On This Date in Baseball: March 10

1951 - FBI director J. Edgar Hoover announces that he has turned down an offer to become Commissioner of baseball. The governor of California (and future JFK assassination conspirator), Earl Warren, had previously rejected an offer to become baseball's leader.

1963 - A little known minor league infielder named Pete Rose plays in his first spring training game and will make the Cincinnati Reds Opening Day roster.

1995 - Michael Jordan announces that he is leaving the Chicago White Sox organization and will return to the Chicago Bulls of the NBA.

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.