fbpx
Wikipedia

1969 in baseball

October 15, 2023

See also: 1969 Major League Baseball season and 1969 Nippon Professional Baseball season

The following are the baseball events of the year 1969 throughout the world.

Expansion Edit

Four expansion teams joined Major League Baseball for this season: the San Diego Padres, the Kansas City Royals, the Seattle Pilots, and the first MLB team in Canada, the Montreal Expos. To accommodate the additional teams, the two leagues were split into two divisions of East and West. For the first time, extra post-season playoff series were added prior to the World Series, at this juncture best-of-five series between the East and West division leaders in each league.

Champions Edit

Major League Baseball Edit

Main article: 1969 Major League Baseball season

The most notable part of the 1969 season were the Miracle Mets

League Championship Series
(ALCS, NLCS) 		World Series
      
East Baltimore 3
West Minnesota 0
AL Baltimore 1
NL NY Mets 4
East NY Mets 3
West Atlanta 0

Other champions Edit

Awards and honors Edit

MLB statistical leaders Edit

The save is introduced as an official statistic this year. Ron Perranoski lead the majors with 31.[1]

Major league baseball final standings Edit

Events Edit

January–March Edit

  • January 2 – In response to major-league owners' continued refusal to increase their contributions to the players' pension fund commensurately with their television broadcast revenues, the Major League Baseball Players Association urges players not to sign any new contracts.
  • January 21 – Stan Musial and Roy Campanella are voted into the Hall of Fame by BBWAA members.
  • January 22 – The Expos trade Donn Clendenon and Jesús Alou to the Houston Astros for Rusty Staub. The Astros had recently hired Clendenon's former Pittsburgh Pirates manager Harry Walker, with whom Clendenon had a personality clash, to steer their club and Clendenon refused to report to his new team. The Expos and Astros worked out a new deal, and Clendenon joined the Expos on April 19.
  • February 2 – Pitchers Stan Coveleski and Waite Hoyt are voted into the Hall of Fame by the Special Veterans Committee.
  • February 17 – Spring training opens without 400 players who have decided to boycott it over the pension-fund impasse.
  • February 26 – The boycott ends when owners accept most of the players' terms.
  • March 1 – Mickey Mantle announces his retirement.
  • March 16 – A plane crash in Maracaibo, Venezuela kills 155 people including first baseman Carlos Santeliz, the Venezuelan League Rookie of the Year, on his way to the Braves' spring training camp. Another fatality is pitcher Látigo Chávez, en route to the Giants' camp. Chávez (1–0) was 12–5 with Double-A Waterbury in the Eastern League (1967), including seven shutouts. Pitcher Pablo Torrealba was also scheduled to take the flight, but missed it and took a later one.

April–June Edit

July Edit

  • July 8 – With three runs in the 9th inning, the New York Mets beat the Chicago Cubs 4–3, cutting Chicago's lead in the National League East to four games. Chicago's Ron Santo rips into center fielder Don Young for two misplays in the outfield; Santo apologizes the next day for criticizing Young, who had left early and didn't take the team bus. Santo is later booed in his first game back at Wrigley Field.
  • July 9 – With one out in the ninth inning, the Chicago Cubs' Jim Qualls lines a single to left center to break up Tom Seaver's perfect game bid. The New York Mets' 4–0 victory over the Cubs at Shea Stadium would go down in history as "Tom Seaver's Imperfect Game".
  • July 13 – In the third meeting between the two brothers, the San Diego Padres' Joe Niekro defeats his younger brother Phil Niekro of the Atlanta Braves 1–0; Joe is 2–1 over Phil.
  • July 17. Jim Kaat improves to 10-6 with an 8-5 victory for the Minnesota Twins over the Chicago White Sox despite committing three errors. Kaat was in the midst of 16 consecutive Gold Glove awards for fielding. [2]
  • July 23 – At R.F.K. Memorial Stadium, Willie McCovey hits two home runs as the National League beats the American League 9–3, for its seventh straight All-Star Game win. McCovey is named MVP, with his two homers tying an All-Star Game record set earlier by Arky Vaughan (1941), Ted Williams (1946) and Al Rosen (1954). The game was postponed by one day after heavy rains in the Washington, D.C. area. When the AL's Don Mincher pinch-hit in the fourth inning, he became a trivia answer: the only Seattle Pilot to appear in an All-Star game.
  • July 26 – Randy Hundley drives in all three Cub runs, including a walk-off single in the 11th inning, to lead the Cubs to a 3–2 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers at Wrigley Field.
  • July 27 - In the most dominant shutout in Orioles history, the Baltimore Orioles defeat the Chicago White Sox, 17–0, at Memorial Stadium. Jim Hardin pitches a two-hit shutout, walking none, and hits a three-run home run in the bottom of the fourth off of Gary Bell to make it 13–0. The Orioles would plate four more runs and belt out 20 hits. All Oriole starters hit safely. In Baltimore's 100th game of the season, they are 69–31 and lead the Detroit Tigers by 12.5 games in the newly formed American League East.
  • July 29 – Willie McCovey hits his 300th career home run helping the San Francisco Giants beat the Chicago Cubs, 4–2.
  • July 30 – After losing the first game of a doubleheader with the Houston Astros 16–3, the New York Mets were down 7–0 in the third inning when Johnny Edwards hit a double to Cleon Jones in left field to make the score 8–0. Mets manager Gil Hodges emerged from the dugout, walked past Nolan Ryan on the mound and all the way to left field. A few minutes later, Hodges walked back to the dugout, with Jones a few paces behind him, and replaced Jones in left with Ron Swoboda. According to Jones, he pointed down to the water-filled turf. Hodges then said that something must be wrong with Jones' ankle and pulled him for that reason (Jones was kept out of the lineup for the next two games and was used only as a pinch hitter in the two after that). Newspapers report that Jones was removed for failure to hustle, and Hodges decided to do so publicly to show that he would not tolerate lack of effort on his team, even from its star player.

August Edit

  • August 1 - Willie Davis of the Los Angeles Dodgers began his 31-game hit streak this day. Coming into this game Willie was batting .260 - by the time the streak ended on September 4 Willie was batting .318 - during the streak Willie hit .459 and broke the Dodgers franchise record of 29 games set by Zack Wheat. Willie Davis' 31-game hit streak was the third-longest in NL history and as of 2023 remains the Dodgers' record.
  • August 5 – The Pittsburgh Pirates' Willie Stargell hits the first home run completely out of Dodger Stadium. Los Angeles pitcher Alan Foster surrenders the 506-foot blast. To date, it's the longest home run in Dodger Stadium history. (Stargell will hit another homer out of Dodger Stadium, off Andy Messersmith in 1973.) The mammoth home run comes in the seventh inning and breaks a 3–3 tie, a three-run home run by Andy Kosco having tied the game for the Dodgers in the bottom of the sixth; Pittsburgh scores seven more runs in the ninth inning and defeats Los Angeles 11–3.
  • August 10
    • Citing damage to his right shoulder, Don Drysdale retires from the Los Angeles Dodgers. He is the last player still playing for the Dodgers who also played in Brooklyn.
    • At Baltimore, the Orioles' Mike Cuellar allows only one hit, a top-of-the-ninth single to César Tovar, and beats the Minnesota Twins 2–0. For the second time this season, Tovar saves the Twins from being no-hit against Baltimore. He broke up a no-hitter by Dave McNally in the ninth inning during a game in May.
  • August 13
  • August 14 – In the National League Eastern Division, the Chicago Cubs lead the St. Louis Cardinals by 8.5 games and the New York Mets by 9.5 games.
  • August 19 – At Wrigley Field, Ken Holtzman of the Chicago Cubs no-hits the Atlanta Braves 3–0 with no strikeouts. Only one other pitcher in major league history, Sad Sam Jones in 1923, has hurled a no-hitter without the benefit of a strikeout. Holtzman survives a scare in the seventh as Hank Aaron's fly ball to deep left field leading off the inning appears to be going over the wall for a home run; however, a stiff wind cuts into the ball and enables Billy Williams to catch it at the warning track. Aaron grounds out to Cubs' second baseman Glenn Beckert for the game's final out.

September Edit

October–December Edit

Births Edit

January–March Edit

February Edit

March Edit

April Edit

May Edit

June Edit

July Edit

August Edit

September Edit

October Edit

November Edit

December Edit

Deaths Edit

January Edit

  • January 5 – Tiny Osborne, 75, 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m), 215 lb (98 kg) pitcher who worked in 142 games for the Chicago Cubs (1922–1924) and Brooklyn Robins (1924–1925); father of Bobo Osborne.
  • January 5 – Larry Pratt, 81, catcher for Boston (American League) in 1914, then Brooklyn and Newark (both of the "outlaw" Federal League) in 1915.
  • January 6 – Larry Cheney, 82, three-time 20-game winning pitcher for the Chicago Cubs (1911–1915), Brooklyn Robins (1915–1919), Boston Braves (1919) and Philadelphia Phillies (1919); led National League hurlers with 26 victories in 1912.
  • January 6 – Hank Olmsted, 89, pitcher for the 1905 Boston Americans.
  • January 6 – Clint Rogge, 79, pitcher who as a rookie won 17 games for the 1915 Pittsburgh Rebels of the Federal League; later, hurled in six contests for 1921 Cincinnati Reds.
  • January 6 – Jim Viox, 78, Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman who played in 506 games from 1912 to 1916.
  • January 7 – Bill Lobe, 56, minor-league catcher who spent nine years (1951–1959) as bullpen coach of the Cleveland Indians.
  • January 18 – Ray Kennedy, 73, second baseman turned executive and scout; general manager of Pittsburgh Pirates (1946), farm system director of Pirates (1947–1948) and Detroit Tigers (1949–1951), and player personnel director of Kansas City Athletics (1955); appeared in one MLB game as a player for the St. Louis Browns (1916).
  • January 21 – Dick Terwilliger, 62, pitcher who threw three scoreless innings of relief in his lone MLB appearance on August 18, 1932, as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals.
  • January 23 – Al Bridwell, 85, shortstop whose apparent game-winning single for the New York Giants in a 1908 contest led to the controversial play in which baserunner Fred Merkle was eventually called out for not touching second base.
  • January 27 – Al Schweitzer, 86, reserve outfielder for 1908–1911 St. Louis Browns.
  • January 30 – Sam Bennett, 84, catcher/outfielder for Dayton and St. Louis of the Negro National League over five seasons spanning 1920 to 1925.

