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In the interest of speed and timeliness, this story is fed directly from the Associated Press newswire and may contain spelling or grammatical errors.
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This Date In Baseball
Tuesday April 01, 2003
1952 Hall of Fame outfielder Monte Irvin of the New York
Giants broke his ankle in an exhibition game. Irvin played just 46
games in the season.
1984 The New York Mets lost to the Cincinnati Reds 8-1 for
their first opening-day defeat in 10 years.
1996 St. Francis of Illinois routed Robert Morris 71-1 in a
Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference game. Robert Morris
coach Gerald McNamara ended the game after four innings.
1997 For the first time, the salary of one player Albert
Belle exceeded the payroll of an entire team the Pittsburgh
Pirates. Belle, the game's highest-paid player for 1997 at $10
million, made $928,333 more than the whole Pirates' payroll, which
totaled $9,071,667.
2001 Roger Clemens became the AL strikeout king, getting five
to pass Walter Johnson as the Yankees beat Kansas City 7-3 in their
opener. Clemens fanned Joe Randa for his 3,509th career strikeout.
Today's birthdays: Don Sutton, 53; Curt Leskanic, 35; Denny
Hocking, 33; Jon Lieber, 33.<
(Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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