BASEBALL PHILOSOPHY -- January 15

"Jackie Robinson made it possible for me in the first place. Without him, I would never have been able to do what I did."

-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in David Faulkner's Great Time Coming: The Life of Jackie Robinson from Baseball to Birmingham.



BASEBALL BIRTHDAYS -- January 15
Matt Holiday (All-Star)
Mike Marshall (All-Star)
Bobby Grich (All-Star)
Ray Chapman