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⚾ Graig Nettles - the Yankees trade a captain March 27
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March 29, 1984, the New York Yankees trade one of the key members of their recent World Championship teams when they dispatch Graig Nettles to the San Diego Padres for pitcher Dennis Rasmussen and a player to be named. Nettles, who had angered Yankee owner George Steinbrenner by criticizing him in his book, will hit 20 home runs and help the Padres reach the 1984 World Series. He was One of the finest defensive third baseman to ever play the position, Nettles was part of four pennant-winning Yankee teams. In 1976 he led the American League in home runs and he was a good offensive player despite his low .248 career batting average. On September 14, 1974 he and brother Jim became just the fourth set of brothers to homer in the same game.
Best Season: 1977Career highs in homers (37) and RBI (107). Nettles hit .255 with a career high .496 slugging percentage. He also scored 99 runs and won his first Gold Glove.
FactoidsWhen he was named captain of the Yankees in 1980, Graig Nettles followed Lou Gehrig and Thurman Munson in that role.
Nettles was given the nickname of Puff by his teammates. "Puff" referred to the way Graig disappeared after playing a practical joke or starting trouble.
Notable Achievements
6-time All-Star (1975, 1977-1980 & 1985)
1981 ALCS MVP
2-time AL Gold Glove Winner (1977 & 1978)
AL Home Runs Leader (1976)
20-Home Run Seasons: 11 (1970, 1971, 1973-1979, 1983 & 1984)
30-Home Run Seasons: 2 (1976 & 1977)
100 RBI Seasons: 1 (1977)
Won two World Series with the New York Yankees (1977 & 1978)
Game of the DayOctober 11, 1965 Minnesota Twins vs Los Angeles Dodgers
Perry pitches in!
Did you know?
March 27, 1938 --White Sox shortstop Luke Appling, sliding into second base in an exhibition game against the Cubs, fractures his right leg in two places and will miss almost half the season. He will return on July 8th.
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Trivia:
In 1969 Nettles showed promise at third but was bloked by a future hall of famer, who was he?
Hint: The answer is below
TODAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY
March 27, 1879 —– Miller Huggins is born in Cincinnati, Ohio. A second baseman adept at getting on base, Huggins will lead the National League in walks four times, score 100 or more runs three times, and regularly collect 30 or more stolen bases and an on-base percentage near .400. He will start as a player-manager with the St. Louis Cardinals before heading to the New York Yankees in 1918. Huggins will lead the Yankees to six American League pennants and three World Series titles, and his “Murderers’ Row” club, which will win 110 games before sweeping the 1927 World Series, will be considered one of the greatest teams in history. Huggins will be selected to the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1964.
March 27, 1917 --- The Boston Red Sox beat the Brooklyn Robins, 11 - 2, in Hot Springs, Arkansas. For tomorrow's exhibition game in Memphis, Tennessee, players on both teams will sport numbers on their sleeves, the idea of Robins' owner Charles Ebbets. His reasoning is that fans in non-major league cities would be unfamiliar with the players.
March 27, 1953 – Lew Burdette smacked a ninth-inning home run off Ralph Branca to give the Braves a 3-2 exhibition victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers. “Now I’m as famous as Bobby Thomson,” a jubilant Burdette yelled in the clubhouse after the game.
March 27, 1961 -- In a spring training game, Cardinals pitcher Larry Jackson suffers a broken jaw when hit by a fragment of Dodgers Duke Snider's broken bat. Jackson will be sidelined for four weeks.
March 27, 1973, veteran pitcher Jim Perry of the Minnesota Twins becomes the first player to approve of being traded under the new “ten and five” rule. The Twins send Perry to the Detroit Tigers for pitcher Dan Fife and cash. Perry, a 24-game winner in 1970, will win 14 games for the Tigers in 1973.
March 27, 1984 -- The Houston Astros release J.R. Richard, ending his major league career. The hard-throwing Richard had been the Astros' top pitcher before suffering a stroke during the 1980 season, from which he never came back.
March 27, 1989 - Sports Illustrated publishes a story about Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose's gambling activities. Rose will eventually agree to a lifetime ban from Major League Baseball as part of an agreement with Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
Quote of the day:
"When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and join the circus. With the Yankees I have accomplished both." – Graig Nettles
MILESTONES
Birthday Boys
Bill Sudakis, Bill Summers, Dick Ruthven, Johnny Gill, Lynn McGlothen, Miller Huggins, Walter Stephenson and Wes Covington
Debuts
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Passings
Billy Consolo and Chet Nichols
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Trivia Answer:
The 1969 team was managed by Billy Martin. Although Nettles showed promise at third base, he could not dislodge the Twins third baseman Harmon Killebrew, who hit 49 home runs that year. Traded to the Cleveland Indians that winter in a major deal involving Dean Chance, Luis Tiant, and Stan Williams, he got a chance to play regularly from then on, and was rarely out of the lineup during the 1970s.
