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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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