2022 – The NHL Winter Classic is played at Target Field.
2022 – With the MLB lockout in place it’s too soon to know if spring training will start on time, but when it does, the Twins definitely won’t be reporting to the CenturyLink Sports Complex. The Twins’ spring headquarters in Fort Myers, Florida, is getting a new name after the internet and telephone communications company chose not to renew its naming-rights sponsorship when the eight year contract expired at the end of 2021. “We are in active conversations with multiple corporate partners about the naming rights,” Twins President Dave St. Peter said. An agreement with one of them “will manifest itself sometime in 2022. I’m not sure it’ll happen before spring training, but it could.”
2009 – MLB launches the MLB Network. “Major League Baseball launches MLB Network, a cable and satellite television channel based out of Secaucus, NJ. The channel debuts in nearly 50 million cable and satellite homes – the largest debut in cable television history, exceeding any other cable television launch by approximately 20 million homes.”
1974 – Lee MacPhail becomes AL President. “Lee MacPhail takes over as American League president, succeeding Joe Cronin, who retires. MacPhail will serve in this role until 1984. He will join his father, Larry MacPhail, as a member of the Hall of Fame in 1998.”