Minor Leagues – Page 8 – Society for American Baseball Research

Comedian Bill Murray and baseball executive Van Schley hold up a trophy (Courtesy of the Aberdeen Daily World)

July 26, 1978: Comedian Bill Murray smacks pinch-hit single in Northwest League game

John Stefero (Trading Card DB)

August 25, 1980: Minor league game goes on despite murders at Miami ballpark

Rick Behenna (Trading Card DB)

August 29, 1980: No-hitter caps nightmarish season for Rocky Mount Pines

September 5, 1980: Holyoke raises its first and only Eastern League championship title

Mike Boddicker (Trading Card DB)

April 10, 1981: Pawtucket, Rochester warm up for longest game with extra innings on Opening Day

April 19, 1981: Walk-off homer spares PawSox, Rochester another extra-inning battle

July 3, 1981: During major leaguers’ strike, Class A teams play at the Big A in Anaheim

Dick Berardino (Trading Card DB)

August 3, 1981: Yankees, Red Sox minor-league affiliates meet in unique Hall of Fame Game

July 1, 1982: Big bopper, fleet feet carry Rochester over Syracuse

August 31, 1982: Holyoke’s minor-league dream ends with a win

Bill Fulton (TRADING CARD DB)

July 25, 1983: New York-Penn pitchers flirt with double no-hitter

September 2, 1983: Roger Kahn’s ragtag Utica Blue Sox nab New York-Penn flag by a half-game

Roger Clemens (TRADING CARD DB)

September 10, 1983: Lynn Pirates depart, Roger Clemens arrives in Eastern League championship

Steve Lyons (TRADING CARD DB)

July 8, 1984: Pawtucket Red Sox take opener of doubleheader against Rochester

Paul Gnacinski (Trading Card DB)

July 8, 1984: Pawtucket Red Sox sweep of Red Wings lands club in first-place tie

John Hoover (THE TOPPS COMPANY)

September 3, 1984: Olympian John Hoover has a golden day in season finale for Rochester

September 13, 1984: Maine Guides’ Cinderella story ends one game short of International League title

Brutus Beefcake (Trading Card DB)

August 1, 1985: Pro wrestling promotion muscles in on minor-league game in Newark

Larry Walker (TRADING CARD DB)

August 12, 1985: Larry Walker launches Hall of Fame career with a productive night in Utica

Troy Evers (TRADING CARD DB)

September 3, 1985: Yankees farmhand Troy Evers pitches playoff no-hitter in New York-Penn League

April 17, 1986: Not yet a LOOGY, Tony Fossas serves up a shutout for Edmonton

FrancoJulio

April 28, 1986: At Triple-A exhibition, Indians’ win is the Maine event

Stan Wasiak (TRADING CARD DB)

August 28, 1986: Stan Wasiak, King of the Minors, reaches end of the road

Ken Griffey Jr. with the Bellingham Mariners (Trading Card Database)

June 17, 1987: Mariners prospect Ken Griffey Jr. hits his first professional home run in Everett