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: June 12

1939 - The greatest-ever gathering of members and future inductees of the Baseball Hall of Fame assembles in Cooperstown, N.Y., for the dedication of the museum: Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Walter Johnson, Grover Alexander, Nap Lajoie, George Sisler, Eddie Collins, Tris Speaker, Cy Young and Connie Mack accept their plaques. They also celebrate the centennial of Abner Doubleday's "invention" of baseball.

1957 - Stan Musial plays in his 823rd game for a new N.L. consecutive-game streak.