ON THIS DAY IN BASEBALL

[joey12508]

5/26/93

 

[joey12508]

05/27/1993 After hitting just .143 in 26 games for the Rockies, former Brave superstar Dale Murphy retires from baseball. The two-time National League MVP leaves the game with a career average of .265, 398 home runs and 1,266 RBIs.

 

[Letch77]

6/21/1986 - Bo Jackson, college football's Heisman Trophy winner in 1985 and the first pick (by Tampa Bay) in the NFL draft, stuns observers nationwide by signing with the Kansas City Royals instead

 

[joey12508]

8/2 Thurmann Munson died when a plane he was flying, clipped a tree and crashed short of the runway

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[Dazed]

8/2 Thurmann Munson died when a plane he was flying, clipped a tree and crashed short of the runway

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So sad. My favorite Yankee at the time.

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[Dazed]

8/2/1973 - George Brett makes his Major League debut against the Chicago White Sox. He gets the first of his 3154 career hits.

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