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Martin O'Malley maneuvers Branch Rickey out of his job.
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Joseph Raymond "Joe" McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread Communist subversion.[1] He was noted for making claims that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers inside the United States federal governmen
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The Korean War begins.
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Mickey Mantle trips on a drainpipe and tears his knee.
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Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement
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Bobby Thomson hits his pennant-winning home run against the Dodgers.
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The African-American Civil Rights Movement encompasses social movements in the United States whose goal was to end racial segregation and discrimination against black Americans and enforce constitutional voting rights to them. This article covers the phase of the movement between 1954 and 1968, particularly in the South.
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Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision.
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Willie Mays robs Vic Wertz with a catch in the World Series.
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Don Larsen pitches a perfect game in the World Series.
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The New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers announce their moves to California.
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Sputnik launched by the Soviet Union.
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Dodgers catcher Roy Campanella is paralyzed in a car accident.
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Bill Mazeroski wins the World Series for the Pirates with a home run.
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Ebbets Field is demolished.
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Roger Maris breaks Babe Ruth's home run record
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Ty Cobb dies
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Casey Stengel becomes manager of the expansion New York Mets.
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March on Washington in support of civil rights.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas.
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CBS purchases the New York Yankees.
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Branch Rickey dies
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Dodgers Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax become the highest-paid players in baseball.
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Sandy Kofax announces his retirement.
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Curt Flood refuses trade to the Phillies, starting a long legal battle against baseball's reserve clause.
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The New York Mets win the World Series.
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Jackie Robinson dies.
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Roberto Clemente dies in an airplane crash.
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The designated hitter rule is established.
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George Stienbrenner buys the New York Yankees.
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The designated hitter rule is established.
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Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's career home run record.
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Richard Nixon resigns the presidency.
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Arbitrator Peter Seitz is the deciding vote ending the reserve clause.
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Arbitrator Peter Seitz is the deciding vote ending the reserve clause.
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The Vietnam War (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War,[31] and known in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or the American War, was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from December 1956[A 1] to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam—supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies—and the government of South Vietnam—support
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Reggie Jackson hits three consecutive home runs in a World Series game.
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Reggie Jackson hits three consecutive home runs in a World Series game.
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AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is the final stage of HIV disease, which causes severe damage to the immune system.
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Pete Rose is banned from baseball for betting on the game
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Ken Griffey, Sr. and Ken Griffey, Jr. hit back-to-back home runs.
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At 44, Nolan Ryan becomes the oldest player to throw a no-hitter.
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the year without a World Series: the longest and costliest strike in baseball history begins on August 12, and lasts until the following spring.
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Cal Ripken breaks Lou Gehrig's streak with his 2,131st consecutive game.
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Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa surpass Roger Maris' single-season home run record.
