1942 - Roosevelt writes his famous "Green Light Letter" saying that it's okay - nay, preferred - to play baseball in wartime.  Despite this, they still let girls play baseball.  GIRLS?!?!?  PLAYING BASEBALL???!!!??  I say LOL to that.  Yep.  Out loud.

1958 - Yankees sign first ever TV deal for a whopping One Million Dollars.  Or, to put it in current terms, one ARod kneecap.

1969 - Delino DeShields is born.  Deshields was famous for coining the Expos motto "De faster de hitter de better de player".

1990 - Cecil Fielder comes over from Japan to use the mysterious powers he found in the East.  This would usher in a new era of fat people hitting homers.

Thanks to www.nationalpastime.com for all non-made-up info.