On This Date in Baseball: June 8

1969 - New York Yankees' uniform No. 7 was retired on Mickey Mantle Day. A crowd of 60,096 came to Yankee Stadium to honor Mantle and watched New York sweep the Chicago White Sox 3 - 1 and 11 - 2.

1982 - 27 years ago today, the great Satchel Paige died.

Quote of the Day

"There you is and there you is going to stay."

-Satchel Paige

to a batter he walked and then struck out the side