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The first All-Star game
Tribune staff reporterWhile the "Century of Progress" World's Fair was in full swing, anevent occurred on this day that changed baseball history: the first All-Star game. A few months earlier, Chicago Mayor Edward J. Kelly had gone to Col. Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the...Tags: Gabby Hartnett, St. Louis Cardinals, Babe Ruth, Baseball, Football
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Year-by-year inductees
(BBWAA: Elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America; VC: Elected by the Veterans Committee; NL: Elected by the Veterans Committee based on Negro league career): 1936 -- BBWAA: Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, Honus...Tags: Tommy Lasorda, Sandy Koufax, Cy Young, Monte Irvin, Cool Papa Bell
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Back in the bigs
Sun StaffFirst in a series of occasional articles on the Orioles' five decades in Baltimore. In a March 1953 meeting in Tampa, Fla., the owners of the eight American League franchises rejected Bill Veeck's plan to move his downtrodden St. Louis Browns to...Tags: Baseball, Football, National League, National Football League, Physical Fitness
Dec 19, 2007
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Sep 28, 2003
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