2015 Event The National Baseball Hall of Fame elects four players: Pedro Martinez, Randy Johnson, John Smoltz, and Craig Biggio; the induction ceremony will take place in July 2014 Event Rory McIlroy wins the PGA Championship, marking his fourth major championship; McIlroy is now one of only four players in golf history to reach this achievement by age 25 2014 Event The NCAA settles a lawsuit regarding concussions, paying $70 million to assess head injuries for current and past players of college sports; The fund does not cover treatment, forcing injured players to sue their colleges for compensation 2014 Event Football players at Northwestern University cast votes on whether to form a union; the players were ruled last month to be university employees by the National Labor Relations Board, giving the students the right to organize 2014 Event Albert Pujols of the Los Angeles Angels joins an elite group of only 26 major league baseball players to have hit 500 home runs; Pujols achieved this feat during today's game against the Washington Nationals 2011 Event NBA team owners and players reach an agreement, ending the 149-day NBA lockout; the new NBA season will begin Christmas day 1998 Event 16th Seniors Players Golf Championship: 1997 Event ABL players allowed to own stock in the league 1997 Event Mark McGwire joins Babe as only players to hit 50 home runs in 2 consec yrs 1997 Event 15th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Larry Gilbert 1997 Event Ford Senior Players Golf Championship 1997 Event Steve Elkington wins Golf's Players Championship 1996 Event Players union approves new collective bargaining agreement 1996 Event 14th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Raymond Floyd 1995 Event 13th Seniors Players Golf Championship: J. C. Snead 1995 Event Owners accept baseball players proposal, agree to start season 4/26 1994 Event Baseball owners impose salary cap, fiercely opposed by players 1994 Event Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association strike 1994 Event Baseball players decide to strike on Aug 12, 1994 1994 Event 12th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Dave Stockton 1993 Event 11th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Jim Colbert 1993 Event Zambian plane crashes at Libreville, Gabon, 30 soccer players die 1992 Event 10th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Dave Stockton 1992 Event NHL players begin 1st strike in 75-year history 1991 Event NHL owners present contract to players, leads to Apr 1, 1992 strike 1991 Event 9th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Jim Albus 1991 Event New York - New Jersey Knights (WLAF) players 1st come together 1990 Event 8th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Jack Nicklaus 1990 Event Baseball owners lock out players 1990 Event Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players association executive director 1990 Event NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players 1989 Event Herschel Walker is traded from Cowboys to Vikings for 12 players 1989 Event 7th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Orville Moody 1989 Event 1st Soviet hockey players are permitted to play for the NHL 1989 Event Members of 1949 Oklahoma football team cancelled an April reunion because of deplorable conduct of Oklahoma players 1988 Event 10th time, 4 players hit baseball major-league record grand slams 1988 Event 6th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Billy Casper 1987 Event NFL Players Association orders an end to 24 day strike 1987 Event 1st "Scrub Sunday" of NFL football with replacement players 1987 Event NFL players' strike 1987 Event NFL players go on strike for 24 days 1986 Event Astros and Cubs use a record 53 players in an 18 inning game 1986 Event Peter Uberroth suspended 7 baseball players for 1 year, after they admitted in Curtis Strong's trial in September, they used drugs 1985 Event Curtis Strong is convicted for selling cocaine to pro baseball players 1985 Event Baseball players end a 2 day strike 1985 Event Major League Baseball Players' Association stages a midseason baseball strike (lasts 1 day) 1985 Event Baseball players go on strike for 2 days 1985 Event Players' Association agrees to expand LCS from 5 to 7 games 1983 Event Arbitrator Raymond Goetz rules 43 players who are on Disabled List during 1981 players' strike not entitled to salaries for that period 1982 Event NFL players begin a 57 day strike 1982 Event NFL players begin a 57 day strike 1981 Event Baseball players begin a 50 day strike, their 3rd strike 1981 Event Mariners beat Orioles 8-2 at Kingdome, then players go on strike 1981 Event Executive Board of Baseball Players Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29 if the issue of free-agent compensation remains unresolved 1980 Event Baseball Players Association votes to cancel 92 remaining exhibition games 1979 Birthday Jonny Wilkinson, born in Frimley, England, professional rugby union player, member of the England national team, considered one of the world's best rugby players 1979 Event Padres and Giants announce plans to play exhibition series in Tokyo but Giant players reject it 1979 Event Minnesota Twins trade Rod Carew to California for 4 players 1978 Event A's trade Vida Blue to Giants for 7 players and $390,000 1977 Event 14 University of Evansville basketball players die in plane crash 1976 Event Seattle and Toronto picks 30 unprotected players on other AL rosters Ruppert Jones (Seattle) and Bob Bailor (Toronto) are picked 1st 1976 Event "Love Rollercoaster" by Ohio Players hits #1 1975 Event Players' Association, files a suit on behalf of Dodgers Andy Messersmith 1975 Event Bucks trade Kareem Abdul-Jabber and Walt Wesley to LA for 4 players 1974 Event 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 Event Funky Worm by Ohio Players hits #15 1972 Event 1st baseball players' strike ends after 13 days 1972 Event Major league baseball players stages 1st collective strike 1972 Event Players on White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike, if necessary 