February Edit

  • February 2 – Ray Schmandt, 73, backup first- and second baseman for 1915 St. Louis Browns and 1918–1922 Brooklyn Robins; appeared in 1920 World Series.
  • February 13 – Shags Horan, 73, reserve outfielder who appeared in 22 games for 1924 New York Yankees.
  • February 16 – Mul Holland, 66, pitcher who had trials with three National League clubs during three seasons spanning 1926 to 1929.
  • February 18 – Jack Zeller, 85, executive and scout; general manager of the Detroit Tigers from 1938 to 1945; later, director of scouting of the Boston Braves.
  • February 19 – Doc White, 89, Chicago White Sox pitcher whose record of five consecutive shutouts was finally broken by Don Drysdale in 1968.
  • February 23 – Bubbles Hargrave, 76, catcher who hit .310 lifetime in 852 career games for the Chicago Cubs (1913–1915), Cincinnati Reds (1921–1928) and New York Yankees (1930); National League batting champion (.353) in 1926, first catcher to win a batting title in post-1901 era.
  • February 23 – Bill Swift, 60, pitcher who posted a 95–82 (3.58) record in 336 MLB games for four clubs, principally the Pittsburgh Pirates, between 1932 and 1943.
  • February 25 – Russ Wrightstone, 75, versatile infielder/outfielder (primarily a third- and first baseman) who appeared in 929 games for 1920–1928 Philadelphia Phillies and 1928 New York Giants.

March Edit

  • March 10 – Max Rosenfeld, 66, outfielder who got into 42 games with Brooklyn of the National League between 1931 and 1933.
  • March 12 – Joe Engel, 76, left-handed pitcher who appeared in 102 MLB games, 99 of them for the Washington Senators, between 1912 and 1920, then longtime Washington scout and operator of the Chattanooga Lookouts, the Senators' top farm team; namesake of Engel Stadium.
  • March 14 – Heinie Zimmerman, 82, third baseman who played 1,456 games for Chicago Cubs (1907–1916) and New York Giants (1916–1919) who won the NL triple crown in 1912; barred from baseball in 1919 for his role in fixing games.
  • March 16 – William Bell, 71, All-Star pitcher of the Negro leagues who posted the highest career winning percentage (114–52, .687) in black baseball.
  • March 16 – Néstor Chávez, 21, pitcher who played for the 1967 San Francisco Giants.
  • March 16 – Andy Rush, 79, pitcher who made four appearances for 1925 Brooklyn Robins.
  • March 17 – Poindexter Williams, 71, catcher who played for six teams in the Negro National League, primarily the Birmingham Black Barons, between 1921 and 1933.
  • March 18 – Rafael Almeida, 81, Cuban third baseman who played in 102 games for the 1911–1913 Cincinnati Reds; one of first three Cuban-born players in MLB during its post-1901 era.
  • March 20 – Jim Clark, 81, outfielder who played 16 games for 1911–1912 St. Louis Cardinals.
  • March 21 – Everett Booe, 77, outfielder who appeared in 125 games for Pittsburgh of the National League (1913) and Indianapolis and Buffalo of the Federal League (1914).
  • March 21 – Pinky Higgins, 59, third baseman for the Philadelphia Athletics, Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers for 14 years between 1930 and 1946; held American League record for career games at that position; three-time All-Star; later manager (1955–1959 and 1960–1962) and general manager (1963–1965) of the Red Sox.
  • March 22 – Floyd Speer, 56, relief pitcher who worked in a total of three games for the wartime 1943–1944 Chicago White Sox.
  • March 23 – Oris Hockett, 59, outfielder for 1938–1939 Brooklyn Dodgers and 1941–1945 Cleveland Indians, appearing in 551 career games; 1944 American League All-Star.

April Edit

  • April 2 – Ben Cardoni, 48, pitcher who was winless in six decisions and 36 career games for the 1943–1945 Boston Braves.
  • April 2 – Bill Force, 73, pitcher who appeared in 186 games between 1921 and 1929 for the Detroit Stars and Baltimore Black Sox of the Negro leagues.
  • April 3 – Charley Stanceu, 53, pitcher who worked in 39 career games for the New York Yankees (1941 and 1946) and Philadelphia Phillies (1946).
  • April 4 – Les Wilson, 83, outfielder who played for the 1911 Boston Red Sox.
  • April 4 – Chuck Ward, 74, shortstop for 1917 Pittsburgh Pirates and utility infielder for 1918–1922 Brooklyn Robins.
  • April 7 – Si Rosenthal, 65, outfielder who played for the Red Sox from 1925 to 1926.
  • April 8 – Win Noyes, 79, pitcher in 49 MLB games for the Boston Braves (1913), Philadelphia Athletics (1917, 1919) and Chicago White Sox (1919).
  • April 10 – Scotty Robb, 60, one of few mid-century umpires employed by both major leagues; worked in 662 National League games and two All-Star games between August 28, 1947 and May 4, 1952, when he resigned; then joined American League arbiter crew and officiated in 207 contests from May 13, 1952 to June 28, 1953.
  • April 11 – Al Kaiser, 82, outfielder in 155 games for Chicago and Boston of the National League (1911–1912) and Indianapolis of the Federal League (1914).
  • April 13 – William Walsingham Jr., 59, front-office executive; vice president of St. Louis Cardinals (1942–1955) and executive VP of Baltimore Orioles (1957–1958).
  • April 19 – Harry Cassady, 88, outfielder who played briefly for the 1904 Pittsburgh Pirates and 1905 Washington Senators.
  • April 19 – Bob "Rip" Collins, 59, catcher who appeared in 50 career games for the Chicago Cubs (1940) and New York Yankees (1944).
  • April 21 – Clarence Palm, 61, catcher in the Negro leagues whose career spanned 1927 to 1946; member of champion 1928 St. Louis Stars.
  • April 23 – Freddie Moncewicz, 65, backup shortstop for the 1928 Boston Red Sox.
  • April 27 – Harry Taylor, 61, first baseman who played 10 games with the 1932 Chicago Cubs.
  • April 28 – Joe Burg, 86, third baseman/shortstop who appeared in 13 late-season games for the 1910 Boston Doves of the National League.
  • April 29 – Ed Monroe, 74, pitcher who made ten appearances for the 1917–1918 New York Yankees.

May Edit

  • May 1 – Gary Wilson, 90, second baseman for the 1902 Boston Americans.
  • May 2 – Steve Larkin, 58, pitcher who appeared in two games during May 1934 for the Detroit Tigers.
  • May 5 – Eddie Cicotte, 84, pitcher who won 208 games for the Tigers, Red Sox and White Sox, but was thrown out of baseball as one of the eight "Black Sox" involved in fixing the 1919 World Series; he was the first of the eight to come forward, confessing his involvement and testifying before the grand jury.
  • May 7 – Ray Mack, 52, light-hitting second baseman for Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees and Chicago Cubs who played in 791 games from 1938 to 1944 and 1946–1947.
  • May 15 – Frank "Shag" Shaughnessy, 86, U.S.-born outfielder and Notre Dame graduate who played in nine American League games for Washington (1905) and Philadelphia (1908) and coached for the 1928 Detroit Tigers; pivotal figure in both the U.S. and Canada in minor league baseball (manager between 1909 and 1936, inventor of the "Shaughnessy playoffs" in 1936, and president of the International League from 1936 to 1960); also an influential gridiron football coach, and general manager of hockey's original Ottawa Senators; posthumously elected in 1983 to Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.
  • May 17 – Pants Rowland, 90, manager of the 1917 World Series champion Chicago White Sox, later president of the Pacific Coast League from 1944 to 1954, then longtime vice president of Chicago Cubs.
  • May 19 – Jim Tobin, 56, good-hitting knuckleball pitcher who hurled in 287 career games for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Bees/Braves, and Detroit Tigers between 1937 and 1945; threw no-hitter against Brooklyn on April 27, 1944; batted .230 with 17 homers and 102 RBI in 796 career at bats; hit three homers in a game for Boston on May 13, 1942, and made 109 career appearances as a pinch hitter in addition to his mound duties.
  • May 20 – Lee Allen, 54, historian at the Baseball Hall of Fame since 1959, former sportswriter.
  • May 21 – Dennis Burns, 70, pitcher who worked in 41 games for the 1923–1924 Philadelphia Athletics.
  • May 25 – Jim Riley, 74, Canadian infielder who played in six total MLB games for the St. Louis Browns (1921) and Washington Senators (1923); the only athlete in sports history to play both Major League Baseball and in the National Hockey League.
  • May 26 – Harland Rowe, 73, third baseman who played 17 games for 1916 Philadelphia Athletics.
  • May 27 – Lou Jackson, 33, outfielder who played 34 total games for the 1958–1959 Chicago Cubs and 1964 Baltimore Orioles; achieved success in Nippon Professional Baseball, smashing 68 home runs over three seasons (1966–1968).
  • May 28 – Gus Getz, 79, infielder for five big league clubs, principally Boston and Brooklyn of the National League, over seven seasons between 1909 and 1918.

June Edit

  • June 3 – Cobe Jones, 61, shortstop who got into 26 games for the 1929–1930 Pittsburgh Pirates; later, a scout.
  • June 10 – Charlie Fuchs, 55, World War II-era pitcher who hurled in 47 games for the Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Browns and Brooklyn Dodgers between 1941 and 1944.
  • June 17 – Byron Houck, 77, pitched in 118 major league games; as a member of 1912–1913 Philadelphia Athletics, he went 14–6 for the 1913 World Series champs, then jumped to the "outlaw" Federal League, where he hurled for the 1914 Brooklyn Tip-Tops; returned to the American League in 1918 as a St. Louis Brown.
  • June 24 – John Perrin, 71, right fielder for 1921 Boston Red Sox; later a fullback/quarterback for the NFL Hartford Blues.
  • June 28 – Sammy Gee, 41, shortstop who appeared in 13 games for the 1948 New York Cubans of the Negro National League.
  • June 29 – Ted McGrew, 89, minor league player and manager, National League umpire (1930–1931, 1933–1934), then a longtime scout for numerous MLB teams.
  • June 30 – Milt Gray, 55, catcher who appeared in two May 1937 games for the Washington Senators.

