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» Giants baseball catcher Roger Bresnahan introduced shin guards in 1907.
» Hank Aaron's first major league home run was hit off Vic Raschi of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1954.
» In 1882, Richard Higham of Troy, New York, former manager and National League baseball player, was banished from the league for advising gamblers how to bet on baseball games he umpired, thus earning the infamous distinction of being the only umpire ever judged guilty of dishonesty on the field.
» In 1897, the Washington Senators became the first baseball team ever to introduce "Ladies' Day."
» In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry said: "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." Only a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, Perry hit the first and only home run of his career.
» In 1965, the minimum annual salary for a baseball player was $6,000, just a thousand dollars more than it had been in 1947.
» In 1977, Mike Schmidt earned the first $500,000 salary in baseball.
» In 1994, the National League and American League Baseball M.V.P.s were Jeff Bagwell and Frank Thomas, respectively. Jeff and Frank were both born on the exact same day: May 27, 1968.
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