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| 1954 | The Dodgers trade third baseman Billy Cox and southpaw Preacher Roe, who will retire before the season begins, to the Orioles for two minor league prospects (Harry Schwegeman and Johnny Jancse) and $50,000. Brooklyn will use the cash as a bonus to sign a southpaw from Lafayette High School with control problems named Sandy Koufax. |
| 1994 | Lee Smith, who led the majors in saves for the Orioles last season with 33, signs as a free agent with the Angels. The 37-year-old right-handed reliever is the all-time saves leader with 434, a position he will hold until his final total is surpassed in 1996 by Trevor Hoffman with 479 saves. |
| 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. |