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Upon his return to the United States, he worked as a broadcast announcer for his hometown Oakland Athletics, as a Little League Baseball coach, and as commissioner of a senior baseball league. [217] While working for the Athletics, he ran into Kuhn at a 1980 pregame party at Yankee Stadium. During an amicable conversation, Kuhn told Flood that ...
Tom Fitzgerald, 53, American soccer coach (University of Tampa), motorcycle accident. [23] Elena Souliotis, 61, Greek operatic soprano, heart failure. [24] Svend Wad, 76, Danish boxer and Olympic medalist. [25] Ron Williamson, 51, American minor league baseball player and murder convict, liver cirrhosis.
The hockey program was elevated to varsity status for the 1974–75 season under Dr. John McCarthy and posted an 18–8–1 mark that year. The Stags were a founding member of the MAAC Hockey League in 1998, and the team's best record in the MAAC came in 2000–2001 with a 10–14–2 mark.
Bill Plummer, 76, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds) and coach (Seattle Mariners, Colorado Rockies), World Series champion (1975, 1976), complications from a heart attack. [ 344 ] Gani Qaliev , 85, Kazakh economist and politician, member of the Mäjilis (1999–2004).
A ban from Major League Baseball is a form of punishment levied by the Office of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball (MLB) against a player, manager, executive, or other person connected with the league as a denunciation of some action that person committed deemed to have violated the integrity of the game and/or otherwise tarnished its image.
January 5 – The Continental League—the proposed third major league in North American professional baseball—gets an assurance of Congressional support from New York Senator Kenneth Keating. January 11 – Centerfielder Richie Ashburn , the "heart and soul" of the Philadelphia Phillies for a dozen seasons, is traded to the Chicago Cubs for ...
March 23 – Fred T. Long, 70, outfielder who played for Detroit (1920–1921, 1926) and Indianapolis (1925) of the Negro National League, then became a longtime and legendary head football coach at four historically black colleges in Texas and member of multiple college football and coaches halls of fame.
In 2008, Minor League Baseball began presenting the annual Mike Coolbaugh Award to someone who has "shown an outstanding baseball work ethic, knowledge of the game, and skill in mentoring young players on the field". [16] On July 29, 2023, the Tulsa Drillers retired Coolbaugh’s number 29 in a pregame ceremony at ONEOK Field in downtown Tulsa.