On This Date in Baseball: March 3

1884 - National League owners agree to provide two separate team benches to minimize fraternizing among opposing players during games.

1886 - The National League meets and adopts the stolen base, but retains seven balls for a walk and rejects the American Association rule giving a batter first base on a hit by a pitch.

1912 - Ground is broken on a new ballpark in Brooklyn, New York. The $650,000 ballpark is scheduled to be called Washington Park, but will be renamed for Brooklyn Dodgers president Charles Ebbets. Ebbets Field will open officially on April 9, 1913 and will serve as the Dodgers home until 1957.

1948 - Stan Musial ends his holdout with the St. Louis Cardinals and signs a one-year contract for $31,000.

1994 - Michael Jordan comes to bat for the first time in a Chicago White Sox uniform.

On This Date in Baseball: February 23

1960 - Demolition of Ebbets Field, Dave's favorite stadium he never visited, begins. 1988 - A committee of Chicago aldermen vote 7-2 to allow the Cubs to install lights and play up to 18 night games a year at Wrigley Field. The Cubs had feared losing the 1990 All-Star Game, as well as future playoff and World Series games, if lights were not installed.

On This Date in Baseball: September 24

1957 - In the last game at Ebbets Field, 6,702 fans watch Dodgers beat the Pirates 2-0. The Dodgers would relocate to Los Angeles for the 1958 season.