This date in baseball history: 1989

[savafan]

I was 12 years old, a lifelong Reds fan.

This was the day that Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti announced the lifetime ban of one Peter Edward Rose, breaking my heart.

I recall hearing the press conference on my cheap little alarm clock radio while sorting through baseball cards in my bed room.

[Hap]

I actually set my alarm clock (teenagers never wake up before noon in the summer) and got out of bed and watched it live.

[goreds2]

I remember I was working a second job in a mail department and had the radio on in the van. A SAD DAY.