This Day in Baseball History - January 29

[Gehrig]

"You gotta be a man to pay baseball for a living, but you got to have a lot of little boy in you." -ROY CAMPANELLA, Dodger catcher (1948-57)

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1957 Due to the start of coast to coast travel, major league baseball considers a plan creating a player pool to be used in the event of a plane crash.

1958 Dodger catcher Roy Campanella is paralyzed in an early morning auto accident on Long Island.


1958 Stan Musial breaks a NL mark signing with the Cardinals for six figures ($100,000).


1960 The family feud continues in Chicago as a court rules in favor of Charles Comiskey's sister, Dorothy Rigney, allowing her sell her White Sox shares to Bill Veeck. Comiskey had brought suit in order to gain control of the club.


1961 Bill Hamilton and Max Carey are voted into the Hall of Fame by the veterans committee.


1988 Tiger Kirk Gibson signs a three-year deal with the Dodgers. He is the only one of the seven no-risk free agents to go to a new team.


1989 After nine years of use, the game-winning RBI stat is dropped. Mets Keith Hernandez will remain the all-time leader with a 129 GW RBIs.


1999 Citing shoulder injuries, five-time all-star Jimmy Key retires from baseball. The 37-year old lefty appeared in the playoffs with all the teams he played which included the Blue Jays, Yankees and Orioles.