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| 1951 |
Brooklyn signs a 21-year lease with the City of Vero Beach to use an abandoned naval base as their spring training facility, which will become known as Dodgertown. The site will be the team's Grapefruit League home through the 2008 season, with exhibition games played at the 6,000-seat Holiman Stadium.
Batting instruction at the Brooklyn Dodgers training camp in Vero Beach (1949). Florida Memory - State Library and Archives of Florida |
| 1962 | The Phillies trade third baseman Andy Carey and second baseman Lou Vassie to the White Sox for right-hander Cal McLish, a 36-year-old Oklahoman who will post an 11-5 record for the seventh-place club. Chicago then trades Carey, who will retire at the end of the season after appearing in 53 games, to the Dodgers for infielders Ramon Conde and Jim Koranda, who play in 14 major league games. (Ed. Note: The Philadelphia new hurler's father named his newborn Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish, but his teammates call him Buster. -LP) |
| 2009 |
 Ichiro Suzuki's two-out, two-run single in the top of the 10th, Japan defeats South Korea, 5-3, winning its second consecutive World Baseball Classic title. South Korea, the reigning Olympic champs, tied the game 3-3 in the bottom of the ninth on Lee Bum-ho's two-out RBI single off Japanese closer Yu Darvish in front of a Dodger Stadium enthusiastic crowd.
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