1998 16th Seniors Players Golf Championship:
1997 ABL players allowed to own stock in the league
1997 Mark McGwire joins Babe as only players to hit 50 home runs in 2 consec yrs
1997 15th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Larry Gilbert
1997 Ford Senior Players Golf Championship
1997 Steve Elkington wins Golf's Players Championship
1996 Players union approves new collective bargaining agreement
1996 14th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Raymond Floyd
1995 13th Seniors Players Golf Championship: J. C. Snead
1995 Owners accept baseball players proposal, agree to start season 4/26
1994 Baseball owners impose salary cap, fiercely opposed by players
1994 Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association strike
1994 Baseball players decide to strike on Aug 12, 1994
1994 12th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Dave Stockton
1993 11th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Jim Colbert
1993 Zambian plane crashes at Libreville, Gabon, 30 soccer players die
1992 10th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Dave Stockton
1992 NHL players begin 1st strike in 75-year history
1991 NHL owners present contract to players, leads to Apr 1, 1992 strike
1991 9th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Jim Albus
1991 New York - New Jersey Knights (WLAF) players 1st come together
1990 8th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Jack Nicklaus
1990 Baseball owners lock out players
1990 Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players assn exec director
1990 NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players
1989 Herschel Walker is traded from Cowboys to Vikings for 12 players
1989 7th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Orville Moody
1989 1st Soviet hockey players are permitted to play for the NHL
1989 Members of 1949 Oklahoma football team cancelled an April reunion because of deplorable conduct of Oklahoma players
1988 10th time, 4 players hit baseball major-league record grand slams
1988 6th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Billy Casper
1987 NFL Players Association orders an end to 24 day strike
1987 1st "Scrub Sunday" of NFL football with replacement players
1987 NFL players' strike
1987 NFL players go on strike for 24 days
1986 Astros and Cubs use a record 53 players in an 18 inning game
1986 Peter Uberroth suspended 7 baseball players for 1 year, after they admitted in Curtis Strong's trial in September, they used drugs
1985 Curtis Strong is convicted for selling cocaine to pro baseball players
1985 Baseball players end a 2 day strike
1985 Major League Baseball Players' Association stages a midseason baseball strike (lasts 1 day)
1985 Baseball players go on strike for 2 days
1985 Players' Association agrees to expand LCS from 5 to 7 games
1983 Arbitrator Raymond Goetz rules 43 players who are on Disabled List during 1981 players' strike not entitled to salaries for that period
1982 NFL players begin a 57 day strike
1982 NFL players begin a 57 day strike
1981 Baseball players begin a 50 day strike, their 3rd strike
1981 Mariners beat Orioles 8-2 at Kingdome, then players go on strike
1981 Exec Board of Players' Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29
1981 Exec Board of Baseball Players Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29 if the issue of free-agent compensation remains unresolved
1980 Baseball Players Association votes to cancel 92 remaining exhibition games
1979 Padres and Giants announce plans to play exhibition series in Tokyo but Giant players reject it
1979 Minnesota Twins trade Rod Carew to California for 4 players
1978 A's trade Vida Blue to Giants for 7 players and $390,000
1977 14 University of Evansville basketball players die in plane crash
1976 Seattle and Toronto picks 30 unprotected players on other AL rosters Ruppert Jones (Seattle) and Bob Bailor (Toronto) are picked 1st
1976 "Love Rollercoaster" by Ohio Players hits #1
1975 Players' Assn, files a suit on behalf of Dodgers Andy Messersmith
1975 Bucks trade Kareem Abdul-Jabber and Walt Wesley to LA for 4 players
1974 Phillies set NL record, using 27 players in a game, St. Louis uses 24, tying record of 51. Phils win 7-3 in 17
1973 Funky Worm by Ohio Players hits #15
1972 1st baseball players' strike ends after 13 days
1972 Major league baseball players stages 1st collective strike
1972 Players on White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike, if necessary
1970 White Sox use record 41 players in doubleheader and lose both games
1970 Players and management end labor dispute up min salary to $12,000
1970 357 baseball players are available in the free-agent draft
1968 In NL expansion draft, Expos and Padres choose 30 players each
1966 Player reps elect Marvin Miller, as exec director of Players' Association
1965 Canadian Football Players Association organizes
1964 Braves (25) and Phillies (18) set record by using 43 players in 9 inn
1961 New York DA arrests professional gamblers who implicate Seton Hall players
1960 AFL begins placing players names on back of their jersies
1960 White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players' names above number
1959 Players Association approves 2 All-Star Games in 1960, to be held in Kansas City and NY
