Category: Major League Baseball
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Roberto Clemente, a future Hall of Fame baseball player, is killed along with four others when the cargo plane he is traveling in crashes into the ocean off the coast of Puerto Rico. December 31, 1972.
Image: Roberto Clemente (Public Domain) On this day in history, December 31, 1972, Roberto Clemente, a future Hall of Fame baseball player, is killed along with four others when the cargo plane he is traveling in crashes into the ocean off the coast of Puerto Rico. Clemente was delivering relief provisions to Nicaragua after a…
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A Chicago Grand Jury Indicts Eight Players From the Chicago White Sox on Allegations of Game-Fixing During the 1919 World Series Baseball. September 28, 1920.
Image: 1919 Chicago White Sox team photo. (Public Domain.) On this day in history, a Chicago grand jury indicts eight players from the Chicago White Sox on allegations of game-fixing during the 1919 World Series baseball. White Sox owner Charles Comiskey instantly suspends Chick Gandil, Buck Weaver, Happy Felsch, Swede Risberg, Fred McMullin, Eddie Cocotte, Lefty…
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History Daily: August 30
SECOND BATTLE OF BULL RUN Image: The Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Virginia, fought August 29th and 30th, 1862. On August 30, 1862, the Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Virginia, ends with a Confederate victory over Federal forces. The battle was the culmination of the Northern Virginia Campaign waged by Confederate…
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History Daily: August 11
CONFEDERATE GENERAL JUBAL EARLY ABANDONS WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA On August 11, 1864, Confederate General Jubal Early leaves Winchester, Virginia, as Union General Philip Sheridan nears the city. Wary of his new enemy, Early exited the area to avoid an immediate conflict. (Image: General Jubal A. Early. The Virginia Historical Society) Since June, Early and his 14,000 soldiers had been in…
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