1962 - The Detroit Tigers begin a seventeen-game tour of Japan.
1989 - The World Series resumes after a ten-day delay because of the San Francisco earthquake. Oakland, behind two home runs by Dave Henderson, beats the Giants, 13-7, in Game 3.
1998 - President Bill Clinton signs a bill overturning part of baseball's 70-year-old antitrust exemption, putting baseball on par with other professional sports on labor matters. The new law overrides part of a 1922 United States Supreme Court ruling that exempted baseball from antitrust laws on grounds that it was not interstate commerce.
