Elephant Rumblings: Daniel Mengden Undergoes Elbow Surgery

A’s Coverage:

• Slusser: A’s Daniel Mengden has elbow cleanup procedure ($)
• Kleinschmidt: How A’s could benefit from possible future changes to MLB postseason
• Rubin: ‘I felt like I was raising a baseball dog’: on the father-coach bond between Stephen and Mike Piscotty ($)

MLB News:

• Sherman: MLB plotting playoff expansion — with reality TV twist
• Monagan: Manny Ramirez might be playing baseball in ... Italy
• Vautour: East Longmeadow’s Nick Ahmed signs Diamondbacks’ extension for $32.5 million over 4 years

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Shafer: Betting Pick for Every MLB Team’s Over/Under Win Total Before Spring Training
• Romano: All the Rays exes live in Texas. And Boston. And Los Angeles. ($)
• Posnanski: The Baseball 100: Number 46, Eddie Mathews ($$$)

Today in Baseball History:

• 1937 - Philadelphia Athletics owner Connie Mack is interviewed by Boake Carter, one of the most famous journalists of the period, in a television demonstration by the Philco company to display its new technology. It is the first-ever baseball interview on television, although the audience consists only of selected guests at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, a few miles away from Philco’s studio.
• 1997 - General Mills, the makers of Wheaties breakfast cereals, unveil three new Jackie Robinson boxes to be sold in stores nationwide. Robinson will be the first athlete to be honored on all three varieties of Wheaties: Original Wheaties, Honey Frosted Wheaties, and Crispy Wheaties ‘n’ Raisins.
• 2019 - Kyler Murray, the 9th overall pick in the 2018 amateur draft by the Oakland A’s, announces that he is giving up baseball to concentrate on becoming an NFL quarterback.

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