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| 1956 | The Dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to the crosstown rivals, the Giants, for pitcher Dick Littlefield and $35,000. According to some accounts, Jackie had already decided privately to leave the game to work for Chock Full of Nuts, publicly retiring from baseball rather than accepting the trade. |
| 1966 | The Giants trade pitcher Bob Priddy and outfielder Cap Peterson to the Senators to reacquire Mike McCormick. In his second stint with the team, the left-hander will win the Cy Young Award next season, compiling a 22-10 record with an ERA of 2.85. |
| 2007 |
"We can jump to this conclusion: that steroids have sullied the game. My hope is that this report is a part of putting the steroid era of baseball behind us." - GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. president and former owner of the Rangers. The Major League Baseball issues the Mitchell Report, a 409-page document and a paper trail of 115,000 copies of receipts, canceled checks, telephone records, and e-mail messages, twenty months after Commissioner Bud Selling ordered the outside investigation. The much-anticipated findings, authored by former Senator George Mitchell, call the steroid era a collective failure, naming 89 former and present players who allegedly used illegal, performance-enhancing drugs, including stars Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, and Gary Sheffield. |