:
- Oakland Athletics outfielder Reggie Jackson wins the American League MVP Award in unanimous fashion. The future Hall of Famer led the AL with 32 home runs, 117 RBI, 99 runs and a .531 slugging percentage, in helping the Athletics to their second straight World Series title.
- Baltimore Orioles pitcher Jim Palmer is named the 1973 American League Cy Young Award winner. Palmer collected 22 victories and led the circuit with a 2.40 ERA.
- 1979 - Don Baylor of the California Angels wins the MVP Award in the American League. The league leader in both runs scored (120) and runs batted in (139), Baylor also hit .296 with 36 home runs, helping the Angels win the AL West Division and reach the postseason for the first time in franchise history.
- 1986 - The Doubleday Publishing Company agrees to sell the World Champion New York Mets to Nelson Doubleday and Fred Wilpon for $80.75 million. The company had purchased the Mets for a then-record $21.1 million in 1980.
- 1988 The California Angels name Doug Rader as manager of the team. Rader had previously piloted the Texas Rangers from 1982 to 1985.
- 1989 - San Diego Padres relief ace Mark Davis is selected the Cy Young Award winner in the National League. Davis saved 44 games while sporting an ERA of 1.85. In 1990, Davis will save only six games after signing a free agent contract with the Kansas City Royals.
- 1990 - Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Doug Drabek, who posted a 22-6 record with 131 strikeouts and a 2.76 ERA, is named the 1990 National League Cy Young Award winner, collecting 23 of a possible 24 first-place votes.
- 1995 - Mark Kotsay, of Cal State Fullerton, is named as winner of the Golden Spikes Award as the nation's top amateur baseball player.
- 1996:
- Texas Rangers outfielder Juan Gonzalez edges Alex Rodriguez of the Seattle Mariners by three votes to win the American League MVP Award. It is the tightest race for the award in the AL since 1960. Gonzalez batted .314 with 47 home runs and 144 RBI despite missing 28 games with an injury.
- Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Pat Hentgen is named the 1996 American League Cy Young Award winner. Hengen posted a 20-10 record with 177 strikeouts and a 3.22 ERA, while Andy Pettitte of the Yankees (21-8, 162, 3.87) finishes second in the vote.
- The Toronto Blue Jays and the Pittsburgh Pirates complete a nine-player swap with the Jays acquiring the second baseman they are looking for in 29-year-old Carlos Garcia. In addition, Toronto picks up outfielder Orlando Merced and reliever Dan Plesac. The Pirates receive six prospects, including C Craig Wilson, infielder Abraham Núñez and pitcher Jose Silva.
- 1999 - The Australian national team wins its first major international competition. They beat the Cuban national team, 4 - 3, in 11 innings in the Gold Medal game of the 1999 Intercontinental Cup when OF Yasser Gomez misjudges a fly ball from Gary White. Dave Nilsson goes 0 for 4 in the game but is named tourney MVP thanks to 11 RBI. Tom Becker wins the finale, Carlos Yanes gets the loss and Grant Balfour picks up the save.
- 2000 - Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Randy Johnson wins his second consecutive National League Cy Young Award, and his third overall.
- 2001:
- For the second time in his career, Seattle Mariners skipper Lou Piniella is named the American League Manager of the Year. Piniella, the only person to appear on every ballot, guided to the Mariners to an historical 116 victories which tied the 1906 Chicago Cubs as the winningest team in major league history.
- Larry Bowa, with an 86-76 record, is named the National League Manager of the Year, becoming the first manager in Philadelphia Phillies history to win the award. In his first year at the helm, Philadelphia improved by 21 games finishing the season two games behind the first-place Atlanta Braves.
- 2005:
- New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, whose 48 home runs set a league record for that position and broke a 68-year-old club mark for right-handed hitters, earns his second American League MVP Award in the closest vote since 2001. Rodriguez edges Boston Red Sox DH David Ortiz, 331-307, in voting by the BBWAA. He receives 16 of 28 first-place votes while Ortiz earns 11, with 2004 MVP Vladimir Guerrero of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim collecting the other to finish third with 196 points. The margin of victory is the smallest since Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki edged Oakland's Jason Giambi, 289-281, four years ago.
- Six weeks after beginning their search for a new manager, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays have decided that Los Angeles Angels bench coach Joe Maddon is the right man for the job. The team selected Maddon over incumbent Devil Rays bench coach John McLaren as Lou Piniella's successor.
