Template:Today in Baseball/March 5

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

• 1886 - The National League allows the St. Louis Maroons and Philadelphia Phillies to charge 25 cents per admission; they previously had a uniform 50-cent admission price.
• 1922 - Babe Ruth signs a deal with the New York Yankees for over $50,000 per season, making him the highest-paid player in baseball history to that point.
• 1966 - Marvin Miller becomes executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association.
• 1973 - The depth of the moral depravity of the decade is reached when New York Yankees pitchers Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson announce that they have traded wives, children and dogs.
• 1996 - Earl Weaver, Bill Foster, Jim Bunning and Ned Hanlon (pictured) are elected to the Hall of Fame. Nellie Fox also receives enough votes but is not elected as the Veterans Committee has already reached its allowed quota of inductions for the year.

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