On September 9, 1970, Commissioner Bowie Kuhn suspends Detroit Tigers pitcher Denny McLain for the third time on the season. McLain’s latest ban, which results from him carrying a gun, along with other unspecified charges, will sideline him for the rest of the season…
Commissioner Bowie Kuhn announces the suspension of Detroit Tigers pitcher Denny McLain
Phillie Dick Allen’s suspension ends, but he incurs a $12,000 fine.
Richie Allen is fined $2,500 and suspended indefinitely when he fails to appear for the Phillies twi-night doubleheader game with the Mets. Allen had gone to New Jersey in the morning to see a horse race and got caught in traffic trying to return. He will stay suspended until July 20th. Allen picked up a $1000 fine in May when, for two straight days, he reportedly arrived at the ballpark after the game had started. Without Allen, the Phils drop a pair, 2 – 1 and 5 – 0. Larry Hisle’s homer in the opener off Tom Seaver is the only Phils score. Jim McAndrew is the winner in the nitecap, allowing two hits in eight innings.
Unlike its decision in April to delay the start of the season after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Major League Baseball lets individual teams decide if they will postpone games when Robert F. Kennedy is killed two months later by an assassin’s bullet. When Houston decides to continue playing their scheduled home contests, Rusty Staub and Bob Aspromonte, both who will be traded at the end of the season, protest by benching themselves in today’s 3-1 loss to Pittsburgh at the Astrodome.
Charlie Finley suspends pitcher Lew Krausse for “conduct unbecoming a major leaguer.”
The National League suspends manager Leo Durocher for four days for misconduct.
1951 – The South Carolina House of Representatives introduces a resolution urging that Shoeless Joe Jackson, who was banished from baseball because of his part in the Black Sox Scandal of 1919, be reinstated.
On April 9, 1947, Commissioner Happy Chandler suspends Brooklyn Dodgers manager Leo Durocher for “conduct deemed detrimental to baseball.” The one-year ban for consorting with known-gamblers, will force Leo to miss the historic major league debut of Jackie Robinson.
On July 20, 1944 — Browns’ hurler Nels Potter is banned for ten days, becoming the first pitcher ever to be suspended for throwing a spitball. The spitball, shine ball, and emery ball were outlawed by the major league’s Joint Rules Committee in 1920, which allowed the seventeen pitchers using the doctored pitches at the…
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