- The Baltimore Orioles officially announce that they will not be bringing back outfielder Sammy Sosa or first baseman Rafael Palmeiro, though both have indicated that they would like to return to baseball. "At this point, we are heading in a different direction," club executive VP Mike Flanagan says.
- 2007:
- Eric Wedge and Bob Melvin, both of whom hit .233 in their major league careers, win the Manager of the Year Awards for 2007. Melvin's Diamondbacks were the first team in over 100 years to post their league's best record despite having the lowest batting average.
- The Dutch national team clinches a spot in the quarterfinals of the 2007 Baseball World Cup with a stunning 2 - 1 win over the Cuban national team. It is Cuba's first loss in a Baseball World Cup since 2001 and its first World Cup loss ever to a European team. Diegomar Markwell and David Bergman stifle the powerful Cuban bats. The offense is provided when Dirk van 't Klooster singles in Sidney de Jong and Sharnol Adriana drives in Raily Legito on a daring dash from second base in the 8th inning. Cuba's only prior loss to the Netherlands had come in the 2000 Olympics - Adriana, van 't Klooster and Legito had all played in that game as well.
- 2008 - The Woori Heroes, fresh off their first season in the Korea Baseball Organization, trade left-handed starter Won-sam Jang to the Samsung Lions for Sung-hun Park and $2.1 million. The other six teams in the KBO appeal the trade, claiming it violates a circuit-wide rule that new teams cannot trade players for money (to help prevent a fire sale). Samsung and Woori claim that there is no written rule against such an exchange. Woori's manager says his team has no chance in 2009 without Jang. The trade will be annulled a week later.
- 2011:
- Winners of the Rookie of the Year Award are announced in both major leagues. In the National League, Braves reliever Craig Kimbrel is the winner after setting a new rookie record with 46 saves. In the American League, Tampa Bay P Jeremy Hellickson comes up with the prize on the strength of a 13-10 record and a 2.95 ERA.
- Rakuten Golden Eagles pitcher Masahiro Tanaka wins the 2011 Sawamura Award as the best pitcher in Nippon Pro Baseball. He went 19-5 with a 1.27 ERA and 241 strikeouts in 226 1/3 innings. He led the Pacific League in ERA, tied D.J. Houlton for the most wins, tied Yu Darvish for the most shutouts (6), led in complete games (14) and was second to Darvish in strikeouts. Darvish was the other finalist.
- 2012:
- The Cy Young Awards are announced in both leagues. In the National League, R.A. Dickey of the Mets is the first knuckleballer ever so honored after finishing the year with a record of 20-6, 2.73 and 230 strikeouts. In the American League, David Price of the Rays edges last year's winner, Justin Verlander of the Tigers, 153 to 149. Price receives 14 first-place votes after finishing the season at 20-5, 2.56 with 205 Ks, while Verlander gets 13, after a season during which he went 17-8, 2.64 with 239 strikeouts.
- The 2012 Matsutaro Shoriki Award is split between Yomiuri Giants catcher Shinnosuke Abe and Giants skipper Tatsunori Hara. Abe, the Central League batting and RBI champion, is the first player to win since Hideki Matsui in 2000. It is the first time ever that two people from the same organization split the award.
- Free agent OF Torii Hunter signs a two-year, $26-million contract with the Detroit Tigers.
- 2013:
- The MVPs in the two major league circuits are both clear-cut picks: Andrew McCutchen gets 28 of 30 first-place votes in the National League and Miguel Cabrera 23 in the American League. McCutchen had a well-rounded season that put him either first or second in Wins Above Replacement (depending on who was doing the calculation) despite no one dominant area, leading the Pirates to their first winning season and postseason appearance in 21 years, when Barry Bonds was MVP. Cabrera led the AL in average, slugging and OBP and was second in homers and RBI to win the honor for the second straight season.
- Major League Baseball owners agree to fund an expanded video review system in 2014. The plan, which would allow managers to challenge almost any call by umpires except for balls and strikes, still needs to gain approval from the Players Association and Umpires Union.
- 2014 - The Rays trade P Jeremy Hellickson, the 2011 Rookie of the Year who has since fallen out of favor, to the Diamondbacks in return for two prospects, IF Andrew Velazquez and OF Justin Williams.
- 2015:
- The Diamondbacks trade P Jeremy Hellickson to the Phillies for pitching prospect Sam McWilliams.
