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July 5: Today's featured birthday is that of Jay Spurgeon, who turns 50.

• 1909 - Construction is started on Forbes Field, which will serve as the home of the Pittsburgh Pirates for 72 years, the longest run in club history.
• 1938 - Future Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame members Shigeru Chiba (2B), Tetsuharu Kawakami (pictured) (1B) and Masayoshi Yoshiwara (C) all join the Yomiuri Giants. The Japanese Professional Baseball League switches from two seasons per year to one in 1938.
• 1954 - On the first day of spring training, Boston Red Sox star Ted Williams fractures his collarbone while diving for a ball hit by Hoot Evers; Williams will miss two and a half months.
• 1965 - Roberto Clemente misses the start of spring training due to malaria and will not return to action for a month.
• 1969 - Mickey Mantle announces his retirement. A three-time MVP, he hit 536 home runs.
• 2015 - Minnie Minoso, one of the first black stars of the American League in the 1950s, dies in Chicago, IL at either 92 or 89, as there is uncertainty over his true date of birth. He will be posthumously voted into the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 2022.

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