Happy ’80s Birthday to Danny Heep, who spent 13 years in the big leagues and won rings with the ’86 Mets and the ’88 Dodgers.
Happy ’80s Birthday to Frank Tanana, who struck out nearly 3,000 batters in his career.
Happy ’80s Birthday to Greg Vaughn, who slugged 355 homers over 15 seasons for the Brewers, Padres, Reds, Rays, and Rockies
Happy ’80s Birthday to John Verhoeven, whose card was in every single pack of Topps I bought in 1977.
Matt Keough was born OTD in 1955.
He won 16 games and threw 20 CGs in 1980 for the A’s. He passed away in 2020.
Happy ’80s Birthday to Jack Daugherty, who spent six years in the big leagues with four teams.
7/3/82
The Indians trade Larry Littleton to the Twins for Larry Milbourne.
Milbourne hits .275 with the Tribe and moves on to Philadelphia in 1983.
7/3/81
The Mets sign their 13th round draft pick and send him to the Sally League.
7/3/84
The A’s sign Mike Torrez as a free agent.
He appears in two games at the big league level, plays 1985 in the minor leagues and he’s done.
7/3/89
The Expos sign Antonio Alfonseca as an amateur free agent.
Rumor has it he’d twice as good as Mordecai Three FInger Brown.
7/3/80
Ken Landreaux becomes the first big leaguer in seven years to hit three triples in a game when he turns the trick against Texas.
Doug Flynn matches the feat just a month later.
7/3/83
Rickey goes 3 for 7 with 4 stolen bases against the Rangers.
The four swipes give him 49 for the season. He’d finish the year with 108, the last 100 SB season of his career.
7/3/83
The A’s and Rangers are tied at four through 14 innings when Texas scores 12 in the top of the 15th inning.
The Rangers send 16 men to the plate in the inning. Buddy Bell and Bob Jones each record two hits and the Rangers win 16-4.
7/3/84
Led by Julio Franco, who goes 4-6, eight different Indians hitters have at least two hits in a 15-4 win over the Royals.
7/3/88
Oakland’s Gene Nelson steals a base while pinch running for Don Baylor and becomes the first A.L. pitcher to steal a base since Blue Moon Odom in 1973.
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