- Five of the eight quarterfinal spots at the 2015 Premier 12 are decided. The Kingdom of the Netherlands national team is first to advance, beating Puerto Rico, 11 - 7, behind two home runs from Randolph Oduber. The South Korean national team advances next with a 4 - 3 win over Mexico as Hyun-soo Kim hits a two-run double and Woo-chan Cha, Tae-hyeon Chong and Hyun-seong Lee toss shutout relief. Samurai Japan gets five shutout innings of relief in a 10 - 2 romp of Team USA to advance, with three runs by Tetsuto Yamada and three RBI by Yoshitomo Tsutsugo; the US also advances thanks to Mexico's loss. Jared Mortensen and Kyle Lotzkar of Team Canada combine on a shutout of the Italian national team in a 4 - 0 win to clinch a spot for Canada, while Italy is eliminated. In the other two games today, Venezuela knocks out the Dominican national team with an 8 - 6 comeback win capped by a three-run double by Luis Jimenez and host Taiwan downs Cuba, 4 - 1, on a three-run, 8th-inning dinger by Chih-Sheng Lin.
- 2016:
- Winners of the Rookie of the Year Award are announced: in the NL, Dodgers SS Corey Seager is an unanimous winner, while in the AL, P Michael Fullmer of the Tigers receives 26 of 30 first-place votes.
- Dustin Nippert of the Doosan Bears is named KBO MVP for 2016 after going 22-3 with a 2.95 ERA; he is only the second foreign pitcher to win the award. The KBO Rookie of the Year goes to the Nexen Heroes' Jae-young Shin, who won 15 games with a 3.90 ERA in a hitter-friendly environment.
- 2017: Paul Molitor, who led the Minnesota Twins from a last-place finish in 2016 to the Wild Card Game, is the recipient of the Manager of the Year Award in the American League, while first-year skipper Torey Lovullo of the Diamondbacks wins the award in the National League after taking his team to the postseason.
- 2018 -
- For the second straight Nichi-Bei Series, the NPB stars defeat the MLB All-Stars. They take Game 5 by a 6 - 5 margin to go up four games to one with one remaining. For the third time this Series, Japan rallies. Rhys Hoskins hits a two-run homer off Nao Higashihama early and the MLB team leads, 5 - 1 ,after six innings, but Japan ties it in the 7th. In the 8th, 2018 Japan Series MVP Takuya Kai singles off Dan Otero to bring in a hustling Seiji Uebayashi with the winner.
- In spite of notching just ten wins, Jacob deGrom of the Mets wins the 2018 National League Cy Young Award, receiving 29 of 30 first-place votes. His major-league leading ERA of 1.70 convinced voters to set aside his win-loss record, which was largely influenced by terrible run support. In the American League, Blake Snell of the Rays is the winner after going 21-5 with an ERA of 1.89.
- 2019 - OF Mike Trout wins the AL MVP Award for the third time, beating out Alex Bregman, while OF Cody Bellinger wins for the first time in the NL, finishing ahead of Christian Yelich.
- 2022:
- OF Julio Rodríguez of the Mariners is a near unanimous winner of the AL Rookie of the Year Award, receiving 29 of 30 first-place votes after hitting .284 with 28 homers and 75 RBIs. In the National League vote, OF Michael Harris of the Braves receives 22 first-place votes, while the eight others go to teammate, P Spencer Strider.
- Germany's Bundesliga names its 2022 MVPs. Bonn Capitals shortstop Eric Brenk is named northern MVP after leading that league in average, hits, doubles and total bases, while the southern award goes to Kaleb Bowman of the Guggenberger Legionären Regensburg, who won a pitching Triple Crown.
- The 2022 NPB Gold Glove winners are announced. Ryosuke Kikuchi of the Hiroshima Carp wins his tenth straight at second base in the Central League, edging Tetsuto Yamada, 114 votes to 87.
- 2023:
- The winners of the Manager of the Year Award are announced. In the American League, Brandon Hyde, who led the Orioles to the best record in the circuit after completing a difficult reconstruction, is the winner, while in the National League, the winner is Skip Schumaker, who led the Marlins to a rare postseason participation in his first season at the helm.
- Peter Seidler, owner and team President of the San Diego Padres, passes away at age 63; he had been fighting non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Under his leadership, the Padres became big spenders on the free agent market, made the postseason in both 2020 and 2022, and while they were a disappointment on the field last season, still drew a franchise record 3.7 million fans to Petco Park.
