Lou Brissie pitched seven seasons in the major leagues. He nearly died as a paratrooper in the US Army during World War II, but after many operations and much hard work he went on to a successful major league career. He was on the 1949 American League All-Star team. Overall, he was 44-48 with 29 saves in the majors. He later worked as a scout as well as for the American Legion and the State of South Carolina. Brissie is a member of the South Atlantic League Hall of Fame and also has been honored by the Hall of Fame and by the Governor of South Carolina.

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• ...that Roy Partlow was one of the first five African-Americans in the minors after Montreal teammate Jackie Robinson broke the Organized Baseball color barrier - and what cut Partlow's career short?
• ...what record Bernie Tatis holds in the Chinese Professional Baseball League?
• ...that Noriyoshi Omichi was the last active player to have appeared with the Nankai Hawks?
• ...that Remo Cardinale was the first Canadian amateur signed by the Toronto Blue Jays?
• ...what record Rey Isaac set in Cuba?
• ...what scandal ended the US career of Maximo Nelson?
• ...what scandal ended the playing career of Rey Vicente Anglada?
• ...what scandal ended the coaching career of Dave Okubo?
• ...what scandal has imperiled the career of Angel Villalona?
• ...what tragedy ended the life of Brian Cole?
• ...that Masanori Ishikawa was the first Yakult Swallows pitcher ever to win a Gold Glove in the Central League?
• ...that Ernesto Carlos Kuk Lee may become the first Asian native to enter the Salon de la Fama?
• ...that Tomochika Tsuboi was the first player in Nippon Pro Baseball history to hit .300 his first season in both the Central League and Pacific League?

• Eddy Garabito is honored as MVP of the Italian Baseball League for 2009.
• Doug Harvey and Whitey Herzog (pictured) are voted into the Hall of Fame.
• Ricardo Fraccari of Italy is elected President of the International Baseball Federation, succeeding Harvey Schiller.
• Yi-Chuan Lin is named 2009 CPBL MVP and Rookie of the Year.
• The Korea Professional Baseball Players Association led by Min-han Son, votes to unionize.

• 1918 - The Boston Red Sox send Duffy Lewis, Ernie Shore and Dutch Leonard to the New York Yankees for Ray Caldwell, Slim Love, Roxy Walters, Frank Gilhooley and $15,000.
• 1956 - Phil Rizzuto is hired as announcer for the New York Yankees and will hold the job for decades.
• 1980 - A Canadian court convicts Ferguson Jenkins for cocaine possession but erases the sentence for "exemplary" conduct.
• 1993 - Brien Taylor (pictured) injures his shoulder in a bar fight. He will not pitch in 1994 and will not rebound well.
• 2004 - The Oakland Athletics make a trade criticized as a salary dump but which will make sense in retrospect. They send Mark Mulder to the St. Louis Cardinals for Dan Haren, Kiko Calero and Daric Barton.

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• October 31, 2009 - The 2009 Japan Series started.
• October 16, 2009 - The 2009 Korean Series kicked off.
• September 9, 2009 - The 2009 Baseball World Cup began.
• August 20, 2009 - The 2009 Holland Series began.

• July 21, 2010 - The 2010 World Junior Championship will kick off in Thunder Bay, ON
• July 23, 2010 - The 2010 European Championship begins in Germany.