July Edit

  • July 2 – Art Scharein, 64, infielder who played 205 games for the 1932–1934 St. Louis Browns.
  • July 3 – Harry Spratt, 80, infielder for Boston (National League) in 1911 and 1912.
  • July 4 – Lew Drill, 92, catcher/outfielder for Washington, Baltimore and Detroit of the American League (1902–1905), appearing in 293 games.
  • July 5 – Ed Hemingway, 76, reserve second- and third baseman for the 1914 St. Louis Browns, 1917 New York Giants and 1918 Philadelphia Phillies.
  • July 8 – Bill Carrigan, nicknamed "Rough", 85, player-manager (1913–1916) and backup catcher (1906, 1908–1916) for the Boston Red Sox' world champions in 1915 and 1916; later returned as pilot of terrible Red Sox teams between 1927 and 1929.
  • July 8 – Red Rolfe, 60, third baseman for New York Yankees (1931 and 1934–1942), and member of five World Series champions; three-time AL All-Star; manager of Detroit Tigers from 1949 to July 4, 1952; Ivy League baseball coach (Yale) and athletics director (Dartmouth).
  • July 19 – Otto Vogel, 69, outfielder who appeared in 111 games for 1923–1924 Chicago Cubs.
  • July 19 – Al Williams, 55, pitcher who appeared in 46 total games for 1937–1938 Philadelphia Athletics.
  • July 23 – Roy Mahaffey, 65, pitcher in 224 games—197 for the Athletics—for three MLB clubs over nine seasons between 1926 and 1936; member of Philadelphia's 1930 World Series champions.
  • July 27 – Glenn Elliott, 49, southpaw reliever who pitched in 34 games for the 1947–1949 Boston Braves; scout for the Philadelphia Phillies from 1960 until his death.
  • July 29 – Douglas Sydnor, 49, World War II-era outfielder who appeared in 13 Negro National League games in 1943 and 1944.
  • July 30 – Flint Rhem, 68, pitcher who won 20 games (losing 7) for the 1926 world champion St. Louis Cardinals and went 105–97 over 12 National League seasons (1924–1928 and 1930–1936) with Cardinals, Boston Braves and Philadelphia Phillies.

August Edit

  • August 5 – Ralph Caldwell, 85, southpaw who pitched in 13 career games for the 1904–1905 Philadelphia Phillies.
  • August 5 – Verdo Elmore, 69, outfielder who played in seven games for the 1924 St. Louis Browns.
  • August 9 – Glenn Myatt, 72, lefty-swinging catcher who appeared in 1,004 games between 1920 and 1936 for four MLB clubs, principally the Cleveland Indians.
  • August 11 – William Marriott, 75, third baseman who played in 265 total games for the Chicago Cubs (1917, 1920–1921), Boston Braves (1925) and Brooklyn Robins (1926–1927).
  • August 15 – Howie Williamson, 64, minor-league outfielder who made ten pinch hitting appearances for 1928 St. Louis Cardinals.
  • August 17 – Frank Shellenback, 70, spitball pitcher who played for 1918–1919 Chicago White Sox and won 295 games in the Pacific Coast League; as a minor-league manager, he signed teenager Ted Williams to his first pro contract; later a longtime pitching coach.
  • August 19 – Álejandro Carrasquel, 57, Venezuelan pitcher who posted a 50–39 (3.73) record in 258 games for the Washington Senators (1939–1945) and Chicago White Sox (1949).
  • August 30 – Stew Bolen, 66, left-hander who went 3–13 (6.09 ERA) in 41 career games with the 1926–1927 St. Louis Browns and 1931–1932 Philadelphia Phillies.
  • August 30 – Tim McKeithan, 62, pitcher who worked in a total of ten games over parts of three seasons (1932–1934) with Philadelphia Athletics.

September Edit

  • September 10 – Billy "Jap" Barbeau, 87, third baseman who played 199 MLB games for the 1905–1906 Cleveland Naps, 1909 Pittsburgh Pirates and 1909–1910 St. Louis Cardinals.
  • September 11 – Dick Carter, 53, third-base coach of the Philadelphia Phillies from 1959 to May 30, 1960; previously, scouted for Phils and played and managed in their farm system.
  • September 14 – Jackie Tavener, 71, shortstop who played all or parts of six seasons between 1921 and 1929 for the Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Indians.
  • September 18 – Joe Grace, 55, outfielder who appeared in 484 games over six seasons between 1938 and 1947 with the St. Louis Browns and Washington Senators.
  • September 28 – Norm McMillan, 73, infielder for four MLB clubs in six seasons spanning 1922 to 1929; most notably, the regular third baseman for pennant-winning 1929 Chicago Cubs; started all five games of 1929 World Series, going two for 20 with two walks.
  • September 29 – Tommy Leach, 91, third baseman and center fielder, primarily for the Pittsburgh Pirates, who led the NL in runs twice and home runs once.
  • September 30 – Jim Galvin, 62, minor league catcher who played briefly for the 1930 Boston Red Sox, seeing action in two pinch-hitting assignments.
  • September 30 – Hank Thompson, 43, third baseman who was the third black player in MLB history as a member of the 1947 St. Louis Browns; in 1949, he and Monte Irvin broke the New York Giants' color line; member of Giants' 1954 World Series champions.

October Edit

  • October 2 – Gordon Cobbledick, 70, sportswriter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer from 1928 to 1964.
  • October 2 – Danny O'Connell, 42, infielder who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Milwaukee Braves, New York/San Francisco Giants and Washington Senators across ten MLB seasons from 1950 to 1962.
  • October 6 – Roy Crumpler, 73, left-handed pitcher who appeared in five career games for the 1920 Detroit Tigers and 1925 Philadelphia Phillies.
  • October 9 – Don Hoak, 41, fiery third baseman on 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers and 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates World Series championship teams; played 11 seasons in National League for five clubs; selected to 1957 NL All-Star team.
  • October 9 – Ray Lucas, 61, pitcher who worked in 22 total games for the 1929–1931 New York Giants and 1933–1934 Brooklyn Dodgers.
  • October 16 – Larry Boerner, 64, pitcher who posted an 0–4 (5.02) record in 21 games for the 1932 Boston Red Sox.
  • October 23 – Monk Dubiel, 51, pitcher who appeared in 187 career games for 1944–1945 New York Yankees, 1948 Philadelphia Phillies and 1949–1952 Chicago Cubs.
  • October 24 – Jack Bentley, 74, left-handed pitcher and first baseman who posted a 46–33 (4.01) record on the mound and a .291 batting average in 584 at bats at the plate for the Washington Senators (1913–1916), New York Giants (1923–1926 and 1927), and Philadelphia Phillies (1926); in 1923, he batted .427 (38 for 89 in 52 games, including batting .476 in 22 plate appearances as a pinch hitter) and went 13–8 (4.48) for NL champion Giants; had a brilliant minor-league career with Baltimore Orioles (1919–1922).
  • October 26 – Jim Blackburn, 45, World War II combat veteran and Prisoner of War who pitched for postwar Cincinnati Reds, making 18 career appearances during the 1948 and 1951 seasons.
  • October 27 – Charlie Jamieson, 76, standout outfielder for Cleveland Indians (1919–1932) and two other AL cubs; batted .303 lifetime in 1,779 games, eclipsing .300 mark ten times and leading Junior Circuit in hits (222) in 1923; member of Cleveland's 1920 World Series champions.
  • October 28 – Dave Callahan, 81, outfielder who played 19 MLB games for the 1910–1911 Cleveland Naps; stole 445 bases during his 17-year career in minor leagues.
  • October 28 – Joe Rullo, 53, second baseman who appeared in 51 total MLB games for wartime 1943–1944 Philadelphia Athletics.

November Edit

  • November 1 – George Winn, 72, pitcher for the Boston Red Sox (1919) and Cleveland Indians (1922–23).
  • November 7 – Chick Galloway, 73, shortstop who played 1,076 games for the 1919–1927 Philadelphia Athletics and 1928 Detroit Tigers.
  • November 12 – Eddie Hurley, 61, American League umpire from 1947 to 1965; officiated in 2,826 regular-season contests, four World Series and three All-Star games; was behind the plate in St. Louis on August 19, 1951, when Eddie Gaedel came to bat in Bill Veeck's famous stunt; led AL umpires in ejections three times over a 19-year career.
  • November 11 – Stump Edington, 78, 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) outfielder who batted .302 in 53 at bats for the 1912 Pittsburgh Pirates in his lone MLB opportunity.
  • November 14 – Curt Roberts, 40, first black player in Pittsburgh Pirates history (debuting April 13, 1954); second baseman who played in 171 games over three seasons (1954–1956) with Bucs.
  • November 15 – Billy Southworth, 76, Hall of Fame manager who won 1,044 regular-season games as skipper of the St. Louis Cardinals (1929 and 1940–1945) and Boston Braves (1946–1951); captured World Series titles in 1942 and 1944 and National League pennants with St. Louis (1943) and Boston (1948); his .597 career winning percentage is second, all-time, to Joe McCarthy; in his playing days, an outfielder who appeared in 1,192 games in 13 seasons for five teams between 1913 and 1929, and batted .297.
  • November 16 – Vin Campbell, 81, outfielder who played 546 games during a career spent with the Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, and two Federal League clubs (Indianapolis and Newark) over six seasons between 1908 and 1915.
  • November 20 – Paddy Baumann, 83, second baseman and third baseman who got into 299 games for the Detroit Tigers and New York Yankees between 1911 and 1917.
  • November 20 – Elmer Wilson, 74, second baseman for St. Louis (1925) and Dayton (1926) of the Negro National League.
  • November 24 – Phil Gallivan, 62, pitcher who appeared in 54 career games for the Brooklyn Robins (1931) and Chicago White Sox (1932, 1934).
  • November 24 – Pablo Morales, 64, Venezuelan professional baseball executive for more than three decades, and former owner of the Leones del Caracas club.
  • November 26 – Emil Kush, 53, pitcher who won 21 of 33 decisions for the Chicago Cubs (1941–1942 and 1946–1949).
  • November 29 – Bun Hayes, 66, pitcher for five Negro leagues clubs, primarily the Baltimore Black Sox, from 1928 to 1930 and 1932–1935,
  • November 30 – Eddie Eayrs, 79, outfielder/pitcher who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Braves and Brooklyn Robins in the early 20th century.
  • November – Billy Horne, 53, nicknamed "Little Grumbler", All-Star second baseman and shortstop who played for three Negro leagues clubs between 1938 and 1946.

