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December 25
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Events, births and deaths that occurred on December 25.
[edit] Events
- 1856 - Pitcher James Francis (Pud) Galvin, a future Hall of Fame member, is born in St. Louis, Missouri. Galvin will win 364 games in a 15-year career, including two 46-win seasons.
- 1862 - A crowd of 40,000 watches two teams of imprisoned Union Army soldiers play baseball at Hilton Head, South Carolina. Civil War historians are debating the actual size of the crowd.
- 1888 - At the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, the Downtowners beat the Uptowners in the first indoor baseball game ever played, 6 - 1, before a crowd of 2,000.
- 1922 - On their tour of the Far East, the Herb Hunter All-Americans, with Casey Stengel and Waite Hoyt among their members, beat a team of U.S. servicemen, 12 - 5, in Manila. In other games, the All-Americans are the first team of major leaguers to play a Chinese team, in Shanghai, and also play a Korean all-star team in Seoul, whipping them, 21 - 3. The American all-stars also lost a game in Japan when Zensuke Shimada hit an out-of-the-park home run against Hoyt and the Mita Club defeated the All-Americans, 9 - 3. It is the first loss by a team of touring U.S professionals in Japan.
- 1927 - Nellie Fox, who will lead the American League in hits four times, win three Gold Gloves, play in 12 All-Star Games, and become American League MVP for the 1959 Chicago White Sox, is born in St. Thomas, Pennsylvania. It will not be until 1997, 23 years after his death, that he will finally be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
- 1940 - South Side Park, the first home of the Chicago White Sox, burns down.
- 1957 - With the backing of United States Representatives Kenneth Keating and Emanuel Celler, the minor league executives urge that Major League Baseball compensate them for infringement on their territorial rights.
- 1958 - Rickey Henderson is born in Chicago, Illinois. Henderson will break into the major leagues with the Oakland Athletics in 1979, and will go on to become one of the greatest leadoff men in history before being elected to the Hall of Fame in 2009.
- 1989 - Billy Martin, an All-Star infielder and former manager of the Minnesota Twins, Detroit Tigers, Texas Rangers, New York Yankees and Oakland Athletics, dies in a car accident in Johnson City, NY, at the age of 61. Martin, a five-time Yankees manager under owner George Steinbrenner, was rumored to be a candidate to replace current Yankees skipper Lou Piniella. During an 18-year managerial career, Martin posted a record of 1253-1013, led his teams to five American League pennants and guided the Yankees to the 1977 World Championship. He will be buried in Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Westchester, NY, in a plot near Babe Ruth. Steinbrenner, who fired Martin four times (he resigned the fifth time) purchases the plot.
- 2001 - Hideki Matsui signs a one-year, $4.7 million contract to play for the Yomiuri Giants, becoming the highest-paid player in Nippon Pro Baseball history. The outfielder's salary surpasses the $4 million mark the Orix Blue Wave gave Ichiro Suzuki for the 2000 season.
- 2009 - Alexei Bell of Santiago de Cuba gets himself a new record for Christmas - he hits his fourth grand slam of the 2009-2010 season, a new Cuban Serie Nacional record.
- 2012 - Andruw Jones is arrested at his home outside Atlanta, GA and charged with battery in a domestic dispute.
[edit] Births
- 1842 - Nat Jewett, catcher (d. 1914)
- 1856 - Pud Galvin, pitcher, manager; Hall of Famer (d. 1902)
- 1864 - Vince Dailey, outfielder (d. 1919)
- 1864 - Joe Quinn, infielder, manager (d. 1940)
- 1865 - George Mappes, infielder (d. 1934)
- 1866 - George Haddock, pitcher (d. 1926)
- 1869 - Alex Jones, pitcher (d. 1941)
- 1871 - Mike Hickey, infielder (d. 1918)
- 1872 - Ted Lewis, pitcher (d. 1936)
- 1874 - Barry McCormick, infielder (d. 1956)
- 1876 - Jim Jones, outfielder (d. 1953)
- 1879 - Dick Braggins, pitcher (d. 1963)
- 1881 - Jim Doyle, infielder (d. 1912)
- 1881 - Joe McCarthy, catcher (d. 1937)
- 1884 - Ed Henderson, pitcher (d. 1964)
- 1886 - Morrie Rath, infielder (d. 1945)
- 1887 - Bull Wagner, pitcher (d. 1967)
