January 2, 1977
Atlanta Braves owner Ted Turner was suspended by commissioner Bowie Kuhn for for one year for tampering in the Gary Mathews free-agency signing. The Braves are allowed to keep the outfielder. He would go on to have four productive years for the Braves before being traded to the Phillies in 1981 for Bob Walk.
Born on this day:
1951 Bill Madlock
1963 Edgar Martinez
1963 David Cone
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Eric Bynum is Managing Editor here at Baseball de World and an ESL teacher in South Korea. He has played and/or written about baseball for the past 30 years and is an avid Atlanta Braves fan. Eric also writes for Braves Baseball World and for Call to the Pen.
