Template:Today in Baseball/January 9

December 28: Today's featured birthday is that of Melvin Nieves, who turns 53.

• 1892 - Slide, Kelly, Slide, performed by George Gaskin, makes the popular music charts, the first baseball song to do so.
• 1894 - Charlie Bennett loses both legs in a train accident.
• 1915 - George Sisler becomes a free agent after a two-year battle with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
• 1989 - Johnny Bench and Carl Yastrzemski are voted into the Hall of Fame.
• 1995 - Hideo Nomo retires from the Kintetsu Buffaloes, allowing him to use a loophole that will allow him to become the first Japanese player in Major League Baseball since Masanori Murakami.

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