This Day In Baseball November 25

The history of sports is both vast and rich, thanks to the existence of so many different events and the longevity associated with them. With so much history to cull through, We offer the opportunity to look back and see what memorable things happened or milestones were reached on November 25 in baseball history.

 

Things you don’t want to miss:

  • On November 25, 1914, future Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio is born in Martinez, California. The son of Italian immigrants, DiMaggio will make his major league debut in 1936 after starring in the Pacific Coast League. He will spend his entire big league playing career with the New York Yankees. One of three brothers who stars in the major leagues, DiMaggio plays on nine World Series champion teams.
  • On November 25, 1930 — The Sporting News, acting to fill the Most Valuable Player void, announces  New York Giants first baseman Bill Terry (.401, 14, 117) is selected by the Sporting News as the NL’s MVP, and Washington Senator shortstop Joe Cronin (.346, 13, 126) receives the honor for the American League. The first official BBWAA Most Valuable Player ballots will start next season, but the Associated Press also names Joe Cronin as it’s unofficial AL MVP, the Baseball Writers Association awards the National’s MVP to Hack Wilson, with the Cubs presenting him with the $1000 bonus for receiving the honor. Wilson set the NL record for RBI’s and Homeruns, his 191 RBI’s remain the MLB record to this day in 2019.
  • On November 25, 1941 — With only three years of major league experience, shortstop Lou Boudreau is named as the Cleveland Indians’ manager. He takes over for Roger Peckinpaugh, who moves up to the front office as the Indians’ general manager. At the age of 24 years, four months, and eight days, Boudreau becomes the youngest skipper to pilot a team in the 20th century. Scotland-born Jim McCormick managed Cleveland in 1879 at age 23. Over 9 seasons, Boudreau will win 728 games, and win the Indian’s last World Championship in 1948. Boudreau will also win the 1948 AL MVP along with with multiple other top 10 finishes.
  • On November 25, 1972 — The Sporting News announces Gold Glove Award winners. Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente wins his 12th straight, and Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Wes Parker his sixth in a row. Neither will play in 1973.
  • On November 25, 1949 — Ted Williams, who lost the Triple Crown when his batting average was .0002 below that of George Kell, wins the American League MVP Award vote in a landslide. Phil Rizzuto and Joe Page finish second and third in the voting.
  • On November 25, 1958 — The Baseball Writers Association of America names Chicago Cubs slugger Ernie Banks as the National League Most Valuable Player. Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants is the runner-up. Banks will rack up 379 total bases and hit 47 Homeruns, the All-Star Shortstop, hitting .314. Banks will again win the MVP in 1959.
  • On November 25, 1969 — After being drafted in 1968 by the expansion Seattle Pilots, Outfielder Lou Piniella was traded to another expansion team the Kansas City Royals wins the American League Rookie of the Year Award.On Opening Day, April 8, 1969, at Kansas City’s Municipal Stadium, Piniella led off the bottom of the first with a double to left. This was the first hit of his major-league career and both the first at-bat and base hit for the Royals. When Jerry Adair singled to left, Piniella scored the franchise’s first run. Piniella hit safely the next three times to start the season with four hits in a row, 4-for-5 for the game. The next game he drove in the winning run in the 17th inning.

    Piniella credited manager Joe Gordon with helping him become a better hitter and being more selective. Piniella batted .282 and was named the American League Rookie of the Year, the first player to win the award playing with an expansion team in its inaugural season.

  • On November 25, 1981 — Milwaukee Brewer hurler Rollie Fingers becomes the first relief pitcher ever to win the American League MVP Award. The 34-year-old right-hander, who also wins the Cy Young award, narrowly beats  Rickey Henderson by 11 points, 319-308. Henderson was drafted by the A’s in 1976, fingers last year with the club. He was as close to automatic as a reliever had ever been. In 78 innings, he walked just 13 and flashed a 1.04 ERA. He saved 28 and won six, figuring in 55% of Milwaukee’s victories in the strike-shortened season.
  • On November 25, 2002 — The Boston Red Sox hire 28-year-old Theo Epstein as their new general manager. Epstein, a life-time Red Sox fan who grew up about a mile away from Fenway Park, becomes the youngest GM in major league history. He is the 11th GM since the club first established the position in 1933. Epstien will lead the team to break a 86 year championship draught the Red Sox would win the title again in 2007.

Notable Events and Chronology for November 25

Jack Glasscock, claiming that his pledge to the Brotherhood does not constitute a binding contract, signs with the Indianapolis Hoosiers of the National League, thus becoming the first “double jumper.”

Sporting Life reports that New York Giants owner Andrew Freedman wants to reduce the National League to eight clubs and purify the game by eliminating “certain parties who have been unduly prominent in the sport for cheap notoriety and the money there is in it.”

1911 – William Russell, head of the syndicate that owns the Boston Nationals, dies. No doubt helping his demise was watching his team finish the season with a .291 winning percentage. Former player, now attorney, Monte Ward and New York politician James Gaffney will purchase 945 of the 1000 shares for $177,000. The team, also known as the Rustlers (or Doves) will start next season as the “Braves”.

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Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio is born in Martinez, California

Joe Cronin

Bill Terry and Joe Cronin are named Sporting News MVPs

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Lou Boudreau becomes the youngest skipper to pilot a team in the 20th century

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the first Major League Baseball Commissioner, dies of a heart attack

Sam Breadon sells the St. Louis Cardinals empire to Robert Hannegan and Fred Saigh

Sam Breadon sells the St. Louis Cardinals empire to Robert Hannegan and Fred Saigh

ted williams

Ted Williams, who lost the Triple Crown when his batting average was .0002 below that of George Kell, wins the American League MVP Award vote in a landslide

1952 – The St. Louis Cardinals seek payment from the New York Giants for two televised games in an effort to determine the TV and radio rights of visiting teams for revenue.