Births[edit]
- 1860 - John Munyan, catcher (d. 1945)
- 1864 - Otto Schomberg, infielder (d. 1927)
- 1867 - Sam Gillen, infielder (d. 1905)
- 1876 - Harry Howell, pitcher (d. 1956)
- 1881 - Fred Carisch, catcher (d. 1977)
- 1881 - Jim Wallace, outfielder (d. 1953)
- 1884 - Gene Cocreham, pitcher (d. 1945)
- 1885 - Jack Lelivelt, outfielder (d. 1941)
- 1894 - Joe Leonard, infielder (d. 1920)
- 1895 - Frank Lausche, minor league outfielder (d. 1990)
- 1895 - Arnett Mitchell, pitcher (d. 1934)
- 1896 - Red Sheridan, infielder (d. 1975)
- 1898 - Claude Willoughby, pitcher (d. 1973)
- 1901 - Will Owens, infielder (d. 1999)
- 1902 - Gil Paulsen, pitcher (d. 1994)
- 1909 - Felix Manning, infielder (d. 1982)
- 1915 - Don Cross, minor league infielder and manager (d. 2013)
- 1916 - Paul Schoendienst, minor league infielder and manager (d. 1994)
- 1917 - Yoshio Gomi, NPB infielder (d. 1988)
- 1918 - Warren Tappin, college coach (d. 1993)
- 1919 - Andy Mogish, college coach (d. 2015)
- 1922 - John Cappa, minor league outfielder (d. 2008)
- 1925 - Vance Carlson, minor league pitcher and manager (d. 2018)
- 1925 - Zane Skinner, minor league infielder and manager (d. 2014)
- 1926 - Ev Hall, minor league infielder and manager (d. 2018)
- 1928 - David Gold, minor league catcher (d. 2010)
- 1929 - Jim Piersall, outfielder; All-Star (d. 2017)
- 1929 - Albert Turner, minor league pitcher (d. 2011)
- 1930 - Bob Bauer, minor league infielder and manager (d. 2020)
- 1930 - Bud Brown, umpire (d. 1997)
- 1932 - Marty Kutyna, pitcher
- 1937 - Jim Brewer, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1987)
- 1937 - Murray Oliver, minor league infielder (d. 2014)
- 1938 - Johnnie Seale, pitcher
- 1941 - Darrell Sutherland, pitcher
- 1942 - Denny Matthews, broadcaster
- 1943 - Danny Lazar, pitcher
- 1948 - Bill Cooper, minor league pitcher
- 1952 - Shigeru Kobayashi, NPB pitcher (d. 2010)
- 1953 - Kim Andrew, infielder
- 1954 - Willie Hernandez, pitcher; All-Star (d. 2023)
- 1954 - Calvin Portley, minor league infielder
- 1956 - Scott Budner, minor league pitcher
- 1956 - Pedro Gómez, Dominican national team infielder
- 1962 - Steve Peters, pitcher
- 1963 - Katsuyuki Furumizo, NPB pitcher
- 1963 - Doug Little, minor league pitcher
- 1966 - Curt Schilling, pitcher; All-Star
- 1967 - Paul Wagner, pitcher
- 1968 - Kent Bottenfield, pitcher; All-Star
- 1969 - Roger Burnett, minor league infielder
- 1972 - Keith Cooper, minor league pitcher (d. 1995)
- 1973 - Matt Quatraro, manager
- 1973 - Ruben Rivera, outfielder
- 1974 - David Caldwell, minor league player
- 1974 - Chip Lawrence, scout
- 1975 - Darren Phillips, minor league catcher
- 1976 - Tim Hamulack, pitcher
- 1978 - Xavier Nady, outfielder
- 1980 - Sean Tracey, pitcher
- 1982 - Angel Castro, pitcher
- 1982 - Jeremy Jirschele, college coach
- 1982 - Dejan Marin, Croatian national team pitcher
- 1983 - Guillermo Moscoso, pitcher
- 1983 - Clete Thomas, outfielder
- 1984 - Miguel Abreu, minor league infielder
- 1984 - Alden Carrithers, minor league infielder
- 1984 - Félix Pérez, NPB outfielder
- 1986 - Zuleyka Santiago, Puerto Rican women's national team pitcher
