This Day in Baseball History
1986 - MLB hands down harshest punishment since the Black Sox scandal
Former commissioner of Major League Baseball Peter Ueberroth suspends 11 players for drug-related offences.
Seven of the the 11 players penalized received year-long suspensions but were allowed to play if they agreed to donate 10% of their annual salaries to drug-related community service, random drug testing and 100 hours of community service.
Keith Hernandez, Joaquin Andújar, Dale Berra, Enos Cabell, Jeffrey Leonard, Dave Parker, and Lonnie Smith were the seven players that received year-long suspensions and agreed to follow the commissioner's conditions.
The suspensions originated from the Pittsburgh drug trials of 1985, at the height of the MLB's drug scandal, and resulted in the league's harshest penalties since the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.
2002 - Five umpires rehired by MLB after failed attempt to leverage union benefits
Gary Darling, Bill Hohn, Larry Poncino, Larry Vanover and Joe West were rehired by Major League Baseball after a failed attempt to leverage enhanced benefits for union umpires when they were advised to resign on Sept. 2 1999.
Richie Phillips, general counsel and executive director of the 52-member Major League Umpires Association (MLUA), recommended the umpires take drastic action, but the decision backfired when MLB accepted their resignation and went on to hire replacement umpires from the minor leagues as a solution to the mass exit.
After the maneuver failed, the umpires voted to decertify the union and created the World Umpires Association as a replacement to the MLUA.
Birthdays
1897 - Jud Wilson
1983 - Jeff Niemann
1988 - Aroldis Chapman