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| 1949 |
Vin Scully, working his first broadcast ever, does the play-by-play via hand microphone from the rooftop of Fenway Park, calling the Maryland Terrapins' 14-13 defeat of the nationally ranked Boston University Terriers. The football assignment marks the start of a 67-year career in the broadcast booth for the Hall of Fame baseball announcer, who becomes the iconic voice of the Dodgers.
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| 2013 | After guiding the 94-68 Pirates to the Wild Card and their first winning season since 1992, Clint Hurdle becomes the second Buc skipper, joining Jim Leyland (1990 and 1992), to be selected as the National League Manager of the Year by the BBWAA. The Pittsburgh pilot was named first on 25 of 30 writers' ballots, easily outdistancing Don Mattingly of the Dodgers and the Braves' Fredi Gonzalez for the award. |
| 2021 | The Giants extend manager Gabe Kapler's contract after the team wins a franchise-best 107 games, capturing the NL West flag by one game after edging the 106-win Dodgers on the regular season's final day. The extension for the 46-year-old San Francisco skipper, completing his second season at the helm, runs through the 2024 season. |
| 2022 |
A participant, at the 19th annual Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory auction, places a winning bid of $1.53 million on a Spalding glove worn by Yankee legend Babe Ruth, a gift given to St. Louis Browns third baseman Jimmy Austin by the Bambino. The price tag for the historic piece of leather, made available to survey online via Hunt Auctions, shatters the previous record paid for a baseball glove, believed to be $387,500 for a Lou Gehrig glove sold with Sotheby's in 1999.
(Ed. Note: In 2013, Steiner Sports sold a Jackie Robinson glove thought to have been used by the Dodger infielder in the 1955 and 1956 World Series for a little more than $373,000.- LP)
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