2016 - Major League Baseball announces that the Braves and the Marlins will play a game at Fort Bragg on July 3.
MLB History
1900 - The National League votes to shrink to eight teams. They pay Baltimore owners $30,000 for their franchise. Cleveland, Louisville and Washington receive $10,000 each. The league remained the same until 1953 when the Boston Braves moved to Milwaukee.
1923 - Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis allows former New York Giants pitcher Rube Benton to return to the National League. Benton had previously admitted prior knowledge of the 1919 World Series fix.