1959 Players vote Henry Aaron unanimously for the All-Star Game
1959 2-time champ Monterrey Mexico barred from 1959 Little League competition for using players outside predetermined geographical area
1959 NFL trade, Chicago Cards trade Ollie Matson to Los Angeles Rams for 9 players
1959 Chicago Cards trade running back Ollie Matson to Los Angeles Rams for 9 players
1958 7 soccer players of Manchester United, die in an aircrash at Munich
1958 Baseball announces players and coaches rather than fans pick all stars
1957 Giants trade Minneapolis franchise to Red Sox for San Francisco Seals-franchises only, not the players
1957 NHL Players Association forms (New York City), Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president
1954 Major League Baseball Players Association founded
1953 Giants end their tour of Japan (players got $331 of $3,000 promised)
1953 Birmingham Alabama, bars Jackie Robinson's Negro-White All-Stars from playing there Robinson gives in and drops white players from his group
1953 John Norman Lewis contends players have no desire to form a union
1953 Baseball player reps Ralph Kiner (NL) and Allie Reynolds (AL) hire John Norman Lewis at $15,000 to give legal advice to players in negotiation
1953 Yanks and Browns use record 41 players in a game
1953 NBA record 106 fouls and 12 players foul out (Boston-Syracuse)
1951 NL ump Frank Dascoli clears the Dogers bench ejecting 15 players
1951 Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players
1951 3 City College of New York basketball players admit to accepting bribes
1950 New York Yankees obtain their 1st black players, Elston Howard and Frank Barnes
1949 New York Giants sign their 1st black players, Monte Irvin and Ford Smith
1948 Commissioner Happy Chandler fines the Yankees, Cubs, and Phillies $500 each for signing high school players
1947 A movement among Card players to protest its 1st meeting with Jackie Robinson and the Dodgers is aborted by a talk from owner Sam Breadon
1946 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League), die in a bus crash
1946 Pirates players vote 20-16 to walkout rather than play the Giants
1946 11 players Tinker, Evers, Chance, Burkett, McCarthy, Waddell, Plank, Walsh, Chesbro, Griffith, and McGinnity are named to Hall of Fame
1945 The rules are revised for election of modern players to the Hall of
1945 NFL requires players to wear long stockings
1942 2 black players, Jackie Robinson and Nate Moreland, request a tryout with the Chicago White Sox, they are allowed to work out
1942 Baseball decides that players in milt can't play when on furlough
1941 Giants acquire Johnny Mize from Cards for 3 players and $50,000
1941 Lee MacPhail, Dodger GM predicts all players will wear batting helmets
1940 Jim Albus, born in Staten Island, New York, PGA golfer, 1991 Mazda Senior Players
1940 Ed Garvey, labor leader, Major League Baseball Players Assn
1936 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame-Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson
1935 Judge Landis fines ump George Moriarty, Cubs mgr Charlie Grimm and Chic players W English, B Jurges and B Herman for actions in World Series
1932 NL, finally approves players wearing numbers
1931 Baseball cuts squad from 25 to 23 players and NL continues to prohibit uniform numbers
1923 Cards announce their players will wear numbers on their uniforms
1922 Charles Ebbets proposes putting numbers on players' sleeves or caps
1922 Anxious to compete with the Yankees, the New York Giants pay $65,000 and 3 players for Jack Bentley (hits .349 and is 13-1 as pitcher in 1922)
1920 Chicago grand jury convenes to investigate charges that 8 White Sox players conspired to fix the 1919 World Series
1920 Red Sox-Indians game postponed in Boston to allow Indian players to attend Ray Chapman's funeral in Cleveland
1920 Annual drafting of baseball players from minor leagues to be done in inverse order of the final standings, agreed to
1918 Players on both sides threaten to strike the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners and $1,000 each for the losers
1918 Sect Baker grants extended exemption to World Series players
1918 Washington catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft Sec of War Newton D. Baker rules baseball players are not draft exempt
1909 Baseball rules players who jump contracts are suspended for 5 years
1902 Orioles forfeit to St. Louis having only 5 players available to play they then forfeit their franchise back to the AL
1889 Players League begins, declaring independence from baseball's NL
1885 John Ward and several teammates secretly form Brotherhood of Prof Base Ball Players, 1st baseball union
1885 Baseball sets all players salaries at $1,000-$2,000 for 1885 season
1883 Baseball game between one-armed and one-legged players
1879 NL owners meeting in Buffalo adopt reserve clause, giving each team exclusive rights to their players
1871 1st baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players), (Ft. Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double
1871 National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized
1857 National Association of Baseball Players founded, New York
1732 1st play in American colonies acted by professional players, New York City
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