December Edit

  • December 3 – Roy Wilson, 83, pitcher for the Chicago White Sox in the 1920s.
  • December 7 – Lefty O'Doul, 72, left fielder who batted .349 with 1,140 hits in his 970-game career and won two batting titles after being converted from a pitcher; winningest manager in Pacific Coast League history, and earned additional fame as the "father" of professional baseball in Japan.
  • December 10 – Jack Tobin, 77, diminutive — 142 lb (64 kg) — but hard-hitting right fielder who batted .309 and amassed 1,906 hits over a 13-year career (1914–1916 and 1918–1927) spent mostly with St. Louis Browns; led American League in triples (18) in 1921; later a Browns' coach.
  • December 11 – Ollie Fuhrman, 83, catcher who hit .333 for the Philadelphia Athletics in 1922.
  • December 30 – Herman Howard, 59, left-handed pitcher in the Negro leagues from 1937 to 1940 and in 1946.

References Edit

  1. ^ "Single-Season Leaders & Records for Saves | Baseball-Reference.com". Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  2. ^ "Today in Baseball History : Baseball Events - Baseball Birthdays - Baseball Deaths". www.todayinbaseballhistory.com. Retrieved 6 August 2023.

October 15, 2023
1969, baseball, also, 1969, major, league, baseball, season, 1969, nippon, professional, baseball, season, following, baseball, events, year, 1969, throughout, world, contents, expansion, champions, major, league, baseball, other, champions, awards, honors, st. See also 1969 Major League Baseball season and 1969 Nippon Professional Baseball season The following are the baseball events of the year 1969 throughout the world Contents 1 Expansion 2 Champions 2 1 Major League Baseball 2 2 Other champions 3 Awards and honors 4 MLB statistical leaders 5 Major league baseball final standings 6 Events 6 1 January March 6 2 April June 6 3 July 6 4 August 6 5 September 6 6 October December 7 Births 7 1 January March 7 2 February 7 3 March 7 4 April 7 5 May 7 6 June 7 7 July 7 8 August 7 9 September 7 10 October 7 11 November 7 12 December 8 Deaths 8 1 January 8 2 February 8 3 March 8 4 April 8 5 May 8 6 June 8 7 July 8 8 August 8 9 September 8 10 October 8 11 November 8 12 December 9 ReferencesExpansion EditFour expansion teams joined Major League Baseball for this season the San Diego Padres the Kansas City Royals the Seattle Pilots and the first MLB team in Canada the Montreal Expos To accommodate the additional teams the two leagues were split into two divisions of East and West For the first time extra post season playoff series were added prior to the World Series at this juncture best of five series between the East and West division leaders in each league Champions EditMajor League Baseball Edit Main article 1969 Major League Baseball season The most notable part of the 1969 season were the Miracle Mets World Series New York Mets over Baltimore Orioles 4 1 Donn Clendenon MVPLeague Championship Series ALCS NLCS World Series EastBaltimore3WestMinnesota0ALBaltimore1NLNY Mets4EastNY Mets3WestAtlanta0All Star Game July 23 at Robert F Kennedy Memorial Stadium National League 9 3 Willie McCovey MVPOther champions Edit College World Series Arizona State Japan Series Yomiuri Giants over Hankyu Braves 4 2 Big League World Series Mojave Desert LL Barstow California Little League World Series Taipei Taiwan Senior League World Series Sacramento CaliforniaAwards and honors EditBaseball Hall of Fame Roy Campanella Stan Coveleski Waite Hoyt Stan Musial Most Valuable Player Harmon Killebrew Minnesota Twins 3B AL Willie McCovey San Francisco Giants 1B NL Cy Young Award Mike Cuellar Baltimore Orioles and Denny McLain Detroit Tigers AL Tom Seaver New York Mets NL Rookie of the Year Lou Piniella Kansas City Royals OF AL Ted Sizemore Los Angeles Dodgers 2B NL Gold Glove Award Joe Pepitone 1B AL Davey Johnson 2B AL Brooks Robinson 3B AL Mark Belanger SS AL Paul Blair OF AL Mickey Stanley OF AL Carl Yastrzemski OF AL Bill Freehan C AL Jim Kaat P AL MLB statistical leaders EditStatistic American League National LeagueAVG Rod Carew MIN 332 Pete Rose CIN 348HR Harmon Killebrew MIN 49 Willie McCovey SF 45RBI Harmon Killebrew MIN 140 Willie McCovey SF 126Wins Denny McLain DET 24 Tom Seaver NYM 25ERA Dick Bosman WSH 2 19 Juan Marichal SF 2 10Ks Sam McDowell CLE 279 Ferguson Jenkins CHC 273The save is introduced as an official statistic this year Ron Perranoski lead the majors with 31 1 Major league baseball final standings EditAmerican LeagueRank Club Wins Losses Win GBEast Division1st Baltimore Orioles 109 53 673 2nd Detroit Tigers 90 72 566 19 03rd Boston Red Sox 87 75 537 22 04th Washington Senators 86 76 531 23 05th New York Yankees 80 81 497 28 56th Cleveland Indians 62 99 358 46 5West Division1st Minnesota Twins 97 65 599 2nd Oakland Athletics 88 74 543 9 03rd California Angels 71 91 438 26 04th Kansas City Royals 69 93 426 28 05th Chicago White Sox 68 94 420 29 06th Seattle Pilots 64 98 395 33 0 National LeagueRank Club Wins Losses Win GBEast Division1st New York Mets 100 62 617 2nd Chicago Cubs 92 70 568 8 03rd Pittsburgh Pirates 88 74 543 12 04th St Louis Cardinals 87 75 537 13 05th Philadelphia Phillies 63 99 389 37 06th Montreal Expos 52 110 321 48 0West Division1st Atlanta Braves 93 69 574 2nd San Francisco Giants 90 72 556 3 03rd Cincinnati Reds 89 73 549 4 04th Los Angeles Dodgers 85 77 525 8 05th Houston Astros 81 81 500 12 06th San Diego Padres 52 110 321 41 0Events EditJanuary March Edit January 2 In response to major league owners continued refusal to increase their contributions to the players pension fund commensurately with their television broadcast revenues the Major League Baseball Players Association urges players not to sign any new contracts January 21 Stan Musial and Roy Campanella are voted into the Hall of Fame by BBWAA members January 22 The Expos trade Donn Clendenon and Jesus Alou to the Houston Astros for Rusty Staub The Astros had recently hired Clendenon s former Pittsburgh Pirates manager Harry Walker with whom Clendenon had a personality clash to steer their club and Clendenon refused to report to his new team The Expos and Astros worked out a new deal and Clendenon joined the Expos on April 19 February 2 Pitchers Stan Coveleski and Waite Hoyt are voted into the Hall of Fame by the Special Veterans Committee February 17 Spring training opens without 400 players who have decided to boycott it over the pension fund impasse February 26 The boycott ends when owners accept most of the players terms March 1 Mickey Mantle announces his retirement March 16 A plane crash in Maracaibo Venezuela kills 155 people including first baseman Carlos Santeliz the Venezuelan League Rookie of the Year on his way to the Braves spring training camp Another fatality is pitcher Latigo Chavez en route to the Giants camp Chavez 1 0 was 12 5 with Double A Waterbury in the Eastern League 1967 including seven shutouts Pitcher Pablo Torrealba was also scheduled to take the flight but missed it and took a later one April June Edit April 8 At Shea Stadium Dan McGinn hits the first home run in Montreal Expos history a solo shot against Tom Seaver At Anaheim Stadium Mike Hegan hits the first home run in Seattle Pilots history a two run shot against Jim McGlothlin At San Diego Stadium Ed Spiezio hits the first home run in San Diego Padres history a solo shot against Don Wilson of the Houston Astros At Municipal Stadium the Kansas City Royals in their inaugural game defeat the Minnesota Twins 4 3 in 12 innings Two pitching stars on the Baltimore Orioles team that won the 1966 World Series pitch for the Royals in this game Wally Bunker throws the very first pitch and Moe Drabowsky wins the game in relief The Royals first batter Lou Piniella gets the first hit for the franchise leading off the game with a double and scoring their first run on Jerry Adair s single one batter later At Wrigley Field the Chicago Cubs opened their wild 1969 season in dramatic fashion as Willie Smith hit a pinch hit two run walk off home run in the bottom of the 11th inning to defeat the Philadelphia Phillies 7 6 April 9 Billy Williams hits 4 consecutive doubles to tie the Major League record during an 11 3 win over the Phillies at Wrigley Field The Cubs scored seven runs in the seventh inning April 10 At Shea Stadium Tommie Agee hits a tremendous home run halfway up in the left field upper deck a feat that was never matched April 11 Seattle successfully inaugurates Major League Baseball at Sick s Stadium as pitcher Gary Bell defeats the Chicago White Sox 7 0 The Seattle Pilots attract 17 850 today and will draw just 678 000 for the season U S Senator Henry Scoop Jackson throws out the first ball and will do the same in the Seattle Mariners opener in 1977 April 12 At Detroit the Yankees Mel Stottlemyre allows just one hit a 4th inning double to Jim Northrup and beats Denny McLain and the Detroit Tigers 4 0 For the 3rd time in two years Northrup saves the Tigers from being the victims of a no hitter April 13 At the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum Mike Fiore hits the first home run in Kansas City Royals history a solo shot against Blue Moon Odom April 14 The Montreal Expos open at home with an 8 7 win over the St Louis Cardinals at Parc Jarry April 17 At Connie Mack Stadium Bill Stoneman of the Montreal Expos no hits the Philadelphia Phillies 7 0 The game is only the ninth in Expos history and only the fifth start in Stoneman s Major League career April 25 The Cubs trade Joe Niekro Gary Ross and Francisco Libran to the San Diego Padres for Dick Selma May 1 The Houston Astros no hit the day before by Jim Maloney of the Cincinnati Reds answer back as Don Wilson pitches a 4 0 no hitter with 13 strikeouts over the Reds Houston ties a National League record with just one assist In Wilson s previous start against Cincinnati on April 22 he gave up six runs in five innings in a 14 0 loss The back to back no hitters are only the second in Major League history the feat having been accomplished just the year before by Gaylord Perry and Ray Washburn May 4 At Anaheim Stadium in only the 25th game in Kansas City Royals history Bob Oliver goes 6 for 6 with a home run and a double in the Royals 15 1 drubbing of the California Angels Oliver becomes the first player to collect six hits in one game since Jesus Alou did so for the San Francisco Giants