November 5
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Events, births and deaths that occurred on November 5.
Events[edit]
- 1901 - Ban Johnson and Charles Comiskey lease Sportsman's Park for five years for an American League team. Two weeks later it is announced the Milwaukee Brewers franchise will become the St. Louis Browns in 1902.
- 1907 - The New York Highlanders trade second baseman Jimmy Williams and outfielder Danny Hoffman to the St. Louis Browns for pitcher Fred Glade, 2B Harry Niles and OF Charlie Hemphill. Glade will pitch just five games in 1908 before retiring.
- 1914 - The ban on Sunday baseball is upheld in Washington, DC by the Court of Appeals.
- 1922 - Pitcher Jim Bagby is waived by the Cleveland Indians to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Bagby won 31 games for Cleveland in the 1920 season.
- 1932 - In the Pacific Coast League, Tony Freitas of the Sacramento Solons pitches the first night game no-hitter, stopping the Oakland Oaks, 2 - 0, in nine innings.
- 1936 - The Brooklyn Dodgers name former pitcher and future Hall of Fame member Burleigh Grimes their new manager. Grimes replaces another future Hall of Famer - Casey Stengel.
- 1940 - Former pitcher Walter Johnson, who won 416 games for the Washington Senators, goes down in defeat as a Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland. Johnson entered the Hall of Fame in 1936.
- 1958 - The Baltimore Orioles replace general manager Paul Richards with future Hall of Famer Lee MacPhail. The Orioles allow Richards to continue in another role as the team's field manager. Baltimore will end up with a 74-79 record.
- 1965 - The Yomiuri Giants begin their run of nine straight Japan Series titles, taking the 1965 Japan Series in five games. Yukinori Miyata wins for the second time this Series, with a 3 - 2 victory over Tadashi Sugiura of the Nankai Hawks.
- 1968 - Pitcher Denny McLain, a 31-game winner for the American League champion Detroit Tigers, is the unanimous choice as American League Most Valuable Player.
- 1969 - In a trade of pitchers, the Cincinnati Reds send George Culver to the St. Louis Cardinals for Ray Washburn.
- 1970 - Former major league pitcher Charlie Root dies at the age of 71. Root posted a 201-160 record over 17 major league seasons, but was best known for an incident in the 1932 World Series. Root was on the mound for the Chicago Cubs when Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees allegedly "called his shot" before hitting a home run.
- 1976:
- Baltimore Orioles pitcher Jim Palmer, who led the American League with 22 victories and 315 innings pitched, easily outpoints Detroit Tigers rookie Mark Fidrych to win the American League Cy Young Award.
- The Oakland Athletics make an unusual trade by sending manager Chuck Tanner to the Pittsburgh Pirates for catcher Manny Sanguillen and $100,000. Sanguillen will play only one season in Oakland before returning to Pittsburgh. Tanner will lead the Pirates to the World Championship in 1979.
- The new franchises, the Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays, select 30 players apiece from other American League teams in the expansion draft. The Mariners take outfielder Ruppert Jones with their first choice, while the Blue Jays tab infielder Bob Bailor with their initial pick. Among those to be selected are Ernie Whitt, Rico Carty, Jim Clancy and Pete Vuckovich.
- 1991:
- Terry Pendleton of the Atlanta Braves wins the National League Most Valuable Player Award. The third baseman led the National League in batting average (.319) and hits (187), tied for first in total bases (303) and was third in slugging average (517). Pendleton will also be named NL Comeback Player of the Year, becoming the first major player to raise his average 80 points and add 16 home runs (from 6 to 22). He also wins his third Gold Glove Award. Barry Bonds is runner-up, as the two will switch places next year.
- The Cleveland Indians trade pitcher Greg Swindell to the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for Ps Jack Armstrong, Scott Scudder and Joe Turek.
- 1995 - The Cuban national team wins the 1995 Intercontinental Cup, the last of a record seven straight Intercontinental Cup crowns. Pitcher Omar Luis is named tourney MVP after going 3-0 with a 0.86 ERA.
- 1997:
- In what Bud Selig says is Phase One of a realignment of the major leagues, his Milwaukee Brewers move from the American League to the National League. Phase 2 will have to wait until 2013, however.