1970 Event White Sox use record 41 players in doubleheader and lose both games 1970 Event Players and management end labor dispute up minimum salary to $12,000 1970 Event 357 baseball players are available in the free-agent draft 1968 Event In NL expansion draft, Expos and Padres choose 30 players each 1966 Event Player reps elect Marvin Miller, as executive director of Players' Association 1965 Event Canadian Football Players Association organizes 1964 Event Braves (25) and Phillies (18) set record by using 43 players in 9 inn 1961 Event New York DA arrests professional gamblers who implicate Seton Hall players 1960 Event AFL begins placing players names on back of their jersies 1960 Event White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players' names above number 1959 Event Players Association approves 2 All-Star Games in 1960, to be held in Kansas City and NY 1959 Event Players vote Henry Aaron unanimously for the All-Star Game 1959 Event 2-time champ Monterrey Mexico barred from 1959 Little League competition for using players outside predetermined geographical area 1959 Event NFL trade, Chicago Cards trade Ollie Matson to Los Angeles Rams for 9 players 1959 Event Chicago Cards trade running back Ollie Matson to Los Angeles Rams for 9 players 1958 Death 7 soccer players of Manchester United, die in an aircrash at Munich 1958 Event Baseball announces players and coaches rather than fans pick all stars 1957 Event Giants trade Minneapolis franchise to Red Sox for San Francisco Seals-franchises only, not the players 1957 Event NHL Players Association forms (New York City), Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president 1954 Event Major League Baseball Players Association founded 1953 Event Giants end their tour of Japan (players got $331 of $3,000 promised) 1953 Event Birmingham Alabama, bars Jackie Robinson's Negro-White All-Stars from playing there Robinson gives in and drops white players from his group 1953 Event John Norman Lewis contends players have no desire to form a union 1953 Event 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 Event Yankees and Browns use record 41 players in a game 1953 Event NBA record 106 fouls and 12 players foul out (Boston-Syracuse) 1951 Event NL ump Frank Dascoli clears the Dogers bench ejecting 15 players 1951 Event Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players 1951 Event 3 City College of New York basketball players admit to accepting bribes 1950 Event New York Yankees obtain their 1st black players, Elston Howard and Frank Barnes 1949 Event New York Giants sign their 1st black players, Monte Irvin and Ford Smith 1948 Event Commissioner Happy Chandler fines the Yankees, Cubs, and Phillies $500 each for signing high school players 1947 Event 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 Event 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League), die in a bus crash 1946 Event 11 players Tinker, Evers, Chance, Burkett, McCarthy, Waddell, Plank, Walsh, Chesbro, Griffith, and McGinnity are named to Hall of Fame 1945 Event The rules are revised for election of modern players to the Hall of 1945 Event NFL requires players to wear long stockings 1942 Event 2 black players, Jackie Robinson and Nate Moreland, request a tryout with the Chicago White Sox, they are allowed to work out 1942 Event Baseball decides that players in military can't play when on furlough 1941 Event Giants acquire Johnny Mize from Cards for 3 players and $50,000 1941 Event Lee MacPhail, Dodger General Manager predicts all players will wear batting helmets 1940 Birthday Jim Albus, born in Staten Island, New York, PGA golfer, 1991 Mazda Senior Players 1940 Birthday Ed Garvey, labor leader, Major League Baseball Players Association 1936 Event 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame - Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson 1935 Event Judge Landis fines ump George Moriarty, Cubs manager Charlie Grimm and Chicago players W English, B Jurges and B Herman for actions in World Series 1932 Event NL, finally approves players wearing numbers 1931 Event Baseball cuts squad from 25 to 23 players and NL continues to prohibit uniform numbers 1923 Event Cards announce their players will wear numbers on their uniforms 1922 Event Charles Ebbets proposes putting numbers on players' sleeves or caps 1922 Event 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 Event Chicago grand jury convenes to investigate charges that 8 White Sox players conspired to fix the 1919 World Series 1920 Event Red Sox-Indians game postponed in Boston to allow Indian players to attend Ray Chapman's funeral in Cleveland 1920 Event Annual drafting of baseball players from minor leagues to be done in inverse order of the final standings, agreed to 1918 Event 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 Event Sect Baker grants extended exemption to World Series players 1918 Event Washington catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft Secretary of War Newton D. Baker rules baseball players are not draft exempt 1909 Event Baseball rules players who jump contracts are suspended for 5 years 1902 Event Orioles forfeit to St. Louis having only 5 players available to play they then forfeit their franchise back to the AL 1889 Event Players League begins, declaring independence from baseball's NL 1885 Event John Ward and several teammates secretly form Brotherhood of Professional Baseball Players, 1st baseball union 1885 Event Baseball sets all players salaries at $1,000-$2,000 for 1885 season 1883 Event Baseball game between one-armed and one-legged players 1879 Event NL owners meeting in Buffalo adopt reserve clause, giving each team exclusive rights to their players 1871 Event 1st baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players), (Ft. Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double 1871 Event National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized 1857 Event National Association of Baseball Players founded, New York 1732 Event 1st play in American colonies acted by professional players, New York City