on July 10 1964 and the first American League player to do so since Floyd Robinson with the Chicago White Sox on July 22 1962 May 12 Bob Gibson of the St Louis Cardinals becomes the seventh pitcher in National League history to strike out the side on nine pitches his victims being Len Gabrielson Paul Popovich and John Miller in the seventh inning of a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers Gibson enjoys his feat as part of a 6 2 victory for St Louis May 13 Ernie Banks of the Chicago Cubs reaches the 1 500 runs batted in milestone while driving in seven runs in a 19 0 shellacking of the expansion San Diego Padres Hard throwing right hander Dick Selma earns the victory as the Cubs tie a modern day record for the most one sided shutout in National League history May 18 Tying a major league record the Minnesota Twins steal five bases in the third inning against the Detroit battery of Mickey Lolich and Bill Freehan Four of the steals occur during a single Harmon Killebrew at bat and two of the steals by Cesar Tovar and Rod Carew are of home plate June 15 The Montreal Expos deal Donn Clendenon to the New York Mets in exchange for Steve Renko Kevin Collins and two minor leaguers June 19 Chicago Cubs manager Leo Durocher 63 weds for the fourth time marrying 40 year old Lynne Walker Goldblatt June 21 The Minnesota Twins and Oakland Athletics enter the tenth inning tied 3 3 Tying a 1928 New York Yankees record the Twins score eleven runs in the top of the inning and beat Oakland 14 4 June 22 The Cubs score four runs in the ninth inning to defeat the Montreal Expos 7 6 in the first game of a double header at Wrigley Field Jim Hickman hit a 2 run walk off homer June 26 Jim Hickman s home run in the 10th inning defeats the Pittsburgh Pirates 7 5 at Wrigley Field On the spur of the moment Ron Santo leaped in the air and clicked his heels 3 times on the way to the clubhouse The victory dance became a hit with euphoric Cub fans July Edit July 8 With three runs in the 9th inning the New York Mets beat the Chicago Cubs 4 3 cutting Chicago s lead in the National League East to four games Chicago s Ron Santo rips into center fielder Don Young for two misplays in the outfield Santo apologizes the next day for criticizing Young who had left early and didn t take the team bus Santo is later booed in his first game back at Wrigley Field July 9 With one out in the ninth inning the Chicago Cubs Jim Qualls lines a single to left center to break up Tom Seaver s perfect game bid The New York Mets 4 0 victory over the Cubs at Shea Stadium would go down in history as Tom Seaver s Imperfect Game July 13 In the third meeting between the two brothers the San Diego Padres Joe Niekro defeats his younger brother Phil Niekro of the Atlanta Braves 1 0 Joe is 2 1 over Phil July 17 Jim Kaat improves to 10 6 with an 8 5 victory for the Minnesota Twins over the Chicago White Sox despite committing three errors Kaat was in the midst of 16 consecutive Gold Glove awards for fielding 2 July 23 At R F K Memorial Stadium Willie McCovey hits two home runs as the National League beats the American League 9 3 for its seventh straight All Star Game win McCovey is named MVP with his two homers tying an All Star Game record set earlier by Arky Vaughan 1941 Ted Williams 1946 and Al Rosen 1954 The game was postponed by one day after heavy rains in the Washington D C area When the AL s Don Mincher pinch hit in the fourth inning he became a trivia answer the only Seattle Pilot to appear in an All Star game July 26 Randy Hundley drives in all three Cub runs including a walk off single in the 11th inning to lead the Cubs to a 3 2 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers at Wrigley Field July 27 In the most dominant shutout in Orioles history the Baltimore Orioles defeat the Chicago White Sox 17 0 at Memorial Stadium Jim Hardin pitches a two hit shutout walking none and hits a three run home run in the bottom of the fourth off of Gary Bell to make it 13 0 The Orioles would plate four more runs and belt out 20 hits All Oriole starters hit safely In Baltimore s 100th game of the season they are 69 31 and lead the Detroit Tigers by 12 5 games in the newly formed American League East July 29 Willie McCovey hits his 300th career home run helping the San Francisco Giants beat the Chicago Cubs 4 2 July 30 After losing the first game of a doubleheader with the Houston Astros 16 3 the New York Mets were down 7 0 in the third inning when Johnny Edwards hit a double to Cleon Jones in left field to make the score 8 0 Mets manager Gil Hodges emerged from the dugout walked past Nolan Ryan on the mound and all the way to left field A few minutes later Hodges walked back to the dugout with Jones a few paces behind him and replaced Jones in left with Ron Swoboda According to Jones he pointed down to the water filled turf Hodges then said that something must be wrong with Jones ankle and pulled him for that reason Jones was kept out of the lineup for the next two games and was used only as a pinch hitter in the two after that Newspapers report that Jones was removed for failure to hustle and Hodges decided to do so publicly to show that he would not tolerate lack of effort on his team even from its star player August Edit August 1 Willie Davis of the Los Angeles Dodgers began his 31 game hit streak this day Coming into this game Willie was batting 260 by the time the streak ended on September 4 Willie was batting 318 during the streak Willie hit 459 and broke the Dodgers franchise record of 29 games set by Zack Wheat Willie Davis 31 game hit streak was the third longest in NL history and as of 2023 remains the Dodgers record August 5 The Pittsburgh Pirates Willie Stargell hits the first home run completely out of Dodger Stadium Los Angeles pitcher Alan Foster surrenders the 506 foot blast To date it s the longest home run in Dodger Stadium history Stargell will hit another homer out of Dodger Stadium off Andy Messersmith in 1973 The mammoth home run comes in the seventh inning and breaks a 3 3 tie a three run home run by Andy Kosco having tied the game for the Dodgers in the bottom of the sixth Pittsburgh scores seven more runs in the ninth inning and defeats Los Angeles 11 3 August 10 Citing damage to his right shoulder Don Drysdale retires from the Los Angeles Dodgers He is the last player still playing for the Dodgers who also played in Brooklyn At Baltimore the Orioles Mike Cuellar allows only one hit a top of the ninth single to Cesar Tovar and beats the Minnesota Twins 2 0 For the second time this season Tovar saves the Twins from being no hit against Baltimore He broke up a no hitter by Dave McNally in the ninth inning during a game in May August 13 Montreal reliever Roy Face gives up the last of his record 21 extra inning home runs an 11th inning grand slam to the Cincinnati Reds Johnny Bench Cincinnati wins 8 3 in Montreal Only four days after coming off the disabled list Jim Palmer of the Baltimore Orioles no hits the Oakland Athletics 8 0 at Memorial Stadium The home plate umpire is Lou DiMuro whose son Mike would call balls and strikes for Roy Halladay s perfect game May 29 2010 August 14 In the National League Eastern Division the Chicago Cubs lead the St Louis Cardinals by 8 5 games and the New York Mets by 9 5 games August 19 At Wrigley Field Ken Holtzman of the Chicago Cubs no hits the Atlanta Braves 3 0 with no strikeouts Only one other pitcher in major league history Sad Sam Jones in 1923 has hurled a no hitter without the benefit of a strikeout Holtzman survives a scare in the seventh as Hank Aaron s fly ball to deep left field leading off the inning appears to be going over the wall for a home run however a stiff wind cuts into the ball and enables Billy Williams to catch it at the warning track Aaron grounds out to Cubs second baseman Glenn Beckert for the game s final out September Edit September 8 The Chicago Cubs open a crucial two game series against the New York Mets at Shea Stadium Cubs starter Bill Hands knocks down the Mets leadoff batter Tommie Agee in the first inning Jerry Koosman hits the next Cubs batter he faces Ron Santo in the hand breaking it Agee hits a two run home run in the third and the Mets win 3 2 September 9 During the Mets 7 1 victory over the Chicago Cubs at Shea a black cat jumps on the field and runs past Ron Santo in the on deck circle September 10 A loss by the Chicago Cubs and a doubleheader sweep by the New York Mets gives the Mets their first lead of the National League East Division The Mets will not relinquish their lead from this point as the Cubs suffer a legendary collapse September 15 The St Louis Cardinals Steve Carlton strikes out a record 19 New York Mets in a losing effort as the Mets defeat the Cards 4 3 at Busch Stadium September 20 At Shea Stadium Bob Moose of the Pittsburgh Pirates no hits the New York Mets 4 0 September 21 At Candlestick Park the San Francisco Giants defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4 3 in 10 innings as Maury Wills commits an error on Jim Davenport s ground ball allowing Willie McCovey to score the winning run Ironically this game marks Dodger Bill Buckner s major league debut Buckner who grounds out to second baseman Ron Hunt while pinch hitting for pitcher Jim Brewer in the ninth inning will become well known for Mookie Wilson s ground ball going through his legs in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series September 22 Willie Mays hits his 600th career home run helping the San Francisco Giants beat the San Diego Padres 4 2 The Minnesota Twins survived a ninth inning scare as they beat the Kansas City Royals 4 3 to clinch the American League West title on Harmon Killebrew s 47th home run and Cesar Tovar s two run scoring singles September 23 Carl Yastrzemski hits his 200th career home run helping the Boston Red Sox beat the New York Yankees 8 3 September 24 After seven uninspired losing seasons the New York Mets clinch the National League East Division title as Donn Clendenon hit two home runs in a 6 0 Mets win over Steve Carlton and the St Louis Cardinals The Mets have won 38 out of their 49 games dating from August 14 The Cubs will finish the season eight games behind the Mets and not win the division until exactly 15 years from this day October December Edit October 2 The Seattle Pilots finish