Ponaganset quickly took it back. Ben McFee and Cooper St. Onge were hit by pitches to open the bottom half, moved up on a wild pitch before pinch-hitter Liam Nichols, a freshman, hit a ball that found ...

1945 — Albert B. “Happy” Chandler, junior Senator from Kentucky, is elected baseball commissioner by a unanimous vote of the major league club owners. Chandler is elected to a seven-year term and ...