What happened today in team history?
1976 – Labor lockout ends
After just 17-days, the MLB ended a labor lockout and opened camps back up, allowing for no regular season games to be missed during the 1976 season.
2008 – Astros send the Dodgers away in heartbreak
After playing in Vero Beach, Florida since the 1940s, the Dodgers moved away from “Dodgertown” after playing one last game against the Astros that they went on to lose 12-10. They even had the National Anthem played before the game by one of the players that pitched in the first game ever played there, Eighty-one year old Carl Erskine.
What else happened on this day?
1871
The National Association of Professional Baseball Players is founded in New York. This would ultimately end up shaping the way for the National League just five years later.
1918
Legendary slugger Babe Ruth launched a supposed 570-foot home run at Whittington Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
1946
Jackie Robinson debuted with the Montreal Royals, the Triple-A equivalent for the Brooklyn Dodger at the time, making him the first African American baseball player in MLB history.