what would be their only season in the Emerald City with a 3 1 loss to the Oakland Athletics at Sick s Stadium The city of Seattle would not host another MLB team until the birth of the Mariners in 1977 October 4 The American League and National League Championship Series begin the first such series to feature the respective leagues division champions The Baltimore Orioles would sweep the Minnesota Twins in three games for the AL pennant the New York Mets would do the same against the Atlanta Braves for the NL crown October 7 The St Louis Cardinals trade Curt Flood to the Philadelphia Phillies in a seven player deal that also sends Tim McCarver Byron Browne and Joe Hoerner to the Phillies and Dick Allen Cookie Rojas and Jerry Johnson to the Cardinals Flood however refuses to report to the Phillies and instead challenges baseball s reserve clause in a lawsuit that eventually reaches the Supreme Court He will sit out the entire 1970 season October 8 After firing Dave Bristol as manager despite an 89 73 season the Cincinnati Reds hire Sparky Anderson to replace him During the next seven seasons Anderson who will make his major league managerial debut in 1970 will guide the team known as the Big Red Machine to five National League West titles four National League pennants and back to back World Series titles in 1975 and 1976 October 9 The Pittsburgh Pirates rehire Danny Murtaugh as their manager for what will be his third of four stints as Pirates skipper This stint will see the Pirates win the 1970 National League East title for their first postseason berth since winning the 1960 World Series with Murtaugh at the helm as well as winning the 1971 World Series October 13 In the first of many firings in his career Minnesota Twins manager Billy Martin was fired by owner Calvin Griffith after his Twins were swept in the American League Championship Series October 15 Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver is warned during Game 4 of the 1969 World Series by umpire Shag Crawford not to argue balls and strikes After receiving this warning Weaver follows Crawford to home plate and immediately is ejected The Mets would win 2 1 in 10 innings for a 3 1 lead in the World Series October 16 The Baltimore Orioles are ahead 3 0 in Game 5 of the World Series at Shea Stadium when Dave McNally strikes New York Mets batter Cleon Jones in the foot with a pitch However home plate umpire Lou DiMuro ruled that the ball missed Jones Mets manager Gil Hodges emerges from the dugout to argue and shows DiMuro the shoe polish smudged ball DiMuro reverses his call and awards Jones first base The following batter Donn Clendenon hits a two run home run to pull the Mets within a run of Baltimore The homer is Clendenon s third of the Series Following an Al Weis solo home run in the seventh to tie the game the Mets score two in the eighth for a 5 3 lead Jerry Koosman pitches a complete game for the Mets who win the World Series in five games Clendenon is named World Series MVP November 12 Harmon Killebrew of the Minnesota Twins is voted American League Most Valuable Player after he led the league with 49 home runs 140 RBI and a 430 on base percentage November 20 Willie McCovey of the San Francisco Giants is voted National League Most Valuable Player after he led the league with 45 home runs 126 RBI and a 453 on base percentage and 656 slugging percentage November 25 Outfielder Lou Piniella who hit 282 with 11 home runs and 68 RBI is named American League Rookie of the Year over pitcher Mike Nagy 12 2 3 11 ERA outfielder Carlos May 281 18 62 and pitcher Ken Tatum 7 2 1 36 November 28 Second baseman Ted Sizemore becomes the seventh Dodgers player to be named the NL Rookie of the Year Sizemore joins Jackie Robinson 1947 Don Newcombe 1949 Joe Black 1952 Junior Gilliam 1953 Frank Howard 1960 and Jim Lefebvre 1965 Births EditJanuary March Edit January 1 Roberto Rivera January 3 Cris Colon January 6 Alvin Morman January 7 Chris Hatcher January 8 Brian Boehringer January 9 Domingo Jean January 10 Takahito Nomura January 11 Manny Acta January 13 Kevin Foster January 13 Orlando Miller January 15 Delino DeShields January 16 Kevin McGehee January 19 Orlando Palmeiro January 21 Rusty Greer January 22 Keith Gordon January 27 Phil PlantierFebruary Edit February 3 Terry Bradshaw February 4 Brad Cornett February 5 David Holdridge February 6 Bob Wickman February 10 Jayhawk Owens February 11 Bryan Eversgerd February 11 Kevin King February 13 Mike Mimbs February 14 Craig Bjornson February 15 Brian Williams February 16 Tim Costo February 23 Frank Charles February 25 Huck Flener February 25 Les Forman February 27 Willie BanksMarch Edit March 1 Doug Creek March 4 Ed Giovanola March 4 Lee Tinsley March 14 Jalal Leach March 17 Scott Brow March 23 Chris Turner March 25 Travis Fryman March 25 Eric Helfand March 25 Paul Menhart March 25 Scott Sanders March 25 Erik Schullstrom March 25 Dan Wilson March 28 Craig Paquette March 30 Chris GardnerApril Edit April 1 Frank Castillo April 2 Steve Hosey April 4 Carlos Reyes April 4 Mark Strittmatter April 6 Bret Boone April 7 Ricky Bones April 8 Kirk Dressendorfer April 8 Pete Walker April 14 Brad Ausmus April 14 Brad Pennington April 15 Jeromy Burnitz April 16 Ken Takahashi April 16 Fernando Vina April 17 Jeff Ball April 18 Angelo Encarnacion April 20 Dan Smith April 22 George Williams April 26 Ricky Trlicek April 28 Jimmy MyersMay Edit May 1 Phil Hiatt May 3 Dan Iassogna May 5 John Mallee May 9 Desi Wilson May 10 John Cummings May 10 Pete Schourek May 13 Lyle Mouton May 15 Hideki Irabu May 16 Mike Heathcott May 17 Rick Huisman May 18 Kerry Woodson May 19 Phil Leftwich May 22 Vaughn Eshelman May 23 Ramon Caraballo May 24 Rob Drake May 26 John O Donoghue May 27 Todd Hundley May 28 Mike DiFelice May 29 Toby Borland May 31 Rikkert Faneyte May 31 Tim Van EgmondJune Edit June 2 Kurt Abbott June 4 Robert Perez June 7 Jeff Pierce June 10 Kevin Flora June 11 Brian Koelling June 16 Kevin Young June 21 Donovan Osborne June 25 Brad Woodall June 26 Mike Myers June 26 Rodney Myers June 28 Todd Revenig June 29 Jose Alberro June 29 George Glinatsis June 29 Pablo MartinezJuly Edit July 2 So Taguchi July 6 Jeff Darwin July 8 Bobby Ayala July 8 Rosario Rodriguez July 8 Ernie Young July 10 Marty Cordova July 11 Mark Carlson July 14 Jose Hernandez July 21 Denny Harriger July 23 Francisco Matos July 23 Henry Mercedes July 24 Jim Wolf July 26 Greg Colbrunn July 29 Mike WilliamsAugust Edit August 1 Kevin Jarvis August 1 Brent Knackert August 2 Dae Sung Koo August 3 Steve Dixon August 4 Troy O Leary August 5 Marcos Armas August 6 Keith Mitchell August 7 Brian Kowitz August 7 Stan Spencer August 8 Ray Montgomery August 9 Troy Percival August 13 Alex Fernandez August 19 Matt Franco August 19 Miguel Jimenez August 20 Mark Holzemer August 21 Andujar Cedeno August 22 Hipolito Pichardo August 26 Ricky Bottalico August 26 Ken Grundt August 31 Nate MincheySeptember Edit September 2 Mike Thomas September 3 Tom Thobe September 7 Darren Bragg September 7 Brent Cookson September 7 Rafael Quirico September 11 Shannon Penn September 11 Eduardo Perez September 12 Hilly Hathaway September 13 Russ Davis September 14 Mike Durant September 15 Herbert Perry September 19 Marc Ronan September 21 Jason Christiansen September 21 Ben Shelton September 22 Jeff Barry September 22 Cesar Devarez September 23 Jeff Cirillo September 25 Oscar Munoz September 25 David Weathers September 25 Tony Womack September 26 Brian LooneyOctober Edit October 2 Alan Newman October 2 Matt Walbeck October 6 Robert Person October 9 Kevin Jordan October 11 Larry Luebbers October 12 Jose Valentin October 12 Derrick White October 13 Tim Crabtree October 13 Damian Miller October 14 Hector Ortiz October 16 Matt Ruebel October 17 Chris Tremie October 18 Jeff McNeely October 19 Lance Dickson October 20 Juan Gonzalez October 21 Chuck Smith October 22 Hector Carrasco October 22 Ariel Prieto October 24 Arthur Rhodes October 25 Keith Garagozzo October 25 Larry Thomas October 26 Mark Sweeney October 28 Kirk Bullinger October 31 Oreste Marrero October 31 Damon MashoreNovember Edit November 3 Kenny Robinson November 6 Don Wengert November 7 Dave Fleming November 8 Shane Halter November 9 Angel Miranda November 11 Damion Easley November 13 Rigo Beltran November 16 Pete Rose Jr November 17 Ben Weber November 19 Steve Dreyer November 21 Ken Griffey Jr November 23 Doug Brady November 23 David McCarty November 26 Sam Militello November 27 Chris Eddy November 27 Tim Laker November 28 Robb Nen November 29 Mariano Rivera November 30 Mark LewisDecember Edit December 2 Steve Sisco December 3 Kevin Morgan December 9 Mike Fyhrie December 9 Ramon Garcia December 10 Pat Ahearne December 10 Jon Zuber December 13 Doug Saunders December 14 Scott Hatteberg December 14 Dave Nilsson December 16 Jason Wood December 17 Rudy Pemberton December 18 Joe Randa December 29 Scott Ruffcorn December 30 Steve GajkowskiDeaths EditJanuary Edit January 5 Tiny Osborne 75 6 ft 4 in 1 93 m 215 lb 98 kg pitcher who worked in 142 games for the Chicago Cubs 1922 1924 and Brooklyn Robins 1924 1925 father of Bobo Osborne January 5 Larry Pratt 81 catcher for Boston American League in 1914 then Brooklyn and Newark both of the outlaw Federal League in 1915 January 6 Larry Cheney 82 three time 20 game winning pitcher for the Chicago Cubs 1911 1915 Brooklyn Robins 1915 1919 Boston Braves 1919 and Philadelphia Phillies 1919 led National League hurlers with 26 victories in 1912 January 6 Hank Olmsted 89 pitcher for the 1905 Boston Americans January 6 Clint Rogge 79 pitcher who as a rookie won 17 games for the 1915 Pittsburgh Rebels of the Federal League later hurled in six contests for 1921 Cincinnati Reds January 6 Jim Viox 78 Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman who played in 506 games from 1912 to 1916 January 7 Bill Lobe 56 minor league catcher who spent nine years 1951 1959 as bullpen coach of the Cleveland Indians January 18 Ray Kennedy 73 second baseman turned executive and scout general manager of Pittsburgh Pirates 1946 farm system director of Pirates 1947 1948 and Detroit Tigers 1949 1951 and player personnel director of Kansas City Athletics 1955 appeared in one MLB game as a player for the St Louis Browns 1916 January 21 Dick Terwilliger 62 pitcher who threw three scoreless innings of