- In an unprecedented move, Davey Johnson resigns the same day he is named American League Manager of the Year. Despite the fact that Johnson ended the Baltimore Orioles' 13-year playoff drought in 1996 and led the Orioles to the league's best record in 1997, a dispute over $10,500 in fines to second baseman Roberto Alomar ends Johnson's reign in Baltimore. Johnson directed the fines to be paid to a charity. Orioles owner Peter Angelos is upset with the way the matter is handled and Johnson resigns.
- 1999:
- After two days of play in the 1999 Intercontinental Cup tourney in Sydney, Australia, the USA team has a 2-0 record. Yesterday, they won 4 - 0 over Japan by scoring four runs in the 9th inning, including three on Dan Held's home run. Meanwhile, Cuba beats Taiwan, 1 - 0, to avenge a loss the day before to Cuba, as Australia beats Italy after winning the previous day, 4 - 3 over the Netherlands, behind Montreal Expos pitcher Shayne Bennett.
- Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Randy Johnson wins the National League Cy Young Award, his fifth overall and fourth in a row. Johnson is the first NL player since the Mets' Dwight Gooden to win the pitching triple crown, going 24-5 with 334 strikeouts and a 2.37 ERA. Johnson also led the major leagues in strikeouts for the ninth time.
- The Silver Slugger Award winners are announced. Barry Bonds and Mike Piazza each win their tenth awards.
- 2003 - Promising Cincinnati Reds outfielder Dernell Stenson is kidnapped, robbed, and brutally murdered by four men in Scottsdale, Arizona, for reasons that are still unclear. He was 25.
- 2009 - The Florida Marlins trade young OF Jeremy Hermida to the Boston Red Sox for P Hunter Jones and Jose Alvarez.
- 2010 - The Blue Jays acquire C Miguel Olivo from Colorado in return for a player to be named later, then immediately buy out his option for next season, making him a free agent. They also buy out the option of closer Kevin Gregg, who is coming off a season in which he saved a career-high 37 games. In both cases, Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos explains the team is interested in re-signing the player, but wants to limit its financial exposure, but both will move to new teams in 2011.
- 2011 - The Phillies sign 41-year-old 1B Jim Thome to a free agent contract.
- 2013 - The Mariners name Lloyd McClendon as their manager, succeeding Eric Wedge.
- 2014:
- Koji Akiyama wins his third Matsutaro Shoriki Award, given to the best manager in Nippon Pro Baseball, after previously winning in 1991 and 2011. Akiyama guided the Softbank Hawks to the 2014 Japan Series title. He joins Tatsunori Hara and Sadaharu Oh (a four-time winner) with at least three Shoriki Awards.
- Seung-yeop Lee becomes the all-time Korea Baseball Organization postseason home run leader, when he hits #14 (breaking a tie with Tyrone Woods), taking Henry Sosa of the Nexen Heroes deep. The Samsung Lions beat the Heroes, 7 - 1, in Game 2 of the 2014 Korean Series, with Seung-hwan Yoon getting the win over Sosa. Yamaico Navarro goes 3 for 4 with three runs, a steal, double and homer for Samsung.
- The Angels make a couple of trades, sending long-time back-up catcher Hank Conger to Houston for P Nick Tropeano and minor league C Carlos Perez, and acquiring P Cesar Ramos from Tampa Bay for minor league P Mark Sappington.
- 2015:
- Chi-Hung Hsu is named Rookie of the Year for the 2015 CPBL. A corner infielder and DH for the Chinatrust Brothers, he hit .319/.432/.535 with 13 homers in 87 games.
- P Matt Harvey of the Mets and 1B Prince Fielder of the Rangers receive the Comeback Player of the Year Award in their respective leagues. Both players helped lead their team to surprise division titles after missing all or most of the previous season because of injuries.
- The first trade of the off-season involves Seattle sending IF Brad Miller, 1B Logan Morrison and P Danny Farquhar to Tampa Bay in return for Ps Nathan Karns and C.J. Riefenhauser and minor league OF Boog Powell.
- 2016 - Po-Jung Wang of the Lamigo Monkeys is named both CPBL MVP and Rookie of the Year for 2016, the second position player so honored (following Yi-Chuan Lin in 2009). Wang had set league records for hits (200), runs (130), average (.414) and total bases. Teammate Hung-Yu Lin is picked to the Best Ten twice - once as the league's best catcher and once as the best DH, the first player to pull off a feat like that.
