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Roberto Clemente, Roy Campanella and Pop Lloyd join this year’s inductees in the Black Athletes’ Hall of Fame

Roberto Clemente, Roy Campanella and Pop Lloyd join this year’s inductees in the Black Athletes’ Hall of Fame

An inter-league exhibition All-Star Game is played in Florida for the benefit of Finland

1894 – A U.S. Immigration Inspector in Buffalo, NY asks the Treasury Department if baseball is a “recognized profession” in order to determine if Buffalo has violated the alien contract labor law by signing two Canadian players. Before the inspector gets a reply, Buffalo decides to play only American residents.

The Sporting News, the weekly that will become “The Baseball Paper of the World,” publishes its first issue.

Via a transatlantic telegraph from Paris, France, American Association 40-game winner Bob Caruthers agrees to terms with St. Louis Browns owner Chris von der Ahe. Caruthers’ well-publicized holdout will earn him the nickname “Parisian Bob.”

Via a transatlantic telegraph from Paris, France, American Association 40-game winner Bob Caruthers agrees to terms with St. Louis Browns owner Chris von der Ahe. Caruthers’ well-publicized holdout will earn him the nickname “Parisian Bob.”

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