Babe Ruth is sold to the New York Yankees from the Boston Red Sox for $100k. Legend says that the money was becase Harry Frazee, at that time the owner of the Sox, wanted to finance a Broadway play. That is entirely untrue. 70 years later Dan Shaugnessy would create the "Curse of the Bambino" in an attempt to sell more books.
Wade Boggs, a five-time batting champion, and Ryne Sandberg, a nine-time Gold Glove winner at second base, are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Boggs receives 474 votes, or 91.9 percent of the 516 ballots cast. Sandberg receives 393 votes, six more that the needed number. Relief pitchers Bruce Sutter (66.7 percent) and Rich "Goose" Gossage (55.2), and outfielders Jim Rice (59.5) and Andre Dawson (52.3), are the only other players to be named on at least half of the ballots cast.
Debuts[]
Births[]
1910 - Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player
1932 - Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver
1939 - Nikos Alefantos, Greek football manager
1939 - Bobby Hull, Canadian hockey player
1954 - Jim Ross, American wrestling announcer
1956 - Willy T. Ribbs, American race car driver
1957 - Bojan Križај, Slovenian skier
1963 - Vic Grimes, American professional wrestler
1963 - Jerome Young, American professional wrestler
1969 - Michael Schumacher, German race car driver
1971 - Cory Cross, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 - Alessandro Petacchi, Italian cyclist
1976 - Angelos Basinas, Greek footballer
1977 - Lee Bowyer, English footballer
1977 - A.J. Burnett, American baseball player
1978 - Mike York, American ice hockey player
1980 - Angela Ruggiero, American ice hockey player
1980 - David Tyree, American football player
1981 - Eli Manning, American football player
1985 - John David Booty, American football player
1986 - Jacob Timpano, Australian soccer player
Deaths[]
1980 - Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist
Johnny Most, American sports announcer
2003 - Sid Gillman, American football coach
2004 - Leon Wagner, American baseball player
2006 - Steve Rogers, Australian rugby league footballer
2007 - Earl Reibel, Canadian ice hockey forward Detroit Red Wings