- 2018 - Billy Beane, Vice-President for Baseball Operations of the Oakland Athletics, is named the inaugural winner of the newly-minted Major League Baseball Executive of the Year Award. The honor is in recognition of his role in turning the 2017 last-place team into a wild card winner in 2018.
- 2020 - Winners of the Silver Slugger Awards are announced, and while there are a number of familiar names in the American League, led by eight-time winner Mike Trout, the National League presents a completely different picture. In the senior circuit, there are five first-time winners, three second-timers and only one multiple-time previous winner, OF Mookie Betts, whose three previous awards came when he played in the AL.
- 2022:
- The Houston Astros capture their second Championship by defeating the Phillies, 4 - 1, in Game 6 of the World Series. All the runs score in the 6th as Kyle Schwarber hits a solo homer off winning pitcher Framber Valdez, then Phils manager Rob Thomson replaces Zack Wheeler with José Alvarado after a single by Jeremy Peña puts a second man on with one out. Alvarado gives up a mammoth three-run homer to Yordan Alvarez and the Astros add an insurance run later in the inning to seal the title. Peña is named the winner of Willie Mays Award as the Series MVP, while Dusty Baker, who had the most regular season wins by any manager without a world championship, is the winning manager.
- Greg Jelks is inducted into the Baseball Australia Hall of Fame. He slugged .615 in the Australian Baseball League and played and coached for the Australian national team.
- 2023:
- The Hanshin Tigers end the Curse of Colonel Sanders, winning their first Japan Series in 38 years. They top the Orix Buffaloes, four games to three, in the Japan Series. Series MVP Koji Chikamoto has four hits, Sheldon Neuse four RBI (including the winning three-run homer) and Shota Morishita three hits in today's 7 - 1 victory. Koyo Aoyagi and four relievers combine to shut out Orix until the bottom of the 9th.
- Winners of the Gold Glove in MLB are announced, and the era of the long-term repeat winner is over: only two players win their fourth, 3B Matt Chapman and CF Kevin Kiermaier, both in the AL. First-time winners rule the roost including both catchers (Gabriel Moreno and Jonah Heim), 1B Nathaniel Lowe, 2B Nico Hoerner, SS Anthony Volpe and OFs Adolis Garcia, Fernando Tatis Jr. and Brenton Doyle.
Births[edit]
- 1821 - Joseph Conselyea Pinckney, pre-MLB player (d. 1881)
- 1852 - Otis Tilden, umpire (d. 1929)
- 1861 - Dan Phelan, infielder (d. 1934)
- 1862 - Jim McElroy, pitcher (d. 1889)
- 1864 - Joe Walsh, infielder (d. 1911)
- 1867 - Elton Chamberlain, pitcher (d. 1929)
- 1868 - Charlie Newman, outfielder (d. 1947)
- 1873 - Billy Campbell, pitcher (d. 1957)
- 1875 - Harry Hardy, pitcher (d. 1943)
- 1877 - Tommy Sheehan, infielder (d. 1959)
- 1881 - Pryor McElveen, infielder (d. 1951)
- 1883 - Otis Johnson, infielder (d. 1915)
- 1888 - John Mullin, umpire (d. ????)
