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A big Happy ’80s Birthday to The Hawk!,
1977 Rookie of the Year, 1987 MVP, 8-time All-Star, 8 Gold-Gloves, 4 Silver Sluggers, and a Hall of Famer.
Not a bad body of work.
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Happy ’80s Birthday to Hal McRae, who could flat hit.
From 1974 through 1984, McRae hit an even .300 with 138 homers, 846 homers, and 12,368 double plays broken up.
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Happy 80s Birthday to former Braves prospect Urban Meyer.
He hit .182 in two seasons in the Atlanta system
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Happy ’80s Birthday to Vance McHenry, who appeared in 18 games for the Mariners in 1981 and 1982.
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Happy ’80s Birthday to Bob Bailor, who spent eleven years in the bigs with the Blue Jays, Mets, Dodgers, and Orioles.
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7/10/85
The Astros trade Enos Cabell to the Dodgers for a PTBNL and Rafael Montalvo. Los Angeles sends German Rivera to Houston to complete the trade.
Cabell finishes his career with the Dodgers.
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7/10/80
The Pirates sign Rafael Belliard as an amateur free agent.
He makes his debut in 1982, plays nine seasons in Pittsburgh, and signs with the Braves where he wins a World Series in 1995.
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7/10/83
The Braves sign Paul Assenmacher as an amateur free agent.
He makes his debut in 1986 and pitches in the bigs for 14 years. Not too shabby for a dude who wasn’t drafted.
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7/10/84
The Mets sign Heathcliff Slocumb as an amateur free agent.
He spends 10 years in the bogs and earns 90 saves from 1995 through 1997.
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7/10/86
The A’s sign Ozzie Canseco as a free agent.
He makes his big league debut in 1990 and plays in 24 games for Oakland and St. Louis over the next four seasons.
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7/10/86
The A’s sign Mike Bordick as an amateur free agent out of the University of Maine.
Bordick spends fourteen seasons in the big leagues, makes an All-STar team, and appears in the postseason four times.
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7/10/87
The Dodgers sign Tito Landrum as a free agent.
He plays in 51 games for L.A., then returns to Baltimore for his final season in 1988.
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7/10/87
Lance Johnson goes 0 for 2 against the Giants in his big league debut.
He’s traded to the White Sox the following year and steals 290 bases over the next nine seasons.
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Big Days
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7/10/80
The Yankees score 10 runs in the first inning against the Rangers in Arlington.
Graig Nettles’ 2-run homer off reliever Sparky Lyle caps the scoring in the inning, The Yankees would win 13-5
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7/10/80
George Brett returns to the Royals lineup after missing a month with torn ligaments in his ankle and goes 2-4 against the Tigers.
He’d hit .421 for the rest of the season, which is pretty good.
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7/10/82
Larry Parrish hits his third Grand Slam in six days.
From July 4th through the 10th, Parrish homers four times and drives in 17 runs.
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7/10/84
Nineteen-year-old Dwight Gooden strikes out the side in the top of the 5th and throws two scoreless innings as the National League wins the All-Star Game 3-1 at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
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7/10/85
Jose Cruz goes 3-3 with 3 RBI as the Astros hammer the Phillies 10-0.
Jose could hit.
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7/10/85
Moseby, Bell & Barfield all homer in an 11-1 Blue Jays win over the Mariners.
That was quite an outfield.
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7/10/86
Oil Can Boyd (11-6 at the time) storms out of the Red Sox clubhouse after being told he has not made the All-Star Team. Boyd is so upset he ends up in an altercation with Boston police.
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7/10/87
Eddie Murray and Fred Lynn go a combined 6-8 with 9 RBI as the Orioles outlast the Twins 13-12.
Injuries
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7/10/82
Kirk Gibson goes on the DL with a wrist injury that costs him the remainder of the 1982 season.
The injury is a recurrence of a 1980 injury that limited him to 51 games.
Deaths
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We lost Dick Tidrow OTD in 2021.
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