On This Date in Baseball: March 14

1953 - St. Louis mayor Joseph Darst vows to fight losing the hometown Browns to Baltimore. Darst dies 3 months later and the Browns move to Baltimore and become the Orioles in 1954.

1960 - Kirby Puckett is born in Chicago, Illinois. Puckett will make his major league debut in 1984, when he hits .296 for the Minnesota Twins. Over a 12-year career, Puckett will bat .318 with 207 home runs and 1,085 RBI, helping the Twins to two World Championships. He will win election to the Hall of Fame in 2001.

2003 - Milwaukee Brewers TV/Radio play-by-play announcer Bob Uecker is chosen for induction into the broadcasters' wing of the Hall of Fame as the recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award. As the photo shows, Bob was also the special guest announcer for WrestleMania IV.

On This Date in Baseball: March 2

1874 - At the fourth meeting of the Professional Association in Boston, the batter's box is officially adopted.

It is also decided that expulsion will be the penalty for any player betting on his own team and any player betting on any other team will forfeit his pay or, in Shoeless Joe's and Pete Rose's case, get themselves banned for life from baseball and render themselves ineligible for the Hall of Fame. Nice going guys.

Pete just couldn't help himself from breaking a 115 year-old rule. Now he's signing crap in Vegas at Caesar's Palace for beer money. Oh, for Pete's sake.

1899 - An attempt to expel the St. Louis Browns, who had a 39-111 record in 1898, fails by a 7 - 4 margin. St. Louis will play as the "Perfectos" in the upcoming season.

1927 - Babe Ruth becomes the highest paid player in baseball history. The New York Yankees reward Ruth with a three-year contract worth an estimated $210,000. In 1926, Ruth led the American League in home runs and RBIs while batting .372.

2005 - Thirty-two years after his death, Jackie Robinson receives the Congressional Gold Medal. He joins Roberto Clemente, Joe Louis and Jesse Owens as the only athletes among about 300 Gold Medal recipients.

Dave's Most Favorite Logos (Part II)

Let's stick with the home town teams for this one.

If you are a living, breathing human being, it is impossible not to like the Cardinals "bird on bat" logo seen here as it first appeared on Cardinal uniforms in 1922. If you do not like it you are a) wrong and b) a certified communist.

The St. Louis Browns "Brownie" (1952-53) and fleur-de-lis (1945-53) logos are also very cool.

What's not to like?

Remember...if you don't not like these you are a) wrong and b) a certified communist. Perhaps you like this logo more, Stalin?

Dave's Most Favorite Logos (Part I)

This logo for the St. Louis Browns was used from 1936 until 1951. It kicks ass.The Browns left St. Louis two years later and switched to this logo when they became the Baltimore Orioles. It too, is pretty sweet, but not ass kicking like the Browns logo.