- 1891 - Greasy Neale, outfielder (d. 1973)
- 1892 - Flame Delhi, pitcher (d. 1966)
- 1892 - Jack Meanor, minor league infielder (d. 1947)
- 1892 - Roxy Walters, catcher (d. 1956)
- 1892 - Yam Yaryan, catcher (d. 1964)
- 1894 - Spencer Heath, pitcher (d. 1930)
- 1894 - Frank McCormick, college coach
- 1895 - Tom McNamara, pinch hitter (d. 1974)
- 1895 - Rasty Wright, pitcher (d. 1948)
- 1897 - Jack Ogden, pitcher (d. 1977)
- 1898 - Rip Fanning, minor league catcher and manager (d. 1982)
- 1898 - Don Ping, college coach (d. 1972)
- 1899 - Al Tiner, minor league pitcher (d. 1979)
- 1899 - Jack Wisner, pitcher (d. 1981)
- 1900 - Pete Donohue, pitcher (d. 1988)
- 1902 - Eli Juran, infielder (d. 1955)
- 1904 - Ollie Sax, infielder (d. 1982)
- 1904 - Como Cotelle, minor league outfielder (d. 1975)
- 1905 - Carl Fischer, pitcher (d. 1963)
- 1908 - Ralph Birkofer, pitcher (d. 1971)
- 1909 - Jake Dunn, infielder; All-Star (d. 1984)
- 1909 - Harry Gumbert, pitcher (d. 1995)
- 1909 - Les Powers, infielder (d. 1978)
- 1912 - Buck Rogers, pitcher (d. 1999)
- 1914 - Mark Mauldin, infielder (d. 1990)
- 1916 - Jim Tabor, infielder (d. 1953)
- 1917 - Walter Jones, pitcher (d. 2008)
- 1918 - Rogelio Martinez, pitcher (d. 2010)
- 1921 - Mike Goliat, infielder (d. 2004)
- 1924 - Sonny Dixon, pitcher (d. 2011)
- 1925 - Pete Catalano, minor league outfielder (d. 2014)
- 1927 - Putsy Caballero, infielder (d. 2016)
- 1928 - Gé Oosterbaan, Hoofdklasse outfielder (d. 2019)
- 1932 - Stanley Hashimoto, NPB infielder
- 1936 - Lee Howell, minor league outfielder
- 1938 - Ed Olivares, outfielder (d. 2022)
- 1941 - Bill Schlesinger, pinch hitter (d. 2023)
- 1942 - Richie Scheinblum, outfielder; All-Star (d. 2021)
- 1943 - James Merrick, minor league pitcher and coach
- 1944 - Jessie Huggins, minor league pitcher (d. 2017)
- 1946 - Jim Bethke, pitcher
- 1946 - Jim Evans, umpire
- 1952 - Tom Carroll, pitcher
- 1953 - Gary Coward, Australian national team outfielder
- 1953 - Brock Pemberton, infielder (d. 2016)
- 1953 - Chuck Rogers, minor league pitcher
- 1955 - Bobby Ramos, catcher
- 1956 - Shinichi Inoue, Japanese national team outfielder
- 1958 - Mike Bishop, catcher (d. 2005)
- 1958 - Tom Wiedenbauer, outfielder
- 1959 - Craig McMurtry, pitcher
- 1959 - Lloyd Moseby, outfielder; All-Star
- 1961 - Fred Manrique, infielder
- 1962 - Calvin James, minor league outfielder
- 1967 - Brian Raabe, infielder
- 1968 - Frank Campos, minor league pitcher
- 1968 - Marcos Vasquez, minor league pitcher
- 1969 - Mark Calvi, college coach
- 1970 - Glenn Dishman, pitcher
- 1970 - Javy Lopez, catcher; All-Star
- 1970 - Terry Rosenkranz, minor league pitcher
- 1970 - Carlos Rivera, NPB pitcher
- 1971 - Mike Neal, minor league player
- 1971 - Hiroshi Yoshida, NPB outfielder
- 1972 - Alfredo Arias, minor league pitcher
- 1972 - Joey Guerrero, Philippines national team pitcher
- 1973 - Johnny Damon, outfielder; All-Star
- 1973 - Chien-San Kao, CPBL pitcher
- 1974 - Ryan Jones, minor league infielder
- 1974 - Jose Santiago, pitcher
- 1976 - Alex Herrera, pitcher (d. 2023)
- 1976 - Liu Rodriguez, infielder
- 1977 - T.T. Gallaher, minor league player
- 1978 - Corey Thurman, pitcher
- 1978 - Bubba Watson, minor league owner
- 1980 - Christian Großmann, Bundesliga outfielder
- 1980 - Kuo-Chen Lo, CPBL outfielder
- 1981 - Jarrett Grube, pitcher
- 1982 - Bryan LaHair, infielder; All-Star