relief in his lone MLB appearance on August 18 1932 as a member of the St Louis Cardinals January 23 Al Bridwell 85 shortstop whose apparent game winning single for the New York Giants in a 1908 contest led to the controversial play in which baserunner Fred Merkle was eventually called out for not touching second base January 27 Al Schweitzer 86 reserve outfielder for 1908 1911 St Louis Browns January 30 Sam Bennett 84 catcher outfielder for Dayton and St Louis of the Negro National League over five seasons spanning 1920 to 1925 February Edit February 2 Ray Schmandt 73 backup first and second baseman for 1915 St Louis Browns and 1918 1922 Brooklyn Robins appeared in 1920 World Series February 13 Shags Horan 73 reserve outfielder who appeared in 22 games for 1924 New York Yankees February 16 Mul Holland 66 pitcher who had trials with three National League clubs during three seasons spanning 1926 to 1929 February 18 Jack Zeller 85 executive and scout general manager of the Detroit Tigers from 1938 to 1945 later director of scouting of the Boston Braves February 19 Doc White 89 Chicago White Sox pitcher whose record of five consecutive shutouts was finally broken by Don Drysdale in 1968 February 23 Bubbles Hargrave 76 catcher who hit 310 lifetime in 852 career games for the Chicago Cubs 1913 1915 Cincinnati Reds 1921 1928 and New York Yankees 1930 National League batting champion 353 in 1926 first catcher to win a batting title in post 1901 era February 23 Bill Swift 60 pitcher who posted a 95 82 3 58 record in 336 MLB games for four clubs principally the Pittsburgh Pirates between 1932 and 1943 February 25 Russ Wrightstone 75 versatile infielder outfielder primarily a third and first baseman who appeared in 929 games for 1920 1928 Philadelphia Phillies and 1928 New York Giants March Edit March 10 Max Rosenfeld 66 outfielder who got into 42 games with Brooklyn of the National League between 1931 and 1933 March 12 Joe Engel 76 left handed pitcher who appeared in 102 MLB games 99 of them for the Washington Senators between 1912 and 1920 then longtime Washington scout and operator of the Chattanooga Lookouts the Senators top farm team namesake of Engel Stadium March 14 Heinie Zimmerman 82 third baseman who played 1 456 games for Chicago Cubs 1907 1916 and New York Giants 1916 1919 who won the NL triple crown in 1912 barred from baseball in 1919 for his role in fixing games March 16 William Bell 71 All Star pitcher of the Negro leagues who posted the highest career winning percentage 114 52 687 in black baseball March 16 Nestor Chavez 21 pitcher who played for the 1967 San Francisco Giants March 16 Andy Rush 79 pitcher who made four appearances for 1925 Brooklyn Robins March 17 Poindexter Williams 71 catcher who played for six teams in the Negro National League primarily the Birmingham Black Barons between 1921 and 1933 March 18 Rafael Almeida 81 Cuban third baseman who played in 102 games for the 1911 1913 Cincinnati Reds one of first three Cuban born players in MLB during its post 1901 era March 20 Jim Clark 81 outfielder who played 16 games for 1911 1912 St Louis Cardinals March 21 Everett Booe 77 outfielder who appeared in 125 games for Pittsburgh of the National League 1913 and Indianapolis and Buffalo of the Federal League 1914 March 21 Pinky Higgins 59 third baseman for the Philadelphia Athletics Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers for 14 years between 1930 and 1946 held American League record for career games at that position three time All Star later manager 1955 1959 and 1960 1962 and general manager 1963 1965 of the Red Sox March 22 Floyd Speer 56 relief pitcher who worked in a total of three games for the wartime 1943 1944 Chicago White Sox March 23 Oris Hockett 59 outfielder for 1938 1939 Brooklyn Dodgers and 1941 1945 Cleveland Indians appearing in 551 career games 1944 American League All Star April Edit April 2 Ben Cardoni 48 pitcher who was winless in six decisions and 36 career games for the 1943 1945 Boston Braves April 2 Bill Force 73 pitcher who appeared in 186 games between 1921 and 1929 for the Detroit Stars and Baltimore Black Sox of the Negro leagues April 3 Charley Stanceu 53 pitcher who worked in 39 career games for the New York Yankees 1941 and 1946 and Philadelphia Phillies 1946 April 4 Les Wilson 83 outfielder who played for the 1911 Boston Red Sox April 4 Chuck Ward 74 shortstop for 1917 Pittsburgh Pirates and utility infielder for 1918 1922 Brooklyn Robins April 7 Si Rosenthal 65 outfielder who played for the Red Sox from 1925 to 1926 April 8 Win Noyes 79 pitcher in 49 MLB games for the Boston Braves 1913 Philadelphia Athletics 1917 1919 and Chicago White Sox 1919 April 10 Scotty Robb 60 one of few mid century umpires employed by both major leagues worked in 662 National League games and two All Star games between August 28 1947 and May 4 1952 when he resigned then joined American League arbiter crew and officiated in 207 contests from May 13 1952 to June 28 1953 April 11 Al Kaiser 82 outfielder in 155 games for Chicago and Boston of the National League 1911 1912 and Indianapolis of the Federal League 1914 April 13 William Walsingham Jr 59 front office executive vice president of St Louis Cardinals 1942 1955 and executive VP of Baltimore Orioles 1957 1958 April 19 Harry Cassady 88 outfielder who played briefly for the 1904 Pittsburgh Pirates and 1905 Washington Senators April 19 Bob Rip Collins 59 catcher who appeared in 50 career games for the Chicago Cubs 1940 and New York Yankees 1944 April 21 Clarence Palm 61 catcher in the Negro leagues whose career spanned 1927 to 1946 member of champion 1928 St Louis Stars April 23 Freddie Moncewicz 65 backup shortstop for the 1928 Boston Red Sox April 27 Harry Taylor 61 first baseman who played 10 games with the 1932 Chicago Cubs April 28 Joe Burg 86 third baseman shortstop who appeared in 13 late season games for the 1910 Boston Doves of the National League April 29 Ed Monroe 74 pitcher who made ten appearances for the 1917 1918 New York Yankees May Edit May 1 Gary Wilson 90 second baseman for the 1902 Boston Americans May 2 Steve Larkin 58 pitcher who appeared in two games during May 1934 for the Detroit Tigers May 5 Eddie Cicotte 84 pitcher who won 208 games for the Tigers Red Sox and White Sox but was thrown out of baseball as one of the eight Black Sox involved in fixing the 1919 World Series he was the first of the eight to come forward confessing his involvement and testifying before the grand jury May 7 Ray Mack 52 light hitting second baseman for Cleveland Indians New York Yankees and Chicago Cubs who played in 791 games from 1938 to 1944 and 1946 1947 May 15 Frank Shag Shaughnessy 86 U S born outfielder and Notre Dame graduate who played in nine American League games for Washington 1905 and Philadelphia 1908 and coached for the 1928 Detroit Tigers pivotal figure in both the U S and Canada in minor league baseball manager between 1909 and 1936 inventor of the Shaughnessy playoffs in 1936 and president of the International League from 1936 to 1960 also an influential gridiron football coach and general manager of hockey s original Ottawa Senators posthumously elected in 1983 to Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame May 17 Pants Rowland 90 manager of the 1917 World Series champion Chicago White Sox later president of the Pacific Coast League from 1944 to 1954 then longtime vice president of Chicago Cubs May 19 Jim Tobin 56 good hitting knuckleball pitcher who hurled in 287 career games for the Pittsburgh Pirates Boston Bees Braves and Detroit Tigers between 1937 and 1945 threw no hitter against Brooklyn on April 27 1944 batted 230 with 17 homers and 102 RBI in 796 career at bats hit three homers in a game for Boston on May 13 1942 and made 109 career appearances as a pinch hitter in addition to his mound duties May 20 Lee Allen 54 historian at the Baseball Hall of Fame since 1959 former sportswriter May 21 Dennis Burns 70 pitcher who worked in 41 games for the 1923 1924 Philadelphia Athletics May 25 Jim Riley 74 Canadian infielder who played in six total MLB games for the St Louis Browns 1921 and Washington Senators 1923 the only athlete in sports history to play both Major League Baseball and in the National Hockey League May 26 Harland Rowe 73 third baseman who played 17 games for 1916 Philadelphia Athletics May 27 Lou Jackson 33 outfielder who played 34 total games for the 1958 1959 Chicago Cubs and 1964 Baltimore Orioles achieved success in Nippon Professional Baseball smashing 68 home runs over three seasons 1966 1968 May 28 Gus Getz 79 infielder for five big league clubs principally Boston and Brooklyn of the National League over seven seasons between 1909 and 1918 June Edit June 3 Cobe Jones 61 shortstop who got into 26 games for the 1929 1930 Pittsburgh Pirates later a scout June 10 Charlie Fuchs 55 World War II era pitcher who hurled in 47 games for the Detroit Tigers Philadelphia Phillies St Louis Browns and Brooklyn Dodgers between 1941 and 1944 June 17 Byron Houck 77 pitched in 118 major league games as a member of 1912 1913 Philadelphia Athletics he went 14 6 for the 1913 World Series champs then jumped to the outlaw Federal League where he hurled for the 1914 Brooklyn Tip Tops returned to the American League in 1918 as a St Louis Brown June 24 John Perrin 71 right fielder for 1921 Boston Red Sox later a fullback quarterback for the NFL Hartford Blues June 28 Sammy Gee 41 shortstop who appeared in 13 games for the 1948 New York Cubans of the Negro National League June 29 Ted McGrew 89 minor league player and manager National League umpire 1930 1931 1933 1934 then a longtime scout for numerous MLB teams June 30 Milt Gray 55 catcher who appeared in two May 1937 games for the Washington Senators July Edit July 2 Art Scharein 64 infielder who played 205 games for the 1932 1934 St Louis Browns July 3 Harry Spratt 80 infielder for Boston National League in 1911 and 1912 July 4 Lew Drill 92 catcher outfielder for Washington Baltimore and Detroit of the American League 1902 1905 appearing in 293 games July 5 Ed Hemingway 76 reserve second and third baseman for the 1914 St Louis Browns 1917 New York Giants and 1918 Philadelphia Phillies July 8 Bill Carrigan nicknamed Rough 85 player manager 1913 1916 and backup catcher 1906 1908 1916 for the Boston Red Sox world