1952 — Hoyt Wilhelm of the Giants hit a home run at the Polo Grounds in his first major league at-bat. He was the winner, too, and pitched 1,070 games in the majors — but never hit another homer.

1945 — Albert B. “Happy” Chandler, junior Senator from Kentucky, is elected baseball commissioner by a unanimous vote of the major league club owners. Chandler is elected to a seven-year term and ...

NYC Parks presented the fourth annual Jackie Robinson Day Festival at the Jackie Robinson Recreation Center in Harlem on Saturday, April 12.

New York Giants first baseman Bill Terry ties a National League record with 21 putouts as the Giants beat the Boston Braves, ...

Pittsburgh Pirates right fielder Roberto Clemente made his major league debut in Game 1 of a doubleheader. The anniversary ...

It’s not quite a large enough sample to be significant, and too inherently insignificant to really be worth the sampling, but ...