Template:Today in Baseball/June 24

November 2: Today's featured birthday is that of Bob Ross, who turns 96.

• 1946 - Nine Spokane Indians are killed in a bus crash, including Chris Hartje. Jack "Lucky" Lohrke and Ben Geraghty are among the survivors.
• 1964 - Rick Reichardt signs a deal with the Los Angeles Angels that includes a bonus worth about $200,000. The largest signing ever to that point, it will stimulate the creation of the amateur draft within a year.
• 1972 - Bernice Gera becomes the first woman to work as an umpire in an Organized Baseball game, in the New York-Penn League. She gets into an argument with Auburn Phillies manager Nolan Campbell in which Campbell makes sexist remarks and is ejected from the game. Gera hands in her resignation after the game, never appearing in another contest.
• 1984 - Joe Morgan hits his 265th home run as a second baseman, breaking Rogers Hornsby's long-standing record for the position. Morgan's record will not last through the next decade, however.
• 1992 - Steve Howe (pictured) becomes the first player to receive a lifetime ban from baseball for drug problems; it is his seventh suspension. The ban will be overturned in arbitration and Howe will run into more problems with drugs and the law in the coming years.

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