Template:Today in Baseball/February 28

December 21: Today's featured birthday is that of Freddy Sanchez, who turns 47.

• 1926 - A train carrying several Cleveland Indians players derails, but thankfully, none of them is injured.
• 1986 - Commissioner Peter Ueberroth fines 21 players including Keith Hernandez and Dave Parker for drug use.
• 1989 - Red Schoendienst and Al Barlick are elected to the Hall of Fame.
• 1991 - In the first salary arbitration case in Nippon Pro Baseball history, the Chunichi Dragons face off against Hiromitsu Ochiai.
• 1999 - Ken Robinson (pictured) dies in a car crash; teammate John Rosengren, who was driving the vehicle, is charged with second-degree murder.
• 2022 - The European Baseball Federation bans all Russian and Belarussian teams from its competitions, as punishment for the two countries' invasion of Ukraine.

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