Template:Today in Baseball/December 22

November 20: Today's featured birthday is that of Jackson Todd, who turns 73.

• 1915 - The Federal League and Organized Baseball end their two-year conflict, with the Federal League agreeing to disband in return for compensation from the other two major leagues.
• 1965 - Masaru Kageura (pictured) is elected to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. Kageura was Japan's greatest two-way star before being killed in World War II.
• 1999 - Southerner John Rocker gives one of the most notorious interviews in Sports Illustrated history, offending many racial and ethnic groups.
• 2002 - Maels Rodríguez throws the first perfect game in the history of Cuban baseball. Exactly two weeks earlier, the young hurler had been the first Cuban hurler to hit 100 mph on the radar gun.
• 2004 - The Orix Buffaloes sell P Hisashi Iwakuma, who refused to report to the new team which results from the merger of the Orix BlueWave and Kintetsu Buffaloes. Iwakuma will join the expansion Rakuten Golden Eagles instead.

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