Template:Today in Baseball/March 25

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

• 1920 - Chick Fewster is knocked unconscious by a curve ball from Jeff Pfeffer in a spring training game. After ten minutes, he comes to, but then becomes unable to speak and is sent to the hospital. He will recover from the skull fracture.
• 1956 - Down 3-0 in the bottom of the 9th, Yomiuri Giants player Kazuo Higasa hits a pinch-hit, grand-slam, come-from-behind, sayonara home run, the first of its type in Nippon Pro Baseball history. Shigeru Sugishita allows the winning blast.
• 1962 - El Tappe is named the first "head coach" of the year for the Chicago Cubs, as part the College of Coaches experiment.
• 1965 - Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski (pictured) breaks a bone in his right foot and will be out until May.
• 2001 - A 95-mph fastball from Randy Johnson kills a dove by accident in a spring training game.

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