Catcher/first baseman Dave Nilsson was, arguably, the most accomplished Australian baseball player in history. He was the first Australian to make the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. He was MVP of the first major international competition in which the Australian national team won a Gold Medal. He won a Silver Medal in the Olympics. In the Australian Baseball League, Nilsson set numerous records. His career was sidelined several times due to injuries, including foot, shoulder, knee and virus problems. He later led a group that purchased the ABL and tried to keep it afloat under a new name and structure. Nilsson was part of the first All-Australian battery in major league history. Australian baseball analysts Flintoff & Dunn write that "David Nilsson owns the biggest profile in Australian baseball history".

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• ...what home run record Jack Howell (pictured) set in 1993?
• ...that Chia-Hsien Hsieh holds the all-time Taiwan Major League home run record?
• ...what two teams Alfonso Urquiola has managed in the Pan American Games?
• ...that Frank Wickware came from the same hometown as Walter Johnson, who he (at least) once outdueled?
• ...that former College World Series star Bud Hollowell became a professor after his baseball career ended?
• ...what record was set in the 1978 Amateur World Series?
• ...what single-season record Akinobu Mayumi set in his final season?
• ...that Chih-Yuan Chen managed to win a Rookie of the Year award while playing only 30 games?
• ...that Mark Langston was the first member of the Seattle Mariners to win a Gold Glove?
• ...how Seiichi Shima made the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame without playing a game as a pro?
• ...that Joe Green once almost scored from third base with a broken leg?
• ...what league Lou Haneles co-founded?
• ...the history of the Baseball card?

• Dustin Pedroia is honored as the 2008 AL MVP.
• Hisanobu Watanabe wins the Matsutaro Shoriki Award for 2008.
• Albert Pujols (pictured) is named MVP of the 2008 National League.
• The Seibu Lions win the 2008 Asia Series. G.G. Sato is named MVP.
• Cliff Lee wins the 2008 American League Cy Young Award.

• 1934 - The Chicago Cubs acquire Freddie Lindstrom and Larry French from the Pittsburgh Pirates for Babe Herman, Guy Bush and Jim Weaver.
• 1950 - The first Japan Series begins. Rube Marquard throws out the first pitch and the Mainichi Orions beat the Shochiku Robins 3-2 in 11 innings. Tadashi Wakabayashi gets the win.
• 1954 - The Pittsburgh Pirates select Roberto Clemente (pictured) from the Brooklyn Dodgers in the Rule V Draft.
• 1957 - Warren Giles lets Larry Goetz go after 22 years as a National League umpire due to his being outspoken over umpire rights.
• 1972 - For the second time in three years, Johnny Bench wins the MVP in the National League while Billy Williams places second.

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• November 1, 2008 - The 2008 Japan Series started.
• October 26, 2008 - The 2008 Korean Series began.
• October 25, 2008 - The 2008 Taiwan Series opened.
• October 22, 2008 - The 2008 World Series began.

• February 2009 - The 2009 Caribbean Series will be held.
• March 2009 - The 2009 World Baseball Classic opens.
• September 9, 2009 - The 2009 Baseball World Cup will begin.