- 1900 - Brothers Joe , Jim , and Tom Delahanty , playing their third year together with Allentown, opened the Atlantic League season by banging out a family total of 11 Hits for 20 Total Bases .
- 1999 - About 3,000 fans wearing T-shirt s that said, " the wealth" protested baseball economics at the Yankees - Royals game at Kauffman Stadium . The protesters turned their backs when the Yankees batted, then walked out during the fourth inning. The Yankees began the season with baseball's top payroll at $85.05 million, and the Royals were 25th at $23.8 million.
- 2005 :
- ---Major league players are asked by Commissioner Bud Selig to agree to a 50-game suspension for the first offense, 100-game suspension for the second offense and a lifelong ban after the third offense for the use of Steroid s. In addition to the harsher Three-strike rule, the commissioner also is seeking a ban on Amphetamine s.
- ---With an enthusiastic crowd chanting “Let’s go, ground crew” at RFK Stadium , the inexperienced group puts on quite a show of ineptitude as they struggle for to put the tarp on a very soggy field during the second rain delay of the rain-shorten Washington Nationals 5–3 victory over the New York Mets . New York files a protest after the game is called off in the bottom of the eighth claiming the field became unplayable due to Washington’s inability to cover the field during 37-stoppage of play.
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