2008 - Javy Lopez announces his retirement. Lopez hit 260 home runs in his career and set the single-season home run record for catchers with 42.
2012 - Chipper Jones announces that he will retire at the end of the season.
MLB History
1962 - A former member of the New York Giants says that Bobby Thomson’s home run was aided by a sign-stealing clubhouse spy. The accuser says that the spying has gone on for the last three months of the season. Thomson and Giants manager Le Durocher denied the claim.