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1995 New York City agrees to sell it's 2 owned radio stations (WNew York City AM and FM)

1990 Notre Dame becomes 1st team to sell its game to a major network (NBC)

1986 Johnson and Johnson announces it no longer sell capsule drugs

1984 Calvin Griffith signs letter of intent to sell ownership of Twins

1984 Mackay pays $218,718 for 44,166 tickets to keep Twins in Minnesota Twins sell 51,863 tickets but only 6,346 fans show up for the game

1980 Bill Veeck agrees to sell Chicago White Sox to Eddie DeBartolo Sr for $20,000,000, AL owners block the sale

1977 A's sell pitcher Paul Lindblad to the Rangers for $400,000

1973 Orioles sell pitcher Eddie Watt to the Phillies

1973 Phillies sell infielder-outfielder Cesar Tovar to the Texas Rangers

1969 Joe Namath agrees to sell interest in Bachelors 3, to stay in NFL

1969 Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his stake in a bar

1958 Indians minority stockholders sell their stock to William Delay

1958 Referendum allows city to sell Chavez Ravine to the Dodgers

1956 Dodgers sell Ebbets Field to a real estate group They agree to stay until 1959, with an option to stay until 1961

1953 1st department store to sell insurance is Carson Pirie Scott in Chicago, Illinois

1953 Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St. Louis Browns for $2,475M

1951 Braves sell pitcher Johnny Sain to the Yankees for $50,000

1947 Radio rights for the World Series sell for $475,000 for 3 years

1947 Detroit Tigers sell Hank Greenberg to Pirates (for $25-35,000)

1935 A's sell Jimmie Foxx to the Red Sox for $150,000

1935 White Sox sell Al Simmons to the Tigers for $75,000

1925 Canadians allow to sell beer

1920 Boston Red Sox sell Babe Ruth to New York Yankees

1917 Red Sox sell Smokey Joe Wood, his arm dead at 26, to Cleveland for $15,000

1887 Huntsville Electric Co forms to sell electricity

1887 Cubs sell Mike King Kelly to Boston for record $10,000

1842 John Sell Cotman, landscape painter, dies

1802 English sell Suriname to Dutch

1797 Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to farmers, though, they fear effects of iron on soil!

1785 Samuel Ellis advertises to sell Oyster Island (Ellis Island), no takers

1782 John Sell Cotman, water color artist

1647 Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for 40 pounds

1647 Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English parliament

1626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons


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