* 1952 – Doug Melvin, Canadian baseball player and executive

* Benjamin Franklin Shibe, baseball executive and namesake of the longtime Philadelphia baseball stadium

The Colorado Baseball Commission, led by banking executive Larry Varnell, was successful in getting Denver voters to approve a 0. 1 percent sales tax to help finance a new baseball stadium.

* 1911 – Calvin Griffith, Canadian-born baseball executive ( d. 1999 )

* 1862 – Connie Mack, American baseball executive ( d. 1956 )

* 1881 – Branch Rickey, baseball executive ( d. 1965 )

* 1914 – Bill Veeck, American baseball executive ( d. 1986 )

* 2012 – Hal Keller, American baseball player and executive ( b. 1928 )

* 1967 – Brian Cashman, American baseball executive

The trade, however, was never completed ; unbeknownst to the Dodgers, Robinson had already agreed with the president of Chock full o ' Nuts to quit baseball and become an executive with the company.

* 1947 – Sandy Alderson, American baseball executive

* 1917 – Lee MacPhail, American baseball manager and league executive

* 1903 – Walter O ' Malley, American baseball executive ( d. 1979 )

* April 14 – Marvin Miller, American baseball executive

* March 28 – Ban Johnson, American baseball executive ( b. 1864 )

* October 9 – Walter O ' Malley, American baseball executive ( d. 1979 )

* May 18 – Jim Bowden, American baseball executive

* February 8 – Connie Mack, American baseball executive and manager ( b. 1862 )

* August 9 – Walter O ' Malley, American baseball executive ( b. 1903 )

* May 15 – Eddie Stumpf, American professional baseball player, manager and executive ( d. 1978 )

* August 4 – Dallas Green, American baseball manager and executive

There are six executive vice-presidents in charge of the following areas: baseball development, business, labor relations and human resources, finance, administration ( whose vice-president is MLB's Chief Information Officer ), and baseball operations.

While fifty years before, Albert Goodwill Spalding, secretary of the Chicago Ball Club of the National League, could write earnestly to the manager of the Buffalo club and request a guarantee of one hundred dollars for a baseball game in August, in this Golden Era a game at the Yankee Stadium might bring in nearly a hundred thousand dollars at the gate.

thumbAmerica's National Game is a book by Albert Spalding, published in 1911 detailing the early history of the sport of baseball.

* 1966 – Albert Belle, American baseball player

Albert Goodwill Spalding ( Byron, Illinois September 2, 1850 – September 9, 1915 in Point Loma, San Diego, California ) was a professional baseball player, manager and co-founder of A. G. Spalding sporting goods company.

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*" Take Me Out to the Ball Game " is a 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer which has become the unofficial anthem of baseball, although neither of its authors had attended a game prior to writing the song.

Despite a friendship with Albert Spalding, Chadwick was scornful of the attempts to have Abner Doubleday declared the inventor of baseball.

* 1980 – Albert Pujols, Dominican-born baseball player

Other NBC Sports duties that Albert held were play-by-play announcing for the NFL, college basketball, horse racing, boxing, NHL All-Star Games, and Major League Baseball, as well as hosting baseball studio and pre-game shows.

* 1850 – Albert Spalding, American baseball player, manager, and businessman, co-founder of the Spalding Sporting Goods Company ( d. 1915 )

" Take Me Out to the Ball Game " is a 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer which has become the unofficial anthem of baseball, although neither of its authors had attended a game prior to writing the song.

He was born Charles Albert Browning, Jr., in Louisville, Kentucky, the second son of Charles Albert and Lydia Browning, and the nephew of baseball star Pete Browning.

* September 9 – Albert Spalding, baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer ( b. 1850 )

* Albert Lasker ( 1880 – 1952 ), pioneer of the American advertising industry, part owner of baseball team the Chicago Cubs, and wife Mary Lasker ( 1900 – 1994 ), an American health activist and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal

On the third night, after baseball great Hank Aaron finished his interview segment with Letterman, a camera followed him backstage, where TV sporstcaster Al Albert conducted a post-interview chat with Aaron about how it had gone.

David Albert DeBusschere ( October 16, 1940 – May 14, 2003 ) was an American NBA and major league baseball player and coach in the NBA.

He also hit more home runs, drove in more runs, and had a higher batting average than any other National League player during the 1920s, which makes him one of four players in baseball history ( along with Honus Wagner, Ted Williams, and Albert Pujols ) to win a decade " triple crown ".

He and future Cardinal Albert Pujols are also the only players in baseball history to win Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player awards unanimously.

* Albert Belle ( born 1966 ), American baseball player

Doubleday's invention of baseball was the finding of a panel appointed by Albert Spalding, a former star pitcher and club executive, who had become the leading American sporting goods entrepreneur and sports publisher.

José Alberto Pujols Alcántara ( born January 16, 1980 ), better known as Albert Pujols (), is a Dominican-American professional baseball first baseman for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim of Major League Baseball.

Albert Leonard Rosen ( born February 29, 1924 ), nicknamed " Al ", " Flip ", and the " Hebrew Hammer ", is a former American professional baseball player who was a third baseman and right-handed slugger in the Major Leagues for ten seasons in the 1940s and 1950s.

* Albert Park, Lismore, home to international baseball stadium Baxter Field