Sammy Sosa becomes the youngest Dominican to play in the majors. The Rangers’ leadoff batter, a twenty-year, seven months old rookie, goes 2-for-4 with a double in Texas’s 8-3 loss to the Yankees.

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Sammy Sosa becomes the youngest Dominican to play in the majors. The Rangers’ leadoff batter, a twenty-year, seven months old rookie, goes 2-for-4 with a double in Texas’s 8-3 loss to the Yankees.

1989 – Rick Wolff, 37, writing an article on minor-league baseball for Sports Illustrated, finishes a three-day stint playing second base for the Class-A Midwest League’s South Bend White Sox. He replaces Cesar Bernhardt and goes 4 for 7 against the Burlington Braves. Wolff will finish the year with the highest batting average of any Chicago White Sox farmhand.

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1989 – Rick Wolff, 37, writing an article on minor-league baseball for Sports Illustrated, finishes a three-day stint playing second base for the Class-A Midwest League’s South Bend White Sox. He replaces Cesar Bernhardt and goes 4 for 7 against the Burlington Braves. Wolff will finish the year with the highest batting average of any Chicago White Sox farmhand.