1908 - Chicago White Sox are the first major league franchise to make use of the auto-mobile.  Manager Fielder Jones employed the Knox Auto-mobile as a bullpen cart, bringing to the mound closer Moxie Manuel to the raucous sounds of "Cuddle Up A Little Closer, Lovey Mine".  This drove the crowd stir-crazy and the act soon had to be discontinued.

The tradition would later be revived by reliever Rich Garces, but that was really just because he couldn't make it to the mound without assistance.

1943 - Reds trade Derringer to Cubs for cash.  Cash would later go on to write several #1 hits and star in the biopic Walk The Line.

1982 - Cubs trade Ivan DeJesus to the Phillies for Larry Bowa and Ryne Sandberg.  Given DeJesus's .194 batting average and 44 OPS+ in 1981, it's not surprising the Phillies were willing to give up a future HOFer to get him.  I just don't think they should have given up Bowa as well.

2005 - Lance Berkmann, having injured himself playing "flag football" in the offseason, earns a raise to $10.5 million*.

(* An insiders look: see how I put the quotes there?  Those are the "allegedly" quotes (those quotes weren't.  I'm not sure what those quotes are called) and signify that I suspect that he injured himself doing something more incriminating.  If he had said "slipped on fluids while heading downstairs to a strip club basement", I could have believed that.  Or, had he said "washing Jeff Kent's car", that'd also be believable.  But "flag football"? Suspect.  But I can't say that without risking being libelous, so I throw the quotes in there to signify my doubts.  GENIUS!)

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