- 1989 - Yeison Asencio, minor league outfielder
- 1989 - Freddy Galvis, infielder
- 1989 - Grégoire Maurette, Division Elite infielder
- 1990 - Tjerk Hogervorst, Hoofdklasse outfielder
- 1990 - Yu-young Lee, South Korean women's national team pitcher
- 1990 - Felix Marte, minor league pitcher
- 1990 - Sam Selman, pitcher
- 1990 - Yasmani Tomás, outfielder
- 1991 - Kevin Jordan, drafted outfielder
- 1991 - Joely Rodriguez, pitcher
- 1992 - Daniel Castro, infielder
- 1992 - Akeel Morris, pitcher
- 1993 - Francisco Lindor, infielder; All-Star
- 1993 - Walker Weickel, minor league pitcher
- 1995 - J.J. Matijevic, infielder
- 1996 - Kyle Molnar, minor league pitcher
- 1997 - Spencer Horwitz, infielder
- 1997 - José Ortega, Venezuelan national team infielder
- 1998 - Rafael Romero, minor league infielder
- 1999 - Xaisana Thammavong, Laotian national team outfielder
Deaths[edit]
- 1905 - John Connor, pitcher (b. 1861)
- 1907 - Thomas Mays, umpire (b. 1840)
- 1915 - Art McGovern, catcher (b. 1882)
- 1919 - Vince Dailey, outfielder (b. 1864)
- 1922 - Doc Oberlander, pitcher (b. 1864)
- 1924 - Joe Quest, infielder (b. 1852)
- 1928 - Herb Juul, pitcher (b. 1886)
- 1929 - Joe McGinnity, pitcher; Hall of Famer (b. 1871)
- 1932 - Boss Schmidt, catcher (b. 1880)
- 1937 - Jack O'Connor, catcher, manager (b. 1866)
- 1938 - Les Nunamaker, catcher (b. 1889)
- 1940 - George Clark, pitcher (b. 1891)
- 1942 - Scrappy Carroll, outfielder (b. 1860)
- 1944 - Bennie Brownlow, minor league infielder and manager (b. 1886)
- 1946 - Stub Smith, infielder (b. 1873)
- 1947 - Jack Hoey, outfielder (b. 1881)
- 1949 - Artie Clarke, catcher (b. 1865)
- 1956 - Ed Hilley, infielder (b. 1879)
- 1958 - Jack Owens, catcher (b. 1908)
- 1959 - Ted Mayer, minor league catcher and manager (b. 1906)
- 1962 - Dick Hoblitzel, infielder (b. 1888)
- 1963 - Ski Melillo, infielder, manager (b. 1899)
- 1965 - Dixie Walker, pitcher (b. 1888)
- 1968 - Bill Sherdel, pitcher (b. 1896)
- 1969 - Curt Roberts, infielder (b. 1929)
- 1970 - Deke Brackett, college coach (b. 1911)
- 1973 - Gene Bailey, outfielder (b. 1893)
- 1973 - Monk Johnson, outfielder (b. 1894)
- 1975 - Garland Buckeye, pitcher (b. 1897)
- 1976 - Fred Baczewski, pitcher (b. 1926)
- 1985 - Oscar Harstad, pitcher (b. 1892)
- 1985 - Luke Nelson, pitcher (b. 1893)
- 1987 - Hod Lisenbee, pitcher (b. 1898)
- 1989 - Eddie Mooers, minor league infielder and owner (b. 1899)
- 1995 - Keith Cooper, minor league pitcher (b. 1972)
- 1996 - Jim Baxes, infielder (b. 1928)
- 2000 - Len Gabrielson, infielder (b. 1915)
- 2003 - Wil Culmer, outfielder (b. 1957)
- 2004 - Jesse Gonder, catcher (b. 1936)
- 2006 - Al Smith, umpire (b. 1925)
- 2006 - Pete Suder, infielder (b. 1916)
- 2008 - Yasuo Otsuka, NPB catcher (b. 1943)
- 2010 - Hal Bamberger, outfielder (b. 1924)
- 2012 - Gail Harris, infielder (b. 1931)
- 2015 - Joe Anders, minor league infielder (b. 1921)
- 2015 - Mike McDonald, minor league infielder and college coach (b. 1947)
- 2020 - Lindy McDaniel, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1935)
- 2023 - Peter Seidler, owner (b. 1960)
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