Mark Baldwin (1863–1929) was an American right-handed professional baseball pitcher who played seven seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Born in Pittsburgh, Baldwin made his professional debut for a Cumberland, Maryland, team in 1883. He made his MLB debut for the Chicago White Stockings in 1887. Baldwin signed with the Columbus Solons of the American Association in 1889, and led the league in innings pitched (.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0 ;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub }.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip- path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hi dden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}513+2⁄3), losses (34), strikeouts (368), and walks (274). In 1890, he played for the Chicago Pirates of the Players' League and was the league leader in games played as a pitcher (58), innings pitched (492), wins (33), strikeouts (206), complete games (53), and walks (249). He later played for the Pittsburgh Pirates and New York Giants, then went on to a career as a physician. In 346 career MLB games, he pitched to a 154–165 win–loss record with 295 complete games. Baldwin set the single-season MLB wild pitches record with 83 that still stands today.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1951:

Construction began of the United Nations Military Cemetery, the only United Nations cemetery in the world, in Busan, South Korea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Memorial_Cemetery

1956:

Navvab Safavi, an Iranian Shia cleric and the founder of the fundamentalist group Fada'iyan-e Islam, was executed with three of his followers for attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Hossein Ala'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navvab_Safavi

1969:

Thousands of Japanese police stormed the University of Tokyo after six months of nationwide leftist university student protests and occupation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968%E2%80%931969_Japanese_university_protests

1983:

Thirty years after his death, the International Olympic Committee presented commemorative medals to the family of American athlete Jim Thorpe, who had been stripped of his gold medals for playing semi-professional baseball before the 1912 Summer Olympics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thorpe

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

spate: 1. (countable) A (sudden) flood or inundation of water; specifically, a flood in or overflow of a river or other watercourse due to heavy rain or melting snow; (uncountable, archaic) flooding, inundation. 2. (countable) A sudden heavy downpour of rain. 3. (countable, figurative) A sudden increase or rush of something; a flood, an outburst, an outpouring. 4. (transitive) To (suddenly) flood or inundate (a river or other watercourse) with water. 5. (intransitive) To (suddenly) rain heavily; to pour. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spate

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind. It's only possible to see people when one is able to see the world as others see it. That's what guerrilla ontology is — breaking down this one-model view and giving people a multi-model perspective.   --Robert Anton Wilson https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson