2012 Event Winds in southwestern Western Australia of up to 140km/h batter the area and leave more than 170,000 homes without power 1992 Event Nolan Ryan strikes out his 100th batter for 23rd consecutive seasons 1989 Event Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter (Rickey Henderson) 1989 Event Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter, Rickey Henderson 1987 Event Nolan Ryan strikes out his 4,500th batter 1983 Event Nolan Ryan strikes out his 3,500th batter 1981 Event Mariners manager Maury Wills is suspended for 2 games after ordering Seattle's grounds crew to enlarge batter's boxes by one foot 1973 Birthday Rahul Dravid, cricket batter, prolific Karnataka, Tests for India 96 1965 Event Hank Aaron loses a home run, because he hit it out of batter's box 1956 Death Clarence Beaumont, 1st batter in 1st World Series, dies at 75 1954 Event Dean Stone gets credit for AL win, although he didn't retire a batter, he threw out Shoendienst trying to steal home, AL-11 NL-9 1953 Event New balk rule gives the batter option; of accepting the outcome of the pitch or the balk 1951 Event Fidel Castro ejected from a Winter League game after beaning batter 1938 Event Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter, highest season total in organized ball-for Andalusia in an Alabama-Florida League game 1904 Birthday Jim Christy, righty cricket batter, Transvaal, Queensland and South Africa 1874 Event Baseball batter's box is officially adopted 1855 Birthday George Bonnor, cricketer, big-hitting Aussie batter 1880-1888
