February 10

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1884 - Billy Evans is born in Chicago, Illinois. One of the foremost umpires history, Evans spent 22 years in the American League. He achieved a great prestige for fairness and unquestioned integrity. Following his umpiring career, in 1927 he became the first general manager in Cleveland Indians history. In 1973, the Hall of Fame Veterans Committee will select Evans for enshrinement.
1894 - Pitcher Herb Pennock is born in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. Pennock extended his major league career over 22 seasons, during which he won 241 games and posted a 5-0 record in five World Series competition for the New York Yankees. He will be elected to the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers Association of America in 1948, with 94 votes on 121 ballots.
1910 - Major League owners are now forbidden to own more than one baseball franchise.
1916:
- Catcher Chief Meyers is waived by the New York Giants to the Brooklyn Robins. After that, Brooklyn owners Ebbets and Haughton disagree on his status. A coin toss, won by Ebbets, decides Meyers will remain with the team.
- In a sweet deal, the Chicago Cubs send cash to the sinking Chicago Whales of the Federal League and bring back defectors Three Finger Brown, Clem Clemens, Mickey Doolan, Bill Fischer, Max Flack, Claude Hendrix, Les Mann, Dykes Potter, Joe Tinker, Rollie Zeider and George McConnell.
1920:
- At a joint meeting in Chicago, all bleacher prices are raised to 50 cents, pavilion to 75 cents, and grandstand to $1.00. Clubs may set aside bleacher space for kids under 14 at 15 and 25 cents if they wish. In other agreements, the May 15th - August 30th player limits are raised from 21 to 25, and the American League prohibits player transfers after July 1; the National League, after August 20.
- "Wanting to make a clean breast of things", Lee Magee admits to National League president John Heydler and Chicago Cubs president William Veeck that he tried to "toss" a game with the Boston Braves when he was with the Cincinnati Reds, but that the Reds won the game in the 13th inning. Heydler will later testify on June 8 that Magee told him he became suspicious that Hal Chase had double-crossed him and so he stopped payment on the check.
1923 - The Boston Red Sox send catcher Muddy Ruel and pitcher Allen Russell to the Washington Senators in exchange for catcher Val Picinich and outfielders Howie Shanks and Ed Goebel.
1924 - Clark Griffith names 27-year-old Bucky Harris as manager of the Washington Senators. In his first two seasons, Harris will lead the Senators to two American League pennants and a World Championship in 1924, on the way to winning 2,157 games during a 29-year Hall of Fame career.
1925 - At an American League meeting, a plan is adopted to alternate the site of future World Series openers by league rather than deciding it by a coin toss, with Games One, Two, Six, and Seven in one park and Three, Four, Five in the other, unless a ban on Sunday baseball interferes in one city. The clubs finishing fourth in the AL share in the World Series pool. World Series umpires get a raise to $2,500, while umps in city series will earn $700. The plan was proposed in 1924, but formally adopted at this meeting.
1945 - Slugger Jimmie Foxx signs with the National League Philadelphia Blue Jays.
1948 - The Philadelphia Phillies acquire veteran shortstop Eddie Miller from the Boston Braves, sending outfielder Johnny Wyrostek in exchange.
1950 - The Cincinnati Reds sell veteran pitcher Johnny Vander Meer to the Chicago Cubs. Vander Meer, who gained most of his fame for pitching two consecutive no-hitters in 1938, struggled to a record of 5-10 in 1949 and will last only one season with the Cubs.
1953 - The Chicago White Sox send pitchers Marv Grissom, Bill Kennedy and Hal Brown to the Boston Red Sox for 33-year-old infielder Vern Stephens. A perennial All-Star in the 1940s, Stephens' best years are behind him.
1971:
- Former player Bill White becomes the first black play-by-play broadcaster in major league history. WPIX-TV hires White to team with Phil Rizzuto and Frank Messer on New York Yankees broadcasts.
- The Los Angeles Dodgers acquire left-handed pitcher Al Downing from the Milwaukee Brewers for outfielder Andy Kosco. Downing will win 20 games for the Dodgers in 1971. He will gain notoriety for a much different reason in 1974, when he surrenders Hank Aaron's record-breaking 715th home run.
1975 - Former Negro Leagues player Judy Johnson wins election to the Hall of Fame. A third baseman in the Negro Leagues in the 1920s and 30s, Johnson batted .309 over a 17-year professional career.
1982 - The New York Mets come to terms with slugging outfielder George Foster on a five-year contract, thereby completing a four-player trade with the Cincinnati Reds. The Mets had already agreed to send catcher Alex Treviño and pitchers Greg Harris and Jim Kern to the Reds for the power-hitting Foster.
2005:
- Pitcher Curt Schilling donates the blood-stained sock he wore in Game Two of the 2004 World Series to the Baseball Hall of Fame. The sock presently is part a Red Sox memorabilia tour which also includes Derek Lowe's Game Four jersey, Series MVP Manny Ramirez"˜s bat used to tie a postseason record with a 17-game hitting streak, and Keith Foulke's spikes worn as he throw the ball for the final out as well as the ball itself on loan from Doug Mientkiewicz.
- In his first public appearance, New York Yankees first baseman Jason Giambi apologizes to his teammates, Yankees fans and to baseball fans everywhere for letting them down last season. The All-Star first baseman, however, never uses the word steroids as he I accept full responsibility for the controversy.
- Avoiding arbitration, pitcher Roy Oswalt and the Houston Astros agree to a two-year, $16.9 million deal. The 27-year-old right-hander has posted a 63-27 record during his four-year tenure with the Astros.