From the Why Can't Youth Baseball Leagues Get Volunteers Dept. Parents...the part of youth baseball that can ruin it. It was reported on 7/21/97 that a dad who sued a youth bb league because his son was cut and sent to a "minor league team", withdrew his lawsuit #BaseballandtheLaw

Rose Sentenced to Prison In an "Extra" front page the Cincinnati Enquirer on 7/20/95 reported Pete Rose was sentenced to prison on two counts of filing false federal income tax returns after Rose admitted to hiding income he received from baseball memorabilia shows #BaseballandtheLaw 739

Payback failed... After denying Oakland A's owner Charles Finley his request to trade various A's, Finely attempted to defeat Bowie Kuhn in Kuhn's re-election to continue as Commissioner of Baseball. See the Newsday story of July 18, 1975 below: #AttorneysintheBaseballHallofFame 173, 183 n 99

Ballpark fire 🔥 No injuries Stands destroyed It took only 1 hour for a pre-dawn fire to completely destroy the grandstands at Riverside Park in Rochester, N.Y., on July 16, 1897, the home of the Eastern League Rochester Blackbirds. #BaseballandtheLaw 564-68

Early predawn walk in South Florida Vapor trail of SpaceX Another reason to get up before the sun and exercise

Young and middle aged men to play base ball, 7/14/1886, Star Enterprise (Newville, PA) "...time given to such pursuits would lift the cloud from the brow & the self-imposed burden from the heart & the streams of existence would be purer, stronger & happier" #BaseballandtheLaw 5-10

"Kenesaw M. Landis is to be Married. His Bride to be Miss Winifred Reed of Ottawa, Ill." Chi. Trib., July 13, 1895, at p 4 explaining he turned down being Minister to Venezuela because the had "important business" in Chicago. #AttorneysintheBaseballHallofFame p 6, p 9 n 35

Three things happened last night loanDepot Park that doesn’t usually happen at a Marlins game: 1-A line to get into the ballpark 2-A cheering crowd of young adult fans 3-A #FightinFish  loss #BaseballandtheLaw #AttorneysintheBaseballHallofFame

🎶Disco Sucks🎶 7/12/79, Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park ended in a riot as drunk fans stormed the field after watching exploding disco records between games of a doubleheader causing the #WhiteSox   to forfeit the night cap #BaseballandtheLaw 559

New York Mets are Ousted From Baseball... New York Tribune reported on 7/11/1896 the Atlantic League unanimously voted to remove the New York Metropolitans ("Mets") from the league and replace them with the Philadelphia Athletics. #AttorneysintheBaseballHallofFame p 91, 102 n 60

After being ejected for disputing a called 3rd K on 7/10/1911, Sherry Magee attacked home plate umpire Bill Finneran. The National League suspended the #RingTheBell  star outfielder for the rest of the season, but he missed only 36 games due to an appeal #BaseballandtheLaw 245-46

Who had this on their BINGO card in April? #FightinFish

This Bud's For You... After serving 6 years as acting #MLB Commissioner, on 7/9/1998 owners elected Bud Selig as baseball's 9th commissioner. He served as commissioner until 2015. During his tenure BB implemented interleague play. #BaseballandtheLaw, 100 plus mentions in book

Another home victory for the Fish and if you’re scoring at home, the roosters were once again outside loanDepot Park before the first pitch

In case you weren’t scoring at home… Marsee, a 369 foot single Fish walk it off!

“If you’ve never been to a Marlins game, here’s your introduction: A real live rooster on a police car outside loanDepot park before first pitch. Then the Marlins beat the Mariners in extra innings. Coincidence? The Rally Rooster says otherwise. The hottest team in MLB 🐓⚾ #Marlins”

"A Paige Out of History" 7/7/1948, on the purported 42nd birthday of #NegroLeagues legend and future Baseball Hall of Fame member Satchel Paige, was signed by Indians owner Bill Veeck to pitch for them 2 days later Paige became the oldest rookie in #MLB history #BaseballandtheLaw 618

"John Rocker Awareness Night" (really)🤣 #GoHalos  rookie-league Butte (Montana) Copper Kings held a Rocker Awareness Night promo on 7/6/2000 and gave free admission to anyone belonging to a group insulted by the Braves reliever in his SI interview #BaseballandtheLaw 155-67

Birth of the Marlins and Rockies MLB owners gave unanimous approval on 7/5/91 for the 2 teams to join the NL in 1993. The Marlins won the #WorldSeries in both their '97 & '03 appearances, while the Rockies lost in their only appearance in '07. #BaseballandtheLaw 221-22

This lawsuit was real, it was no fantasy... On 7/3/1993 USA Stats, Inc. of Baltimore sued a software developer over what they claimed was a faulty computer system that caused USA Stats to miss the entire 1992 fantasy baseball season. #BaseballandtheLaw, Fantasy sports 923–33

Mystery on the Train🚂 Ed Delahanty, star player for the Washington Nationals, is said to have been so drunk & disorderly that a conductor put him off the train Did Delahanty intentionally jump off the tracks to his death in the Niagara River on 7/2/1903? #BaseballandtheLaw 784

June was fun More to come Go Fish!

Bo Knows Baseball... #Heisman Trophy winner & Auburn Football sensation Bo Jackson, played his 1st professional baseball game on 6/30/86 for the Memphis Chicks (KC Royals ) of the Southern League. Bo hit a single in his 1st at bat #BaseballandtheLaw 271 Baseball v Football

On 6/29/1911 Leland Stanford “Larry” MacPhail, Sr. (GW Law) became a member of the Michigan Bar. Some sources have claimed he was also was a member of the Washington, D.C., bar, but no evidence supporting this assertion has been found. Read: #AttorneysintheBaseballHallofFame p129, p139

The Hollywood Pirates? On June 28, 1946, Pittsburgh Pirates President William Benswanger announced that his team was not moving out of the city to go to Hollywood, California saying, "such a plan would not be fair to the fans of Pittsburg." #BaseballandtheLaw 330-3

June 1950 Bowie Kuhn graduated from University of Virginia Law School He was admitted to the New York bar on June 27, 1951 His first job was for the Wall Street law firm of Willkie Farr at a starting annual salary of $4,000 (equivalent today of $51,000) #AttorneysintheBaseballHallofFame 166, 177

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Hitting a sour note🎶 🎼🎼 Umpire without a sense of humor. Did you hear about the discord a MiLB organist caused when he didn't like an umpire's call? On 6/26/85🎹Organist Wilbur Snapp was ejected from a game by umpire Keith O'Connor for playing "Three Blind Mice." 🐁🐁🐁 #BaseballandtheLaw 511