champions in 1915 and 1916 later returned as pilot of terrible Red Sox teams between 1927 and 1929 July 8 Red Rolfe 60 third baseman for New York Yankees 1931 and 1934 1942 and member of five World Series champions three time AL All Star manager of Detroit Tigers from 1949 to July 4 1952 Ivy League baseball coach Yale and athletics director Dartmouth July 19 Otto Vogel 69 outfielder who appeared in 111 games for 1923 1924 Chicago Cubs July 19 Al Williams 55 pitcher who appeared in 46 total games for 1937 1938 Philadelphia Athletics July 23 Roy Mahaffey 65 pitcher in 224 games 197 for the Athletics for three MLB clubs over nine seasons between 1926 and 1936 member of Philadelphia s 1930 World Series champions July 27 Glenn Elliott 49 southpaw reliever who pitched in 34 games for the 1947 1949 Boston Braves scout for the Philadelphia Phillies from 1960 until his death July 29 Douglas Sydnor 49 World War II era outfielder who appeared in 13 Negro National League games in 1943 and 1944 July 30 Flint Rhem 68 pitcher who won 20 games losing 7 for the 1926 world champion St Louis Cardinals and went 105 97 over 12 National League seasons 1924 1928 and 1930 1936 with Cardinals Boston Braves and Philadelphia Phillies August Edit August 5 Ralph Caldwell 85 southpaw who pitched in 13 career games for the 1904 1905 Philadelphia Phillies August 5 Verdo Elmore 69 outfielder who played in seven games for the 1924 St Louis Browns August 9 Glenn Myatt 72 lefty swinging catcher who appeared in 1 004 games between 1920 and 1936 for four MLB clubs principally the Cleveland Indians August 11 William Marriott 75 third baseman who played in 265 total games for the Chicago Cubs 1917 1920 1921 Boston Braves 1925 and Brooklyn Robins 1926 1927 August 15 Howie Williamson 64 minor league outfielder who made ten pinch hitting appearances for 1928 St Louis Cardinals August 17 Frank Shellenback 70 spitball pitcher who played for 1918 1919 Chicago White Sox and won 295 games in the Pacific Coast League as a minor league manager he signed teenager Ted Williams to his first pro contract later a longtime pitching coach August 19 Alejandro Carrasquel 57 Venezuelan pitcher who posted a 50 39 3 73 record in 258 games for the Washington Senators 1939 1945 and Chicago White Sox 1949 August 30 Stew Bolen 66 left hander who went 3 13 6 09 ERA in 41 career games with the 1926 1927 St Louis Browns and 1931 1932 Philadelphia Phillies August 30 Tim McKeithan 62 pitcher who worked in a total of ten games over parts of three seasons 1932 1934 with Philadelphia Athletics September Edit September 10 Billy Jap Barbeau 87 third baseman who played 199 MLB games for the 1905 1906 Cleveland Naps 1909 Pittsburgh Pirates and 1909 1910 St Louis Cardinals September 11 Dick Carter 53 third base coach of the Philadelphia Phillies from 1959 to May 30 1960 previously scouted for Phils and played and managed in their farm system September 14 Jackie Tavener 71 shortstop who played all or parts of six seasons between 1921 and 1929 for the Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Indians September 18 Joe Grace 55 outfielder who appeared in 484 games over six seasons between 1938 and 1947 with the St Louis Browns and Washington Senators September 28 Norm McMillan 73 infielder for four MLB clubs in six seasons spanning 1922 to 1929 most notably the regular third baseman for pennant winning 1929 Chicago Cubs started all five games of 1929 World Series going two for 20 with two walks September 29 Tommy Leach 91 third baseman and center fielder primarily for the Pittsburgh Pirates who led the NL in runs twice and home runs once September 30 Jim Galvin 62 minor league catcher who played briefly for the 1930 Boston Red Sox seeing action in two pinch hitting assignments September 30 Hank Thompson 43 third baseman who was the third black player in MLB history as a member of the 1947 St Louis Browns in 1949 he and Monte Irvin broke the New York Giants color line member of Giants 1954 World Series champions October Edit October 2 Gordon Cobbledick 70 sportswriter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer from 1928 to 1964 October 2 Danny O Connell 42 infielder who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates Milwaukee Braves New York San Francisco Giants and Washington Senators across ten MLB seasons from 1950 to 1962 October 6 Roy Crumpler 73 left handed pitcher who appeared in five career games for the 1920 Detroit Tigers and 1925 Philadelphia Phillies October 9 Don Hoak 41 fiery third baseman on 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers and 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates World Series championship teams played 11 seasons in National League for five clubs selected to 1957 NL All Star team October 9 Ray Lucas 61 pitcher who worked in 22 total games for the 1929 1931 New York Giants and 1933 1934 Brooklyn Dodgers October 16 Larry Boerner 64 pitcher who posted an 0 4 5 02 record in 21 games for the 1932 Boston Red Sox October 23 Monk Dubiel 51 pitcher who appeared in 187 career games for 1944 1945 New York Yankees 1948 Philadelphia Phillies and 1949 1952 Chicago Cubs October 24 Jack Bentley 74 left handed pitcher and first baseman who posted a 46 33 4 01 record on the mound and a 291 batting average in 584 at bats at the plate for the Washington Senators 1913 1916 New York Giants 1923 1926 and 1927 and Philadelphia Phillies 1926 in 1923 he batted 427 38 for 89 in 52 games including batting 476 in 22 plate appearances as a pinch hitter and went 13 8 4 48 for NL champion Giants had a brilliant minor league career with Baltimore Orioles 1919 1922 October 26 Jim Blackburn 45 World War II combat veteran and Prisoner of War who pitched for postwar Cincinnati Reds making 18 career appearances during the 1948 and 1951 seasons October 27 Charlie Jamieson 76 standout outfielder for Cleveland Indians 1919 1932 and two other AL cubs batted 303 lifetime in 1 779 games eclipsing 300 mark ten times and leading Junior Circuit in hits 222 in 1923 member of Cleveland s 1920 World Series champions October 28 Dave Callahan 81 outfielder who played 19 MLB games for the 1910 1911 Cleveland Naps stole 445 bases during his 17 year career in minor leagues October 28 Joe Rullo 53 second baseman who appeared in 51 total MLB games for wartime 1943 1944 Philadelphia Athletics November Edit November 1 George Winn 72 pitcher for the Boston Red Sox 1919 and Cleveland Indians 1922 23 November 7 Chick Galloway 73 shortstop who played 1 076 games for the 1919 1927 Philadelphia Athletics and 1928 Detroit Tigers November 12 Eddie Hurley 61 American League umpire from 1947 to 1965 officiated in 2 826 regular season contests four World Series and three All Star games was behind the plate in St Louis on August 19 1951 when Eddie Gaedel came to bat in Bill Veeck s famous stunt led AL umpires in ejections three times over a 19 year career November 11 Stump Edington 78 5 ft 7 in 1 70 m outfielder who batted 302 in 53 at bats for the 1912 Pittsburgh Pirates in his lone MLB opportunity November 14 Curt Roberts 40 first black player in Pittsburgh Pirates history debuting April 13 1954 second baseman who played in 171 games over three seasons 1954 1956 with Bucs November 15 Billy Southworth 76 Hall of Fame manager who won 1 044 regular season games as skipper of the St Louis Cardinals 1929 and 1940 1945 and Boston Braves 1946 1951 captured World Series titles in 1942 and 1944 and National League pennants with St Louis 1943 and Boston 1948 his 597 career winning percentage is second all time to Joe McCarthy in his playing days an outfielder who appeared in 1 192 games in 13 seasons for five teams between 1913 and 1929 and batted 297 November 16 Vin Campbell 81 outfielder who played 546 games during a career spent with the Chicago Cubs Pittsburgh Pirates and two Federal League clubs Indianapolis and Newark over six seasons between 1908 and 1915 November 20 Paddy Baumann 83 second baseman and third baseman who got into 299 games for the Detroit Tigers and New York Yankees between 1911 and 1917 November 20 Elmer Wilson 74 second baseman for St Louis 1925 and Dayton 1926 of the Negro National League November 24 Phil Gallivan 62 pitcher who appeared in 54 career games for the Brooklyn Robins 1931 and Chicago White Sox 1932 1934 November 24 Pablo Morales 64 Venezuelan professional baseball executive for more than three decades and former owner of the Leones del Caracas club November 26 Emil Kush 53 pitcher who won 21 of 33 decisions for the Chicago Cubs 1941 1942 and 1946 1949 November 29 Bun Hayes 66 pitcher for five Negro leagues clubs primarily the Baltimore Black Sox from 1928 to 1930 and 1932 1935 November 30 Eddie Eayrs 79 outfielder pitcher who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates Boston Braves and Brooklyn Robins in the early 20th century November Billy Horne 53 nicknamed Little Grumbler All Star second baseman and shortstop who played for three Negro leagues clubs between 1938 and 1946 December Edit December 3 Roy Wilson 83 pitcher for the Chicago White Sox in the 1920s December 7 Lefty O Doul 72 left fielder who batted 349 with 1 140 hits in his 970 game career and won two batting titles after being converted from a pitcher winningest manager in Pacific Coast League history and earned additional fame as the father of professional baseball in Japan December 10 Jack Tobin 77 diminutive 142 lb 64 kg but hard hitting right fielder who batted 309 and amassed 1 906 hits over a 13 year career 1914 1916 and 1918 1927 spent mostly with St Louis Browns led American League in triples 18 in 1921 later a Browns coach December 11 Ollie Fuhrman 83 catcher who hit 333 for the Philadelphia Athletics in 1922 December 30 Herman Howard 59 left handed pitcher in the Negro leagues from 1937 to 1940 and in 1946 References Edit Single Season Leaders amp Records for Saves Baseball Reference com Retrieved 6 August 2023 Today in Baseball History Baseball Events Baseball Birthdays Baseball Deaths www todayinbaseballhistory com Retrieved 6 August 2023 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1969 in baseball amp oldid 1172857962, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

article

, read, download, free, free download, mp3, video, mp4, 3gp, jpg, jpeg, gif, png, picture, music, song, movie, book, game, games.