Babe Ruth's first professional career home run with the Providence Grays at Hanlan's Point in Toronto, Canada on September 5, 1914 which landed in Lake Ontario
On this day in Michigan’s history: John W. Patterson was born in Omaha, Nebraska on March 2, 1872. Though he wasn’t born in Michigan, John would soon move to Michigan and become an influential part of Battle Creek’s history; and even potentially protect the future social culture of Michigan with a single letter.
One thing you have to hand it to minor league teams is they promote really well, and they rarely miss an opportunity. That happened Monday morning as news was barely getting out that Kalamazoo's Derek Jeter was leaving the Miami Marlins organization.
After an earth-shaking announcement last week from the Battle Creek Baseball Team, formerly the Battle Creek Bombers, about seven names chosen for voting on a new team name, adjustments have now been made. Now four nicknames, including two from the original contest, will be voted on for the new team name.
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If you're a hardcore baseball fan a trip to the Detroit Tigers website in December may not be that unusual, unless you visited today and noticed all the players had strangely disappeared.