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1971 inductee Satchel Paige. Elections to the Baseball Hall of Fame for 1971 featured a new committee on the Negro leagues that met in February and selected Satchel Paige, [1] who spent most of his career in Negro league baseball before joining the Cleveland Indians in 1948, when he was over 40 years old.
A total of 26 future Hall of Famers were present for this game: 21 players, both managers, National League coach Walt Alston, Hall of Fame umpire Doug Harvey, and future Hall of Fame manager Joe Torre. [14] This was the final All-Star Game in which a majority of players wore uniforms made of wool flannel.
The plaque gallery at the Baseball Hall of Fame Ty Cobb's plaque at the Baseball Hall of Fame. The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, honors individuals who have excelled in playing, managing, and serving the sport, and is the central point for the study of the history of baseball in the United States and beyond, displaying baseball-related artifacts and exhibits.
February 9 – Former Negro leagues pitcher Satchel Paige is nominated for the Hall of Fame. On June 10, the Hall's new Veterans Committee will formally select Paige for induction. February 10 – The Los Angeles Dodgers acquire left-handed pitcher Al Downing from the Milwaukee Brewers in exchange for outfielder Andy Kosco.
The bat McNally hit the grand slam with (lent to him by Motton) is at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. [62] Entering the 1971 season, the Orioles raised McNally's salary to $85,000. [63] He held the Senators to two runs on Opening Day (April 7) in a complete-game, 3–2 victory. [64]
Uecker served as the Brewers' radio announcer since 1971, a job that earned him a spot in the Baseball Hall of Fame as the Ford C. Frick Award winner in 2003.
The Pittsburgh Pirates become the first Major League Baseball team to field an all-black lineup. [25] January 31 – The new Special Veterans Committee selects seven men for enshrinement to the Hall of Fame: former players Dave Bancroft, Jake Beckley, Chick Hafey, Harry Hooper, Joe Kelley, and Rube Marquard, and executive George Weiss.
Mazeroski was born in Wheeling, West Virginia to a Polish-American family. His parents were Mayme and Louis Mazeroski who resided in nearby Witch Hazel, Ohio. Louis had been a highly regarded baseball prospect himself—he once had a tryout with the Cleveland Indians—but a severed foot suffered in a coal mine accident ruined his dream as well as his livelihood.