Template:Today in Baseball/January 17

December 26: Today's featured birthday is that of Mario Mendoza, who turns 74.

• 1915 - The Cleveland, OH American League team announces that they will now be known as the "Cleveland Indians". After using many names in the past 15 years, this one will stick.
• 1922 - Benny Kauff's lawsuit to try to get back into Organized Baseball is rejected by the court.
• 1939 - Ed Barrow (pictured) is elected president of the New York Yankees.
• 1995 - The Great Kobe earthquake damages five Nippon Pro Baseball stadiums and kills over 6,000 people.
• 2014 - Kazuhiro Sasaki and Hideo Nomo become the first Major League Baseball players voted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. Koji Akiyama rounds out this year's class.

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