Template:Today in Baseball/January 23

April 27: Today's featured birthday is that of Bob Ayrault, who turns 58.

• 1887 - Dave Foutz is accused of throwing an exhibition game.
• 1927 - Ban Johnson takes a leave of absence as president of the American League for health reasons. He had been in the midst of a major dispute with Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
• 1958 - Pete Runnels is traded to the Boston Red Sox, for whom he will win two batting titles.
• 1979 - Willie Mays (pictured) is elected to the Hall of Fame.
• 1981 - Tokuji Iida and Yoshiyuki Iwamoto are inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.

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