Braves franchise history

1983: Atlanta Braves outfielder Dale Murphy, who hit .302 with 36 home runs, 121 RBI and 30 stolen bases in the National League, joins Ernie Banks, Joe Morgan and Mike Schmidt as one of the players who has won the MVP Award in consecutive years. Murphy receives 21 of the 24 first-place votes cast.

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MLB History

1950: Commissioner Happy Chandler and players’ representatives agree on the split of the television and radio rights from the World Series.

1961: With only one Cy Young Award given for the two leagues, Whitey Ford, the American League leader in wins (25) and innings pitched (283), wins the honor ahead of Warren Spahn, who led the National League in wins (21) and ERA (3.02). In one of the closest votes in Award history, future Hall of Famers Ford and Spahn total nine and six points respectively.

1966: Triple Crown winner Frank Robinson of the Baltimore Orioles is the unanimous choice as American League MVP. He becomes the first major league player to win the award in both leagues.

2004: Jason Bay, who hit .282 with 26 home runs and 82 RBI, becomes the first Pittsburgh Pirates player, as well as the first Canadian, to win the National League Rookie of the Year Award.

2018: In the first trade of the off-season, the Rays send OFs Mallex Smith and Jake Fraley to the Mariners in return for C Mike Zunino and OF Guillermo Heredia. Smith had previously been part of the M’s, but for only 77 minutes, before being traded to the Rays in 2017.

2023: The Angels hire Ron Washington, who twice led the Texas Rangers to the World Series in the 2010s, as their new manager, replacing Phil Nevin.

Information for this article was found via Baseball Reference, NationalPastime.com and Today in Baseball History.