- 1892 - Walter Holke, infielder (d. 1954)
- 1892 - Karl Kolseth, infielder (d. 1956)
- 1893 - Marty Becker, outfielder (d. 1957)
- 1895 - Frank Ellerbe, infielder (d. 1988)
- 1896 - Herb Hunter, infielder (d. 1970)
- 1897 - Allen Elliott, infielder (d. 1979)
- 1899 - Tom Gulley, outfielder (d. 1966)
- 1899 - Earl Kunz, pitcher (d. 1963)
- 1899 - Gene Robertson, infielder (d. 1981)
- 1901 - Buster Chatham, infielder (d. 1975)
- 1904 - Bill Akers, infielder (d. 1962)
- 1904 - Red Barnes, outfielder (d. 1959)
- 1904 - Lloyd Brown, pitcher (d. 1974)
- 1908 - Ben Chapman, outfielder, manager; All-Star (d. 1993)
- 1908 - Alta Cohen, outfielder (d. 2003)
- 1908 - Jo-Jo Moore, outfielder; All-Star (d. 2001)
- 1912 - Greek George, catcher (d. 1999)
- 1912 - Quincy Trouppe, catcher (d. 1993)
- 1914 - Abelardo Raidi, writer (d. 2002)
- 1919 - Virgil Richardson, minor league infielder and manager
- 1922 - Neal Watlington, catcher
- 1925 - Ned Garver, pitcher; All-Star
- 1926 - Dick Manville, pitcher
- 1927 - Nellie Fox, infielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer (d. 1975)
- 1928 - Frank Baldwin, catcher (d. 2004)
- 1928 - Mike Blyzka, pitcher (d. 2004)
- 1934 - Charlie Beamon, pitcher
- 1935 - Al Jackson, pitcher
- 1938 - Jack Hamilton, pitcher
- 1939 - Chris Krug, catcher
- 1943 - Dennis Musgraves, pitcher
- 1946 - Gene Lamont, catcher, manager
- 1950 - Manny Trillo, infielder; All-Star
- 1951 - Luis Quintana, pitcher (d. 2009)
- 1952 - Julio Gonzalez, infielder
- 1953 - Rick Anderson, pitcher (d. 1989)
- 1954 - Jeff Little, pitcher
- 1956 - Wallace Johnson, infielder
- 1956 - Charlie Lea, pitcher; All-Star (d. 2011)
- 1958 - Gerry Davis, outfielder
- 1958 - Rickey Henderson, outfielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer
- 1960 - Ty Gainey, outfielder
- 1960 - Tom O'Malley, infielder
- 1961 - Rich Renteria, infielder
- 1962 - Marty Pevey, catcher
- 1962 - Bruce Walton, pitcher
- 1963 - Armando Moreno, minor league player
- 1968 - Scott Bullett, outfielder
- 1969 - Pork Chop Pough, minor league player
- 1970 - Steve Montgomery, pitcher
- 1972 - Erik Hiljus, pitcher
- 1973 - Tarrik Brock, outfielder
- 1973 - Daisuke Miura, NPB pitcher
- 1974 - Hee-jin Kim, South Korean womens' national team catcher
- 1975 - Hideki Okajima, pitcher; All-Star
- 1979 - Manny Nanita, scout
- 1981 - Andrew Lane, minor league infielder
- 1981 - Willy Taveras, outfielder
- 1982 - Ruben Gotay, infielder
- 1983 - Ben Bando, minor league outfielder
- 1985 - Anthony Cros, minor league outfielder
- 1985 - Simon Vincente, Division Elite infielder
- 1986 - Daniela Daniel, Venezuelan womens' national team outfielder
- 1986 - Waldis Joaquin, pitcher
- 1987 - Jesus Brito, minor league infielder
- 1988 - Brandon Hamilton, minor league pitcher
- 1992 - Yu-Ying Hsieh, Taiwan womens' national team pitcher
[edit] Deaths
- 1894 - Tom Cahill, infielder (b. 1868)
- 1910 - John Deasley, infielder (b. 1861)
- 1916 - Bill Moriarty, infielder (b. 1883)
- 1918 - Bob Blakiston, outfielder (b. 1855)
- 1922 - Wes Fisler, infielder (b. 1844)
- 1924 - Doc Gessler, outfielder, manager (b. 1880)
- 1925 - Harry Kirsch, pitcher (b. 1887)
- 1930 - Ed Clements, infielder (b. 1867)
- 1941 - George Bell, pitcher (b. 1874)
- 1942 - Whitey Alperman, infielder (b. 1879)
- 1945 - José Muñoz, Negro League pitcher (b. 1881)
- 1952 - Ed Coughlin, pitcher/outfielder (b. 1861)
- 1952 - Chester Williams, Negro League infielder (b. 1906)
- 1953 - Patsy Donovan, outfielder, manager (b. 1865)
- 1961 - Frank Foutz, infielder (b. 1877)
- 1961 - Don Savage, infielder (b. 1919)
- 1970 - Red Juelich, infielder (b. 1916)
- 1975 - Como Cotelle, minor league outfielder (b. 1904)
- 1976 - Bill Skiff, catcher (b. 1895)
- 1983 - Babe Young, infielder (b. 1915)
- 1989 - Billy Martin, infielder, manager; All-Star (b. 1928)
- 1994 - Tony Robello, infielder (b. 1913)
- 1995 - Hidenosuke Shima, NPB outfielder and umpire; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1908)
- 1997 - Ed Donnelly, pitcher (b. 1934)
- 2001 - Ramon Garcia, pitcher (b. 1924)
- 2006 - Nick Adzick, minor league catcher (b. 1927)
- 2007 - Jim Beauchamp, infielder (b. 1939)
- 2008 - Warren Abadie, minor league pitcher (b. 1916)
- 2009 - Bill Burich, infielder (b. 1918)
- 2010 - Karl Olson, outfielder (b. 1930)
