This Day in Braves History: Atlanta acquired Ted Simmons from Milwaukee.
Braves Establishment History
1964 – Atlanta chairman Ivan Allen Jr. says he encompasses a verbal commitment from a major alliance baseball club to move there on the off chance that a stadium is prepared by 1965. Subsidizing for a $15 million stadium was affirmed the another day.
1986 – The Braves procure catcher Ted Simmons from the Milwaukee Brewers in trade for catcher Rick Cerone and a combine of minor association players. Simmons would show up in 227 recreations for Atlanta over the following three seasons whereas hitting .248/.323/.367 with 10 domestic runs.
MLB History
1888 – The American Affiliation meets in Brooklyn and votes to create utilize of gates obligatory at all passages to its parks.
1901 – The American Association favors a 14-player restrain to go into impact 14 days after the begin of the season. The constrain will be changed at the final diminutive and expanded to 15 players by Boycott Johnson.
1922 – Angel Ruth gets to be the highest-paid player in association history when he concurs to a three-year contract that will pay him $50k per season.
1966 – Marvin Mill operator is named official chief of the MLBPA.
1967 – The Chicago White Sox are given permission to utilize a halfway assigned hitter amid preparing camp. With domestic club consent, each club will be permitted to utilize a assigned squeeze hitter twice within the same amusement.
1982 – Gaylord Perry signs a one-year contract with the Seattle Sailors. Perry is three wins bashful of 300 for his career.
1996 – Earl Weaver, Jim Bunning, Ned Handlon and Charge Cultivate are chosen to the Corridor of Popularity by the Veterans Committee.
2012 – Previous outfielder Lenny Dykstra is sentenced to three years in jail after arguing no challenge to charges of terrific robbery auto and giving a wrong budgetary articulation.
2015 – Mammoths outfielder Seeker Pence endures a broken lower arm after he was hit by a pitch amid spring preparing. The damage will keep him out for six to eight weeks.
2020 – The White Sox sign infielder Yoan Moncada to a five-year, $70 million contract expansion.