- 1983 - Jeff Beachum, minor league infielder
- 1983 - Juan Morillo, pitcher
- 1983 - Boomer Whiting, minor league outfielder
- 1985 - Jose Jimenez, minor league player
- 1985 - Julitza López, Puerto Rican women's national team outfielder
- 1985 - Brandon Villalobos, drafted pitcher (d. 2009)
- 1986 - Jose Castro, minor league infielder
- 1987 - Yamato Maeda, NPB infielder/outfielder
- 1987 - Aaron Senne, minor league infielder
- 1988 - Reynier Gonzalez, minor league pitcher
- 1988 - Sheldon McDonald, minor league pitcher
- 1988 - Zilong Qiao, China Baseball League infielder
- 1988 - Reggie Williams, minor league outfielder
- 1989 - Ramon Cabrera, catcher
- 1989 - Keith Couch, minor league pitcher
- 1989 - Akira Nakamura, NPB outfielder
- 1990 - Marco Davalillo Jr., minor league catcher
- 1990 - Josh Lucas, pitcher
- 1991 - Jon Gray, pitcher
- 1992 - Takuya Kai, NPB catcher
- 1993 - Federico Robles, Serie A1 pitcher
- 1993 - Carlos Sánchez, minor league catcher
- 1993 - Jacob Waguespack, pitcher
- 1994 - Ching-Wei Huang, CPBL pitcher
- 1995 - Hsiu-Chuan Hsieh, CPBL infielder
- 1995 - Blake Weiman, minor league pitcher
- 1996 - Bryan King, pitcher
- 1996 - Michael Plassmeyer, pitcher
- 1996 - Damjan Zlatarek, Croatian national team infielder
- 1998 - Ey Sopheap, Cambodian national team catcher
- 2000 - Seourng Bunsen, Cambodian national team pitcher
Deaths[edit]
- 1902 - Daisy Davis, pitcher (b. 1858)
- 1903 - Harrison Pepper, pitcher (b. 1864)
- 1908 - Pat Hannifan, outfielder (b. 1866)
- 1909 - Walt Kinzie, infielder (b. 1858)
- 1923 - Buck Becannon, pitcher (b. 1859)
- 1925 - Joe O'Brien, umpire (b. 1877)
- 1928 - George Treadway, outfielder (b. 1866)
- 1940 - Bill Mellor, infielder (b. 1874)
- 1941 - Varney Anderson, pitcher (b. 1866)
- 1946 - Alejandro Oms, outfielder; All-Star (b. 1896)
- 1951 - George Stovall, infielder, manager (b. 1877)
- 1955 - Frank Gregory, pitcher (b. 1888)
- 1955 - Bert Wilson, broadcaster (b. 1911)
- 1957 - Deke White, pitcher (b. 1872)
- 1964 - Dutch Stryker, pitcher (b. 1895)
- 1968 - Wally Mattick, outfielder (b. 1887)
- 1969 - Hardin Barry, pitcher (b. 1891)
- 1970 - Dave Robertson, outfielder (b. 1889)
- 1970 - Charley Root, pitcher (b. 1899)
- 1970 - Freddy Spurgeon, infielder (b. 1901)
- 1971 - Sam Jones, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1925)
- 1971 - Joe Palmisano, catcher (b. 1902)
- 1973 - Bert Hogg, infielder (b. 1913)
- 1978 - Tommy O'Brien, outfielder (b. 1918)
- 1983 - Pat Murray, pitcher (b. 1897)
- 1983 - Lefty Taber, pitcher (b. 1900)
- 1988 - Glenn Chapman, outfielder (b. 1906)
- 1988 - Walter Fiala, minor league infielder (b. 1924)
- 1988 - Albert Overton, pitcher (b. 1903)
- 1992 - Dick Hahn, catcher (b. 1916)
- 1992 - Rod Scurry, pitcher (b. 1956)
- 1994 - Gene Desautels, catcher (b. 1907)
- 1994 - Joe Hague, infielder (b. 1944)
- 1994 - Tim McNamara, pitcher (b. 1898)
- 2000 - Willard Marshall, outfielder; All-Star (b. 1921)
- 2000 - Hikaru Takano, NPB pitcher (b. 1961)
- 2000 - Harry Taylor, pitcher (b. 1919)
- 2003 - Dernell Stenson, outfielder (b. 1978)
- 2008 - John Odom, minor league pitcher (b. 1982)
- 2014 - Les Barnes, minor league infielder (b. 1926)
- 2015 - Charlie Donovan, drafted infielder (b. 1996)
- 2018 - Al Janszen, minor league pitcher (b. 1932)
- 2019 - Rat McGowan, college coach (b. 1939)
- 2022 - Buddy Harris, pitcher (b. 1948)
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