Henry Aaron received a silver champagne bucket from Norman Klug, president of Miller Brewery

Henry Aaron received a silver champagne bucket from Norman Klug, president of Miller Brewery

Ernie Banks drives in 7 and reaches 1500 RBI's

Chicago Cubs slugger Ernie Banks as the National League Most Valuable Player

tommy helms

Cincinnati Reds infielder Tommy Helms is voted National League Rookie of the Year.

1966 – Sonny Jackson is runner-up for N.L. Rookie of the Year honors. The 21-year-old shortstop bats .292 and steals 49 bases. The award goes to Cincinnati infielder Tommy Helms. 

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Lou Piniella of the Kansas City Royals wins the American League Rookie of the Year Award.

The Cincinnati Reds trade outfielder Alex Johnson and infielder Chico Ruiz to the California Angels for pitchers Pedro Borbón, Jim McGlothlin and Vern Geishert. The talented but troubled Johnson, who hit over .300 in his two seasons with the Reds, will win the American League batting title in 1970. Borbón and McGlothlin will be valuable additions to the “Big Red Machine” .

New York Yankees catcher Thurman Munson is named American League Rookie of the Year

New York Yankees catcher Thurman Munson is named American League Rookie of the Year

Roberto Clemente wins his 12th straight Gold Glove

Roberto Clemente wins his 12th straight Gold Glove

1974 – Mike Hargrove of the Texas Rangers takes American League Rookie of the Year honors.

1977 – Outfielder Jesus Alou is signed as a free agent. It is his second stint as an Astro. Out of the majors the past two years, the 36-year-old Dominican bats .308 over the next two seasons, primarily in pinch-hit duties. 

1980 – Gene Michael becomes the 25th manager in New York Yankees history, replacing a resigning Dick Howser. Under Michael, the Yankees will finish first in the first half of the strike-shortened 1981, season, but Michael will already be gone by the time the postseason rolls around.

Milwaukee Brewers release future Hall of Famer Rollie Fingers

Brewer hurler Rollie Fingers becomes the first relief pitcher ever to win the American League MVP Award

1985 - Chicago White Sox shortstop Ozzie Guillen, who hit .273 with just 12 errors in 150 games, is named American League Rookie of the Year. Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Teddy Higuera, who posted a 15-8 record and a 3.90 ERA, finishes second in the voting.

1985 – Chicago White Sox shortstop Ozzie Guillen, who hit .273 with just 12 errors in 150 games, is named American League Rookie of the Year. Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Teddy Higuera, who posted a 15-8 record and a 3.90 ERA, finishes second in the voting.

Oakland Athletics outfielder Jose Canseco wins the American League Rookie of the Year Award

1991 – The Montreal Expos trade first baseman Andres Galarraga to the St. Louis Cardinals for starting pitcher Ken Hill. Galarraga will struggle for St. Louis before enjoying a career renaissance with the Colorado Rockies in Rockies, while Hill will emerge as one of the the league’s best starting pitchers with his new team.

1993 – The last surviving member of the St. Louis Cardinals’ “Gashouse Gang” passes away. 83-year old Burgess Whitehead dies from a heart attack in Windsor, North Carolina. Whitehead served the Cardinals as a backup in 1934, when they won the World Series.

The Anaheim Angels sign free agent first baseman Mo Vaughn to a six-year contract, a year longer than the Boston Red Sox were willing to give Vaughn.

The Anaheim Angels sign free agent first baseman Mo Vaughn to a six-year contract, a year longer than the Boston Red Sox were willing to give Vaughn.

Detroit sends 1B Randall Simon to Pittsburgh in exchange for Adrian Burnside and a player to be named later.

The Boston Red Sox hire 28-year-old Theo Epstein as their new general manager

The Boston Red Sox hire 28-year-old Theo Epstein as their new general manager

2003 – The Chicago Cubs trade first baseman Hee Seop Choi (who hit .210 with 10 home runs and 32 RBI) and Mike Nannini to the World Champion Florida Marlins in exchange for Gold Glove first baseman Derrek Lee (.271, 31, 92).

Nintendo now owns more than 50 percent of the Seattle Mariners

The cost-cutting Florida Marlins finalize their big trade with the New York Mets, sending slugger Carlos Delgado to New York for first baseman Mike Jacobs and prospects pitcher Yusmeiro Petit and infielder Grant Psomas. The Mets will also receive $7 million from the Marlins to help cover the $48 million Delgado is owed over the next three seasons.

The Philadelphia Phillies and the Chicago White Sox complete their deal that sends slugger Jim Thome and cash to Chicago for center fielder Aaron Rowand. Philadelphia also gets two minor leaguers.

Chase Utley is expected to need four to six months to recover from arthroscopic hip surgery performed today at New York’s Hospital for Special Surgery. Despite battling the injury for much of the year, the All-Star Phillies second baseman, played a pivotal role in the team’s World Championship this season.

The Athletics acquire P Fernando Abad from Washington in return for minor league OF John Wooten, while the Pirates send OF Alex Dickerson to San Diego and receive OF Jaff Decker and P Miles Mikolas in a trade of prospects,

2014 – The Red Sox sign 3B Pablo Sandoval, a three-time World Champion with the San Francisco Giants, to a five-year free agent contract. They also confirm the signing of another free agent, SS Hanley Ramirez, pending a physical exam.

 

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